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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
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| #1 | HB2099 | Engrossed | Limitations on enforcement of judgments; judgment liens; settlement agents. Reduces from 20 years to 10 years from the date of a judgment the period of time within which an execution may be issued or action may be taken on such judgment. The bill pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) |
| #2 | HB1750 | Engrossed | Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program. Directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and administer the Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program (the Program). The bill provides that a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) |
| #3 | HB2036 | Enrolled | Virginia Employment Commission; communications with parties; report. Authorizes the Virginia Employment Commission to send notices and other communications related to claims brought under the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act through email or ot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #4 | SB1375 | Engrossed | 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, correctional officers, and reg... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27 VOTE: Agreed To (98-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| #5 | HB1823 | Engrossed | Public schools, child day programs, and certain other programs; carbon monoxide detectors required. Requires each building that was built before 2015 and that houses any public school classroom for students, licensed child day program, or other progr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| #6 | SB1266 | Engrossed | Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebuttable presumptions against being admitted to bail. Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebutta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| #7 | HB1825 | Enrolled | Virginia Beach Sports or Entertainment Project; bond issuance. Amends provisions related to bond issuance for purposes of the Virginia Beach Sports or Entertainment Project. The bill (i) enables bonds to be issued with maturities no later than the ex... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1825ER) |
| #8 | HB2317 | Enrolled | Advisory Committee on Sexual and Domestic Violence; Advisory Committee on Sexual and Domestic Violence; membership; duties. Increases from 15 to 19 the total number of members of the Advisory Committee on Sexual and Domestic Violence (the Advisory Co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #9 | HB1854 | Engrossed | Naming U.S. Route 29; county manager plan of government. Authorizes the board of any locality that has adopted the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to name any section of U.S. Route 29 located within the boundaries of the locality... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| #10 | HB1862 | Engrossed | Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a prac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 VOTE: Adoption (79-Y 18-N) |
| #11 | HB2033 | Introduced | Health insurance; association health plan for real estate Health insurance; association health plan for real estate salespersons. Provides that a licensed insurer may issue a policy of group accident and sickness insurance to an association of real e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 |
| #12 | HB2296 | Introduced | Worker classification; independent contractors. Provides that in a proceeding involving allegations of worker misclassification an individual or business is not considered an employee with respect to a hiring party if the person qualifies as an indep... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 |
| #13 | HB2036 | Engrossed | Virginia Employment Commission; communications with parties; report. Authorizes the Virginia Employment Commission to send notices and other communications related to claims brought under the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act through email or ot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| #14 | HB1834 | Enrolled | Electric utilities; closure of carbon-emitting generating units. Requires each owner of a large carbon-emitting power plant to provide notice to relevant localities and state agencies about the decision to close the plant within 30 days of making suc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #15 | HB2010 | Enrolled | Earned sentence credits. Contains a technical amendment. This bill is declarative of existing law. Earned sentence credits. Contains a technical amendment. This bill is declarative of existing law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #16 | HB2047 | Engrossed | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert testimony, if suc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| #17 | HB1854 | Enrolled | Naming U.S. Route 29; county manager plan of government. Authorizes the board of any locality that has adopted the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to name any section of U.S. Route 29 located within the boundaries of the locality... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #18 | SB1297 | Engrossed | Emergency order for adult protective services; acts of violence, force, or threat or financial exploitation; penalty. Allows the circuit court, upon a finding that an incapacitated adult has been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| #19 | SB1437 | Engrossed | Promises to appear after the issuance of a summons. Eliminates the requirement that a promise to appear be completed after the issuance of a summons for a misdemeanor offense or an administrative violation. The bill provides that an accused shall be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 |
| #20 | HB1763 | Enrolled | Tax credit; agricultural best management practices. Creates an enhanced individual and corporate income tax credit for taxable years 2021 through 2024 for the implementation of certain agricultural best management practices by the taxpayer that are r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #21 | SB1141 | Enrolled | Hampton Roads area refuse collection authority; financial planning. Changes various requirements of the Southeastern Public Service Authority (the Authority) when budgeting or incurring debt, including (i) changing the required five-year overall stra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #22 | HB1876 | Engrossed | Workforce development; data sharing. Expands the type of workforce development data that state agencies may share with the Virginia Workforce System to support workforce program evaluation and policy analysis. The bill removes the requirement that al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| #23 | HB2139 | Engrossed | Accrual of cause of action; diagnosis of latent injury or disease. Provides that a cause of action for a latent injury shall accrue when such injury and its causal connection to an injurious or disease-causing substance, product, or circumstance is f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| #24 | HB1992 | Enrolled | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following conviction for assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of assault and battery of a family or household member, as defined ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #25 | HB1822 | Engrossed | Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription asthma inhalers. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $50 per 30-day supply of a tier one or tier two prescription asthma inhaler that a cove... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| #26 | HB1986 | Engrossed | George Mason University; management agreement. Provides a management agreement between the Commonwealth and George Mason University pursuant to the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act (§ 23.1-1000 et seq.). ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| #27 | HB1926 | Engrossed | Central Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. Adds the Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority, or his designee, as a nonvoting ex officio member of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| #28 | HB2233 | Enrolled | Orders of restitution; enforcement. Provides that an order of restitution shall be docketed in the name of the Commonwealth, or a locality if applicable, on behalf of a victim, unless the victim named in the order of restitution requests in writing t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #29 | HB2009 | Passed | Deed from the Commonwealth to the United States; Chamberlin Hotel at Fort Monroe. Provides that the property upon which a hotel known as the Chamberlin Hotel at Fort Monroe, Virginia, is located and that is leased to an operator for use as a senior l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 18 (effective 7/1/21) |
| #30 | HB1877 | Enrolled | Legal service plans; seller registration. Provides that a legal services plans seller may offer, advertise, or execute, or cause to be executed by the subscriber, any subscription contract in the Commonwealth if the seller has submitted the seller's ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #31 | HB1770 | Introduced | Public education; student education accounts. Permits any school division to establish a program to create savings accounts for students to be used for alternative educational programs. The bill requires the Department of Education to establish polic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 |
| #32 | HB1832 | Enrolled | Virginia Highway Corporation Act; alteration of certificate of authority; powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission. Requires any application for a transfer, extension, or amendment of a certificate of authority issued under the Virginia ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #33 | SB1460 | Introduced | Deer hunting; rifle caliber. Authorizes the use of a .223 caliber centerfire rifle for hunting deer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| #34 | SB1306 | Engrossed | Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months for an assault and battery committed against a judge, magistrate, law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, person directly involved in the care, tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| #35 | HB2229 | Enrolled | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; responsibilities of real estate brokers; foreclosure of single-family residential dwelling units. Provides that if a dwelling unit used as a single-family residence is foreclosed upon and there is a tenan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #36 | HB2071 | Engrossed | Transportation projects; resiliency. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to determine whether a project has been designed to be resilient when evaluating projects for the Six-Year Improvement Program and consider resiliency when establishi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| #37 | SB1121 | Engrossed | 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 |
| #38 | HB1796 | Engrossed | Special license plates; Virginia National Guard retirees. Removes the fee for the issuance of a special license plate for retired members of the Virginia National Guard. Currently, such special license plates cost the same as the prescribed cost for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| #39 | HB2046 | Engrossed | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Prohibits any locality, its employees, or its appointed commissions from discriminating (i) in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines, or in the permitting of h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| #40 | HB1926 | Enrolled | Central Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. Adds the Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority, or his designee, as a nonvoting ex officio member of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #41 | SB1202 | Engrossed | Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits, for a claim for unin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| #42 | HB1936 | Enrolled | Robbery; penalties. Creates degrees of punishment corresponding to the severity of a robbery offense. Any person who commits a robbery and causes serious bodily injury to or the death of another person is guilty of a Class 2 felony. Any person who co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| #43 | SB1266 | Engrossed | Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebuttable presumptions against being admitted to bail. Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Eliminates provisions regarding the rebutta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 House amendments agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| #44 | HB2140 | Engrossed | Department of Human Resource Management, alternative application for employment for persons with a disability. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to create an alternative application process for the employment of persons with a disab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| #45 | HB2307 | Engrossed | Consumer Data Protection Act. Establishes a framework for controlling and processing personal data in the Commonwealth. The bill applies to all persons that conduct business in the Commonwealth and either (i) control or process personal data of at le... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| #46 | HJR542 | Engrossed | Study; Department of Rail and Public Transportation; transit equity and modernization; report. Requests the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to conduct a two-year study of transit equity and modernization in the Commonwealth, with emphasi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by Senate |
| #47 | HB2182 | Engrossed | Board of Education; definition of "traumatic brain injury." Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulatory definition of "traumatic brain injury," for the purpose of the provision of special education for children with disabilities, to inclu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| #48 | SB1316 | Engrossed | 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 |
| #49 | SB1423 | Engrossed | Sales and use tax exemption for data centers. Reduces the job creation requirement to qualify for the sales and use tax exemption for data centers in a distressed locality from 25 to 15 jobs. Under current law, such data centers must create at least ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| #50 | HB2304 | Enrolled | Provision of broadband capacity by Phase I or Phase II electric utilities. Makes permanent the pilot program under which a Phase I or Phase II electric utility is permitted to petition the State Corporation Commission to provide broadband capacity to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
