| VA | HB5043 | Engross | Mental health awareness response and community understanding services (Marcus) alert system. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) shall support the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Conference report agreed to by Senate (26-Y 12-N) |
| VA | HB5104 | Enroll | Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officer, etc.; disclosure of information. Provides that any sheriff or chief of police, the director or chief executive of any agency or department employing deputy sheriffs or law-enforcement officers, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5104ER) |
| VA | HB5106 | Engross | Landlord and tenant, noncompliance with rental agreement; prohibition on reporting negative credit information arising from the COVID-19 pandemic; penalty; emergency. Provides that a landlord shall not take any adverse action against a tenant or appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
VOTE: Agreed To (57-Y 42-N) |
| VA | HB5055 | Enroll | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Authorizes a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5055ER) |
| VA | HB5064 | Enroll | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units, or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwellin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5064ER) |
| VA | HB5050 | Enroll | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of Governor; purchase of personal protective equipment during a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat. Grants the Governor authority during a disaster caused by a comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5050ER) |
| VA | HB5049 | Enroll | Acquisition and use of military property by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that no state or local law-enforcement agency shall acquire or purchase (i) weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles; (ii) aircraft that are configured for combat or are combat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5049ER) |
| VA | HB5099 | Enroll | Search warrants; provide notice of authority. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant. The bill provides that, for all authorized search warrants, the law-enforceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5099ER) |
| VA | HB5148 | Enroll | Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits. Establishes a four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits. The bill also specifies certain crimes that are subject to the maximum 4.5 earned sentence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5148ER) |
| VA | HR621 | Engross | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB5046 | Enroll | Telemedicine services; originating site. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to provide for payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020 |
| VA | HB5109 | Enroll | Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement officer training and qualifications. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to develop a uniform curriculum and lesson plans for the compulsory minimum entry-leve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Signed by President |
| VA | HB5108 | Enroll | Criminal Justice Services Board; Committee on Training; membership and responsibilities. Changes the membership of the Criminal Justice Services Board and its Committee on Training by requiring that some members be representatives of a social justice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Signed by President |
| VA | HB5058 | Enroll | Issuing citations; possession of marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020 |
| VA | HB5069 | Enroll | Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints. Prohibits a law-enforcement officer from using a neck restraint in the performance of his official duties and provides for disciplinary sanctions on an officer who uses a neck restr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Signed by President |
| VA | HB5093 | Enroll | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of the Governor; executive orders; penalty. Provides that a violation of an executive order declared by the Governor as the Director of Emergency Management shall be punishable either as a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020 |
| VA | HB5048 | Enroll | Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020 |
| VA | HB5029 | Enroll | Law-enforcement officer; failure to intervene in an excessive use of force; penalties. Requires that any law-enforcement officer who while in the performance of his official duties witnesses another law-enforcement officer engaging or attempting to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Signed by President |
| VA | HB5052 | Pass | Legal holidays; Juneteenth. Recognizes the nineteenth day of June of each year, also known as Juneteenth, as a legal holiday in the Commonwealth to commemorate the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, the last of the former Confederate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-13
first day of the fourth month following the month adjournment sine die of this special session) |
| VA | HB5030 | Engross | Monuments and memorials for war veterans; authority of localities. Changes the authority of a locality from the authority to "contextualize or cover" to the authority to "alter" a monument or memorial for war veterans located within the geographical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-05
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HR608 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-02
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB5028 | Engross | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, first responders, health care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-24
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB5116 | Engross | Paid quarantine leave. Requires public and private employers to provide eligible employees paid quarantine leave. The bill provides that such paid quarantine leave is available for immediate use by the employee, regardless of how long the employee ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB5112 | Engross | Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid; duty to report wrongdoing by another law-enforcement officer; penalty. Requires any law-enforcement officer on duty who witnesses another person suffering from a serious bodily injury or a life-threatening...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB5013 | Engross | Civil action for deprivation of rights; duties and liabilities of certain employers in employing or contracting for the services of law-enforcement officers. Creates a civil action for the deprivation of a person's rights by a law-enforcement officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-10
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HJR5011 | Intro | Women's Suffrage Month. Designates August, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Women's Suffrage Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-24
