| HB2223 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; willful violations a misdemeanor; penalty. Provides that in addition to the civil enforcement provisions of FOIA, any officer, employee, or member of a public body who, without legal excuse or justification, delib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB1573 | Engross
Sine Die | Duty of the Attorney General to represent the Commonwealth. Provides that the Attorney General or his designee has the duty to represent the interests of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof in any proceeding in federal court or a Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Chair votes No |
| HB1692 | Engross
Sine Die | Four-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures. Permits each public institution of higher education to offer alternative tuition or fee structures to students. The bill provides that if a public institution o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (10-Y 4-N) |
| HB2244 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans. Requires electric utilities serving two million or more customers in the Commonwealth to file an integrated resources plan (IRP) by September 1 of each year. Currently, they are required to file an IRP a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
| HB1437 | Engross
Sine Die | Prayer at public events. Provides that a deliberative public body, by ordinance, resolution, or written policy statement, may adopt a policy to permit a public invocation before each meeting of the public body, for the benefit of the public body. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| SJR220 | Engross
Sine Die | Appalachian Cherokee Nation Tribe. Extends state recognition to the Appalachian Cherokee Nation Tribe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1814 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio. Provides that the combined gross receipts from the sale of food consumed on the premises and nonalcoholic beverages served on the premises by mixed beverage restaurant licensees, mixed beverage caterer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services with letter (9-Y 5-N) |
| SJR292 | Engross
Sine Die | Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1352 | Engross
Sine Die | General Assembly; consideration of the conference committee report on the biennial budget or general appropriation act. Provides that no legislative action shall be taken on the conference committee report on the biennial budget or general appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1140 | Engross
Sine Die | Local fiscal impact bills; first day introduction. Requires bills that require a net reduction of revenues by local governments to be introduced no later than the first day of the regular session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB2152 | Engross
Sine Die | Write-in votes; duties of the electoral boards. Provides that when no person is elected to an office by write-in votes and the total number of write-in votes for that office is less than 95 percent of the total number of votes cast for the candidate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Defeated by Senate (2-Y 36-N) |
| HB1962 | Engross
Sine Die | Local school board members; professional development. Adds additional topics to the professional development activities required of local school board members and requires members to certify their compliance annually with the clerk of the school boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 9-N) |
| HB1971 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacancies in the General Assembly; special elections. Requires at least two weeks between the issuance of a writ of an election to fill a vacancy in the General Assembly and the date of the special election to fill such vacancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| HB1581 | Engross
Sine Die | Family life education; advance directives related to mental health. Requires the family life education curriculum developed by the Board of Education to include, as a component of instruction in mental health education and awareness, instruction on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB1565 | Engross
Sine Die | Authority of animal control officers. Authorizes an animal control officer to capture and confine a companion animal that is not subject to licensure upon receiving complaint from a property owner of the presence of the companion animal on his proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Defeated by Senate (8-Y 29-N) |
| HB1309 | Engross
Sine Die | Local school boards; arming of school security officers. Permits local school boards to arm school security officers with batons, stun weapons, or any spray device designed to incapacitate a person and to allow school security officers to use such de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Dispensing of interchangeable biosimilars; sunset. Extends by one year, through July 1, 2016, the requirement that a pharmacist who dispenses an interchangeable biosimilar in the place of a prescribed biological product provide electronic, written, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1431 | Engross
Sine Die | Commonwealth Space Flight Fund. Extends through fiscal year 2021-2022 the annual transfer of $9.5 million from the Transportation Trust Fund to the Commonwealth Space Flight Fund. Under current law, the transfer would cease after fiscal year 2016-201...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1130 | Engross
Sine Die | Sale of or possession of with intent to sell blackjacks and other similar weapons. Eliminates the crime of selling, transferring, or possessing with the intent to sell or transfer blackjacks, brass or metal knucks, throwing stars or oriental darts, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
VOTE: DEFEATED #2 (17-Y 83-N) |
| SB1116 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Learning; alternative assessment. Directs the Department of Education to request a waiver under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, authorizing the use of an English language proficiency assessment such as the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB849 | Engross
Sine Die | Community colleges; enrollment policies. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop policies directing community colleges to give notice of any open seat in any career or technical education course that is not at full capacity to (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| HB2304 | Engross
Sine Die | Speeding; penalty. Allows localities to apply the $200 penalty for speeding to an additional classification of highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1410 | Engross
