| SB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Schedule I drugs; classification for fentanyl derivatives. Adds to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act a classification for fentanyl derivatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance plans; prior authorization for drug Health insurance plans; prior authorization for drug benefits or surgical procedures. Provides that prior authorization requirements currently applicable to drug benefits are applicable to the proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB160 | 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] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Public animal shelters; dogs and cats; euthanasia notice. Requires a public animal shelter to wait three days before euthanizing a dog or cat when a person has notified the shelter of his intent to adopt or take custody of the particular animal. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; penalty. Prohibits the conversion of any contributed moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property by any person to the personal use of a candidate or member of the candidate's immediate family or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees; high-speed Internet access. Allocates a portion of Public Rights-of-Way Use fees collected by the Virginia Department of Transportation and certain localities to be used for the deployment and expansion of high-speed In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms in locked vehicles; immunity from liability. Provides that no person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business owner may (i) prohibit a person who lawfully possesses a firearm from storing that firearm or ammunition for a firearm in a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB415 | Intro
Sine Die | Jurisdiction of claim; plaintiff's motion to amend claim amount; transfer of matter. Provides that, where a matter is pending in either the general district court or the circuit court, upon motion of the plaintiff seeking to amend the amount of the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1325 | Engross
Sine Die | Provisional voting; persons voting in split precincts. Provides that any voter who is assigned to a precinct that is split between two or more election districts and who believes he was given a ballot for the district of which he is not a qualified v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Extends the benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child of a veteran with at least a 90 percent permanent, service-rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB885 | Engross
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems; authority of the Board of Health. Clarifies that the Board of Health shall have supervision and control over the maintenance, inspection, and reuse of conventional onsite sewage systems as well as alternative onsite sewage syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; issuance upon convictions for certain felonies; penalty. Authorizes a court to issue a protective order upon convicting a defendant for a felony offense of (i) violating a protective order, (ii) homicide set forth in Article 1 (&se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB960 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; marketing plan and report. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority (Authority) to include in its marketing plan information as to participation in trade shows and internati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; members. Increases the number of members of the State Corporation Commission from three to five. The measure requires that one of the new members be initially elected during the 2019 Session of the General Assembly and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| 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] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB747 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption; veterinarians. Exempts veterinarians from sales and use tax on the purchase or prescription of drugs and medicines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB913 | Intro
Sine Die | Review of voter assignments in districts throughout the Commonwealth. Directs each county, city, and town to review the assignment of voters within its jurisdiction to ensure that voters are assigned to the correct districts. The electoral board and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; disabled persons; health insurance. Allows a person disabled in the line of duty to continue to participate in the state or local health plan that he participated in prior to the disability. The bill also allows any natural or adopt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB791 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity of employers and potential employers; reports of violent behavior. Provides civil immunity to an employer who makes a report to a potential employer or law-enforcement agency of violent or threatened violent behavior, as defined in the bill,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1252 | Engross
Sine Die | Renewable energy power purchase agreements; pilot programs. Requires Kentucky Utilities (KU) to establish a pilot program for certain third party power purchase agreements. The measure provides that participation in the service territories of KU and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Deposition of local governing body. Provides that when a local governing body is named as a deponent, it shall designate one or more members of such body to serve as a deponent on its behalf. The bill provides that such designee and his testimony sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB753 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards for testimony of expert witnesses. Adopts two additional standards for admission of expert testimony found in Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence by (i) requiring that the expert's testimony be the product of reliable principles and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB525 | Engross
Sine Die | Carnal knowledge of pretrial or posttrial offender; bail bondsmen; penalty. Increases to a Class 6 felony from a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for an owner or employee of a bail bond company that posted bond for a person to carnally know such perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy; third-party power purchase agreements. Replaces the pilot program initially enacted in 2013 that authorized certain third-party power purchase agreements providing financing of certain renewable generation facilities. The measure re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Discovery in criminal cases; duty to provide. Requires Discovery in criminal cases; duty to provide. Requires the attorney for the Commonwealth, upon written notice by an accused to the court and to the attorney for the Commonwealth, to permit the ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonsuits; recommencement of action. Decreases the time period in which a plaintiff who takes a voluntary nonsuit may recommence this action from six months to 14 days from the date the nonsuit was entered. The bill does not change the provision allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; prescribed oath for absentee voters. Removes the requirement that an absentee voter completing the Statement of Voter include the address of his legal residence in Virginia. The bill requires instead that the voter affirm that he is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | City of Richmond gas utility; service territory. Designates the areas that constitute the service territory of the City of Richmond's natural gas utility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Education; computation of composite index; land-use assessment value. Requires the General Assembly to modify the current standards of quality funding formula and calculation of composite index of local ability to pay to incorporate within the real e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Removes the requirement that a court suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Required local effort for basic aid; debt service on projects in certain school divisions. Permits any local school board that governs a school division (i) in which the locality is designated as fiscally at-risk or fiscally distressed by the Appalac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; persons age 65 or older. Entitles a person who will be age 65 or older on the day of an election to vote by absentee ballot in that election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Independent Redistricting Review Commission; split precincts. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Independent Redistricting Review Commission for the purpose of reviewing redistricting plans adopted by the General Assembly to ensure that p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits for a claim for unins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB980 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating a statewide e-filing system for civil case filings. Provides that, except as otherwise provided by law, beginning July 1, 2019, no petition, pleading, motion, order, or decree filed in a civil case in a circuit court, including any agreement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control (ABC); food-to-beverage ratio. Reduces the current 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio for mixed beverage licensees. The bill requires that a mixed beverage restaurant, caterer's, or limited caterer's licensee meet or exceed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Veterans Recovery Grant Program and Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Veterans Recovery Grant Program and the Virginia Veterans Recovery Fund for the purpose of providing diagnostic services, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, and suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB178 | Intro
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] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; no excuse. Allows any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons for which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemption from certain conditional rezoning proffer requirements. Provides that certain provisions enacted in 2016 related to conditional rezoning proffers shall not apply to any county that operates under the county executive form of government that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| 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] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB591 | Engross
Sine Die | Post-election audits. Defines "post-election audit" to mean a process conducted after an election to confirm the accurate reporting of the results of the election and directs the State Board of Elections to establish a work group tasked with developi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional proffers; public facility capacity; previously approved residential developments. Authorizes a locality to base its assessment of a public facility's capacity on the projected impacts specifically attributable to previously approved resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | License taxes; interest rate for certain refunds. Authorizes a locality to establish the interest rate for a tax refund due to a taxpayer's overstatement of gross receipts for purposes of determining the amount due for a business license tax at a rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Track and Trace Program. Establishes the Track and Trace Program for the monitoring of the movement of controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB498 | Intro
Sine Die | Retirement benefits for local law-enforcement officers; participation by certain political subdivisions. Requires a locality that participates in the Virginia Retirement System and that has two or fewer public safety officers eligible for supplementa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1033 | Engross
Sine Die | Deemed consent to testing of bodily fluids. Allows a magistrate or a general district court to issue an order requiring a person to provide a blood specimen for testing for human immunodeficiency virus or the hepatitis B or C virus when exposure to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB676 | Engross
Sine Die | Children who are deaf or hard of hearing; services; advisory subcommittee. Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that each child who is deaf or hard of hearing is (i) as linguistically ready for kindergarten as his peers who are not deaf or hard o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; Department of State Police; exemption for purchase of aviation equipment. Exempts from competitive sealed bidding the purchase of aviation equipment by the Department of State Police for use by the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-11-30
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
