| SB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxes on electronic cigarettes and other vapor products. Creates a state tax on electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic cigarillos, and similar products and devices (vapor products) and authorizes cities and towns and certain counties to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SR70 | Pass | Senate Rules. Amends the Senate Rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR70ER) |
| HR209 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR209ER) |
| SR73 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR73ER) |
| HR210 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR210ER) |
| HR208 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR208ER) |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Candidates; signatures required on ballot petitions. Reduces the number of signatures an independent candidate or a candidate for nomination by primary is required to gather on the candidate petition when seeking to qualify as a candidate for the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| HR213 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR213ER) |
| SR75 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR75ER) |
| SR74 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR74ER) |
| SB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Bristol. Makes clarifying changes related to the BVU Authority. Other changes include deletion of provisions related to the youth services department and replacing references to the city comptroller with chief financial officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR687 | Pass | Election of a Supreme Court of Virginia Justice, Court of Appeals of Virginia Judges, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, and members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ687ER) |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Referenda for traffic light signal photo-monitoring systems. Provides that localities who wish to enact an ordinance providing for the use of traffic light signal photo-monitoring systems must first have voter approval by a referendum. The bill also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N) |
| SJR255 | Intro
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] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; campaign fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on and after the first day of a special session of the General Assembly through adjournment sine die of that session. Currently, campaign fundra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| SR76 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR76ER) |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Leesburg; unmanned aerial vehicles; preservation of trees. Authorizes the town council to limit the use of unmanned aerial vehicles within town boundaries and, by ordinance, to require private construction projects to preserve existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SR71 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR71ER) |
| SJR224 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; redistricting criteria and process. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission which will conduct the decennial reapportionment of the election districts for the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SR72 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate (SR72ER) |
| SJR219 | Intro
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] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HR212 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR212ER) |
| HR211 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR211ER) |
| 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) |
| SJR215 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor first elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; method of nominating party candidates. Removes the power of incumbent officeholders in some cases to insist on a primary as the method of nominating political party candidates and removes the power of General Assembly incumbents seeking re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Local regulation of certain aircraft. Provides that a locality may by ordinance prohibit the use within its boundaries of privately owned, unmanned, autonomous aircraft weighing 55 pounds or less within its boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Lottery; sale of lottery tickets over Internet. Repeals the prohibition against the sale of lottery tickets over the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $8.00 per hour effective July 1, 2015, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The measure also provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB1621 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; notice of assessments. Clarifies that the information required on the notice of assessment regarding assessments in the immediately prior two tax years refers to the immediately prior two tax years' final assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| SB680 | Intro
Sine Die | Magistrates; appointment and supervision. Reinstates supervisory control over the magistrate system with the chief circuit court judge and the Committee on District Courts and abolishes magisterial regions. In 2008, appointment of and supervisory aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB974 | Intro
Sine Die | State police training; reduction in local law-enforcement funding. Requires a locality to reimburse the Department of State Police for training costs if the locality hires an officer of the Department of State Police within five years of the officer'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1277 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives. Requires health insurance policies, individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, and health care plans offered by a health maintenance organization issued or renewed on or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Option contracts for the purchase of residential property; required provisions. Establishes required contract provisions whenever an owner of residential property enters into an option contract with another party to purchase the residential property....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in the bill. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; sexual orientation and gender identity. Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill also def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB934 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; Robby's Rule. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish and maintain a Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (the Registry) that would inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB1378 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; notice of assessments. Clarifies that the information required on the notice of assessment regarding assessments in the immediately prior two tax years refers to the immediately prior two tax years' final assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of process on domestic corporations. Allows process on a Virginia corporation to be served on its registered agent by posting a copy of the process on the front door or main entrance of the corporation's registered office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $8.00 per hour effective July 1, 2015, to $9.00 per hour effective July 1, 2016, and to $10.10 per hour effective July 1, 2017, unless a higher mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; permitted interest. Removes provisions of the Payday Loan Act that authorize lenders to charge a loan fee or verification fee, thereby limiting permissible charges on payday loans to interest at a maximum annual rate of 36 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (2-Y 11-N 1-A) |
| HR199 | Pass | Commending Farrar W. Howard, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR199ER) |
| HR191 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Sidney Davenport IV.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR191ER) |
| HR195 | Pass | Commending the Ocean Lakes High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR195ER) |
| HR193 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Steve Stavros Calos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR193ER) |
| HR194 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Joseph Benedict Benedetti.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR194ER) |
| HR189 | Pass | Commending H. V. Traywick, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR189ER) |
| HR197 | Pass | Commending Kay Beazley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR197ER) |
| HR201 | Pass | Commending the 2015 inductees into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR201ER) |
| HR196 | Pass | Commending LEAD VIRGINIA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16
Bill text as passed House (HR196ER) |
