Va General Assembly Bills for 2020

Va General Assembly Bills for 2020:

These initial Va General Assembly bills (thousands more to follow) are culled from Richmond Sunlight, and placed onto a single web page, for ease of research. (You must still go to the bill's link to check the current status of the bill.) One can narrow your search by entering a word or phrase into the search box -- for example the last name of your delegate or senator. The browser's status bar will indicate the number of table rows matched. Hidden grouping categories are also available, currently: ~dem, ~rep, ~fx, ~vote, ~guns, ~green, ~bags, ~soft (on crime), (aren't you) ~special.

Bill -- TITLE, followed by SUMMARY and SPONSOR as of Jan 5 (Ref: Richmond Sunlight)
`~HB1 -- Absentee voting; no excuse required.` Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. (Herring, D-Alexandria)
`~HB2 -- Firearm transfers; criminal history record info checks, penalty.` Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and directs the State Police to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a check from licensed firearms dealers. A transferor who sells a firearm to another person without obtaining the required background check is guilty of a Class 6 felony. (Plum, D-Reston)
`~HB3 -- Fair Housing Law; unlawful discrimination, gender identity, etc.` Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill defines "sexual orientation" and "gender identity". (McQuinn, D-Richmond)
`~HB4 -- Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming.` Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). Casino gaming shall be limited to certain cities that meet the criteria that is outlined in the bill, and a referendum must be passed in the city on the question of allowing casino gaming in the city. This bill is a reenactment of the first enactment of Senate Bill 1126 of the 2019 legislative session. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB5 -- Clinch State Scenic River.` Designates a 30.3-mile segment of the Clinch River in Tazewell County as part of the Clinch State Scenic River, a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. (Morefield, R-North Tazewell)
`~HB6 -- Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices.` Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of income to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill defines "source of income" as any source that lawfully provides funds to or on behalf of a renter or buyer of housing, including any assistance, benefit, or subsidy program, whether such program is administered by a governmental or nongovernmental entity. (Bourne, D-Richmond)
`~HB7 -- Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices.` Prohibits any locality from discriminating in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines, or in the permitting of housing developments because the housing development contains or is expected to contain affordable housing units occupied or intended for occupancy by families or individuals with incomes at or below 80 percent of the median income of the area where the housing development is located. (Bourne, D-Richmond)
`~HB8 -- Disorderly conduct in public places; school activities.` Eliminates the Class 1 misdemeanor for disrupting willfully or while intoxicated, whether willfully or not, the operation of any school or any school activity conducted or sponsored by any school if the disruption (i) prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the operation or activity or (ii) has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, the disruption is directed. (Bourne, D-Richmond)
`~HB9 -- Firearms; reporting those lost or stolen, civil penalty.` Requires that, if a firearm is lost or stolen from a person who lawfully possessed it, such person shall report the loss or theft of the firearm to any local law-enforcement agency or the State Police within 24 hours after such person discovers the loss or theft or is informed by a person with personal knowledge of the loss or theft. A violation is punishable by a civil penalty of not more than $250. (Bourne, D-Richmond)
`~HB10 -- Qualified education loan servicers.` Prohibits any person from acting as a qualified education loan servicer except in accordance with provisions established by this bill. Banks, savings institutions, credit unions, and nonprofit institutions of higher education are exempt from the licensing provisions. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB11 -- Division of Human Rights; duties.` Clarifies that the duties of the Division of Human Rights shall include receiving and investigating all complaints alleging unlawful discriminatory practices that are filed within the applicable statute of limitations period and allege a wrongdoing covered under applicable federal or state law. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB12 -- Dept of Education; discrimination against students; investigation of complaints.` Requires the Department of Education to establish a procedure for the receipt, investigation, and resolution of student complaints alleging discrimination on any basis that is prohibited by state or federal law, including discrimination on the basis of sex as prohibited by Title IX (20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.). (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB13 -- Fiduciary management of condominium association funds; permissible investments.` Authorizes the fiduciary managing agent of a condominium association to invest managed funds in US securities or maintain a limited amount of managed funds in a money market account that invests in US securities or other financial instruments guaranteed by securities of the US. Under current law, a fiduciary managing agent may only keep association funds in a trust account in a federally insured financial institution. (Ware, R-Powhatan)
`~HB14 -- Constitutional amendment; reapportionment, adjustments permitted (voter referendum).` Provides for a November 3, 2020, election referendum to approve or reject an amendment that would allow the General Assembly to make technical adjustments to legislative election district boundaries in the period between decennial reapportionments, provided that the adjustment's sole purpose is to align legislative election district boundaries with the boundaries of voting precincts established in counties and cities. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB15 -- Public school buses; seat belts.` Requires the Board of Education to make regulations to require each new public school bus purchased for the transportation of students to be equipped with a seat belt consisting of a lap belt and shoulder strap or harness in every seat, no later than July 1, 2038. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB16 -- Safety belt system use in motor vehicles.` Requires all occupants of motor vehicles to utilize a safety belt system. Current law requires the use of safety belts only by (i) occupants under the age of 18, (ii) drivers, and (iii) passengers 18 years of age or older occupying the front seat. The bill changes a violation of safety belt system requirements by a person occupying a front seat from a secondary offense to a primary offense. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB17 -- Driver's license; suspension for nonpayment of fines or costs.` Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended. The bill also removes a provision allowing the court to require a defendant to present a summary prepared by the DMV of the other courts in which the defendant also owes fines and costs. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB18 -- Absentee voting; in-person voting, applicability date.` Provides that, beginning with the May 5, 2020, general election, no-excuse, in-person absentee voting will be available beginning on the second Saturday immediately preceding the election. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB19 -- Voter identification; repeal of photo ID requirements.` Removes the requirement that voters show a form of identification containing a photograph in order to be allowed to vote. Requires merely a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB20 -- Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act.` Directs the Dept of Environmental Quality to implement the final carbon trading regulation as approved by the State Air Pollution Control Board in order to establish a carbon dioxide cap and trade program that limits and reduces the total carbon dioxide emissions released by electric generation facilities and that complies with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative model rule. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB21 -- Va Human Rights Act; prohibited discrimination, gender identity, etc.` Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Virginia Human Rights Act. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB22 -- Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund; grant program.` Changes the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund (the Fund) from a lending program to a grant program. The bill directs the Fund to grant money to localities to enable them to offer cost-sharing programs to help residents and businesses that are subject to recurrent flooding. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB23 -- Public employment and housing; prohibited discrimination, gender identity, etc.` Prohibits discrimination in public employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB24 -- Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction and Bond Rating Protection Act of 2020.` Establishes the Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction and Bond Rating Protection Act of 2020, which establishes Virginia as a nonfederal sponsor of hurricane and flooding risk reduction projects. A board of directors shall exercise for the Governor executive authority over all phases of hurricane and flood risk reduction programs, including investigations, construction, operations, and maintenance. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB25 -- Absentee voting; no excuse required.` Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB26 -- Voter registration; close of registration records.` Reduces the period of time that registration records must be closed before a general or primary election from 21 days to 13 days. The bill adjusts other deadlines to reflect this change. The period of time that the registration records must be closed before a special election remains the same. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB27 -- Cruelty to animals; serious bodily injury; first offense; penalty.` Provides that a person who commits an act of animal cruelty that results in serious bodily injury to or the death or euthanasia of an animal is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill expands the authority of a court to order anger management treatment from cases of misdemeanor cruelty to all cases. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB28 -- Pawnbrokers.` The bill repeals an enactment that authorized localities to extend the license of a pawnbroker who is not a natural person for a period of up to one year. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB29 -- Budget Bill.` Amends Chapter 854 of the 2019 Acts of Assembly. (Torian, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB30 -- 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 June 30, 2021, and June 30, 2022. (Torian, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB31 -- 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 offense occurred prior to the person's twenty-first birthday; all court costs, fines, and restitution have been satisfied; and five years have elapsed since the date of completion of all terms of sentencing and probation. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB32 -- Expungement of records for misdemeanor and nonviolent felony convictions.` Allows a person convicted of a misdemeanor or nonviolent felony to file a petition requesting expungement of the police and court records relating to the conviction if such person has (i) been free from any term of incarceration, probation, and postrelease supervision imposed as a result of such conviction for at least eight years, (ii) no prior or subsequent convictions other than traffic infractions, and (iii) no pending criminal proceeding. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB33 -- Parole; exception to limitation on the application of parole statutes.` Provides that a person is entitled to parole if (i) such person was sentenced by a jury prior to the date of the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Fishback v. Commonwealth, 260 Va. 104 (June 9, 2000), in which the Court held that a jury should be instructed on the fact that parole has been abolished, for a noncapital felony committed on or after the abolition of parole going into effect (on January 1, 1995) and (ii) the jury was not instructed on the abolition of parole. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB34 -- Refusal of tests; restricted license.` Allows a person convicted of a first offense of unreasonable refusal to have samples of his breath taken for chemical tests to determine the alcohol content of his blood to petition the court 30 days after conviction for a restricted driver's license. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB35 -- Juvenile offenders; eligibility for parole.` Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence shall be eligible for parole. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB36 -- Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press.` Declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public middle school or high school or public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom of speech and the press in school-sponsored media, including determining the news, opinion, feature, and advertising content of school-sponsored media. (Hurst, D-Blacksburg)
`~HB37 -- Alcoholic beverage control; stills or distilling, permit requirement.` Narrows the requirement that a permit be obtained from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in order to keep, store, or possess any still or distilling apparatus to include only instances in which a still or distilling apparatus is kept, stored, or possessed for purpose of distilling alcohol. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB38 -- Tanning facilities; prohibits use by persons under age 18.` Prohibits a tanning facility from allowing individuals under age 18 from using a tanning device at such facility. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB39 -- Health benefit plans; enrollment by pregnant individuals.` Requires health carriers to allow pregnant individuals to enroll in a health benefit plan at any time after the commencement of the pregnancy, with the pregnant individual's coverage being effective as of the first of the month in which the individual receives certification of the pregnancy. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB40 -- Public schools; mental health break spaces, regulations.` Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require that each public school create and maintain a mental health break space (aka: "safe space" for snowflakes) within the public school building. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB41 -- Regulations, screening for adverse childhood experiences.` Directs the Board of Medicine to adopt regulations requiring every health care practitioner licensed by the Board, (i) to provide to the patient information regarding the impact of adverse childhood experiences on physical and mental health and the risks and benefits of screening patients for adverse childhood experiences, and (ii) screen patients for adverse childhood experiences that may impact a patient's physical or mental health. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB42 -- Screening of patients for prenatal and postpartum depression, training.` Directs the Boards of Medicine and Nursing to adopt regulations requiring licensees who provide primary, maternity, obstetrical, or gynecological health care services to complete a training program on prenatal and postnatal depression in women. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB43 -- Provisional voting; persons voting in split precincts.` Provides that any voter who is assigned to a precinct that is split between two or more election districts and who believes he was given a ballot for the district of which he is not a qualified voter may request, prior to casting the ballot, and shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot for the district of which he believes he is a qualified voter and for the district in which the pollbook indicates he is registered. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB44 -- Workers' comp; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.` Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefighters or certain employees develop the cancer. Removes the compensability requirement that the employee who develops cancer had contact with a toxic substance encountered in the line of duty. (Brewer, R-Suffolk)
`~HB45 -- Workers' comp; retaliatory discharge of employee.` Prohibits an employer from discharging an employee if the discharge is motivated to any extent by knowledge or belief that the employee has filed a claim or taken or intends to take certain other actions under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. Currently, retaliatory discharges are prohibited only if the employer discharged an employee solely because the employee has taken or intends to take such an action. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB46 -- Workers' comp; employer to notify employee of intent.` Requires an employer whose employee has filed a claim under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to advise the employee whether the employer intends to accept or deny the claim or is unable to make such a determination because it lacks sufficient information from the employee. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB47 -- Workers' comp; foreign injuries.` Provides that an injured employee is eligible for benefits under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when a compensable accident happens while the employee is employed outside Virginia if (i) the employment contract was not expressly for services exclusively to be performed outside Virginia and (ii) either the employer's place of business is in Virginia or the employee regularly performs work on the employer's behalf in Virginia and resides in Virginia. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB48 -- Income tax; rolling conformity with the federal IRS Code.` Provides that Virginia conform with federal tax laws on a rolling basis, which means that Virginia tax laws incorporate changes to the Internal Revenue Code as soon as Congress enacts them. Under current law, Virginia conforms to federal tax laws as of December 31, 2018. (McNamara, R-Roanoke)
`~HB49 -- Students with disabilities; educational placement transition.` Requires the Dept of Education and relevant local school boards to develop and implement a pilot program for the transition of students who are educated in private school settings pursuant to Individualized Education Programs to the appropriate public school setting in the relevant local school division for up to four years in two to eight local school divisions in the Commonwealth. (McNamara, R-Roanoke)
`~HB50 -- Expungement of police and court records; pardons.` Allows a person to petition for the expungement of the police and court records relating to such person's conviction if he has been granted a simple pardon for the crime. Under current law, police and court records relating to convictions are only expunged if a person received an absolute pardon for a crime he did not commit. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB51 -- Line of Duty Act; eligible dependents.` Provides that children born or adopted after the death or disability of an employee covered by the Line of Duty Act are eligible for health insurance coverage if such coverage does not result in a premium increase. Under current law, such children are not eligible regardless of the effect on premiums. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB52 -- Workers' comp; occupational disease presumption, emergency technicians.` Establishes a presumption that hypertension or heart disease causing the death or disability of full-time salaried emergency medical technicians employed by the City of Virginia Beach is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB53 -- Tax exemptions for victims of the Virginia Beach shooting.` Establishes an income tax exemption for relief payments paid to a victim of the Virginia Beach mass shooting or a parent, guardian, child, or spouse of a victim. The bill also establishes an exemption from probate tax for a person killed or injured in the shooting. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB54 -- Income tax; age deduction; raise income threshold for married filers.` Increases to $100,000 the threshold at which the income tax deduction for taxpayers 65 or older is reduced based on income, as such threshold applies to married taxpayers filing jointly or separately. Under current law, the threshold for married taxpayers is $75,000 and the threshold for individual taxpayers is $50,000. (Wright, R-Victoria)
`~HB55 -- Worker cooperatives.` Establishes worker cooperatives as a category of cooperative associations. (Sounds like a union. Note that Virginia is a right-to-work state.) (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB56 -- Minimum wage; tipped employees; classification.` Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as a tipped employee if the individual is prohibited by applicable federal or state law or regulation from soliciting tips. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB57 -- Elections; date of June primary election.` Changes the date of the primary election held in June from the second Tuesday in June to the third Tuesday in June. The bill also changes candidate filing deadlines to reflect the change of date. (Fowler, R-Ashland)
`~HB58 -- 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 applicable cost-sharing requirement. (Ware, R-Powhatan)
`~HB59 -- Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers.` Requires health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed athletic trainer to provide equal coverage for such services when rendered by a licensed athletic trainer. (Ware, R-Powhatan)
`~HB60 -- Substitute judges; powers and duties; entry of a final order.` Gives a substitute judge the power to enter a final order in any case heard by such substitute judge for a period of 14 days after the date of a hearing of such case. (Collins, R-Winchester)
`~HB61 -- Adults sentenced for juvenile offenses; good conduct credit.` Provides that an adult sentenced for a juvenile offense can earn good conduct credit at the rate of one day for each one day served, including all days served while confined in jail or secured detention prior to conviction and sentencing, in which the adult has not violated the written rules and regulations of the jail. (Collins, R-Winchester)
`~HB62 -- Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County.` Removes the July 1, 2021, sunset date from Arlington County's authority to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed 0.25 percent to be used for the purpose of promoting tourism and business travel in the county. Under current law, in addition to this tax, Arlington County is authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed five percent. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB63 -- Court of Appeals; use of moot courtroom of accredited law schools.` Provides that upon proper agreement with the applicable authorities the Court of Appeals may use the moot courtroom of any accredited law school located in the Commonwealth for the holding of court and for its ancillary functions. Current law specifies that the Court may use state and federal facilities but not private law schools in the Commonwealth. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB64 -- Parental leave for school involvement.` Requires employers to grant four hours of leave annually to employees who are parents or guardians of, or who stand in loco parentis to, a school-aged child in order to attend parent-teacher conferences, volunteer at the child's school, or otherwise be involved in the child's school. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB65 -- Establish Missing Child with Autism Alert Program.` Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing child with autism, defined as a child (i) whose whereabouts are unknown; (ii) who has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder; (iii) who is 17 years of age or younger or is currently enrolled in a secondary school in Virginia; and (iv) whose disappearance poses a credible threat. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB66 -- Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs.` Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $30 per 30-day supply that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale in order to receive a covered prescription insulin drug. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB67 -- Strikes by government employees.` Limits to law-enforcement officers the scope of the existing provision that deems any public employee who strikes to have terminated his employment and bars him from further public employment. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB68 -- Digital devices; deactivation or alteration of embedded software.` Prohibits the original equipment manufacturer of a digital device from deactivating embedded software, defined in the bill, in the digital device or altering embedded software so as to substantially alter the functioning of the digital device as a response to its being repaired by an independent repair provider. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB69 -- Credit unions.` Authorizes localities and political subdivisions to hold public deposits in a credit union. The measure allows localities and political subdivisions to become members of a credit union for purposes of placing deposits in and receiving services from the credit union. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB70 -- Broadband services; prohibited features.` Prohibits a provider of broadband services from offering or renewing services to consumers within any locality in the Commonwealth in which certain media is throttled, blocked, or prioritized on the basis of its content, format, host address, or source. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB71 -- Campaign finance; audits of reports; certain campaign committees.` Requires the State Board of Elections to conduct audits of the campaign finance reports filed by the campaign committees of candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and the General Assembly. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB72 -- Allowing access to firearms by children.` Increases from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for recklessly leaving a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 14. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB73 -- Virginia Housing Development Authority; finance payments on student debt.` Permits the Virginia Housing Development Authority (HDA) to make mortgage loans, including federally insured mortgage loans, to finance the purchase or refinancing of single-family residential housing and to make payments on the homeowner's student loan debt, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the bill. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB74 -- Public schools; Mental Health First Aid training.` Requires each school board to adopt and implement policies that require each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the school board, employed on a full-time basis, to complete a Mental Health First Aid training or similar program. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB75 -- Electric utilities; electric school bus pilot program.` Authorizes Dominion Energy to implement a pilot program under which it will deploy electric school buses in participating school divisions in its service territory. The initial phase of the pilot program is limited to the deployment of 50 electric school buses at a cost of up to $13.5 million. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB76 -- Statute of limitations on written contract; missing persons declared dead.` For any action that would be barred by the five-year statute of limitations on a written contract, wherein a person who would be party to such action was a missing person presumed dead and subsequently declared dead by court order, the executor of such person's estate has one year from the entry of such order to bring such an action, provided that a cause of action accrued on or after the date upon which such person went missing. (Edmunds, R-South Boston)
`~HB77 -- Fossil fuel projects moratorium; clean energy mandates.` Establishes a moratorium on (i) electric generating facilities that burn fossil fuels; (ii) import or export terminals for fossil fuel resources; etc, etc. The measure also requires that at least 80 percent of the electricity sold by a retail electric supplier in calendar years 2028 through 2035 be generated from clean energy resources. (Rasoul, D-Roanoke)
`~HB78 -- Firearms; purchase, possession, and transporting following certain convictions.` Prohibits a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of assault and battery of a family or household member from possessing or transporting a firearm. A person who violates this provision is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB79 -- Management of the menhaden fishery.` Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations to implement the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden and authorizes the Commission to adopt regulations for managing the Commonwealth's menhaden fishery. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB80 -- Personal income tax deduction; veterans with 100% disability.` Provides an additional personal income tax deduction of $930 for veterans who have been rated with a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability. This deduction is allowed regardless of whether the taxpayer itemizes deductions for the taxable year for federal income tax purposes. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB81 -- Dept of Motor Vehicles; examination of driver fitness.` Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from reexamining a driver who has already submitted to a driver fitness examination and been deemed fit to drive, unless there is good cause to believe that the driver's condition has deteriorated. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB82 -- Child and spousal support; net income; imputation of income.` Changes the child support guidelines to establish net income as the basis for establishing a child support obligation and provides that a periodic award of spousal support shall not be more than the payor's net income. The bill removes consideration of earning capacity of a party in determining spousal support and removes the earning capacity and imputation of income of a party as a means to rebut the child support presumption. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB83 -- 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 animal is performing its lawful duties or is being kept in a kennel, pen, or stable while off duty, shall be separate and apart from, and shall be made to run consecutively with, any other sentence. (Fowler, R-Ashland)
`~HB84 -- Public Procurement Act; proposals to public universities.` Requires every offeror who submits a proposal to a public institution of higher education for any construction project that (i) has a total cost of $5 million or more and (ii) uses a procurement method other than competitive sealed bidding to disclose any contributions the offeror has made within the previous five-year period. (Fowler, R-Ashland)
`~HB85 -- Abolition of the death penalty.` Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB86 -- Local match for basic aid; debt service in certain school divisions.` Permits any local school board that governs a school division in which the locality is designated as fiscally at-risk or fiscally distressed to expend up to 25 percent of the required local effort for basic aid for debt service on school building capital renovation or construction projects. (Kilgore, R-Gate City)
`~HB87 -- Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuana possession.` Eliminates criminal penalties for possession of marijuana for persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill also decriminalizes marijuana possession for persons under 21 years of age and provides a civil penalty of no more than $100 for possession of two and one-half ounces or less of marijuana. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB88 -- Campaign finance; filing schedule for multiple campaign committees.` Requires any person who is named as the candidate on the statement of organization for more than one campaign committee to file reports for all such committees on the same schedule as any such committee. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB89 -- Increasing the standard deduction from Virginia taxable income.` Increases the standard deduction for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2026, by 1.8 percent to $4,581 for single individuals and $9,162 for married persons (one-half of such amounts in the case of a married individual filing a separate return). (McNamara, R-Roanoke)
`~HB90 -- Window tinting; vehicles used by PIs and bail bondsmen.` Allows licensed private investigators, licensed bail bondsmen, and licensed bail enforcement agents to apply tinting films to darken certain windows of vehicles used in the course of business to a minimum of 20 percent light transmittance. Current law allows light transmittance minimums of 50 or 35 percent, depending on the window. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB91 -- Expungement of police and court records.` Allows a person convicted of certain offenses, or charged with such offenses which charges were deferred and dismissed, who was under 21 years of age at the time of the offense, and who has successfully completed all terms of probation to file a petition for expungement after at least seven years have passed. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB92 -- Virginia State Justice Commission; purpose; membership.` Renames the Virginia State Crime Commission as the Virginia State Justice Commission. The bill also expands the purpose of the Commission to include studying, reporting, and making recommendations in the areas of diversion, rehabilitation, reentry, collateral consequences of conviction, and equity and fairness in the criminal legal system. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB93 -- Sale or distribution of flavored tobacco products prohibited.` Prohibits the sale or distribution of flavored tobacco products, defined in the bill, and creates a civil penalty of $1,000 for a first offense and $5,000 for a second or subsequent offense. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB94 -- Legal custodian; notice of adoption proceeding.` Provides that a legal custodian of a child being placed for adoption shall be entitled to proper notice of any adoption proceeding and an opportunity to be heard. (Collins, R-Winchester)
`~HB95 -- Jurisdiction of Court of Appeals; contempt of court.` Provides that the Court of Appeals of Virginia has appellate jurisdiction over a judgment of the circuit court that holds or fails to hold a person in contempt of court. Under current law, the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction only over a judgment that holds a person in contempt of court. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB96 -- Power of attorney; witness or notary public.` Requires that a power of attorney signed on or after July 1, 2020, be signed before at least one witness or a notary public. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB97 -- Newborn screening; Krabbe disease and other lysosomal storage disorders.` Requires that newborn screening tests required to be performed on every infant born in the Commonwealth shall include screening for Krabbe disease and other lysosomal storage disorders for which a screening test is available. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB98 -- 'Virginia, the Home of My Heart' as official state folk song.` Designates "Virginia, the Home of My Heart" by Susan Greenbaum as the official state folk song. (Willett, D-Henrico)
`~HB99 -- Fair Housing Law; unlawful discrimination; victim of family abuse.` Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's status as a victim of family abuse as an unlawful housing practice. (Rasoul, D-Roanoke)
`~HB100 -- Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors.` Allows the court and counsel for either party in a criminal case to (i) ask potential jurors any relevant question to ascertain whether the juror can sit impartially in either the guilt or sentencing phase of the case and (ii) inform any potential juror as to the potential range of punishments to ascertain if the person or juror can sit impartially in the sentencing phase of the case. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB101 -- Grand larceny; threshold.` Increases from $500 to $750 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the classification of certain property crimes. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB102 -- Expungement of certain charges and convictions.` ... for simple larceny or concealment of goods or merchandise when (i) the goods or merchandise consisted of food or medically necessary supplies, (ii) the offense occurred prior to the person's twenty-first birthday, and (iii) five years have passed since the date of completion of all terms of sentencing and probation. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB103 -- Certain universities; transcript notations; expungement.` Requires each institution of higher education that is required by law to include a prominent notation on the academic transcript of each student who has been suspended for sexual violence under the institution's code, rules, or set of standards governing student conduct to adopt a policy for the expungement of such notation for good cause shown and after a period of three years. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB104 -- Public universities; non-academic student codes of conduct.` Requires each public institution of higher education to adopt non-academic student codes of conduct. The bill states that the codes of conduct shall describe and define the responsibilities and rights of all enrolled students and student organizations and outline each step in the institution's procedures for responding to and resolving allegations of violations. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB105 -- Legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required.` Removes the requirement that the Division of Legislative Services prepare written descriptions of the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB106 -- Numbering on buildings; civil penalty.` Provides that an ordinance that requires buildings to have visible numbering may include provisions for a civil penalty not to exceed $100 for a violation that has not been corrected within 15 days of notice of such violation. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB107 -- Health insurance for local school board employees.` Allows local school boards to elect to have all of their employees and retirees, as well as the dependents of such employees and retirees, be eligible to participate in the state employee health insurance plan in lieu of the current state-administered local health insurance plan. (Kilgore, R-Gate City)
`~HB108 -- Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day.` Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB109 -- Public school students; suspension and expulsion; sufficient cause.` Provides that in no case shall sufficient cause for the suspension or expulsion of a student from attendance at a public elementary or secondary school include only instances of truancy or nonviolent behavior. Current law provides that in no cases may sufficient cause for suspensions include only instances of truancy. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB110 -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; trading allowance reserve account.` Provides that if the Commonwealth becomes a participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or another carbon dioxide cap and trade program with an open auction of allowances, the Dept of Environmental Quality shall establish an allowance reserve account for any electric generation facility that operates according to a long-term contract that was executed prior to May 16, 2017, and prohibits the recovery of allowance costs. (Ware, R-Powhatan)
`~HB111 -- Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates.` Prohibits any candidate from soliciting or accepting a contribution from any public service corporation, as defined in § 56-1, or any political action committee established and administered by such a corporation. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB112 -- Public schools; dual-enrollment and work-based diploma options.` Requires the Board of Education to include in its standard diploma graduation requirements the options for students to complete a dual-enrollment course or high-quality work-based learning experience. (McNamara, R-Roanoke)
`~HB113 -- Protected information; newspersons engaged in journalism.` Provides that no newsperson engaged in journalism shall be compelled to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, as defined in the bill, except when the court finds that (i) the protected information is highly relevant and necessary to the proof of an issue material to an administrative, civil, or criminal proceeding; (ii) the protected information is not obtainable from any alternative source. (Roem, D-Manassas Park)
`~HB114 -- Prevailing wage; public works contracts; penalty.` Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency for public works to pay wages, salaries, benefits, and other remuneration to any mechanic, laborer, or worker employed, retained, or otherwise hired to perform services in connection with the public contract for public works at the prevailing wage rate. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB115 -- Health care providers; programs to address career fatigue.` Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or make recommendations related to health care services to include health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to address issues related to career fatigue and wellness in health care professionals. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB116 -- Stormwater Management Fund.` Provides that grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund may be used for an authorized local stormwater credit option for Virginia Stormwater Management Program authorized program administrators as a stormwater retrofit for any development within the local watershed that predates the 2005 U.S. EPA and Dept of Environmental Quality best management practice criteria. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB117 -- Geographic Information Network Advisory Board; increases membership.` Adds two county, city, town, or regional government geographic information system (GIS) directors or managers as members of the Virginia Geographic Information Network Advisory Board. (Wright, R-Victoria)
`~HB118 -- Trespass with drone aircraft; local or state correctional facilities.` Provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned aircraft system to come within 400 feet of the lateral boundaries of any local or state correctional facility, for any reason, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB119 -- Milk; definition, misbranding product, prohibition.` Defines milk as the lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammal and provides that a food product is unlawfully misbranded if its label states that it is milk and it fails to meet such definition, except for human breast milk. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB120 -- Va Beach Sports or Entertainment Project; extend expiration date of tax incentive.` Provides that the City of Virginia Beach's entitlement to state sales and use tax revenue attributable to a sports or entertainment project, which under current law will expire on July 1, 2039, shall expire on July 1 following the twentieth anniversary of the completion of construction of the sports and entertainment project. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB121 -- Workers' comp; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.` A bill to amend and reenact § 65.2-402 of the Code of Virginia, relating to workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain cancers. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB122 -- Project labor agreements; public procurement.` A BILL to amend and reenact § 2.2-4321.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to contracts with government agencies for public works; agreements with labor organizations. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB123 -- Nonpayment of wages; private action; liability.` Provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages to recover the amount of wages due plus interest at eight percent annually from the date the wages were due. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB124 -- Virginia Minority Business Commission; report.` Establishes a 13-member legislative Commission to promote the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned businesses. The bill provides that the Commission sunsets on July 1, 2023. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB125 -- Income tax; subtraction for low-income veterans with 100% disability.` Provides an income tax subtraction for the military retirement income received by a veteran who has been rated with a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability. Available only to those taxpayers whose federal adjusted gross income is no greater than 150 percent of the federal poverty level for a four-person household. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB126 -- Tax credit for purchase of aquaculture oyster floats.` Establishes an individual nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2025, for the purchase price of aquaculture oyster floats purchased during the taxable year. The amount of credit allowed under this section shall not exceed $500. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB127 -- Bystander claims for intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death.` 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 victim occurs may recover damages for resulting emotional distress, proven by a preponderance of the evidence, with or without a physical impact or physical injury to the bystander. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB128 -- Expungement of prostitution convictions.` Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions for prostitution when the person was induced to engage in prostitution through the use of force, intimidation, or deception by another. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB129 -- Public service companies; increases max. regulatory tax rates.` Increases the maximum allowable rates of several taxes, known as special regulatory taxes, that apply to public service companies such as those that provide water, heat, light, or power. The bill increases the maximum allowable rate of the gross receipts tax from 0.2 percent to 0.26 percent. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB130 -- Motor vehicle safety inspection program; abolishes.` Abolishes the state motor vehicle safety inspection program. (McNamara, R-Roanoke)
`~HB131 -- Interstate Compact on Redskin Franchise Facility Incentives.` Establishes an interstate compact among Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (the party states) that prohibits the party states from providing incentives for a Washington area professional football team franchise facility, including tax incentives, state or local appropriations, and loans. Not effective unless party states enact concurring legislation prior to January 1, 2022. (Webert, R-Marshall)
`~HB132 -- Profane swearing in public.` Removes the crime of profane swearing in public, which is currently punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor. (Webert, R-Marshall)
`~HB133 -- Public Procurement Act; professional and IT project services contracts.` Requires state agencies contracting for professional and information technology project services to include provisions in such contracts that require contractors to install software that allows for verification of the number of hours worked on a project using a computer. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB134 -- Dept of Education; individualized education program guidelines.` Requires the Dept of Education to establish guidelines for individualized education program (IEP) teams to utilize when developing IEPs for children with disabilities to ensure that IEP teams consider the need for age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction related to sexual health, self-restraint, self-protection, respect for personal privacy, and personal boundaries of others. (Runion, R-Bridgewater)
`~HB135 -- Veterans' benefits.` Provides that any person that advertises, arranges, offers, or enters into any assignment of right to receive veterans' pension or disability benefits commits an unlawful fraudulent act or practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act if such assignment is prohibited or void under specified federal anti-assignment acts. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB136 -- Bail bondsman; deposit for surrender of principal.` Provides that if a bail bondsman on a bond in a recognizance surrenders his principal for any reason other than the principal's failure to appear in any court, the bondsman shall deposit with the clerk of court or magistrate the greater of 10 percent of the amount of the bond or $50, which shall be made at such time the bondsman makes application for a capias. (Collins, R-Winchester)
`~HB137 -- Guardians ad litem for children; certification of compliance.` The bill requires a guardian ad litem to file with the court, along with any attorney representing a party or party proceeding pro se, a certification of the guardian ad litem's compliance with such standards, specifically addressing such standards requiring face-to-face contact with the child. (Collins, R-Winchester)
`~HB138 -- Bail bondsman; petition for return of deposit for surrender of principal.` Provides that if a bail bondsman does not petition the court for the return of funds deposited for the surrender of his principal within 15 days from the surrender of the principal, the deposited funds shall be paid into the state treasury to be credited to the Literary Fund. (Collins, R-Winchester)
`~HB139 -- New media and technology innovation income tax credit.` Establishes a new media and technology innovation income tax credit, starting with taxable year 2020, which is a nonrefundable tax credit for expenses related to producing in Virginia commercial advertisements, digital interactive media productions, and episodic television series. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB140 -- Public employment; limit inquiries regarding criminal arrests.` Prohibits state agencies and localities from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has ever been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of any crime. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB141 -- Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports; identification of race.` Eliminates the requirement that the race of married parties be included in marriage records, divorce reports, and annulment reports filed with the State Registrar. The bill also removes the requirement that the State Registrar include race data in the compilation and posting of marriage, divorce, and annulment data. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB142 -- Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence.` Removes the option for concealed handgun permit applicants to demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing an electronic, video, or online course conducted by a state-certified or National Rifle Association-certified firearms instructor. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB143 -- Unemployment compensation; leaving job to follow military spouse.` Repeals the sunset provision on the current statutory provision that provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany the employee's spouse, who is on active duty in the military or naval services of the United States. (Ware, R-Powhatan)
`~HB144 -- Springfield Model 1855 Rifle-Musket; state firearm.` Designates the Springfield Model 1855 Rifle-Musket as the official firearm of the Commonwealth. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB145 -- Public schools; treatment of transgender students; policies.` Requires the Dept of Education to develop and make available to each school board, no later than December 31, 2020, model policies concerning the treatment of transgender students in public elementary and secondary schools that address common issues regarding transgender students in accordance with evidence-based best practices. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB146 -- Sample ballots; color of paper of unofficial sample ballots.` Removes the restriction on unofficial sample ballots being printed on yellow paper. With this bill, unofficial sample ballots are prohibited only from being printed on white paper. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB147 -- Housing authorities; housing research and studies.` Requires the Virginia Housing Development Authority and local housing development authorities to undertake and carry out studies and analyses of housing needs and the meeting of such needs and to make the results of such studies and analyses available to the public and the building, housing, and supply industries. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB148 -- Housing; notice of educational opportunities for home owners.` Requires the Director of the Dept of Housing and Community Development to prepare a notice form, to be made available on the Dept's website, for signature by the parties to a contract for the sale of residential real estate, advising the purchaser to avail himself of educational programs established, administered, or promoted by the Director. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB149 -- Housing; barriers to use of state & federal housing funds.` Requires the Director of the Dept of Housing and Community Development to prepare an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly describing the efforts of the Dept to reduce administrative and regulatory burdens on obtaining and using federal and state housing funds. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB150 -- Derelict residential buildings; civil penalty.` Allows certain localities to impose a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000 per month on owners of derelict residential property that have not submitted a required plan to renovate or demolish the derelict structure. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB151 -- Development and use of accessory dwelling units.` Provides that all localities shall allow for the development and use of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) per single-family dwelling (SFD), notwithstanding any contrary provision of a zoning ordinance. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB152 -- Middle housing allowed on lots zoned for single-family use.` Requires all localities to allow development or redevelopment of "middle housing" residential units upon each lot zoned for single-family residential use. Middle housing is defined as two-family residential units, including duplexes, townhouses, cottages, and any similar structure. (Samirah, D-Herndon)
`~HB153 -- Right to work.` Repeals the provisions of the Code of Virginia that prohibit any agreement or combination between an employer and a labor union or labor organization whereby (i) nonmembers of the union or organization are denied the right to work, (ii) membership in the union is made a condition of employment, or (iii) the union acquires an employment monopoly in any such enterprise. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB154 -- Reinsurance credits.` Conforms Virginia's law regarding credits to insurers for reinsurance ceded to approved assuming insurers to the provisions of the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The bill eliminates the reinsurance collateral requirements for assuming insurers that are domiciled in or have their head office in a reciprocal jurisdiction. (Kilgore, R-Gate City)
`~HB155 -- Banks; trust subsidiaries.` Establishes a mechanism by which a subsidiary bank of a Virginia bank holding company that holds trust powers may be substituted in every fiduciary capacity for a trust subsidiary under common ownership with that bank. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB156 -- Critical National Security Language Grant Fund and Program established.` Establishes the Critical National Security Language Grant Fund and the Critical National Security Language Grant Program within the Dept of Education for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to any school division that provides a foreign language course in a foreign language that is currently identified as critical by the National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship program. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB157 -- Drivers approaching stationary vehicles displaying certain warning lights.` Makes a driver's failure to (i) move into a nonadjacent lane on a highway with at least four lanes when approaching a stationary towing vehicle or incident or traffic management vehicle displaying flashing, blinking, or alternating amber lights or (ii) proceed with due caution and maintain a safe speed when passing such a vehicle reckless driving, which is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Fowler, R-Ashland)
`~HB158 -- Income tax deduction; school tuition or home instruction expenses.` Provides an income tax deduction beginning in taxable year 2020 for education expenses incurred by the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18. Qualifying education expenses for the deduction are defined in the bill as tuition for a primary or secondary school in the Commonwealth, or expenses directly related to the home instruction of children. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB159 -- Protective orders; prohibited contact; remote control of appliance.` Clarifies that a court entering a protective order may, as a condition of such protective order, prohibit the respondent from using any electronic device to remotely control any appliance, utility, or device located on or within the petitioner's residence or the curtilage thereof. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB160 -- Special 'STOP GUN VIOLENCE' license plate; revenue-sharing provisions.` Provides that the special license plate bearing the legend STOP GUN VIOLENCE will remain non-revenue sharing. Current law provides that such special license plate will become revenue sharing on July 1, 2020. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB161 -- Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required.` Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a resident concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth. (McGuire, R-Glen Allen)
`~HB162 -- Firearm-free zones; waiver of sovereign immunity.` Provides that (i) if the Commonwealth designates any property owned by it or (ii) if any locality designates such locality or any part of such locality as a firearm-free zone, the Commonwealth or such locality waives its sovereign immunity as it relates to any injuries sustained by persons lawfully present in such firearm-free zone. (McGuire, R-Glen Allen)
`~HB163 -- Contempt of court; penalty.` Increases from 10 days to 30 days the maximum term of imprisonment for a charge of contempt of court but limits the term of imprisonment to 30 days, including in cases where the court empanels a jury to ascertain the punishment. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB164 -- Allowances for jurors; unclaimed funds; retention by the court.` Exempts funds held by the court for payment to a juror from the provisions of the Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act and provides that such funds may be used by the court for jury operations or other jury-related expenses if such funds are unclaimed for more than one year after becoming payable. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB165 -- Teledentistry.` Defines "teledentistry," establishes requirements for the practice of teledentistry, establishes requirements for the taking of dental scans for use in teledentistry by dental scan technicians, and clarifies requirements related to the use of digital work orders for dental appliances in the practice of teledentistry. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB166 -- Hearing notice by localities.` Provides that if a locality has submitted a timely notice request related to a planning or zoning matter to a newspaper of general circulation and the newspaper fails to publish the notice, a locality shall be deemed to have met public hearing notice requirements so long as notice of the agenda, including the item intended for publication in the newspaper, was published on the locality's website at least three weeks before the hearing. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB167 -- Electric utilities; fuel cost recovery.` Requires an electric utility, to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the utility (i) cannot meet its service obligations without an additional fuel resource; (ii) identified the date and amount of the new fuel resource it needs; (iii) objectively studied all available alternative fuel resource options; and (iv) determined that the pipeline capacity contracts are the lowest-cost available option. (Ware, R-Powhatan)
`~HB168 -- Town of Brodnax; amending charter, fewer councilmen.` Reduces from seven to five the number of town councilmen for the Town of Brodnax. The bill also reduces from four to three the number of councilmen needed for a quorum. (Tyler, D-Jarratt)
`~HB169 -- Workers' comp; occupational disease presumption, correctional officers.` Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that certain infectious diseases are compensable occupational diseases. (Tyler, D-Jarratt)
`~HB170 -- Commercial motor vehicles; use of GPS.` Requires certain commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with global positioning systems (GPS) specifically designed for such vehicles. The bill requires the GPS to be used unless the vehicle is being operated on the interstate. (Austin, R-Buchanan)
`~HB171 -- Town of Bluefield; amending charter, more councilmen.` Amends the town's charter by (i) increasing the number of council members from five to six, (ii) allowing the mayor to vote only to break ties rather than on all matters, (iii) clarifying that the council may act by motion in addition to ordinance and resolution, and (iv) making technical amendments. (Morefield, R-North Tazewell)