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB5119 | Intro | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; temporary applicability to certain occupants of hotels, motels, extended stay facilities, or boardinghouses. Provides that, from the effective date of the bill until 90 days after the expiration or revoca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB5114 | Intro | Law-enforcement officer conduct during an arrest or detention; use of force; prohibited practices. Prohibits the use of excessive force, defined in the bill as any force that is objectively unreasonable given the totality of the circumstances, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5088 | Intro | Electric utility regulation; triennial Electric utility regulation; triennial review proceeding; emergency investigations; administration of earnings. Directs the State Corporation Commission (the Commission), for Dominion's 2021 triennial review, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-19
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB5081 | Intro | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-18
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB5014 | Intro | Certain fines and costs; payment agreements; temporary suspension on accrual of interest; referral to collections; due date extension; emergency. Suspends temporarily the due dates and deadlines for certain fines and costs, along with the accrual of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1420 | Pass | Landlord and tenant; charge for late payment of rent; restrictions. Provides that a landlord shall not charge a tenant for late payment of rent unless such charge is provided for in the written rental agreement, and that no such late charge shall exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1231) |
| VA | HB789 | Pass | Consumer lending. Replaces references to payday loans with the term "short-term loans." The measure caps the interest and fees that may be charged under a short-term loan at an annual rate of 36 percent, plus a maintenance fee; increases the maximum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1215) |
| VA | HB582 | Pass | Labor and employment; collective bargaining; employees of counties, cities, and towns. Permits counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances authorizing them to (i) recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1209) |
| VA | HB438 | Pass | Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder; law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by a law-enforcement officer or firefighter is compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1206) |
| VA | HB1634 | Pass | Shared solar programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows customers of Dominion Virginia to purchase electric power through a subscription in a shared solar facility, which is defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1238) |
| VA | HB1541 | Pass | Creation of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority; funding. Creates the Central Virginia Transportation Authority, comprising the counties and cities located in Planning District 15. The Authority will administer transportation funding genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1235) |
| VA | HB1726 | Pass | Hampton Roads Regional Transit Program. Creates the Hampton Roads Regional Transit Program to develop, maintain, and improve a regional network of transit routes and related infrastructure, rolling stock, and support facilities. The program would be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1241) |
| VA | HB873 | Pass | Discovery in criminal cases. Establishes requirements and procedures for discovery by an accused and by the Commonwealth in a criminal case. The bill requires a party requesting discovery to request that the other party voluntarily comply with such r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1167) |
| VA | HB1371 | Pass | TANF; diversionary cash assistance. Imposes a minimum threshold of $1,500 on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) diversionary cash assistance. The bill provides that any person who receives TANF diversionary cash assistance waives his elig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1159) |
| VA | HB1526 | Pass | Virginia Clean Economy Act. Establishes a schedule by which Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power are required to retire electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1193) |
| VA | HB220 | Pass | Absentee voting; postage prepaid on return envelope. Requires the envelope provided to an absentee voter for the return of the absentee ballot to include prepaid postage. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2021...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1155) |
| VA | HB201 | Pass | Elections; voter registration; extended time for persons to register in person. Provides any person who is qualified to vote is entitled to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election at the office of the general registrar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1153) |
| VA | HB1250 | Pass | Community Policing Act; data collection and reporting requirement. Prohibits law-enforcement officers and State Police officers from engaging in bias-based profiling, defined in the bill, in the performance of their official duties. The bill directs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1165) |
| VA | HB870 | Pass | Statute of limitations; sexual abuse. Provides that for a cause of action accruing on or after July 1, 2020, every action for injury to the person resulting from sexual abuse shall be brought within 10 years after the cause of action accrues. This bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1125) |
| VA | HB868 | Pass | Electric utilities; right to shop. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any licensed competitive supplier of electric energy, including any incumbent ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1107) |
| VA | HB1499 | Pass | Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund. Establishes the Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of supporting gun violence intervention a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1129) |
| VA | HB1103 | Pass | Ranked choice voting; elections for local governing bodies; local option pilot program. Provides that elections for local governing bodies may be conducted by ranked choice voting, which the bill defines as the method of casting and tabulating votes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1054) |
| VA | HB271 | Pass | Public schools; school resource officers; data. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the Department of Education and the Department of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report, and publish data related to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1039) |
| VA | HB1537 | Pass | Memorials for war veterans. Provides that a locality may remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover any monument or memorial for war veterans on the locality's public property, not including a monument or memorial located in a publicly owned cemetery,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1101) |
