| SB1642 | Engross
Sine Die | Cosmetics animal testing products; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits a cosmetics manufacturer from selling a cosmetic for which such manufacturer or a cosmetics supplier conducted or contracted for a cosmetics animal test, defined in the bill, with cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-17
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Subcommittee #2 |
| SB1689 | Veto | Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations; benefits consortium. Provides that certain trusts constitute a benefits consortium and are authorized to sell health benefits plans to members of a sponsoring association that is a nonstock corporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1675 | Veto | Killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Requires a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of six months for any person who maliciously kills or injures an animal owned, used, or trained by a law-enforcement agency, regional jail, or the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1592 | Veto | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of certain small businesses. Directs the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to amend its regulation regarding the certification of businesses as any s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1047 | Veto | Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification of registration. Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and operated in response to a declared stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1087 | Veto | Election districts; remedying split precincts; technical adjustments permitted. Authorizes the General Assembly to make technical adjustments to legislative district boundaries subsequent to the decennial redistricting solely for the purpose of causi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1455 | Veto | State Board of Elections; membership; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections from three members to five members and increases the terms of Board members from four years to five years. Repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1768 | Pass | Use of handheld personal communications devices; highway work zones; penalty. Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device in his hand while driving a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, with certain exceptions. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| SB1025 | Pass | Tethering of animals; adequate shelter and space. Provides that in order to meet the requirement that an animal be given adequate space, a tether must be at least three times the length of the animal or 10 feet in length, whichever is greater, and no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848) |
| SB1485 | Pass | Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to make referrals to any employment services organization that provides competitive or commensurate wages and is elig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852) |
| SB1579 | Veto | Standards and criteria for congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria by which congressional and state legislative districts are to be drawn, including equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, respect for existing political...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB1581 | Pass | Parental leave. Codifies the policy described in Executive Order Number 12 (2018) providing parental leave to state employees, consisting of eight weeks (320 hours) of paid leave in addition to leave provided under other state and federal programs. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844) |
| SB1737 | Pass | Civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to partial closure of the federal government. Provides a 30-day stay of eviction and foreclosure proceedings for tenants, homeowners, and owners wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847) |
| SB1038 | Veto | Voter registration; verification of social security numbers; provisional registration status. Requires the general registrars to verify that the name, date of birth, and social security number provided by an applicant on the voter registration applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1240 | Veto | Health insurance; short-term, limited-duration plans. Authorizes health insurance carriers in the Commonwealth to offer short-term, limited-duration health plans. Short-term, limited-duration health plans are defined as plans that have an expiration ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1494 | Pass | Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Procedural Guarantee Act; breach of procedures. Prohibits evidence gathered through the conduct of an interrogation that violates the provisions of the Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841) |
| SB1696 | Pass | Wage payment statements. Requires each employer to provide on each regular pay date a written statement, by a paystub or online accounting, that shows the name and address of the employer, the number of hours worked during the pay period, and the rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| SB1554 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); civil penalties. Provides that in addition to any penalties imposed under FOIA, (i) if a court finds that any officer, employee, or member of a public body failed to provide public records to a requester in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843) |
| SB1521 | Pass | Handheld photo speed monitoring devices. Requires the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to review and report on the proposed use of handheld photo speed monitoring devices and any legal or constitutional implications of dedicating civi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842) |
| SB1251 | Veto | Manufacture and distribution of switchblade knives. Exempts from the prohibition on selling or possessing switchblade knives the possession of any switchblade knife by a manufacturer or distributor in the course of his employment, or employee thereof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1156 | Veto | Sanctuary policies prohibited. Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy intended to restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1150 | Veto | Issuance of warrants by magistrates. Provides that a magistrate may not issue an arrest warrant for a misdemeanor offense where the accused is a law-enforcement officer and the alleged offense arises out of the performance of his public duties upon t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1027 | Veto | Health insurance; catastrophic health plans. Authorizes health carriers to offer catastrophic plans on the individual market and to offer such plans to all individuals. The measure provides that a catastrophic plan is deemed to provide an essential h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1674 | Veto | Health insurance; short-term, limited-duration health plans; guaranteed option. Provides that any carrier offering short-term, limited-duration health plans may offer for sale a guaranteed option, defined in the bill as a contract or agreement betwee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1716 | Pass | Interstate 81; Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Fund. Interstate 81; Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Fund. Creates an Interstate 81 Committee, tasked with developing and updating a program related to Interstate 81 Corridor safety and improvement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| SB1161 | Pass | Expedited review of adverse coverage determinations; cancer patients. Provides that a covered person shall not be required to have exhausted his health carrier's internal appeal process before seeking an external review of an adverse determination re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840) |