`~HB172 -- Va State Police Electronic Summons System Fund.` Creates the Virginia State Police Electronic Summons System Fund, which is funded by a $5 fee required by the bill to be assessed as court costs in each criminal or traffic case in which the Virginia State Police issued the summons, ticket, or citation; executed the warrant; or made the arrest. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB173 -- Waterfowl blinds in locality where certain hunting prohibited.` Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries not to license any stationary waterfowl blind in any area in which a local governing body prohibits by ordinance the hunting of birds with a firearm. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB174 -- Residential Property Disclosure Act; near marine clay.` Provides that the owner of residential property makes no representations with respect to whether the property is located on or near deposits of marine clays (marumsco soils). (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB175 -- Residential Property Disclosure Act; radon gas.` Requires the owner of residential real property located in any locality classified as Zone 1 or Zone 2 by the U.S. EPA's Map of Radon Zones to disclose to the purchaser the zone classification of the property. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB176 -- Property Owners' and Condominium Acts; extend right of cancellation.` Provides for a limited extension of the right of cancellation where such extension is provided for in a ratified real estate contract. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB177 -- 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, whereby Virginia would agree to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB178 -- Determination of tie votes; recounts; special elections.` Provides that, in elections for the General Assembly and local offices, if two or more persons have an equal number of votes, and a higher number than any other person, there shall be a recount of the vote without any action being required by any of the candidates receiving the equal number of votes. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB179 -- Recounts; procedure for certain ballots.` Requires recount officials to segregate all ballots for which there is a question regarding the ballot's validity prior to the conclusion of the recount of each precinct. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB180 -- Records of marriages; identification of race.` Eliminates the requirement that the race of married parties be included in the marriage record filed with the State Registrar. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB181 -- Remove Robert E. Lee statue from National Statuary Hall Collection.` Creates the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol to provide for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB182 -- General Assembly meetings; streaming and recording.` Requires the Clerks of the House of Delegates and the Senate to ensure that every (i) subcommittee or committee meeting of a standing committee of the General Assembly, and (ii) floor session of the House of Delegates or the Senate, including any joint session of the houses, is streamed with closed captioning, recorded and archived. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB183 -- Libraries; assess costs in civil actions; disbursement for law libraries.` Increases from $4 to $7 the maximum assessment a county, city, or town may make as part of the costs incident to each civil action filed in the courts located within its boundaries. Such funds are disbursed by a locality's governing body for the establishment, use, and maintenance of its law library. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB184 -- Open-end credit plans.` Prohibits a creditor from extending credit under an open-end credit plan at an annual rate that exceeds 36 percent unless the credit is extended by the seller of personal, family, or household goods for the sole purpose of financing the purchase price. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB185 -- Voter registration by mail; certain first-time absentee ballot.` Adds to the list of exceptions to the requirement that first-time voters who registered to vote by mail must vote in person those voters who are entitled under current law to vote by absentee ballot because they are confined while awaiting trial or for having been convicted of a misdemeanor. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB186 -- Election day page program; central absentee voter precinct.` Removes the prohibition against an election day page program being conducted in a central absentee voter precinct. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB187 -- Elections; same-day registration.` Provides an exception to the closing of registration records for any person who (i) is qualified to register to vote, (ii) is unregistered or registered in a locality in which the person no longer resides but is otherwise entitled to vote by absentee ballot, (iii) desires to vote absentee in person at the time that they present themselves to be registered, and (iv) provides proof of residency. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB188 -- Health care services; payment estimates.` Requires hospitals and practitioners to provide a patient, scheduled to receive a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be performed, with an estimate of the payment amount for which the patient will be responsible no later than one week after the scheduling of such procedure, test, or service. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB189 -- 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 applicable cost-sharing requirement. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB190 -- Voter identification; repeal of photo ID requirements.` Removes the requirement that voters show a form of identification containing a photograph in order to be allowed to vote. May present a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB191 -- Absentee voting; counting military and overseas absentee ballots.` Provides that absentee ballots cast by military and overseas absentee voters that are (i) received after the close of the polls on any election day but before 5:00 p.m. on the second business day before the State Board meets to ascertain the results of the election and (ii) postmarked on or before the date of such election are to be counted if the voter is found entitled to vote. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB192 -- Firearm purchases; proof of demonstration of competence.` Any person purchasing from a dealer a firearm shall demonstrate competence with a firearm as provided by subsection B of § 18.2-308.02 and shall consent in writing to have the dealer obtain criminal history record information. (Orrock, R-Thornburg)
`~HB193 -- Vehicles used for agricultural and farm purposes.` No person shall be required to obtain the registration certificate, license plates, or decals for or pay a registration fee for any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural purposes on lands owned or leased by the vehicle's owner. (Orrock, R-Thornburg)
`~HB194 -- Community Colleges; degree completion agreements.` No later than December 31, 2020, the State Board for Community Colleges shall develop and distribute to each comprehensive community college a plan and framework for agreements that would facilitate associate degree completion by enhancing access to coursework through online education and other innovative distance education methods. (Orrock, R-Thornburg)
`~HB195 -- Colleges; course credit for dual enrollment.` The Council, in consultation with each public institution of higher education, shall establish a policy for granting undergraduate course credit to any entering student who has successfully completed a dual enrollment course. (Orrock, R-Thornburg)
`~HB196 -- Employment discrimination; electoral board member.` Employers shall not penalize, including requiring use of sick leave or vacation time, any person who serves as a member of a local electoral board, an assistant general registrar, or an officer of election. Includes service at a polling place on election day or at a meeting of the electoral board following the election to ascertain the results of such election, provided that he gave reasonable notice to his employer of such service. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB197 -- DOE to consider incorporating into mathematics SOL.` The Department of Education shall determine and report to the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2020, the feasibility of incorporating the financial literacy objectives established pursuant to § 22.1-200.03 of the Code of Virginia into the appropriate pre-high school mathematics Standards of Learning. (Orrock, R-Thornburg)
`~HB198 -- Recounts; special election held in case of a tie vote.` Except in the case of a recount of an election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General, if the court finds that each party to the recount has received an equal number of votes, it shall issue a writ promptly ordering a special election be held to determine which candidate is elected to the office. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB199 -- Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact.` Like HB177, enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote, whereby Virginia would agree to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB200 -- Mecklenburg County; additional sales and use tax.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 58.1-602, 58.1-605, 58.1-605.1, and 58.1-606.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to additional local sales and use tax in Mecklenburg County; appropriations of Mecklenburg County to incorporated towns for educational purposes. (Wright, R-Victoria)
`~HB201 -- Elections; same-day registration.` Any person who (i) is qualified to register to vote, (ii) is unregistered or registered in a locality in which he no longer resides but is otherwise entitled to vote by absentee ballot, and (iii) desires to vote absentee in person at the same time that they present themselves to be registered, shall be entitled to register to vote in the office of the general registrar or at any other location in the county or city approved by the electoral board for casting absentee ballots. (Ayala, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB202 -- Officers of election; timing of additional training.` Each officer of election shall receive training consistent with the standards set by the State Board. Each officer of election shall receive such training, or complete an online training course, before the first election in which he will be serving as an officer of election, applicable to each term for which the officer of election is appointed. (Tran, D-Springfield)
`~HB203 -- Absentee voting; counting military and overseas absentee ballots.` Like HB191, provides that absentee ballots cast by military and overseas absentee voters that are (i) received after the close of the polls on any election day but before 5:00 p.m. on the second business day before the State Board meets to ascertain the results of the election and (ii) postmarked on or before the date of such election are to be counted if the voter is found entitled to vote. (Tran, D-Springfield)
`~HB204 -- Nonpayment of wages; private action.` Like HB123, provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages to recover the amount of wages due plus interest at eight percent annually from the date the wages were due. (Campbell, R-Raphine)
`~HB205 -- Small renewable energy projects; permit by rule process.` Provides that any proposed wind energy project with a project boundary located less than two miles from a jurisdictional boundary is not qualified for a permit by rule from the Department of Environmental Quality. (Campbell, R-Raphine)
`~HB206 -- Electric utility regulation; retail customer choice.` Replaces the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act with a system under which retail customers will be able to purchase electricity from the retail electric provider of their choice. (Ware, R-Powhatan)
`~HB207 -- Absentee voting; no excuse; permanent absentee voter list.` Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. (VanValkenburg, D-Henrico)
`~HB208 -- Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older.` Entitles persons who will be age 65 or older on the date of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee. (Murphy, D-McLean)
`~HB209 -- Absentee voting; no excuse required.` Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. (Murphy, D-McLean)
`~HB210 -- Adds a cemetery in Montgomery County and City of Radford.` Adds one cemetery in Montgomery County and one in the City of Radford to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African American cemeteries and graves. (Hurst, D-Blacksburg)
`~HB211 -- Special license plate; Air Medal.` Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Air Medal or for unremarried surviving spouses of such persons. (Hurst, D-Blacksburg)
`~HB212 -- Use of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil by foster parent.` Provides that the use of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil by a parent in a custody or visitation case shall not serve as the sole basis for the denial or restriction of custody or visitation, if such parent has a written certification by a practitioner attesting to the benefit of such use. (Hurst, D-Blacksburg)
`~HB213 -- Voter ID; accepted forms, out-of-state student ID card.` Adds to the list of acceptable forms of voter identification a valid student photo identification card issued by any institution of higher education located in any other state or territory of the United States. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB214 -- Candidate petitions; residency of petition circulators.` Removes the requirement that a person circulating a petition of qualified voters be a legal resident of the Commonwealth. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB215 -- Voter registration; preregistration for persons age 16 or older.` Permits a person who is otherwise qualified to register to vote and is 16 years of age or older, but who will not be 18 years of age on or before the day of the next general election, to preregister to vote. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB216 -- Nomination of candidates for elected offices.` Requires each candidate who has been nominated by a political party or in a primary election to be identified by the name of his political party. The bill removes the restrictions on candidates for elected school boards and soil and water conservation districts from being nominated by a partisan nomination method or at a primary election. (Helmer, D-Fairfax Station)
`~HB217 -- Fair Housing Law; unlawful discrimination; gender identity.` Like HB3, adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill defines "sexual orientation" and "gender identity". (Fowler, D-Virginia Beach)
`~HB218 -- Constitutional offices; candidates to be nominated by petition.` Requires candidates for constitutional offices to be nominated only by the petition process provided for independent candidates. (Fowler, D-Virginia Beach)
`~HB219 -- 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 individual who (i) is not registered to vote; and (ii) is of sufficient age to register to vote. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB220 -- Absentee voting; postage prepaid on return envelope.` Requires the envelope provided to an absentee voter for the return of the absentee ballot to include prepaid postage. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB221 -- Tree conservation ordinance; Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act.` 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 individually for preservation. (Mugler, D-Hampton)
`~HB222 -- Dept of Human Resource Mgmt; total compensation statement.` Requires the Dept of Human Resource Management to develop a total compensation statement for each employee in the service of the Commonwealth to be distributed annually to the employee by hard copy. (McNamara, R-Roanoke)
`~HB223 -- Recommendations for improving civic education.` Requires the Dept of Education to develop and report to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than July 1, 2021, recommendations for improving civic education for each public elementary and secondary school student in the Commonwealth. (McNamara, R-Roanoke)
`~HB224 -- 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. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB225 -- Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes.` Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is the subject of the forfeiture action has been found guilty of the crime authorizing the forfeiture, regardless of whether he has been sentenced. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB226 -- Home schoolers; participation in interscholastic programs.` Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home instruction; (ii) has demonstrated evidence of progress for two consecutive academic years; (iii) is in compliance with immunization requirements; (iv) is entitled to free tuition in a public school. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB227 -- Abortion; born alive human infant; treatment and care.` Requires every physician who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of a human infant who has been born alive following such attempt as he would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age and (ii) take all reasonable steps to ensure the immediate transfer of the human infant who has been born alive to a hospital for further medical care. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB228 -- Higher education; students and student organizations.` Permits any student or student organization aggrieved by a violation of certain provisions of law relating to campus free speech by a public institution of higher education to bring a cause of action against such institution or employee for appropriate relief, including injunctive relief, monetary damages, reasonable attorney fees, and court costs. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB229 -- Public Colleges; noncredit workforce training programs.` Requires the per student enrollment-based funding provided to public institutions of higher education to include funding for each Virginia student enrolled in a noncredit workforce training program. Under current law, per student enrollment-based funding follows each Virginia undergraduate student. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB230 -- Tax credit; employers of National Guard members.` 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 an employee who is a Virginia National Guard member or (ii) income of a self-employed National Guard member attributable to his business. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB231 -- Children with disabilities; state funds for private placements.` Requires the parent of any child with a disability who is placed in a public school pursuant to his individualized education program who subsequently places his child in a nonpublic school setting to receive from the same per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes, to pay for tuition and fees associated with such private school setting. (Freitas, R-Culpeper)
`~HB232 -- Distribution of voter registration application forms; universities.` Requires the Dept of Elections to provide a reasonable number of mail voter registration application forms to public universities, nonprofit private universities that are eligible to participate in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program, and any other education institution that is authorized to issue bonds. (Willett, D-Henrico)
`~HB233 -- Teacher compensation; at or above national average.` Requires public school teachers to be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational. (Mugler, D-Hampton)
`~HB234 -- Development of a Virginia Offshore Wind Master Plan.` Directs the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to develop a Virginia Offshore Wind Master Plan that identifies specific measures that will facilitate the establishment of the Hampton Roads region as a wind industry hub for wind energy projects off the nation's Atlantic coast and incentivize the creation of employment opportunities in offshore wind projects and related infrastructure. (Mugler, D-Hampton)
`~HB235 -- Voter registration; automatic voter registration.` Like HB219, provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any individual who (i) is not registered to vote; and (ii) is of sufficient age to register to vote. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB236 -- State Board of Elections; increasing membership and terms.` Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections from three members to five members and increases the terms of Board members from four years to five years. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB237 -- Local electoral boards; terms to begin January 1.` Provides for terms of local electoral board members to begin on January 1. Currently, terms begin March 1. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB238 -- Absentee voting; deadline for returning absentee ballot.` Provides that any absentee ballot that is returned to the general registrar after the closing of the polls on election day but before noon on the third day after the election and postmarked on or before the date of the election shall be counted if the voter is found entitled to vote. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB239 -- Absentee voting; deadline for applying for an absentee ballot.` Extends the deadline for a voter to apply for an absentee ballot that is to be cast by mail from the seventh day prior to the election to the eleventh day prior to the election. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB240 -- Absentee voting; annual applications for eligible absentee voters.` Provides that any person who is eligible for an absentee ballot pursuant to law and who is likely to remain so eligible for the remainder of the calendar year shall be eligible to file a special annual application to receive ballots for all elections in which he is eligible to vote in that calendar year. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB241 -- Protected voter status; certain evidence not required.` Removes the requirement that a person who is in fear for his personal safety from another person who has threatened or stalked him must provide evidence that he has filed a complaint with a magistrate or law-enforcement official against such other person in order to be granted protected voter status. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB242 -- Absentee voting; emergency voting.` Provides a process by which a qualified voter is permitted to vote by absentee ballot when an emergency either prevented him from applying for an absentee ballot by the deadline or will prevent him from voting in person on election day. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB243 -- Income tax subtraction; veteran retirement compensation.` Provides an income tax subtraction for the annual retirement compensation received by veterans for their service. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB244 -- Report of immigration status; persons charged with certain crimes.` Removes provisions requiring jail officers to ascertain the citizenship of any inmate taken into custody at a jail, and therefore such information is not required to be reported to the Central Criminal Records Exchange of the State Police. Welcome to illegal aliens. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB245 -- Fornication; repeal.` Repeals the crime of fornication, i.e., voluntary sexual intercourse by an unmarried person. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB246 -- Local law-enforcement agencies; body cameras.` Requires localities to adopt and establish a written policy for the operation of a body cameras that follows identified best practices and is consistent with Virginia law and regulations, using as guidance the model policy established by the Dept of Criminal Justice Services prior to purchasing or deploying a body-worn camera system. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB247 -- Penalty for injury to pedestrians and wheel chair users.` Increases from a traffic infraction to a Class 2 misdemeanor the penalty for failure to obey traffic lights or stop for pedestrians when such failure results in the death or serious bodily injury of a pedestrian or wheel chair user. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB248 -- Industrial hemp products; signage; green cross emblem.` Authorizes any locality to adopt ordinances restricting the display by any business that sells hemp products of the symbol of a green cross with arms of equal length on exterior signage. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB249 -- Hemp products; regulation; labeling.` Directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt regulations prohibiting the use of the term "CBD" in connection with a hemp product, which current law defines to include any lawful product that contains industrial hemp, including oil containing an industrial hemp extract. (Lindsey, D-Norfolk)
`~HB250 -- Juvenile offenders; parole.` Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence and any person who has active sentences that total more than 25 years for a single or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentences shall be eligible for parole. (Watts, D-Annandale)
`~HB251 -- Prostitution-related crimes; minors; penalties.` Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for an adult for keeping, residing in, or visiting a bawdy place with a minor. The bill also adds felony violations of such offense to the list of offenses for which registration in the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required. (Watts, D-Annandale)
`~HB252 -- Causing or encouraging acts rendering children sexually abused.` Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who (i) (a) has physical custody of a minor, (b) allows a minor to reside at his residence, (c) is in a position of authority over a minor, or (d) is the temporary caretaker of a minor; (ii) is more than three years older than such minor; and (iii) willfully contributes to, encourages, or causes any act, omission, or condition that results in any sexual act upon the minor in violation of the law is guilty of a Class 4 felony. (Watts, D-Annandale)
`~HB253 -- Offenses requiring registration as a sex offender; sale of images.` Adds a third or subsequent conviction of unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another to the list of offenses requiring registration under the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. (Watts, D-Annandale)
`~HB254 -- 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 birthday, all court costs and fines and orders of restitution have been satisfied, and the person seeking the expungement is at least 21 years of age and has no other alcohol-related convictions. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB255 -- 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 offense occurred prior to the person's twenty-first birthday; all court costs, fines, and restitution have been paid; and five years have elapsed since the date of completion of all terms of sentencing and probation. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB256 -- Disorderly conduct; students.` Provides that a student at any elementary or secondary school is not guilty of disorderly conduct in a public place if the disorderly conduct occurred on school property or a school bus. (Mullin, D-Newport News)
`~HB257 -- School principals; incident reports.` Eliminates the requirement that school principals report certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense to law enforcement. (Mullin, D-Newport News)
`~HB258 -- 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, by a circuit court of an offense that would be a covered offense if committed by an adult may petition the Court of Appeals to have his conviction vacated. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB259 -- Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report.` Provides that in cases where a defendant's competency is primarily compromised due to an ongoing and irreversible medical condition and prior medical or educational records are available to support the diagnosis, a competency report may recommend that the court find the defendant unrestorably incompetent to stand trial, and the court may proceed with the disposition of the case based on such recommendation. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB260 -- Transfer of firearms; criminal history record check delay.` Increases from the end of the next business day to within five business days the time in which State Police must advise a dealer if its records indicate that a firearms buyer or transferee is prohibited from possessing or transporting a firearm and the time after which a dealer may complete the sale or transfer without a response from the State Police. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB261 -- Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines.` Removes the requirement that a court suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB262 -- Inquiry and report of immigration status; witness to a crime.` Prohibits officers or agents of any state or local law-enforcement agency from inquiring into the immigration status of a person who is (i) a victim of a crime or a parent or guardian of a minor victim of a crime or (ii) a person who is a cooperating witness in the investigation of a crime or the parent or guardian of a minor witness to a crime. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB263 -- Grand larceny; threshold.` Increases from $500 to $2,000 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the classification of certain property crimes. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB264 -- Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence.` Removes the option for concealed handgun permit applicants to demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing an electronic, video, or online course conducted by a state-certified or National Rifle Association-certified firearms instructor. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB265 -- Decriminalization of simple marijuana possession.` Decriminalizes marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $25. Under current law, a first offense is punishable by a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum jail sentence of 30 days, and subsequent offenses are a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB266 -- Interest on fines and costs in legal infractions.` Eliminates the accrual of interest on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction. The bill provides that any such fine or costs that have accrued interest prior to July 1, 2020, shall cease to accrue interest on July 1, 2020, and such accrued interest may be waived by any court. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB267 -- Expungement of police and court records.` Provides that a court that enters a nolle prosequi for a criminal charge or dismisses such charge for any reason may, upon motion of the person charged, enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charge. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB268 -- Expungement of police/court records; 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 crimes to petition the court to vacate such conviction and expunge the police and court records related to such conviction or to expunge the police and court records related to such charge. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB269 -- Legalization of simple marijuana possession.` Eliminates criminal penalties for possession of marijuana for persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill also decriminalizes marijuana possession for persons under 21 years of age 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 violation. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB270 -- School lock-down drills; notice to parents.` Requires every public school to provide the parents of enrolled students with at least 24 hours' notice before the school conducts any lock-down drill. The bill specifies that no such notice is required to include the exact date and time of the lock-down drill. (VanValkenburg, D-Henrico)
`~HB271 -- School resource officers and school security officers.` Requires the Dept of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the Dept of Education and the Dept of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report, and publish data related to incidents involving students and school resource officers or school security officers. (VanValkenburg, D-Henrico)
`~HB272 -- School sixth grade science curriculum.` Directs the Dept of Education to coordinate with the Dept of Environmental Quality to update the "Window into a Green Virginia" curriculum developed by the Departments for sixth grade science to include a unit on the benefits, including the energy benefits, of recycling and reuse. (VanValkenburg, D-Henrico)
`~HB273 -- School boards; teachers; planning time and planning periods.` Requires each local school board to ensure that each elementary school teacher has an average of one 45-minute period per school day of planning time and that each middle and high school teacher is provided one planning period per school day or the equivalent, which shall be at least 45 minutes or one class period, whichever is longer. (VanValkenburg, D-Henrico)
`~HB274 -- Juveniles; trial as adult.` Increases from 14 years of age to 16 years of age the minimum age at which a juvenile can be tried as an adult in circuit court for a felony. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB275 -- Maximum number of judges in each judicial district.` Increases from 11 to 12 the maximum number of authorized general district court judgeships in the nineteenth judicial district. The Committee on District Courts recommended the additional judgeship in 2018. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB276 -- Virginia State Police; reporting hate crimes.` Includes within the definition of "hate crime" a criminal act committed against a person because of sexual orientation or gender identification and requires the reporting of the commission of such crime to the State Police. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB277 -- Community work to pay for court fines and costs.` Allows courts to provide an option to any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by earning credits for the performance of community service work during imprisonment. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB278 -- Home/electronic incarceration; payment to defray costs.` Changes from mandatory to optional the current requirement that the director or administrator of a home/electronic incarceration program charge an offender or accused a fee for participating in the program in order to pay for the cost of home/electronic incarceration equipment. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB279 -- Sentencing proceeding by the jury after conviction.` Provides that a jury may, in ascertaining the punishment for a person convicted of a felony or Class 1 misdemeanor, recommend that the sentence imposed be suspended in whole or in part, or that sentences imposed for multiple offenses be served concurrently, except where such suspension of sentence or concurrent service is prohibited by law. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB280 -- Death penalty; severe mental illness.` Provides that a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness, as defined in the bill, at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty. The bill establishes procedures for determining whether a defendant had a severe mental illness at the time of the offense and provides for the appointment of expert evaluators. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB281 -- Prisoners; medical care.` Eliminates the Department of Corrections prisoner co-payment program for nonemergency health care services. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB282 -- Scenic river designation; Maury River.` Designates a 19.25-mile segment of the Maury River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. (Campbell, R-Raphine)
