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2020 SESSION

HOUSE CALENDAR FOR February 13, 2020 ... pdf

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• House Bill with Senate Amendments ... report | csv file
• Commending Resolution Laid on Speaker's Table ... report | csv file
• Senate Bills on First Reading and Referred ... report | csv file
• Senate Joint Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
• Resolutions Presented ... report | csv file

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House Bill with Senate Amendments ... report | csv file

• HB 369 Furloughs from local work release programs; furlough approved by local sheriff.

Commending Resolution Laid on Speaker's Table ... report | csv file

• HJ 177 Commending the Virginia Maritime Association.

Senate Bills on First Reading and Referred ... report | csv file

• SB 3 Disorderly conduct; students.
• SB 4 Public School Assistance Fund and Program; created.
• SB 5 Public school buildings, modern; Board of Education to prescribe uniform minimum standards, etc.
• SB 20 Juvenile Justice, Bd. of; regs. governing housing of youth pursuant to contracts with federal gov't.
• SB 40 Line of Duty Act; eligible dependents.
• SB 46 Absentee voting; application form contents.
• SB 49 Nonpayment of wages; investigations.
• SB 52 Opioid addiction treatment pilot program; DBHDS, et al., to establish in Planning Dist. 12, clause.
• SB 53 Social workers; licensure by endorsement.
• SB 54 Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers.
• SB 57 Campaign finance reports; electronic filing requirement, local and constitutional offices.
• SB 60 Capital outlay bill; timing of required submission.
• SB 62 Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports, eliminates requirement for identification of race.
• SB 63 Reckless driving; raises threshold for speeding.
• SB 65 Voter identification; repeal of photo identification requirements, signed statement in lieu of form.
• SB 69 Handguns; limitation on purchases, penalty.
• SB 70 Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks, penalty.
• SB 77 Student loans; licensing of qualified education loan servicers, civil penalties, report.
• SB 94 Virginia Energy Plan; climate change pressing challenge.
• SB 95 Health insurance; coverage for essential health benefits, preventive services.
• SB 109 Virginia Retirement System; accidental death and dismemberment benefits, definitions.
• SB 111 Absentee voting; no excuse required, voting by absentee ballot.
• SB 114 Comprehensive animal care; enforceable under Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
• SB 115 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; certain notices of termination.
• SB 124 Food stamps and TANF; eligibility, drug-related felonies.
• SB 127 Virginia Geographic Information Network Advisory Board; increases membership.
• SB 134 School boards; planning time & period for elementary, middle, & high school teachers, clause.
• SB 138 Virginia Freedom of Information Act; FOIA officers, training and reporting requirements.
• SB 139 Freedom of Information Advisory Act; training requirements.
• SB 140 FOIA; public higher educational institutions, information related to pledges and donations.
• SB 149 Courthouse and courtroom security; assessment.
• SB 153 Virginia Freedom of Information Act; cost estimates, response time.
• SB 156 Fostering Futures program; established.
• SB 164 Accident airtrip insurance; vending machine sales.
• SB 165 Life and annuities agents; report on licensure exam passage rate.
• SB 168 Line of Duty Act; Virginia licensed health practitioners required to conduct medical reviews.
• SB 178 Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; expands eligibility, fictive kin, definition.
• SB 185 Nursing homes, hospices, etc.; possession and administration of cannabidiol or THC-A.
• SB 187 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); removes time limitations.
• SB 189 Jails, local; compensation for cost of incarceration of convicted felons.
• SB 212 Alcoholic beverage control; creates annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license.
• SB 213 Personal Maintenance Allowance; DMAS to establish work group to evaluate current amount.
• SB 216 Health insurance; catastrophic health plans.
• SB 217 Campaign finance; reporting of certain contributions received immediately prior to session.
• SB 225 Removal of dangerous roadside vegetation; local option.
• SB 233 Insurance agents; licensing and registration renewal.
• SB 239 Fluoride varnish; possession and administration by medical assistants, etc.
• SB 240 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk of injury to himself, etc., penalties.
• SB 246 Driver's license, etc.; sex designation on application form.
• SB 248 Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; created, moneys accruing to Fund, etc.
• SB 258 Persons permitted to work in mines; age requirements, no person under 18 yrs. of age.
