| SB775 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; representations related to special flood hazard zones. Requires the owner's representation to a prospective purchaser of residential property under the Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0079) |
| SB1361 | Pass | Inmates; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; detainers. Allows the custodian of a state or local inmate to transfer custody of an incarcerated alien to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement no more than five days before the date on which suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0102) |
| SB1306 | Pass | Battlefield property; authority to acquire. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Historic Resources and the Board of Historic Resources to acquire and administer Virginia battlefield properties, including properties listed in certain official...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0100) |
| SB869 | Pass | Carbon monoxide emissions; diesel-powered incinerator; exemption. Exempts carbon monoxide emissions of certain diesel-powered incinerators from certain permitting regulations of the State Air Pollution Control Board. An incinerator whose emissions ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0080) |
| SB1205 | Pass | Recyclable materials tax credit. Changes the recyclable materials tax credit by (i) extending the expiration date of the credit by five years to January 1, 2020, (ii) increasing the credit allowed from 10 to 20 percent of the purchase price of qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0094) |
| SB1142 | Pass | Apportionment of corporate income tax; taxpayers with enterprise data center operations. Requires taxpayers with certain enterprise data center operations to use a formula for apportioning taxable income to the Commonwealth based on multiplying their...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0092) |
| SB1041 | Pass | Community policy and management teams. Directs community policy and management teams to establish, as part of their policies governing referrals and reviews of children and families to the family assessment and planning teams or a collaborative, mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088) |
| SB940 | Pass | Charter; Town of Montross; November elections, town council. Moves the date of election for the members of the town council from May to November, beginning in 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083) |
| SB1427 | Pass | Right to breastfeed in public places. Provides that a mother may breastfeed in any place where the mother is lawfully present. Current law allows breastfeeding on any property owned, leased, or controlled by the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0105) |
| SB1448 | Pass | Community development authorities. Provides that any special tax levied or any special assessment imposed by a locality pursuant to an agreement with a community development authority, whether previously or hereafter levied or imposed, constitutes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0039) |
| SB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Special conservators of the peace; registration with DCJS. Requires all persons appointed or reappointed on or after July 1, 2015, as special conservators of the peace to register with the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). The bill requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB1365 | Engross
Sine Die | Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to consider certain factors, seek input from the State Corporation Commission, and meet with interested members ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Stricken from Senate calendar (29-Y 7-N) |
| SB741 | Engross
Sine Die | Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; expiration. Extends the expiration date of the credit from January 1, 2017, to January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB1465 | Engross
Sine Die | Escheat of unclaimed U.S. savings bonds. Establishes a procedure for the escheat to the Commonwealth of unclaimed U.S. savings bonds. The measure declares that U.S. savings bonds held or owing in the Commonwealth by any person, issued or owed in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| SB1459 | Engross
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission. Requires the members of the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission to allow for five minutes of public comment before each vote regarding a project, facility, or service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1032 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control. Eliminates the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board and replaces it with the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, created by the bill. The bill provides for the appointment of the Board of Directors of the Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038) |
| SB851 | Pass | Hospital discharge procedures; designation of individual to receive information and instructions. Requires hospitals to provide each patient admitted as an inpatient or his legal guardian the opportunity to designate an individual who will care for o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0018) |
| SB1034 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; powdered or crystalline alcohol; penalty. Adds powdered or crystalline alcohol to the definition of alcoholic beverages, prohibits containers sold in or shipped into the Commonwealth from including powdered or crystalline ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) |
| SB968 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exemption for certain health records. Clarifies that records of certain health care committees and entities, to the extent that they reveal information that may be withheld from discovery as privileged comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) |
| SB1334 | Pass | Electric utilities; cost recovery. Permits investor-owned electric utilities to recover from certain customers, through a rate adjustment clause, the projected and actual costs of designing, implementing, and operating State Corporation Commission-ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0037) |
| SB1208 | Pass | Funding of urban system construction projects. Adds Norfolk to a list of cities that may receive funds to pay for a project that places aboveground utilities below ground.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030) |
| SB881 | Pass | Workplace safety; Voluntary Protection Program. Codifies the Voluntary Protection Program that has been conducted by the Department of Labor and Industry since 1996. The measure directs the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt definitions, rules, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020) |
| SB1015 | Pass | Advertisement of foreclosure sale by a trustee or trustees in execution of a deed of trust; time-share properties. Allows the optional streamlined advertisement of a time-share property being foreclosed upon, requiring publication of the time, place,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023) |
| SB1303 | Pass | Designating the Trooper Donald E. Lovelace Memorial Bridge. Designates the Route 134 bridge that crosses U.S. Route 17 in York County the "Trooper Donald E. Lovelace Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| SB1227 | Pass | Telemedicine services; prescriptions. Amends the definition of telemedicine services to encompass the use of electronic technology or media, including interactive audio or video, for the purpose of diagnosing or treating a patient or consulting with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0032) |