`~HB283 -- Time limitations for highway construction and maintenance.` Prohibits construction or maintenance that blocks a lane of travel on a primary or interstate highway between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB284 -- Removal of dangerous roadside conditions; local option.` Authorizes any locality, by ordinance, to require the owner of any property located within five feet of any public right-of-way to remove any and all trees, tree limbs, shrubs, high grass, or other substance that might dangerously obstruct the line of sight of a driver, be involved in a collision with a vehicle, or interfere with the safe operation of a vehicle. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB285 -- Admission to bail; secure bond.` Prohibits a court from requiring the execution of a secure bond as a condition of pretrial release of a person arrested for either a felony or misdemeanor offense. (Carter, D-Manassas)
`~HB286 -- Grand larceny; threshold.` Increases from $500 to $1,500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the classification of certain property crimes. (Hayes, D-Chesapeake)
`~HB287 -- Dept of Social Services; retention of records.` Extends from one year to three years the period of time for which the Department of Social Services must retain records of unfounded investigations of child abuse or neglect before purging. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB288 -- Criminal sexual assault; definition of sexual abuse.` Includes in the definition of "sexual abuse" the intentional touching of any part of a complaining witness's body, on either the skin or the material covering the complaining witness's body, if the complaining witness is under the age of 13 and the act is committed with the intent to sexually molest, arouse, or gratify any person. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB289 -- Child abuse; interviews.` Requires that interviews of child victims of alleged sexual abuse be conducted as a forensic interview at the local child advocacy center in accordance with the center's protocol, unless a forensic interview is not appropriate based on the child's age and development or the center's protocol. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB290 -- Limitations period; previously time-barred actions; sexual abuse.` Creates a three-year time period within which persons previously time-barred from filing an action for injury to such person for sexual abuse occurring during the infancy or incapacity of such person due to the expiration of the statute of limitations may file such an action. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB291 -- Uniform Collaborative Law Act.` Creates the Uniform Collaborative Law Act, which provides a framework for the practice of collaborative law, a process entered into voluntarily by clients for the express purpose of reaching a settlement in a family or domestic relations law matter, including (i) marriage, divorce, dissolution, annulment, and property distribution; (ii) child custody, visitation, and parenting time; (iii) alimony, spousal support, maintenance, and child support; (iv) adoption; etc. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB292 -- School boards and law-enforcement agencies; frequency of review.` Shortens from every five years to every two years the frequency of the review period for memorandums of understanding between school boards and local law-enforcement agencies. (VanValkenburg, D-Henrico)
`~HB293 -- Expungement of records; nolle prosequi taken or acquittal.` Provides that a court that takes a nolle prosequi or enters a judgment acquitting a person of a criminal charge shall, upon motion of the person, enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charge. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB294 -- Expungement of records; misdemeanor convictions.` Allows a person convicted of a misdemeanor to file a petition requesting expungement of the police and court records relating to the conviction if (i) such person has been free from any term of incarceration, probation, and postrelease supervision imposed as a result of such conviction for at least two years and (ii) such person has no pending criminal proceeding. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB295 -- Maximum term of probation.` Limits to five years the term of probation for a person convicted of an offense other than a violent felony, an act of violence, or an offense for which registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB296 -- Transition of towns to cities.` Makes an exception to the current moratorium on the granting of new city charters by allowing towns with a population of greater than 50,000 that are transitioning to city status to seek a city charter. The bill contains a technical amendment. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB297 -- Goat grazing on stream buffers.` Authorizes a locality that procures and utilizes goats for the temporary grazing of stream buffers to remain in compliance with a resource management plan for pasture land. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB298 -- Misdemeanor sexual offenses where the victim is a minor.` Increases the statute of limitations for prosecuting misdemeanor violations where the victim is a minor from one year after the victim reaches the age of majority to seven years after the victim reaches the age of majority for the following misdemeanor violations: carnal knowledge of offender by employee of bail bond company, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery, infected sexual battery, etc. (Tran, D-Springfield)
`~HB299 -- Medical assistants; administration of fluoride varnish.` Allows a medical assistant to possess and administer topical fluoride varnish pursuant to an oral or written order or a standing protocol issued by a doctor of medicine, osteopathic medicine, or dentistry. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB300 -- Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes; compensation.` Prohibits any private or public college, athletic association, athletic conference, or other organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from (i) providing a prospective student-athlete with compensation that results from the use of the student's name, image, or likeness; etc. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB301 -- Decriminalization of simple marijuana possession.` Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty, payable to the Literary Fund, of no more than $100 for a first violation, $250 for a second violation, and $500 for a third or subsequent violation. Under current law, a first offense is punishable by a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence, and subsequent offenses are a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB302 -- Litter tax.` Repeals the annual litter tax. The bill does not affect any litter tax levied prior to July 1, 2020. (McNamara (R-Roanoke)
`~HB303 -- Clinical psychologists; telepsychology; out of state.` Allows clinical psychologists to provide services by telepsychology to established patients who are out of state at the time services are provided. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB304 -- Guardianship and conservatorship petitions.` Adds certain identifying characteristics of the respondent to the content requirements of a petition for the appointment of a guardian, a conservator, or both. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB305 -- Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging of wills.` Increases from $2 to $5 the fee that the circuit court clerk is required to charge for lodging, indexing, and preserving a will. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB306 -- Circuit court fees for recording and indexing.` Increases by $2 the fees for the recording and indexing of certain documents. The bill further increases from $1.50 to $3.50 the portion of the recording and indexing fee collected by circuit court clerks that is designated for use in preserving the permanent records of the circuit courts. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB307 -- Income tax subtraction; crime stopper rewards.` Increases from $1,000 to $5,000 the maximum amount that may be subtracted from taxable income for amounts received as a reward for providing information to a law-enforcement official or agency, that is used in the apprehension and conviction of perpetrators of crimes. (Cox, R-Colonial Heights)
`~HB308 -- Public school students; excused absences; mental health.` Requires the Dept of Education to establish and distribute to each school board, guidelines for the granting of excused absences to students who are absent from school due to mental or behavioral health and requires any student who is absent from school due to his mental or behavioral health to be granted an excused absence, subject to such guidelines. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB309 -- Transient occupancy tax; state parks.` Permits localities to impose transient occupancy taxes on transient room rentals and travel campgrounds in state parks. (Bloxom, R-Accomack)
`~HB310 -- Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; sunset.` Extends the sunset provision of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023. (Simonds, D-Newport News)
`~HB311 -- Local regulation of unmanned aerial systems.` Authorizes a political subdivision to adopt time, place, or manner restrictions regarding the takeoff or landing of unmanned aerial systems on property owned by the political subdivision. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB312 -- Board of Pharmacy; information about naloxone.` Directs the Board of Pharmacy to include in each annual license renewal communication information about the dispensing, possession, and administration of naloxone or other opioid antagonist, including information about laws governing same. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB313 -- Va Freedom of Information Act; library records.` Clarifies that information contained in library records that can be used to identify any library patron who has borrowed or accessed material or resources from a library as well as the material or resources such patron borrowed or accessed is exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB314 -- Historical African American cemeteries; Loudoun Co.` Adds Mt. Zion Old School Baptist Church Cemetery in Loudoun County, with 33 eligible graves, to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Dept of Historic Resources for the care of historical African American cemeteries and graves. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB315 -- Transient occupancy tax; Clarke County.` Adds Clarke County to the list of counties that may impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate above two percent, but not to exceed five percent. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB316 -- Refunds of local taxes; authority of treasurer.` Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the maximum amount at which the governing body of a locality may authorize its treasurer to approve and issue a refund of taxes paid as a result of an erroneous tax assessment. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB317 -- County food and beverage tax; maximum rate.` Provides that the county food and beverage tax may be increased to equal the highest rate imposed by an adjacent city if such rate is higher than four percent. Under current law, the maximum food and beverage tax rate for counties is four percent. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB318 -- Possession of ammunition on school property.` Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he knowingly possesses ammunition for a firearm upon the property of any public, private, or religious elementary, middle, or high school, including buildings and grounds, or on any school bus owned or operated by any such school. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB319 -- Redistricting; population data, reallocation of prison populations.` Provides for the preparation of adjusted population data for redistricting and reapportionment purposes to reflect the reallocation of persons incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB320 -- Expungement of certain convictions and police and court records.` Allows a person who has been convicted of (i) a felony or misdemeanor offense that has been decriminalized or otherwise made lawful or (ii) a felony offense that has been statutorily reduced to a misdemeanor offense since the conviction to file a petition requesting expungement of the police records and the court records relating to any misdemeanor or felony charge that has been decriminalized or otherwise made lawful. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB321 -- FOIA; electronic meetings, serious medical condition.` Adds to current provisions regarding meetings that a public body may conduct through electronic communication means a meeting for which on or before the day of a meeting a member of the public body holding the meeting notifies that such member is unable to attend the meeting due to a serious medical condition of an immediate family member. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB322 -- Cybersecurity Advisory Council; created, report.` Creates the Cybersecurity Advisory Council to assist the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency with the development of policies, standards, and guidelines for assessing security risks, determining appropriate security measures, and performing security audits of government electronic information. (Ayala, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB323 -- Criminal sexual assault; definition of intimate parts.` Includes in the definition of "intimate parts," for the purposes of criminal sexual assault, the chest of a child under the age of 15. (Ayala, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB324 -- Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman.` Establishes, in the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, the Office of the Independent Living Community Ombudsman, to promote and protect the interests of residents of independent living communities in the Commonwealth. (Ayala, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB325 -- Local alternative minimum wage.` Establishes a procedure by which a local alternative minimum wage may be imposed in any locality. A local alternative minimum wage requires every employer to pay to each of its employees wages at a rate to be determined by local ordinance for work performed by them within the locality. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB326 -- Employment; wage inquiries; civil penalty.` Prohibits any public or private employer from (i) refusing to interview, hire, or employ an applicant for employment because the applicant does not provide wage history; (ii) retaliating against an applicant for employment because the applicant does not provide wage history; or (iii) relying on the wage history of an applicant to determine the wages offered by the employer to such individual. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB327 -- Public employees; collective bargaining.` Authorizes state and local government officers, agents, and governing bodies to recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent of any public officers or employees and to collectively bargain with any such union or association. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB328 -- Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program.` Entitles individuals to a family and medical leave insurance (FMLI) benefit payment for each month they are engaged in qualified caregiving, not to exceed 60 qualified caregiving days per year. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB329 -- Va Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; notice of termination.` Provides that no notice of termination of tenancy served upon any residential tenant is effective unless it contains on its first page the name, address, and telephone number of the legal services program, if any, serving the jurisdiction in which the premises is located. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB330 -- Employment; covenants not to compete, low-wage employees.` Prohibits an employer from entering into a covenant not to compete with any of its low-wage employees. (VanValkenburg, D-Henrico)
`~HB331 -- Definition of incapacitated person.` Specifies that a particular clinical diagnosis shall not alone be sufficient evidence that an individual is an incapacitated person within the meaning of the definition of incapacitated person. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB332 -- Reading diagnostic tests; intervention.` Requires each student in kindergarten and grade one to participate in reading diagnostic tests that include a rapid automatized naming test and one or more rapid alternating stimulus tests. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB333 -- Virginia Minimum Wage Act; exclusions.` Eliminates the exclusion in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons whose employment is covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) and for persons whose earning capacity is impaired by physical deficiency, mental illness, or intellectual disability. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB334 -- Sale of manufactured home park to developer.` Provides that if the termination of a rental agreement is due to the sale of the manufactured home park by the landlord to a developer, the landlord shall be responsible for disposing of or otherwise removing a mobile home from the property in the event that the manufactured home owner is unable to sell or move the home within the required 180-day notice period. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB335 -- Payroll processing companies; liability.` Provides that any payroll processing company that intentionally prevents the distribution of an employer's wage payments to its employees in accordance with the terms of the payroll processing company's contract with the employer shall be liable to any employee of the employer who failed to receive an expected payment of wages for an amount three times the expected payment of wages. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB336 -- Nonpayment of wages; investigations.` Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB337 -- Nonpayment of wages; discriminatory actions prohibited.` Prohibits an employer from discharging or otherwise discriminating against an employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding related to the failure to pay wages, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB338 -- Va Minimum Wage Act; removes domestic service exemption.` Removes the exemption from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons employed in domestic service or in or about a private home or in an eleemosynary institution primarily supported by public funds. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB339 -- Va Minimum Wage Act; removes certain exemptions.` Removes the exemption from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for individuals who are employed by an employer that does not have four or more persons employed at any one time. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB340 -- Emergency civil relief; citizens of Va furloughed.` Provides a 30-day stay of eviction and foreclosure proceedings for tenants, homeowners, and owners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who provide written proof that they are an employee or contractor of the U.S. government who was furloughed. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB341 -- Dept of Taxation sharing info with the Dept of Social Services.` Authorizes the Department of Taxation to share tax information related to the federal earned income tax credit and the Virginia income tax credit for low-income taxpayers with the Department of Social Services as necessary to administer outreach and enrollment related to such credits. (Roem, D-Manassas Park)
`~HB342 -- Meals tax; exemption for farmers market and roadside stands.` Exempts from meals tax, which may be imposed by any city or town, and food and beverage tax, which may be imposed by any county, sales by sellers at local farmers markets and roadside stands, when such sellers' annual income from such sales does not exceed $2,500. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB343 -- Donation of in-kind resources to volunteer organizations.` Expands the scope of permitted in-kind donations by a locality to include the provision of in-kind resources for contract management services for capital projects; assistance in preparing requests for information, bids, or proposals; and budgeting services to any volunteer association. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB344 -- Exhaust system; aftermarket exhausts.` Authorizes the use of aftermarket exhaust systems in motor vehicles, provided that such system is appropriate for the motor vehicle and prevents a level of noise above the accepted industry standard. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB345 -- Charter; Town of Scottsville.` Provides staggered elections for the town council and removes authority of the town council to appoint other police officers besides the town sergeant. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB346 -- Dept of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.` Redefines "small business" for the purposes of programs for the Dept of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and the Virginia Public Procurement Act to mean a business that together with its affiliates has both 250 or fewer employees and average annual gross receipts, less the cost of goods sold by the business, of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB347 -- Permits to process and dispense cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil.` Increases from one to two the number of pharmaceutical processor permits the Board of Pharmacy may issue or renew for each health service area in any year and allows each pharmaceutical processor to whom a permit has been issued by the Board of Pharmacy to operate up to two off-site dispensing facilities for the dispensing of cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB348 -- Health insurance; authorization of drug.` Requires that any provider contract between a carrier and a participating health care provider with prescriptive authority, or its contracting agent, provide that no prior authorization is required for any drug prescribed by a psychiatrist. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB349 -- Hemp products; regulation; advertising.` Directs the Board of Agriculture and consumer services to adopt regulations prohibiting any person who is not a credentialed medical professional from wearing a white laboratory coat or jacket or other medical attire or device in any hemp product advertisement or marketing material that could reasonably be expected to portray such person as a medical professional. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB350 -- Best interests of the child; frequent contact with each parent.` Requires that the court consider, when appropriate, frequent and continuing contact with each parent when determining the best interests of the child for purposes of determining custody or visitation arrangements. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB351 -- School bus drivers; critical shortages.` Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the assistance of each school board or division superintendent, to survey each local school division to identify critical shortages of school bus drivers by geographic area and local school division and to report any such critical shortage to each local school division and to the Virginia Retirement System. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB352 -- Va Fusion Intelligence Center; school safety mobile app.` Requires the Va Fusion Intelligence Center to develop or obtain a school safety mobile application to (i) facilitate the provision of free, confidential, real-time, 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week crisis intervention services by licensed clinicians, including support or crisis counseling, suicide prevention, and referral services to students and youth in the Commonwealth through calls, texts, and online chats. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB353 -- Alcoholic beverage control; confectionery license; definition of liquid.` Defines liquid for purposes of the confectionery license to mean a substance that (i) is composed of molecules that move freely among themselves, (ii) has no independent shape but a definite volume, and (iii) is neither gaseous, solid, nor semi-solid. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB354 -- Financial institutions; liability when attorney-in-fact disregarded.` Provides that neither an individual nor his attorney-in-fact is liable to repay a loan made by a financial institution to the individual when the individual's attorney-in-fact has requested or instructed the financial institution not to lend funds to the individual and the financial institution loans money to the individual in disregard of the request or instruction. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB355 -- Firearm transfers; criminal history record checks.` Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the Department of State Police to establish a process for transferors of firearms to obtain such a check from licensed firearms dealers. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB356 -- Child labor; tobacco farms; civil penalty.` Prohibits any person from employing a child under the age of 18 to work in direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves unless (i) the owner of the farm or other location at which such work is conducted is the child's parent, grandparent, or legal guardian or (ii) the child's parent or legal guardian has consented in writing to such employment. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB357 -- Va Fair Housing Law; discriminatory housing practices.` Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of income to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB358 -- Project labor agreements; public procurement.`	`~HB359 -- Va Public Procurement Act; consideration of best value concepts.` Permits public bodies to consider best value concepts when procuring construction services. Under current law, public bodies may consider best value concepts only when procuring goods and nonprofessional services. (Lopez, D-Arlington)
`~HB360 -- Elections; ranked choice voting for open primaries.` All candidates for a particular office, regardless of political party affiliation, are on a single ballot. The four candidates receiving the highest numbers of votes are the candidates for that office at the general election. (Rasoul, D-Roanoke)
`~HB361 -- Family caregiver tax credit.` Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit beginning in taxable year 2020 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member who requires assistance with one or more activities of daily living. (Rasoul, D-Roanoke)
`~HB362 -- Capacity determinations; physician assistant.` Expands the class of health care practitioners who can make the determination that a patient is incapable of making informed decisions to include a licensed physician assistant. (Rasoul, D-Roanoke)
`~HB363 -- State subsidy of property tax exemptions for disabled veterans.` Requires the Commonwealth to subsidize local real estate tax relief for disabled veterans and surviving spouses of members of the armed forces killed in action when more than one percent of a locality's real estate tax base is lost due to such state-mandated tax relief programs. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB364 -- Statewide prioritization process; project selection.` Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board, when evaluating projects under the statewide prioritization process known as SMART SCALE, to evaluate (i) congestion mitigation on the basis of total traffic volumes, not just traffic volumes during weekdays, and (ii) accessibility on the basis of the area of influence of a project for a radius of 55 miles. (Cole, R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB365 -- School teachers; probationary term, performance evaluation.` Removes (i) the option for local school boards to extend the three-year probationary term of service for teachers by up to two additional years and (ii) the prohibition against school boards reemploying any teacher whose performance evaluation during the probationary term of service is unsatisfactory. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB366 -- Public defender offices; Manassas, Manassas Park, Prince William Co.` Establishes a public defender office for the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and the County of Prince William. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB367 -- Donated human breast milk; payment of medical assistance.` Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include a provision for the payment of medical assistance for pasteurized donated human breast milk acquired from a licensed human breast milk bank and provides for the licensure and regulation of human breast milk banks by the Dept of Health. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB368 -- Public schools; enrollment; children placed in foster care.` Specifies, for the purpose of several provisions of law relating to the public school enrollment of children placed in foster care, that a child or student placed in foster care includes a pupil who was in foster care when he reached age 18 but such pupil has not yet reached age 22. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB369 -- Furloughs from local work release programs; approval by police.` Provides that any furlough permitted by the director of a work release program for an offender participating in the work release program shall be subject to approval by the chief law-enforcement official of the locality in which the prisoner will stay. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB370 -- Board of zoning appeals; dual office holding.` Authorizes a member of a board of zoning appeals to be appointed to also serve as an officer of election. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB371 -- Adoption by stepparent; background check.` Repeals the July 1, 2020, sunset on provisions that require a circuit court to consider the results of a national criminal history background check conducted on the prospective adoptive parent. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB372 -- Violation of protective orders; assault and battery.` Removes the requirement that a violation of a protective order involving an assault and battery that is committed by the respondent against a protected party result in a bodily injury for the enhanced penalty to apply. (Bell, R-Charlottesville)
`~HB373 -- Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship.` A bill to repeal § 18.2-283 of the Code of Virginia, relating to carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship. (McGuire, R-Glen Allen)
`~HB374 -- Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming.` Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). Casino gaming shall be limited to certain cities that meet the criteria that is outlined in the bill, and a referendum must be passed in the city on the question of allowing casino gaming in the city. (Kilgore, R-Gate City)
`~HB375 -- Postsecondary schools; enrollment agreements; disputes.` Requires each postsecondary school that requires any student to submit to arbitration to resolve disputes with the school pursuant to an enrollment agreement to permit the student to report the dispute to any other individual or entity before the arbitration proceeding is initiated or completed. (Willett, D-Henrico)
`~HB376 -- Teacher and support staff shortages; data; reporting.` Requires (i) each school board to report to the Dept of Education annually the number and type of teacher and support staff vacancies in the school division and (ii) each education preparation program to report to the Dept of Education annually the number of individuals who graduated from the program during the current calendar year, by endorsement area. (Willett, D-Henrico)
`~HB377 -- Holding a personal communications device while driving.` The bill expands exemptions in the current law to include handheld personal communications devices that are being held and used (a) as an amateur radio or a citizens band radio or (b) for official Department of Transportation or traffic incident management services. (Willett, D-Henrico)
`~HB378 -- Comprehensive harm reduction programs; repeal sunset.` Repeals the sunset on the program established in 2017 that allows the Commissioner of Health to establish and operate local or regional comprehensive harm reduction programs during a declared public health emergency that include a provision for the distribution of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes and the disposal of used hypodermic needles and syringes. (Rasoul, D-Roanoke)
`~HB379 -- Historical African American cemeteries; Arlngton Co.` Adds three cemeteries in Arlington County to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Dept of Historic Resources for the care of historical African American cemeteries and graves. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB380 -- Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); apportionment.` Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject amendments to the Constitution of Virginia establishing the Virginia Redistricting Commission and providing for the reapportionment of the Commonwealth to be done by such Commission. If approved by the voters, the amendments would become effective on November 15, 2020. (Cole (R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB381 -- Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission.` Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) pursuant to Article II, Sections 6 and 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia. The Commission, tasked with establishing districts for the United States House of Representatives and for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly, will consist of eight legislative commissioners and eight citizen commissioners. (Cole (R-Fredericksburg)
`~HB382 -- Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund; grant program.` Changes the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund (the Fund) from a lending program to a grant program. The bill directs the Fund to grant money to localities to enable them to offer cost-sharing programs to help residents and businesses that are subject to recurrent flooding. (Fowler, D-Virginia Beach)
`~HB383 -- Law-Enforcement Officer Tuition Grant Fund.` Establishes the Law-Enforcement Officer Tuition Grant Fund and requires the Dept of Criminal Justice Services to establish the Law-Enforcement Officer Tuition Grant Program for the purpose of providing grants from the Fund on a competitive basis to local law-enforcement agencies to cover the cost of tuition, books, and mandatory fees at a public institution of higher education for up to two years. (Fowler, D-Virginia Beach)
`~HB384 -- Presumption of death; confessions or convictions of murder.` Provides that any person who is a resident of the Commonwealth shall be presumed dead if such person has disappeared, his body has not been found, he is not known to be alive, and an individual has confessed to such person's murder under oath or has been convicted of such murder. (Fowler, D-Virginia Beach)
`~HB385 -- Practice of chiropractic; definition.` Clarifies the definition of "practice of chiropractic" to make clear that a doctor of chiropractic may request, receive, and review a patient's medical and physical history, including information related to past surgical and nonsurgical treatment of the patient and controlled substances prescribed to patients. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB386 -- Conversion therapy, prohibited by certain health care providers.` Prohibits any health care provider from engaging in conversion therapy, as defined in the bill, with any person under 18 years of age and provides that such counseling constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for disciplinary action. (You can teach them to be queer, but you can't set them straight.) (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB387 -- Use of mobile phones; school zones and school property.` Adds school crossing zones and school property to the locations in which a driver is prohibited from holding a handheld personal communications device in his hand while driving a motor vehicle, with certain exceptions. (Edmunds, R-South Boston)
`~HB388 -- Special license to hunt elk.` Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries (the Board) to create a special license for hunting elk in the elk management zone that is required in addition to a general hunting license. (Edmunds, R-South Boston)
`~HB389 -- Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction and Bond Rating Protection Act.` Establishes the Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction and Bond Rating Protection Act of 2020, which establishes the Commonwealth of Virginia as a nonfederal sponsor of hurricane and flooding risk reduction projects. (Miyares, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB390 -- Alcoholic beverage control; license and fee reform.` Reorganizes all alcoholic beverage control licenses pursuant to the three-tier structure and license privileges, consolidates many licenses with common privileges, aligns license fee amounts with enforcement demands, and standardizes quantity limits on alcohol samples. (Knight, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB391 -- Food stamps; eligibility, drug-related felonies.` Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive food stamp benefits shall not be denied such assistance solely because he has been convicted of a drug-related felony. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB392 -- School boards; applicants for employment and volunteer service; criminal history.` Prohibits each school board from employing or accepting the volunteer service of any individual who has been convicted of a violent felony set forth in subsection C of § 17.1-805 of the Code of Virginia or any offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse, or rape of a child. (Ward, D-Hampton)
`~HB393 -- Landlord and tenant; tenant rights and responsibilities.` Requires that the Director of Housing and Community Development develop a Tenant Bill of Rights explaining in plain language the rights and responsibilities of tenants under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and maintain such statement on the Department's website. (Ward, D-Hampton)
`~HB394 -- Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; position created.` The Director is empowered to (i) develop a sustainable framework to promote inclusive practices across state government; (ii) implement a measurable, strategic plan to address systemic inequities in state government practices; and (iii) facilitate methods to turn feedback and suggestions from state employees, external stakeholders, and community leaders into concrete equity policy. (Ward, D-Hampton)
`~HB395 -- Minimum wage.` Similar to SB7, increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $9 per hour effective July 1, 2020; to $11 per hour effective July 1, 2021; to $13 per hour effective July 1, 2022; and to $15 per hour effective July 1, 2023, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. (Ward, D-Hampton)
`~HB396 -- Redevelopment and housing authority; compensation of commissioners.` Increases from $150 to $500 per month the maximum compensation that may be paid to a redevelopment and housing authority commissioner. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB397 -- Governing boards of public colleges; input from faculty senate.` Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to solicit the input of the institution's faculty senate or its equivalent (i) at least twice per academic year and (ii) regarding the search for candidates for the position of chief executive officer of the institution. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB398 -- School counselors and social workers; student to position ratio.` Requires school boards to employ one school counselor and one social worker for every 250 students in each elementary school, middle school, and high school in which at least 50 percent of the students are eligible for federal free lunch. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB399 -- Public education; state accountability; student subgroup size.` Requires, for the purposes of ensuring state accountability pursuant to relevant federal law and publicly reporting the assessment scores of student subgroups, the minimum student subgroup size to be 10. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB400 -- Fostering Futures program; established.` Establishes the Fostering Futures program to provide services and support to individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 who were in foster care as a minor and are transitioning to full adulthood and self-sufficiency. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB401 -- Compensation of court-appointed counsel; waivers.` Allows court-appointed counsel for parents in child welfare cases to submit a waiver application for additional compensation of $120 in district court and $158 for cases appealed to the circuit court. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB402 -- Public schools; lock-down drills.` Requires every public school at which sixth grade is the highest grade taught to hold at least one lock-down drill after the first 60 days of the school session and every public school at which seventh grade or any grade above seventh grade is taught to hold at least two lock-down drills after the first 60 days of the school session. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB403 -- Safe days for employees.` Requires private employers to allow an employee safe days, with pay, if the employee is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking or is a family member of a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB404 -- Public libraries.` Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth that public libraries are deemed to provide an essential service to the communities of the Commonwealth. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB405 -- Menstrual supplies; certain school buildings.` Requires each school board to make tampons and pads available at all times and at no cost to students in the bathrooms of each facility that it owns, leases, or otherwise controls that houses a public school at which any student in grades five through 12 is enrolled. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB406 -- Comparative report of local government revenues and expenditures.` Changes the annual deadline for local submittal of the comparative report of local government revenues and expenditures to the Auditor of Public Accounts from November 30 to December 15 and the annual deadline for the statement of the Auditor of Public Accounts showing in detail the total and per capita revenues and expenditures of all localities for the preceding fiscal year from January 31 to February 15. (Subramanyam, D-Sterling)
`~HB407 -- Va Public Procurement Act; failure to pay unemployment taxes.` Prohibits state agencies from contracting for goods and services from a nongovernmental source if that source, or any affiliate of the source, is required to remit unemployment taxes but fails or refuses to do so. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB408 -- Green Job Creation Tax Credit; sunset date.` Extends the sunset date of the green job creation tax credit from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2026. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB409 -- State plan for medical assistance; orthotic devices.` Directs 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 medically necessary orthotic devices, including braces, splints, and supports, for adults enrolled in the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB410 -- Parental notice; literacy screening and services.` Requires each local school board to enact a policy to require that notice is provided to the parents of any student who receives literacy and Response to Intervention screening and services. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB411 -- DMV; information for veterans.` Requires the Dept of Motor Vehicles to offer information on veteran services available in the Commonwealth to any person who identifies himself as a veteran on a document submitted to the Dept. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB412 -- Family or household member; definition.` Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" any individual who is in or who, within the previous 12 months, has been in a dating relationship with the person. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB413 -- Subdivision ordinance; energy efficiency and renewable energy provisions.` Authorizes a local governing body to include in its subdivision ordinance provisions for establishing minimum standards of energy efficiency and establishing and maintaining access to sources of renewable energy. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB414 -- Va Energy Plan; covenants regarding solar power.` Provides that a restriction on solar energy collection devices is unreasonable if it increases the cost of the solar energy collection device by $1,000 over the cost originally proposed or causes a decrease in production or estimated production of more than 10 percent compared with the design as originally proposed. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB415 -- School discipline; suspension; access to graded work.` Requires school boards to adopt policies and procedures to ensure suspended students are able to access and complete graded work during the suspension. (Delaney, D-Centreville)
`~HB416 -- Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty.` Prohibits a prospective employer from requiring as a condition of employment that a prospective employee provide or disclose the prospective employee's wage or salary history, or attempting to obtain the wage or salary history of a prospective employee from the prospective employee's current or former employers. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB417 -- Employment; requiring the purchase or provision of materials.` Prohibits any employer, including state or local government, from requiring any employee to purchase from the employer or any other person necessary or required for the employee to perform or complete the work for which he was hired. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB418 -- Earned sick leave for employees; civil penalties.` Requires employers to provide earned sick leave to employees at a rate of one hour per 30 hours worked, up to 24 hours in any 12-month period. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB419 -- Va Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program established.` ... to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, for the purpose of annually providing to each Historically Black College or University in the Commonwealth (Hampton University, Norfolk State University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Union University) such sums as are necessary for each such institution to annually provide scholarships on a competitive basis to no more than two students. (Cole, D-Stafford)
`~HB420 -- Dept of Emergency Management; responsibilities of political subdivisions.` Directs the Dept of Emergency Management (the Department) to ensure that the model school crisis and emergency management plan developed by the Board of Education in consultation with the Department is designed to include and reach individuals with limited English proficiency, disabilities, and other special needs. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB421 -- Control of firearms by localities.` Grants localities authority to adopt or enforce an ordinance, resolution, or motion governing the possession, carrying, storage, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof in the locality. Various provisions limiting such authority are repealed. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB422 -- Youth and Gang Violence Prevention Grant Fund.` Establishes the Youth and Gang Violence Prevention Grant Fund and Program, to be administered by the Dept of Criminal Justice Services, for the purpose of awarding grants to the Cities of Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke for the purpose of performing community assessments for youth and gang violence prevention. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB423 -- Gun Violence Survivor Assistance Fund.` Establishes the Gun Violence Survivor Assistance Fund and Grant Program, to be administered by the Dept of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of providing grants to gun violence survivors who are in need of financial assistance to make accessibility adaptations to their homes to accommodate a disability resulting from a gun violence-related injury. (Price, D-Newport News)
`~HB424 -- Requiring a school resource officer in every school.` Requires each local school board to place a school resource officer in each public elementary and secondary school, funded by a 44% tax on booze. (McGuire, R-Glen Allen)
`~HB425 -- Transfer of multiple firearms; report to State Police.` Any dealer who sells, trades, or transfers more than two firearms to an individual in a single transaction shall report such transaction to the State Police on a form provided by the State Police. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB426 -- Prohibited public carrying of certain firearms.` It shall be unlawful for any person to carry a loaded a semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol and is equipped with a magazine that will hold more than 20 rounds of ammunition or designed by the manufacturer to accommodate a silencer or equipped with a folding stock. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB427 -- Manufacture, import, or possession of undetectable firearms.` It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, sell, transfer, or possess (i) any plastic firearm or (ii) any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, is not detectable as a firearm by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports for security screening. (Simon, D-Falls Church)
`~HB428 -- Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-3711, 19.2-389, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, 58.1-4002, 58.1-4006, and 59.1-364 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulation of casino gaming by Virginia Lottery Board. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB429 -- Free use of toll facilities; teachers, firefighters, and EMPs.` A bill to amend and reenact § 33.2-613 of the Code of Virginia, relating to free use of toll facilities; teachers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB430 -- Parole; application of statutes.` The Parole Board shall establish procedures for consideration of parole for persons who were previously ineligible for parole pursuant to the former § 53.1-165.1 in a manner consistent with the provisions of § 53.1-154 to allow for an extension of time for reasonable cause. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB431 -- Conditional release of geriatric prisoners.` Any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, (i) who has reached the age of 65 or older and who has served at least five years of the sentence imposed or (ii) who has reached the age of 60 or older and who has served at least 10 years of the sentence imposed shall be granted conditional release. (Scott, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB432 -- Public utilities; use of small, woman-owned, or minority-owned business.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 56-235.1:2, relating to public utility ratemaking; reasonableness of costs of contracting with small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB433 -- Minimum wage.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 40.1-28.9 and 40.1-28.10 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the minimum wage. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB434 -- State parks; lifetime senior parking pass.` The Department shall establish a lifetime senior parking pass card that authorizes any person who has paid a one-time fee and has reached the age of 60 to park at any of Virginia's state parks without being required to pay a parking fee at such park. The card shall remain valid during the lifetime of the person. (Robinson, R-Chesterfield)
`~HB435 -- Va Security for Public Deposits Act; collateral; amended.` Every qualified public depository shall deposit with a qualified escrow agent eligible collateral equal to or in excess of the required collateral within two business days of accepting the public deposits. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB436 -- Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act; disclosure of ID info.` A bill to amend and reenact § 20-146.20 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act; disclosure of identifying information; affidavit or pleading. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB437 -- Dept of General Services; disposition of surplus materials.` Permit surplus materials to be sold, prior to public sale or auction, to (i) service disabled veteran-owned businesses, (ii) veterans service organizations, and (iii) military spouse-owned businesses. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB438 -- Workers' comp; PTSD; police officers and firefighters.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 65.2 a section numbered 65.2-107, relating to workers' compensation; compensability of post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by a law-enforcement officer or firefighter. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB439 -- Relocation of call centers to a foreign country.` Any employer that intends to relocate a call center, or one or more facilities or operating units within a call center comprising at least 30 percent of the call center's total volume when measured against the previous 12-month average call volume, from the Commonwealth to a foreign country shall notify the Commissioner at least 120 days before such relocation. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB440 -- Railroads; freight train crew size requirements.` A train or light engine used in connection with the movement of railroad freight shall not be operated in the Commonwealth unless the train or light engine has a crew of at least two individuals. (Heretick, D-Portsmouth)
`~HB441 -- Charter; Town of Middleburg.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 3.4, 3.7, 4.1, as amended, and 4.2 of Chapter 423 of the Acts of Assembly of 1983 and to amend Chapter 423 of the Acts of Assembly of 1983 by adding sections numbered 3.3:1, 4.1:1, 4.1:2, and 4.1:3, which provided a charter for the Town of Middleburg in Loudoun County, relating to powers of council and mayor, salaries, and appointed officers. (Gooditis, D-Clarke)
`~HB442 -- Health insurance; coverage for donated human breast milk.` A bill to amend and reenact § 38.2-4319 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38.2-3418.18, relating to health insurance; coverage for expenses incurred in the provision of donated human breast milk. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB443 -- Coal combustion residuals impoundment; Giles and Russell Counties.` A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 10.1-1402.04, relating to closure of certain coal combustion residuals impoundments; Giles and Russell Counties. (Foy, D-Woodbridge)
`~HB444 -- Throwing or depositing grass upon certain highways.` No person shall intentionally throw or deposit or intentionally cause to be deposited upon any paved highway with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour or greater any grass or grass clippings. A violation of this section is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor. (Robinson, R-Chesterfield)
`~HB445 -- Light units; candlepower to lumens.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-1004, 46.2-1012, 46.2-1020, and 46.2-2099.50 of the Code of Virginia, relating to light units; candlepower to be henceforth expressed as lumens. (Robinson, R-Chesterfield)
`~HB446 -- Dept of General Services; disposition of surplus materials.` A bill to amend and reenact § 2.2-1124 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Dept of General Services; disposition of surplus materials; donation of surplus computers; United States military. (McGuire, R-Glen Allen)
`~HB447 -- Active duty military personnel or reservists or guard members.` A bill to amend and reenact § 23.1-505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to active duty military personnel or activated or temporarily mobilized reservists or guard members; dependents; eligibility for in-state tuition and other educational benefits. (Murphy, D-McLean)
`~HB448 -- Management of the menhaden fishery.` Like HB79, requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations to implement the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden and authorizes the Commission to adopt regulations for managing the Commonwealth's menhaden fishery. (Guy, D-Virginia Beach)
`~HB449 -- Unlawful hunting, fishing, or trapping; prohibition upon conviction.` If found hunting, trapping, or fishing within 12 months succeeding the date of a prior conviction, the person is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor and may also be prohibited by the court from hunting, fishing, or trapping for an additional period of one to five years. (Fowler (R-Ashland)
`~HB450 -- Appeal of involuntary admission order; possession of firearms.` A bill to amend and reenact § 37.2-821 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appeal of involuntary admission order; possession of firearms; penalty. (Levine, D-Alexandria)
`~HB451 -- Conduct of charitable gaming.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 18.2-340.19, 18.2-340.24, 18.2-340.25, 18.2-340.27, 18.2-340.28, 18.2-340.28:1, and 18.2-340.33 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal § 18.2-340.27:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the conduct of charitable gaming. (Fowler (R-Ashland)
`~HB452 -- Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchases.` A bill to amend and reenact § 2.2-4303 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchases. (Murphy, D-McLean)
`~HB453 -- Trespass with drone aircraft; local or state correctional facilities.` Like HB118, provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned aircraft system to come within 400 feet of the lateral boundaries of any local or state correctional facility, for any reason, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Wyatt, R-Mechanicsville)
`~HB454 -- Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase programs for recycled goods.` The Dept of General Services shall promote the Commonwealth's interest in materials and products certified as climate positive and develop procedures to procure materials and products certified as climate positive by a third party approved by the Director of the Department of General Services. (Wyatt, R-Mechanicsville)
`~HB455 -- Va Community Colleges; Temporary Assistance Scholarship.` A bill to direct the Virginia Community College System to establish the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Scholarship Pilot Program. (Murphy, D-McLean)
`~HB456 -- Public colleges; veterans; withdrawal; tuition refund.` Each public institution of higher education shall provide a refund of the tuition and mandatory fees paid by any veteran student for any course from which such veteran student is forced to withdraw, for the first time, due to a service-connected medical condition during a semester. (Murphy, D-McLean)
`~HB457 -- Public colleges; distance learning reciprocity agreements.` Any degree-granting postsecondary school providing distance learning to residents of the Commonwealth from a location outside the Commonwealth shall be a participant in any interstate reciprocity agreement to which the Commonwealth belongs, in accordance with the Council's authority under § 23.1-211, for the purpose of consumer protection. (Murphy, D-McLean)
`~HB458 -- Purchase, possession, and transportation of firearms; fugitives; penalty.` It is unlawful for any person who is a fugitive, as defined in § 18.2-308.2:2, to purchase, possess, or transport any firearm. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB459 -- Possession or transportation of firearms following conviction.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 18.2-308.09, 18.2-308.2:1, 18.2-308.2:2, 18.2-308.2:3, and 19.2-386.28 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-308.1:6, relating to purchase, possession, and transport of firearms following certain convictions; permit to restore rights; penalty. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB460 -- Claims; Winston Lamont Scott.` A bill for the relief of Winston Lamont Scott, spent more than five years in prison within the Virginia Dept of Corrections for crimes he did not commit. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB461 -- Renewable energy property tax credit.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 13 of Chapter 3 of Title 58.1 a section numbered 58.1-439.12:13, relating to tax credit for placing into service renewable energy property. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB462 -- Secretary of Health and Human Resources; task force; shortage.` A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to establish a task force to study the shortage of certified sexual assault nurse examiners in the Commonwealth; report. (Sullivan, D-Arlington)
`~HB463 -- Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty.` A bill to amend and reenact § 18.2-56.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. (Hayes, D-Chesapeake)
`~HB464 -- Charter; City of Virginia Beach.` A bill to amend Chapter 147 of the Acts of Assembly of 1962, which provided a charter for the City of Virginia Beach, by adding a section numbered 3.02:3, relating to resignation of council members to run for new seat. (Fowler, D-Virginia Beach)
`~HB465 -- Local regulation of certain transportation companies.` A bill to amend and reenact § 46.2-1315 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local regulation of certain transportation companies offering motorized skateboards or scooters, bicycles, or electric power-assisted bicycles for hire in the locality. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB466 -- Business license waivers.` A bill to amend and reenact § 58.1-3703.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to business license waivers. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB467 -- Va Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement.` A bill to amend and reenact § 2.2-4304 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; construction. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB468 -- Office of the Election Fraud Ombudsman.` Any complaint or allegation concerning unlawful conduct under this title shall be filed with the Office of the Election Fraud Ombudsman. Any complaint or allegation received by an attorney for the Commonwealth, State Board, or other entity shall be referred by that entity to the Office of the Election Fraud Ombudsman. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB469 -- Sales and use tax exemption for menstrual supplies.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 58.1-609.10 and 58.1-611.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sales and use tax exemption for menstrual supplies, including menstrual cups and pads, pantyliners, sanitary napkins, tampons, and other products used to absorb or contain menstrual flow. (Keam, D-Vienna)
`~HB470 -- Protective orders on behalf of incapacitated persons.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 16.1-253.1, 16.1-279.1, 19.2-152.9, and 19.2-152.10 of the Code of Virginia, relating to protective orders on behalf of incapacitated persons. (Mullin, D-Newport News)
`~HB471 -- Health professionals; reporting unprofessional conduct.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-2400.6 and 54.1-2909 of the Code of Virginia, relating to health professionals; unprofessional conduct; reporting. (Collins, R-Winchester)
