VA Legislation | 2015 | Regular Session | Senate

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB644	Intro Sine Die	Educational neglect or fraud (Ben's law). Provides that it is a felony for an educational professional or education-related service provider, by willful act or omission, to fail to provide the educational services outlined in an individualized educat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB487	Intro Sine Die	DUI maiming; penalty. Raises the penalty for DUI maiming and for operating a motorcraft while intoxicated, causing permanent impairment, from a Class 6 to a Class 4 felony and creates a Class 6 felony when the offense causes serious bodily injury wit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SJR80	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC; brain injury services; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the progress made by the Commonwealth in expanding access to brain injury services. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rules Committee
SB4	Intro Sine Die	Funding of sexual and domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. Creates a new subfund in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund to be known as the Sexual and Domestic Violence Subfund. The Subfund consists of all funds, from whate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB109	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; health insurance credit. Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired local government employees, local officers, general registrars, employees of a general registrar, and employees of local social services bo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB616	Intro Sine Die	Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; creation of Department of Minority Business Enterprise and the Department of Business Assistance. Eliminates the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and re-creates the Department of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SJR36	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC to study consolidation of law-enforcement agencies under the Virginia State Police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study consolidation of all state law-enforcement agencies under the Virginia State P... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rules Committee
SB656	Intro Sine Die	Local economic development. Provides that the Virginia income tax net revenue and sales and use tax generated by certain corporations or limited liability companies within a qualified locality shall be transferred to the qualified locality under cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB422	Engross Sine Die	Hybrid retirement program; local deferred compensation and cash match plans. Allows political subdivisions the option of establishing and administering their own deferred compensation and cash match plans if they elect not to participate in those pla... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB28	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; export of Virginia products and services. Authorizes the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to undertake whatever activities the Authority deems appropriate to provide bridge loans... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SJR86	Intro Sine Die	Advanced Composites Initiative. Encourages the development of the Advanced Composites Initiative at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's historic Langley Research Center. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rules Committee
SB613	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile delinquency prevention and youth development programs savings grants. Establishes the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development Program Savings Fund to provide grants in an amount equal to 50 percent of the total amount of saving... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
SB137	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]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB589	Intro Sine Die	Disposal of solid waste fees; Southampton County. Allows Southampton County to levy fees for the disposal of solid waste at a county collection or disposal facility not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and disposing of sol... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Local Government Committee
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]	2014-12-04 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB495	Engross Sine Die	Special conservators of the peace. Makes various changes to the laws providing for the appointment of special conservators of the peace, including (i) requiring the Criminal Justice Services Board to establish graduated training standards for special... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SJR66	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
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]	2014-12-04 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SJR30	Intro Sine Die	Study; joint committee to study options for reducing the number of Standards of Learning assessments; report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to gather information and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rules Committee
SB307	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; composition of board. Changes the duties and compensation of the three-member Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. The bill provides that the chairman shall continue to serve full-time and receive a salary fixed by the Genera... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
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]	2014-12-04 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
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]	2014-12-04 To House Appropriations Committee
SB553	Intro Sine Die	Sex Offender Registry; notification of laws. Requires the Attorney General to annually prepare a pamphlet listing and summarizing laws containing requirements and prohibitions relevant to persons required to register as sex offenders and communicate ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB547	Intro Sine Die	Sampling of well near uranium exploration activity. Requires the holder of a permit to conduct uranium activities to contact those property owners who have wells located within 750 feet of the exploration activity and, with the owners' consent, to pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB384	Intro Sine Die	Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; public libraries; penalty. Provides that any adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2014, shall as part of his sentence be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB395	Intro Sine Die	Personal action for injury to person; malpractice against health care provider; failure to report diagnosis of cancer. Provides that where negligence for a delay in communicating to a patient the interpretation of an imaging or diagnostic test or stu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Courts of Justice 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]	2014-12-04 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety 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]	2014-12-04 To House Rules Committee
SJR23	Intro Sine Die	Study; construction of I-73; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to conduct a two-year study to promote the construction of I-73 in Virginia. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rules Committee
SB642	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; temporary licenses for applicant for mixed beverage restaurant licenses; penalty. Sets out a process for the issuance of a temporary license to applicants for a new mixed beverage restaurant license beginning July 1, 2014,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
SB566	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System benefits. Provides for an increase, beginning July 1, 2014, of the monthly retirement allowance payable to any person who retired with at least 15 years of creditable service before January 1, 1990, under the Virginia Retir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB208	Intro Sine Die	Grand larceny and property injury; health and safety made an element of crimes where coal mine damaged; trespass; penalty.Defines certain offenses against coal mine property as grand larceny, injury to property, or trespass. The bill provides that la... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB234	Intro Sine Die	Operating a vehicle or vessel containing a false compartment; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to (i) own or operate a vehicle or vessel containing a false or secret compartment; (ii) install, create, build, or fabricate in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SJR56	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC; Virginia Preschool Initiative; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study and identify policy and funding options to expand the Virginia Preschool Initiative. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Ses... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SJR55	Intro Sine Die	Study; JLARC; staffing Department of Corrections; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study staffing levels and employment conditions at the Department of Corrections. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Rules Committee
SJR5	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR37	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR81	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (second resolution); real property tax exemption for spouses of soldiers killed in action. Provides that the General Assembly may provide a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of surviving spouses of members... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SJR25	Intro Sine Die	Study; SCHEV; Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of implementing a "Pay It Forward, Pay It Back" higher education tuition financing model to increase access to educ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB550	Intro Sine Die	Service districts; underground utilities. Adds Prince William County to the list of those localities with authority to establish service districts to impose taxes or assessments upon the owners of abutting property for the underground relocation of d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB309	Intro Sine Die	Appeal of computation of the local composite index. Provides a procedure for appealing the computation of the composite index of local ability-to-pay before a review committee consisting of three Board of Education members, the Superintendent of Publ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB32	Intro Sine Die	Animal Cruelty Registry established. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish and maintain an Animal Cruelty Registry for public access on the website of the Department of State Police. The Registry shall include the names of persons ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB505	Intro Sine Die	Natural gas; incentives for expanded use as transportation fuel. Establishes financial and regulatory incentives for expanding the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for transportation purposes in the Commonwealth. Ve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-04 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee