| SB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Special conservators of the peace; registration with DCJS. Requires all persons appointed or reappointed on or after July 1, 2015, as special conservators of the peace to register with the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). The bill requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB1365 | Engross
Sine Die | Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to consider certain factors, seek input from the State Corporation Commission, and meet with interested members ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Stricken from Senate calendar (29-Y 7-N) |
| SB741 | Engross
Sine Die | Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; expiration. Extends the expiration date of the credit from January 1, 2017, to January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB1465 | Engross
Sine Die | Escheat of unclaimed U.S. savings bonds. Establishes a procedure for the escheat to the Commonwealth of unclaimed U.S. savings bonds. The measure declares that U.S. savings bonds held or owing in the Commonwealth by any person, issued or owed in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| SB1459 | Engross
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission. Requires the members of the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission to allow for five minutes of public comment before each vote regarding a project, facility, or service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| SJR271 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; report. Requests the Secretary of Natural Resources, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, and the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry to convene a joint task force to review and eva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB1009 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax deduction; long-term health care insurance premiums. Reduces the allowable income tax deduction for long-term health care insurance premiums from 100 percent to 50 percent of the amount an individual pays annually in premiums, effective fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | Stalking; penalty. Provides that a person who on more than one occasion maliciously engages in conduct directed at another person that would cause a reasonable person to suffer severe emotional distress with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or haras...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1000 | Engross
Sine Die | Redistricting process. Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans; spells out standards for developing plans, including population equality, compactness, maintenance of cores of existing distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1154 | Engross
Sine Die | Discharge of deleterious substance into state waters; notice. Requires any person who unlawfully discharges any deleterious substance into state waters to notify the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) or the coordinator of emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SJR285 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; feasibility of expanding family and medical leave in the state to complement existing federal requirements; report. Establishes an 11-member joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of expanding family and medical leave in the state to comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1280 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; conditions. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to condition the approval of a certificate of public need upon an agreement of the applicant to support charitable organizations specifically concerned with the provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB742 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; run-off elections. Provides that no candidate shall be deemed to have been elected at a general election to any statewide office or to the United States Senate unless such candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1421 | Engross
Sine Die | TANF; Back-to-School Supplies and Clothing Allowance Program. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish and administer the Back-to-School Supplies and Clothing Allowance Program (the Program). Under the Program, families receiving benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1022 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System benefits. Provides for an increase, beginning July 1, 2015, of the monthly retirement allowance payable to any person who retired with at least 15 years of creditable service before January 1, 1990, under the Virginia Retir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1292 | Engross
Sine Die | Sanitary districts; boat ramps, shoreline management, and dredging. Authorizes a county governing board to construct and operate boat ramps and facilities systems, beach and shoreline management and restoration systems, and creek and river dredging s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
VOTE: PASSAGE (47-Y 51-N 1-A) |
| SB1402 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; open meeting exemption for gang-related activities. Authorizes a public body to convene a closed meeting for consultation with or briefings by staff members, legal counsel, or law-enforcement or emergency service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1386 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher licensure; professional development. Requires every person seeking initial teacher licensure or renewal of a teaching license with an endorsement in elementary education to receive professional development on the screening, intervention, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1083 | Engross
Sine Die | Immunizations; meningococcal vaccine. Adds certain doses of the meningococcal vaccine to the minimum immunization requirements set forth in the State Board of Health Regulations for the Immunization of School Children. The bill contains a reenactment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SJR281 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; urban schools; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the unique and specific challenges facing urban school divisions. The provisions of the resolution are contingent on funding in a 2015 general appropriation act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1055 | Engross
Sine Die | Child welfare agencies; background checks and barrier crimes. Establishes a national fingerprint-based criminal history record check requirement for licensure or registration as a child welfare agency; for approval as a family day home by a family da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1028 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation of court-appointed counsel; waivers. Allows court-appointed counsel for parents in child welfare cases to submit a waiver application for additional compensation of $120 in district court and $158 for cases appealed to the circuit court....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1076 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; date of June primary elections. Changes the date of primary elections held in the month of June from the second Tuesday to the third Tuesday and changes candidate filing deadlines accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1013 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Building Authority; Military Mission Improvement and Expansion projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to finance or assist in the financing of certain activities connected with Military Mission Improvement and Exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1460 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of adults. Provides that upon receipt of a report on or during an adult protective services investigation of suspected financial exploitation of an adult in which financial losses to the adult resulting from the exploitation ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1017 | Engross