`~HB472 -- Dept of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.` A bill to amend and reenact § 2.2-1616 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Dept of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; Small Business Investment Grant Fund; scoring system. (Runion, R-Bridgewater)
`~HB473 -- Personal data; Virginia Privacy Act.` A bill to amend and reenact § 59.1-200 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 59.1 a chapter numbered 52, consisting of sections numbered 59.1-571 through 59.1-579, relating to the management and oversight of personal data. (Sickles, D-Alexandria)
`~HB474 -- Certified community health workers.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-15.1, relating to certified community health workers. (Guzman, D-Dale City)
`~HB475 -- Va sexual assault forensic examiner coordination program.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 9.1 an article numbered 14, consisting of a section numbered 9.1-191, relating to Virginia sexual assault forensic coordination program. (Mullin, D-Newport News)
`~HB476 -- Expungement of records; misdemeanor and nonviolent felony convictions.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 19.2-392.1, 19.2-392.2, and 19.2-392.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to expungement of police and court records; misdemeanor and nonviolent felony convictions. (Guzman, D-Dale City)
`~HB477 -- Juveniles; trial as adult.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 16.1-241, 16.1-269.1, 16.1-269.2, and 16.1-277.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to juveniles; trial as adult. (Guzman, D-Dale City)
`~HB478 -- Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography.` A bill to amend and reenact § 18.2-374.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; venue. (Mullin, D-Newport News)
`~HB479 -- Death certificate; veterans; fees.` Whenever any veteran or his surviving spouse requires a certified copy of a vital record to obtain service-connected benefits, one copy of such record shall be provided directly to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs upon their request and one copy shall be provided to (i) the veteran or his surviving spouse, upon request, or (ii) upon request of the surviving spouse of a veteran to any funeral director or funeral service licensee providing funeral services for the veteran. (Kilgore, R-Gate City)
`~HB480 -- VRS; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers.` A bill to amend and reenact § 51.1-138 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. (Subramanyam (D-Sterling)
`~HB481 -- Decriminalization of simple marijuana possession.` Like HB301, decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty, payable to the Literary Fund, of no more than $100 for a first violation, $250 for a second violation, and $500 for a third or subsequent violation. Under current law, a first offense is punishable by a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence, and subsequent offenses are a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB482 -- Nonpayment of wages; private action.` Like HB123, provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages to recover the amount of wages due plus interest at eight percent annually from the date the wages were due. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB483 -- Standards of Learning; review; racism and inequity.` The Board of Education shall establish a regular schedule, in a manner it deems appropriate, for the review, and revision as may be necessary, of the Standards of Learning in all subject areas that includes consideration of the need for revisions to remove any racist or inequitable elements of such standards. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB484 -- Hemp products; regulation; labeling.` Like HB249, directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt regulations prohibiting the use of the term "CBD" in connection with a hemp product, which current law defines to include any lawful product that contains industrial hemp, including oil containing an industrial hemp extract. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB485 -- Best interests of the child; frequent contact with each parent.` Like HB350, requires that the court consider, when appropriate, frequent and continuing contact with each parent when determining the best interests of the child for purposes of determining custody or visitation arrangements. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB486 -- Additional sales and use tax in Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Danville.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 58.1-602, 58.1-605, 58.1-605.1, and 58.1-606.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to additional local sales and use tax in Henry County, Pittsylvania County, and the City of Danville; appropriations of Henry County and Pittsylvania County to incorporated towns for educational purposes. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB487 -- Life insurance; notarized signature.` No individual life insurance policy delivered or issued for delivery in the Commonwealth on or after January 1, 2021, shall be effective unless the policy contains the notarized signature of the individual on whose life the policy is issued. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB488 -- Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, etc; penalty.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 8.01-42.1, 8.01-49.1, 18.2-57, 18.2-121, and 52-8.5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. (Kory, D-Falls Church)
`~HB489 -- Va Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibitions on smoking.` A bill to amend and reenact § 15.2-2824 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibitions on smoking; satellite facilities. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB490 -- Farm vehicles; use.` Like HB193, no person shall be required to obtain the registration certificate, license plates, or decals for or pay a registration fee for any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer used exclusively for agricultural or horticultural purposes on lands owned or leased by the vehicle's owner. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB491 -- Industrial hemp marketing plan; report.` The Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority (the Authority) shall develop a marketing plan for industrial hemp that shall include (i) identification of specific and measurable marketing goals, (ii) identification of specific marketing activities, and (iii) the development of quantifiable metrics and performance measures for attaining each such goal. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB492 -- City of Martinsville; transition to town status.` A BILL to provide for a special election relating to transition of a city to town status. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB493 -- City of Martinsville; transition to town status.` Same as HB492. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB494 -- City reversion to town status.` A bill to amend and reenact § 15.2-4101 of the Code of Virginia, relating to city reversion to town status. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB495 -- Prohibition against gambling; exception for private clubs.` A bill to amend and reenact § 18.2-334 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the prohibition against participation in games of chance; exception for private clubs. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB496 -- Va Tourism Authority; marketing model for casinos.` The Executive Director of the Virginia Tourism Authority shall develop a state and local tourist marketing model for casinos in the Commonwealth that shall include (i) identification of specific and measurable marketing goals and the timetables, (ii) identification of specific marketing activities, and (iii) the development of quantifiable metrics and performance measures for attaining each such goal. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB497 -- Registration fees for non-passenger vehicles.` A bill to amend and reenact § 46.2-697.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to registration fees for vehicles not designed or used for transportation of passengers. (Marshall (R-Danville)
`~HB498 -- Hope Card Program; permanent protective orders.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 19.2-152.10:1, relating to the Hope Card Program; permanent protective orders. (Hope, D-Arlington)
`~HB499 -- Higher Education Advisory Committee; college funding.` A bill to amend and reenact § 23.1-309 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Higher Education Advisory Committee; higher education funding. (Davis, R-Virginia Beach)
`~HB500 -- Lists of registered voters; provided free to Va courts.` The Dept of Elections shall provide, at no charge, the lists for their districts to the courts of the Commonwealth and the United States for jury selection purposes no more than two times in a 12-month period and shall be provided, at a reasonable price, any other time in that same 12-month period. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB501 -- School boards; written school crisis, emergency management, etc.` A bill to amend and reenact § 22.1-279.8 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school boards; written school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans; annual review; delegation of duty. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~HB502 -- Litter tax; penalty.` A bill to amend and reenact § 58.1-1709 of the Code of Virginia, relating to litter tax; penalty. (Krizek, D-Alexandria)
`~SB1 -- Driver's license; suspension for nonpayment of fines.` Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended. (Stanley, R-Moneta)
`~SB2 -- Marijuana; decriminalization of simple possession.` Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $50. Current law imposes a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense, and subsequent offenses are a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB3 -- Disorderly conduct in public places; school activities.` Eliminates the Class 1 misdemeanor for disrupting willfully or while intoxicated, whether willfully or not, the operation of any school or any school activity conducted or sponsored by any school if the disruption prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the operation or activity. (McClellan, D-Richmond)
`~SB4 -- Public School Assistance Fund and Program created.` Creates the Public School Assistance Fund and Program, to be administered by the Dept of Education, for the purpose of providing grants to school boards to be used solely for the purpose of repairing or replacing the roofs of public elementary and secondary school buildings in the local school division. (Stanley, R-Moneta)
`~SB5 -- Uniform minimum building standards for public schools.` Requires the Board of Education to prescribe by regulation uniform minimum standards for the erection of modern public school buildings and the modernization of existing public school buildings for the purpose of promoting positive educational outcomes for each public elementary and secondary school student. (Stanley, R-Moneta)
`~SB6 -- Voter referendum; 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 for the purpose of K-12 school building construction, repair, or other capital projects related to the modernization of school facilities. (Stanley, R-Moneta)
`~SB7 -- Minimum wage; increases to $10 per hour.` Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $10 per hour, effective July 1, 2020; to $11 per hour, effective July 1, 2021; to $12 per hour, effective July 1, 2022; up to $15 per hour, effective July 1, 2025, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB8 -- Prevailing wage; public works contracts.` Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency for public works to pay wages, salaries, benefits, and other remuneration to any mechanic, laborer, or worker employed, retained, or otherwise hired to perform services in connection with the public contract for public works at the prevailing wage rate. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB9 -- Workers' comp; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.` Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefighters and certain employees develop the cancer. The measure removes the compensability requirement that the employee who develops cancer had contact with a toxic substance encountered in the line of duty. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB10 -- Driver's license; suspension for nonpayment of fines.` Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB11 -- Disposable paper and plastic bags; consumer tax.` Authorizes any locality to impose a tax of five cents per bag on disposable paper bags or disposable plastic bags provided to consumers by certain retailers, with certain bags being exempt from the tax. The bill allows every retailer that collects the tax to retain one cent of the five-cent tax. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB12 -- Firearm transfers; criminal history record info checks, penalty.` Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the State Police to establish a process for transferors of firearms to obtain such a check from licensed firearms dealers. A transferor who fails to obtain a required background check and sells the firearm to another person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB13 -- Capitol Square; possessing or transporting a weapon.` Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to possess or transport any (i) gun or other weapon designed or intended to propel a missile or projectile of any kind; (ii) frame, receiver, muffler, silencer, missile, projectile, or ammunition designed for use with a dangerous weapon; or (iii) other dangerous weapon within Capitol Square, which includes the state-owned buildings that border its boundary streets. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB14 -- Trigger activators; prohibition, penalty.` Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, defined in the bill as (i) a device designed to be attached to a semi-automatic firearm, which allows the firearm to discharge two or more shots in a burst by activating the device, including a bump-fire device or a binary trigger. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB15 -- Weapons; carrying into building owned or leased by Va.` Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to transport any (i) gun or other weapon designed or intended to propel a missile or projectile of any kind; (ii) frame, receiver, muffler, silencer, missile, projectile, or ammunition designed for use with a dangerous weapon; or (iii) other dangerous weapon into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB16 -- Assault firearms and certain firearm magazines.` Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation is a Class 6 felony. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB17 -- Same-sex marriages; civil unions.` Repeals the statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges and obligations of marriage. These prohibitions are no longer valid due to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB18 -- Firearms; criminal history record checks, age requirement.` Provides that a person must be at least 21 years old, or must be at least 18 years old by the effective date of the bill, to purchase a firearm. The bill requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the State Police to establish a process for transferors of firearms to obtain such a check from licensed firearms dealers. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB19 -- Records of marriages; identification of race.` Eliminates the requirement that the race of married parties be included in the marriage record filed with the State Registrar. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB20 -- Juvenile Justice; regs governing housing of youth.` Requires the Board of Juvenile Justice, in collaboration with the Dept of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to promulgate regulations governing the housing of youth who are detained in a juvenile correctional facility pursuant to a contract with the federal government and not committed to such juvenile correctional facility by a court of the Commonwealth. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB21 -- Abortion; parental consent requirement, ultrasound.` Removes the requirement that a pregnant minor seeking an abortion obtain either parental consent or judicial authorization. The bill removes the requirement that a pregnant woman seeking to obtain an abortion undergo a fetal transabdominal ultrasound prior to obtaining an abortion. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB22 -- Purchase of handguns; limitation on purchases.` Prohibits any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period and establishes such an offense as a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB23 -- Prohibited discrimination; sexual and gender identity.` Prohibits discrimination in employment and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. (Ebbin, D-Alexandria)
`~SB24 -- Agritourism activities; horseback riding and stabling.` Adds horseback riding or stabling to the definition of "agritourism activity." Agritourism activities have limited liability for the inherent risks of the activity under certain conditions. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB25 -- Campaign finance; prohibited contributions.` Prohibits any candidate from soliciting or accepting a contribution from any public service corporation, as defined in § 56-1, or any political action committee established and administered by such a corporation. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB26 -- Plastic bag tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.` Like SB11, imposes a five-cent per bag tax on plastic bags provided to customers by certain retailers in localities located wholly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and directs revenues to be used to support the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan. The bill also allows every retailer that collects the tax to retain one cent of every five cents collected. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB27 -- Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies.` Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits, for a claim for uninsured or underinsured motorist benefits and it is subsequently found that such denial, refusal, or failure was not in good faith, then the insurance company shall be liable to the insured for the full amount of the judgment and fees, expenses, and interest from the date the initial settlement demand. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB28 -- Eminent domain; costs.` Eliminates specific provisions for the assessment of costs in eminent domain proceedings where the condemnor is a public service company, public service corporation, railroad, or government utility corporation and provides that all costs shall be assessed in the same manner, regardless of the identity of the condemnor. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB29 -- Budget Bill.` Amends Chapter 854 of the 2019 Acts of Assembly. (Norment, R-Williamsburg)
`~SB30 -- 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 thirtieth day of June, 2021, and the thirtieth day of June, 2022. (Norment, R-Williamsburg)
`~SB31 -- Eminent domain; costs for petition for distribution of funds.` Provides that the costs of filing a petition with the court for the distribution of the funds due pursuant to an eminent domain proceeding shall be taxed against the condemnor. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB32 -- Corporal punishment of a child with an object.` Provides that any parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care of a child under 18 years of age who uses an inanimate object to subject a child to corporal punishment, as defined in the bill, is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB33 -- Consumer finance companies; loans, licensing.` 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 loans or motor vehicle title loans. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB34 -- Driver privilege cards; penalty.` Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the DMV to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources on an individual tax return filed with the Commonwealth in the preceding 12 months; (ii) is not in violation of the insurance requirements for the registration of an uninsured motor vehicle; and (iii) provides an unexpired passport as proof of identity. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB35 -- Let localities determine gun-free zones.` Remove Virginia's firearm preemption laws by allowing localities to create new "gun-free zones" in and around public buildings, parks, and permitted events such as farmer's markets. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB36 -- Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming.` Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). Casino gaming shall be limited to certain cities that meet the criteria that is outlined in the bill, and a referendum must be passed in the city on the question of allowing casino gaming in the city. This bill is a reenactment of the first enactment of Senate Bill 1126 of the 2019 legislative session. (Lucas, D-Portsmouth)
`~SB37 -- Open-end credit plans; civil penalty.` Requires that any person engaged in the business of extending credit under an open-end credit plan under which interest is charged at an annual rate that exceeds 36 percent obtain a license to do so from the State Corporation Commission. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB38 -- Open-end credit plans; governing law.` Provides that an open-end credit plan shall be governed solely by federal law and the laws of the Commonwealth, regardless of whether the seller or lender has a physical location in the Commonwealth. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB39 -- Same-sex marriages; civil unions.` Like SB17, repeals the statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and civil unions or other arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges and obligations of marriage. These prohibitions are no longer valid due to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. (Edwards, D-Roanoke)
`~SB40 -- Line of Duty Act; eligible dependents.` Provides that children born or adopted after the death or disability of an employee covered by the Line of Duty Act are eligible for health insurance coverage if such coverage does not result in a premium increase. Under current law, such children are not eligible regardless of the effect on premiums. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB41 -- Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.` Adds a nonlegislative citizen member to the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children who is a military spouse serving on the Department of Education's Military Student Support Process Action Team, to be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB42 -- Aggravated sexual battery by false representation.` Provides that any person who sexually abuses another person through false representation or subterfuge that is part of a massage by a massage therapist, a medical procedure, or physical therapy is guilty of aggravated sexual battery if such abuse is intentional and without the consent of the complaining witness. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB43 -- Absentee voting; prohibit release of absentee applicant list.` Prohibits the release of the list of persons applying for an absentee ballot. Currently, the absentee voter applicant list is available to registered voters for inspection and copying, and political parties and candidates may request and, for a reasonable fee, must be provided an electronic copy of the list. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB44 -- Public school students; use of topical sunscreen, etc.` Permits any public elementary or secondary school student to possess and use topical sunscreen in its original packaging on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored event without a note or prescription from a licensed health care professional if the topical sunscreen is approved by the U.S. FDA. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB45 -- Absentee voting; no excuse required.` Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB46 -- Absentee voting; application form contents.` Removes the requirement that a person applying for an absentee ballot provide supporting information regarding the reason he is eligible for an absentee ballot. The applicant will still be required to provide the reason he will be absent or unable vote at his polling place on the day of the election. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB47 -- Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.` Like SB41, increases the number of nonlegislative citizen members on the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children from five members to six members and requires that a parent of a military child be included in the composition of the Council. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB48 -- Nonpayment of wages; discriminatory actions prohibited.` Prohibits an employer from discharging or otherwise discriminating against an employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding related to the failure to pay wages, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB49 -- Nonpayment of wages; investigations.` Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if informed of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB50 -- Va Human Rights Act; racial discrimination, hair.` Provides that the terms "because of race" and "on the basis of race," and terms of similar import, when used in reference to discrimination in the Code of Virginia and acts of the General Assembly, include traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB51 -- Carrying a concealed handgun; alcohol consumption in a public park.` Prohibits a person who carries a concealed handgun onto the premises of any public park or other public space when alcoholic beverages have been approved for sale or consumption therein from consuming an alcoholic beverage while on the premises. A violation of this provision is a Class 2 misdemeanor. (Spruill (D-Chesapeake)
`~SB52 -- Opioid addiction treatment pilot program.` Requires the Dept of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in partnership with community services boards, a hospital licensed in the Commonwealth, and telemedicine networks, to establish a two-year pilot program in Planning District 12 designed to provide comprehensive treatment and recovery services to uninsured or underinsured individuals suffering from opioid addiction or opioid-related disorders. (Stanley, R-Moneta)
`~SB53 -- Board of Social Work; licensure by endorsement.` Requires the Board of Social Work to establish in regulations the requirements for licensure by endorsement as a social worker. The bill allows the Board to issue licenses to persons licensed to practice social work under the laws of another state, the District of Columbia, or a United States possession or territory. (Stanley, R-Moneta)
`~SB54 -- VRS; retired police officers employed for school security.` Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local school division as a school security officer. (Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake)
`~SB55 -- Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification.` Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth and operated in response to a declared state or local emergency shall, as soon as practicable after entry, notify a member of the shelter's staff who is responsible for providing security of such person's status as a registered sex offender. (Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake)
`~SB56 -- Criteria for congressional and state legislative districts.` Provides criteria by which congressional and state legislative districts are to be drawn, including equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, respect for existing political boundaries, contiguity, compactness, and communities of interest. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB57 -- Campaign finance reports; electronic filing requirement.` Requires candidates for local and constitutional offices to file campaign finance reports by computer or electronic means. Under current law, only candidates for local and constitutional offices in localities with a population exceeding 70,000 are required to file campaign finance reports electronically. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB58 -- Workers' comp; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.` Like SB9, adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefighters or certain employees develop the cancer. The measure removes the compensability requirement that the employee who develops cancer had contact with a toxic substance encountered in the line of duty. (Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake)
`~SB59 -- Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principals.` Changes from discretionary to mandatory that the chief of police of a city or chief of police or sheriff of a county disclose to a school principal all instances where a juvenile at the principal's school is a suspect in or has been charged with a violent juvenile felony, an arson offense, or a concealed weapon offense. (Hanger, R-Mount Solon)
`~SB60 -- Governor's required submission of capital outlay plan bills.` Modifies the requirements of the Governor's submission of capital outlay plan bills to require that the Governor ensure that prefiled capital outlay plan bills are submitted to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by the prefiling deadline established by a procedural resolution of the General Assembly. (Hanger, R-Mount Solon)
`~SB61 -- Use of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil by foster parent.` Provides that the use of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil by a parent in a custody or visitation case shall not serve as the sole basis for the denial or restriction of custody or visitation, if such parent has a written certification by a practitioner attesting to the benefit of such use. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB62 -- Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports; identification of race.` Eliminates the requirement that the race of married parties be included in marriage records, divorce reports, and annulment reports filed with the State Registrar. The bill also removes the requirement that the State Registrar include race data in the compilation and posting of marriage, divorce, and annulment data. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB63 -- Reckless driving; exceeding speed limit.` Raises from 80 to 85 miles per hour the speed above which a person who drives a motor vehicle on the highways of the Commonwealth is guilty of reckless driving regardless of the applicable maximum speed limit. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB64 -- Paramilitary activities; penalty.` Provides that a person is guilty of unlawful paramilitary activity if such person assembles with another person with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons by drilling, parading, or marching with any firearm, any explosive or incendiary device, or any components or combination thereof. (Lucas, D-Portsmouth)
`~SB65 -- Voter identification; repeal of photo ID requirements.` Removes the requirement that voters show a form of identification containing a photograph in order to be allowed to vote. Requires merely a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. (Locke (D-Hampton)
`~SB66 -- Fair Housing Law; unlawful discrimination, gender identity, etc.` Adds discrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill defines "sexual orientation" and "gender identity". (McClellan, D-Richmond)
`~SB67 -- Reporting lost or stolen firearms; civil penalty.` Requires that, if a firearm is lost or stolen from a person who lawfully possessed it, such person shall report the loss or theft of the firearm to any local law-enforcement agency or the Department of State Police within 24 hours after such person discovers the loss. (McClellan, D-Richmond)
`~SB68 -- Provision of abortion; ultrasound requirement.` Eliminates the requirement that a pregnant woman seeking to obtain an abortion undergo a fetal transabdominal ultrasound at least 24 hours prior to obtaining an abortion, or at least two hours prior to obtaining an abortion if the pregnant woman lives at least 100 miles from the facility where the abortion is to be performed. (Locke (D-Hampton)
`~SB69 -- One-gun-a-month bill.` Ration an individual's right to lawfully purchase a handgun to once within 30 days. (Locke (D-Hampton)
`~SB70 -- Restrict private gun sales.` Bans sales between private individuals without first paying fees and obtaining government permission. Firearm sales between friends, neighbors, or fellow hunters, would not be exempted. (Lucas, D-Portsmouth)
