| SB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Riparian planting grounds lease; eligibility. Reduces from 205 feet to 105 feet the minimum low-water shore front that makes the landowner eligible to apply for riparian planting grounds assignment by the Commissioner of the Marine Resources Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1152 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence, or any person who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1653 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Code Commission; duties. Limits the duties of the Virginia Code Commission relating to the codification of laws enacted by the General Assembly to codifying only those laws for which the General Assembly has expressed its intent for such law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1490 | Engross
Sine Die | Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act; applying for and casting military-overseas ballots. Requires the Commissioner of Elections to establish and supervise a pilot program to permit an active duty member of a uniformed service who has been called...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB783 | Engross
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment 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 prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1227 | Engross
Sine Die | Drug Treatment Court Act; eligibility. Eliminates the restriction that renders persons convicted of breaking and entering dwelling house with intent to commit other misdemeanor, punishable as a Class 6 Felony, ineligible to participate in a drug trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR810 | Engross
Sine Die | Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1171 | Engross
Sine Die | Public employment; inquiries by state agencies and Public employment; inquiries by state agencies and localities regarding criminal convictions, charges, and arrests. Prohibits state agencies from including on any employment application a question in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1356 | Engross
Sine Die | Informal truancy plans. Provides that a student may have multiple discretionary diversions for truancy so long as no previous diversion occurred during the same school year. The bill extends the time frame for an informal truancy plan from 90 days to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1452 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes; affirmative defense for treatment of certain conditions. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution for possession of marijuana if a person has a valid written certification issued by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB901 | Engross
Sine Die | Park authority liability; immunity. Grants immunity from liability in any civil action to park authorities created pursuant to the Park Authorities Act (? 15.2-5700 et seq.) for damages caused by ordinary negligence on the part of any officer or agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1298 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes; affirmative defense for treatment of certain conditions. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution for possession of marijuana if a person has a valid written certification issued by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1606 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices in highway work zones. Prohibits any person from texting or otherwise using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, defined in the bill, when wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB822 | Engross
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 defines ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB890 | Engross
Sine Die | Ignition interlock; time for installation. Requires a court, upon request of the offender, to delay the installation of an ignition interlock for a period of time not to exceed 15 days from the date of conviction of an offense of driving under the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB879 | Engross
Sine Die | Retired circuit court judges under recall; qualification Retired circuit court judges under recall; qualification by Committees for Courts of Justice. Requires that retired circuit court judges sitting as substitutes be found qualified every three ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB825 | Engross
Sine Die | New sentencing hearing; abolition of parole. Provides that a person who was sentenced by a jury prior to the date of the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Fishback v. Commonwealth, 260 Va. 104 (June 9, 2000), in which the Court held that a jury s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB905 | Engross
Sine Die | Redevelopment and housing authority; compensation of commissioners. Increases from $150 to $300 per month the maximum compensation that may be paid to a redevelopment and housing authority commissioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1442 | Engross
Sine Die | Mental health screening of inmates at local correctional facilities. Requires that the staff of a local correctional facility screen persons admitted to the facility for mental illness using a scientifically validated instrument designated by the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1344 | Engross
Sine Die | In camera interviews of child; court's discretion to conduct record or transcript. Provides that the court has the discretion to conduct an in camera interview of a child whose custody or visitation is at issue. The bill requires that any record or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB938 | Engross
Sine Die | Smoking in outdoor public place; locality regulation. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to designate nonsmoking areas in an outdoor amphitheater or concert venue owned by a locality. The bill requires such ordinance to provide for adequate signage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1204 | Engross
Sine Die | Sale of dog or cat not obtained from releasing agency or animal rescue. Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances prohibiting the sale in a business of any dog or cat that was not obtained from a Virginia releasing agency or a nonprofit animal rescue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1520 | Engross
Sine Die | Increase in property tax; public hearing. Changes the notice required by a governing body for a public hearing when a reassessment of real property in a locality would result in an increase of one percent or more in the property tax levied. Current l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1681 | Engross
Sine Die | Transient occupancy tax; state parks. Permits localities to impose transient occupancy taxes on transient room rentals and travel campgrounds in state parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1077 | Engross
Sine Die | Issuance of disabled parking placards. Allows mental health professionals to certify to the Department of Motor Vehicles a person's disability that limits or impairs his ability to walk for the purpose of obtaining a disabled parking placard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | Operators of emergency vehicles; Emergency Vehicle Operator's Course. Requires that ordinances relating to the powers and duties of fire departments and fire companies and regulations made by fire companies contain the requirement that a member of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1409 | Engross
