| SB1161 | Veto | Coal tax credits. Limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated or claimed for the coal employment and production incentive tax credit to $7.5 million. An electricity generator must file an application with the Department of Taxation e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1301 | Pass | Use of unmanned aircraft systems by public bodies; search warrant required. Replaces the moratorium currently set to expire on July 1, 2015, on the use of unmanned aircraft systems by state and local law-enforcement and regulatory entities, except in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| SB1066 | Veto | Vacancies in elected offices; terms of office; special elections. Prohibits a special election to fill a vacancy in an office from being held on the same day as the general election at which that office is regularly scheduled to be filled. The bill f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1193 | Pass | Academic transcripts; suspension, permanent dismissal, or withdrawal from institution. Requires the registrar of certain public and private institutions of higher education, or the other employee, office, or department of the institution that is resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| SB1350 | Veto | Voter registration; cancellation of registration. Allows a voter to cancel his registration by notifying the Department of Elections through electronic means of his request to have his name removed from the registration records. The bill also allows ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1196 | Pass | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. The provisions of this bill apply to justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia and judges of the Court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| SB1424 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act, and Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; certain gifts prohibited; approvals required for certain travel. Removes the distinction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| SB1333 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses. Defines "historically black college or university" and provides that the term "minority-owned business" includes historically black colleges or university.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| SB1371 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA); methods of procurement; job order contracting and cooperative procurement. Clarifies that small purchase procedures include the procurement of non-transportation-related construction and that any such procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| SB1195 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; training, orders of appointment, registration, etc. Makes various changes to the laws providing for the appointment of special conservators of the peace, including (i) requiring the Criminal Justice Services Board t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| SB1168 | Pass | Family day homes and child day centers; licensure; background checks; reporting; notice. Requires fingerprint-based national criminal history records checks for licensed child day centers and family day homes and requires employees and volunteers of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB721 | Pass | Seizure of property; inventory required. Requires the agency seizing property to, as soon as practicable, conduct an inventory of the seized property and provide a copy of such inventory to the property owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| SB965 | Veto | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; collection and use of personal information by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that, unless a criminal or administrative warrant has been issued, law-enforcement and regulatory agencies sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1232 | Pass | Administration and enforcement of cigarette laws. Modifies several provisions relating to the administration and enforcement of Virginia's cigarette laws by prohibiting persons convicted of certain offenses from being authorized holders, requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| SB1309 | Pass | Charitable Gaming Board; membership. Increases the total number of members of the Charitable Gaming Board from nine to eleven and transfers from the Governor to the General Assembly the authority to appoint five of the eleven members. Of the five mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| SB848 | Pass | Commonwealth's Twenty marksmanship award. Establishes the "Commonwealth's Twenty" marksmanship award to recognize the top 20 competitors in each of the rifle and pistol Excellence-in-Competition matches conducted at the annual Virginia State Champion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| SB675 | Pass | Veterans Care Center projects. Allocates and appropriates $66.7 million in aggregate of Virginia Public Building Authority bonds for the design, environmental assessments, and construction of the Hampton Roads Veterans Care Center and the Northern Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| SB676 | Pass | Veterans Care Center project. Allocates and appropriates $66.7 million in aggregate of Virginia Public Building Authority bonds for the design, environmental assessments, and construction of the Hampton Roads Veterans Care Center and the Northern Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| SB712 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; reporting acts of sexual violence. Requires any responsible employee of a public or private nonprofit institution of higher education who in the course of his employment obtains information that an act of sexual viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| SB1059 | Veto | Office of the Attorney General; employment of special counsel. Provides that when entering into a contract with special counsel, the Office of the Governor or Office of the Attorney General, as applicable, must make a copy of the contract available t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| SB986 | Veto | 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] | 2015-04-15
Passed by for the day |
| SB1049 | Pass | Regional jail construction and contracts; state reimbursement. Reduces from one-half to one-fourth the maximum state reimbursement for capital costs for construction, enlargement, or renovation of regional jails and jails where there is a regional co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| SB891 | Pass | Mechanics' liens; subcontractor's waiver of lien rights. Provides that a subcontractor, lower-tier subcontractor, or material supplier may not waive or diminish his lien rights, right to assert bond payment claims, or the right to assert claims for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| SB1186 | Pass | Naloxone; administration in cases of opiate overdose. Provides that a pharmacist may dispense naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal pursuant to an oral, written, or standing order issued by a prescriber and in accordance with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| SB1052 | Pass | Developmental disabilities; definition. Defines "developmental disability" as a severe, chronic disability of an individual that (i) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment, or a combination of mental and physical impairments, other than a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| SB1084 | Veto | General Assembly districts; technical adjustments. Changes district assignments of certain Loudoun County census blocks between Senate Districts 13 and 33 and House of Delegates Districts 10, 32, 33, 67, and 87 in order to follow new precinct boundar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Passed by for the day |
