| SB1555 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximum speed limits; fines doubled. Allows a county to provide by ordinance that fines for speeding on a nonlimited access highway having four or more lanes in such county are doubled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (5-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB1641 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources on an individual tax return filed with the Commonwealth in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Vapor product tax; School Mental Health Counselors Fund Vapor product tax; School Mental Health Counselors Fund created; Quit Now Virginia Fund created; penalties. Creates a state tax on electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic cigarillos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (14-Y 2-N) |
| SB1076 | Intro
Sine Die | Admissibility of prior inconsistent statements in a criminal case. Provides that in all criminal cases, evidence of a prior statement that is inconsistent with testimony at the hearing or trial is admissible if the testifying witness is subject to cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | School bus video-monitoring systems; release of information by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to release vehicle owner data of a vehicle that failed to stop for a stopped school bus upon request of a vid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB1682 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment records; written request from employee; subpoena duces tecum; penalty for failure to provide. Provides that an employer shall furnish a copy of certain employment records or papers within 30 days of receipt of a written request of a curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB1740 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources on an individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 7-N) |
| SB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable housing; City of Richmond. Adds the City of Richmond to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB1465 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; occupation disease presumptions; PTSD. Establishes a presumption that if certain firefighters, law-enforcement officers, hazardous materials officers, animal protection police officers, or 9-1-1 emergency call takers, dispatche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentives for telecommunications companies; provision of wireless broadband services. Directs the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to award at least $10 million per year in grants to cover expenditures for the purchase and installation of wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 7-N) |
| SJR302 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); eminent domain; public utility. Provides that an interstate natural gas pipeline is not considered a utility service for the purpose of determining whether a public service company or public service corpor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| HJR717 | Pass | Commending Rodney A. Robinson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ717ER) |
| HB2151 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the Trooper Mark Barrett Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Meadow Road over Interstate 64 at mile marker 202 in Henrico County the "Trooper Mark Barrett Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Tabled in Transportation (22-Y 0-N) |
| SJR300 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 1-N 1-A) |
| SB1635 | Intro
Sine Die | Screening of trash receptacles; local option. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to require that trash, garbage, refuse, litter, and other debris at any business or multi-family residential property that has a central collection receptacle be shiel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (8-Y 0-N) |
| SJR274 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; criteria for legislative and congressional districts; Virginia Citizens Redistricting Commission. Provides for the establishment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2019-01-22
Incorporated by Finance |
| HB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide prioritization process; primary evacuation routes. Adds maintenance of primary evacuation routes to the factors that must be considered by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in the statewide prioritization process, commonly known as SMAR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Tabled in Transportation (21-Y 1-N) |
| SB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Screening of trash receptacles; local option. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to require that trash, garbage, refuse, litter, and other debris at any business or multi-family residential property that has a central collection receptacle be shiel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (8-Y 0-N) |
| SB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for political boundaries, equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, contiguity, compactness, and communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; membership; Commissioner of Elections. Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections from three members to five members, with representation given to each of the political parties having the highest and next highe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB1327 | Intro
Sine Die | 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, compactness and contiguity, racial and ethnic fairness, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N) |
| SJR305 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; criteria for legislative and congressional districts; Virginia Citizens Redistricting Commission. Provides for the establishment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 4-N 2-A) |
| SB1442 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; penalties for violation. Changes the amount that a tenant is entitled to recover for a landlord's violation of the Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act (?§55-248.51 et seq.) from an amount equal to the greater of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family by telephone or wireless communication device; penalty. Provides that any person who communicates a threat over any telephone or wireless communications device to kill or do bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | School attendance officer; motion for a rule to show cause; child in need of supervision. Authorizes a school attendance officer or local school division superintendent or his designee acting as an attendance officer to complete, sign, and file with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1503 | Intro
Sine Die | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). The bill specifies the licensing requirements for casino gaming and imposes criminal and ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Same-sex marriages; civil unions. Repeals Same-sex marriages; civil unions. Repeals the statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges and obliga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Child support; incarceration; voluntary unemployment or under-employment. Provides that a party's incarceration shall not be deemed voluntary unemployment or voluntary under-employment for the purposes of establishing child support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (3-Y 11-N) |
| SB1544 | Intro
Sine Die | Assisted conception; parentage presumption. Makes the relevant law regarding children born as a result of assisted conception applicable to both same-sex and opposite-sex married couples. The bill also provides that a person is presumed to be the par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentencing; geriatric parole. Provides that for any juvenile felony a circuit court may consider a juvenile's diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change in determining the particular sentence to be imposed. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1877 | Intro
Sine Die | Adult education programs; year-round operation. Requires year-round operation of adult education programs by local school divisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (9-Y 11-N) |
| SB1706 | Intro
Sine Die | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; limited Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; limited operation; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). The bill specifies t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB1243 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; date of June primary election. Changes the date of the primary election held in June from the second Tuesday in June to the third Tuesday in June. The bill also changes candidate filing deadlines to reflect the change of date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| SB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana; decriminalization of simple marijuana possession; penalty. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $50 for a first violation, $100 for a second violation, and $250 for a third or subsequent v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1438 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Provides that when a landlord as plaintiff requests that an initial hearing on a summons for unlawful detainer be set on a date later than 21 days from the filing of such summons, the initial hearing shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1670 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; pipeline facilities; inspection reports. Requires the State Corporation Commission to make available for public inspection any records and reports regarding inspections by the Commission of pipeline facilities used in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Family or household member; definition. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" the person's aunt, aunt-in-law, step-aunt, uncle, uncle-in-law, step-uncle, niece, nephew, and first and second cousin who reside in the same home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to (i) $8.00 per hour effective July 1, 2019; (ii) $9.00 per hour effective July 1, 2020; (iii) $10.10 per hour effective July 1, 2021; and (iv) $11....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Same-sex marriages; civil unions. Repeals Same-sex marriages; civil unions. Repeals the statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges and obliga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the Department of State Police to establish a process for transferors of firearms to obtain such a check from li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1673 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevailing wage; public works contracts; penalty. Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency for public works to pay wages, salaries, benefits, and other remuneration to any mechanic, laborer, or worker empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB1200 | Engross
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $10 per hour effective July 1, 2019, to $13 per hour effective July 1, 2020, and to $15 per hour effective July 1, 2021, unless a higher minimum w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | School attendance officer; motion for a rule to show cause; child in need of supervision. Authorizes a school attendance officer or local school division superintendent or his designee acting as an attendance officer to complete, sign, and file with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1549 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; exclusion. Updates the existing exception in the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for "small loan companies" to refer to "consumer finance companies."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; training standards; recognition of and response to post-traumatic stress. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish and periodically update model policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; penalties. Provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of the Condominium Act is guilty of a misdemeanor the penalty for which, for each such violation, is (i) a fine of not less than $1,000 or double the amount of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 4-N) |
| SB1548 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer finance companies. Requires the State Corporation Commission, as a condition of licensing a consumer finance company, to find that the applicant will not make consumer finance loans at the same location at which the applicant makes payday lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (5-Y 9-N 1-A) |
| HB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; cybersecurity task force created. Establishes a cybersecurity task force to assist the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency in developing policies, standards, and gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Science and Technology (12-Y 10-N) |
| SR97 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the State Corporation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR97ER) |
