| SB369 | Intro
Sine Die | All-Payer Claims Database. Provides that participation in the All-Payer Claims Database by (i) issuers of individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HJR79 | Pass | Commending the Langley High School volleyball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ79ER) |
| HJR10 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Donald Williams, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ10ER) |
| SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; cognitive impairment. Directs the Department of Health, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission, the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, and the Alzheimer's Association, to inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; sexually explicit communications and images. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines for a family life education curriculum instruction as appropriate for the age of the student regarding the dangers and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HJR57 | Pass | Commending Philip Alan Broadfoot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ57ER) |
| HJR53 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Leonard Anthony Schultz.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ53ER) |
| HB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Lyme disease information disclosure requirement; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2023, the sunset of the provision requiring disclosure of certain information to a patient when a Lyme disease test is ordered. Under current law, the disclosure requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) |
| HJR9 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph C. Smiddy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ9ER) |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Tuition Assistance Grant Program; eligible institutions. Removes the requirement for private institutions of higher education to operate on a not-for-profit basis in order to be eligible to participate in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR44 | Pass | Commending the Shepherd's Center of Oakton-Vienna.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ44ER) |
| SB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; medically accurate information. Requires the curriculum guidelines established by the Board of Education on family life education to include instruction in medically accurate information on human reproduction. This bill was inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Performance of abortions; informed written consent. Eliminates all the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a woman's informed written consent to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB634 | Intro
Sine Die | All-Payer Claims Database. Provides that participation in the All-Payer Claims Database by (i) issuers of individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SR9 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph C. Smiddy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR9ER) |
| HJR45 | Pass | Commending the Vienna Area National Organization for Women.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ45ER) |
| SR10 | Pass | Commending the Manassas Symphony Orchestra.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR10ER) |
| HJR50 | Pass | Commending the James Madison High School softball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ50ER) |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulations governing hospitals; facilities performing abortions. Removes language classifying facilities that perform five or more first trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| HJR22 | Pass | Commending the Falls Church Kiwanis Little League.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ22ER) |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Conversion therapy prohibited. Prohibits any health care provider or person who performs counseling as part of his training for any profession licensed by a regulatory board of the Department of Health Professions from engaging in conversion therapy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB810 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for in-state tuition; certain individuals who have applied for permanent residency. Declares eligible for in-state tuition any individual who (i) graduated from a public or private high school in the Commonwealth or passed a high school e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| HJR18 | Pass | Commending the Rotary Club of Chesapeake.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ18ER) |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Tuition Assistance Grants and National Guard grant. Removes the requirement for private institutions of higher education to operate on a nonprofit basis in order to be eligible to participate in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program. The bill also pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HJR14 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James Alexander Ransone, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ14ER) |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; funding in cases of rape or incest. Clarifies that when a woman who qualifies for state medical assistance reports to a public health agency that her pregnancy is a result of rape or incest, the Board of Health is required to fund an aborti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Westfield High School field hockey team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken from Senate calendar |
| SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms in locked vehicles; immunity from liability. Provides that no person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business owner may (i) prohibit a person who lawfully possesses a firearm from storing that firearm or ammunition for a firearm in a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians; stopping. Clarifies the duties of vehicle drivers to stop to allow pedestrians to cross highways at (i) clearly marked crosswalks, whether at mid-block or at the end of any block; (ii) any regular pedestrian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 7-N) |
| SB753 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards for testimony of expert witnesses. Adopts two additional standards for admission of expert testimony found in Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence by (i) requiring that the expert's testimony be the product of reliable principles and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB441 | Intro
Sine Die | School zones; use of certain devices by drivers prohibited. Provides that any person who operates a moving motor vehicle while using any handheld personal communications device (i) within a reduced-speed school crossing zone on a day school is in ses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | County food and beverage tax. Increases from four percent to eight percent the maximum tax that any county is authorized to impose on food and beverages sold by a restaurant, commonly referred to as the meals tax. The bill also removes the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 9-N) |
| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Towing advisory boards. Makes discretionary the requirement that the governing body of a locality appoint a towing advisory board prior to adopting an ordinance or entering into a contract regarding local towing regulations. Current law makes such re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Towing advisory boards. Makes discretionary the requirement that the governing body of a locality appoint a towing advisory board prior to adopting an ordinance or entering into a contract regarding local towing regulations. Current law makes such re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Plastic bag tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Imposes a five-cent per bag tax on plastic bags provided to customers by certain retailers in localities located wholly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and directs revenues to be used to support th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain charges and convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions and deferred disposition dismissals for marijuana possession, underage alcohol possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB600 | Intro
Sine Die | Distracted driving; penalty. Expands the prohibition on manually entering multiple letters or text in a handheld communications device while operating a motor vehicle to also prohibit the manual selection of multiple icons and removes the condition t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms; chambers of local governing bodies. Allows a locality to adopt an ordinance that prohibits firearms, ammunition, or components or a combination thereof at any regular or special meeting of such local governing body, provided that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms in courthouses. Allows a person who may lawfully possess a firearm or ammunition for a firearm to carry a firearm or ammunition for a firearm into an area courthouse that is being used exclusively for purposes other than judicial proceedings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N) |
| SB527 | Intro
Sine Die | County food and beverage tax. Increases from four percent to eight percent the maximum tax that any county is authorized to impose on food and beverages sold by a restaurant, commonly referred to as the meals tax. The bill also removes the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonsuits; recommencement of action. Decreases the time period in which a plaintiff who takes a voluntary nonsuit may recommence this action from six months to 14 days from the date the nonsuit was entered. The bill does not change the provision allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of concealed handguns; concealed handgun permit holders at public institutions of higher education. Allows any person who possesses a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit or a concealed handgun permit from another state that is recogniz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Bystander claims for intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; emotional distress. Provides that a bystander who witnesses, live and in-person, an event during which the intentional or negligent infliction of injury to or death of a vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB742 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition of sale, transfer, etc., of certain firearms magazines and firearms; penalties. Prohibits any person from importing, selling, bartering, or transferring a firearms magazine designed to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. A violation i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB415 | Intro
Sine Die | Jurisdiction of claim; plaintiff's motion to amend claim amount; transfer of matter. Provides that, where a matter is pending in either the general district court or the circuit court, upon motion of the plaintiff seeking to amend the amount of the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Scope of discovery; deposing certain corporate officers. Provides that parties to a civil action may obtain discovery regarding any matter, not privileged, that is relevant to the subject matter and proportional to the needs of the case. The bill sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing in a bicycle lane prohibited. Prohibits the driver of a motor vehicle from using a bicycle lane to pass or attempt to pass another vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 7-N) |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Distracted driving; penalty. Expands the prohibition on manually entering multiple letters or text in a handheld communications device while operating a motor vehicle to also prohibit the manual selection of multiple icons and removes the condition t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N 1-A) |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Release of hunting dogs on a highway. Provides that any person who intentionally releases five or more hunting dogs on or within 15 feet of a highway is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and a second or subsequent violation within three years of the fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 11-N) |
