| SB1239 | Veto | Child day programs; exemptions from licensure. Repeals requirements that child day centers operated by religious institutions must comply with in order to be exempt from licensure, including the requirements that such child day centers (i) be inspect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1285 | Veto | Restitution; probation. Provides that for any offense that occurs on or after July 1, 2017, if restitution is ordered at the time of sentencing, the court shall place the defendant on an indefinite term of probation until all ordered restitution is p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1303 | Veto | Voter registration; deadline for registration by electronic means. Requires that voter registration applications made by electronic means be made by 5:00 p.m. on the final day for registration before an election and that the principal office of each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1315 | Veto | Foster care; possession of firearm. Requires that possession of any firearms or other weapons in a foster home comply with federal and state laws and that the individual providing foster care services store all firearms, other weapons, and ammunition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1023 | Veto | Concealed handgun permits; sharing of information. Prohibits sharing of information regarding Virginia concealed handgun permits in the Virginia Criminal Information Network with law enforcement in states that do not recognize a Virginia concealed ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB800 | Pass | Direct primary care agreements. Provides that direct agreement between a patient, the patient's legal representative, or the patient's employer and a health care provider for ongoing primary care services in exchange for the payment of a monthly peri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| SB1312 | Pass | Lobbyist reporting, the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; filing of required disclosures; registration of lobbyists; candidate filings; judges; definition of gift; informal advi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832) |
| SB898 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ); combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Directs DEQ to identify the owner of any combined sewer overflow outfall that discharges into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and to determine w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827) |
| SB1282 | Pass | Wireless communications infrastructure. Provides a uniform procedure for the way in which small cell facilities on existing structures are approved by localities and approved and installed in public rights-of-way. The measure includes provisions that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| SB1296 | Pass | County food and beverage tax; referendum. Prohibits a county from holding a new referendum on the levy of a food and beverage tax in the three calendar years subsequent to its electoral defeat, but only if such referendum is initiated by a resolution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) |
| SB1102 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; completed unattended death investigations; mandatory disclosure. Requires that records of completed unattended death investigations be released to the parent or spouse of the decedent or, if there is no living par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| SB864 | Pass | Electoral board appointments; chief judge of the judicial circuit or his designee to make appointment. Provides that appointments to the electoral board of each county and city are to be made by the chief judge of the judicial circuit for the county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| SB865 | Veto | Furnishing certain weapons to minor; exemption. Exempts the transfer of a dirk, switchblade knife, or bowie knife between family members or for the purpose of engaging in a sporting event or activity from the current prohibition against selling, bart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1418 | Pass | Electric utilities; costs of pumped hydroelectricity generation and storage facilities. Authorizes an investor-owned electric utility to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval of a rate adjustment clause for recovery of the costs of o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820) |
| SB1116 | Pass | Certain public school employees; assistance with student insulin pumps. Authorizes, but does not require, local school board employees who are registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, or certified nurse aides and who have been trained in the adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| SB1574 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; membership; powers and duties. Restructures the membership of the board of directors (the Board) of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority (the Authority), designates the Board as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| SB1258 | Pass | Virginia Solar Energy Development and Energy Storage Authority. Continues the Virginia Solar Energy Development Authority and renames it the Virginia Solar Energy Development and Energy Storage Authority. The measure expands the purposes of the autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| SB1299 | Veto | Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1324 | Veto | Religious freedom; solemnization of marriage. Provides that no person shall be (i) required to participate in the solemnization of any marriage or (ii) subject to any penalty by the Commonwealth, or its political subdivisions or representatives or ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB812 | Pass | Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; home inspections; required statement related to the presence of yellow shaded corrugated stainless steel tubing. Provides that whenever a home inspector observes the presence of any shade of yellow shade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| SB1105 | Veto | Reports of registered voters and persons voting at elections. Requires the local electoral boards to direct the general registrars to investigate the list of registered voters whenever the number of registered voters in a county or city exceeds the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1493 | Pass | Northern Virginia Community College; computer science training and professional development for teachers. Requires Northern Virginia Community College (i) in consultation with the Department of Education, to contract with a partner organization to de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| SB1398 | Pass | Coal combustion residuals unit; closure permit; assessments required. Requires the owner or operator of a coal combustion residuals unit (CCR unit) to identify water pollution and address corrective measures to resolve it, evaluate the clean closure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| SB854 | Pass | Collection of unpaid court fines, etc. Increases the grace period after which collection activity for unpaid court fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution may be commenced from 30 days to 90 days after sentencing or judgment. