| SB1776 | Intro
Sine Die | Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 1-N) |
| SB1583 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition. Shortens the period that a utility's customer who switches from an investor-owned electric utility to a licensed competing supplier is barred from returning as a customer of its utility from five years to 90 da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (2-Y 11-N) |
| SB1460 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy power purchase agreements; pilot programs. Makes any educational institution eligible to participate in Appalachian Power Company's pilot program for certain third party power purchase agreements. With respect to Dominion Power's pil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB1290 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end credit plans; governing law. Provides that an open-end credit plan shall be governed solely by federal law and the laws of the Commonwealth, regardless of whether the seller or lender has a physical location in the Commonwealth. The measure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (5-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB1391 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB2351 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; benefits Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; benefits and eligibility requirements; eligible students with a disability. Increases the scholarship amount available for an eligible student wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (11-Y 11-N) |
| HB2700 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax subtraction; Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income. Establishes a subtraction in computing Virginia taxable income for the amount of Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income that is included in a corporation's federal taxable income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Tabled in Finance (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB1714 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering; schools. Directs Appalachian Power Company to conduct a pilot program, not exceeding 10 megawatts in the aggregate, under which any public school in the Commonwealth that generates more electricity from a wind-powered or solar-po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; limitations on fossil fuel Electric utilities; limitations on fossil fuel facilities. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission (SCC) from issuing on or after July 1, 2019, a certificate of public convenience and necessity or gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB1456 | Intro
Sine Die | Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) removes the one percent cap on the total amount of renewable energy that can be net metered in a utility's service ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB1566 | Intro
Sine Die | Fantasy Contest Act; registration requirements. Allows the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) to set fantasy contest operator registration and renewal fees not to exceed (i) $5,000 for any applicant with annual gross rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1483 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering; schools. Directs Appalachian Power Company to conduct a pilot program, not exceeding 10 megawatts in the aggregate, under which any public school in the Commonwealth that generates more electricity from a wind-powered or solar-po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1534 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal combustion residuals; cleanup costs. Authorizes an electric utility to recover the costs of the permitted cleanup in the Chesapeake Bay watershed of coal combustion residuals that are generated from the burning of coal for the purpose of generat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB1467 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalties. Provides that a court shall order a person subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB1708 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; hearing panel decisions; finality and enforcement. Makes final and binding the decision of the hearing panel conducting a hearing to review an action that dismisses, demotes, suspends, or transfers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 6-N 2-A) |
| SB1780 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Prohibits public electric Electric utility regulation. Prohibits public electric utilities from making nonessential expenditures, which includes expenditures related to lobbying, political contributions, certain advertisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 1-N) |
| SB1687 | Intro
Sine Die | Bail; data collection and reporting standards; report. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to (i) collect data relating to bail determinations for any person who is held in custody pending trial or hearing for an offense, civil or cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. Creates the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, which preserves the right of a cotenant to sell his interest in inherited real estate, while ensuring that the other cotenants will have the necessary due p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N) |
| SB1639 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid family and medical leave program. Requires Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1009 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal combustion residuals surface impoundments; closure. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to require the closure of any coal combustion residuals (CCR) surface impoundment located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The bill requires that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB1748 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition of sale, transfer, etc., of certain firearms magazines and firearms; penalties. Prohibits any person from importing, selling, bartering, or transferring a firearms magazine designed to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. A violation i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB1158 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a resident concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 19-N) |
| SB1140 | Intro
Sine Die | Solitary confinement; data collection and reporting; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to submit an annual report to the General Assembly and the Governor containing specified statistical information regarding the Department's use of sol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB1683 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio. Provides an alternative to the food-to-beverage ratio for mixed beverage restaurant licensees by allowing such licensees to meet applicable food sale requirements by demonstrating at least $500,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (6-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| SB1085 | Intro
