| HB5005 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 1289 of the 2020 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056) |
| HB5049 | Pass | Acquisition and use of military property by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that no state or local law-enforcement agency shall acquire or purchase (i) weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles; (ii) aircraft that are configured for combat or are combat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-18
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 55 (effective 3/1/21) |
| SB5088 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Changes from five to 14 days the amount of time that landlords who own four or fewer rental dwelling units must wait after serving wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054) |
| HB5106 | Pass | Landlord and tenant; noncompliance with rental agreement; prohibition on using negative credit information arising from the COVID-19 pandemic against applicants for tenancy; penalty. Provides that a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047) |
| HR637 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Hugh Carrington Cosner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Bill text as passed House (HR637ER) |
| HB5058 | Pass | Issuing citations; possession of marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) |
| SB5080 | Pass | Telemedicine services; originating site. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to provide for payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053) |
| HB5109 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; law-enforcement officer training and qualifications. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to develop a uniform curriculum and lesson plans for the compulsory minimum entry-leve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0048) |
| HB5115 | Pass | Emergency laws; civil relief; citizens furloughed or otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments due to state of emergency; COVID-19 pandemic. Provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer for nonpayment of rent for tenants and a 30-day stay of fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049) |
| HB5064 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Changes from five to 14 days the amount of time that landlords who own four or fewer rental dwelling units must wait after serving wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046) |
| HR636 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lester Zidel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Bill text as passed House (HR636ER) |
| HB5148 | Pass | Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits. Establishes a four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits. The bill also specifies certain crimes that are subject to the maximum 4.5 earned sentence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0050) |
| HB5046 | Pass | Telemedicine services; originating site. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to provide for payment of medical assistance for medically necessary health care services provided throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044) |
| SB5029 | Pass | Issuing citations; possession of marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0051) |
| SB5034 | Pass | Release of prisoners. Provides that any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense other than those enumerated in the bill as exceptions to eligibility and who is terminally ill as defined in the bill is eligible for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| SB5007 | Pass | Criminal cases; sentencing reform. Provides that in a criminal case the court shall ascertain the extent of the punishment unless the accused has requested that the jury ascertain punishment or was found guilty of capital murder. The bill also provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0043) |
| HB5043 | Pass | Mental health awareness response and community understanding services (Marcus) alert system. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) shall develop and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0041) |
| SB5038 | Pass | Mental health awareness response and community understanding services (Marcus) alert system. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) shall develop and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0042) |
| HB5099 | Pass | Search warrants; provide notice of authority. Prohibits any law-enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant. The bill provides that, for all authorized search warrants, the law-enforceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031) |
| SB5030 | Pass | Policing reform. Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony if they are in a position of authority over and carnally know without force, threat, or intimidation a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0037) |
| SB5081 | Pass | Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024) |
| HB5104 | Pass | Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officer, etc.; disclosure of information. Provides that any sheriff or chief of police, the director or chief executive of any agency or department employing deputy sheriffs or law-enforcement officers, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0032) |
| HB5108 | Pass | Criminal Justice Services Board; Committee on Training; membership and responsibilities. Changes the membership of the Criminal Justice Services Board and its Committee on Training by requiring that some members be representatives of a social justice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028) |
| HB5068 | Pass | Emergency relief payments exempt from creditor process; emergency. Automatically exempts from the creditor process emergency relief payments, as defined in the bill, paid to individuals. The bill further requires a financial institution receiving suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0039) |
| HB5069 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints. Prohibits a law-enforcement officer from using a neck restraint in the performance of his official duties and provides for disciplinary sanctions on an officer who uses a neck restr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| SB5018 | Pass | Conditional release of terminally ill prisoners. Provides that any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense other than those enumerated in the bill as exceptions to eligibility and who is terminally ill as defined in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033) |
| SB5014 | Pass | Minimum training standards for law-enforcement officers; crisis intervention team training. Requires all law-enforcement officers involved in a crisis intervention team program to complete a comprehensive advanced training course developed by the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036) |
| HB5029 | Pass | Law-enforcement officer; failure to intervene in an excessive use of force; penalties. Requires that any law-enforcement officer who while in the performance of his official duties witnesses another law-enforcement officer engaging or attempting to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) |
| SB5106 | Pass | Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Extends until at least July 1, 2022, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) |
| HB5055 | Pass | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Authorizes a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029) |
| HB5050 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of Governor; purchase of personal protective equipment during a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat. Grants the Governor authority during a disaster caused by a comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038) |
| HB5045 | Pass | Carnal knowledge of a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer or an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, juvenile detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; local or state law-enforcement officer; penalty. Adds law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) |
| HB5051 | Pass | Decertification of law-enforcement officer. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to adopt standards of conduct applicable to law-enforcement and jail officers and due process procedures for decertification based on serious misconduct i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |
| SB5036 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; local special events license; limitations on events during public health emergency. Provides that no limitation on the number of special events that may be held by a local special events licensee shall be imposed during th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034) |
| SB5035 | Pass | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Authorizes a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030) |
| SB5039 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of Governor; purchase of personal protective equipment during a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat. Grants the Governor authority during a disaster caused by a comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017) |
| SB5090 | Pass | Commissioner of Health; publication of information related to COVID-19; COVID-19 indicators. Requires that for the duration of the emergency declared by the Governor in response to COVID-19, the Commissioner of Health shall make available to the publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013) |
| SB5083 | Pass | School boards; websites; COVID-19 virus mitigation plan; emergency. Requires each school board to post in a publicly accessible and conspicuous location on its website the plan outlining its strategies for mitigating the spread and public health risk...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| HB5072 | Pass | Law-enforcement misconduct. Authorizes the Attorney General to file a civil suit or inquire into or seek to conciliate, through the Division of Human Rights, any unlawful pattern and practice against the Commonwealth or a locality whenever the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0018) |
| SB5042 | Pass | Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) |
| HB5087 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| SB5017 | Pass | Local correctional facility; definition. Provides that, for purposes of minimum standards for correctional facilities and enforcement of those standards, the term "local correctional facility" shall also include any facility owned, maintained, or ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023) |
| HB5041 | Pass | Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| SB5024 | Pass | Law-enforcement misconduct. Authorizes the Attorney General to file a civil suit or inquire into or seek to conciliate, through the Division of Human Rights, any unlawful pattern and practice against the Commonwealth or a locality whenever the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019) |
| HB5093 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of the Governor; executive orders; penalty. Provides that a violation of an executive order declared by the Governor as the Director of Emergency Management shall be punishable either as a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014) |
| SB5117 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; powers and duties of the Governor; executive orders; penalty. Provides that a violation of an executive order declared by the Governor as the Director of Emergency Management shall be punishable either as a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015) |
| HB5048 | Pass | Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) |
| HB5098 | Pass | Hate crime; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases the penalty for falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony when a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) |
| HB5047 | Pass | Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; manufacturers and distributors. Prohibits any manufacturer or distributor from selling necessary goods or services at an unconscionable price during a declared state of emergency. However, the bill provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016) |
| SB5033 | Pass | Court authority in criminal cases; prosecutorial discretion to dispose of a criminal case. Requires a court to grant a motion to dismiss made by the Commonwealth, whether with or without prejudice, and with the consent of the defendant unless the cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020) |
