| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Provides for appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of ?§2.2-1509, Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 836 of the 2017 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; behavioral health in state correctional facilities; report. Requests that the Department of Corrections, in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, study the provision of patient-centered behavioral h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; post-service restrictions. Extends the "revolving door" prohibition applicable to state officers and employees and members of the General Assembly. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; factors for project selection. Requires travel time reliability to be one of the factors used by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in its statewide prioritization process for project selection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB965 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities. Advances the date rate reviews are scheduled to resume for Dominion Energy Virginia (DEV) from 2022 to 2021. The review will use the three 12-month test periods beginning January 1, 2018, and ending December 31, 2020. The measure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving with animal prohibited. Prohibits any person, while operating a moving motor vehicle, to (i) have an animal on his lap, (ii) permit an animal to impede his free access to and use of vehicle controls, or (iii) obstruct his vision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Premium Security Plan. Creates the Premium Security Plan (the Plan), a state-based reinsurance program to stabilize premiums for individual health benefit plans sold on the exchange. The measure provides that moneys provided from general fund appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Employment Commission; development of a plan for a paid family-medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC), in consultation with a work group composed of representatives of interested groups, to develop a plan fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB864 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission study of cryptocurrencies; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct a study of the effects of the growth of cryptocurrencies. The Commission shall report its findings to the members of the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees; high-speed Internet access. Allocates a portion of Public Rights-of-Way Use fees collected by the Virginia Department of Transportation and certain localities to be used for the deployment and expansion of high-speed In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB975 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility of educational placement transition of certain students with disabilities. Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a pilot p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Secretary of Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Secretary of Commerce and Trade; global reform waiver. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to apply for a waiver to allow for transfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SJR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate conventions; selection of commissioners and committee procedures. Adopts procedures for selecting and replacing commissioners to represent the Virginia General Assembly at interstate conventions. The procedures clarify the scope of authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee; the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth; report. Continues for one additional year the Joint Committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR65 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Corrections; solitary confinement; report. Requests the Department of Corrections, in consultation with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to study the use of solitary confinement, including segregation and other forms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR40 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; aviation and aerospace certification of teachers and curriculum; report. Establishes a 13-member joint committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to study how Virginia can meet the future wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; balance billing by out-of-network health care providers; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study balance billing by out-of-network health care providers. The resolution directs JLARC to (i) exa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR41 | Intro
Sine Die | Airport development; environmental approvals. Encourages the Federal Aviation Administration to delegate to the Virginia Secretary of Transportation and the Virginia Department of Aviation the administration of environmental approvals needed to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR32 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Department of Transportation; feasibility of eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Charlottesville; report. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of an eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Excludes Planning District 8 from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school division employee who is related to a member of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; balancing the federal budget. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; alternative models of emergency custody and temporary detention; report. Directs the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century to study alternative models of emergency custody and tempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Allows any school district to invoke the current exemption from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school district employee wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on Autism. Establishes the Commission on Autism as an advisory commission in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the Commission is to review and make recommendations for the improvement of services and programs for ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; reorganize as Virginia-Israel Advisory Authority. Reorganizes the existing Virginia-Israel Advisory Board, renamed the Virginia-Israel Advisory Authority, as an independent authority. The bill provides that the current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB892 | 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] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee to study the 2016 conditional rezoning proffer reform bill; report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee on Local Government and the House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns to study the 2016 conditional r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR58 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product; report. Requests the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to study the use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR26 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; balancing the federal budget. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; public documents; redactions. Specifies that the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council shall not redact from any document or form made available to the public any business...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Commission; membership. Adds two legislative members, one from each house, to the Hampton Roads Transportation Commission. The bill provides that nonlegislative members shall have experience in at least one of the followi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB763 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Provides that school divisions located in Planning District 14, Commonwealth, are not subject to the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR28 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; decrease in driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated convictions; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the causes of the decrease over the past five years in convictions for driving a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Indian Americans in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR59 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; identification of and interventions for dyslexia; report. Establishes a one-year joint subcommittee consisting of seven members of the House Committee on Education and six members of the Senate to study the identification of and interventions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR80 | Intro
Sine Die | World Hypnotism Day. Designates January 4, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as World Hypnotism Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR56 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; costs of education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; impact of state-owned ports on local governments; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review and update its 1999 study entitled "Review of the Impact of State-Owned Ports on Local Governments."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR54 | Intro
Sine Die | Study, Joint Commission on Health Care; access to Medicare supplement insurance policies for individuals under age 65; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study access to Medicare supplement insurance policies for individuals under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SB764 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Excludes the Cumberland County School District from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school division employee who is related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR55 | Intro
Sine Die | Working waterfronts in Virginia. Recognizing the importance of working waterfronts in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Pakistani Americans in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SB816 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure by local government officers and employees. Provides that an officer or employee of local government who has a personal interest in a tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; VDOT; Route 60 Corridor; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to review and update its 1999 study entitled "Route 60 Corridor Study: Amherst, Nelson, Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland, and Powhatan Counties."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the anniversaries of the Hungarian Revolution and the establishment of the Third Republic of Hungary and recognizing the contributions of Hungarian Americans in the Commonwealth. Commemorates two key events in the history of modern Hung...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Education to study teacher licensing process; report. Requests to study the teacher licensure process and the assessment requirements therein for any inherent biases that may prevent minority teacher candidates from entering the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; free community college; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of providing Virginians the opportunity to attend comprehensive community college...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR52 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing need for four lanes of traffic on U.S. Route 220 through Botetourt and Alleghany Counties to connect Interstate 81 and Interstate 64. Expresses the support of the General Assembly in creating four lanes of traffic on U.S. Route 220 throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
