| VA | SB2 | Pass | Possession and consumption of marijuana; penalty. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $25. Current law imposes a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense, and subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1286) |
| VA | SB235 | Veto | Health insurance; association health plans. Provides that for policies of group accident and sickness insurance issued to an association, members of such an association may include (i) a self-employed individual and (ii) an employer member with at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB861 | Veto | Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations; benefits consortium. Provides that certain trusts constitute a benefits consortium and are authorized to sell health benefits plans to members of a sponsoring association that (i) has been formed an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB251 | Pass | Pharmacy benefits managers; licensure and regulation. Provides that no person is authorized to provide pharmacy benefits management services or otherwise act as a pharmacy benefits manager without first obtaining a license from the State Corporation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1288) |
| VA | SB120 | Pass | Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1093) |
| VA | SB575 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; information disclosed to the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program; redisclosure. Provides for the mutual exchange of information between the Prescription Monitoring Program and the Emergency Department Care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1067) |
| VA | SB568 | Pass | Medical assistance services; managed care organization contracts with pharmacy benefits managers; spread pricing. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to require a managed care organization with which the Department enters into an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1083) |
| VA | SB172 | Pass | Health insurance; payment to out-of-network providers. Provides that when an enrollee receives emergency services from an out-of-network health care provider or receives out-of-network surgical or ancillary services at an in-network facility, the enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1081) |
| VA | SB567 | Pass | Disability insurance; childbirth. Requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing short-term disability income protection coverage whose policies provide coverage for short-term disabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0935) |
| VA | SB578 | Pass | Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be administered by the Board of Education, the Superin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0861) |
| VA | SB185 | Pass | Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospice programs, and hospice facilities; possession and administration of cannabidiol or THC-A oil. Allows nursing home, assisted living facility, hospice program, and hospice facility employees and staff m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| VA | SB365 | Pass | Secretary of Health and Human Resources; health care provider credentialing work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group of stakeholders to gather information and make recommendations on how the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| VA | SB585 | Pass | Guardianship for incapacitated persons. Provides that if the respondent to a guardianship or conservatorship petition is between 17 and a half and 21 years of age and has an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), the guardian ad litem appointed to repr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855) |
| VA | SB586 | Pass | Auditor of Public Accounts; duties; Commonwealth Data Point. Updates terminology and changes the level of information provided on the Commonwealth Data Point website in the areas of (i) total fiscal revenues and spending, (ii) population estimates, (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| 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 | SB1070 | Pass | Cemeteries, special interments; pets. Allows the remains of cremated pets to be interred with human remains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| VA | SB1025 | Pass | Kinship foster care; training and approval processes. Requires local boards of social services to request a waiver of training requirements necessary for the approval of a kinship foster parent upon determining that training requirements are a barrie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| VA | SB142 | Fail | Virtual Virginia. Requires that the Virtual Virginia Program, the statewide electronic classroom established by the Department of Education, be made available to all public schools. Currently, the program is available only to high schools. The bill r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SR60 | Intro | Commending the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB122 | Pass | Teledentistry. Defines "teledentistry," establishes requirements for the practice of teledentistry and the taking of dental scans for use in teledentistry by dental scan technicians, and clarifies requirements related to the use of digital work order...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| VA | SB62 | Pass | Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports; identification of race. Eliminates the requirement that the race of married parties be included in marriage records, divorce reports, and annulment reports filed with the State Registrar. The bill also...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| VA | SB633 | Pass | Music therapy; licensure. Requires the Board of Social Work to adopt regulations establishing a regulatory structure to license music therapists in the Commonwealth and establishes an advisory board to assist the Board in this process. Under the bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) |
| VA | SR78 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Leonard H. Simpson III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-08
Bill text as passed Senate (SR78ER) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SJR216 | Pass | Commending the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ216ER) |
| VA | SB186 | Pass | Department of Education; individualized education program teams; guidelines. Requires the Department of Education to establish guidelines for individualized education program (IEP) teams to utilize when developing IEPs for children with disabilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170) |
| VA | SB1012 | Engross | Individual income tax subtraction for certain low-income and middle-income students. Establishes an individual income tax subtraction starting in taxable year 2021 for any financial assistance received by a student through the Get Skilled, Get a Job,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB571 | Engross | Visitation; petition of grandparent. Requires the court, in petitions for visitation filed by the grandparent of a child where either (i) the parent is the grandparent's child and is deceased, incarcerated, or incapacitated, or has had his parental r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| 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 | 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 | SJR168 | Pass | Commending Rita D. Bishop.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ168ER) |
| 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 | SB981 | Pass | Professions and occupations; expediting the issuance of credentials to spouses of military service members. Provides for the expedited issuance of credentials to the spouses of military service members who are (i) ordered to federal active duty under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| 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 | SJR161 | Pass | Commending the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ161ER) |
| VA | SB366 | Engross | Department of Education; learning management system. Directs the Department of Education to obtain a statewide learning management system for use in public schools by the start of the 2022-2023 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB362 | Engross | Department of Veterans Services; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; data collection. Allows the Department of Veterans Services (the Department) to contract with any hospital in the Commonwealth that furnishes the treatment option of hyperbaric oxygen therap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB364 | Engross | Joint Commission on Health Care; association health plans for the individual market; review. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care (JCHC) to examine and review the implications of the establishment, implementation, and administration of a progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N) |
