| SB1268 | Pass | Adoption; child in custody of prospective adoptive parent(s) for five years or more. Allows the juvenile and domestic relations district court to accept consent to a parental placement adoption without a home study and certain meeting and counseling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| SB1162 | Pass | Hybrid retirement program; school division deferred compensation and cash match plans. Allows school divisions the option of establishing and administering their own deferred compensation and cash match plans for the hybrid retirement program. Employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| SB1117 | Pass | Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect; time period for investigation and report; school division employees. Clarifies that, in cases of alleged child abuse or neglect where the subject of the report is an employee of a school division who is su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| SB1417 | Pass | Board of Counseling; client notification. Requires any person licensed by the Board of Counseling and operating in a nonhospital setting to post a copy of his license in a conspicuous place. The posting shall also provide clients with (i) the number ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| SB717 | Pass | Board of Health; medical school scholarships. Expands eligibility for the medical school scholarship program administered by the Board of Health for medical students who agree to practice in underserved areas of the Commonwealth to include students o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| SB941 | Pass | Protective orders; compensation for required representation of respondents. Provides for the compensation of counsel or a guardian ad litem for the required representation of a respondent in a proceeding for the issuance of a protective order under C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| SB814 | Pass | Electronic identity management; standards; liability. Creates the Identity Management Standards Advisory Council to advise the Secretaries of Technology and Transportation on the adoption of technical and data standards regarding the verification and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| SB1118 | Pass | Hearing officer requirements. Requires that reasonable efforts be made to hire hearing officers for hearings regarding franchise dealers of motor vehicles that have at least five years of experience as a hearing officer in administrative hearings in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| SB1042 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Revises the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| SB1307 | Pass | Search warrants; computers, networks, and other electronic devices. Clarifies that a search warrant that authorizes the lawful seizure of digital evidence from a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| SB858 | Pass | Conservation officers; Breaks Interstate Park. Establishes qualifications and procedures for the commissioning as conservation officers of employees of Breaks Interstate Park, a park located in both Kentucky and Virginia and administered by the Break...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| SB885 | Pass | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definition of small business. Changes the definition of small business to require the business, together with affiliates, to meet the small business size standards established by the regulations of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| SB1173 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; Town of Damascus allowed to revoke agreement to contribute to VRS for future creditable service. Allows the Town of Damascus, on the basis that it has not made contributions to VRS for 25 consecutive years, to revoke in wr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| SB720 | Pass | Dissemination, etc., of criminal history record information; civil action. Creates a civil action against any person who disseminates, publishes, or maintains or causes to be disseminated, published, or maintained the criminal history record informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| SB942 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; purchase of prior service credit. Allows a member of the Virginia Retirement System granted an unpaid leave of absence for the death of a qualifying child to purchase up to one year of service credit per occurrence of leav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| SB1312 | Pass | Private roads; covenants; maintenance and improvements. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of a recorded deed or plat to the contrary, a private road serving a subdivision of 50 or fewer lots may be dedicated for public use and may be taken ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| SB1038 | Pass | Investment in research and technology. Makes changes to the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF), including adding a federal research facility located in the Commonwealth to the list of entities eligible to apply for a grant, and clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| SB1064 | Pass | Administration of estates; liability of heir or devisee for real estate conveyed. Provides that real estate sold or conveyed as part of a decedent's estate is not liable to persons entitled to be paid out of such real estate if the sale was made more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| SB809 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; assessment of industrial sites. Authorizes the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to develop a site and building assessment program to assess the state's industrial sites consistin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| SB855 | Pass | Capital cases; mental retardation. Requires that the results of an intelligence test given in the process of determining whether a capital case defendant is mentally retarded must be reported as a range of scores calculated by adding to and subtracti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| SB1401 | Pass | Entitlement to tax revenues; tourism project of regional significance. Entitles a tourism project of regional significance to the revenues generated by a 1.5 percent state sales and use tax on transactions taking place on its premises, to be used for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| SB1377 | Pass | Department of General Services; state-owned communication towers; charges for use. Removes the requirement that the amount charged to lease use of a state-owned communication tower be commensurate with the amount paid for use of comparable space on s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| SB1095 | Pass | Prospective foster parents; barrier crimes. Allows child-placing agencies to approve as an adoptive or foster parent an applicant convicted of felony possession of drugs with intent to distribute, provided the applicant has had his civil rights resto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| SB1287 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses. Provides that mixed beverage licenses may be granted to establishments located on property (i) within the boundary of any town incorporated in 1911 located adjacent to the intersection of Route 63 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| SB1226 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirements for Requests for Proposal. Requires that Requests for Proposal (RFP) include the specifics of any numerical scoring system to be used and indicate the weight that will be given to individual components of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| SB750 | Pass | Hospitals; required notice to patients. Requires hospitals to provide oral and written notice within 24 hours to any patient who has been placed under observation or in any other outpatient status that he has been placed in such status if (i) the pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| SB1293 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; student identification numbers. Prohibits the Department of Education (the Department) and each local school board from requiring any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school or receiving ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
