| SB770 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2023. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Virginia Chief Workforce Advisor |
| SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners of medicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistance to treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistance includes p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Virginia Bar Association |
| SB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Naturopathic doctors; license required. Requires the Board of Medicine to license and regulate naturopathic doctors, defined in the bill as an individual, other than a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry, who may diagnose, treat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Department of Health Professions |
| SB1086 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for infertility treatment. Requires health insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health care plans, including plans administered by the Department of Medical Assistance Services, to provide coverage for infertilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Health Insurance Reform Commission |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; physical therapist office visit; cost-sharing requirements. Prohibits health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations whose policies, contracts, or plans incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Health Insurance Reform Commission |
| SB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable housing near Metrorail station. Provides that in any locality with an existing or planned Metrorail station, such locality shall require that at least 10 percent of new residential dwelling units in any building that is at least six storie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Virginia Housing Commission |
| SB839 | Intro
Sine Die | Permitted provisions in the zoning ordinance; worker protection. Authorizes a locality to include in its zoning ordinance certain conditions as part of the grant of a special exception that permits development at a floor area ratio (FAR) greater than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Virginia Housing Commission |
| SB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Business entities; annual registration. Authorizes domestic and foreign stock corporations with less than 5,000 authorized shares, domestic and foreign nonstock corporations, and domestic and foreign limited liability companies to prepay up to five y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the State Corporation Commissionn |
| SB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Post-conviction relief; previously admitted scientific evidence. Provides that a person who was convicted of certain offenses, upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea, or who was adjudicated delinquent, upon a plea of not guilty or an Alford plea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Virginia State Crime Commission |
| SB837 | Intro
Sine Die | Corrections Private Management Act; name change; private management prohibited. Removes the authority of the Director of the Department of Corrections pursuant to the Corrections Private Management Act (the Act) to enter into contracts with prison co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Department of Corrections |
| SB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Provision of mental health services to a minor; access to health records. Prohibits a health care provider from refusing to provide mental health services to a minor on the basis that the parents of such minor refuse to agree to limit their access to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Department of Health Professions |
| SB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbying; notification to local clerk; penalty. Requires an individual who is compensated to influence or attempt to influence a local government officer or employee regarding local government action to provide notice of such status to the clerk of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Letter sent to the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council |
| SR44 | Intro
Sine Die | Uyghurs; human rights crisis. Recognizes the human rights crisis related to the internment of Uyghurs and other Central Asian ethnic minorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR53 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected to a circuit court judgeship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Election by Senate (34-Y 0-N) |
| SR63 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Gary Wood.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR60 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR82 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the State Corporation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SR69 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Belle S. Wheelan, Ph.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 854 of the 2019 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509, Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR119 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; foundations; annual reporting requirements. Requires each public institution of higher education to release an annual report regarding foundations associated with the institution setting forth foundation expen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Transmission lines; relocation and undergrounding. Requires that any transmission line of 230 kilovolts or less that is proposed to connect to a proposed new substation that has received local final development plan approval be placed underground if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB33 | 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] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; improvement of privatized housing for families living on military bases. Urges the Congress of the United States to address substandard housing conditions for families living on military bases through increased funding and hol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; the practices, procedures, and accountability of industrial development authorities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the practices, procedures, and accountability of industrial developm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Balance billing; emergency services. Provides that when a covered person receives covered emergency services from an out-of-network health care provider, the covered person is not required to pay the out-of-network provider any amount other than the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding; statewide prioritization process. Provides that the economic development factor shall be weighted at least twice as much as the congestion mitigation factor in highway construction districts with higher-than-average unemployme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriation of funds for Governor's personal security staff. Provides that no funds shall be appropriated for the employment of any member of the Governor's personal security staff if the Governor takes any action to deny law-abiding citizens of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and fees; public comment; notice of meeting. Requires the governing boards of public institutions of higher education to provide students and the public 15 days' prior notice of the date and location o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax exemption for certified pollution control equipment and facilities. Advances the sunset date of the real property tax exemption for solar photovoltaic (electric energy) projects greater than 20 megawatts from 2024 to 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional alternative education programs; funding. Requires the funding transferred from the Department of Education to the relevant school divisions in support of a regional alternative education program to be based on each such school division's nee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Act (the Act), "telephone solicitation call" includes any text message sent to any wireless telephone with a Virginia area code, or to a wirel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Admissibility of statements of a deceased or incompetent party; hearsay exception. Provides that statements made by a deceased or incompetent party when such party was competent shall not be excluded as inadmissible hearsay, provided that such statem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Risk management plan; coverage for injury or death on state property; concealed handgun prohibition. Provides that the risk management plan established by the Division of Risk Management shall include coverage for any claim made by or on behalf of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Risk management plan; coverage for injury or death on public school or college property; concealed handgun prohibition. Provides that the risk management plan established by the Division of Risk Management shall include coverage for any claim made by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Property; landlord and tenant; noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent. Removes provisions limiting the discretion of the court in actions for possession based upon nonpayment of rent and actions for rent by a landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB767 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; payment to out-of-network providers. Provides that when a covered person receives covered emergency services from an out-of-network health care provider or receives out-of-network services at an in-network facility, the covered pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 8-N) |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; regulation; insurance; taxation. Establishes taxation, insurance coverage, sale of insurance, disclosure, safety recall, airport operation, and recordkeeping requirements for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB999 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act. Makes several changes to the process and procedures afforded to law-enforcement officers under the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act, clarifying several existing rights and setting fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage loan originators; exemption. Exempts retailers of manufactured or modular homes and employees of such retailers from the licensing and other requirements applicable to mortgage loan originators. The exemption applies if the retailer or emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Dismissal of action by court without prejudice. Provides that, for good cause shown or upon agreement of all parties, the court may dismiss an action without prejudice and the plaintiff may recommence such action within the original period of limitat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Motion picture theaters; required open-captioned showings. Requires any motion picture theater that has four or more separate auditoriums to provide two scheduled showings of a motion picture that engages open captions for a particular showing of an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB387 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; special permit for the play of electronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards on certain premises. Creates a special permit that shall be granted to a qualified organization that has already received a general permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Death penalty executions; moratorium. Imposes a moratorium on executions. The bill does not affect any other matter of law related to the death penalty, including bringing and trying capital charges, sentencing proceedings, imposition of the death pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue. Provides that certain crimes relating to threats and harassment may be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if the victim is the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Charitable Gaming Board; regulations of the Board; electronic or mechanical equipment used in the conduct of charitable gaming. Increases the number of electronic pull tabs that may be placed in the social quarters of a qualified organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Referrals to specialty dockets. Provides that any court may refer a defendant to a local specialty docket if such specialty docket exists within that jurisdiction. The bill provides that a court that has received a referral shall have jurisdiction ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Creates a cause of action against any employer employing more than five but fewer than 15 persons who engages in an unlawful discriminator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) |
