| SB1324 | Engross
Sine Die | Actions against real estate appraisers or appraisal management companies; statute of limitations. Provides that no action for damages or other relief alleging that a certified general real estate appraiser, a certified residential real estate apprais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1313 | Engross
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; special education programs. Requires that funds expended for private special education services under the Children's Services Act only be expended on educational programs that are licensed by the Board of Education or an equi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1119 | Engross
Sine Die | Law-enforcement agencies; body-worn camera systems. Creates a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Body-Worn Camera System Fund to assist state or local law-enforcement agencies with the costs of purchasing, operating, and maintaining body-wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote |
| SB1329 | Engross
Sine Die | Promises to appear after the issuance of a summons. Eliminates the requirement that a promise to appear be completed after the issuance of a summons for a misdemeanor traffic offense. The bill provides that an accused shall be released from custody a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1415 | Engross
Sine Die | Violations of protective orders; preliminary child protective order. Changes the punishment and sentencing requirements for a violation of a preliminary child protective order so that the maximum penalty is a Class 1 misdemeanor and the court is no l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; license plate readers. Prohibits law-enforcement and regulatory agencies from using license plate readers to collect and maintain personal information on individuals without a warrant. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote |
| SB1429 | Engross
Sine Die | Disposition of property previously used by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services as the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute. Authorizes the Governor to lease a portion of property previously used by the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Liability of general contractor for wages of subcontractor's employees. Provides that there is a valid defense to a claim of nonpayment of wages by a general contractor to a subcontractor's employees if the general contractor obtains a written certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1375 | Engross
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and correctional officers is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| SB1199 | Engross
Sine Die | Conservation easements; construction. Provides that an easement held pursuant to the Virginia Conservation Easement Act or the Open-Space Land Act be construed in favor of achieving the conservation purposes for which it was created. Conservation ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1270 | Engross
Sine Die | Eminent domain; notice of intent to file certificate. Provides that the notice required to be sent to a landowner prior to an authorized condemnor recording a certificate of take or certificate of deposit shall state that (i) the certificate of take ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1234 | Engross
Sine Die | Attorneys; foreign applicants for Virginia Bar examination. Allows persons who have been licensed as an attorney or barrister in a foreign country, obtained an LL.M degree from an accredited law school in the United States, and been admitted to pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months for an assault and battery committed against a judge, magistrate, law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, person directly involved in the care, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1379 | Engross
Sine Die | Humane Cosmetics Act; civil penalties. Prohibits a cosmetics manufacturer from: (i) conducting or contracting for cosmetic animal testing that occurs in the Commonwealth on or after January 1, 2022, (ii)manufacturing or importing for profit into the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| SB1211 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle registration fees; Public Safety Trust Fund. Imposes an additional $4 vehicle registration fee to be deposited into the Public Safety Trust Fund, established by the bill. The moneys in the Public Safety Trust Fund are to be used to eliminate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB1387 | Engross
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; certain students; financial assistance programs Provides that students who meet the criteria to be deemed eligible for in-state tuition regardless of their citizenship or immigration status shall be afforded t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1172 | Engross
Sine Die | Capitol Square Preservation Council; powers and duties; review and approval of plans for changes to artifacts contained within the Capitol Building. Grants the Capitol Square Preservation Council the authority to review and approve all plans or propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1401 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Learning assessments; reduction; report. 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 amended. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1110 | Engross
Sine Die | Property; duties of real estate settlement agents. Provides that the State Corporation Commission may share information collected from a settlement agent or agency regarding any errors and omissions or malpractice insurance policy or surety bond with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB1205 | Engross
Sine Die | Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1277 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeal of reporting requirement; Department of Motor Vehicles and Supreme Court of Virginia. Repeals an enactment clause that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Supreme Court of Virginia to submit an annual report regarding the impleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Repeals the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1204 | Engross
Sine Die | George Mason University; management agreement. Provides a management agreement between the Commonwealth and George Mason University pursuant to the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act (§ 23.1-1000 et seq.). ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1221 | Engross
Sine Die | Operation of the Loudoun County local health department. Allows Loudoun County to enter into a contract with the Department of Health for the local administration of local health services. Currently, the local department of health is operated as a jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1278 | Engross
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; regulations; Texas Hold'em poker games. Clarifies that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) has specific authority to approve and regulate operators of both Texas Hold'em poker games and Texas Hold'e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB1447 | Engross