Sine Die | Crisis intervention specialists; community services boards; behavioral health authorities; emergency custody or temporary detention. Provides for the certification of crisis intervention specialists and crisis intervention specialist licensed clinica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1080 | Engross
Sine Die | State Corporation System; secure online system. Reverses a measure enacted in the 2014 Session prohibiting the State Corporation Commission (SCC) from accepting through its eFile electronic registration system articles of dissolution of a business en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1287 | Engross
Sine Die | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; conviction required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB1968 | Engross
Sine Die | Recordation tax; open line deeds of trust. Requires that the recordation tax on a deed of trust securing an open line of credit when the amount of the line of credit is increased be paid only on the difference between the amount of the original line ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1225 | Engross
Sine Die | Insurance policies and annuity contracts; exemption from creditors' claims. Provides that in no case shall the cash surrender value or proceeds of any life insurance policy; the withdrawal value of an optional settlement, annuity contract, or deposit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB1103 | Engross
Sine Die | Distribution of disposable plastic shopping bags prohibited; local option. Allows any locality by ordinance to prohibit the distribution, sale, or offer of disposable plastic shopping bags to consumers. The bill exempts from any such prohibition reus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB1153 | Engross
Sine Die | Apprenticeship opportunities; online portal. Requires the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, in coordination with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, to establish an online portal for accessing apprenticeship opportunities available to high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1482 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; art instruction studio license. Creates an art instruction studio license that permits the (i) consumption of wine or beer on the premises of the licensee by any bona fide customer or (ii) service of a limited amount of wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Defeated by Senate (15-Y 22-N) |
| SB1369 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishment of the Virginia Science Technology Engineering and Applied Mathematics Academy. Establishes the Virginia Science Technology Engineering and Applied Mathematics (STEAM) Academy, Inc., as a private, nonprofit organization and a statewide,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Failed to report (defeated) in Science and Technology (7-Y 14-N) |
| SB1399 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credit for contributions to political candidates. Repeals the personal income tax credit for contributions to political candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Tabled in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1329 | Engross
Sine Die | Institutions of higher education; sexual assault; memorandum of understanding and policies. Requires the governing board of each public or private institution of higher education to (i) establish a written memorandum of understanding with a local sex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| HB1934 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission (VRC); powers. Requires the Virginia Racing Commission (VRC) to revoke the advance deposit account wagering license of any licensee that has, on or before January 1, 2015, violated any law relating to horse racing or VRC re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR237 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; DHCD; Virginia Homeless Solutions Program $500 asset cap; report. Requests the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to study the Virginia Homeless Solutions Program $500 asset cap for individuals transitioning from shelters t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR280 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; consolidation of law-enforcement agencies under the Department of State Police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study consolidation of all state law-enforcement agencies in the executive branch under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR299 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Commission; affordable housing; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study opportunities for and barriers to safe and affordable housing for people reentering society from Virginia's jails and prisons and to provide a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR236 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; auxiliary grant program; report. Requests the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to study the auxiliary grant program. In conducting its study, the Department is directed to (i) e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR288 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Department of Education; effect of local use value assessment of certain real estate on the Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Requests the Department of Education to (i) determine, for each of the 95 localities that have adopted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1838 | Engross
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 9-N) |
| HJR743 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Eugene Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR727 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Nelson County Future Farmers of America Farm Business Management team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR720 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Carl Michael Ross.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| HJR721 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Circle Sales Incorporated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR741 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR728 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Nelson County Middle School Future Farmers of America Agronomy team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR744 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Lorraine Payne Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR752 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Tim Webb.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR730 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Mt. Tabor Ruritan Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR724 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Pat Manuel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
