| HB1800 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 56 of the 2020 Special Session I Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | School security officers; carrying of firearms; United States Armed Forces veterans; employees of local school boards. Permits local school boards to authorize the carrying of a firearm by an individual hired as a school security officer who is (i) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing professional tax credit. Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit of $500 for certified nurse aides, licensed practical nurses, and registered nurses who work for at least 42 weeks during a taxable year in a licensed nursing h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; amendments; energy efficiency and conservation. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt amendments to the Uniform Statewide Building Code within one year of publication of a new version of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; rate increase; funding for schools and law-enforcement officer salaries. Increases from 5.75 percent to 5.9 percent the income tax rate on income over $150,000. Under current law, the top marginal rate of 5.75 percent applies to income ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; combined reporting requirements. Requires, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, unitary combined reporting for Virginia corporate income tax purposes. The bill also expires the minimum tax on telecommunicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | Public education; voucher program; emergency. Provides that, if a school operates a reduced schedule and the school offers online or virtual learning as a substitute for in-person attendance, it shall deposit a portion of unused funds resulting from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; veteran retirement income. Provides an income tax subtraction for the military retirement income received by certain veterans for their service of $2,500 for veterans under the age of 65 and $5,000 for veterans 65 years of age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1378 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the duration of any rule, regulation, or order issued by the Governor pursuant to his powers under the Emergency Services and Disaster Law to no more than 30 days...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB1474 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles. Extends the sunset provision related to certain requirements related to nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles from July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2022. Nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles. Extends the sunset provision related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1434 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; mandatory virtual learning; provision of required technology and Internet service; emergency. Provides that if a school board requires students to engage in virtual learning for any reason, whether full time or part time, and a comput...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB1446 | 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] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Environmental permits; community and environmental justice outreach. Requires the applicant for any (i) new or major modified stationary air pollution source, (ii) new landfill or transfer station, (iii) certification of site approval for a hazardous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1360 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; nondiscrimination in employment; sexual harassment and workplace harassment. Clarifies, by defining sexual harassment and workplace harassment, what constitutes an unlawful employment practice if engaged in by an employer. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1452 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; SPEARHEAD TRAILS. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority bearing the legend SPEARHEAD TRAILS. The bill exempts these special license plat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SJR331 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Richard D. Pillow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioner of accounts; prohibit appointment of General Assembly members. Prohibits any attorney who is a member of the General Assembly or any attorney who is an employee or member of the same law firm or corporate law department as a General Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing home standards of care and staff requirements; regulations. Requires the State Board of Health to establish staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum of direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period as follo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SJR291 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorative commission; State Capitol; statue of Booker T. Washington. Expresses the General Assembly's support for and calls upon the Governor to establish a commemorative commission to honor Booker T. Washington with a statue in the State Capitol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Project labor agreements; public interest. Requires that for contracts requiring the design or construction of a road, highway, bridge, or similar transportation improvement, a public body wishing to enter into a project labor agreement shall first d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR372 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Nation of Greece.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission; membership. Requires that legislative members of the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission each represent a district with at least 25 percent of its population residing within the Tobacco Region as defined...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1312 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund; assessment on distillers; emergency. Requires licensed distillers to collect an assessment for each liter of spirits sold and remit such assessment to the Tax Commissioner to the credit of the Virginia Spirits Promoti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1735 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of farm winery licensees and limited brewery licensees. Expands the privileges of farm winery licensees by allowing them to sell at retail beer manufactured by limited brewery licensees for on-premises consumpti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Unborn child protection from dismemberment abortion; penalties. Prohibits the practice of dismemberment abortion, which is defined in the bill as meaning to, with the purpose of causing the death of an unborn child, purposely dismember a living unbor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR515 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); right of parents. Adds to the Constitution of Virginia the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. The amendment prohibits the Commonwealth from infring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR545 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; insurance coverage for infertility treatment and fertility preservation; report. Directs the Health Insurance Reform Commission to study mandating insurance coverage for infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization and standard ferti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2114 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearing notice by localities. Expands from only localities in Planning District 23 to all localities a provision that provides that in any instance in which a locality has submitted a timely notice of public hearing to a newspaper published or having...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2306 | 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 Appropriations Committee |
| HR239 | Intro
Sine Die | Police; affirming support. Expresses the sense of the House of Delegates in affirming its support and appreciation for the service and sacrifice of law-enforcement officers in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1924 | Intro
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] | 2021-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1975 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and mandatory fee waivers; survivors of criminal sexual assault and certain other sex crimes. Declares eligible for counseling at no cost and a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at any public instit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1937 | Intro
Sine Die | Green New Deal Act. Establishes a moratorium, effective Green New Deal Act. Establishes a moratorium, effective January 1, 2022, on approval by any state agency or political subdivision of any approval required for (i) electric generating facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB2279 | Intro
Sine Die | Professions and occupations; Board for Contractors; continuing education prohibited. Prohibits the Board for Contractors from requiring continuing education as a prerequisite to renewal of any certificate or license issued under its authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR543 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Social Services; ways to increase participation in national service; report. Requests the Department of Social Services to study ways to increase participation in national service. In conducting its study, the Department of Socia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1933 | 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] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; legislative process; introduction limits. Prohibits any member of the General Assembly from introducing more than 10 bills during the regular session of an odd-numbered year or more than 15 bills during the regular session of an eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1803 | Intro
Sine Die | Local credits for approved local volunteer activities. Enables localities, by ordinance, to provide a credit against taxes and fees imposed by the locality to an individual who provides approved volunteer services in the locality. As defined in the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HJR618 | Intro
Sine Die | Denouncing racism and racist ideologies. Condemns all forms of racism, hate, bigotry, and discrimination, including physical or verbal attacks that target people on the basis of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1939 | Intro
Sine Die | Food and beverage tax; single-serving salads. Defines the term "single-serving" for purposes of local meals or food and beverage taxes as having the same meaning as "serving" or "serving size" as those terms are defined in the Code of Federal Regulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1826 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; membership; qualifications. Requires the nine-member Board of Education to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2210 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Law; Division of Civil Rights created; duties. Creates in the Department of Law a Division of Civil Rights that has the power and duty to investigate crimes involving the nonpayment of wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Clean Economy Act; non-bypassable charges; energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries. Defines EITE industries as companies that are constrained in their ability to pass through carbon costs due to international competition, companies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB2112 | Intro
Sine Die | Court of Appeals; jurisdiction; number of judges. Expands the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia by providing for an appeal of right in every civil case and provides that the granting of further appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2325 | Intro
Sine Die | Creation of Office of the Department of Corrections Creation of Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office). The bill enumerates the duties and powers of the Office, wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2278 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; political party affiliation; closed primary elections. Adds political party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The political party affiliation or independent status selec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR541 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Secretary of Commerce and Trade; effects of daylight saving time on the Commonwealth; report. Requests the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to study the effects of the Commonwealth's continued observance of daylight saving time under the federa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; School Construction Fund and Program. Establishes the School Construction Fund as a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury and requires the Department of Education to establish the School Construction Program for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1954 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage; exception. Provides that the minimum wage requirements of the Virginia Minimum Wage Act do not apply to any person who provides fire or emergency medical services for a fire company or nongovernmental emergency medical services agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HJR524 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolition Day. Designating December 6, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Abolition Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
