VA Legislation | 2014 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB106	Engross Sine Die	Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of $1 million in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB250	Engross Sine Die	Employment applications; inquiries regarding criminal arrests, charges, or convictions. Prohibits state agencies from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever been arrested or charged with... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB577	Engross Sine Die	Opening of the school year; alternative schedules. Permits a division superintendent, with the approval of the local school board, to (i) set the academic calendar for any school within the local school division that has failed to achieve full accred... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB303	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Extends the benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child of a veteran with at least a 90 percent permanent, service-rela... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Education Committee
SB206	Engross Sine Die	Department of State Police; appointment of supervisory officers. Establishes a career progression program for State Troopers and Special Agents based on years of satisfactory service. For State Troopers, the program provides for promotion to the rank... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB429	Engross Sine Die	Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; amount of grant. Provides that the amount of the Two-Year College Transfer Grant an eligible student receives shall be based on the difference between the costs of tuition and mandatory educational and general... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB340	Engross Sine Die	Group home licenses. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to provide a list of licenses issued for group homes and residential facilities housing eight or fewer persons during the preceding month upon the request of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB305	Engross Sine Die	Standards of Learning; expedited retakes. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to (a) increase the number of students and the number of grade levels that are eligible for an expedited retake of Standards of Learning assessments a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB139	Engross Sine Die	Provisional driver's license holders. Changes use of a cell phone by a provisional driver's license holder from a secondary offense to a primary offense. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB107	Engross Sine Die	Grants for donations to science, technology, engineering, or math educational programs at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program beginning in 2014 for donations made by STEM organizations to qualified schools. The donations must be used by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB115	Engross Sine Die	Temporary detention; time during which a person may be held. Provides that a person held pursuant to a temporary detention order shall be held for at least 24 hours but no more than 72 hours. Currently, a person may be held pursuant to a temporary de... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB256	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement ben... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB132	Engross Sine Die	Department of Social Services; annual review of payments made to TANF recipients and indexing of such payments to the Consumer Price Index. Requires the Board of Social Services to develop and implement a process for annually reviewing the amount of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
SB173	Engross Sine Die	Deferred disposition in criminal cases. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case, other than an act of violence, where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB254	Engross Sine Die	Law-enforcement officers; exceptions to territorial limits; sex offenses. Provides that whenever the necessity arises for the enforcement of laws related to child pornography, grooming videos, or use of a communications system to facilitate certain s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB170	Engross Sine Die	Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB187	Engross Sine Die	Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2019. The bill requires that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB388	Engross Sine Die	Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations authorizing local school divisions to determine the date for administering Standards of Learning assessments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB262	Engross Sine Die	Internet Crimes Against Children Fund; fee; Governor's Child Safety Test. Increases from $10 to $15 the additional fee placed upon each felony or misdemeanor conviction assessed as court costs and deposited into the state treasury and credited to the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB291	Engross Sine Die	Visually impaired students; Braille. Requires each visually impaired student to be evaluated by a certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired and requires the student to receive instruction in Braille or the use of Braille unless the team responsible ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB16	Engross Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested are entitled to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB672	Engross Sine Die	Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; out-of-state students. Requires the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind (Board) to include in its criteria and procedures governing admissions to the school provisions for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB373	Engross Sine Die	Trafficking in persons; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking in persons for forced labor or sexual servitude and adds the new felonies as a predicate criminal act under the criminal gang statute, as racketeering crimes, and to the function... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB660	Engross Sine Die	Office of the Attorney General; Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; funds recovered. Authorizes the Division of Debt Collection in the Office of the Attorney General to pursue claims and recoveries owed to the Commonwealth under the Fraud Against T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB155	Engross Sine Die	Public schools; physical activity requirement. Requires at least 20 minutes of physical activity per day or an average of 100 minutes per week during the regular school year for students in grades kindergarten through five. This requirement becomes e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Education Committee