• SB 261 Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty.
• SB 262 Hunting elk; special license created.
• SB 264 Certified registered nurse anesthetists; prescriptive authority.
• SB 269 Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions, proprietary records and trade secrets.
• SB 270 Pharmacy; practice, regulation by Board of Pharmacy, report.
• SB 271 Higher educational institutions, public; public-private partnerships, wind and solar power.
• SB 272 Tethering animals; adequate shelter and space.
• SB 279 Certificate of public need; criteria for determining need.
• SB 283 The Virginia Opry; designating as the official opry of the Commonwealth.
• SB 288 Maury River; designating a 19.25-mile segment as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
• SB 290 Commercial driver's licenses; entry-level driver training.
• SB 291 Mortgage brokers; prohibition on dual compensation.
• SB 292 Zoning appeals, board of; dual office holding.
• SB 293 Financial institutions; multiple-fiduciary accounts.
• SB 297 Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Fund; created, report.
• SB 300 DMAS; remote patient monitoring, rural populations.
• SB 303 Dogs; import and sale from certain breeders, penalty.
• SB 314 Grandfathering certain nonconforming use; removes certain requirement.
• SB 318 Balloons; reduces the number per hour that a person may release.
• SB 321 Veterans; eligibility for status under state and local laws.
• SB 329 Disposal of solid waste fees; Russell County.
• SB 335 Hunting and fishing license; certain military members may receive license for 75 percent of fee.
• SB 336 Fishing permits; special permits for certain youth camps.
• SB 338 State Police Officers' Retirement System; exception to mandatory retirement requirement.
• SB 340 Overgrown vegetation; local authority.
• SB 345 Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions, correctional officers, etc.
• SB 349 Insurance benefits; certain retired employees of political subdivisions.
• SB 350 Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund; established.
• SB 355 Assisted living facilities; regulations regarding audio-visual recording of residents, report.
• SB 360 Water, sewerage, and drainage; standards for installation by developer, policies for reimbursement.
• SB 362 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; data collection.
• SB 364 Commonwealth Care Health Benefits Program; association health plans for individual market.
• SB 382 Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices.
• SB 385 Professional engineers; regulations, scope of exception.
• SB 388 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; return of security deposit.
• SB 389 Alcoholic beverage control; definitions, license and fee reform.
• SB 391 Adult abuse; financial exploitation, required report by financial institution.
• SB 394 Virginia Health Club Act; automated external defibrillator required in health clubs.
• SB 397 Nursing homes; VDH to convene work group related to increasing availability of clinical workforce.
• SB 400 Virginia Data Commission; established, report.
• SB 403 Va. War Memorial Carillon; control, etc., by Div. of Engineering & Buildings.
• SB 404 Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans, definitions, effective date.
• SB 406 Environmental justice; definitions, agency regulations, Virginia Environmental Justice Act, policy.
• SB 408 District courts; protective orders, civil cases appealed, notice of docketing.
• SB 412 Family assessments; increases timeline for completion.
• SB 420 Public schools; seizure management and action plan, training.
• SB 421 Consumer lending; replaces references to payday loans with term "short-term loans."
• SB 422 Health regulatory boards; clarifies the meaning of "license."
• SB 423 Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors and services.
• SB 435 Waterfowl blinds; blinds in locality where certain hunting prohibited.
• SB 437 Bicyclists and other vulnerable road users; penalty.
• SB 442 Polling place activities; reorganization of sections, technical amendments.
• SB 443 Provisional voting; reorganization of sections, technical amendments.
• SB 444 Election recounts; reorganization of sections, technical amendments.
• SB 445 Cemeteries; acquisition of abandoned lots in cities and certain towns.
• SB 455 Absentee voting; deadline for returning absentee ballot.
• SB 458 Microloans for Veterans Program and Fund; created.
• SB 465 Volunteer or nonprofit organizations, certain; donation by locality of in-kind resources.
• SB 466 Lists of registered voters; jury selection.
• SB 469 Primary ballot; certain required statements as qualification for candidacy, failure to timely file.
• SB 472 Foster care; termination of parental rights, independent living needs assessments.
• SB 480 Employment; covenants not to compete, definition of low-wage employees, civil penalty.
