| SR17 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Earle C. Mobley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Bill text as passed Senate (SR17ER) |
| HJR156 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Master Sergeant George Allen Bannar, Jr., USA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ156ER) |
| SB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; reading diagnostic tests. Requires that the first reading diagnostic test administered to a student in kindergarten through grade three include a rapid alphabet naming component and that local school divisions report the results...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HJR146 | Pass | Commending County Transmissions, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ146ER) |
| SB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; mathematics intervention services. Requires local school divisions to identify students in grades 10, 11, and 12 who are at risk of graduating without the necessary skills to take college-level mathematics coursework, as demonst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB573 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance rate reviews; pharmacy benefit price spread. Requires the State Corporation Commission (Commission) to treat the price spread on any contract between the issuer of a health benefit plan and its pharmacy benefit manager as an administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (19-Y 0-N) |
| HJR145 | Pass | Commending Ray's Auto Body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ145ER) |
| HJR139 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Special Agent Michael T. Walter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ139ER) |
| SB870 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain educational institutions; designation of governing boards. Renames as boards of trustees the boards of visitors of certain educational institutions in the Commonwealth, including baccalaureate public institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority; refinancing loan guaranty program. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority (the Authority), to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; phased-in subtraction of military retirement income. Phases in, over a five-year period beginning with taxable year 2018, a subtraction from Virginia taxable income for military retirement income. By taxable year 2022, 100 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB408 | Intro
Sine Die | Hashish oil; definition. Adds to the definition of hashish oil any waxy or solid extract containing one or more cannabinoids, excluding any such waxy or solid extract with a combined tetrahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinol acid content of less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving while intoxicated; fourth offense; penalty. Provides that any person convicted of a fourth or subsequent offense of driving while intoxicated committed within a 10-year period shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia taxable income; standard deduction. Increases, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2019, but before January 1, 2020, the amount of the standard deduction to $6,350 for single individuals and $12,700 for married couples. Under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Public accessibility of case management system. Requires the case management system operated and maintained by the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to be open to the public for inspection. The bill provides that the case managemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB1566 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater; local plan review; acceptance of plan by professional engineer in lieu of review. Authorizes any stormwater management program authority or erosion and sediment control program authority, or a locality that has opted out of administering ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Veterans Recovery Grant Program and Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Veterans Recovery Grant Program and the Virginia Veterans Recovery Fund for the purpose of providing diagnostic services, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, and suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB563 | Intro
Sine Die | Unlawful creation of image of another; incapacitated adult; penalty. Provides that knowingly and intentionally creating a videographic or still image of a nonconsenting person if such person is totally nude, clad in undergarments, or in a state of un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax rates. Lowers the rate of taxation for each tax bracket for individual income tax by 10 percent. The reduction will be phased in over the course of three years in which Virginia Gross Domestic Product grows by three percent or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Damage or trespass to critical infrastructure or utilities; penalty. Provides that any person who intentionally destroys or damages any alumina refinery, a chemical, polymer, or rubber manufacturing facility, a transmission facility used by a federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB561 | Intro
Sine Die | Right lane restrictions for tractor trucks on Interstate 81; pilot program. Directs the Department of Transportation to conduct a pilot program establishing zones on Interstate 81 where tractor trucks would be required to travel in the right lane onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing a stopped school bus; injury to another person; penalty. Provides that any person who unlawfully passes a stopped school bus while driving a motor vehicle and causes serious bodily injury to another person is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic Routing Registry. Requires the Department of Transportation to create and maintain an Electronic Routing Registry (the Registry) of highways where electronic routing of through traffic is prohibited and provides the criteria for a highway ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Restitution form; completion by court or clerk of court. Provides that the required form outlining the amount of restitution and repayment terms shall be completed by the court or clerk of court if the attorney for the Commonwealth serves part-time. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; prior authorization for legal action. Narrows the restriction, to appointed school boards, that a local school board receive prior authorization from the local governing body prior to instituting any legal action or proceeding ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of forfeited property used in connection with the commission of drug crimes; Drug Offender Assessment and Treatment Fund. Provides that 20 percent of all cash, negotiable instruments, and proceeds from a sale conducted pursuant to ?§...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle liability insurance coverage limits. Increases the minimum motor vehicle liability insurance coverage amounts from $25,000 to $100,000 in cases of bodily injury to or death of one person, from $50,000 to $200,000 in cases of bodily inju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Cruelty to animals; aggravated cruelty; penalty. Provides that a person who commits an act of aggravated cruelty on a companion animal is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill defines "aggravated cruelty" and "torture." The bill increases from a Class...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB797 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person who is subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) for subjecting another person to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 5-N) |
