| SB921 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of revenues by Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Adds towns to the list of localities whose transportation projects can benefit from revenues from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. The bill also requires that such cities a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1449 | Engross
Sine Die | Governor's Powering Economic Growth Program. Establishes the Governor's Powering Economic Growth Program to award incentives in the form of reduced electricity rates to qualified economic development projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB903 | Engross
Sine Die | Problem-Solving Dockets; established. Establishes the Problem-Solving Docket Act (the Act). The bill allows the establishment of problem-solving courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for political boundaries, equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, contiguity, compactness, and communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1455 | Engross
Sine Die | Commonwealth of Virginia Veterans Bond Act of 2015. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia General Obligation Bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (b) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount not exceeding $67 million, subject to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB808 | Engross
Sine Die | Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of at least $1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB960 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Juvenile Justice; juveniles on probation; funding for re-entry and release services. Allows funding currently being used for re-entry and release services, including residential placement or treatment services, for juveniles on parole s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1061 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; electronic pollbooks; photographs. Requires electronic pollbooks to contain a photograph and identifying information received by the State Board of Elections from the Department of Motor Vehicles for each registered voter for whom the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants for earning workforce training credentials; New Economy Industry Credential Assistance Training Grants. Establishes a grant program that would pay grants to certain individuals enrolled at a two-year or four-year public institution of higher e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1332 | Engross
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Expands the purposes for which the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission can distribute funds to include providing proton therapy telemedicine and scientific r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1071 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; penalties. Raises the civil penalty that may be included with a special order from $10,000 to $25,000. The bill also makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Impersonation on social networking site; civil cause of action. Provides that if a person intentionally and maliciously defames or defrauds another person by credibly impersonating him on a social networking site, the person impersonated may seek an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1213 | Engross
Sine Die | Human trafficking; advisory council created; report. Creates an advisory council in the executive branch of government for the purpose of studying human trafficking in the Commonwealth, providing recommendations for the prevention of human traffickin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB929 | Engross
Sine Die | State agencies; use of third-party commercial carrier for service, delivery, or transmission of notices. Authorizes state agencies under Titles 2.2 and 54.1 of the Code of Virginia to use a third-party commercial carrier when service, delivery, or tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB783 | Engross
Sine Die | Confidentiality of juvenile records. Provides that juvenile records for offenses that would be felony larceny if committed by an adult shall not be open to the public. Under current law, all juvenile records of delinquent acts that would be a felony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Filing fees; motions to modify custody or visitation orders. Provides for a $25 filing fee for a petition for the modification of a custody or visitation order filed in the juvenile and domestic relations district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1189 | Engross
Sine Die | Obtaining records concerning electronic communication service or remote computing service; authentication of contents of communications. Provides that, in obtaining contents of electronic communications, a provider of electronic communication servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB926 | Engross
Sine Die | Notice provisions; third party commercial carrier. Provides that, in Titles 16.1, 17.1, 18.2, and 19.2, when service, delivery, or transmission of any notice or paper in any proceeding is authorized to be accomplished by mail, ordinary mail, register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB804 | Engross
Sine Die | Weekend jail time. Replaces the provision limiting nonconsecutive days for the purpose of allowing the defendant to retain gainful employment with a good cause standard and allows the court to sentence the defendant to nonconsecutive days in jail onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB738 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; open enrollment period for members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System. Opens the enrollment into the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program from October 1, 2015, through December 31, 2015, for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB905 | Engross
Sine Die | Educational improvement scholarships tax credit; eligible schools; requirements. Requires that any national norm-referenced achievement test used by a nonpublic school that is not accredited by the Virginia Council for Private Education be approved b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1135 | Engross
Sine Die | Adoption leave benefit. Creates a new classification of paid leave for a state employee who adopts an infant. The amount of leave would be equivalent to the amount of paid leave awarded to an employee pursuant to short-term disability for maternity l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB785 | Engross
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] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1234 | Engross
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB805 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants for donations to science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) programs at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program administered by the Board of Education beginning in 2015 for donations made by STEM organizations to qualified schools...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1053 | Engross