SB621	Engross Sine Die	Certain felony convictions. Provides that subsequent to a felony conviction, the court has jurisdiction to amend the conviction, if it is not an act of violence as defined in § 19.2-297.1, to a misdemeanor conviction pursuant to the terms and co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB168	Engross Sine Die	Teacher relocation incentive grant program. Provides a grant of $5,000 to teachers who relocate to either a school where at least 40 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch or to a school in a locality with a population of 50,000 or... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB171	Engross Sine Die	Writ of actual innocence based on nonbiological evidence; additional petitions allowed. Removes the limitation that only one petition may be filed by allowing additional petitions based on new retroactive rules of constitutional law and changes in st... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB153	Engross Sine Die	Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services through the Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families program to students who transfer from an approved private school spe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB146	Engross Sine Die	Sentence modification; felony. Amends provision that allows felony sentence modification prior to transfer to the Department of Corrections to allow sentence modification after transfer to the Department of Corrections pursuant to a motion for a sent... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB343	Engross Sine Die	Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer grade fireworks. Authorizes the use of consumer-grade fireworks in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "consumer fireworks" as small fireworks devices containing restricted amounts of pyrote... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House General Laws Committee
SB62	Engross Sine Die	Residential Improved Accessibility and Universal Visitability Grant Program. Establishes a grant program for homeowners and contractors for the purchase or construction of new residences or renovations to existing residences designed to improve acces... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB510	Engross Sine Die	Possession of firearms following conviction of certain crimes; penalty. Prohibits any person who is convicted of stalking, sexual battery, or assault and battery of a family member involving the use of force from possessing, transporting, or carrying... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB573	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive an award from the institution's approp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB500	Engross Sine Die	Compensation of members of the General Assembly. Prohibits compensation to legislators for attending conferences for which the agenda and materials are not available to the public. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Tabled in Rules by voice vote
SJR10	Engross Sine Die	Study; strategies for improving access to higher education for students with developmental and intellectual disabilities; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to study strategies for improving access to higher e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
SB647	Engross Sine Die	DMAS; teledentistry pilot program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to create a two-year pilot program to provide dental services to school-age children who are eligible to receive pediatric dental services through the Smiles for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 To House Appropriations Committee
HB227	Engross Sine Die	Public water and sewer utilities and authorities; service contracts. Authorizes localities and water and sewer authorities to establish and operate programs under which they agree to repair, replace, or maintain the water or sewer line of a customer'... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB451	Engross Sine Die	Definition of law-enforcement officer; municipal park rangers. Adds sworn municipal park rangers who are conservators of the peace to the definition of law-enforcement officer. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 To House Appropriations Committee
SJR87	Engross Sine Die	Appalachian Cherokee Nation, Incorporated. Extends state recognition to the Appalachian Cherokee Nation, Incorporated. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 To House Rules Committee
SJR101	Engross Sine Die	City of Suffolk. Encourages the City of Suffolk and Paul D. Camp Community College to collaborate on the creation of a joint academic center and new library for the Suffolk region. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Tabled in Rules by voice vote
HB286	Engross Sine Die	State Inspector General; appointment. Provides that the General Assembly appoints the State Inspector General. Currently, the Governor appoints the State Inspector General. The bill contains technical amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N)
SB334	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Disaster Relief Fund established. Creates the Virginia Disaster Relief Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. The bill provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used solely for the purpose of helping Vir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1147	Engross Sine Die	Health insurance; offering plans. States that, notwithstanding any other provision of Virginia law, insurance companies shall be allowed to continue offering health insurance plans in all product markets that were in effect at any time during 2012 an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N)
HB1263	Engross Sine Die	The Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates; membership. Requires one of the citizen members appointed by the Governor to serve on the Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates to be a person who served and has been honorably discharged from the armed forc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 9-N)
HB1059	Engross Sine Die	Electric utilities; generation facility cost recovery. Requires an electric utility to establish a regulatory asset for regulatory accounting and ratemaking purposes under which it shall defer operation and maintenance costs incurred in connection wi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB608	Engross Sine Die	Lifetime concealed handgun permits; Department of State Police to issue; penalty. Provides for the issuance of concealed handgun permits that do not expire to Virginia residents upon payment of a one-time fee of $100, except that the fee for a person... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-28 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB191	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration; duties of the State Board of Elections. Modifies the provision calling for the State Board to cross-check voter registration lists with other states by requiring that the general registrars complete the processing of the list with... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-28 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB142	Engross Sine Die	Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Provides a mechanism for persons who are sentenced to life or a term of confinement that would be completed after the person's 60th birthday for a nonhomicide offense committed on or after January 1, 1995, w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-28 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1122	Engross Sine Die	Service of process; social security numbers. Requires a person serving process to redact a party's social security number from any writing, process, or attached pleading before service of process is effected on the party by any method other than deli... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-27 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee