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SB4035Intro

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Continued health insurance coverage for certain state and local employees. Authorizes the surviving spouse and dependents of an employee of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof to continue to receive health insurance benefits if the ...
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2019-07-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB4036Intro

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Capital murder; punishment. Provides that any person convicted of capital murder involving the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of more than one person as part of the same act or transaction or more than one person within a three-year pe...
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2019-07-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB4034Intro

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Treasury loans; renovation of Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. Authorizes the Secretary of Finance to provide the City of Virginia Beach with interest-free treasury loans in a principal amount not to exceed $20 million for the costs...
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2019-07-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB4033Intro

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Grants for the renovation of Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. Appropriates $10 million in grants to the City of Virginia Beach from fiscal year 2019 surplus general fund revenues for the costs of planning renovations to and renovati...
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2019-07-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB4023Intro

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Violation of protective order while armed with firearm or other deadly weapon; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Provides for a three-year mandatory minimum sentence to be served consecutively with any other sentence upon a conviction for violatio...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4024Intro

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Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, certain firearm magazines, trigger activators, and silencers; penalties. Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any per...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4022Intro

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Discharging firearm; penalty. Imposes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of three years for violations of (i) maliciously discharging a firearm within or at an occupied building or dwelling house; (ii) willfully discharging a firearm within or ...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4028Intro

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Sentence reductions; substantial assistance to prosecution. Allows a convicted person's sentence to be reduced by the sentencing court if the court determines such person provided substantial assistance in the furtherance of the investigation or pros...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4026Intro

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Social media providers; threats of violence. Requires a social media provider to report to the appropriate law-enforcement agency any threat of violence against any person in the Commonwealth posted or communicated via a user message on any website o...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4031Intro

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Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of State Police; mobile applications; mental health and public safety. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to develop or obtain a menta...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N)
SB4029Intro

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Specialty dockets; veterans docket. Provides that any veterans docket authorized and established as a local specialty docket in accordance with the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia shall be deemed a "Veterans Treatment Court Program," as that term ...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4027Intro

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Sentence reduction; substantial assistance to prosecution; crimes by gangs. Allows a convicted person's sentence to be reduced by the sentencing court if the court determines such person provided substantial assistance in the furtherance of the inves...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4032Intro

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Special license plates; VB STRONG. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of the City of Virginia Beach bearing the legend VB STRONG.
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2019-07-09
To Senate Transportation Committee
SB4030Intro

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Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; creation of a Mental Health Crisis Intervention Hotline. Directs the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center to (i) establish a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week toll-free Mental Health Crisis Intervention Hotline (the ...
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2019-07-09
To Senate Rules Committee
SB4025Intro

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Taxes on income, wills, and administrations; exemption for victims of the Virginia Beach mass shooting and for payments to such victims. Establishes an income tax exemption for relief payments paid to a victim of the Virginia Beach mass shooting or a...
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2019-07-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB4001Intro

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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 its local governing body, provided that ...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4002Intro

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Purchase of handguns; limitation on handgun purchases; penalty. Prohibits any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period and makes such an offense a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill exempts from...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4005Intro

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Concealment of firearm in committing felony; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a separate felony if he carries about his person any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm that is hidden from common observation while committing or attempt...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4007Intro

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Use or display of firearm in committing felony; penalty. Increases from three to five years for a first offense and from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the co...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4003Intro

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Violation of protective order; armed with firearm or other deadly weapon; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Provides for a three-year mandatory minimum sentence to be served consecutively with any other sentence upon a conviction for violation of ...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4006Intro

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Stolen firearms; penalties. Creates or enhances penalties for crimes related to larceny of a firearm or use of a stolen firearm during the commission of a felony. The bill provides that it is (i) a Class 3 felony with a five-year mandatory minimum se...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4004Intro

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Brandishing a firearm; law-enforcement officer; penalty. Provides for a six-month mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction of a person for pointing, holding, or brandishing a firearm or air-operated or gas-operated weapon or object similar in appea...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4012Intro

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Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district c...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4016Intro

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Regulation of firearms by localities; workplace rules; limitation. Prohibits a locality from adopting or enforcing any workplace rule that prevents or restricts an employee of the locality from possessing or carrying a concealed handgun at the locali...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4017Intro

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Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. Provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 18 is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current law p...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4008Intro

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Control of firearms by localities. Grants localities Control of firearms by localities. Grants localities authority to adopt or enforce an ordinance, resolution, or motion, governing the possession, carrying, storage, or transporting of firearms, amm...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4018Intro

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Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalty. Prohibits any person subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) from knowingly possessing a firearm wh...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4013Intro

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Local government buildings; dangerous weapons; penalty. Prohibits the possession or transport of (i) guns or other weapons designed or intended to propel a missile or projectile of any kind; (ii) frames, receivers, mufflers, silencers, missiles, proj...
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2019-07-09
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N)
SB4014Intro

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Denial of a concealed handgun permit; entry into Virginia Criminal Information Network. Requires that the final order of the court denying a person's application for a concealed handgun permit shall be provided to the Department of State Police to en...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4010Intro

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Security of public property. Requires, where access to property owned or used by a public body is restricted by a policy requiring security screening procedures, including the use of metal detectors, pat-downs, or identification checks, that such sec...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4015Intro

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Public schools; firearm safety education program. Requires local school boards to provide firearm safety education programs for students in all grades. The bill requires the Board of Education to establish curriculum guidelines for the program, in co...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (10-Y 1-N 1-A)
SB4011Intro

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Authorization of volunteer school security officers by local school boards and private or religious schools. Allows local school boards and private or religious schools to authorize volunteer school security officers to perform the same duties as emp...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4009Intro

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Employment; incidents of workplace violence. Requires private employers, state agencies, local governments, local school boards, and public institutions of higher education, upon becoming aware of an incident of workplace violence, to (i) conduct an ...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4019Intro

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Firearm transfers; criminal history record information Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establi...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4020Intro

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Concealed handgun permit; disqualifications; assault, assault and battery, sexual battery, discharging of a firearm, or brandishing of a firearm. Provides that a person is disqualified from obtaining a concealed handgun permit if he has been convicte...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
SB4021Intro

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Reporting lost or stolen firearms; civil penalty. Requires that, if a firearm is lost or stolen from a person who lawfully possessed it, such person shall report the loss or theft of the firearm to any local law-enforcement agency or the Department o...
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2019-07-09
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
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