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2020 SESSION
SENATE CALENDAR FOR January 13, 2020 ... pdf
- Senate Bills on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on Second Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on First Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on First Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Joint Resolution on First Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- Bills or Resolutions Rereferred ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- Resolutions Presented ... report | csv file
Senate Bills on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 44 Public elementary and secondary school students; use of topical sunscreen, etc.
- SB 112 High school graduation; standard diploma requirements, etc.
- SB 186 Individualized education program teams; Department of Education to develop guidelines.
- SB 275 Public schools; enrollment, certain children placed in foster care.
Senate Bills on Second Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 238 Public schools; increases kindergarten instructional time.
- SB 239 Fluoride varnish; possession and administration by medical assistants, etc.
Senate Bills on First Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 181 Alcoholic beverage control; commercial lifestyle center.
- SB 214 Guardianship; review of Individualized Education Plan.
- SB 355 Assisted living facilities; regulations regarding audio-visual recording of residents, report.
Senate Bills on First Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 20 Juvenile Justice, Bd. of; regs. governing housing of youth pursuant to contracts with federal gov't.
- SB 212 Alcoholic beverage control; creates annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license.
- SB 495 Alcoholic beverage control; jewelry store license.
Senate Joint Resolution on First Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
Bills or Resolutions Rereferred ... report | csv file
- SB 91 Parole; application of statutes.
- SB 124 Food stamps and TANF; eligibility, drug-related felonies.
- SB 187 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); removes time limitations.
- SB 189 Jails, local; compensation for cost of incarceration of convicted felons.
- SB 190 Children's Services Act; community policy and management teams, use of funds.
- SB 389 Alcoholic beverage control; definitions, license and fee reform.
- SB 471 Medical Assistance Services, Department of; contracts with managed care organizations.
- SB 493 Geriatric, terminally ill, etc., prisoners; conditional release, definition.
Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- SB 570 State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created, effective clause.
- SB 571 Visitation; petition of grandparent for visitation of child.
- 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 654 Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products.
- SB 655 Physical injuries or death caused to a person; consideration of bills.
- SB 656 Offender medical & mental health information & records; exchange of information to facility, etc.
- 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 659 Contributory negligence; motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian, bicyclist, etc.
- SB 660 Virginia Equal Pay Act; civil penalties.
- SB 661 Accrual of cause of action; diagnoses of nonmalignant and malignant asbestos-related injury.
- SB 662 Employee misclassification; retaliatory actions prohibited, civil penalty.
- SB 663 Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance.
- SB 664 Motor vehicles; liability insurance coverage limits, effective date.
- SB 665 Electronic Identity Management Act; definitions, federated digital identity systems.
- SB 666 Voter registration; notification of denial.
- SB 667 Overdoses; arrest and prosecution when experiencing or reporting.
- SB 668 Child care providers; out-of-state background checks.
- SB 669 Animal testing; breeding.
- SB 670 Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report.
- 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 675 Child care providers; fingerprint-based criminal background checks, repeals sunset.
- SB 676 Hampton, City of; alcoholic beverage control licensees.
- SB 677 Records of financial institutions; reimbursement of costs for production.
- 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 681 Criminal cases; compensation of experts, effective clause.
- SB 682 Food and beverage tax; county imposing a tax greater than four percent.
- SB 683 Competency to stand trial; outpatient treatment may occur.
- SB 684 Firearms; mental health as disqualifier for possession, etc.
- SB 685 Certified pollution control equipment and facilities; tax exemption, timing of certification.
- SB 686 Assisted living facilities; regulations governing individualized service plans.
- SB 687 Bicycles; signage, effective clause.
- SB 688 Alcoholic beverage control; distillers' licenses, remote stores and tasting rooms.
- SB 689 Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of local special events licensees.
- SB 690 Dayton, Town of; amending charter, organizational and technical changes.
- SB 691 School Guardian Fund and Program; created and established.
- SB 692 Interstate 81 Corridor; motor vehicle fuels sales tax.
- SB 693 Common-law defense of intra-family immunity; abolished in certain cases.
- SB 694 Notaries; qualifications, conviction of a felony.
- SB 695 Telemarketing; financial exploitation, agency communication.
- SB 696 Absentee voting; no excuse required when voting in person.
- SB 697 Execution of wills; requires the witnesses to be disinterested, definition.
- SB 698 Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses, monthly revenue transfers.
- SB 699 Juries; fine for failure to respond to questionnaire.
- SB 700 Wills; indexed in the name of executor as listed in such instrument.
- SB 701 Conflict of Interests Act, State & Local Gov't., and FOIA; training requirements for ex. directors.
- SB 702 Marine Resources Commission; permit fees, pier application, oyster fund.
- SB 703 Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government; disclosure by executive directors & members.
- SB 704 Chesapeake Bay watershed implementation plan initiatives; nutrient management plans for cropland.
- SB 705 United States passports; issuance by circuit court clerk's office.
- SB 706 Human trafficking; assessments by local departments.
- SB 707 Landlord and tenant; statement of tenant rights and responsibilities.