• SB 482 Developmental Disabilities Mortality Review Committee; created, report.
• SB 486 Food waste; to study VDACS sources, scale, and prevention of food waste.
• SB 487 Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts.
• SB 501 Adoption and foster care; persons authorized to conduct home studies.
• SB 515 Northern Neck Technical Center; opening of the school year.
• SB 518 Commonwealth's biennial appropriations; changing to begin in odd-numbered years.
• SB 519 Professional and Occupational Regulation, Department of; cemeteries, exemptions.
• SB 524 Motor vehicle dealer; advertising.
• SB 525 Passenger buses; width requirements.
• SB 527 Virginia Commercial Driver's License Act; repeals statement of intent and purpose.
• SB 528 Richmond, City of; amending charter, residency of council members.
• SB 530 Epinephrine; possession and administration by a restaurant employee.
• SB 535 Congressional and legislative district boundaries; alignment with boundaries.
• SB 538 Drug Control Act; adds certain chemicals to Schedule I of Act.
• SB 540 Health professionals; unprofessional conduct, reporting.
• SB 541 Middleburg, Town of; amending charter, clarification of powers and duties of mayor, council, etc.
• SB 544 Physician assistant; capacity determinations.
• SB 549 Nuclear energy; strategic plan for overall goal of carbon-free energy.
• SB 555 Voting; restrictions on the basis of race.
• SB 561 Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder, law-enforcement officers and firefighters.
• SB 563 DGS; public posting of contract information on central electronic procurement.
• SB 564 Virginia Hearing Loss Identification & Monitoring System; language development for certain children.
• SB 565 Collaborative practice agreements; adds nurse practitioners and physician assistants to list.
• SB 569 DBHDS and VSP; mobile applications, mental health and public safety.
• SB 570 State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created, effective clause.
• SB 572 Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; early detection and diagnosis, risk reduction and care.
• SB 575 Prescription Monitoring Program; information disclosed to Emergency Department Care Coord. Program.
• SB 576 Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; created.
• SB 577 Capital outlay plan; updates six-year plan for projects.
• SB 580 Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2020; created.
• SB 583 Virginia Spirits Board and Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund; established, report.
• SB 584 Common interest communities; Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act.
• SB 585 Guardianship; special education transition materials, etc.
• SB 588 Localities; authority to levy taxes.
• SB 591 Gasification facilities and pyrolysis facilities; economic development incentives.
• SB 593 Family day homes, licensed, etc.; storage of unloaded firearms in a locked container, cabinet, etc.
• SB 594 Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013; eligible security equipment.
• SB 595 Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013; eligible security equipment, vaping detectors.
• SB 600 Elementary and secondary schools, etc.; repealing several Acts relating to racial segregation.
• SB 601 Legal holidays; Election Day, removes Lee-Jackson Day as state holiday.
• SB 605 Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products.
• SB 607 Virginia Public Procurement Act; statute of limitations on actions on construction contracts.
• SB 610 Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Grant Program and Fund; created.
• SB 611 Truck Manufacturing Grant Fund; created.
• SB 612 Historical Statues in the United States Capitol, Commission for; removal of Robert E. Lee statue.
• SB 616 Game and Inland Fisheries, Department of; name change.
• SB 617 Absentee voting; voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person.
• SB 622 Corrections, State Board of; renamed as State Board of Local and Regional Jails, powers and duties.
• SB 628 Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; residential building energy analysis.
• SB 629 Shared solar programs; electric utility regulation, etc.
• SB 633 Music therapy; definition of music therapist, licensure.
• SB 634 Alternative and efficient energies; subsidies and effective clause.
• SB 645 Local arbitration agreements; disclosure of certain information.
• SB 647 Zoning; development approvals.
• SB 649 Town taxes; collection by county.
• SB 650 Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchases.
• SB 651 Fairfax County; policemen's pension and retirement board.
• SB 652 Fairfax County; policemen's retirement system.
• SB 653 Real estate brokers; escrow funds.
• SB 657 Certificate of birth; new certificate issued to show change of sex.
• SB 658 Contracts with design professionals; provisions requiring a duty to defend void.
• SB 662 Employee misclassification; retaliatory actions prohibited, civil penalty.