`~SB71 -- Firearms; possession on school property.` Adds public, private, or religious preschools and child day centers that are not operated at the residence of the provider or of any of the children to the list of schools where possessing a firearm on school property or on a school bus is prohibited. (Lucas, D-Portsmouth)
`~SB72 -- Public defender offices; Manassas, Manassas Park, Prince William Co.` Establishes a public defender office for the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and the County of Prince William. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB73 -- Minimum wage; increases to $10 per hour.` Like SB7, increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $10 per hour, effective July 1, 2020; to $11 per hour, effective July 1, 2021; to $12 per hour, effective July 1, 2022; up to $15 per hour, effective July 1, 2025, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB74 -- Election day voter registration; pilot program.` Requires the State Board of Elections to develop a pilot program for election day voter registration, by which a person who (i) offers to vote on election day but is not a registered voter, (ii) provides one of the allowable forms of identification specified by law, and (iii) provides proof of his residency in the precinct in which he offers to vote, shall be permitted to register to vote and to cast a ballot. (Deeds, D-Bath)
`~SB75 -- Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty.` Provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 18 is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB76 -- Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty.` Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person who is subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) for subjecting another person to an act of violence, force, or threat to possess a firearm while the order is in effect, equivalent to the existing penalty for possession of a firearm by a person subject to a permanent protective order for family abuse. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB77 -- Qualified education loan servicers.` Prohibits any person from acting as a qualified education loan servicer except in accordance with provisions established by this bill. Banks, savings institutions, credit unions, and nonprofit institutions of higher education are exempt from the licensing provisions. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB78 -- Minimum wage; pay based on work done.` Eliminates the exemption to Virginia's minimum wage requirements for persons who normally work and are paid based on the amount of work done. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB79 -- Minimum wage; tipped employees.` Provides that the cash wage paid to a tipped employee, as defined in the bill, shall not be less than 50 percent of the minimum wage and that the tip credit shall equal the difference between the cash wage required to be paid to a tipped employee and the minimum wage. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB80 -- Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press.` Declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public middle school or high school or public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom of speech and the press in school-sponsored media, including determining the news, opinion, feature, and advertising content of school-sponsored media. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB81 -- Minimum wage; increases to $9.75 per hour.` Similar to SB7, increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $9.75 per hour, effective July 1, 2020; to $10.75 per hour, effective July 1, 2021; to $11.75 per hour, effective July 1, 2022; up to $15 per hour, effective July 1, 2025, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB82 -- Violation of protective order; armed with firearm.` Provides for a three-year mandatory minimum sentence to be served consecutively with any other sentence upon a conviction for violation of a protective order while knowingly armed with a firearm or other deadly weapon. Current law does not specify a mandatory minimum sentence. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB83 -- Brandishing a firearm; law-enforcement officer; penalty.` Provides for a six-month mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction of a person for pointing, holding, or brandishing a firearm or air-operated or gas-operated weapon or object similar in appearance at someone who the person knows or has reason to know is a law-enforcement officer in such manner as to reasonably induce fear in the mind of another. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB84 -- Concealment of firearm in committing felony; penalty.` Provides that a person is guilty of a separate felony if he carries about his person any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm that is hidden from common observation while committing or attempting to commit certain other felonies. A first offense is punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement of three years. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB85 -- Stolen firearms; penalties.` Creates or enhances penalties for crimes related to larceny of a firearm or use of a stolen firearm during the commission of a felony. The bill provides that it is (i) a Class 3 felony with a five-year mandatory minimum sentence to commit larceny of a firearm with the intent to sell or distribute and (ii) a Class 5 felony with a two-year mandatory minimum sentence to sell or distribute a stolen firearm. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB86 -- Use or display of firearm in committing felony; penalty.` Increases from three to five years for a first offense and from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB87 -- Special license plates; VB STRONG.` Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of the City of Virginia Beach bearing the legend VB STRONG. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB88 -- Discharging firearm; penalty.` Imposes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of three years for violations of (i) maliciously discharging a firearm within or at an occupied building; (ii) willfully discharging a firearm within or at any school building, upon its buildings or grounds, or upon any public property within 1,000 feet of the property line of a school; and (iii) intentionally discharging a firearm while in or on a motor vehicle so as to create risk of death or injury to another person. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB89 -- Violation of protective order while armed with firearm.` Provides for a three-year mandatory minimum sentence to be served consecutively with any other sentence upon a conviction for violation of a protective order while knowingly armed with a firearm or other deadly weapon. Current law does not specify a mandatory minimum sentence. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB90 -- Capital murder; punishment.` Provides that any person convicted of capital murder involving the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of more than one person as part of the same act or transaction or more than one person within a three-year period, and who was 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense, shall be sentenced to no less than a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB91 -- Application of parole statutes.` Repeals the abolition of parole. The bill also provides that the Virginia Parole Board shall establish procedures for consideration of parole for persons who were previously ineligible for parole, because parole was abolished, to allow for an extension of time for reasonable cause. (Edwards, D-Roanoke)
`~SB92 -- Voter registration; preregistration for persons age 16 or older.` Permits a person who is otherwise qualified to register to vote and is 16 years of age or older, but who will not be 18 years of age on or before the day of the next general election, to preregister to vote. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB93 -- Tax exemptions for victims of the Virginia Beach shooting.` Establishes an income tax exemption for relief payments paid to a victim of the Virginia Beach mass shooting or a parent, guardian, child, or spouse of a victim. The bill also establishes an exemption from probate tax for a person killed or injured in the shooting. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB94 -- Virginia Energy Plan; Commonwealth Energy Policy.` States that the Commonwealth Energy Policy shall (i) establish greenhouse gas emissions reduction standards across all sectors of Virginia's economy; (ii) enact mandatory clean energy standards to reach zero carbon in the electric power sector by 2040; (iii) identify pathways to zero carbon that maximize Virginia's economic development and create quality jobs; and (iv) minimize the negative impacts of energy transition on disadvantaged communities and prioritize investment in these areas. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB95 -- Health insurance; essential benefits; preventive services.` Requires a health carrier providing a health benefit plan, including (i) short-term and catastrophic health insurance policies, and policies that pay on a cost-incurred basis; (ii) association health plans; and (iii) plans provided by a multiple-employer welfare arrangement, to provide coverage that includes preventive care. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB96 -- Charter; City of Norfolk; employees of officers; vagrants.` Amends the charter for the City of Norfolk by changing from "election" to "appointment" the term used to describe the selection of certain officers by the city council and clarifying that employees of such officers serve at will. The bill also removes a provision authorizing the City to prevent persons having no visible means of support from coming to the City and authorizing the City to expel such persons. (Spruill, D-Chesapeake)
`~SB97 -- Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices.` Prohibits any locality from discriminating in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines, or in the permitting of housing developments because the housing development contains or is expected to contain affordable housing units occupied or intended for occupancy by families or individuals with incomes at or below 80 percent of the median income of the area where the housing development is located. (McClellan, D-Richmond)
`~SB98 -- School teachers; probationary term, performance evaluation.` Removes (i) the option for local school boards to extend the three-year probationary term of service for teachers by up to two additional years and (ii) the prohibition against school boards reemploying any teacher whose performance evaluation during the probationary term of service is unsatisfactory. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB99 -- Public colleges; admissions applications; criminal history.` Prohibits public colleges from (i) utilizing an admissions application that contains questions about the criminal history of the applicant; (ii) denying admission to any applicant on the basis of any criminal history information provided by the applicant; or (iii) otherwise inquiring about the criminal history of an applicant for admission prior to the applicant receiving a conditional offer of acceptance from the institution. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB100 -- Locality health insurance policies; independent emergency services personnel.` Authorizes a locality to provide health insurance coverage to independent contractors that it employs as emergency medical services personnel. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB101 -- Scanning information from driver's license.` Allows a merchant to scan the machine-readable zone of an individual's DMV-issued identification card or driver's license in order to verify authenticity of the identification card or driver's license or to verify the identity of the individual when the individual requests a service pursuant to a membership or a service agreement. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB102 -- Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming.` Like SB36, authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). Casino gaming shall be limited to certain cities that meet the criteria that is outlined in the bill, and a referendum must be passed in the city on the question of allowing casino gaming in the city. This bill is a reenactment of the first enactment of Senate Bill 1126 of the 2019 legislative session. (Pillion, R-Abingdon)
`~SB103 -- Juvenile offenders; parole.` Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentence, and any person who has active sentences that total more than 20 years for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentences, shall be eligible for parole. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB104 -- Vaccinations and immunizations; certain minors.` Provides authority to consent to surgical and medical treatment of certain minors who have been separated from the custody of his parent or guardian are in need of surgical or medical treatment. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB105 -- Best interests of the child; act of violence.` A bill to amend and reenact § 20-124.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to best interests of the child; act of violence, force, or threat against intimate partner or the intimate partner's child. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB106 -- Hydraulic fracturing prohibited in Eastern Virginia.` No person shall conduct any hydraulic fracturing in the groundwater management area declared by regulation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and known as the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB107 -- Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County.` Removes the July 1, 2021, sunset date from Arlington County's authority to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed 0.25 percent to be used for the purpose of promoting tourism and business travel in the county. Under current law, in addition to this tax, Arlington County is authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed five percent. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB108 -- Virginia State Justice Commission; purpose; membership.` Renames the Virginia State Crime Commission as the Virginia State Justice Commission. The bill also expands the purpose of the Commission to include studying, reporting, and making recommendations in the areas of diversion, rehabilitation, reentry, collateral consequences of conviction, and equity and fairness in the criminal legal system. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB109 -- VRS; accidental death and dismemberment benefits, definitions.` Changes the funding structure for the Virginia Retirement System's (VRS) obligation to fund a savings trust account for higher education for a qualifying child of a VRS member who dies as a result of an accident caused by a felonious assault committed by other than an immediate family member. (Ruff, R-Clarksville)
`~SB110 -- Research and development tax credits; sunset; aggregate caps.` Extends the sunset date for both the research and development expenses tax credit and the major research and development expenses tax credit from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2027. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB111 -- Absentee voting; no excuse required.` Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB112 -- Public schools; dual-enrollment and work-based diploma options.` Requires the Board of Education to include in its standard diploma graduation requirements the options for students to complete a dual-enrollment course or high-quality work-based learning experience. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB113 -- Voter identification; repeal of photo ID requirements.` Like SB65, removes the requirement that voters show a form of identification containing a photograph in order to be allowed to vote. Requires merely a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. (Deeds, D-Bath)
`~SB114 -- Comprehensive animal care; Va Consumer Protection Act.` Subjects certain animal care statutes to enforcement under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (§ 59.1-196 et seq.). These statutes relate to the misrepresentation of animals' conditions, the posting of information about dogs, and written notice of consumer remedies required to be provided by pet shops, pet dealers, and animal boarding establishments. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB115 -- Va Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; notice of termination.` Provides that no notice of termination of tenancy served upon any residential tenant is effective unless it contains on its first page, in type no smaller or less legible than that otherwise used in the body of the notice, the name, address, and telephone number of the legal services program, if any, serving the jurisdiction in which the premises is located. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB116 -- Death penalty; severe mental illness.` Provides that a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness, as defined in the bill, at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB117 -- Family day homes; licensure threshold.` Reduces from five to three the number of children for whom a family day home must obtain a license to provide child care services. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB118 -- Expungement of certain offenses; underage alcoholic possession.` 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 birthday. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB119 -- Minimize split precincts.` Requires each precinct to be wholly contained within a single congressional and a single state legislative district, except where splitting a precinct among two or more districts is necessary to ensure the population of each district is as nearly equal to the population of every other district as practicable. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB120 -- Health care providers; programs to address career fatigue.` Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or make recommendations related to health care services to include health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to address issues related to career fatigue and wellness in health care professionals. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB121 -- County and city precincts; contained within election districts.` Requires each county and city precinct to be wholly contained within a single congressional district, Senate district, House of Delegates district, and local election district. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB122 -- Teledentistry.` Defines "teledentistry," establishes requirements for the practice of teledentistry, establishes requirements for the taking of dental scans for use in teledentistry by dental scan technicians, and clarifies requirements related to the use of digital work orders for dental appliances in the practice of teledentistry. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB123 -- Voter identification; expired Virginia driver's.` 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 the license. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB124 -- Eligibility for food stamps; drug-related felonies.` Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive food stamp benefits shall not be denied such assistance solely because he has been convicted of a drug-related felony. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB125 -- Motor vehicle safety inspection program.` Abolishes the state motor vehicle safety inspection program. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB126 -- Method of nominating party candidates; incumbent selection.` Removes the power of incumbent officeholders in some cases to insist on a primary as the method of nominating political party candidates and removes the power of General Assembly incumbents seeking reelection to determine the method of nomination. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB127 -- Va Geographic Info Network Advisory Board; membership.` Adds two county, city, town, or regional government geographic information system (GIS) directors or managers as members of the Virginia Geographic Information Network Advisory Board. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB128 -- Students with disabilities; educational placement transition.` Requires the Dept of Education and relevant local school boards to develop and implement a pilot program for up to four years in two to eight local school divisions in the Commonwealth. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB129 -- Public schools; firearm safety education program.` Requires local school boards to provide firearm safety education programs for students in all grades. The bill prohibits the actual use of firearms in the program. (Norment, R-Williamsburg)
`~SB130 -- Commission on Electric Utility Regulation.` Postpones the scheduled expiration of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022. (Norment, R-Williamsburg)
`~SB131 -- Form of ballot; party identification of certain candidates.` Provides that any candidate for a constitutional office who has been nominated by a political party or in a primary election shall be identified on the ballot by the name of his political party. (Chase, R-Midlothian)
`~SB132 -- Public schools; electives on the Old and New Testaments.` Requires the Board of Education to authorize local school boards to offer as an elective in grades nine through 12 with appropriate credits toward graduation a course on the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament of the Bible or the New Testament of the Bible or a combined course on both. (Chase, R-Midlothian)
`~SB133 -- Deferred disposition in criminal cases.` Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB134 -- School boards; teachers; planning time and planning periods.` Requires each local school board to ensure that each elementary school teacher has an average of one 45-minute period per school day of planning time and that each middle and high school teacher is provided one planning period per school day or the equivalent, which shall be at least 45 minutes or one class period, whichever is longer. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB135 -- Children's Services Act; special education programs.` Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program established and funded jointly by a local governing body and school division located within Planning District 16 for the purpose of providing special education and related services. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB136 -- Holding a personal communications device while driving.` The bill expands exemptions in the current law to include handheld personal communications devices that are being held and used (a) as an amateur radio or a citizens band radio or (b) for official Department of Transportation or traffic incident management services. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB137 -- Absentee voting; no excuse early voting in person.` Allows any registered voter to vote early beginning on the thirtieth day prior to any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making prior application for an absentee ballot. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB138 -- Va FOIA; officers, training and reporting requirements.` Adds regional public bodies to the types of public bodies that must designate a FOIA officer. The bill also changes the frequency for required FOIA officer training from annually to once during each consecutive period of two calendar years. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB139 -- Freedom of Information Advisory Act; training requirements.` Adds the option for in-person training sessions in addition to the current requirement of online training sessions for local elected officials provided by the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council or a local government attorney. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB140 -- FOIA; public colleges, info related to pledges and donations.` Provides that no discretionary exclusion in FOIA shall apply to protect information relating to the amount, date, purpose, and terms of a pledge or donation made to a public college. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB141 -- Building and fire codes; notice requirements.` Requires that notice mandated by the Statewide Fire Prevention Code or the Uniform Statewide Building Code be provided to the owner of the building, structure, property, or premises in question by the enforcement agency or local building department, respectively. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB142 -- Virtual Virginia; availability to all public schools.` Requires that the Virtual Virginia Program, the statewide electronic classroom established by the Dept of Education, be made available to all public schools. Currently, the program is available only to high schools. (Dunnavant, R-Henrico)
`~SB143 -- State subsidy of property tax exemptions for disabled veterans.` Requires the Commonwealth to subsidize local real estate tax relief for disabled veterans and surviving spouses of members of the armed forces killed in action when more than one percent of a locality's real estate tax base is lost due to such state-mandated tax relief programs. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB144 -- Protective orders; issuance upon convictions for certain felonies.` Authorizes a court to issue a protective order upon convicting a defendant for a felony offense of (i) violating a protective order, (ii) homicide, (iii) kidnapping, (iv) assaults and bodily woundings, (v) extortion, or (vi) criminal sexual assault. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB145 -- Protective orders; violations, penalty.` Provides that any person who commits any assault, assault and battery, or bodily wounding upon any party protected by a protective order is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, the Class 6 felony is only applicable in the case of serious bodily injury to the protected party. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB146 -- Public colleges; tuition/fee increase, student approval.` Provides that no increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees approved by a governing board of a public institution of higher education shall take effect unless such increase receives an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of undergraduate students enrolled in such institution. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB147 -- Public colleges; chief executive officer compensation.` Provides mandates for when any governing board of a public institution of higher education or committee of such board considers increasing the compensation of the institution's chief executive officer as defined in § 23.1-100 or amending the board's policies and procedures relating to the compensation of the chief executive officer. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB148 -- Driving under the influence.` Provides that the provisions regarding driving or operating a motor vehicle, engine, or train while intoxicated and the provisions regarding operating a motor vehicle by a person under the age of 21 after illegally consuming alcohol shall not apply to any person driving or operating a motor vehicle on his own residential property. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB149 -- Courthouse and courtroom security; assessment.` Increases from $10 to $20 the maximum amount a local governing body may assess against a convicted defendant as part of the costs in a criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court to fund courthouse and courtroom security. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB150 -- Criminal fiscal impact statements; bills increasing period of imprisonment.` Provides that no bill resulting in an increase in net periods of imprisonment or commitment shall be (i) reported from a standing committee of the House of Delegates or the Senate or (ii) passed by the House of Delegates or the Senate unless a fiscal impact statement for the current version of the bill has been prepared and is printed on the face of the bill or reported or passed as an amendment to such bill. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB151 -- School personnel; staffing ratios, school nurses.` Excludes school nurse positions from requirements for student support positions and instead requires each local school board to employ at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position in each school in the local school division or at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position per 550 students in grades K-12. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB152 -- Calling auxiliary police officers into service.` Clarifies that a locality may call into service or provide for calling into service auxiliary police officers at any time for the purpose of assisting in or providing school security services to Virginia public elementary and secondary schools. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB153 -- Virginia FOIA; cost estimates; response time.` Provides that if a requester asks for a cost estimate in advance of a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request, the time to respond is tolled for the amount of time that elapses between notice of the cost estimate and the response from the requester, and that if the public body receives no response from the requester within 30 days of sending the cost estimate, the request shall be deemed to be withdrawn. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB154 -- Restricted licenses; allowable purposes.` 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. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB155 -- Eligibility for Food Stamps; drug-related felonies.` Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) shall not be denied such assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of possession of a controlled substance. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB156 -- Fostering Futures program; established.` Establishes the Fostering Futures program to provide services and support to individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 who were in foster care as a minor and are transitioning to full adulthood and self-sufficiency. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB157 -- Management of the menhaden fishery.` Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) to adopt regulations to implement the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden and authorizes the Commission to adopt regulations for managing the Commonwealth's menhaden fishery. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB158 -- Menhaden fishing in Chesapeake Bay prohibited.` Prohibits catching menhaden with purse nets in the territorial waters of the Commonwealth lying west or within three miles of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB159 -- Public employment; prohibited discrimination, gender identity, etc.` Prohibits discrimination in public employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current prohibitions on discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, or status as a veteran. (Boysko, D-Herndon)
`~SB160 -- Holding handheld devices while driving a motor vehicle.` Like SB136, the bill expands exemptions in the current law to include handheld personal communications devices that are being held and used (a) as an amateur radio or a citizens band radio or (b) for official Department of Transportation or traffic incident management services. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB161 -- Public schools; treatment of transgender students, policies.` Requires the Dept of Education to develop and make available to each school board, no later than December 31, 2020, model policies concerning the treatment of transgender students in public elementary and secondary schools that address common issues regarding transgender students in accordance with evidence-based best practices. (Boysko, D-Herndon)
`~SB162 -- Va Personnel Act; hiring preference 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 requirements for the available position and such person's disability is unrelated to his qualifications for and ability to perform the duties of the available position. (Spruill, D-Chesapeake)
`~SB163 -- Entitlement to sales tax revenues from certain public facilities.` Adds the City of Chesapeake to the list of localities that are authorized to issue bonds for the construction of public facilities and retain sales and use tax revenue generated within such facilities to pay off such bonds. (Spruill, D-Chesapeake)