Sine Die | House of Delegates and Senate district boundaries. Authorizes the General Assembly to make technical adjustments to legislative districts subsequent to the decennial redistricting solely for the purpose of causing legislative district boundaries to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1064 | Engross
Sine Die | Mental health awareness training; law-enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to develop compulsory training standards for law-enforcement officers regarding m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB838 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Community College System; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Scholarship Pilot Program. Directs the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to establish a three-year Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Scholarship Pilot Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1571 | Engross
Sine Die | Special elections; provisional ballots; determination of results. Provides that in the case of a special election, the local electoral boards shall ascertain the results of the election, make out the abstract of votes, and make out the certificate of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1268 | Engross
Sine Die | Localities; public hearings for tax rate increases. Authorizes localities to hold hearings on tax rate increases at the same time as the annual budget hearing. Current law requires a hearing on a tax rate increase to occur at a separate proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1099 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; assessments; terms. Changes the term used to refer to certain assessments to "locally developed assessments" from "alternative assessments." Under current law, two distinct assessments are referred to as "alternative assessments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Education Committee |
| SB1409 | Engross
Sine Die | Reckless driving; exceeding speed limit. Raises from 80 to 85 miles per hour the speed above which a person who drives a motor vehicle on the highways in the Commonwealth is guilty of reckless driving regardless of the applicable maximum speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1082 | Engross
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Eliminates the requirement that school principals report certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense to law enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Education Committee |
| SB795 | Engross
Sine Die | Register of funds expended; required posting by localities and school divisions. Requires every locality and each school division located within the locality to post on the public government website of the locality a register of all funds expended, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1199 | Engross
Sine Die | Rights of blind parents. Provides that a blind parent's blindness, as defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis of the denial or restriction of such parent's custody or visitation rights. The bill requires a party who alleges that a parent's b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR787 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Virginia%92s technology sector.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1017 | Engross
Sine Die | School attendance officer; powers and duties. Authorizes a school attendance officer or local school division superintendent or his designee acting as an attendance officer to complete, sign, and file petitions and motions for the enforcement of cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1400 | Engross
Sine Die | Poker; definition of illegal gambling and charitable gaming; poker games authorized; regulation of poker tournaments. Provides that poker is a game of skill and therefore not illegal gambling. The bill also allows a qualified organization to conduct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1130 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; implementation of certification programs for small businesses; definition of small business; report. Changes the definition of small business, beginning July 1, 2018, to meet the small business siz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1420 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; psychiatric beds and services. Repeals the requirement for a certificate of public need for certain projects involving mental hospitals or psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities established primarily for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1149 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW); transitional support services; time limit. Extends from 12 months to 24 months the amount of time a VIEW participant whose Temporary Assistance for Needy Families financial assistance has been te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1156 | 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] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1449 | Engross
Sine Die | Red Tape Reduction Commission; review of regulatory requirements; report. Creates the Red Tape Reduction Commission (the Commission) to develop and maintain a state regulatory baseline of all current state regulatory requirements, with the initial ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1441 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of persons whose polling place prohibits firearms. Entitles any person who may otherwise lawfully carry a firearm to vote absentee if his polling place is located in a building or on property where such possession is proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR223 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualification of voters and executive clemency. Amends the authority of the Governor to remove the political disabilities of persons convicted of felonies, thus restoring their civil rights. The resolution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB940 | Engross
Sine Die | Mental health screening of inmates at local correctional facilities. Requires that the staff of a local correctional facility screen persons admitted to the facility for mental illness using a scientifically validated instrument designated by the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1377 | Engross
Sine Die | Computer trespass; penalty. Expands the crime Computer trespass; penalty. Expands the crime of computer trespass to provide that the prohibited actions that constitute computer trespass are criminalized if done through intentionally deceptive means a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1047 | Engross
Sine Die | DCJS training standards; community engaged policing. Expands the responsibilities of the Department of Criminal Justice Services regarding community policing by requiring the compulsory training standards for basic training and recertification of law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR549 | Engross
Sine Die | Pornography; public health hazard. Recognizes pornography as leading to individual and societal harms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
