| HB2103 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick time. Requires public and private employers Paid sick time. Requires public and private employers with 35 or more full-time equivalent employees to provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with earned paid sick time and paid sick ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1779 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2084 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; certain communication prohibited. Prohibits any person employed by or who has entered into a contract to provide services on behalf of the Department of Health or a local department of health from initiating communication regard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1934 | Intro
Sine Die | Public utilities; gas pipelines in residential subdivisions. Prohibits a public service corporation or other utility from constructing or installing a gas pipeline greater than 12 inches in diameter under any public road or state highway within a res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB1906 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited contributions from corporations; civil penalty. Prohibits contributions from any non-tax-exempt corporation to any candidate, campaign committee, political committee, or political party committee. The bill imposes a civil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2011 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole; investigation prior to release; notice to victim. Requires the Parole Board to contact all victims of a crime for which a prisoner is incarcerated and eligible for parole and notify them that they may request that the Board only notify the vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2094 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments; reduction. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1946 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; operators; licensing requirement; definition of "instant bingo," "pull tabs," or "seal cards." Permits an operator, defined in the bill, to manage, operate, or conduct charitable gaming on behalf of a qualified organization or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | Solar and wind farms; reporting of acreage by locality. Requires each locality to provide to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy information about the amount of land formerly in production agriculture or silviculture that has been approved f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HJR569 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Forestry; stakeholder advisory group to study and evaluate enabling statutes for local ordinances related to the preservation, planting, and replacement of trees during the land development process; report. Requests the Department of Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2237 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; project labor agreements; transportation projects. Requires every public body, prior to requiring bidders, offerors, contractors, subcontractors, or operators on contracts for the design or construction of a road, hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1771 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual and corporate income tax credit; employers of National Guard members and self-employed National Guard members. Provides for taxable years 2021 through 2025 a nonrefundable tax credit against individual and corporate income taxes for (i) wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2253 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic Development Access Program, bonded projects. Imposes a 48-month moratorium on the repayment of funds allocated to a locality for a bonded project pursuant to the Economic Development Access Program, provided that the conditions of the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR616 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption; affordable housing. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize a locality to fully or partially exempt affordable housing, as such term may be defined by statute, from loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1740 | Intro
Sine Die | Signs on certain highways; rotation of eligible entities. Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and enforce a system to rotate every three years the entities displayed on directional or official signs pertaining to the availability o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor; broadband service territory maps. Requires the Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor to develop and maintain a map of private broadband provider service territories, including accurate average broadband speeds in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1809 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious and charitable matters; charitable or civic organization contracts; report. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to submit an annual written report to the Governor and the General Assembly, by October 1 of each yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR513 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); executive power; state of emergency; special session. Limits the authority of the Governor to issue an executive order declaring a state of emergency that restricts, limits, or prohibits otherwise lawful ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1910 | Intro
Sine Die | Creation of regional transportation authorities. Authorizes two or more adjacent counties or cities to form a regional transportation authority to engage in regional transportation projects. The bill sets forth the procedures for forming such authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2090 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; establishment of the READ Fund and READ programs. Establishes the Reimbursement for Education Access Decisions (READ) Fund (the Fund); permits any school board to establish a READ program to provide, during the state of emergency decla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1769 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain health care providers; licensure or certification by endorsement. Requires the Board of Medicine to issue a license or certificate by endorsement to an applicant who holds a valid, unrestricted license or certificate under the laws of another...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1741 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract clause requiring subcontractor reporting of payments to employees and independent contractors. Requires any contract awarded by a state agency or an agency of local government to require the contractor to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1773 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a 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] | 2021-02-05
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HJR523 | Intro
Sine Die | Voting Rights for Women Month. Designates November, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Voting Rights for Women Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2289 | Intro
