| HB827 | Intro
Sine Die | School buses; extended warning signs. Requires the Board of Education to (i) promulgate regulations requiring any new public school bus placed into service on or after July 1, 2018, to be equipped with an extended warning sign that works in conjuncti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Stricken from docket by Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Paramilitary activities; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of unlawful paramilitary activity if such person assembles with another person with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons by drilling, parading, or marching with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; taxicab and executive sedan drivers. Provides that the exclusion from the definition of "employee" within the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act for taxicab or executive sedan drivers who are excluded from taxation under the Fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Communications sales and use tax; services subject to taxation. Applies the communications sales and use tax to services related to the streaming of audio and visual data, and prepaid calling. The bill also clarifies that the tax applies to communica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas utilities; right of entry. Limits the circumstances under which the developer of a natural gas pipeline has the right to enter upon property for survey and study purposes. The measure provides that a public service company or public utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; transfer of public records; definition of "custodian." Requires a public body initiating a transfer of public records to any entity, including to any other public body, to remain the custodian of those records onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | CBD oil and THC-A oil; certification for use; dispensing. Provides that a practitioner may issue a written certification for the use of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil for the treatment or to alleviate the symptoms of any diagnosed condition or disease....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana offenses; driver's license forfeiture. Eliminates the requirement that the Virginia Department of Transportation receive written assurance from the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation that Virginia will n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Admissibility of prior inconsistent statements Admissibility of prior inconsistent statements in a criminal case. Provides that in all criminal cases, evidence of a prior statement that is inconsistent with testimony at the hearing or trial is admiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; deceased persons. Provides that in the event that a person who is entitled to bring a petition for expungement dies before filing a petition, the next of kin of the decedent may file on the decedent's behalf w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Health carriers; participation in health benefit exchange; requirement for conducting insurance activities. Prohibits a health carrier from engaging in the business of insurance in the Commonwealth or administering, sponsoring, selling, or providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB916 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefit plans; sale by authorized foreign health insurers. Establishes a procedure by which the State Corporation Commission may authorize health insurers licensed to sell health benefit plans in any other state to sell health benefit plans in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; member approval required for certain capital expenditures. Requires a property owners' association's board of directors, before making expenditures on capital components that exceed $1 million, to obtain the approval...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB907 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for contraceptives. Requires health carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance policy, contract, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for any prescribed contraceptive d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; home-based businesses. Provides that no property owners' association shall prohibit a lot owner from operating a home-based business within his personal residence if the operation of the home-based business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial institutions; confidentiality of information. Provides that the scope of the prohibition on the State Corporation Commission's disclosure of personal information does not encompass any information pertaining to an individual's ownership int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 1-N) |
| SB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Net neutrality. Provides that an entity engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service in the Commonwealth shall not (i) block lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, subject to reasonable network management; (ii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance plans; preauthorization for drug benefits. Requires contracts between an insurance carrier and a participating health care provider that require the carrier's prior authorization of a drug benefit to include a provision that if a pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; powers and duties of the Virginia Fire Services Board. Transfers primary authority for the adoption of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code from the Board of Housing and Community Development to the Virginia Fire Service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| SB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Internet access service contracting; limitations; Internet neutrality and privacy. Limits public procurement of Internet access services to service providers that meet certain requirements related to Internet neutrali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; subpoena duces tecum; costs. Provides that, if a licensee or regulant of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation or one of its regulatory boards is successful in a motion to q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; deceased persons. Provides that in the event that a person who is entitled to bring a petition for expungement dies before filing a petition, the next of kin of the decedent may file on the decedent's behalf w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Lottery; digital vendors. Authorizes the State Lottery Department (the Department) to establish regulations and procedures providing for the sale of drawing game tickets over the Internet by digital vendors. The bill defines drawing game tic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (4-Y 11-N) |