Sine Die | Civil commitment proceedings; fees and compensation. Increases from $25 to $75 the fee paid to court-appointed counsel representing a person in a civil commitment proceeding under Title 19.2 of the Code of Virginia. The bill also provides that court-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1158 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Adds definitions for consumer fireworks and display fireworks and authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "consumer fireworks" ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB883 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia-Korea Advisory Board. Establishes the Virginia-Korea Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve mutually beneficial trade relationships between the Commonwealth and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The Board would expire on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB731 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile law-enforcement records; restorative justice. Allows law enforcement agencies to release information on juvenile arrests for the purpose of referring a juvenile to a restorative justice program that has a contract with a local governing body...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1342 | Engross
Sine Die | Residential Improved Accessibility and Universal Visitability Grant Program. Establishes a grant program for homeowners and contractors for the purchase or construction of new residences or renovations to existing residences designed to improve acces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB823 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; physical activity requirement. Requires at least 20 minutes of physical activity per day or an average of 100 minutes per week during the regular school year for students in grades kindergarten through five. This requirement becomes e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| SB1211 | Engross
Sine Die | Gender-specific references. Revises references to certain gender-specific terms in the Code of Virginia in light of the 2014 Bostic v. Rainey decision, 970 F.Supp.2d 456 (E.D. Va. 2014), cert. denied, 83 U.S.L.W. 3189 (U.S. Oct. 6, 2014), which struc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB853 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; assistance for certain voters. Allows any qualified voter who is 75 years of age or older or a person with a disability to request to go to the front of the line and to vote at the next available voting booth or voting system. The bill req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance for local employees. Allows local school boards and local governing bodies to elect to have all their employees and retirees, as well as the dependents of employees and retirees, eligible to participate in the state employee health i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB977 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; open enrollment period. Opens enrollment into the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program between October 1, 2015, and January 1, 2016, for eligible employees not currently participating in the program. Any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1349 | Pass | Electric utility regulation; suspension of reviews of earnings. Bars the State Corporation Commission (SCC) from conducting a biennial review of the rates, terms, and conditions for any service of (i) Dominion Virginia Power for the five test periods...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| SB718 | Engross
Sine Die | Telemedicine; pilot program. Directs the Department of Health, in partnership with a hospital licensed in the Commonwealth, to establish a three-year telemedicine pilot program designed to reduce patient use of emergency department facilities for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1282 | Engross
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; notice in formal proceedings; disqualification of presiding and hearing officers. Establishes a process for the disqualification of presiding officers and hearing officers. The bill also specifies the information that an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1155 | Engross
Sine Die | Confiscation, reporting, and return of firearms by law enforcement. Replaces current requirements that law-enforcement agencies report information regarding confiscated firearms to the Department of State Police with a requirement that information be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB719 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older. Entitles persons age 65 or older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1123 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care subsidy; license required. Requires licensure for any child day center or family day home, other than those located on federal property and operated or certified by the U.S. Department of Defense, that contracts with the State Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB946 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; alcohol by volume. Allows farm winery licensees to manufacture wine containing 21 percent or less of alcohol by volume. Under current law, farm winery licensees may manufacture wine containing 18 percent or less of alcohol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Special license plates; TO BE MUTUALLY HELPFUL TO ONE ANOTHER. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for members and supporters of the Virginia State Police Association, Emergency Relief Fund, Inc., bearing the legend TO B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Provides a mechanism for a person convicted of a nonhomicide offense committed on or after January 1, 1995, while the person was a juvenile, and who is sentenced to life or a term of confinement that would b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1273 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; regulations of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board relating to certain brewery personnel. Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations that prescribe the terms and conditions under which tour guides employed by a licensed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB935 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Herndon; elections. Moves the date of election of the mayor and members of the town council from May to November beginning with the election of November 2016 and extends the terms of those in office as of July 2016 until December 31,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Routine review of emergency services; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish benchmarks and standards for emergency services provided by community services boards and behavioral health authorities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB996 | Engross
Sine Die | Exemptions from boating safety education requirements. Exempts motorboat operators born prior to July 1, 1972, and who are residents of Virginia, from having to demonstrate compliance with boating safety education requirements before operating a moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Reconsideration of defeated action rejected by House |
| SB950 | Engross
Sine Die | Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program (the Program) to be administered by the Department of Veterans Services to provide grants to businesses certified by the Department as participants in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB824 | Engross
Sine Die | Bipartisan Virginia Redistricting Commission. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly should adopt a resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would establish an independent re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
