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HR588PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
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2020-09-25
Bill text as passed House (HR588ER)
HR590PassCelebrating the life of Gerald P. Domme.
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2020-09-25
Bill text as passed House (HR590ER)
SR542PassCommending Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Semyon Vindman, USA Ret.
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2020-09-25
Bill text as passed Senate (SR542ER)
HR591PassCommending Ronnie Sprinkle.
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2020-09-25
Bill text as passed House (HR591ER)
SB5107Engross

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Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensati...
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2020-09-25
VOTE: Passage Emergency (75-Y 22-N)
HB5028Engross

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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, first responders, health care ...
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2020-09-24
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N)
SB5050Engross

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Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports. Provides that the Department of Corrections (the Department) shall release a prisoner no sooner than 21 business days after the date of notification by the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) to the ap...
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2020-09-22
Tabled in Courts of Justice (13-Y 7-N)
SB5012Engross

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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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2020-09-22
Tabled in Courts of Justice (13-Y 7-N)
SB5032Engross

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Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement for a simple assault or an assault and battery committed against a judge; magistrate; law-enforcement officer; correctional officer; person directly involved in the ca...
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2020-09-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (18-Y 1-N)
HB5090Engross

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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, to the types of law-enforcement and criminal records required to be released in ...
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2020-09-18
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N)
SB5095Engross

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Rapid diagnostic testing; essential workers; emergency. Requires the Commissioner to ensure that priority for access to any rapid diagnostic testing indicating the existence of the COVID-19 virus that is already available in the Commonwealth go to es...
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2020-09-17
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N)
SB5109Engross

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Commissioner of Health; nursing home and assisted living facility employees and residents; priority for testing; COVID-19 pandemic. Provides that the Commissioner of Health shall ensure that residents and employees of any nursing home or assisted liv...
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2020-09-17
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N)
SB5025Engross

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Board and Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; duration. Provides that any emergency order or regulation adopted by the Board of Health shall be valid for no more than 30 days and that such order may be extended by the Board of H...
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2020-09-17
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (13-Y 9-N)
SR543PassCelebrating the life of Jacqueline Kidd King.
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2020-09-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR543ER)
HB5112Engross

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Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid; duty to report wrongdoing by another law-enforcement officer; penalty. Requires any law-enforcement officer on duty who witnesses another person suffering from a serious bodily injury or a life-threatening...
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2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 3-N)
HB5116Engross

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Paid quarantine leave. Requires public and private employers to provide eligible employees paid quarantine leave. The bill provides that such paid quarantine leave is available for immediate use by the employee, regardless of how long the employee ha...
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2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N)
SR540PassCelebrating the life of Lori Lee Brickley.
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2020-09-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR540ER)
SR541PassCommending Strike Fighter Squadron 213.
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2020-09-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR541ER)
SR536PassCelebrating the life of Leonard Jackson Hite.
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2020-09-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR536ER)
SR535PassCelebrating the life of Howard H. Foust, Jr.
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2020-09-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR535ER)
SR538PassCommending Geraldine Bailey Williams Johnson.
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2020-09-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR538ER)
SR537PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Bonnie Lineweaver Paul.
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2020-09-10
Bill text as passed Senate (SR537ER)
HB5013Engross

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Civil action for deprivation of rights; duties and liabilities of certain employers in employing or contracting for the services of law-enforcement officers. Creates a civil action for the deprivation of a person's rights by a law-enforcement officer...
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2020-09-10
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (12-Y 3-N)
HJR5002Intro

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Hydroxychloroquine; use for COVID-19 treatment. Encourages that hydroxychloroquine should be made available for treating COVID-19.
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2020-09-10
VOTE: Rejected (29-Y 65-N)
SR532PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
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2020-09-09
Bill text as passed Senate (SR532ER)
SR534PassCelebrating the life of Bishop Gerald O. Glenn.
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2020-09-09
Bill text as passed Senate (SR534ER)
SB5113Intro

