| SB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentencing; geriatric parole. Provides that for any juvenile felony a circuit court may consider a juvenile's diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change in determining the particular sentence to be imposed. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1877 | Intro
Sine Die | Adult education programs; year-round operation. Requires year-round operation of adult education programs by local school divisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (9-Y 11-N) |
| SB1706 | Intro
Sine Die | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; limited Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; limited operation; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). The bill specifies t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB1243 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; date of June primary election. Changes the date of the primary election held in June from the second Tuesday in June to the third Tuesday in June. The bill also changes candidate filing deadlines to reflect the change of date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| SB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana; decriminalization of simple marijuana possession; penalty. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $50 for a first violation, $100 for a second violation, and $250 for a third or subsequent v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1438 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Provides that when a landlord as plaintiff requests that an initial hearing on a summons for unlawful detainer be set on a date later than 21 days from the filing of such summons, the initial hearing shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1670 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; pipeline facilities; inspection reports. Requires the State Corporation Commission to make available for public inspection any records and reports regarding inspections by the Commission of pipeline facilities used in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Family or household member; definition. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" the person's aunt, aunt-in-law, step-aunt, uncle, uncle-in-law, step-uncle, niece, nephew, and first and second cousin who reside in the same home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to (i) $8.00 per hour effective July 1, 2019; (ii) $9.00 per hour effective July 1, 2020; (iii) $10.10 per hour effective July 1, 2021; and (iv) $11....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Same-sex marriages; civil unions. Repeals Same-sex marriages; civil unions. Repeals the statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges and obliga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the Department of State Police to establish a process for transferors of firearms to obtain such a check from li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1673 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevailing wage; public works contracts; penalty. Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency for public works to pay wages, salaries, benefits, and other remuneration to any mechanic, laborer, or worker empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB1200 | Engross
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $10 per hour effective July 1, 2019, to $13 per hour effective July 1, 2020, and to $15 per hour effective July 1, 2021, unless a higher minimum w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | School attendance officer; motion for a rule to show cause; child in need of supervision. Authorizes a school attendance officer or local school division superintendent or his designee acting as an attendance officer to complete, sign, and file with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1549 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; exclusion. Updates the existing exception in the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for "small loan companies" to refer to "consumer finance companies."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; training standards; recognition of and response to post-traumatic stress. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish and periodically update model policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; penalties. Provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of the Condominium Act is guilty of a misdemeanor the penalty for which, for each such violation, is (i) a fine of not less than $1,000 or double the amount of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 4-N) |
| SB1548 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer finance companies. Requires the State Corporation Commission, as a condition of licensing a consumer finance company, to find that the applicant will not make consumer finance loans at the same location at which the applicant makes payday lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (5-Y 9-N 1-A) |
| HB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; cybersecurity task force created. Establishes a cybersecurity task force to assist the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency in developing policies, standards, and gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Science and Technology (12-Y 10-N) |
| SB1245 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses; combined annual mixed beverage special events and mixed beverage caterer's licenses; agritourism resorts. Allows "agritourism resorts," as defined in the bill, to obtain annua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; happy hour advertising. Expands the ability of retail on-premises licensees to advertise happy hours by allowing them to advertise the prices of featured alcoholic beverages and to use creative marketing techniques, provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB1498 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Juvenile Justice; regulations governing the housing of youth pursuant to contracts with the federal government. Requires the Board of Juvenile Justice to promulgate regulations governing the housing of youth who are detained in a juvenile co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB1064 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of farm winery licensees and limited brewery licensees. Expands the privileges of farm winery licensees by allowing them to sell at retail beer manufactured by limited brewery licensees for on-premises consumpti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1187 | Intro
Sine Die | Gambling; definition of gambling device. Provides that any gaming device including skill as a component for successful play while providing a random prize amount to a winning player is deemed a gambling device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB1021 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver education programs; home instruction. Requires any school board that offers a program of driver education in the safe operation of motor vehicles to make the program available to any student who receives home instruction and resides in the loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for in-state tuition; certain individuals who have applied for permanent residency. Declares eligible for in-state tuition any individual who (i) graduated from a public or private high school in the Commonwealth or passed a high school e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB2601 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the billed charges of one hearing aid p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Tabled in Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N) |
| HB2480 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; electronic filing of employers' reports. Requires all employers, commencing January 1, 2020, to submit quarterly unemployment tax and payroll reports electronically to the Virginia Employment Commission. Currently, electron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 11-N) |
| SB1451 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; eliminate certain requirements. Eliminates the requirement that an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to the third trimester be performed in a hospital. The bill eliminates all the procedures and processes, including th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal Cruelty Conviction List established. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish within the Department of State Police by July 1, 2022, an Animal Cruelty Conviction List that is available to the public on the website of the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB2231 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for food stamps; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive food stamp benefits shall not be denied such assistance solely because he has been convicted of a drug-related felony. Under current law, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB1637 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; establishment of right to reproductive choice. Establishes that (i) every individual has a fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception or sterilization and (ii) every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB1518 | Intro
Sine Die | Non-opioid pharmacological therapy and non-pharmacological therapy. Requires the Board of Dentistry and the Board of Medicine to include in regulations for prescribing opioids for the treatment of chronic pain the development of a treatment plan for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1056 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; tobacco products and nicotine vapor products. Requires each school board to (i) develop and implement a policy to prohibit the use of tobacco products and nicotine vapor products on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-spo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; domicile; individuals granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares that, absent congressional intent to the contrary, any individual currently granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | Rental or lease of dog or cat prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits the rental or lease of a dog or cat to a consumer, including by a purported sale of the animal in a manner that vests no permanent ownership in the consumer at the time of the purport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB2598 | Intro
Sine Die | Health carriers; registered surgical assistants. Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a registered surgical assistant to provide equal coverage for such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Tabled in Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB1665 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Expands the definition of "Qualified survivors and dependents" eligible for benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Ultrasound prior to abortion. Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a fetal transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1493 | Intro
Sine Die | Death certificates; medical certification; electronic filing. Requires the completed medical certification portion of a death certificate to be filed electronically with the State Registrar of Vital Records through the Electronic Death Registration S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Mechanics' liens; right to withhold payment. Specifies that the use of funds paid to a contractor or subcontractor by such contractor or subcontractor before paying all amounts due for labor performed or material furnished gives rise to a civil cause...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 7-N) |
| SB1582 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1203 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB1335 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle safety inspections; charges. Increases the maximum charge for a state safety inspection for a motor vehicle from $16 to $20.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (6-Y 5-N) |
| SB1458 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; removal from persons posing Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Salvage vehicles. Removes the requirement that a vehicle be late model in order to meet the definition of salvage vehicle due to having been (i) acquired by an insurance company as part of the claims process or (ii) damaged to the extent that its est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | Plastic bag tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Imposes a five-cent per bag tax on plastic bags provided to customers by certain retailers in localities located wholly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and directs revenues to be used to support th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 11-N) |
| SB1303 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms; chambers of local governing bodies. Allows a locality to adopt an ordinance that prohibits firearms, ammunition, or components or a combination thereof at any regular or special meeting of its local governing body, provided that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB1473 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms; permitted events. Authorizes any locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in a public space during a permitted event or an event that would oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