| SB1237 | Veto | Senate districts; adjustments. Changes district assignments of census blocks in Albemarle County between Districts 17 and 25 in order to exchange two precincts and to reunite two split precincts. The district population deviations remain at less than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Passed by for the day |
| SB1380 | Pass | Schedule I drugs. Adds N-(1-amino-3-methyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(cyclohexylmethyl)indazole-3-carboxamide (other name: AB-CHMINACA), N-(1-amino-3-methyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(5-fluoropentyl)indazole-3-carboxamide (other name: 5-fluoro-AMB), and 3,4-methyl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) |
| SB776 | Pass | Direct access to physical therapy. Provides that a physical therapist who has completed a doctor of physical therapy program approved by the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education or who has obtained a certificate of authorization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| SB1097 | Pass | Virginia Racing Commission (VRC); powers. Revises the Virginia horse racing statute in light of Colonial Downs' surrender of its unlimited license to own and operate the racetrack in New Kent County and the nine satellite facilities (OTBs) in Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| SB948 | Veto | Concealed handgun permits; sharing of information. Provides that information on concealed handgun permittees in the Virginia Criminal Information Network shall not be shared with law enforcement in states that do not have reciprocity agreements with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| SB724 | Veto | Board of Education; Common Core State Standards. Prohibits the Board of Education from replacing the educational objectives known as the Standards of Learning with Common Core State Standards without the prior statutory approval of the General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| SB1137 | Veto | Regulation of transportation of a loaded rifle or shotgun. Provides that any person who holds a valid concealed handgun permit shall not be subject to the provisions of certain local ordinances that make it unlawful for any person to transport, posse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Passed by for the day |
| SB1325 | Pass | Purchase, etc., of tobacco products by minors; liquid nicotine packaging; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell or distribute at retail a liquid nicotine container on or after October 1, 2015, unless the container is packaged in child-resistant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| SB1201 | Pass | Stormwater; municipal separate storm sewer system permittees; dredging. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) to establish a procedure for the approval of dredging operations in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a method by which to meet po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| SB1283 | Pass | Certificate of public need. Amends the definition of "project" for which a certificate of public need is required to include capital expenditures of $15 million or more by or on behalf of a medical care facility other than a general hospital. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0541) |
| SB1021 | Pass | Instructional hours; waivers. Authorizes the Board of Education to grant a waiver to a school division that is unable to meet the required 990 instructional hours in a school year because of severe weather conditions or other emergency situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| SB1122 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; students exhibiting suicidal tendencies or behavior; notification of student health or counseling center. Requires each public institution of higher education's policies that advise students, faculty, and staf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB1001 | Pass | Sale and procurement of certain pets. Prohibits the sale or display of a dog or cat on or in a roadside, parking lot, flea market, or similar place, with certain exceptions. The bill limits the sources of pet shop dogs to humane societies, public or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| SB1019 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit. Makes several changes to the land preservation tax credit by (i) reducing the maximum amount of tax credits that may be issued in each calendar year from $100 million to $75 million beginning in 2015; (ii) with the excep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| SB1272 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; limited distiller's license. Creates a limited distiller's license for distilleries that (i) manufacture no more than 36,000 gallons of spirits per calendar year, (ii) are located on a farm in the Commonwealth on land zone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| SB854 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business Loan Fund. Abolishes the Capital Access Fund for Disadvantaged Businesses, which provides loan guarantees, loan loss reserves, and interest rate write-downs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| SB878 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealer buyer's orders. Includes new motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 16,000 or more pounds in the category of vehicles that have accumulated mileage in excess of 750 miles that may be sold as new if the motor vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB876 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited contracts by officers and employees of hospital authorities. Clarifies that officers and employees of hospital authorities are included under the prohibited contract provisions for loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| SJR256 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| SB761 | Pass | Personal injury and wrongful death actions; disclosure of address of insured person. Requires an insurance company to disclose the address of an alleged tortfeasor upon request of an injured person, personal representative, or attorney in a cause of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB1036 | Pass | DMAS; waiver eligibility criteria; dependents of active duty military. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend eligibility criteria for the Intellectual Disability waiver and the Individual and Family Developmental Disabilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| SB1451 | Pass | Tolls on interstate highways. Requires General Assembly approval prior to tolling on Interstate 95 south of Fredericksburg, pursuant to the federal Interstate System Reconstruction or Rehabilitation Pilot Program. This bill codifies the 11th enactmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB982 | Pass | Graduation requirements; local alternative paths to standard units of credit. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, to permit local school divisions to waive the requirement for stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| SB755 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Adds to the description of the city boundary a reference to land added by a court order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