| SB763 | Pass | Securities Act; crowdfunding exemption. Creates an exemption from the securities, broker-dealer, and agent registration requirements of the Securities Act for any security issued by a Virginia entity if (i) the offering is conducted in accordance wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| SB789 | Pass | Committee on District Courts; district court seal. Permits the Committee on District Courts to adopt an official seal and authorize its use by district court clerks and deputy district clerks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| SB904 | Pass | Income tax subtraction for long-term capital gains; extends investment period. Extends from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2020, the date by which investments in certain technology businesses must be made in order to claim an income tax subtraction for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| SB1176 | Pass | Charter; City of Bristol. Clarifies the relinquishment of certain powers set out in the charter of the City of Bristol that were transferred to the BVU Authority in 2010. The bill also removes provisions related to the Youth Services Department and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| SB1359 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority; temporary transfer of use of property; lease to private entities. Adds (i) conveyance and transfers of real property by state agencies and (ii) temporary transfers of use of property between state agencies and lease to privat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| SB862 | Pass | Medical malpractice proceedings; health care providers; expert testimony. Provides that medical experts licensed in other states, but not in Virginia, are presumed to know the standard of care in Virginia, provided that they meet the educational and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| SB1284 | Pass | Replacement of tributary strategies. Replaces the tributary strategies for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, which were last prepared in 2003-2004, with the Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) developed pursuant to the Chesapeake ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| SB1257 | Pass | Cash proffers for residential construction; sunset date. Removes the July 1, 2017, expiration date of a current law that delays the payment of certain per-dwelling-unit cash proffers until after the final inspection of the subject property and prior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| SB1286 | Pass | Public schools; annual budget publication. Requires each local school division to publish the annual school budget in line item form on its website. Current law requires publication of the budget but does not specify line item form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| SB727 | Pass | School Performance Report Card; A-F school grading system. Requires the Board of Education, in consultation with the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee and no later than July 1, 2016, to redesign the School Performance Report Card so that it ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| SB1174 | Pass | Cemetery Board; perpetual care trust fund; preneed trust account; report of independent certified public accountant. Requires a cemetery company, for each fiscal year, to engage an independent certified public accountant to apply procedures specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| SB1229 | Pass | Real estate with delinquent taxes or liens; appointment of special commissioner; City of Fredericksburg. Adds Fredericksburg to the list of cities with heightened requirements for the appointment of a special commissioner to execute the necessary dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| SB1136 | Pass | Joint Commission on Administrative Rules; powers and duties; effect of administrative rules on private sector employment. Adds to the powers and duties of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules the power to review proposed rules and regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| SB821 | Pass | Opportunity Educational Institution abolished. Abolishes the Opportunity Educational Institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| SB1319 | Pass | Temporary exemption periods from retail sales and use taxes for qualifying items. Combines the three existing "sales tax holidays" into one three-day holiday that begins on the first Friday in August and ends at 11:59 p.m. the following Sunday. Curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| SB1177 | Pass | Commissioners of the revenue; production of documents by taxpayer. Authorizes a commissioner of the revenue to require a taxpayer to produce documents related to his tax liability. Current law authorizes a treasurer to summon a taxpayer and require t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| SB1308 | Pass | Gas severance tax. Extends the sunset date from December 31, 2015, to January 1, 2018, for the local gas severance tax that is dedicated to (i) the local Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund, (ii) the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Fund, and (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| SB850 | Pass | Comprehensive Services Act for At-Risk Youth and Families; name change. Changes the name of the Comprehensive Services Act for At-Risk Youth and Families to the Children's Services Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| SB1276 | Pass | Charter; City of Roanoke. Shifts authority to appoint the director of finance from the city council to the city manager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| SB842 | Pass | School budgets. Conforms the county school budget preparation and approval process to that of municipalities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| SB961 | Pass | Department of Juvenile Justice; access to criminal history record information. Adds the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to the list of entities authorized to receive information from the Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN). The bill spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| SB997 | Pass | Emergency medical services personnel; background checks; process. Allows local governments, by adoption of an ordinance, to use an alternative method for criminal history background checks for emergency medical services personnel. Emergency medical s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| SB1030 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; conveyance of easement and rights-of-way; Rappahannock River. Authorizes the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to convey to Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Virginia Power) an easement and rights-of-way ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