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Crisis intervention team training; appropriation. Appropriates a sum sufficient to provide basic and advanced crisis intervention team training to all state and local law-enforcement officers in the Commonwealth.
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2020-09-09
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB5120PassAppropriation; Department of Elections. Appropriates $2,000,000 to the Department of Elections to be used to provide prepaid postage for the return of absentee ballots for the November 3, 2020, election. The bill requires that such prepaid postage be...
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2020-09-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0001)
HR587PassCelebrating the life of David Howard Evans.
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2020-09-04
Bill text as passed House (HR587ER)
HR581PassCommending Hopes & Seams.
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2020-09-04
Bill text as passed House (HR581ER)
SR533PassCommending Anna Leider.
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2020-09-04
Bill text as passed Senate (SR533ER)
HR584PassCommending Erica and Max Scherzer.
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2020-09-04
Bill text as passed House (HR584ER)
HR583PassCelebrating the life of Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Stork, USA Ret.
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2020-09-04
Bill text as passed House (HR583ER)
HR586PassCommending Billy Wiles.
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2020-09-04
Bill text as passed House (HR586ER)
HR541PassHouse Ethics Advisory Panel; confirming nominations by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. Confirms nominations made by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to the House Ethics Advisory Panel.
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2020-09-04
Bill text as passed House (HR541ER)
SB5037Intro

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Criminal Justices Services Board; Committee on Training. Changes the membership of the Committee on Training by requiring that one member be an attorney representing the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, one member be an attorney representing civ...
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2020-09-03
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB5071Intro

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Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Provides that if a retired law-enforcement officer was employed by a local school division as a school security officer on January 1, 2020, and had a b...
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2020-09-03
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
SB5005Intro

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Department of Criminal Justice Services; criminal justice training academies. Adds to the powers and duties of the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) regarding the oversight and evaluation of criminal justice training academies ...
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2020-09-03
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB5119Intro

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Virginia Retirement System; average final compensation. Directs the Virginia Retirement System to use a furloughed member's compensation in place the month prior to the declared statewide emergency that resulted in the furlough in calculating a membe...
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2020-09-03
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
SB5049Intro

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Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a law-enforcement officer to use a neck restraint in the performance of his official duti...
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2020-09-03
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
HR585PassCelebrating the life of John William Hasty.
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2020-09-03
Bill text as passed House (HR585ER)
SB5002Intro

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Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints. Prohibits the use of neck restraints by law-enforcement officers. The bill defines "neck restraint" as the use of any body part or object to attempt to control or disable a person b...
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2020-09-03
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
SB5094Intro

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School boards; teachers; paid leave; COVID-19; emergency. Requires each school board to provide to each teacher in the local school division up to 14 days of paid leave, in addition to any other paid leave to which such individual is otherwise entitl...
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2020-09-02
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
SB5004Intro

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School personnel; school nurses. Excludes school nurse positions from requirements for student support positions and instead requires each local school board to employ at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position in each elementary school,...
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2020-09-02
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
SB5102Intro

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Income tax credit for rent forgone due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Establishes for taxable years 2020 through 2024 a nonrefundable income tax credit for landlords for any residential rent forgone during the COVID-19 pandemic. The amount of the credit i...
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2020-09-02
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N)
SB5069Intro

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Public schools; declared state of emergency; average daily membership. Provides that in the event that a declared state of emergency causes a disruption in the provision of in-person instruction for students that affects the calculation of average da...
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2020-09-02
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 6-N)
SB5092Intro

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Income tax credits and deductions; household and dependent care services. Provides an income tax credit to individuals and married persons filing a joint return in an amount equal to a percentage of the federal tax credit provided for household and d...
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2020-09-02
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
SR531PassCelebrating the life of Robert Joseph Anderson.
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2020-09-02
Bill text as passed Senate (SR531ER)
SR528PassCelebrating the life of Ralph Essex Turpin, Jr.
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2020-09-02
Bill text as passed Senate (SR528ER)
SR529PassCelebrating the life of Jerry Austin Rexrode.
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2020-09-02
Bill text as passed Senate (SR529ER)
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