| SB1385 | Pass | Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority; powers. Provides the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (commonly known as the CIT) with the power to exclusively, or with any other person, form and otherwise develop, own, oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| SB931 | Pass | Veterans identification card; definition of veteran. Defines "veteran" for the purposes of issuance of a veterans identification card as a Virginia resident who has served in the United States armed forces or reserves or the Virginia National Guard a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB1047 | Pass | Stormwater utility fee; waiver. Provides that where two adjoining localities subject to a revenue sharing agreement each hold a permit to discharge stormwater from a municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), a waiver of charges to a public entity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB1188 | Pass | Commercial sex trafficking; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking of persons for commercial sexual activity. The bill provides that any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause a person to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB1331 | Pass | Natural Gas Conservation and Ratemaking Efficiency Act; cost-effective programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether a natural gas conservation or energy efficiency program is cost-effective, to assign administrative c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB838 | Pass | State resident licenses; military dependents. Extends the entitlement to obtain a state resident license to hunt, trap, or fish to members of the immediate family of a member of the armed forces. Current law entitles members of the armed forces to ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| SB951 | Pass | Disposition of dead bodies. Clarifies the role of a person other than a decedent's next of kin, a person designated to make arrangements for the decedent's burial or the disposition of his remains, an agent named in an advance directive, or a court-a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| SB1362 | Pass | State song. Designates "Our Great Virginia," lyrics by Mike Greenly and arranged by Jim Papoulis, as the official traditional state song and "Sweet Virginia Breeze," by Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett, as the official popular state song. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| SB1074 | Pass | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (the Registry) that would include information on persons w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| SB888 | Pass | Electronic summons systems; fees; towns. Allows towns to assess a fee not to exceed $5, as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case in the district or circuit courts located where such cases are brought, to be used for the implementation an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB1434 | Pass | Disposition of dead bodies. Provides that in cases in which the identity of a decedent and the county or city in which the decedent resided at the time of death are known, the person or institution having initial custody of the dead body shall notify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| SB1466 | Pass | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. Postpones the scheduled expiration of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB889 | Pass | Affordable housing. Adds the City of Fairfax to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| SB1435 | Pass | Eminent domain; lost profits and just compensation. Requires that any and all liability for lost profits claimed in an action for compensation pursuant to a taking under eminent domain be set forth specifically in the award for just compensation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB1204 | Pass | Sale of secondhand building materials; exemptions. Exempts the donation of certain secondhand material from requirements otherwise applicable to transactions involving such materials, when the materials are donated by their owner or the owner's contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| SB1085 | Pass | Enforcement of liens; property value. Increases from $10,000 to $12,500 the maximum value of property that may be sold for cash at auction to satisfy a lien on a motor vehicle without petitioning for a court order for the sale of such property. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| SB1190 | Pass | Motor vehicle liability insurance; underinsured motorist claims; settlement procedures; subrogation. Establishes a procedure by which an injured person or personal representative may settle a claim with a liability insurer or insurers and the liabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| SB1316 | Pass | Circuit court clerks; electronic records, fees, etc. Makes various changes to the operations of circuit court clerks, including (i) allowing any agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth to submit records in electronic form; (ii) providing that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| SB1127 | Pass | Tangible personal property; miscellaneous and incidental property. Declares miscellaneous and incidental property employed in a trade or business with an original cost of less than $250 as a separate classification of tangible personal property. A lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| SB1269 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; tasting events held by distiller licensee or manufacturer of distilled spirits. Allows a licensed distiller who is an agent of the ABC Board to provide samples of beer, wine, or cider manufactured on the licensed premises ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| SB1383 | Pass | Home instruction; religious exemption; information privacy. Prohibits a division superintendent or local school board from disclosing to the Department of Education or any other person or entity outside of the local school division information provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| SB794 | Pass | Testimony of certain judicial personnel. Clarifies that certain persons who have the power to issue warrants are competent to testify in a criminal proceeding in which the defendant is charged with perjury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB1062 | Pass | Election administration; presidential elections; officers of election and ballot scanner machines. Requires any precinct having more than 4,000 registered voters to have not less than five officers of election serving at a presidential election and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| SB770 | Pass | Workers' compensation; exclusivity of remedy. Provides that if the Workers' Compensation Commission or a court on appeal from the Commission makes a finding in an unappealed order based on an evidentiary hearing or a factual stipulation of the partie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB1114 | Pass | Temporary detention for testing, observation, and treatment of person who is the subject of an emergency custody order. Provides that a court or magistrate may issue an order for temporary detention for medical testing, observation, and treatment for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| SB732 | Pass | Expanded access to investigational drugs, biological products, and