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; eligibility for state pool of funds. Declares eligible for the Children's Services Act state pool of funds any child or youth (i) who was previously placed in an approved private school educational program for at least six mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HJR550 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; Glass-Steagall Act; infrastructure bank. Urges the Congress of the United States to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act and develop an infrastructure bank.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of certain firearms; exceptions. Adds to the list of those exempted from purchasing one firearm per month (i) any person with a valid permit to carry a concealed handgun recognized in the Commonwealth and (ii) retired law-enforcement officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1941 | Intro
Sine Die | Required release of video or audio recording; discharge of firearm or use of stun weapon or chemical irritant by law-enforcement officer. Requires that, whenever a law-enforcement officer (i) discharges a firearm or (ii) uses a stun weapon or chemica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1772 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; per student enrollment-based funding; noncredit workforce training programs. Requires the per student enrollment-based funding provided to public institutions of higher education to include funding for each Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1974 | Intro
Sine Die | Professional regulation; exemptions from license requirements for architects and professional engineers; onsite sewage systems receiving residential wastewater. Removes certain requirements from the exemption from licensure as an architect or profess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of the child for purposes of custody and visitation arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1972 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1770 | Intro
Sine Die | Public education; student education accounts. Permits any school division to establish a program to create savings accounts for students to be used for alternative educational programs. The bill requires the Department of Education to establish polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2026 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle window tinting. Exempts motor vehicles equipped with side mirrors from the prohibition on applying or affixing sun-shading or tinting films to the rear side windows or rear windows of such motor vehicles. Current law prohibits such films that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the duration of any executive order issued by the Governor pursuant to his powers under the Emergency Services and Disaster Law to no more than 45 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1761 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole; investigation prior to release. Provides that the Parole Board shall contact the victim prior to making any decision to release any inmate on discretionary parole. The bill provides that the term "victim" includes a spouse, parent, sibling, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1956 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; late payment penalty. Provides that the Department of Taxation shall not assess a late payment penalty to the entire tax or to any unpaid balance of the income tax owed by an individual unless and until the taxpayer fails to fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1762 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole; monthly report. Requires that the monthly report issued by the Virginia Parole Board regarding actions taken on the parole of prisoners includes the offenses of which prisoners considered for parole were convicted, the jurisdictions in which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia housing opportunity tax credit. Establishes, starting in taxable year 2021, a Virginia housing opportunity tax credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-income housing tax credit allocated or allowed by the Virginia Housing Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2256 | Intro
Sine Die | Local authority; parking. Expands from certain listed localities to all localities the authority to regulate or prohibit by ordinance (i) parking on secondary highways; (ii) the parking of watercraft, boat trailers, motor homes, and camping trailers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the State Inspector General; concurrent distribution of reports to executive and legislative branches. Requires that the reports, information, or documents of the Office of the State Inspector General that are required to be transmitted to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2106 | Intro
Sine Die | Naming state highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities; living persons. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board may name highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities after living or decea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR566 | Intro
Sine Die | Republic of India; Citizenship Amendment Act. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to call on the Republic of India to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act, to stop expansion of the National Register of Citizens, and to become a signatory t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HR225 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; H.R. 6422; National Infrastructure Bank. Urges the Congress of the United States to pass H.R. 6422 and create a National Infrastructure Bank to finance urgently needed infrastructure projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR552 | Intro
Sine Die | Study: joint subcommittee to study recurrent inland and urban flooding across the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a two-year joint subcommittee, consisting of eight legislative members and five nonlegislative citizen members, to study the developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2080 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases; local authority to apply to certain emergency services personnel. Adds full-time, salaried emergency medical services personnel employed by any locality that has authorized su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB2245 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of transportation funds. States that it is the policy of the Commonwealth that revenues dedicated to transportation purposes shall not be used or redirected for any nontransportation-related purpose. Any attempt to repurpose funds dedicated to tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR626 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarence Clemons Day. Designates January 11, in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as Clarence Clemons Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1959 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Health Professions Subcommittee of the Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions; options for reducing rates of medication abandonment and increasing patient medication adherence; report. Directs the Health Professions Subcommittee of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2232 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; offenses; intimidation of or interference with authorized representatives of party or candidate; penalty. Makes willfully interfering, or attempting to interfere, with an authorized representative of a party or candidate in his lawful obse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
