| VA | SB5013 | Intro | Possession of marijuana; prepay penalty. Provides that a summons for a violation of possession of marijuana shall contain the option for the person charged to prepay the civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB5003 | Intro | Commission on Civil Rights and Policing established; report. Establishes the Commission on Civil Rights and Policing for the purpose of reviewing civil justice, civil liberties, and policing in the Commonwealth and making policy recommendations to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB138 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; FOIA officers; training and reporting requirements. Adds regional public bodies to the types of public bodies that must designate a FOIA officer. The bill also changes the frequency for required FOIA officer train...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1141) |
| VA | SB153 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; cost estimates; response time. Provides that if a requester asks for a cost estimate in advance of a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request, the time to respond is tolled for the amount of time that elapses b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1142) |
| VA | SB111 | Pass | Absentee voting; no excuse required. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by abse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1151) |
| VA | SB139 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Act; training requirements. Adds the option for in-person training sessions in addition to the current requirement of online training sessions for local elected officials provided by the Virginia Freedom of In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0904) |
| VA | SB133 | Pass | Deferred disposition in criminal cases. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability and the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the criminal conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1004) |
| VA | SB144 | Pass | Protective orders; issuance upon convictions for certain felonies; penalty. Authorizes a court to issue a protective order upon convicting a defendant for an act of violence and upon the request of the victim or the attorney for the Commonwealth on b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1005) |
| VA | SB225 | Pass | Removal of dangerous roadside conditions; local option. Authorizes any locality, by ordinance, to require the owner of any property located adjacent to a right-of-way maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation to remove any and all trees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0963) |
| VA | SB1088 | Pass | Emergency medical services agency; dissolution; return of property purchased with public funds. Provides that upon dissolution of an emergency medical services agency, any property that was in the possession of such emergency medical services agency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0946) |
| VA | SB439 | Pass | Driving under the influence; remote alcohol monitoring; penalty. Provides that in the case of an adult offender's first conviction of driving under the influence when the offender's blood alcohol content was less than 0.15, upon motion of the offende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1007) |
| VA | SB556 | Pass | Speeding fines; certain roads. Adds a $15 penalty, in addition to all other penalties, for driving in excess of the posted speed limit on U.S. Routes 15 and 17 in Fauquier County, when such additional penalty is indicated by appropriately placed sign...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0892) |
| VA | SB1064 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; combined sewer overflow outfalls; James River watershed. Requires the owner or operator of any combined sewer overflow (CSO) system east of Charlottesville that discharges into the James River watershed to submit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| VA | SB499 | Pass | Specialty dockets; veterans docket. Provides that any veterans docket authorized and established as a local specialty docket in accordance with the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia shall be deemed a "Veterans Treatment Court Program," as that term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| VA | SB1005 | Pass | Corporal Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Guinea Station Road over Interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County the CPL Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| VA | SB333 | Pass | Door locking mechanisms and other safety devices. Provides that the Department of Housing and Community Development shall convene stakeholders representing entities that enforce the Uniform Statewide Building Code and the Virginia Statewide Fire Prev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| VA | SB336 | Pass | Special fishing permits for certain youth camps. Authorizes employees of an organized nonprofit tax-exempt youth camp that holds a special fishing permit for certain youth camps to fish without a license in public waters adjacent to property owned by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| VA | SB160 | Pass | Holding handheld personal communications devices while driving a motor vehicle. Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle. Current law prohibits (i) the reading of any email or text mess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| VA | SB987 | Pass | Hunting waterfowl; duck blinds. Prohibits hunting or shooting migratory waterfowl in the public waters of the Commonwealth from a boat, float, raft, or other buoyant craft or device within 150 yards of a residence without the consent of the landowner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| VA | SB72 | Pass | Public defender offices; Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and County of Prince William. Establishes a public defender office for the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and the County of Prince William.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| VA | SB134 | Fail | School boards; teachers; planning time and planning periods. Requires each local school board to ensure that each elementary school teacher has an average of one 45-minute period per school day of planning time and that each middle and high school te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB791 | Pass | Management of the menhaden fishery. Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations necessary to manage Atlantic menhaden, including those necessary to comply with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Interstate Fish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| VA | SR79 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Henry J. Abraham.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR79ER) |
| VA | SJR205 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Katherine Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ205ER) |
| VA | SJR263 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Helen Wang.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ263ER) |
| VA | SJR229 | Pass | Commending Charles Jones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ229ER) |
| VA | SJR232 | Pass | Celebrating the life of W. Malone Schooler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ232ER) |
| VA | SJR228 | Pass | Commending King George County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ228ER) |
| VA | SJR197 | Pass | Celebrating the life of E. Bruce Heilman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ197ER) |
| VA | SJR181 | Pass | Commending Bob Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ181ER) |
| VA | SJR221 | Pass | Commending Shirley Morrow Marshall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ221ER) |
| VA | SJR212 | Pass | Commending the Prince William County Police Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ212ER) |
| VA | SJR258 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Charles Henry Duff, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ258ER) |
| VA | SR57 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Leonard Rocklin Bogaev, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed Senate (SR57ER) |
| VA | SB338 | Engross | State Police Officers' Retirement System; exception to mandatory retirement requirement. Allows an exception from compulsory retirement at age 70 for any member of the State Police Officers' Retirement System (SPORS) who receives written approval fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB335 | Engross | Hunting and fishing license; military service. Authorizes any resident who is on active duty with, has been honorably discharged after at least six months of service in, or has retired from any branch of the United States Armed Forces to apply for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB930 | Engross | Establish a work group to evaluate the feasibility of establishing and maintaining a Mental Health Crisis Intervention Hotline. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to establish a work group to evaluate the feasibility of (i) establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | SJR196 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Corporal Ryan C. McGhee, USA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ196ER) |
| VA | SJR167 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Kossen Gregory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ167ER) |
| VA | SJR171 | Pass | Commending Robert W. Duncan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ171ER) |
| VA | SJR55 | Pass | Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ55ER) |
| VA | SB140 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public institutions of higher education; information related to pledges and donations. Provides that no discretionary exclusion in FOIA shall apply to protect information relating to the amount, date, purpose, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0078) |
| VA | SB989 | Engross | Additional transient occupancy tax in Spotsylvania County. Authorizes Spotsylvania County to impose an additional transient occupancy tax at a rate of four percent, for a total maximum rate of nine percent. The bill requires that revenue from the add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
VOTE: DEFEATED (48-Y 48-N 1-A) |
| VA | SJR99 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Elliot Schewel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ99ER) |
| VA | SJR165 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Officer Katherine Mary Thyne.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ165ER) |
| VA | SJR160 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Bittle Wilson Porterfield III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ160ER) |
| VA | SJR162 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lessie Lula Jones Polk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ162ER) |
| VA | SJR159 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ159ER) |
| VA | SJR86 | Pass | Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Designates September, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ86ER) |
| VA | SJR91 | Pass | Commending John F. Reinhart.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ91ER) |