devices. Provides that a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make such drug, product, or device available to a person who has a terminal conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| SB1450 | Pass | Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act; adoption. Codifies the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act (the Act), which dictates the circumstances under which a provider of an electronic communications service or remote computing service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| SB1290 | Pass | Venue in criminal cases. Provides that if it cannot readily be determined where a crime was committed in the Commonwealth, venue for the prosecution of the crime may be had in any county or city (i) in which the defendant resides, (ii) in which the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| SB928 | Pass | Virginia Administrative Process Act; default by nonappearing party. Establishes a mechanism to more efficiently dispose of contested matters under the Virginia Administrative Process Act where the defendant in an administrative proceeding fails to ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB927 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; disqualification; presiding officers and hearing officers. Establishes a process for the disqualification of presiding officers and hearing officers in situations where such officers cannot accord a fair and impartial hear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| SB919 | Pass | Administrative subpoenas; electronic communication services nondisclosure of subpoena. Authorizes the Attorney General, as attorneys for the Commonwealth are currently authorized, to issue administrative subpoenas to obtain certain records and other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB923 | Pass | Child support for disabled child over the age of 18 (Conner's Law). Provides that a court may order child support for any child over the age of 18 who is severely and permanently mentally or physically disabled if such disability existed prior to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| SB1092 | Pass | General registrars; reassigning duties of the electoral board. Reassigns duties of the electoral board related to absentee voting and campaign finance to the general registrars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| SB1368 | Pass | Limited liability companies; liability. Clarifies that the existing provision that insulates a member, manager, organizer, or other agent of a limited liability company (LLC) from any personal obligation for any liability of the LLC applies without r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| SB1067 | Pass | Petition for attachment. Removes judges from the list of persons before whom a petition for attachment shall be filed. The bill also adds magistrates to those who may receive payments for an attachment petition. This bill is a recommendation of the J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| SB813 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments. Makes technical amendments to the programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| SB1089 | Pass | Constitutional office; filling a vacancy. Clarifies that the highest ranking deputy officer or, in the case of the office of attorney for the Commonwealth, the highest ranking full-time assistant attorney for the Commonwealth shall step in to fill a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| SB1197 | Pass | Stillbirths; data collection; policies. Requires the Virginia Congenital Anomalies Reporting and Education System to collect data on stillbirths. The bill defines a stillbirth as an unintended, intrauterine fetal death occurring after a gestational p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| SB1336 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, and platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000. The provisions of the bill expire January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB865 | Pass | Administration of intestate estate; person convicted of fraud, misrepresentation, robbery, etc. Provides that the clerk of court shall require any person seeking to be granted the administration of an estate to sign under oath that he has not been co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| SB938 | Pass | Fire services and emergency medical services. Revises terminology relating to fire services and emergency medical services and reorganizes provisions governing fire services and emergency medical services. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| SB1354 | Pass | Uniformed services-connected students; identification. Requires the Department of Education to establish a process for the identification by local school divisions of newly enrolled students who have a parent in the uniformed services. Local school d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| SB1081 | Pass | Intentional tripping of equines prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the intentional roping of or interference with the legs of an equine in order to cause it to trip or fall for the purpose of engagement in a rodeo or other contest or entertainment. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| SB1187 | Pass | DNA analysis upon conviction of certain misdemeanors. The bill adds misdemeanor violations of §§ 16.1-253.2 (violation of a protective order), 18.2-60.3 (stalking), 18.2-60.4 (violation of a stalking protective order), 18.2-67.4:1 (infected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| SB779 | Pass | Psychiatric treatment of minors; duration of admission. Increases from 96 to 120 hours the length of time a minor 14 years of age or older who objects to admission for inpatient treatment or who is incapable of making an informed decision may be admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| SB1086 | Pass | Trial for false statement or representation on application for Medicaid payment; venue. Provides that the venue for the trial of any person charged with making a false statement or representation with regard to an application for Medicaid payment sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| SB1039 | Pass | Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center; name change. Changes the name of the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center to the Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center to reflect its mission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| SB1395 | Pass | Electric utilities; net energy metering. Increases, from 500 kilowatts to one megawatt, the maximum generating capacity of an electrical generating facility owned or operated by an electric utility's nonresidential customer that may be eligible for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| SB1002 | Pass | Local workforce investment boards; pay-for-performance incentives. Encourages local workforce investment boards to implement pay-for-performance contract strategy incentives for training services as an alternative model to traditional programs. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| SB999 | Pass | State recordation taxes and fees. Clarifies and makes substantive and technical changes to state recordation taxes and fees, including requiring that the recordation tax on any deed of trust that is supplemental to an existing deed of trust be calcul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