• SB 664 Motor vehicles; liability insurance coverage limits, effective date.
• SB 666 Voter registration; notification of denial.
• SB 671 Virginia Retirement System; return to employment by certain retired employees.
• SB 672 Property Owners' Association Act and Virginia Condominium Act; contract disclosure statement.
• SB 673 Nonagricultural irrigation wells; prohibited outside surficial aquifer.
• SB 674 Voluntary forest mitigation; agreements.
• SB 676 Hampton, City of; alcoholic beverage control licensees.
• SB 678 Central registry; electronic requests and responses.
• SB 679 Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee; established, report, sunset provision.
• SB 680 Teachers in certain schools for students with disabilities; extension of provisional licenses.
• SB 686 Assisted living facilities; regulations governing individualized service plans.
• SB 687 Bicycles; signage, effective clause.
• SB 695 Telemarketing; financial exploitation, agency communication.
• SB 701 Conflict of Interests Act, State & Local Gov't., and FOIA; training requirements for ex. directors.
• SB 703 Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government; disclosure by executive directors & members.
• SB 706 Human trafficking; assessments by local departments.
• SB 708 Housing authorities; notice of intent to demolish or liquidate housing projects.
• SB 713 Art therapists and art therapy associates; definitions, licensure.
• SB 715 TANF; menstrual supplies.
• SB 726 Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; change in membership.
• SB 734 Residential psychiatric placement and services; SOE, et al., to establish work group.
• SB 737 Local electoral boards; office vacated if board member ceases to be qualified voter of county, etc.
• SB 738 Temporary detention; observation, testing, or treatment.
• SB 739 Acute psychiatric bed registry; DBHDS shall establish work group to evaluate, etc.
• SB 740 County and city precincts; required to be wholly contained within election districts.
• SB 742 Dogs or cats; rental or lease prohibited, civil penalty, exception.
• SB 746 Comprehensive plan; adoption or disapproval by governing body.
• SB 747 Nutrient and sediment credit generation and transfer; limits certain transfers to private sector.
• SB 754 Electric cooperatives; on-bill tariff programs, definitions.
• SB 757 Medical Excellence Zone Program; VDH to determine feasibility of establishment.
• SB 760 Psychologists; licensure, permitted to practice in Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
• SB 768 Temporary detention; DBHDS shall study who may evaluate.
• SB 769 Environmental proceedings; findings of fact.
• SB 773 Heritage trail; creation for motor racing locations in Virginia.
• SB 774 Big game hunting; guaranteed kills prohibited, penalty.
• SB 782 Undergrounding electric transmission lines; pilot program.
• SB 786 Animal shelters; housing conditions.
• SB 790 Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; provide benefits to conservation officers.
• SB 794 Utility easements; location of broadband and other communications facilities.
• SB 817 Nuclear energy; considered a clean energy source.
• SB 824 Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses, Internet orders and shipments.
• SB 826 Water and sewer service charges; tenant or lessee.
• SB 828 Carbon-free energy and clean energy; definition.
• SB 830 Pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technician trainees; registration.
• SB 832 Private schools; sexual misconduct, employment assistance prohibited.
• SB 833 Alcoholic beverage control; limitation of tasting licenses.
• SB 836 Naloxone; possession and administration, employee or person acting on behalf of a public place.
• SB 849 Lawn fertilizer; contractor-applicators.
• SB 856 Elections, State Board of; increasing membership, staggering terms, role and eligibility, report.
• SB 857 Voter registration; public access not required for certain events.
• SB 859 Absentee voting; emergency absentee voting by and late applications for persons hospitalized.
• SB 861 Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations, benefits consortium.
• SB 864 Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency, repeals sunset provision.
• SB 868 Discrimination; prohibited in public accommodations, etc., causes of action, civil actions.
• SB 869 Hearing notice by localities; timely notice related to planning or zoning matter to newspaper, etc.
• SB 874 Segregated accommodations & segregation districts for residences; repeals certain Acts of Assembly.
• SB 877 Technology, Secretary of; transfer of duties to Secretaries of Administration & Commerce and Trade.
• SB 881 Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Fund; created.
• SB 882 Conservation police officers; external appointment.
• SB 883 Environmental Justice, Virginia Council on; established.
• SB 888 School Construction and Modernization, Commission on; established, report.
