| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter referendum; issuance of state general obligation bonds for school facility modernization. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly shall issue state general obligation bonds in the amount of $3 billion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting; construction and professional services. Authorizes any public body to procure construction on a best value procurement basis using a numerical scoring system consisting of the following:...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB965 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia taxable income; subtraction for certain active duty military income. Provides a subtraction from Virginia taxable income starting with taxable year 2020 for income of active duty military members for service outside of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB914 | Intro
Sine Die | Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictions and police and court records of victims of human trafficking. Allows any person who was a victim of human trafficking at the time of an offense that led to a criminal charge or conviction of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual and corporate income tax credit; employers of military spouses. Provides for taxable years 2020 through 2024 a nonrefundable tax credit against individual and corporate income taxes for (i) wages paid by an employer to the spouse of an act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocation of remote sales tax collections; Transportation Trust Fund. Allocates sales tax revenues collected from remote sellers, pursuant to Chapters 815 and 816 of the Acts of Assembly of 2019, to the Transportation Trust Fund to be used for the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in the bill. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Records of financial institutions; reimbursement of costs for production. Provides that a financial institution that is asked to provide records related to a customer of the financial institution pursuant to a court proceeding shall be reimbursed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile records; expungement. Provides for the expungement of juvenile records for offenses that would be felony larceny if committed by an adult. Under current law, juvenile records of all delinquent acts that would be a felony if committed by an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Contributory negligence; motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian, bicyclist, etc. Provides that the negligence of a pedestrian, bicyclist, or other person lawfully using a device other than a motor vehicle on a public highway who is involved in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1059 | Intro
Sine Die | Sports betting; Virginia Sports Betting Department created; Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund; Sports Betting Operations Fund; penalties. Establishes the Virginia Sports Betting Department and authorizes it to regulate sports betting. Befor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Historic Resources; duties. Requires the Director of the Department of Historic Resources to review and respond to any request from a federal agency for a consultation process under the Director's authority as the State Historic Preserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (4-Y 9-N) |
| SB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual and corporate income tax credit; employers of National Guard members and self-employed National Guard members. Provides for taxable years 2020 through 2024 a nonrefundable tax credit against individual and corporate income taxes for (i) wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowable purposes for restricted licenses. Adds travel to and from the offices of the Virginia Employment Commission for the purpose of seeking employment to the list of purposes for which a court may issue a restricted driver's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain offenses. Allows a person to petition for expungement of a deferred disposition dismissal for underage alcohol possession or using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offense occurred prior to the person's twenty-first birthd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB959 | Intro
Sine Die | Lottery; repeal prohibition of Internet sales of lottery tickets. Authorizes the Lottery to sell tickets over the Internet. Under current law, it is prohibited from doing so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving under the influence; secure transdermal alcohol monitoring; penalty. Provides that the court may, upon request of an offender convicted for DUI who has not been previously prohibited from operating a vehicle that is not equipped with a functi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records; misdemeanor and felony convictions. Allows a person convicted of a criminal offense to file a petition requesting expungement of the police and court records relating to the conviction if such person (i) has b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Notaries; qualifications. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony offense of (i) fraud or misrepresentation or (ii) robbery, extortion, burglary, larceny, embezzlement, fraudulent conversion, perjury, bribery, treason, or racketeering f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference in state government for persons with disabilities. Establishes a hiring preference in state government for persons with disabilities, provided that such person meets all of the knowledge, skill, and ability r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB517 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain charges and convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions and deferred disposition dismissals for marijuana possession, underage alcohol possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol when the offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; regulations of the Charitable Gaming Board; creation of systems to ensure the integrity of certain games. Requires the Charitable Gaming Board to adopt regulations that create a system for ensuring the integrity of the management, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB815 | 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] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Bystander claims for intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; emotional distress. Provides that a bystander who witnesses, live and in-person, an event during which the intentional or negligent infliction of injury to or death of a vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Illegal gambling; skill games; exception. Includes the playing or offering for play of any skill game in the definition of "illegal gambling." The bill also includes skill games within the definition of "gambling devices." The bill defines a "skill g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Ranked choice voting; elections for local governing bodies; local option pilot program. Provides that elections for local governing bodies may be conducted by ranked choice voting, which the bill defines as the method of casting and tabulating votes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification; expiration date of Virginia driver's license not considered. Provides that the expiration date on a Virginia driver's license offered for voting identification purposes shall not be considered when determining the validity of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject a personal property tax exemption for a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Tree conservation ordinance; Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act locality; designated trees. Adds "Chesapeake Bay watershed tree," as defined in the bill, to the types of tree that a locality with a tree conservation ordinance is authorized to designate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Relief for Jack Anthony Maxwell. Provides for the relief of Jack Anthony Maxwell, who is ineligible to participate in the state retiree health benefits program, by directing the Department of Human Resource Management and the Virginia Retirement Syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any person coming into an office of the Department of M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB741 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; occupation disease presumptions; PTSD. Establishes a presumption that if certain firefighters, law-enforcement officers, hazardous materials officers, animal protection police officers, or 9-1-1 emergency call takers, dispatche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund; regional grant awards. Requires that at least 25 percent of grants received by a region from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund be used to support the creation of jobs in qualified opportunity zones in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Breeding dogs or cats for experimentation; prohibition. Prohibits any person from breeding a dog or cat for the express purpose of producing offspring for participation in medical research or experimentation or for sale to a manufacturer or contract ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; federal regulations; adoption in Virginia. Directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to conform the regulations of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to any federal regulation adopted by the U.S. Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB1082 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; candidate contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $2,500 from any individual or $5,000 from any committee to any one candidate for any election. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB1085 | Intro
Sine Die | Deputy sheriffs; minimum salary. Provides that the minimum salary for all deputy sheriffs, both law enforcement and non-law enforcement, shall be set at the compensation board minimum plus a 20 percent supplement. The bill provides that in any locali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Surface mineral mines; local authority. Authorizes a locality to regulate certain aspects of surface mineral mines including (i) creating a reasonable buffer zone around any blasting area of any surface mineral mine adjacent to or within a reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (2-Y 10-N 2-A) |
| SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; broadband. Authorizes the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to distribute funds from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund to tobacco-dependent communities in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 3-N 2-A) |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification; repeal of photo identification requirements. Removes the requirement that voters show a form of identification containing a photograph in order to be allowed to vote. The bill requires a voter to show either his voter registrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Local impact from large landfills. Requires the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to analyze and determine, in writing, what impacts to local water, soil, and air quality are expected from the construction and operation of a new mun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SJR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; additional retirement allowance; retirement age. Changes the age through which a retired law-enforcement officer covered under the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) is entitled to receive an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SJR75 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); public schools in the Commonwealth; equal educational opportunities. Requires the General Assembly to provide for a system of public schools in the Commonwealth with equal educational opportunities for all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; increased retirement allowance for certain judges. Increases, for the purposes of determining benefits provided under the Judicial Retirement System, the retirement multiplier from one percent to 1.70 percent. The increase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB509 | Intro
Sine Die | Local hunting and firearm regulation. Prohibits any city or county east of the Interstate 95 corridor from prohibiting otherwise lawful hunting of migratory game birds in the jurisdictional waters of the Commonwealth and provides that no stake or sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 1-N) |
| SB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB573 | Intro
Sine Die | Health plans; calculation of enrollee's contribution to out-of-pocket maximum or cost-sharing requirement; rebates. Requires any carrier issuing a health plan in the Commonwealth to count the amount of any rebates received or to be received by the ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Provides that the punishment for any person who maliciously kills or injures an animal owned, used, or trained by a law-enforcement agency, regional jail, or the Department of Corrections, while such anima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 9-N) |