`~SB164 -- Accident airtrip insurance; vending machine sales.` Repeals the authorization for insurers to issue policies of accident airtrip insurance by means of mechanical vending machines in public airports. (Spruill, D-Chesapeake)
`~SB165 -- Life and annuities agents; report on examination passage rate.` Eliminates the requirement that the State Corporation Commission provide an annual report to the General Assembly on the licensure exam passage rate of candidates for licensure as a life and annuities agent. (Spruill, D-Chesapeake)
`~SB166 -- Campaign finance; disbursement of surplus funds.` Amends the current laws regarding the disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee so that such restrictions would apply throughout the life of a campaign or political committee. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB167 -- Dismissal of teachers; grounds; incompetency.` Removes receipt of one or more unsatisfactory performance evaluations from the list of factors that "incompetency" may be construed to include for the purpose of establishing grounds for the dismissal of public school teachers. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB168 -- Line of Duty Act; requiring Va licensed practitioners to conduct medical reviews.` Requires that, for any medical review of a claim made pursuant to the provisions of the Line of Duty Act (LODA), the Virginia Retirement System shall require that such review be conducted by a doctor, nurse, or psychologist who is licensed in Virginia. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB169 -- Issuance of warrants by magistrates.` Prevents a magistrate from issuing an arrest warrant for a misdemeanor offense where the accused is a law-enforcement officer and the alleged offense arises out of the performance of his public duties upon the basis of a complaint by a person other than a law-enforcement officer without prior authorization by the attorney for the Commonwealth or by a law-enforcement agency. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB170 -- School resource officers and school security officers.` Requires the Dept of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the Dept of Education and the Dept of Juvenile Justice, to annually collect, report, and publish data related to incidents involving students and school resource officers or school security officers. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB171 -- School resource and security officers; training standards.` Requires school resource officers and school security officers to receive training on working with students in a school environment that includes training on (i) relevant state and federal laws; (ii) school and personal liability issues; (iii) security awareness in the school environment; (iv) mediation and conflict resolution; etc. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB172 -- 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 applicable cost-sharing requirement. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB173 -- Prohibits possession of stun weapon on school property.` Allows the holder of a valid concealed handgun permit to possess a stun weapon on school property while in a motor vehicle in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other means of vehicular ingress or egress to the school. (Hanger, R-Mount Solon)
`~SB174 -- Electoral college; allocation of electoral votes.` Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that a voter will vote for two electors for the Commonwealth at large and one elector for the congressional district in which he is qualified to vote. (Chase, R-Midlothian)
`~SB175 -- Congressional and state legislative districts.` Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for political boundaries, equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, contiguity, compactness, and communities of interest. The bill prohibits use of political data or election results unless necessary to determine if racial or ethnic minorities can elect candidates of their choice. (Chase, R-Midlothian)
`~SB176 -- School holidays; certain election days.` Prohibits local school boards from requiring students to attend school on the second Tuesday in June or the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The bill also prohibits parent-teacher conferences and meetings from being held on those dates. (Chase, R-Midlothian)
`~SB177 -- Autism Advisory Council; sunset.` Extends the sunset provision of the Autism Advisory Council from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022. (Hanger, R-Mount Solon)
`~SB178 -- Kinship Guardianship Assistance; expands eligibility, fictive kin.` Expands eligibility for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they had been the foster parent. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB179 -- Hate crimes; adds disability, gender identity, etc.` Adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB180 -- Prevailing wage; public works contracts, penalty.` Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency for public works to pay wages, salaries, benefits, and other remuneration to any mechanic, laborer, or worker employed, retained, or otherwise hired to perform services in connection with the public contract for public works at the prevailing wage rate. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB181 -- Alcoholic beverage control; commercial lifestyle center.` Reduces from 25 to 10 the minimum number of acres upon which a commercial development must sit in order to qualify for licensure as a commercial lifestyle center. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB182 -- Project labor agreements; public procurement.` Repeals the provision enacted in 2012 that requires state agencies to ensure that neither the state agency nor any construction manager acting on its behalf requires or prohibits bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors to enter into or adhere to project labor agreements with labor organizations. (Saslaw, D-Springfield)
`~SB183 -- Memorials for war veterans.` Provides that a locality may remove, relocate, or alter any monument or memorial for war veterans located in its public space, regardless of when erected. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB184 -- Tree conservation ordinance; Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act.` 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 individually for preservation. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB185 -- Nursing homes; administration of cannabidiol or THC-A.` Allows nursing home and assisted living facility staff members who are authorized to possess, distribute, or administer medications to residents to store, dispense, or administer cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil to a resident who has been issued a valid written certification for such medication. (Dunnavant, R-Henrico)
`~SB186 -- Dept of Education; individualized education program guidelines.` Requires the Dept of Education to establish guidelines for individualized education program (IEP) teams to utilize when developing IEPs for children with disabilities to ensure that IEP teams consider the need for age-appropriate instruction related to sexual health, self-restraint, self-protection, respect for personal privacy, and personal boundaries of others. (Dunnavant, R-Henrico)
`~SB187 -- Food Stamps; removes time limitations.` Removes the time limitations on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) that limited Virginia Initiative for Education and Work (VIEW) participants to receiving TANF for a maximum of 24 consecutive months. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB188 -- Legislation affecting local government expenditures and revenues.` Requires legislation with a negative local fiscal impact to be filed no later than the December 15 immediately preceding the first day of a regular session of the General Assembly. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB189 -- Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration.` Provides for local jails to be compensated for the actual cost of incarcerating convicted felons at the rate calculated in the Compensation Board's annual jail cost report. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB190 -- Children's Services Act; community policy; use of funds.` Provides that the state pool of funds for community policy and management teams may be used for residential or nonresidential services in a public school setting and to provide services to children placed in public residential facilities or public special education day schools in addition to such private facilities and private special education day schools as provided in current law. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB191 -- Taxable income; subtract for active duty military or veteran retirement.` Provides a subtraction from Virginia taxable income, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2020, for any income of active duty military members or the retirement compensation received by veterans for their service. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB192 -- 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 include coverage for physical therapy from imposing any cost-sharing requirements such as a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible for a physical therapist office visit that exceeds the cost-sharing requirements for a physician or osteopath office visit. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB193 -- Single-use plastic and expanded polystyrene products; local prohibition.` Authorizes a locality to prohibit by ordinance the purchase, sale, or provision, whether free or for a cost, of certain single-use products that are not recyclable or compostable. Like SB11, the bill authorizes any locality to impose a tax of five cents per bag on disposable paper bags or disposable plastic bags provided to consumers by certain retailers, with certain bags being exempt from the tax. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB194 -- Management of the menhaden fishery.` Like SB157, requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) to adopt regulations to implement the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden and authorizes the Commission to adopt regulations for managing the Commonwealth's menhaden fishery. (Cosgrove (R-Chesapeake)
`~SB195 -- Public Procurement Act; statute of limitations on actions.` Provides that no action may be brought by a public body on any construction contract unless such action is brought within five years after completion of the work on the project, and provides that no action may be brought by a public body on a warranty or guaranty in such construction contract more than one year from the breach of that warranty, but in no event more than one year after the expiration of such warranty or guaranty. (Cosgrove (R-Chesapeake)
`~SB196 -- Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio.` Provides an alternative to the food-to-beverage ratio for mixed beverage restaurant licensees by allowing such licensees to meet applicable food sale requirements by demonstrating at least $10,000 in monthly food sales. (Cosgrove (R-Chesapeake)
`~SB197 -- Oral threats of death or bodily injury on school property.` Provides that any person who orally threatens another person in person to kill or do bodily injury to such other person or any member of the other person's family, and the threat places such other person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury to himself or his family member, is guilty of a Class 5 felony. (Cosgrove (R-Chesapeake)
`~SB198 -- Disposable plastic shopping bags; local option.` Allows any locality by ordinance to prohibit the distribution, sale, or offer for sale of disposable plastic shopping bags to consumers. The bill exempts from any such prohibition reusable bags of a certain thickness, bags that are used to carry certain products, such as ice cream or newspapers, and garbage bags that are sold in multiples. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB199 -- Conduct of charitable gaming.` Removes restrictions regarding (i) the number of calendar days that charitable gaming may be conducted, (ii) the number of bingo sessions that may be played in any calendar day and the number of bingo games that may be played during each session, and (iii) the locations at which games may be played. (Barker (D-Alexandria)
`~SB200 -- Income tax credits for housing choice vouchers.` Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include the City of Alexandria. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. (Barker (D-Alexandria)
`~SB201 -- Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act.` The bill prohibits a telephone solicitor from engaging in any conduct that results in the display of false or misleading caller identification information on the called party's telephone. (Lucas (D-Portsmouth)
`~SB202 -- 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 VRS to allow Mr. Maxwell to reenter the plan despite electing to discontinue participating in the plan at the time of his retirement. (Peake, R-Lynchburg)
`~SB203 -- Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission.` Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) pursuant to Article II, Sections 6 and 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia. The Commission, tasked with establishing districts for the United States House of Representatives and for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly, will consist of eight legislative commissioners and eight citizen commissioners. (Lucas, D-Portsmouth)
`~SB204 -- Redistricting; role of Supreme Court of Virginia.` Directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to enact rules and procedures for implementing the constitutional requirement that the Court establish congressional or state legislative districts in the event districts fail to be enacted. (Lucas, D-Portsmouth)
`~SB205 -- Campaign contribution limits; civil penalty.` Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $10,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly in any one election cycle. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB206 -- Virginia-Korea Advisory Board; report.` Establishes a nine-member Virginia-Korea Advisory Board in the executive branch of state government to advise the Governor on ways to improve mutually beneficial trade relationships between the Commonwealth and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), with a focus on the areas of commerce and trade, art and education, and government. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB207 -- Purchase of service handguns by retired sworn police officers.` Removes the requirement that a sworn law-enforcement officer be employed in a full-time capacity at the time of his retirement to purchase his service handgun. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB208 -- Mechanics' liens; right to withhold payment.` Specifies that the use of funds paid to a general contractor or subcontractor and used by such contractor or subcontractor before paying all amounts due for labor performed or material furnished gives rise to a civil cause of action for a party who is owed such funds. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB209 -- Maximum number of judges in each judicial district.` Increases from 11 to 12 the maximum number of authorized general district court judgeships in the nineteenth judicial district. The Committee on District Courts recommended the additional judgeship in 2018. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB210 -- Teledentistry.` Like SB122, defines "teledentistry," establishes requirements for the practice of teledentistry, establishes requirements for the taking of dental scans for use in teledentistry by dental scan technicians, and clarifies requirements related to the use of digital work orders for dental appliances in the practice of teledentistry. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB211 -- Reporting of payments by third-party settlement organizations.` Requires third-party settlement organizations (TPSOs) to report to the Tax Department the gross amount of payments made to any participating payee, a person who receives payment from a TPSO. Generally speaking, a TPSO is a company that provides a platform for buyers and sellers to transact goods or services and settles transactions between those parties. (Howell, D-Reston)
`~SB212 -- Annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license.` A bill to amend and reenact § 4.1-210 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB213 -- Medical Assistance Services; Personal Maintenance Allowance.` A bill to require the Dept of Medical Assistance Services to study the current Personal Maintenance Allowance for waiver services and the impact of that amount on the ability of service recipients to engage in compensated employment. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB214 -- Guardianship; review of Individualized Education Plan.` A bill to amend and reenact § 64.2-2003 of the Code of Virginia, relating to guardianship; review of Individualized Education Plan. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB215 -- Review of inmate deaths in local correctional facilities.` A bill to amend and reenact § 53.1-69.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to review of death of inmates in local correctional facilities; report. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB216 -- Health insurance; catastrophic health plans.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38.2-3446.1, relating to health insurance; catastrophic plans. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB217 -- Campaign finance; reporting of certain contributions.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 24.2-947.10, relating to campaign finance; reporting of certain contributions received immediately prior to a legislative session. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB218 -- Income tax credit; employers of National Guard members.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 58.1 a section numbered 58.1-339.13, relating to individual and corporate income tax credit; employers of National Guard members and self-employed National Guard members. (Suetterlein, R-Salem)
`~SB219 -- Voter registration; automatic voter registration.` Provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the DMV to the Dept of Elections of certain information for any person coming into an office of the Department of Motor Vehicles or accessing its website in order to apply for, replace, or renew a driver's license. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB220 -- In-state tuition; domicile; individuals granted DACA.` Declares that, absent congressional intent to the contrary, any individual currently granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has the capacity to intend to remain in the Commonwealth indefinitely and is therefore eligible to establish domicile and receive in-state tuition charges at any public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB221 -- School boards and law-enforcement agencies; frequency of review.` Shortens from every five years to every two years the frequency of the review period for memorandums of understanding between school boards and local law-enforcement agencies. (Locke, D-Hampton)
`~SB222 -- Harvest of menhaden after closure of fishery; penalty.` Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for harvesting menhaden for bait or reduction purposes after the portion of the total allowable landings for the sector in which that person holds a license has been closed. (DeSteph, R-Virginia Beach)
`~SB223 -- 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 adult are retained. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB224 -- Additional sales and use tax in Gloucester County.` Authorizes Gloucester County to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, as determined by the governing body, if initiated by a resolution of the local governing body and approved by the voters at a referendum. (Norment, R-Williamsburg)
`~SB225 -- Removal of dangerous roadside conditions.` A bill to amend and reenact § 15.2-2011 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-2009.1, relating to removal of dangerous roadside vegetation; local option. (Stuart, R-Westmoreland)
`~SB226 -- Virginia Health Benefit Exchange.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 38.2-4214, 38.2-4319, and 38.2-4509 of the Code of Virginia; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 38.2 a chapter numbered 65, consisting of sections numbered 38.2-6500 through 38.2-6515; and to repeal the second enactments of Chapters 670 and 679 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013, relating to the establishment and operation of a health benefit exchange for the Commonwealth; assessments. (Edwards, D-Roanoke)
`~SB227 -- Va Workers' Compensation Commission; fee schedules.` A BILL to amend and reenact § 65.2-605 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission; fee schedules. (Spruill, D-Chesapeake)
`~SB228 -- Motorized skateboard or scooter; age requirement.` A bill to amend and reenact § 46.2-908.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to motorized skateboard or scooter; age requirement. (Spruill, D-Chesapeake)
`~SB229 -- Signature defects on pleadings, motions, and other papers.` A bill to amend and reenact § 8.01-271.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to signature defects on pleadings, motions, and other papers. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB230 -- Grantor's tax and regional transportation improvement fee.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 58.1-802 and 58.1-802.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to grantor's tax and regional transportation improvement fee. (Petersen, D-Fairfax)
`~SB231 -- Sales and use tax exemption for menstrual supplies.` Provides that menstrual cups and pads, pantyliners, sanitary napkins, tampons, and other products used to absorb or contain menstrual flow shall be fully exempt from sales and use tax. Under current law, such menstrual supplies are subject to a reduced rate of 1.5 percent. (Boysko, D-Herndon)
`~SB232 -- Menstrual supplies; certain school buildings.` Requires each school board to make tampons and pads available at all times and at no cost to students in the bathrooms of each public school at which any student in grades five through 12 is enrolled and at which at least 40 percent of enrolled students are eligible for free or reduced lunch. (Boysko, D-Herndon)
`~SB233 -- Insurance licensing and registration renewal.` This bill removes references in the current law to biennial renewal, removes a requirement in the law as it will become effective that limited lines agents renew their licenses before May 1, 2021, and adds a requirement in the law as it will become effective that certain settlement agents renew their registrations before May 1, 2021. (Chafin, R-Lebanon)
`~SB234 -- Health insurance for local school board employees.` Allows local school boards to elect to have all of their employees and retirees, as well as the dependents of such employees and retirees, be eligible to participate in the state employee health insurance plan in lieu of the current state-administered local health insurance plan. (Chafin, R-Lebanon)
`~SB235 -- Health insurance; association health plans.` Provides that for policies of group accident and sickness insurance issued to an association, members of such an association may include (i) a self-employed individual and (ii) an employer member (a) with at least one employee that is domiciled in the Commonwealth or (b) that has a principal place of business that does not exceed the boundaries of a metropolitan area that is at least partially in the Commonwealth. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB236 -- Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); apportionment.` Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject amendments to the Constitution of Virginia establishing the Virginia Redistricting Commission and providing for the reapportionment of the Commonwealth to be done by such Commission. If approved by the voters, the amendments would become effective on November 15, 2020. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB237 -- School attendance officers; violation of a school attendance order.` Provides that an attendance officer may complete, sign, and file a petition for a violation of a school attendance order in response to the filing of a petition alleging the pupil is a child in need of supervision with the intake officer of the juvenile and domestic relations district court on a form approved by the Virginia Supreme Court. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB238 -- Public schools; kindergarten instructional time.` Increases from 540 hours to 990 hours the minimum instructional hours in a school year for students in kindergarten, beginning July 1, 2022. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB239 -- Medical assistants; administration of fluoride varnish.` Allows a medical assistant to possess and administer topical fluoride varnish pursuant to an oral or written order or a standing protocol issued by a doctor of medicine, osteopathic medicine, or dentistry. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB240 -- Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk.` Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations district court judge or magistrate for an emergency substantial risk order to prohibit a person who poses a substantial risk of injury to himself or others from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB241 -- Standards and criteria for congressional and state legislative districts.` Provides criteria by which congressional and state legislative districts are to be drawn, including equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, protection of racial and language minorities to participate and elect a preferred candidate, contiguity, and compactness. (Barker, D-Alexandria)
`~SB242 -- Carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, etc.` Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony if they are in a position of authority over and carnally know without force, threat, or intimidation any inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, detainee, or pretrial or posttrial offender, including those in the custody of a private, local, or state law-enforcement agency. (Marsden, D-Burke)
`~SB243 -- 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 applicable cost-sharing requirement. (Chase, R-Midlothian)
`~SB244 -- Charter; Town of Bluefield.` Amends the town's charter by (i) increasing the number of council members from five to six, (ii) allowing the mayor to vote only to break ties rather than on all matters, (iii) clarifying that the council may act by motion in addition to ordinance and resolution, and (iv) making technical amendments. (Chafin, R-Lebanon)
`~SB245 -- Dept of Health Professions; conversion therapy prohibited.` Prohibits any health care provider from engaging in conversion therapy, as defined in the bill, with any person under 18 years of age and provides that such counseling constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for disciplinary action. (You can teach them to be queer, but you can't set them straight.) (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB246 -- DMV; sex designation.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 46.2 a section numbered 46.2-120, relating to Dept of Motor Vehicles; sex designation. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB247 -- No-fault divorce; gender-neutral terminology.` A bill to amend and reenact § 20-91 of the Code of Virginia, relating to no-fault divorce; gender-neutral terminology. (Surovell, D-Mount Vernon)
`~SB248 -- Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 9.1 a section numbered 9.1-116.6, relating to Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB249 -- School Divisions of Innovation; performance-based assessments.` A bill to amend and reenact § 22.1-253.13:3 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1.5 of Chapter 13 of Title 22.1 a section numbered 22.1-212.33, relating to School Divisions of Innovation; performance-based assessments. (Favola, D-Arlington)
`~SB250 -- Medicare supplement policies for individuals under age 65.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 38.2-4214 and 38.2-4319 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 36 of Title 38.2 a section numbered 38.2-3610, relating to Medicare supplement policies for certain individuals under age 65. (Edwards, D-Roanoke)
`~SB251 -- Pharmacy benefits managers; licensure and regulation.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 34 of Title 38.2 an article numbered 9, consisting of sections numbered 38.2-3465, 38.2-3466, and 38.2-3467, relating to pharmacy benefits managers; licensure and regulation. (Edwards, D-Roanoke)
`~SB252 -- Pharmacy benefits managers; licensure and regulation.` Repeat of SB251. (Edwards, D-Roanoke)
`~SB253 -- Deeds of trust; fiduciary duties.` A bill to amend and reenact § 55.1-320 of the Code of Virginia, relating to deeds of trust; fiduciary duties. (Chafin, R-Lebanon)
`~SB254 -- Allocation of add'l sales and use tax in historic jurisdictions.` A bill to amend and reenact § 58.1-603.2 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal Chapter 850 of the Acts of Assembly of 2018, relating to the allocation of additional sales and use tax in certain counties and cities of historic significance for the planning and construction of a shared sports facility. (Norment, R-Williamsburg)
`~SB255 -- Additional transient occupancy tax in Prince George Co.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 58.1-3825.4, relating to additional transient occupancy tax in Prince George County. (Ruff, R-Clarksville)
`~SB256 -- Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission.` A bill to amend and reenact § 51.5-154 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; sunset. (Ruff, R-Clarksville)
`~SB257 -- Charter; Town of Brodnax.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 3.1 and 3.8, as amended, of Chapter 131 of the Acts of Assembly of 1977, which provided a charter for the Town of Brodnax in the Counties of Brunswick and Mecklenburg, relating to town council; membership; meetings. (Ruff, R-Clarksville)
`~SB258 -- Persons permitted to work in mines; age requirements.` A bill to amend and reenact § 45.1-161.292:5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to persons permitted to work in mines; age requirements. (Ruff, R-Clarksville)
`~SB259 -- Virginia FOIA; library records.` A bill to amend and reenact § 2.2-3705.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act; library records. (Bell, D-Chantilly)
`~SB260 -- Public colleges; tuition and fees.` A bill to amend and reenact § 23.1-307 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public institutions of higher education; tuition and fees; public comment; notice of meeting. (Chase, R-Midlothian)
`~SB261 -- Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 64.2-1305 and 64.2-2020 of the Code of Virginia, relating to accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; penalty. (Chafin, R-Lebanon)
`~SB262 -- Special license to hunt elk.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 29.1-305.01, relating to a special license to hunt elk. (Chafin, R-Lebanon)
`~SB263 -- Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence.` A bill to amend and reenact §§ 18.2-308.02 and 18.2-308.06 of the Code of Virginia, relating to concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence. (Bell, D-Chantilly)
`~SB264 -- Registered nurse anesthetists; prescriptive authority.` A bill to amend and reenact § 54.1-2957.01 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certified registered nurse anesthetists; prescriptive authority. (Bell, D-Chantilly)
`~SB265 -- Workers' comp; occupational disease presumptions.` Like SB9, adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefighters and certain employees develop the cancer. The measure removes the compensability requirement that the employee who develops cancer had contact with a toxic substance encountered in the line of duty. (Bell, D-Chantilly)
`~SB266 -- Campaign finance; prohibited contributions.` A bill to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 24.2-947.4:2, relating to elections; campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates; public service corporations and affiliated interests. (Bell, D-Chantilly)
`~SJ8 -- Constitutional amendment; give prison inmates the right to vote.` Establishes that the only qualifications to vote in the Commonwealth are U.S. citizenship, being at least 18 years of age, residency in the Commonwealth, and registration to vote in accordance with the requirements set out in the Constitution of Virginia. The bill removes from current constitutional qualifications to vote not having been convicted of a felony and not having been adjudicated to be mentally incompetent. (Locke, D-Hampton) ... and from the Daily Caller