| HR332 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Jerry M. Wood.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SB1365 | Engross
Sine Die | Data governance; Office of Data Governance and Analytics; Chief Data Officer; Virginia Data Commission; report. Creates the Office of Data Governance (the Office) in the Office of the Secretary of Administration, to be directed by the existing Chief ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Communications, Technology and Innovation by voice vote |
| SB1414 | Engross
Sine Die | Henrietta Lacks Commission; sunset. Extends the expiration of the Henrietta Lacks Commission from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules by voice vote |
| HR272 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Walter Daniel Goad.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SJR389 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Kojo Nnamdi.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SJR286 | Engross
Sine Die | Emergency Management Professionals Week. Designates the third week in March, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Emergency Management Professionals Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1120 | Engross
Sine Die | County executive form of government; local budgets. Provides that a county that has adopted the county executive form of government (Albemarle and Prince William Counties) may carry over unspent funds from year to year for multiyear capital projects ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB1229 | Engross
Sine Die | Special license plates; DUCKS UNLIMITED. Authorizes the existing special license plates for supporters of Ducks Unlimited to become revenue-sharing special license plates. From each fee collected from registrations over 1,000, $15 shall be deposited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | Emergency order for adult protective services; acts of violence, force, or threat or financial exploitation; penalty. Allows the circuit court, upon a finding that an incapacitated adult has been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1422 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB1219 | Engross
Sine Die | Bureau of Insurance; paid family leave; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance (the Bureau) to review and make recommendations, including any necessary statutory and regulatory changes, to authorize the State Corporati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| SB1252 | Engross
Sine Die | Sunset of coal tax credits. Sunsets the Coal Employment and Production Incentive Tax Credit and Coalfield Employment Enhancement Tax Credit after tax year 2021 and prohibits the allocation of such credits on and after January 1, 2022. The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1357 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system; report. Requires the Board of Education to establish a through-year growth assessment system for use during the 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 school years for students in grades three t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1261 | Engross
Sine Die | Court of Appeals; jurisdiction; number of judges. Expands the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia by providing for an appeal of right in every civil case and provides that the granting of further appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SJR341 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Carl Hershner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1190 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Education; Health Standards of Learning; advanced directive education. Directs the Board of Education to include advanced directive education in its curriculum framework for the Health Standards of Learning for high school students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1431 | Engross
Sine Die | Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report. Provides that in cases where a defendant was previously determined to be unrestorably incompetent in the past two years, a competency report may recommend that the court find the defendant unrest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1442 | Engross
Sine Die | Public defender offices; County of Chesterfield. Establishes a public defender office for the County of Chesterfield. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. Public defender offices; County of Chesterfield...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1115 | Engross
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; federal hemp producer license; emergency. Updates Virginia's industrial hemp laws to address the new hemp producer license issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The bill changes drug laws to exclude the industrial hemp posses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1457 | Engross
Sine Die | Preservation of historic sites. Provides that any locality utilizing the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) may include a provision in its historic preservation ordinance that would allow public access to an historic area, lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HR346 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Jenna Alexander.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1178 | Engross
Sine Die | Genetic counseling; conscience clause. Repeals the conscience clause for genetic counselors who forgo participating in counseling that conflicts with their deeply held moral or religious beliefs, provided that they inform the patient and offer to dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SJR384 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1271 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; meetings held through electronic communication means during a state of emergency. Allows a public body, or a joint meeting thereof, to meet by electronic communication means without a quorum of the public body phy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| HR331 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Pamela Sprouse Palmore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SB1112 | Engross
Sine Die | Research and development tax credits. Provides that the research and development expenses tax credit and the major research and development expenses tax credit shall be available against the bank franchise tax for taxable years beginning on and after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1393 | Engross
Sine Die | Replacement and conservation of trees during development. Gives a locality the ability to exceed general requirements in its tree replacement and conservation ordinances in specific circumstances, including development that impacts stormwater permit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HR307 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1381 | Engross
Sine Die | Possessing or transporting a weapon within Capitol Square or into building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to possess or transport any (i) firearm or other weapon designed or intended to prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote |
| HR285 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Chuck Kuhn.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| HR298 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending A Place To Be.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1235 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Health; certain communication prohibited. Prohibits any person employed by or who has entered into a contract to provide services on behalf of the Department of Health or a local department of health from initiating communication regard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Local and Regional Jails; review services provided to inmates during pregnancy, pregnancy termination, labor and delivery, and postpartum recovery; report. Directs the Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board), in consultation with a sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote |
| SB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children. The bill se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HR289 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1130 | Engross
Sine Die | Personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle of a disabled veteran. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability shall be exempt from local taxes. This bill is the enabling le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1280 | Engross
Sine Die | Dams; negotiated settlement agreements. Authorizes the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board to enter into a negotiated settlement with the owners of certain impounding structures who have allegedly violated or failed, neglected, or refused to o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1251 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments. Makes technical amendments to provisions of the Code of Virginia relating to the Virginia Retirement System to reflect recent changes to federal law and conform terminology to federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1134 | Engross
Sine Die | Refunding bonds; emergency. Alters the principal and interest requirements, maturity date, and allowable discount for previously issued refunding bonds. The bill contains an emergency clause and an expiration date of June 30, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $34,136,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The bill contains an emergency cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1155 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources. Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1367 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; requiring licensed health practitioners to conduct medical reviews. Requires that, for any medical review of a claim made pursuant to the provisions of the Line of Duty Act, the Virginia Retirement System shall require that such rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1156 | Engross
Sine Die | Technology Development Grant Fund created. Creates the Technology Development Grant Fund to make grant payments to a qualified technology company that makes a capital investment of at least $64 million at a facility in Fairfax County and creates at l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB1800 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the 2020 Special Session I Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | School security officers; carrying of firearms; United States Armed Forces veterans; employees of local school boards. Permits local school boards to authorize the carrying of a firearm by an individual hired as a school security officer who is (i) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing professional tax credit. Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit of $500 for certified nurse aides, licensed practical nurses, and registered nurses who work for at least 42 weeks during a taxable year in a licensed nursing h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; amendments; energy efficiency and conservation. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt amendments to the Uniform Statewide Building Code within one year of publication of a new version of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; rate increase; funding for schools and law-enforcement officer salaries. Increases from 5.75 percent to 5.9 percent the income tax rate on income over $150,000. Under current law, the top marginal rate of 5.75 percent applies to income ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; combined reporting requirements. Requires, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, unitary combined reporting for Virginia corporate income tax purposes. The bill also expires the minimum tax on telecommunicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | Public education; voucher program; emergency. Provides that, if a school operates a reduced schedule and the school offers online or virtual learning as a substitute for in-person attendance, it shall deposit a portion of unused funds resulting from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
