| VA | SB1150 | Veto | Issuance of warrants by magistrates. Provides that a magistrate may not issue an arrest warrant for a misdemeanor offense where the accused is a law-enforcement officer and the alleged offense arises out of the performance of his public duties upon t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| VA | SB1231 | Pass | Incompetent defendants; capital murder. Provides that when a defendant charged with capital murder is determined to be unrestorably incompetent, the court may order that the defendant receive continued treatment to restore competency provided that he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| VA | SB1126 | Pass | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). Casino gaming shall be limited to certain cities that meet the criteria that is outlined in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| VA | SB1166 | Pass | Clerks of court; collection of DNA sample for certain offenses; disclosure of tax information; Torrens system. Provides that a blood, saliva, or tissue sample shall be taken for any person convicted of a violation of a local ordinance that is similar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| VA | HB2343 | Pass | Reports to Central Criminal Record Exchange; duties and authority of the Central Criminal Records Exchange; unapplied criminal history record information. Requires the Central Criminal Records Exchange (Exchange) to review offenses containing unappli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| VA | SB1507 | Pass | Use of unmanned aircraft systems by law-enforcement officers; persons sought for arrest. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may deploy an unmanned aircraft system (i) to aerially survey a primary residence of the subject of the arrest warrant to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| VA | SB1602 | Pass | Reports to Central Criminal Record Exchange; duties and authority of the Central Criminal Records Exchange; unapplied criminal history record information. Requires the Central Criminal Records Exchange (Exchange) to review offenses containing unappli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| VA | SB1222 | Pass | Insurance licensing and continuing education course requirements. Requires the biennial renewal, for individuals and business entities, of licenses by insurance agents, consultants, public adjusters, surplus lines brokers, and viatical settlement bro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| VA | SB1540 | Pass | Protective orders; contents of preliminary protective orders; docketing of appeal. Provides that if a preliminary protective order is issued in an ex parte hearing where the petition for the order is supported by sworn testimony and not an affidavit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| VA | SB1050 | Pass | Forgery; venue. Provides that, in addition to the current forgery venue provisions, forgery may be prosecuted in any county or city where an issuer, acquirer, or account holder sustained a financial loss as a result of the offense. This bill is ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| VA | HB2320 | Pass | Resetting bail, bond, and recognizance determinations; jurisdiction. Provides that any motion to alter the terms and conditions of bail where the initial bail decision is made by a judge or clerk of a district court or by a magistrate on any charge o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| VA | HB2605 | Pass | Community corrections alternative program; establishment. Repeals the boot camp incarceration program, diversion center incarceration program, and detention center incarceration program established and maintained by the Department of Corrections and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| VA | HB2586 | Pass | Prostitution and sex trafficking; offenses involving a minor; penalties. Provides that any person who commits an act of aiding prostitution or illicit sexual intercourse or using a vehicle to promote prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse, when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| VA | HB2746 | Pass | Central Criminal Records Exchange; background checks through Live Scan device. Requires the Department of State Police (the Department) to accept requests for background checks through the use of a Live Scan device certified by the Federal Bureau of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| VA | HB1817 | Pass | Promoting travel for prostitution; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any travel agent to knowingly promote travel services for the purposes of prostitution or certain offenses involving minors that require registration on the Sex Offender a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| VA | HB2080 | Pass | Physical evidence recovery kit tracking system. Provides that the Department of Forensic Science (Department) shall maintain a statewide electronic tracking system for physical evidence recovery kits where such kits will be assigned a unique identifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| VA | HB2413 | Pass | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; secrecy of information. Provides that any person granted permission to make notes and to duplicate portions of the evidence given before the multi-jurisdiction grand jury shall maintain the secrecy of all information ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| VA | HB2773 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; amount of award. Removes the current $600 limit placed on the amount that may be awarded to a crime victim for total loss of earnings resulting from incapacity. The bill also increases from $5,000 to $10,000 the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| VA | SB1751 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. Permits the Director of DPOR, or his designee, to issue a notice to any person unlawfully engaging in unlicensed practice of an occupation to cease and desist such activity. The bill also provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| VA | HB2137 | Pass | Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing; terminology. Replaces the term "hearing impaired" and its variations with "deaf or hard of hearing" and "hearing loss" throughout the Code of Virginia. The bill also renames the Virginia Hearing Impairment Ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| VA | HB1673 | Pass | Preliminary protective orders; full hearing date; court closure. Provides that if a court is lawfully closed and such closure prevents the full hearing for a preliminary protective order from being held within 15 days of the issuance of the prelimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197) |
| VA | HB2078 | Pass | Forfeiture on recognizance; bail bondsman; suspension of license. Provides that if a forfeited recognizance is not paid within 150 days, the license of any bail bondsman on the bond shall be suspended by the Department of Criminal Justice Services (t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200) |
| VA | HB2439 | Pass | DNA analysis; conviction of certain crimes or similar ordinance of a locality. Adds persons convicted of a violation of a local ordinance that is similar to certain crimes listed under current law to the list of persons from whom a blood, saliva, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201) |
| VA | HB2648 | Pass | Crime victim rights; notice of release of defendant found unrestorably incompetent or acquitted by reason of insanity. Provides that, upon the request of the victim of a crime, the Commissioner of Behavioral Health or his designee shall notify the vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216) |
| VA | HB2659 | Pass | Bail bondsman; surrender of principal; deposit. Requires a bail bondsman on a bond in a recognizance who surrenders his principal for any reason other than a summons to show cause issued by the court for which the defendant is to appear to deposit wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205) |
| VA | HB2278 | Pass | Expungement of police and court records; absolute pardon. Provides for the automatic expungement of the police and court records relating to a person's conviction if he has been granted an absolute pardon for a crime that he did not commit. Under cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| VA | HB2453 | Pass | Bail and recognizances; magistrate's checklist; surety's basis for request for capias. Requires a magistrate who conducts a bail hearing for a person arrested on a warrant or capias for a jailable offense to describe, on a form provided by the Execut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176) |
| VA | HB2087 | Fail | Prostitution-related crimes; minors; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalties for the following crimes if a minor is involved: (i) keeping, residing in, or visiting a bawdy place; (ii) aiding prostitution; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-24
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB1833 | Pass | Investigations and reports by probation officers; persons eligible for parole. Allows a presentence report to be made available for review without a court order to incarcerated persons who are eligible for release by the Virginia Parole Board, or to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0107) |
| VA | HB2035 | Pass | Dissemination of criminal history record information; Department of Medical Assistance Services; screening individuals. Provides that home care organizations, hospices, behavioral health care providers, and community services boards may disclose to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| VA | SB1529 | Pass | Reports to Central Criminal Records Exchange; additional offenses. Adds several criminal offenses to the list of offenses for which a report to the Central Criminal Records Exchange is required. The reports contain such information as is required by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| VA | SB1037 | Engross | Expungement of certain offenses. Allows a person to petition for expungement of a deferred disposition dismissal for underage alcohol possession or using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offense occurred prior to the person's twenty-first birthd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1013 | Engross | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1066 | Engross | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence. Provides that a person who was convicted of certain offenses, upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea, or who was adjudicated delinquent, upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1751 | Pass | Forgery; venue. Provides that, in addition to the current forgery venue provisions, forgery may be prosecuted in any county or city where an issuer, acquirer, or account holder sustained a financial loss as a result of the offense. This bill is ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046) |
| VA | SB1095 | Engross | Superintendent of Public Instruction and Commissioner of Social Services; early childhood care and education. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Commissioner of Social Services to (i) convene a stakeholder group to consider the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1137 | Engross | Death penalty; severe mental illness. Provides that a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness, as defined in the bill, at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty. The bill establishes procedures for determini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1380 | Engross | Expungement of certain charges and convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions and deferred disposition dismissals for marijuana possession, underage alcohol possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1379 | Pass | Child Pornography Registry; contents of Registry; criminal investigations; report. Requires copies of all known or suspected child pornography found during the course of a criminal investigation of child pornography offenses to be included in the Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0042) |
| VA | SB1417 | Engross | Competency report; unrestorably incompetent defendant. Provides that in cases where a defendant's competency is primarily compromised due to an ongoing and irreversible medical condition and prior medical or educational records are available to suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1710 | Engross | Community work in lieu of payment of fines and court costs; authority of the court. Clarifies that a court shall oversee a program allowing community service in lieu of payment of fines and court costs, including the monitoring of credit earned towar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1940 | Pass | Child Pornography Registry; contents of Registry; criminal investigations; report. Requires copies of all known or suspected child pornography found during the course of a criminal investigation of child pornography offenses to be included in the Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003) |
| VA | HB2417 | Engross | Emergency protective order; required conditions; petition to dissolve or modify. Requires any emergency protective order to prohibit (i) the respondent from committing acts of family abuse or criminal offenses that result in injury to person or prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1112 | Engross | Qualified education loan servicers. Prohibits any person from acting as a qualified education loan servicer except in accordance with provisions established by this bill. The bill requires a loan servicer to obtain a license from the State Corporatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 11-N) |
| VA | HB2552 | Engross | Unmanned aircraft systems; delayed notice of search warrant when deployed. Provides that within 10 days after an unmanned aircraft system is used during the execution of a search warrant, a copy of the executed search warrant shall be served on the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2136 | Engross | Evidence; accident reconstruction; criminal cases. Provides that in any criminal case, an accident reconstruction expert, when properly qualified, may testify as an expert witness in a court of law subject to the Rules of Supreme Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 10-N) |
| VA | SB1484 | Intro | Limitation of prosecutions; misdemeanor sex offenses against minors. Extends the statute of limitations period for prosecuting certain misdemeanor sex offenses where the victim is a minor at the time of the offense to 20 years after the victim reache...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| VA | SB1649 | Intro | Carnal knowledge; bail bondsmen; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for carnal knowledge of a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender by an owner or employee of the bail bond company that posted the pretria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| VA | SB1603 | Intro | Human trafficking; prevention and awareness; offenses Human trafficking; prevention and awareness; offenses related to prostitution and human trafficking; penalties. Provides that any person who commits an act of aiding prostitution or illicit sexual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| VA | HB1651 | Intro | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $500 to $750 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
