| HJR740 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable James Brady Murray.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| HJR731 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HB1585 | Engross
Sine Die | Schools failing to achieve full accreditation; scheduling flexibility. Permits a division superintendent, with the approval of the local school board, to (i) establish an alternative school schedule plan to (a) provide for the operation of schools on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 6-N) |
| HJR749 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Sterling N. Ransone, Jr., M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR738 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Rotary Club of Lunenburg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR742 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Donna Shaunesey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HB1550 | 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) |
| HJR732 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending New River Community Action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR722 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Courier-Record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR746 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Paul Gagnon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| HJR751 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Brock Anthony Michael Funk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| SJR252 | Engross
Sine Die | United States Congress; application to call a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to provide for a balanced budget requirement. Initiates the process to call a convention to amend the United States Constitution to add a balanced budget amendmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB760 | Engross
Sine Die | Medicare supplement policies for individuals under age 65. Requires insurers issuing Medicare supplement policies in the Commonwealth to make standardized Medicare Supplement Plans A and C available to any Medicare enrollee under 65 years of age who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1851 | Engross
Sine Die | Representation by Attorney General; court reporters. Allows the Attorney General to represent a court reporter employed or retained by the Commonwealth, an agency or court thereof, or a local public agency in a civil matter brought against him for al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N) |
| HB2182 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; prescription drug abuse policy. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish, publish, and disseminate a model policy or guideline for law-enforcement personnel involved in criminal invest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB1850 | Engross
Sine Die | Notice or publication of weights of vehicles. Includes DMV as an agency whose notice or publication of vehicle weights must match the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1006 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Marine Resources Commission; submerged lands; permit fees. Clarifies the requirement of a permit application to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (Commission) for the placement of certain piers and provides that certain applications f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Chair votes No |
| SB1281 | Engross
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; exemptions for certain industries regulated by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Permits the Criminal Justice Services Board to establish training standards for private security professionals, bail bondsmen, bai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Defeated by Senate (17-Y 21-N) |
| SB819 | Engross
Sine Die | TANF eligibility; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits shall not be denied such benefits solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of posses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 20-N) |
| SJR305 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); powers of General Assembly; limitations. Provides that the General Assembly may suspend or nullify any or all portions of any administrative rule or regulation by joint resolution agreed to by a majority o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| HB2271 | Engross
Sine Die | English language learners; WIDA assessment. Requires the Board of Education to establish procedures by which a high school may substitute a satisfactory score on the appropriate World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) assessment for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
VOTE: DEFEATED (35-Y 58-N 1-A) |
| SJR291 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to study the potential for the establishment of a funding source to localities in coastal Virginia for flood resilience that could result by including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Requires 2/3 of members voting for passage |
| SB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Release of balloons. Prohibits any person, with certain exceptions, from intentionally releasing or causing to be released any balloon into the atmosphere that (i) is inflated with a substance lighter than air and (ii) requires more than five minutes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-06
Read third time and defeated by Senate (16-Y 21-N 1-A) |
| SB1210 | Engross
Sine Die | Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals are computed based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
Defeated by Senate (14-Y 24-N) |
| SJR233 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for existing political boundaries, equal population, racial and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SJR269 | Engross
Sine Die | U.S. Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution to restrain the abuse of power by the federal government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-04
Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 0-N) |
| SJR278 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to a secret ballot. Adds a provision to the Bill of Rights to preserve and protect the right to a secret ballot in elections for office, votes on ballot measures, and votes to designate or authorize ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-03
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SB1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession of concealed handgun on school property. Provides an exception to the crime of possessing a firearm on school property if a person has a valid concealed handgun permit and possession of a concealed handgun occurs outside normal school hour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-02
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 20-N) |
| SB1248 | Engross
Sine Die | Volunteer property maintenance and zoning inspectors. Adds Charlottesville to the list of cities that may use volunteers to issue notices of noncompliance with certain ordinances related to property maintenance and zoning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-02
Requires 27 affirmative votes for passage |
| SB725 | Engross
Sine Die | Arrest without warrant; procedures. Allows the magistrate or other issuing authority to examine the investigating or charging officer rather than the arresting officer in determining whether an arrest warrant or summons should be issued for a person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Read third time and defeated by Senate (15-Y 24-N) |
| SB1060 | Engross
Sine Die | Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. The bill requires the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SJR217 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
Rejected by Senate (17-Y 22-N) |
| SB722 | Engross
Sine Die | In-state tuition; students granted Temporary Protected Status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and Deferred Action for Parental Accountability. Declares that absent congressional intent to the contrary, any person granted Temporary Protected ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| HR200 | Engross
Sine Die | Salaries, contingent and incidental expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N) |
| SB37 | Engross
Sine Die | Appointment of conservation police officers. Eliminates the requirement that the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, when making appointments to sworn officer positions above the rank of conservation police officer, select from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB780 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program; distribution of benefits; restrictions. Provides that the Department of Social Services shall distribute TANF benefits only in the form of debit cards or direct deposits into savings or checkin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1122 | Engross
Sine Die | Service of process; social security numbers. Requires a person serving process to redact a party's social security number from any writing, process, or attached pleading before service of process is effected on the party by any method other than deli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB299 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; asbestos contractors; notice to asbestos workers. Requires employers to provide each licensed asbestos worker with a written notice containing the following information: (i) a statement that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB479 | Engross
Sine Die | Tanning facilities; age limit; parental consent. Prohibits minors younger than 15 years of age from using tanning devices at tanning facilities. The measure also prohibits unemancipated minors age 15, 16, or 17 years from using tanning devices at tan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB647 | Engross
Sine Die | DMAS; teledentistry pilot program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to create a two-year pilot program to provide dental services to school-age children who are eligible to receive pediatric dental services through the Smiles for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB877 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 if they elect not to participate in those...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; duties of the State Board of Elections. Modifies the provision calling for the State Board to cross-check voter registration lists with other states by requiring that the general registrars complete the processing of the list with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB334 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Disaster Relief Fund established. Creates the Virginia Disaster Relief Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. The bill provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used solely for the purpose of helping Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; joint subcommittee. Increases the maximum amount of covered expenses that may be paid to certain crime victims to $30,000 from $25,000 and the maximum amount of an emergency award to $3,000 from $2,000. The bill r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB293 | Engross
Sine Die | Reckless driving causing death or injury of certain persons. Punishes reckless driving or a violation of the "move-over" law that causes death or permanent and significant physical impairment by striking a law-enforcement officer, emergency medical s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB388 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter schools; funding. Requires each local school board to reimburse each public charter school in the school division in an amount equal to the difference between (i) the proportionate share of all state and federal resources allocated for studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB387 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); certain proprietary records of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Provides an exemption for confidential proprietary information and trade secrets, including commercial or financial informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR147 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance consumers; report. Requests the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission to study effects of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Virginia health insura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB142 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Provides a mechanism for persons who are sentenced to life or a term of confinement that would be completed after the person's 60th birthday for a nonhomicide offense committed on or after January 1, 1995, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB598 | Engross
Sine Die | Health Spa Act; dojos. Deletes the exclusion from the definition of a health spa for organizations primarily operated for the purpose of teaching a particular form of self-defense such as judo or karate. The bill makes such an organization subject to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