Sine Die | Fees for management and disposal of solid waste; Buckingham County. Adds Buckingham County to the list of counties authorized, by ordinance, and after a public hearing, to levy a fee for the management of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB1389 | Engross
Sine Die | Property; flood risk information form. Requires the Real Estate Board (the Board) to make available on its website a flood risk information form, the details of which are outlined in the bill. The bill also provides that an owner of residential real ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB1170 | Engross
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds Isle of Wight County to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1257 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Quality. The bill modifies a school personnel requirement in Standard 2 of the Standards of Quality. It requires each school board to provide at least three specialized student support positions, including school social workers, school p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1405 | Engross
Sine Die | Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1391 | Engross
Sine Die | Pretrial data collection. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to collect and disseminate, on an annual basis, statewide and locality-level data related to adults charged with criminal offenses punishable by confinement in jail or a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1453 | Engross
Sine Die | Revision of Titles 45.1 and 67. Creates proposed Title 45.2 (Mines, Minerals, and Energy) as a revision of existing Title 45.1 (Mines and Mining) and existing Title 67 (Virginia Energy Plan). Proposed Title 45.2 consists of 21 chapters divided into f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1290 | Engross
Sine Die | ConserveVirginia program; established. Establishes in the Department of Conservation and Recreation a data-driven Geographical Information Systems model to prioritize potential conservation areas across the Commonwealth that would provide quantifiabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1318 | Engross
Sine Die | Environmental justice; interagency working group. Establishes the Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group as an advisory council in the executive branch of state government to further environmental justice in the Commonwealth and directs each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB1272 | Engross
Sine Die | Disposition of the unrestorably incompetent defendant; capital murder charge; inpatient custody of the Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that a court may commit a capital murder defendant to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1338 | Engross
Sine Die | Telemedicine services; remote patient monitoring services. Requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance services a provision for the payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1213 | Engross
Sine Die | Driver's license suspensions; restricted licenses; drug offenses. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue restricted driving credentials to individuals with driver's license suspensions resulting from drug-related offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1331 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; accessibility for voters with a visual impairment or print disability. Requires the Department of Elections to make available to all localities a tool to allow voters with a visual impairment or print disability to electronically and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB1461 | Engross
Sine Die | Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty. Provides that any person who (i) offers, confers, or agrees to confer upon another any pecuniary benefit as consideration for the recipient to act in the unlawful delivery of items or contraband to prisone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1302 | Engross
Sine Die | Crisis call center; Crisis Call Center Fund established. Provides that the crisis call center, which under current law is administered by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department), shall be designated as the 9-8-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities. Exempts a member of a lawfully recognized military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization, or a member of a veterans service organization that is Congressionally chartered or officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote |
| SB1398 | Engross
Sine Die | Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals shall be computed on the basis of the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1426 | Engross
Sine Die | Orders of restitution; enforcement. Provides that an order of restitution shall be docketed in the name of the Commonwealth, or a locality if applicable, on behalf of a victim, unless the victim named in the order of restitution requests in writing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1196 | Engross
Sine Die | Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency. The bill requires teacher, principal, and division superintendent evaluations to include an evaluation of cultural competency. The bill requires every person seeking initial lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote |
| SB1147 | Engross
Sine Die | Nurse Loan Repayment Program; certified nurse aide. Expands eligibility for the Nurse Loan Repayment Program to include certified nurse aides who meet criteria determined by the State Board of Health. Under current law, only licensed practical nurses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1390 | Engross
Sine Die | Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs; civil penalty. Authorizes any public or private animal shelter, releasing agency, or hospital or clinic that is operated under the immediate supervision of a duly licensed veterinarian to operate a trap, neute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1245 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; establishment of drop-off locations; ballot defects; cure process. Requires the establishment of a drop-off location for the return of marked absentee ballots at the office of the general registrar and each voter satellite office. On...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB1158 | Engross
Sine Die | Port of Virginia tax credits; sunset. Extends the sunset for the international trade facility tax credit, the barge and rail usage tax credit, and the port volume increase tax credit from taxable years before January 1, 2022, to taxable years before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1188 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Commissioner) to establish the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program (VAFA Program) for Virginia farmers an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1182 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle liability insurance coverage limits. Increases the motor vehicle liability insurance coverage amounts from $25,000 to $50,000 in cases of bodily injury to or death of one person, from $50,000 to $100,000 in cases of bodily injury to or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