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| SB1347 | Veto | Carrying a switchblade knife; exception. Authorizes any person to carry a switchblade knife concealed when such knife is carried for the purpose of engaging in a lawful profession or lawful recreational activity the performance of which is aided by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB962 | Pass | Sales and use tax; nexus for out-of-state businesses. Provides that storage of inventory in the Commonwealth is sufficient nexus to require out-of-state businesses to collect sales and use tax on sales to customers in the Commonwealth. The bill conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| SB1240 | Veto | Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School (the Board) as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the full-time virtual school programs offered to student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1455 | Veto | Payments for registering to vote; penalties. Provides that any person who gives, offers, or promises any monetary payment to another in exchange for that person registering to vote is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. A person who solicits or accepts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1492 | Pass | Water utilities; consolidated ratemaking. Requires that in any ratemaking proceeding for certain investor-owned water utilities that are part of a water utility network the State Corporation Commission shall ensure that equal fixed and volumetric rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| SB1253 | Veto | Voter identification; photograph contained in electronic pollbook. Requires electronic pollbooks to contain the photographs of registered voters that are obtained by the general registrars in the production of voter photo identification cards or cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB872 | Veto | Absentee voting; photo identification required with application. Requires any voter submitting an application for an absentee ballot by mail or by electronic or telephonic transmission to a facsimile device to submit with his application a copy of on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1581 | Veto | Voter registration; verification of social security numbers. Requires the general registrars to verify that the name, date of birth, and social security number provided by an applicant on the voter registration application match the information on fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1283 | Veto | Public schools; regional charter school divisions. Authorizes the Board of Education (the Board) to establish regional charter school divisions consisting of at least two but not more than three existing school divisions in regions in which each unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1284 | Pass | Restitution; form order, enforcement, noncompliance; etc. Makes numerous changes related to the repayment of court-ordered restitution, including: (i) requiring the court to enter the amount of restitution, the date by which all restitution is to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| SB1008 | Pass | Criminal history records checks; barrier crimes. Clarifies the individual crimes that constitute a barrier for (i) individuals seeking employment at nursing homes, home care organizations, hospices, state facilities, and private providers licensed by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809) |
| SB1416 | Pass | Investment of Public Funds Act; investment of funds in qualified investment pools. Authorizes a treasurer to act on behalf of his locality to become a participating political subdivision in qualified investment pools without an ordinance adopted by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| SB1470 | Veto | Coal tax credits. Reinstates the Virginia coal employment and production incentive tax credit. The credit, which expired on July 1, 2016, could be earned on and after January 1, 2017, but before January 1, 2022. The bill limits the aggregate amount o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1073 | Pass | Charter; Town of Bridgewater. Updates the town's charter and sets out various powers that are typically exercised by towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| SB1362 | Veto | Carrying concealed weapons; exemption for nonduty status military personnel. Provides that a member of the Virginia National Guard, Armed Forces of the United States, or Armed Forces Reserves of the United States in a nonduty status may carry a conce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1364 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; regulation of property carriers. Combines the current property carrier and bulk property carrier authorities and eliminates the current license requirement for property brokers. The bill eliminates the requirement for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| SB1371 | Pass | Virginia Research Investment Committee. Expands the role of the Virginia Research Investment Committee (the Committee) to include, in addition to awarding grants and loans from the Virginia Research Investment Fund, providing guidance and coordinatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| SB1486 | Pass | Report of law-enforcement officer involved in accident. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who is listed as a driver in a motor vehicle accident report submitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles will not have the accident listed on his driv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821) |
| SB1178 | Pass | Prescription of buprenorphine without naloxone; limitation. Provides that prescriptions for products containing buprenorphine without naloxone shall be issued only (i) for patients who are pregnant, (ii) when converting a patient from methadone to bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| SB1300 | Veto | Victims of domestic violence, etc.; firearms safety or training course. Creates the Virginia Firearms Safety and Training for Sexual and Domestic Violence Victims Fund. The bill provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services may distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto |
| SB1415 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority; Board of Commissioners. Provides that the 11 members of the Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Port Authority appointed by the Governor no longer serve at the pleasure of the Governor and may be removed prior to the expir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| SJR331 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property tax; exemption for flooding remediation, abatement, and resiliency efforts. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize a county, city, or town to partially exempt any real subject to recurri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| SB1533 | Pass | Possession of antique firearms; nonviolent felons. Permits nonviolent felons to possess, transport, and carry muzzle-loading firearms and black powder in a quantity not exceeding five pounds if it is intended to be used solely for sporting, recreatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| SJR295 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); legislative review of administrative rules. Grants to the General Assembly the authority to review any administrative rule to ensure it is consistent with the legislative intent of the statute that the rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| SB907 | Pass | Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; leadership; residency. Requires the president or any one of the vice presidents of the board of visitors of Virginia Military Institute, the chairman or the vice-chairman of the State Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| SB1216 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; availability of food when spirits served. Directs the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to promulgate regulations that require mixed beverage licensees to have food, cooked or prepared on the licensed premises, available fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
