| HB702 | Engross
Sine Die | Libraries; assessment for costs in civil actions; disbursement for law libraries. Increases from $4 to $7 the assessment a county, city, or town may make as part of the costs incident to each civil action filed in the courts located within its bounda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB809 | Engross
Sine Die | Local school boards; display of commercial advertising material on school buses. Permits local school boards to display commercial advertising material on the sides of school buses between the rear wheels and the rear of the bus, provided that no suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB372 | Engross
Sine Die | School calendar; opening day of the school year. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB201 | Engross
Sine Die | Restitution; enforcement. Provides that the enforcement of an order of restitution docketed as a civil judgment is not subject to any statute of limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1020 | Engross
Sine Die | School calendar; opening day of the school year. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB584 | Engross
Sine Die | Riparian planting grounds lease; eligibility; Lynnhaven River. Reduces from 205 feet to 105 feet the minimum low-water shore front that makes the landowner eligible to apply for riparian planting grounds assignment by the Commissioner of the Marine R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB998 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporary delegation of parental or legal custodial powers; child-placing agency. Allows a parent or legal custodian of a minor to delegate to another person by a properly executed power of attorney any powers regarding care, custody, or property of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB416 | Engross
Sine Die | Venue in criminal cases; concurrent jurisdiction; obsolete provisions. Provides that the courts of a locality have concurrent jurisdiction with the courts of any other adjoining locality over criminal offenses committed in or upon the premises, build...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Real property taxes; appeals to boards of equalization. Provides that on appeal of a real property assessment to a board of equalization, the taxpayer shall not be required to show that the assessment is a result of manifest error or disregard of con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB970 | Engross
Sine Die | Official emblems and designations; state grape. Official emblems and designations; state grape. Designates the muscadine grape as the state grape.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB786 | Engross
Sine Die | Local taxes; appeal to court. Provides that on an appeal to court for relief from local taxes, the taxpayer shall not be required to show that the assessment is a result of manifest error or disregard of controlling evidence. The bill contains techni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1435 | Engross
Sine Die | Initiation of a civil action; clerk of a general district court. Requires a general district court clerk to file, process, and issue for service of process any pleading initiating a civil action in the general district court within 14 days of receipt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB757 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; psychiatric beds and services. Repeals the requirement for a certificate of public need for certain projects involving mental hospitals or psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities established primarily for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
Read third time and defeated by Senate (17-Y 22-N) |
| SB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Party nominating methods. Prohibits political parties from selecting a nomination method for its candidates for statewide or General Assembly district office, the U.S. House of Representatives, or the U.S. Senate that has the practical effect of excl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 20-N) |
| SB820 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration by political party affiliation; primary elections. Adds party affiliation, beginning January 1, 2019, to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an indep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Read third time and defeated by Senate (20-Y 20-N) |
| SB26 | Engross
Sine Die | Method of nominating party candidates; certain incumbents to determine method. Provides that incumbent constitutional officers shall have the right to determine the method of making party nominations for that constitutional office. If the incumbent c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| HB750 | Engross
Sine Die | Presentence reports; access by work release programs. Authorizes the court to provide a copy of a presentence report to the director or administrator of a work release program if the person who is the subject of the report is under consideration for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB839 | Engross
Sine Die | Turns in certain residential areas; resident stickers. Allows counties by ordinance to develop a program to issue permits to residents of a designated area that will allow such residents to make turns into or out of the neighborhood during certain ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Read third time and defeated by Senate (20-Y 20-N) |
| HB1364 | Engross
Sine Die | Closed preliminary hearings. Adds child pornography offenses, use of a communications system to facilitate certain offenses involving children, and unlawful filming to the list of sex offenses where, during a preliminary hearing for such an offense, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 9-N) |
| SB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exemptions; courts of record; courts not of record; the Office of the Executive Secretary. Exempts the judiciary, including courts of record, courts not of record, and the Office of the Executive Secretary of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N) |
| SB958 | Engross
Sine Die | Invoice for unpaid tolls; mail. Authorizes toll facility operators to mail invoices for two or more unpaid tolls by first-class mail rather than certified mail. The bill provides that a rebuttable presumption that the owner or operator of the vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Read third time and defeated by Senate (10-Y 30-N) |
| SB414 | Engross
Sine Die | Micro Market Act; penalty. Provides for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to issue permits for the operation of a micro market, which is defined in the bill as an unattended, self-checkout retail food establishment located in the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB779 | Engross
Sine Die | Covenants not to compete; physicians. Declares that any covenant not to compete that restricts the right of a physician to practice medicine upon the termination of an employment contract is void. A similar prohibition applies to noncompetition provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB520 | Engross
Sine Die | Nonagricultural irrigation wells prohibited outside surficial aquifer. Prohibits any person from constructing a well in a ground water management area for nonagricultural irrigation purposes except in the surficial aquifer. The bill authorizes the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HB1001 | Engross
Sine Die | Health care shared savings; incentive programs. Requires health carriers to establish a comparable health care service incentive program under which savings are shared with a covered person who elects to receive a covered health care service from a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
VOTE: DEFEATED (49-Y 49-N) |
| SB445 | Engross
Sine Die | Advisory Board on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. Establishes the Advisory Board on Philanthropy and Social Innovation as an advisory board in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of advising the Governor and Cabinet Secretari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| SB552 | Engross
Sine Die | Crab pots and peeler pots; marine-biodegradable escape panels; penalty. Requires any crab pot sold in the Commonwealth and any peeler pot regulated by the Marine Resources Commission (the Commission), or used or sold in the Commonwealth, beginning Ja...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Read third time and defeated by Senate (15-Y 25-N) |
| SB100 | Engross
Sine Die | New sentencing hearing; abolition of parole. Provides that a person who was sentenced by a jury prior to the date of the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Fishback v. Commonwealth, 260 Va. 104 (June 9, 2000), in which the Court held that a jury s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| SB134 | Engross
Sine Die | Certain hospital licenses; effective date. Provides that a license issued to an acute care hospital located in Patrick County that was valid on September 1, 2017, and remained valid on December 31, 2017, despite the closure of such hospital prior to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
Requires 32 affirmative votes for passage |
| HR23 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected as a Nominating a person to be elected as a
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
VOTE: ELECTION (97-Y 0-N) |
| HR21 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to Nominating persons to be elected to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
VOTE: ELECTION (97-Y 0-N) |
| HR20 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to Nominating persons to be elected to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
VOTE: ELECTION (97-Y 0-N) |
| HR22 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to Nominating persons to be elected to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
VOTE: ELECTION (97-Y 0-N) |
| HR24 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected to the Nominating a person to be elected to the
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
VOTE: ELECTION (97-Y 0-N) |