• SB 896 Segregation in transportation; repeals certain Acts.
• SB 903 Hospitals; screening emergency department patients, etc.
• SB 904 Higher educational institutions, public; dyslexia and literacy.
• SB 905 Landlord and tenant; tenant's remedy by repair, clarifies definition of "actual costs."
• SB 911 Parking of vehicles; electric vehicle charging spots, civil penalties.
• SB 913 Home hospice programs; disposal of drugs, opioids.
• SB 922 Virginia Lottery; Internet sales.
• SB 936 Charitable Gaming Board; Texas Hold'em poker events.
• SB 941 Local government meetings; rescheduling a meeting due to weather, etc.
• SB 948 Real property by state agencies; conveyance and transfers.
• SB 961 Hopewell, City of; amending charter, issuance of bonds.
• SB 976 Pharmaceutical processors; operation of cannabis dispensing facilities.
• SB 977 Local governing body meetings; public comment during a regular meeting at least quarterly.
• SB 978 Technical professional licenses; military science endorsement.
• SB 979 Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; applicability to nominations and elections for directors.
• SB 981 Military service members and veterans; expediting the issuance of credentials to spouses.
• SB 987 Hunting waterfowl; duck blinds.
• SB 990 Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund; created.
• SB 991 New Americans, Office of; created within Department of Social Services.
• SB 992 Carbon trading program; allocation of allowances, new facility.
• SB 993 State Health Commissioner; local health directors, qualifications.
• SB 995 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; labor organizations.
• SB 1004 Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; created.
• SB 1005 CPL Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge; bridge over I-95.
• SB 1007 Stormwater management; inspections.
• SB 1008 Emergency and disaster law; political subdivisions.
• SB 1011 Transportation, Department of; application of design standards, modifications.
• SB 1019 Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; additional retirement allowance, retirement age, clause.
• SB 1024 Detector canines and detector canine handlers; training and database.
• SB 1025 Kinship foster care; training and approval processes.
• SB 1029 Alcoholic beverage control; gourmet shop license, distiller participation in tastings.
• SB 1030 Dangerous captive animal exhibits; definitions, penalty, effective date.
• SB 1034 Behavioral assessments and interventions; Department of Education to review certain guidelines.
• SB 1035 Motor vehicle dealers; redefines "relevant market area" for purposes of motorcycle franchises.
• SB 1041 Online Virginia Network Authority; adds President of James Madison University as member, etc.
• SB 1042 Wills; presumption of undue influence.
• SB 1044 Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure.
• SB 1045 Cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil; sample testing.
• SB 1046 Clinical social workers; patient records, involuntary detention orders.
• SB 1048 Virginia Horse Center Foundation; DACS to investigate and negotiate public assistance.
• SB 1051 Virginia Public Records Act; availability of public records.
• SB 1057 Virginia Retirement System; health insurance credits for retired state employees, effective clause.
• SB 1066 Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports, eliminates requirement for identification of race.
• SB 1070 Cemeteries, special interments; pets.
• SB 1072 Guardian or conservator; prohibition against appointing certain persons.
• SB 1073 Virginia Food Access Investment Program and Fund; established and created, report.
• SB 1090 Grays Creek; designating as component of Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
• SB 1094 Conservation and Recreation, Department of; authorized to divest itself of certain property.

Senate Joint Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file

• SJ 38 Coastal areas; study on economic consequences of weather-related events.
• SJ 39 Justice system; Virginia State Crime Commission to study effect of abolishing jury sentencing.
• SJ 53 Stormwater Local Assistance Fund; DEQ to study revised priority ranking criteria for grants.
• SJ 67 Marijuana; JLARC to study legalization of growth, sale, and possession.
• SJ 77 Public schools; Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to study firearm safety education.
• SJ 81 Consumer data privacy; Joint Commission on Technology and Science to study.

Resolutions Presented ... report | csv file

• HJ 223 Commending the Know Before You Fly campaign.
• HR 73 Commending Third Street Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
• HR 74 Commending Advocates for Richmond Youth and Youth Housing Stability Coalition of Greater Richmond.
• HR 75 Commending Greater Richmond Fit4Kids.
• HR 76 Commending the Children's Home Society of Virginia.
• HR 77 Commemorating the life and legacy of Oswald Spengler.