| VA | SB1315 | Pass | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| VA | SB1395 | Pass | Elections; prohibited discrimination in voting and elections administration; required process for enacting certain covered practices; civil causes of action. Prohibits any voting qualification or any standard, practice, or procedure related to voting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| VA | SJR272 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution shall have the fundament right t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| VA | SB1197 | Pass | Virginia housing opportunity tax credit. Establishes, for taxable years 2021 through 2025, a Virginia housing opportunity tax credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-income housing tax credit allocated or allowed by the Virginia Housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| VA | SB1138 | Pass | Sexually transmitted infections; infected sexual battery; penalties. Provides that any person who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection and engages in sexual behavior that poses a substantial risk of transmission to another person with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| VA | SB1310 | Pass | Employment; domestic service; Virginia Human Rights Act. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic service are not excluded from employee protection laws and laws regarding the payment of wages. The measure also provides that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| VA | SB1165 | Pass | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence. The bill provides that no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after its effective date for any violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| VA | SB1168 | Pass | Definition of "abused or neglected child." Conforms the definition of "abused or neglected child" in Title 16.1 (Courts Not of Record) with the definition of the same term in Title 63.2 (Welfare (Social Services)).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| VA | SB1428 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores; sale of low alcohol beverage coolers. Prohibits the Board of Directors (the Board) of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority from selling in government stores low alcohol beverage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| VA | SB1227 | Pass | State plan for medical assistance; payment of medical assistance; 12-month supply of hormonal contraceptives. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance a provision for the payment of medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
| VA | SB1316 | Pass | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| VA | SB1102 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; personal care aides; orientation program. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish an orientation program for all personal care aides who provide self-directed services through the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
| VA | SB1121 | Pass | Birth certificates; amendments. Provides that every request for an amendment to a birth certificate shall be reviewed to determine whether the requested amendment can be made administratively or if a judicial order is required for the amendment. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0237) |
| VA | SB1276 | Pass | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0102) |
| VA | SB1112 | Pass | Research and development tax credits. Provides that the research and development expenses tax credit and the major research and development expenses tax credit shall be available against the bank franchise tax for taxable years beginning on and after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0048) |
| VA | SR555 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Henry Lewis Livas, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Bill text as passed Senate (SR555ER) |
| VA | SB1111 | Pass | Elections; preservation of order at the polls; powers of officers of election. Removes the power of officers of election, in the event that no law-enforcement officer is in attendance, to appoint a person who is not a law-enforcement officer to have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| VA | SR529 | Pass | Commending John E. Smith.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR529ER) |
| VA | SR528 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Roger Allan Saunders, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR528ER) |
| VA | SB1196 | Pass | Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency. Requires teacher, principal, and division superintendent evaluations to include an evaluation of cultural competency. The bill requires every person seeking initial licensure or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024) |
| VA | SJR323 | Pass | Liberty Amendments Month. Designates June 19 through the third Monday in July, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Liberty Amendments Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ323ER) |
| VA | SJR288 | Pass | National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol; Barbara Rose Johns. Authorizes, and directs the submission to the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, that the vacant spot of the Commonwealth in the National Statuary Hall Colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ288ER) |
| VA | SB1285 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacant buildings; registration. Removes the requirement that a building meet the definition of "derelict building" and instead requires that such building potentially endanger the public health, safety, or welfare in order for the Town of Clifton For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
(requires 67 affirmative votes to pass) |
| VA | SR514 | Pass | Commending the Science Museum of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR514ER) |
| VA | SR506 | Pass | Commending the Virginia State Police and the Virginia National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR506ER) |
| VA | SR508 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Edward Paul Crapol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR508ER) |
| VA | SR501 | Pass | 2021 Special Session I operating resolution. 2021 Special Session I operating resolution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR501ER) |
| VA | SB1111 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; preservation of order at the polls; powers of officers of election. Removes the power of officers of election, in the event that no law-enforcement officer is in attendance, to appoint a person who is not a law-enforcement officer to have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| VA | SB1197 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia housing opportunity tax credit. Establishes, starting in taxable year 2021, a Virginia housing opportunity tax credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-income housing tax credit allocated or allowed by the Virginia Housing Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| VA | SB1276 | Engross
Sine Die | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| VA | SB1102 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; personal care aides; orientation program. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish an orientation program for all personal care aides who provide self-directed services through the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SJR272 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote. Establishes that the sole qualifications to vote in the Commonwealth are being a United States citizen, at least 18 years of age, a resident of the Commonweal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| VA | SB1112 | Engross
Sine Die | Research and development tax credits. Provides that the research and development expenses tax credit and the major research and development expenses tax credit shall be available against the bank franchise tax for taxable years beginning on and after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| VA | SB1121 | Engross
Sine Die | Birth certificates; amendments. Provides that, in cases regarding amendments to birth certificates not already set out in the Code of Virginia, an amendment to a birth certificate shall be evaluated by the State Registrar through an administrative pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SB1168 | Engross
Sine Die | Definition of "abused or neglected child." Conforms the definition of "abused or neglected child" in Title 16.1 (Courts Not of Record) with the definition of the same term in Title 63.2 (Welfare (Social Services)).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1138 | Engross
Sine Die | Sexually transmitted infections; infected sexual battery. Provides that any person who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection and engages in sexual behavior that poses a substantial risk of transmission to another person according to curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1196 | Engross
Sine Die | Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency. The bill requires teacher, principal, and division superintendent evaluations to include an evaluation of cultural competency. The bill requires every person seeking initial lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| VA | SJR323 | Engross
Sine Die | Liberty Amendments Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules by voice vote |
| VA | SB1165 | Engross
Sine Die | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence. The bill provides that no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after its effective date for any violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SJR338 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Jane Carey Gardner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SJR348 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Michael Wayne Woods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SJR378 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Robert Lathan Calhoun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SJR377 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Officer Brian David Sicknick.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| VA | SB1227 | Engross
Sine Die | State plan for medical assistance; payment of medical assistance; 12-month supply of hormonal contraceptives. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance a provision for the payment of medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SB1285 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacant buildings; registration. Removes the requirement that a building meet the definition of "derelict building," and instead requires that such building potentially endanger the public health, safety, or welfare in order for the Town of Clifton Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| VA | SB1315 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence offered by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1316 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SB1310 | Engross
Sine Die | Employment; domestic service; Human Rights Act. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic service are not excluded from employee protection laws and laws regarding the payment of wages. The measure also provides that the prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| VA | SB1428 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores; sale of low alcohol beverage coolers. Prohibits the Board of Directors (the Board) of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority from selling in government stores low alcohol beverage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| VA | SB1445 | Enroll
Sine Die | Facilitate the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine; emergency. Facilitates the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. The bill requires the Department of Health (the Department) to establish a program to enable eligible health care providers to v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1445ER) |
