| SB1066 | Engross
Sine Die | Petition for writ of actual innocence. Provides that a person may petition for a writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence regardless of the type of plea he entered at trial. Under current law, a person may petition for a writ based on bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1474 | Engross
Sine Die | Resisting arrest; penalty. Expands the Class Resisting arrest; penalty. Expands the Class 1 misdemeanor of resisting arrest to include, in addition to fleeing from a law-enforcement officer, attempting to escape from the lawful custody of a law-enfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1551 | Engross
Sine Die | Closure of the Central Virginia Training Center prohibited without authorization. Provides that the Central Virginia Training Center shall not be closed without authorization of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1361 | Engross
Sine Die | Food donation tax credit. Allows restaurants that donate prepared food or meals to a nonprofit food bank to claim the food donation tax credit. Under current law, only farmers that donate food crops to a nonprofit food bank are eligible for the credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1333 | Pass | Form of garnishment summons; maximum portion of disposable earnings subject to garnishment. Provides that the form of garnishment summons will state that an employee who makes the minimum wage or less for his week's earnings will ordinarily get to ke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0143) |
| SJR278 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; local government fiscal stress; report. Establishes a 15-member joint subcommittee to study local government fiscal stress. The two-year joint subcommittee shall review (i) the taxing authorities of local governments, including the disparity b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR279 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century continued; report. Continues the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century for two additional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; license. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to create a pilot program for the growing of industrial hemp with certain application, review, and operation requirements. The bill provides that hemp produced b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB845 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of certain caregivers. Entitles a person to vote absentee if the person is unable to go in person to the polls on the day of the election because he is primarily and personally responsible for the care of an ill or disabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB846 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Interim Redistricting Commission; criteria for remedial redistricting plans. Provides for the establishment of the Virginia Interim Redistricting Commission (Commission) when any congressional or state legislative district drawn as required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1280 | Engross
Sine Die | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Extends the timeframe for which a person who is convicted of any violation of the law of the Commonwealth or of the United States or of any valid local ordinance may pay any fine, costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1491 | Engross
Sine Die | Agritourism activity; residence rental. Defines "agritourism activity" to include the rental of a single-family residence for a period of at least one week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1302 | Engross
Sine Die | Write-in votes; duties of local electoral boards. Provides that when no person is elected to an office by write-in votes and the difference between the total number of votes cast for the candidate elected or the candidate elected with the fewest numb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR300 | Pass | Appointments by the Senate Committee on Rules. Confirms appointments by the Senate Committee on Rules to the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission and the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority Board of Directors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ300ER) |
| SB816 | 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. This bill incorporates SB923.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| 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 |
| SJR390 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Terry McAuliffe after January 7, 2017, and communicated to the General Assembly February 7, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ390ER) |
| 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 |
| SB1040 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); record exclusion for personal contact information; limitation. Provides that personal contact information provided to a public body for the purpose of receiving electronic mail from the public body is exclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 780, 2016 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Appropriations 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 |
| SJR268 | Pass | National Hunting and Fishing Day. Designating September 23, 2017, as National Hunting and Fishing Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ268ER) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB1367 | Pass | Designating the F.W. "Wakie" Howard, Jr., Bridge. Designates the State Route 155 bridge in New Kent County the "F.W. 'Wakie' Howard, Jr., Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129) |
| 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 |
| SB1270 | Pass | Ohio River Basin Commission; repeal. Repeals two sections of the Code of Virginia relating to the participation by the Commonwealth in the Ohio River Basin Commission. The Commission, established by federal executive order in 1971, was terminated by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0128) |