| HB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Estate tax and the appropriation of its revenues for health care purposes. Reinstates the estate tax for persons dying on and after July 1, 2018. No estate tax will be imposed on a gross estate if the majority of the assets of the estate are an inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Stricken from docket by Finance (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance plans; prior authorization for drug Health insurance plans; prior authorization for drug benefits or surgical procedures. Provides that prior authorization requirements currently applicable to drug benefits are applicable to the proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Removes the requirement that a court suspend 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 cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HR28 | Pass | Amending and readopting Rules 16 and 40 of the Rules of Amending and readopting Rules 16 and 40 of the Rules of
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Bill text as passed House (HR28ER) |
| HB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (11-Y 11-N) |
| HB468 | Intro
Sine Die | Digital devices; deactivation or alteration of embedded software. Prohibits the original equipment manufacturer of a digital device from deactivating embedded software, defined in the bill, in the digital device or altering embedded software so as to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Science and Technology (12-Y 9-N) |
| SB938 | Intro
Sine Die | Withholding of income for child support; independent contractors. Requires any person who contracts with an independent contractor, as defined in the bill, to submit information regarding any new independent contractor to the Virginia New Hire Report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending and readopting Rule 82 of the Rules of the House of Amending and readopting Rule 82 of the Rules of the House of Delegates, pertaining to restrictions on the admittance to the House gallery
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
VOTE: REJECTED (48-Y 49-N) |
| SB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Eminent domain; lost profits. The bill redefines lost profits for the purposes of calculating an award in an eminent domain proceeding as a loss of business profits from a business or farm operation for a period not to exceed three years from the dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic transmission of sexually explicit images by minors; penalties. Provides that a minor who (i) knowingly transmits, distributes, publishes, or disseminates to another minor an electronically transmitted communication containing a sexually ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; Board of Housing and Community Development; provisions for buildings and structures in rural areas in which commercial enterprises are located. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to make amendments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; home inspectors; certain contract provisions prohibited. Prohibits a contract for home inspection services from including any provision limiting the liability of any home inspector arising from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB624 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end credit plans. Prohibits a person licensed as a motor vehicle title lender from extending credit under an open-end credit plan. The measure prohibits a person that extends credit under an open-end credit plan from (i) obtaining or accepting f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 5-N) |
| HR27 | Pass | Commending Robert Curtis Baltimore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Bill text as passed House (HR27ER) |
| SJR66 | Pass | Commending the W.T. Woodson High School boys' basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ66ER) |
| HB701 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly meetings; streaming and recording. Requires that the Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate stream with closed captioning and record (i) every subcommittee or committee meeting of a standing committee of the Gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (11-Y 5-N) |
| SJR83 | Pass | Commending the George Mason University Alumni Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ83ER) |
| HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; Department of Planning and Budget; fiscal impact statements. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to prepare a fiscal impact statement for any bill, except the Budget Bill and debt bills, that increases or decreases the to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control (ABC); food-to-beverage ratio. Reduces the current 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio for mixed beverage licensees. The bill requires that a mixed beverage restaurant, caterer's, or limited caterer's licensee meet or exceed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms in legislative buildings. Prohibits the possession of firearms in the Capitol and any building used predominately for the conduct of the business of the General Assembly. The prohibition does not apply to officers, employees, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual harassment training; legislative branch. Sexual harassment training; legislative branch. Requires General Assembly members, full-time legislative staff of General Assembly members compensated with state appropriations, and full-time employees ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Voluntary public financing of certain campaigns. Creates the Virginia Fair Elections Act (Act) of 2017, which establishes a program for administering public funds to qualified candidates for the purposes of campaigning for office. Funds are awarded a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Stricken from docket by Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR37 | Pass | Celebrating the life of L. Stanley Willis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ37ER) |
| HB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Policies against workplace harassment; legislative branch. Policies against workplace harassment; legislative branch. Requires each legislative branch agency to adopt and implement the Commonwealth Workplace Harassment Policy (CWHP) established by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (11-Y 3-N) |
| HR33 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Judith Lynn Colbert Casey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Bill text as passed House (HR33ER) |
| HB549 | Intro
Sine Die | State agency regulations; legislation requiring a state agency to adopt regulations that are likely to have a significant adverse economic impact. Provides that no bill that directly or indirectly requires a state agency to adopt new or to amend exis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (16-Y 0-N) |
| SJR67 | Pass | Commending the Westfield High School field hockey team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ67ER) |
