| SB169 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; robotics team competition program. Requires any nonprofit corporation founded in 1913 that currently organizes and governs interscholastic activities among the public high schools to establish, by July 1, 2021, a varsity level robotic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (18-Y 80-N) |
| SB715 | Engross
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun; firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Provides that any firefighter or person employed as emergency medical services personnel may carry a concealed handgun while engaged in the performance of his offici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (35-Y 62-N) |
| HB1041 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; lot owner rights. Provides lot owners the right to be informed of the count and outcome of a vote on any matter requiring a vote by a property owners' association's membership in proportion to the lot owner'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| SB187 | Engross
Sine Die | Zoning violation penalties. Increases the maximum fine for misdemeanor conviction of a zoning violation from $1,000 to $2,000. The bill also increases the maximum fine for failure to remove or abate the zoning violation after conviction from $1,500 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
VOTE: DEFEATED #2 (48-Y 50-N) |
| HB885 | Engross
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems; authority of the Board of Health. Clarifies that the Board of Health shall have supervision and control over the maintenance, inspection, and reuse of conventional onsite sewage systems as well as alternative onsite sewage syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credits related to education; aggregate cap. Allocates 20 percent of any unissued credits in a fiscal year under the Education Improvement Scholarships tax credit program to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to be allocated to education pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB423 | 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] | 2018-03-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | Net energy metering; eligibility limits. Increases the cap on the amount of capacity a renewable electric generating facility in an area served by an investor-owned electric utility may have and remain eligible to participate in the net energy meteri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB782 | Engross
Sine Die | Combined sewer overflow systems discharges; report. Requires the State Water Control Board, every two years beginning on July 1, 2019, to provide a summary report on discharges during the previous two years from combined sewer overflow systems locate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB202 | 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] | 2018-03-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB872 | Engross
Sine Die | Tethering animals; adequate shelter and space. Provides that outdoor tethering of a companion animal shall not meet the requirement that an animal be given adequate shelter, unless the animal is actively engaged in an agricultural or hunting activity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB917 | Engross
Sine Die | Handheld photo speed monitoring devices. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may operate a handheld photo speed monitoring device, defined in the bill, in or around a school crossing zone for the purpose of recording images of vehicles that are t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB509 | Engross
Sine Die | Handheld photo speed monitoring devices. Provides that the Department of State Police may operate a handheld photo speed monitoring device, defined in the bill, in or around a highway work zone for the purpose of recording images of vehicles that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB895 | Engross
Sine Die | Punitive damages cap. Raises the punitive damages cap from $350,000 to $500,000 for any action accruing on or after July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB372 | Engross
Sine Die | Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship. Repeals the statutory prohibition on carrying a gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient reason, to a place of worship while a meeting for religi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Rules Committee |
| SB969 | Engross
Sine Die | High school graduation requirements; verified credits. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to require students to earn one verified credit in history and social science by (i) the successful completio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB168 | Engross
Sine Die | Electronic transmission of nude or partially nude images of minors by minors; penalty. Provides that a minor who knowingly transmits, distributes, publishes, or disseminates any sexually explicit visual material to another minor without the intent to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB660 | Engross
Sine Die | Youth Employment Solutions apprenticeship program. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry and the Department of Education to determine the feasibility of implementing a Youth Employment Solutions (YES) apprenticeship program. A, YES apprentices...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB312 | Engross
Sine Die | Cooperative procurement of professional services; construction; solar power purchase agreements. Allows contracting entities to contract for the provision of solar services in order to reduce energy costs. The measure authorizes any contracting entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1233 | Engross
Sine Die | Apprentice agreements; ratio of apprentices to journeymen. Prohibits the Apprenticeship Council from adopting standards for apprenticeship agreements governing the numeric ratio of journeymen to apprentices that require more than one journeyman for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SB81 | Engross
Sine Die | Landowner liability; educational activity. Provides that a landowner whose property is used for an educational activity shall owe no duty of care to a member of the public arising out of the educational use of the land. Current law provides such an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB582 | Engross
Sine Die | Open-space lands; conversion or diversion. Increases the threshold for the substitution of real property when lands are converted or diverted from open-space land use, requiring the substitute land to have "substantially" greater value as permanent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Community College System; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Scholarship Pilot Program. Directs the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to establish and administer a two-year Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Scholarsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Courthouse and courtroom 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 courth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB31 | Engross