Sine Die | Restrictive housing; data collection and reporting; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to submit an annual report to the General Assembly and the Governor containing specified statistical information regarding the Department's use of rest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Elder abuse; employees of financial institutions to report. Requires any employee, agent, qualified individual, or representative of a bank, trust company, savings institution, industrial loan association, consumer finance company, credit union, inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| HB1778 | Engross
Sine Die | Transient occupancy tax; state parks. Permits localities to impose transient occupancy taxes on transient room rentals and travel campgrounds in state parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
VOTE: DEFEATED (19-Y 78-N) |
| SB1745 | Intro
Sine Die | DEQ permits; technical assistance grants. Creates the Permitting Technical Assistance Fund (the Fund) for the purpose of issuing grants to qualified groups to obtain technical assistance in (i) interpreting information with regard to permits, permit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | Pet shops; procurement of dogs; penalty. Prohibits a commercial dog breeder from selling a dog without providing to the purchaser a form signed by the breeder stating that the breeder is in full compliance with the requirements for a commercial dog b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB1308 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription drug price gouging prohibited. Prohibits unconscionable price increases in the price of essential off-patent or generic drugs, authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to designate drugs as essential drugs, and establishes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1546 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education; in-state tuition. Prohibits, without the prior statutory approval of the General Assembly, any percentage increase in in-state tuition for undergraduate students at Virginia's public institutions of higher education that exceeds twi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuels tax; rate of taxation. Repeals the enactment clause from Chapter 766 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013 (the transportation funding bill) that would automatically lower the rate of taxation on motor fuels if Congress were to enact legislatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1585 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; division-level performance assessments; resource guide. Requires the Department of Education to develop and distribute to each local school division a resource guide on the local development and implementation of performance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1666 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Coastal Protection Act. Recasts the Virginia Virginia Coastal Protection Act. Recasts the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund as the Virginia Coastal Protection Fund. Moneys generated by the sale of carbon dioxide emissions allowances through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Water impounding structures; portable pumping systems. Directs the Soil and Water Conservation Board to promulgate regulations that allow for the use of a portable pumping system when retrofitting an existing impoundment structure with a draining dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Telemedicine; physicians licensed in contiguous jurisdictions. Authorizes a person licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy who is in good standing with the applicable regulatory agency of a jurisdiction that is contiguous to the Commonwealth to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1478 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of the remains of a decedent; right to control. Establishes a priority order for the right to control the disposition of the remains of a decedent; the location, manner, and condition of disposition; and the arrangements for funeral goods...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1601 | Intro
Sine Die | Remote sales and use tax collection. Requires certain marketplace facilitators and marketplace sellers, defined in the bill, to collect and remit sales and use tax if such facilitators or sellers make sales of tangible personal property or taxable se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | School Divisions of Innovation; performance-based assessments. Allows a local school board, when applying for its school division to be designated as a School Division of Innovation, to apply to the Board of Education (the Board) to replace certain S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB1616 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and mandatory fees. Declares the governing board of any public institution of higher education for which the average increase in the amount of undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees over the most rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1767 | Intro
Sine Die | Remote sales and use tax collection and sufficient activity by remote sellers and marketplace facilitators as to require registration for sales and use tax collection. Directs the Department of Taxation (the Department) to require a remote seller to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1390 | Intro
Sine Die | Remote sales and use tax collection; disposition of revenues. Repeals contingent provisions of bills adopted in prior sessions of the General Assembly related to the disposition of certain sales and use tax revenues that would take effect if the Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1735 | Intro
Sine Die | All-Payer Claims Database. Provides that participation in the All-Payer Claims Database by (i) issuers of individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1643 | Intro
Sine Die | Birth certificates; change of sex. Eliminates the requirement that a person provide a certified copy of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction indicating that his sex has been changed by medical procedure for amendment of a birth certificate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1741 | Intro
Sine Die | Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1337 | Intro
Sine Die | Collection of state sales and use tax by remote sellers; disposition of revenue; report. Creates the Online Revenue Collection Fund for the collection of revenues generated in the event that the General Assembly adopts legislation requiring the remit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Community paramedics. Requires the State Board of Community paramedics. Requires the State Board of Health to adopt regulations governing the practice of community paramedics. The bill requires an applicant for licensure as a community paramedic to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1212 | Intro
Sine Die | Water improvement districts; assessment of service charge; referendum. Removes provisions authorizing a water improvement district to levy a tax on owners of land within the district. The bill removes the requirement that owners of land approving a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB1573 | Intro
Sine Die | Offshore oil and gas drilling; prohibition. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission or the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy from granting any lease or permit for oil or gas exploration or drilling, or the construction of oil or gas infrastr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
