| VA | HB5050 | Engross | 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] | 2020-09-18
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5047 | Engross | Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; manufacturers and distributors. Prohibits any manufacturer or distributor from selling necessary goods or services at an unconscionable price during a declared state of emergency. Under current law, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (13-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB5069 | Engross | Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for a law-enforcement officer to use a neck restraint in the performance of his official duties. The bill defines "neck restraint" as the use of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5058 | Engross | Issuing citations; possession of marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Changes from a primary offense to a secondary offense the traffic infractions of operating a motor vehicle (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5045 | Engross | Carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; local or state law-enforcement officer; penalty. Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5068 | Engross | Automatic exemption of emergency relief payments during a state of emergency; emergency. Automatically exempts from the creditor process emergency relief payments, as defined in the bill, paid to individuals and businesses during a state of emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5051 | Engross | Decertification of law-enforcement officer. Requires any sheriff, chief of police, or agency administrator to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board in writing within 48 hours of becoming aware that any certified law-enforcement or jail officer c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5072 | Engross | Law-enforcement misconduct. Authorizes the Attorney General to file a civil suit or inquire into or seek to conciliate, through the Division of Human Rights, any unlawful pattern and practice against the Commonwealth or a locality whenever the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5104 | Engross | 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] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5055 | Engross | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Requires 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 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5087 | Engross | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB5059 | Engross | Certain hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers; immunity from civil liability; COVID-19; emergency. Provides that a licensed hospice, home care organization, private provider, assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5099 | Engross | Search warrants; prohibition on no-knock search warrants. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant, defined in the bill as any search warrant executed without law-en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5029 | Engross | Law-enforcement officer; failure to intervene in an unlawful use of force; penalties. Requires that any law-enforcement officer who witnesses another law-enforcement officer, in the performance of his official duties, engaging or attempting to engage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HR584 | Engross | Commending Erica and Max Scherzer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-04
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB5052 | Engross | 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] | 2020-09-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB5048 | Engross | Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residential or day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-02
[Hearing: Sep 22 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HR588 | Intro | Celebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-02
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 20201071D |
| VA | HR548 | Engross | Commending the Loudoun Arts Film Festival.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR550 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Nathaniel Thomas Connally, Jr., M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR551 | Engross | Commending the Virginia Hospital Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR544 | Engross | Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR545 | Engross | Celebrating the life of the Honorable George Earl Lovelace.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR568 | Engross | Commending the All Dulles Area Muslim Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR579 | Engross | Commending YOUniquely Fit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR578 | Engross | Commending the Mason LIFE program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| 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 | HB5091 | Intro | Required release of video or audio recording; discharge of firearm or use of stun gun or chemical irritant by law-enforcement officer. Requires that whenever a law-enforcement officer (i) discharges a firearm or (ii) uses a stun gun or chemical irrit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5066 | Intro | Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement officer training and qualifications. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to develop uniform curriculum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-18
To House Public Safety Committee |
| 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 | HB1004 | Pass | Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalty. Prohibits any person subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) from knowingly possessing a firearm wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1221) |
| VA | HB1414 | Pass | Transportation. Amends numerous laws related to transportation funds, revenue sources, construction, and safety programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1230) |
| 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 | 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 | HB213 | Pass | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification; student identification card issued by out-of-state institution of higher education. Adds to the list of acceptable forms of voter identification a valid student photo identification card issued ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1154) |
| VA | HB913 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; sexual violence policies; immunity from disciplinary action; certain students who make reports. Requires the governing board of each nonprofit private institution of higher education and each public institution of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1041) |
| VA | HB1301 | Pass | Office of the Children's Ombudsman established. Establishes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman as a means of effecting changes in policy, procedure, and legislation; educating the public; investigating and reviewing actions of the State Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1090) |
| VA | HB2 | Pass | Firearm sales; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm sale and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a background check ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1111) |
| VA | HB1519 | Pass | Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans; report; sunset. Creates the Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discriminati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1043) |
| VA | HB887 | Pass | ABLE savings trust agreement; Medicaid clawback prohibition. Provides that the beneficiary of an ABLE savings trust account may appoint a survivor. In the event of the beneficiary's death, the survivor becomes the new beneficiary of the account if he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0923) |
| VA | HB123 | Pass | Nonpayment of wages; cause of action; penalties. Provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages to recover the amount of wages due plus interest at eight percent annually from the date the wages wer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868) |
| VA | HB674 | Pass | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0887) |
| VA | HB66 | Pass | Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $50 per 30-day supply that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale in or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0881) |
| VA | HB1547 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; eligibility for in-state tuition. Provides that any student is eligible for in-state tuition who (i) attended high school for at least two years in the Commonwealth and either (a) graduated on or after July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| VA | HB1666 | Pass | Voluntary registry for people with disability that impairs communication; vehicle registration. Authorizes an individual with a disability that can impair communication to voluntarily indicate such disability on his application for registration of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| VA | HB597 | Pass | Group homes; licensure; certain information required. Requires every applicant for licensure or renewal of a license to establish, conduct, maintain, or operate or continue to operate a group home at which services for individuals with mental health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| VA | HB1443 | Pass | Department of Education; biennial teacher compensation review. Requires the Department of Education to conduct a biennial review of teacher compensation that takes into consideration the Commonwealth's compensation for teachers relative to the nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| VA | HB42 | Pass | Health care providers; screening of patients for prenatal and postpartum depression; training. Directs the Board of Medicine to annually issue a communication to every practitioner licensed by the Board who provides primary, maternity, obstetrical, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