| SB1163 | Pass | Natural gas utilities; recovery of system expansion infrastructure costs. Establishes a procedure under which a natural gas utility may seek State Corporation Commission (SCC) approval of a system expansion plan that includes, among other things, a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028) |
| SB1090 | Pass | Advisory Board on Service and Volunteerism. Codifies the Governor's Advisory Board on Service and Volunteerism to advise the Governor and Cabinet Secretaries on matters related to the promotion and development of national and community service in Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) |
| SB1220 | Pass | Following too closely. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031) |
| SB703 | Pass | Designating the Trooper Jacqueline Vernon Memorial Bridge. Designates the Interstate 395 bridge over S. Glebe Road in Arlington County the "Trooper Jacqueline Vernon Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| SB1198 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; legislative review of regulations. Extends the period during which the relevant standing committee of both houses of the General Assembly or the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules may transmit, with the Governor's co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029) |
| SB1265 | Pass | Acute psychiatric bed registry; frequency of updating. Requires state facilities, community services boards, behavioral health authorities, and private inpatient psychiatric service providers to update information included in the acute psychiatric be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034) |
| SB1235 | Pass | Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes; epilepsy. Provides an affirmative defense in a prosecution for the possession of marijuana if the marijuana is in the form of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil possessed pursuant to a valid wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| SB753 | Pass | Designating the Trooper Andrew Fox Memorial Bridge. Designates the New River Bridge on Interstate 81 in Montgomery and Pulaski Counties the "Trooper Andrew Fox Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015) |
| SB748 | Pass | Insurance plans; hypothecation of assets. Applies provisions regulating the hypothecation of assets that currently apply to most insurers to health services plans, health maintenance organizations, and insurers offering dental or optometric services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014) |
| SB697 | Pass | Automobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices. Adds the option that insurers may use any first class mail tracking method that is used, or has been approved, by the U. S. Postal Service (USPS) to demonstrate proof that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| SB1126 | Pass | Resource management plans; consideration of certain records in closed meetings. Creates an open meeting exemption for the discussion or consideration of certain records, currently excluded from FOIA, that relate to resource management plans. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |
| SB745 | Pass | Workers' compensation; exclusion of certain truck owner-operators. Excludes any owner-operator of a motor vehicle that is leased with or to a common or contract carrier in the trucking industry from the definition of an employee for purposes of the V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013) |
| SB737 | Pass | Depository institutions; savings promotions. Authorizes banks, savings institutions, and credit unions to sponsor savings promotions, which are contests or promotions (i) conducted for the purposes of encouraging depositors to build and maintain savi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) |
| SB1304 | Pass | Designating the Trooper Garland Matthew Miller Memorial Bridge. Designates the Barlow Road overpass that crosses Interstate 64 in York County the "Trooper Garland Matthew Miller Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036) |
| SB875 | Pass | Financial institutions; automated teller machines. Excludes any automated teller machine, cash-dispensing machine, or similar electronic or computer terminal from the definition of a bank's branch office or credit union's service facility. By excludi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019) |
| SB778 | Pass | Hauling motor fuels; times of emergency. Directs certain state agencies to establish a protocol for a declaration of a state of emergency for resource shortages that adversely affect the delivery of motor fuels, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, number one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016) |
| SB899 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; markups. Allows the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to round the final price of each container of alcoholic beverages it sells to end with a nine after including a reasonable markup and applicable taxes. Under current law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) |
| SB1259 | Pass | Salvage and rebuilt vehicles; penalty. Enhances and clarifies certain requirements and practices relating to the licensing and activities of vehicle demolishers, rebuilders, salvage dealers, salvage pools, scrap metal processors, and vehicle removal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033) |
| SB834 | Pass | Post-adoption services. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when issuing a new certificate of birth pursuant to an adoption, to provide adoptive parents with a document listing all post-adoption services available to adoptive families. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017) |
| SB729 | Pass | Credit life and credit accident and sickness insurance; reports. Removes the requirement that insurers file annual reports with the State Corporation Commission regarding the credit life and credit accident and sickness insurance they have written. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) |
| SB1016 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Board; exemptions from licensure. Provides that the exemption from licensure provided for the owner of property extends in the case of property governed by the Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act to affiliated entities of the own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024) |
| SB1009 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax deduction; long-term health care insurance premiums. Reduces the allowable income tax deduction for long-term health care insurance premiums from 100 percent to 50 percent of the amount an individual pays annually in premiums, effective fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | Stalking; penalty. Provides that a person who on more than one occasion maliciously engages in conduct directed at another person that would cause a reasonable person to suffer severe emotional distress with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or haras...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1000 | Engross
Sine Die | Redistricting process. Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans; spells out standards for developing plans, including population equality, compactness, maintenance of cores of existing distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1154 | Engross
Sine Die | Discharge of deleterious substance into state waters; notice. Requires any person who unlawfully discharges any deleterious substance into state waters to notify the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) or the coordinator of emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
