| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual license tax on certain vehicles. Repeals the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013. The bill also lowers the annual license tax for electric motor v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentence modification; felony. Amends provision that allows felony sentence modification prior to transfer to the Department of Corrections to specify that the transfer must have been lawful.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Prejudgment interest on awards; insurer denial of coverage or liability. Requires an insurer to pay interest on the principal sum awarded by the court at the judgment rate from the date of the filing of a civil action that is instituted by an insured...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Committee substitute printed to Web only 14103703D-S1 |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles. Repeals the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013. The bill also provides for refunds of the license tax paid on hybrid electric mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Retrieval of hunting dogs and other animals. Requires a hunter to make a good faith effort to obtain permission from the landowner, his agent, or a person occupying a residence located on the property before entering the property to retrieve his hunt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | Writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence; petitioners pro se. Provides that the Supreme Court shall not accept a petition for a writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence from a petitioner pro se unless such petition is accomp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery; conspiracy. Provides that conspiracy to commit misdemeanor assault or assault and battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB216 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery; conspiracy. Provides that conspiracy to commit misdemeanor assault or assault and battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Arrest photos on Internet. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for the owner of a website to both post an arrest photo and solicit, request, or accept money for removing the photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax refunds; payment. Requires the Tax Commissioner and State Comptroller to implement procedures to allow an individual to elect to have his income tax refund paid by check mailed to his address. If the individual makes no election...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | State Police maintenance of reports; traffic accidents. Requires State Police, in addition to DMV, to furnish copies of reports of traffic accidents upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles. Repeals the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013. The bill also provides for refunds of the license tax paid on hybrid electric mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles. Eliminates the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Local license tax and local machinery and tools tax. Provides that the Commonwealth pay on behalf of taxpayers the total amount of license taxes and machinery and tool taxes owed to a locality for any calendar year in which the locality has an annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Repayment of a Literary Fund loan to the Patrick County Board of Supervisors to be applied to the costs of reconstructing Meadows of Dan Elementary School. Provides that in the event that the Patrick County Board of Supervisors applies to the Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB226 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment contracts; enforcement; applicable law. Provides that Virginia courts shall not enforce any provision of an employment contract if the provision is invalid or unenforceable under the laws of Commonwealth. The measure also provides that a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB506 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles. Eliminates the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013. The bill also provides for refunds of the license tax paid on hybrid electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB511 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts instead of from each of the 9 highway construction districts. The five at-large...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (7-Y 5-N 1-A) |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic cigarettes; minors. Provides that minors may not purchase or possess electronic cigarettes and that no person may sell electronic cigarettes to a minor. The bill defines an electronic cigarette as any electronic device that can provide an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB999 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Major Employer Research Performance Grant Program. Creates a performance grant program for research and development expenditures conducted in the Commonwealth by major employers. The bill provides that research and development expenditures m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Passed by indefinitely in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System and local government retirement systems; investments. Authorizes the Virginia Retirement System and any local government retirement system to purchase investment grade life insurance policies and annuity policies on their m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Stricken from docket by Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of handbills, solicitation of contributions, etc., on highways. Allows localities to adopt ordinances allowing for the solicitation of contributions on highways for organizations granted tax-exempt status under §501(c)(3) of the Int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Prince George County; ordinance providing that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on real estate. Adds Prince George County to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Incorporated by Local Government |
| SB182 | Intro
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] | 2014-01-14
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Service districts. Provides that different classifications of property within a service district may be taxed at different rates based on the benefit received within that particular classification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Senate Districts 19 and 23 in Bedford County in order to reflect precinct lines. The district population deviations remain within the two percent gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB129 | Intro
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] | 2014-01-14
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB454 | Intro
Sine Die | Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); expansion. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to expand PACE through a Request-for-Applications process. The bill provides that DMAS shall issue Requests for Application...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription Monitoring Program; reporting requirements. Requires dispensers to comply with the reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program within three days of dispensing a covered substance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting by persons 65 years of age or older. Adds to the list of persons entitled to vote by absentee ballot those persons who are 65 years of age or older on or before the day of the election for which an absentee ballot is sought...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; rejection of coverage by executive officer. Establishes when a rejection of workers' compensation coverage by an executive officer of an employer expires. The measure requires that such rejections of coverage be renewed annuall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; no-excuse in-person absentee voting. Allows qualified voters to vote absentee in person without providing an excuse for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the statutory list of specific reasons allowing a vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; medicolegal death examinations. Clarifies the powers and duties of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Chief Medical Examiner, Assistant Chief Medical Examiners, and appointed local medical examiners re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate districts; adjustment. Changes district assignments of two census precincts in Louisa County. The bill moves Fredericks Hall from District 17 to District 22 and South Anna from District 22 to District 17. The population deviation for both dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurable interest requirement; annuity contracts. Prohibits a person from purchasing an annuity contract under which benefits are payable to another individual unless those benefits are payable to the annuitant, the annuitant's personal representati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of court services unit directors. Provides that the hiring and employment of state and local court services unit directors is under the Department of Juvenile Justice. Under current law, the juvenile and domestic relations district court j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (3-Y 10-N 1-A) |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of process on domestic corporations. Allows process on a Virginia corporation to be served on its registered agent by posting a copy of the process on the front door or main entrance of the corporation's registered office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | License plate reader database; penalty. Requires the Department of State Police to maintain a license plate reader database under the control of the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center. Data can be accessed for grand jury proceedings and by law-enfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB231 | Intro
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] | 2014-01-13
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB527 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of State Police; appointment of supervisory officers. Establishes career progression programs for troopers and special agents that are based on years of service. The program for troopers provides for promotion to the rank of senior trooper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; term contracts for certain architectural and engineering services. Increases the term contract limits for architectural and engineering services to $2.5 million per project for state agencies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Confederate cemeteries and graves. Changes the entity responsible for the care of graves in Pittsylvania County from the Rawley Martin Chapter, U.D.C., to the Pittsylvania County Historical Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; certain licensees to provide information to consumer while on the premises of licensed retailers. Allows any winery, farm winery, or wine wholesaler licensee to provide to adult customers of licensed retail establishments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-10
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; certain licensees to provide information to consumer while on the premises of licensed retailers. Allows any winery, farm winery, or wine wholesaler licensee to provide to adult customers of licensed retail establishments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-10
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Game and Inland Fisheries; appointment of certain sworn law-enforcement positions. Eliminates the requirement that the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries make appointments to sworn law-enforcement positions above th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| HB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Presumed consent for organ donation. Establishes a system of presumed consent for organ donation in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
