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SB5018PassConditional 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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033)
SB5014PassMinimum 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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036)
HB5029PassLaw-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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025)
SB5106PassLocal 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.
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040)
HB5055PassLaw-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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029)
HB5050PassEmergency 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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038)
HB5045PassCarnal 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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026)
HB5051PassDecertification 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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027)
SB5036PassAlcoholic 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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034)
SB5035PassLaw-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...
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2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030)
SB5039PassEmergency 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017)
SB5090PassCommissioner 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013)
SB5083PassSchool 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009)
HB5072PassLaw-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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0018)
SB5042PassNursing 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011)
HB5087PassUnemployment 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008)
SB5017PassLocal 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023)
HB5041PassNursing 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)
SB5024PassLaw-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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019)
HB5093PassEmergency 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 ...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014)
SB5117PassEmergency 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 ...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015)
HB5048PassOutbreaks 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)
HB5098PassHate 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022)
HB5047PassVirginia 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016)
SB5033PassCourt 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020)
HB5062PassCourt 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...
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2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)
HR625PassCelebrating the life of Dorothy N. Latimore Scott.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR625ER)
SR567PassCelebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR567ER)
SR566PassCelebrating the life of John Conover.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR566ER)
HR626PassCelebrating the life of John Manley Garber.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR626ER)
HR627PassCelebrating the life of Nicole Anne Slagle.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR627ER)
HR628PassCommending Donald Motley.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR628ER)
HR629PassCommending the Oscar Smith High School wrestling team.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR629ER)
HR632PassCelebrating the life of Angelo Gagliano.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR632ER)
HR631PassCommending Colonel Janet L. Setnor, USAF, Ret.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR631ER)
HR630PassCelebrating the life of Sidney Grant Snell, Jr.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR630ER)
HR633PassCelebrating the life of Willard Owen Jasper.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR633ER)
HR635PassCelebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Faye Savage Gunn.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR635ER)
HR634PassCelebrating the life of Gunnery Sergeant James Michael Scott, Sr., USMC, Ret.
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2020-10-16
Bill text as passed House (HR634ER)
HR624PassCelebrating the life of Robyanna JaDawn Lemon.
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2020-10-14
Bill text as passed House (HR624ER)
HR622PassCelebrating the life of Stanley Irving Goldsmith.
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2020-10-14
Bill text as passed House (HR622ER)
HR621PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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2020-10-14
Bill text as passed House (HR621ER)
SR565PassCelebrating the life of Lois Saunier Hornsby.
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2020-10-14
Bill text as passed Senate (SR565ER)
SR562PassCelebrating the life of John Manley Garber.
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2020-10-14
Bill text as passed Senate (SR562ER)
SR561PassCelebrating the life of Myrl Lewis Hairfield.
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2020-10-14
Bill text as passed Senate (SR561ER)
HR623PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Ronald Harris Marks.
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2020-10-14
Bill text as passed House (HR623ER)
SB5031PassLegal holidays; Juneteenth. Recognizes the nineteenth day of June of each year, also known as Juneteenth, as a legal holiday in the Commonwealth to commemorate the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, the last of the former Confederate ...
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2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005)
SB5082PassCertain hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers; immunity from civil liability; COVID-19; emergency. Provides that a licensed hospice, home care organization, private provider, assi...
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2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007)
HB5059PassCertain hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers; immunity from civil liability; COVID-19; emergency. Provides that a licensed hospice, home care organization, private provider, assi...
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2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)
SB5013PassPossession of marijuana; prepay penalty. Provides that a violation of possession of marijuana by an adult shall be a prepayable offense.
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2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)
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