Sine Die | Employment applications; inquiries regarding criminal arrests, charges, or convictions. Prohibits state agencies from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever been arrested or charged with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations will start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2019. The bill requires that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1244 | Engross
Sine Die | Practice of chiropractic; scope. Expands the scope of practice of chiropractic to include performing the physical examinations required of applicants for a new commercial driver's license or commercial driver's learner's permit or a renewal of such l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1305 | Engross
Sine Die | Unclaimed property; funds owed under a life insurance policy, annuity, or retained asset account; use of the master death master file. Requires insurance companies to perform a semiannual comparison of their in-force policies, annuities, and retained...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB967 | Engross
Sine Die | Extended foster care services and support. Creates the Extended Foster Care Services and Support Program to provide foster care services and support, including foster care maintenance payments, to qualifying individuals age 18 to 21 years who were fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1105 | Engross
Sine Die | School Health Advisory Board. Establishes the School Health Advisory Board in the executive branch to advise the General Assembly on pending legislation concerning health policy that affects elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR216 | Engross
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB991 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Tourism Growth Incentive Fund. Establishes the Virginia Tourism Growth Incentive Fund to attract new tourism and hospitality projects and expand existing tourism and hospitality projects in the Commonwealth. The provisions of the bill are co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1388 | Engross
Sine Die | Trespassing on railroad trains; penalty. Raises the penalty for trespassing on a railroad car or train from a Class 4 to a Class 2 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB877 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Creates the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact to (i) protect the public through verification of competency and ensuring of accountability for pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB736 | Engross
Sine Die | Courthouse security; assessment. Increases from $10 to $20 the maximum amount a local governing body may assess against a convicted defendant as part of the costs in a criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court to fund courthouse security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB978 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; participation in Plan One. Allows an employee hired before July 1, 2010, who did not have at least 60 months of creditable service as of January 1, 2013, to make a one-time, irrevocable election to participate in the Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1364 | Engross
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; apportionment of income for manufacturers; defense manufacturers. Exempts defense manufacturers that elect to use single sales factor apportionment for purposes of determining corporate income tax liability in the Commonwealth f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB692 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1393 | Engross
Sine Die | Compounding of drugs for use in executions. Empowers the Director of the Department of Corrections to make and enter into contracts with a pharmacy or outsourcing facility to compound the drugs necessary to carry out execution by lethal injection. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
VOTE: DEFEATED (42-Y 56-N) |
| SB691 | Engross
Sine Die | Vote centers; pilot program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to conduct a pilot program under which one or more localities unanimously approved by the State Board would establish vote centers for use in primary elections instead of operating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1143 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishment of quarantine zones by the Governor. Authorizes the Governor to establish quarantine zones at points of entry into the Commonwealth, including airports, seaports, and marine terminals, for the purpose of quarantining individuals who hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1054 | Engross
Sine Die | State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; regulations. Provides that the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families shall promulgate regulations necessary to carry out it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR263 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor 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 prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB693 | Engross
Sine Die | Trap, neuter, and return activity. Permits a person to trap and sterilize a feral cat before returning it to the site where it was trapped. The bill excludes a participant in such an activity from the definition of "owner" regarding custody of the su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB852 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; corporal punishment; exception. Clarifies that corporal punishment does not include physical activities prescribed as part of an accredited high school athletic program. This bill provides that its provisions are declarative of exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| SB1148 | Engross
Sine Die | Restricted driver's license; activities related to seeking employment. Adds travel to and from a scheduled job interview or the office of the Virginia Employment Commission for the purpose of seeking employment to the list of purposes for which a cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1409 | Engross
Sine Die | Community services boards; emergency services; access to experts. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to enter into agreements with health care providers experienced in the provision of emergency services for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB971 | Engross
Sine Die | Community colleges; workforce training. Establishes the Community College Workforce Training Grant Program to provide a $1,000 incentive payment to a community college for each student who (i) has successfully completed a noncredit workforce training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1374 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offender registry; failure to register. Provides that a defendant cannot raise as a defense to a charge of failure to register as a sex offender the fact that he did not receive information outlining registration duties and procedures from a stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
