| VA | SB767 | Intro | Coal ash ponds; flaws in closure plans; delay of permit. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (the Director) to delay the issuance of a permit for the closure of a coal ash pond if the Department of Environmental Quality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB766 | Intro | Citizen water quality monitoring; use as evidence in enforcement actions. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to use certain results of citizen water quality testing as evidence in enforcement actions. Such evidence is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB93 | Intro | Eligibility for parole; at liberty between offenses. Provides that a person convicted of three separate felony offenses of murder, rape, or robbery by the presenting of firearms or other deadly weapon, or any combination of such offenses, shall be el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| VA | SB768 | Intro | Electric utilities; recovery of costs associated with closure in place of coal ash facilities. Directs that in a biennial review of an investor-owned electric utility by the State Corporation Commission, any costs incurred by an investor-owned electr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB574 | Intro | Step therapy protocols. Requires health benefit plans that restrict the use of any prescription drug through the use of a step therapy protocol to have in place a clear, convenient, and expeditious process for a prescribing medical provider to reques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| VA | SB765 | Intro | Coal ash ponds; mandatory testing of drinking water wells. Requires the owner or operator of any coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that is closed by capping in place to complete a survey of all drinking water wells within one mile of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB613 | Intro | Deposition of local governing body. Provides that when a local governing body is named as a deponent, it shall designate one or more members of such body to serve as a deponent on its behalf. The bill provides that such designee and his testimony sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB364 | Engross | Motor vehicle liability insurance coverage limits. Increases the minimum liability coverage amount from $20,000 to $50,000 for injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident. The bill applies to motor vehicle insurance policies is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB737 | Intro | Driving under the influence; first offenders; license conditions; 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, the sole restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| VA | SB770 | Intro | Absentee voting; alternative locations for in-person absentee voting. Provides that the alternative locations approved by the electoral boards for absentee voting in person prior to election day shall be in a public facility owned or leased by the ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB167 | Intro | Discovery in criminal cases; duty to provide. Requires Discovery in criminal cases; duty to provide. Requires the attorney for the Commonwealth, upon written notice by an accused to the court and to the attorney for the Commonwealth, to permit the ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB771 | Intro | Absentee voting; counting military and overseas absentee ballots received after close of polls on election day. Provides that absentee ballots cast by military and overseas absentee voters that are (i) received after the close of the polls on any ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB352 | Intro | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and cancers of the colon, brain, and testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| VA | SB808 | Intro | Electric utilities; Transitional Rate Period; coal combustion residuals landfills. Shortens the duration of the Transitional Rate Period (Period) for any Phase II Utility. The measure provides that the Period ends December 31, 2017, which is the date...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB510 | Intro | Cigarette tax; counties authorized to hold referendum. Authorizes the board of supervisors of any county to levy a tax on the sale or use of cigarettes if approved in a referendum. If approved, the tax shall not exceed five cents ($0.05) or the amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| VA | SB938 | Intro | Withholding of income for child support; independent contractors. Requires any person who contracts with an independent contractor, as defined in the bill, to submit information regarding any new independent contractor to the Virginia New Hire Report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