| SB1782 | Veto | Notaries; qualifications. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony offense of (a) fraud or misrepresentation or (b) robbery, extortion, burglary, larceny, embezzlement, fraudulent conversion, perjury, bribery, treason, or racketeering fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Requires 2/3 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB1668 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; Sunday store hours; distiller commission. Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (the Authority) to pay a distiller who operates a government store on the distiller's licensed premises a commission of not less t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| SB1015 | Pass | Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Expands the Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits program by including, as eligible scholarship recipients, children enrolled in or attending nonpublic pre-kinderg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| SB1083 | Pass | Remote sales and use tax collection; sufficient activity by dealers and marketplace facilitators as to require registration for sales and use tax collection. Directs the Department of Taxation (the Department) to require a remote seller to collect sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| SB1709 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licensees; monthly revenue transfers; case fees. Provides that monthly revenue transfers from a licensed distiller to the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (i) may be submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| SB1562 | Pass | Charter; Town of Eastville. Establishes a new charter for the Town of Eastville and repeals the current charter. The proposed charter contains powers typically granted to towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| SB1331 | Pass | Modernization of public school buildings and facilities. Provides that it is the legislative intent that public school buildings and facilities be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated to generate more electricity than consumed, and allows ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| SB1365 | Pass | Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; benefits Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; benefits and eligibility requirements; eligible students with a disability. Increases the scholarship amount available for an eligible student wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| SB1368 | Pass | Virginia College Savings Plan; prepaid tuition contracts; pricing reserves. Provides that in the event that the ratio of the assets of the Virginia College Savings Plan (the Plan) to the obligations of the Plan exceeds 105 percent, the pricing reserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| SB1231 | Pass | Incompetent defendants; capital murder. Provides that when a defendant charged with capital murder is determined to be unrestorably incompetent, the court may order that the defendant receive continued treatment to restore competency provided that he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| SB1315 | Pass | Virginia College Savings Plan. Makes several changes to the provisions that establish the Virginia College Savings Plan (the Plan), including (i) permitting the Plan to maintain an independent disbursement system for the disbursement of prepaid tuiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| SB1093 | Pass | Literary Fund; school modernization. Requires the Board of Education to create a program in which monies from the Literary Fund would be used to subsidize interest payments by local governing bodies and school boards on certain loans from the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| SB1558 | Pass | Charter; Town of Onley. Sets out the appointment and duties of the town manager of the Town of Onley. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) |
| SB1406 | Pass | School boards; staffing ratios; guidance counselors. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires school boards to employ school counselors in accordance with the following ratios: in elementary schools, one hour per day ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| SB1505 | Pass | Naming highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities; cost of signage. Provides that for highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities named after a state official killed during the performance of his off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| SB1325 | Pass | Guaranteed asset protection waivers. Establishes requirements for offering guaranteed asset protection (GAP) waivers, which are agreements, entered into as a part of or addendum to a motor vehicle financing agreement, under which the creditor agrees ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| SB1270 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for disabled veterans; surviving spouses; ability to move to a different residence. Enacts as statutory law an amendment to subdivision (a) of Section 6-A of Article X of the Constitution of Virginia that was adopted by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| SB1371 | Pass | Cigarette taxes; definitions of noncombustible tobacco products. Defines, for purposes of cigarette taxes, alternative nicotine product, heated tobacco product, liquid nicotine, and nicotine vapor product. The bill also provides that the definition o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| SB1628 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; innovation; Innovative Internship Fund and Program established. Permits any public institution of higher education to propose in conjunction with the six-year plan process, and the General Assembly to adopt by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| SB1293 | Pass | Uninsured motorist insurance coverage; settlement and release. Provides that any release executed as a result of a liability insurer settling a personal injury claim with an underinsured claimant for the available limits of the liability insurer's co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| SB1759 | Pass | Undergrounding utility lines pilot program; transportation infrastructure improvement; urban county executive form of government. Establishes a pilot program under which the governing body of any locality operating under the urban county executive fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| SB1126 | Pass | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). Casino gaming shall be limited to certain cities that meet the criteria that is outlined in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| SB1421 | Pass | Eminent domain; entry upon private property; calculation of just compensation; damages. Makes various changes to provisions related to entry upon private property in an eminent domain proceeding, including (i) requiring that the number of persons for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| SB1425 | Pass | Local license tax; mobile food units. Provides that when the owner of a mobile food unit, defined as a restaurant mounted on wheels and readily moveable at any time during its operation, pays a license tax in the locality in which the mobile food uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