| SB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Use or display of firearm during commission of a felony; killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Adds maliciously shooting, stabbing, wounding, or otherwise causing bodily injury to or administering poison to any animal used or trained by a law-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB520 | Engross
Sine Die | Nonagricultural irrigation wells prohibited outside surficial aquifer. Prohibits any person from constructing a well in a ground water management area for nonagricultural irrigation purposes except in the surficial aquifer. The bill authorizes the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| SB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits for contributions to the Commonwealth Competitiveness Fund. Establishes the Commonwealth Competitiveness Fund (the Fund) and provides that a taxpayer shall receive an income tax credit in the amount of 90 percent of his contribution to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 12-N) |
| SB473 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; subtraction for military veterans with a service-connected disability. Establishes for taxable years beginning January 1, 2018, an individual income tax subtraction for the military retirement income of veterans with a 100 percent service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1 | Intro
Sine Die | Mechanical devices designed to increase the rate of fire of firearms; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, import, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of any device used to increase the rate of fire of any semi-automatic fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (10-Y 6-N) |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a first-time felony offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Tolling; Northern Virginia. Requires the Department of Transportation to refund the holder of an electronic toll collection device for any sum of tolls collected or imposed for travel on Interstate 66 east of mile marker 67 totaling more than $200 pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 7-N) |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB272 | Intro
Sine Die | Construction Trust Act. Provides that any moneys paid under a contract by an owner to a contractor, or by the owner or contractor to a subcontractor for work done or materials furnished for or about a building by any subcontractor, shall be strictly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic toll collection device; contributions to Virginia State Police Association General Fund. Provides that holders of an account for an electronic toll collection device may opt to make a voluntary contribution to the Virginia State Police Ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximum speed limits on certain highways. Increases from 55 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour the maximum speed limit on U.S. Route 301, the entirety of U.S. Route 17, and State Routes 3 and 207.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB335 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia taxable income; deduction for personal exemptions. Increases the deduction, for purposes of computing Virginia taxable income, for personal exemptions. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2019, a taxpayer may deduct $1,000 fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (15-Y 1-N) |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving after forfeiture of license. Provides that a person is guilty of an offense of driving or operating a motor vehicle (i) after his driver's license has been revoked for certain offenses, (ii) in violation of the terms of a restricted license, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; guidance documents for petitions to restore firearms rights. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in consultation with the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Office of the Exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Food stamp eligibility; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive food stamp benefits shall not be denied such assistance solely because he has been convicted of a first-time felony offense of possession with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Impersonating certain public safety personnel; military members; penalty. Adds members of the United States Armed Forces, Armed Forces Reserves, and National Guard to the list of public safety personnel for which it is a Class 1 misdemeanor to impers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms on school property. Adds public, private, or religious preschools and child day centers that are not operated at the residence of the provider or of any of the children to the list of schools where possessing a firearm on school property or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 5-N) |
| SB805 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing a stopped school bus; driving record. Provides that the imposition of a civil penalty for passing a stopped school bus shall not be deemed a conviction as an operator and shall not be made part of the driving record of the person upon whom su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving under the influence; first offenders; license conditions; penalty. Provides that in the case of an adult offender's first conviction of driving under the influence when the offender's blood alcohol content was less than 0.15, the sole restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; crimes defined. Provides that police and court records for all felony or misdemeanor offenses, or traffic infractions, are potentially eligible for expungement if the person seeking the expungement qualifies u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Schedule I drugs; classification for fentanyl derivatives. Adds to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act a classification for fentanyl derivatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