Sine Die | Interstate 73 Corridor Development Fund and Program. Establishes the Interstate 73 Corridor Development Fund and Program and reallocates to the I-73 Fund the $40 million from state recordation taxes that is currently allocated annually to the U.S. Ro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB181 | Engross
Sine Die | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
Sine Die | Malicious bodily injury to or pointing of laser at members of United States Armed Forces; penalty. Adds members of the United States Armed Forces, and members of the Virginia National Guard, to the list of persons the malicious or unlawful wounding o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB339 | Engross
Sine Die | Deferred disposition in criminal cases. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB860 | Engross
Sine Die | Health care provider panels; vertically integrated carriers; public hospitals. Requires any vertically integrated carrier, which is a health insurer or other carrier that owns an interest in an acute care hospital facility, to offer to every public h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB37 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Grocery Investment Program and Fund. Creates the Virginia Grocery Investment Program and Fund to provide funding for the construction, rehabilitation, equipment upgrades, or expansion of grocery stores, small food retailers, and innovative f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB334 | Engross
Sine Die | Expungement of certain offenses. Allows a person to petition for expungement of a deferred disposition dismissal for underage alcohol possession or using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offense occurred prior to the person's twenty-first birthd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB293 | Engross
Sine Die | Dispensing of certain controlled substances and devices; limited license. Authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to issue a limited license at a reduced fee to a prescriber in a nonprofit facility to dispense controlled substances and devices for contracep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB318 | 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, 2019, to meet the small business siz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Members of the Virginia National Guard; education grants. Provides that the cost of textbooks will be included in the calculation of the amount of Virginia National Guard education grants, and clarifies that the eligibility requirement of a two-year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB786 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; Planning District 8; online courses and virtual programs. Prohibits any student who resides in Planning District 8 and is eligible for free or reduced price meals in the federally funded lunch program from being charged fees for enrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB205 | Engross
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB630 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); civil penalty. Provides that in addition to any penalties imposed under FOIA, (i) if a court finds that any officer, employee, or member of a public body failed to provide public records to a requester in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB262 | 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] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in individuals fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB417 | Engross
Sine Die | Community health workers; certification. Requires the Department of Health to approve one or more entities to certify community health workers in the Commonwealth and prohibits a person from using or assuming the title of certified community health w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB937 | Engross
Sine Die | High school apprenticeship tax credit. Creates a tax credit for a business that hosts a junior or senior in a Richmond City high school as an apprentice for a semester during the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 academic year. The business would receive a $2,5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB803 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; sales conducted at government stores established by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on a distiller's licensed premises; disposition of markup profits. Provides that any reasonable markup imposed by the Alcoholic Bever...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB656 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia College Savings Plan. Makes several changes to the provisions that establish the Virginia College Savings Plan (the Plan), including (i) clarifying that members of the Plan's governing board (the board) are required to disclose personal inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB404 | Engross
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023. The bill requires that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB954 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession of marijuana; first offense; expungement; penalty. Reduces the penalties for possession of marijuana to a fine of not more than $500 and makes a first offense violation that has been deferred and dismissed under ?§18.2-251 eligible fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB456 | Engross
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; school personnel survey. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and administer biennially to individuals holding a license from the Department of Education a voluntary and anonymous school p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB869 | Engross
Sine Die | Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; benefits and eligibility requirements for students with a disability. Broadens eligibility criteria for students with a disability to include students with an Individualized Instructional Plan (IIP) att...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB225 | Engross
Sine Die | Opioid addiction treatment pilot. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in partnership with community services boards, a hospital licensed in the Commonwealth, and telemedicine networks, to establish a two-year pilo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB122 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; civil penalty. Adds a definition of "personal use" and prohibits the use of contributions, or conversions of items acquired using contributions, to a candidate or campaign committee for a strictly personal p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB751 | Engross
Sine Die | Localities and school divisions; posting of register of funds expended. Requires every locality with a population greater than 25,000 and each school division with greater than 5,000 students to post quarterly on the public government website of such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
