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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
HB4032Intro

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Group Violence Intervention Board; Division of Group Violence Intervention; Project Ceasefire Grant Fund; Project Exit Grant Fund. Establishes the Group Violence Intervention Board to coordinate and assist federal, state, and local group violence int...
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2019-07-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB4033Intro

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Grants for community assessments for youth and gang violence prevention in Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke. Appropriates $125,000 in grants from certified surplus general fund revenues for community assessments for youth and gan...
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2019-07-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB4037Intro

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Department of State Police; noncriminal justice background checks; additional service fee; Federal Bureau of Investigation Next Generation Rap Back Service; report. Allows the Department of State Police (the Department) to charge an additional servic...
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2019-07-19
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
HB4036Intro

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College partnership laboratory schools; funding; priority. Requires the Board of Education, in making distributions from the College Partnership Laboratory School Fund to college partnership laboratory schools requesting moneys from such Fund, to giv...
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2019-07-19
To House Appropriations Committee
HB4034Intro

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Gun Violence Survivor Assistance Fund and Grant Program. Establishes the Gun Violence Survivor Assistance Fund (the Fund) and Grant Program, to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) for the purpose of providi...
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2019-07-19
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB4035Intro

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Grants for the Hampton University Proton Therapy Foundation. Appropriates $7 million in grants to the Hampton University Proton Therapy Foundation from fiscal year 2019 certified surplus general fund revenues to create and operate an Advanced Medical...
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2019-07-19
To House Appropriations 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
HB4018Intro

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Use or display of firearm in committing felony; firearm silencer; penalty. Provides that an additional two-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment shall be imposed for use or display of a firearm in the commission of a felony if the firearm is eq...
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2019-07-09
Referred by voice vote with letter to Crime Commission
HB4016Intro

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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
Referred by voice vote with letter to Crime Commission
HB4029Intro

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Firearm transfers; criminal history record information check; illegal alien; notification to local police department or sheriff's office. Provides that the form provided by the Department of State Police that must be filled out by any person purchasi...
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2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N)
HB4025Intro

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Commission to Investigate the May 31, 2019, Virginia Beach Mass Shooting; report. Establishes an independent Commission to Investigate the May 31, 2019, Virginia Beach Mass Shooting; report. Establishes an independent commission to investigate the Ma...
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2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N)
HB4027Intro

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Department of Behavioral Health and 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 ...
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2019-07-09
Referred by voice vote with letter to Crime Commission
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)
HB4026Intro

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Violation of provisions of protective orders while armed with a firearm; penalty. Provides that any person convicted of violating the provisions of a protective order while armed with a firearm shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of impris...
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2019-07-09
Referred by voice vote with letter to Crime Commission
HB4023Intro

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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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2019-07-09
To House Appropriations Committee
HB4028Intro

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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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2019-07-09
Referred by voice vote with letter to Crime Commission
HB4022Intro

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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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2019-07-09
To House Appropriations Committee
HB4031Intro

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Firearms; removal from persons under an emergency severe Firearms; removal from persons under an emergency severe threat order of protection; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, c...
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2019-07-09
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
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)
HB4024Intro

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Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm prohibited; person voluntarily admitted to inpatient treatment; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person who has been voluntarily admitted to an inpatient treatment facility for treatme...
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2019-07-09
Referred by voice vote with letter to Crime Commission
HB4030Intro

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Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction; mandatory minimum term of confinement; penalty. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member where it is alleged in the warran...
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2019-07-09
Referred by voice vote with letter to Crime Commission
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
HB4001Intro

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Right to keep and bear arms. Codifies the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that the right to keep and bear arms conferred by the United States Constitution and the Constitution ...
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2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N)
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)
HB4003Intro

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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
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N)
HB4005Intro

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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, ammunition, or components or combination thereof in the ...
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2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N)
HB4004Intro

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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
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N)
HB4002Intro

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Carrying concealed handgun with a permit; employees of any agency of the Commonwealth or political subdivision thereof. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any rule, regulation, or workplace policy to the contrary, an employe...
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2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N)
HB4007Intro

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Control of firearms; local government buildings. Authorizes a locality to adopt an ordinance prohibiting firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof in any building owned or used by such locality for governmental purposes. Such ordinan...
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2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-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)
HB4006Intro

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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
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-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)
HB4008Intro

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Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence. Removes the option for concealed handgun permit applicants to demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing an electronic, video, or online course conducted by a state-certified or Nationa...
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2019-07-09
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-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)
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