- SB 708 Housing authorities; notice of intent to demolish or liquidate housing projects.
- SB 709 ABC Authority; work group to study tied house provisions, report.
- SB 710 Distributed solar & other renewable energy; sales of electricity under third-party agreements.
- SB 711 Driving while license, permit, or privilege to drive suspended or revoked; mandatory minimum term.
- SB 712 Virginia Human Rights Act; unlawful discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth.
- SB 713 Art therapists and art therapy associates; definitions, licensure.
- SB 714 Virginia Revolutionary 250 Commission; established, report.
- SB 715 TANF; menstrual supplies.
- SB 716 People with developmental disabilities; Sec. of PSHS, et al., to create and implement policies.
- SB 717 Congressional and state legislative districts; standards and criteria.
- SB 718 Health insurance; interhospital transfer for newborn or mother.
- SB 719 Virginia Minimum Wage Act; exclusions.
- SB 720 PSAP dispatchers; definitions, telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation, EMD program.
- SB 721 Orders of restitution; enforcement.
- SB 722 Institutional racial segregation and discrimination; repeals several Acts.
- SB 723 Bail; data collection and reporting standards, report, effective clause.
- SB 724 Misdemeanor sexual offenses; increases statute of limitations, where the victim is a minor.
- SB 725 Classification of land and improvements for tax purposes; City of Richmond.
- SB 726 Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; change in membership.
- SB 727 Real estate tax; exemption for property in redevelopment or conservation areas.
- SB 728 Standards of Quality; work-based learning, teacher leaders and mentors, principal mentors, clause.
- SB 729 School principals; incident reports.
- SB 730 Custodial interrogations; recording.
- SB 731 Investor-owned electric utilities; rate of return on common equity.
- SB 732 Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; created.
- SB 733 Abortion; expands who can perform in first trimester, informed consent required.
- SB 734 Residential psychiatric placement and services; SOE, et al., to establish work group.
- SB 735 Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; definitions, establishes requirements.
- SB 736 Court fines and costs; community service work in lieu of payment during imprisonment.
- 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 741 Workers' compensation; occupation disease presumptions, PTSD.
- SB 742 Dogs or cats; rental or lease prohibited, civil penalty, exception.
- SB 743 Casino Gaming Establishment Location Commission; created.
- SB 744 Misclassification of employees as independent contractors; Department of Taxation to investigate.
- SB 745 Income tax, state; exclusion, student loan forgiveness, disabled veterans.
- 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 748 Offender medical and mental health information and records; exchange of information to facility.
- SB 749 Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; establishes sale of insurance, etc., for platforms.
- SB 750 Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; definition, taxation.
- SB 751 Charitable gaming; regulations of the Charitable Gaming Board.
- SB 752 Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; illegal gambling device.
- SB 753 Virginia National Guard; state active duty for emergency response.
- SB 754 Electric cooperatives; on-bill tariff programs, definitions.
- SB 755 Vehicle damage; disclosure to vehicle title.
- SB 756 Income tax, corporate; combined reporting requirements.
- SB 757 Medical Excellence Zone Program; VDH to determine feasibility of establishment.
- SB 758 Electric personal delivery devices; changes related to devices.
- SB 759 Photo speed monitoring devices; civil penalty.
- SB 760 Psychologists; licensure, permitted to practice in Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
- SB 761 Driver's license; DMV to issue licenses and special ID cards.
- SB 762 Solar energy projects; revenue share assessment.
- SB 763 Local tax; amount of exemption for solar energy equipment.
- SB 764 Certificate of public need; revises the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program.
- SB 765 Health insurance; provider contracts, business practices, adverse changes, penalties.
- SB 766 Health care; explanation of benefits, sensitive health care services.
- SB 767 Health insurance; payment to out-of-network providers.
- SB 768 Temporary detention; DBHDS shall study who may evaluate.
- SB 769 Environmental proceedings; findings of fact.
- SB 770 Paid family and medical leave program; Virginia Employment Commission to establish.
- SB 771 Interlocutory appeals; immunity, petitions or appeals, civil actions.
- SB 772 Bait fish; unlawful to transport for sale outside of the Commonwealth, penalty.
- SB 773 Heritage trail; creation for motor racing locations in Virginia.
- SB 774 Big game hunting; guaranteed kills prohibited, penalty.
- SB 775 Discovery in criminal cases; penalties.
- SB 776 Wetlands protection; living shorelines.
- SB 777 Virginia Security for Public Deposits Act; collateral for public deposits.
- SB 778 Housing; extension of approvals to address crisis.
- SB 779 Sixth grade science curriculum; DOE & DEQ to update.
- SB 780 Campgrounds; inherent risks, liability.
- SB 781 Handguns; leaving unattended in public, penalty.
- SB 782 Undergrounding electric transmission lines; pilot program.
- SB 783 Carbon market participation; submerged aquatic vegetation.
- SB 784 Transmission lines; relocation and undergrounding.
- SB 785 Mortgage loan originators; exempts retailers of manufactured or modular homes, etc.
- SB 786 Animal shelters; housing conditions.
- SB 787 Hampton Roads Regional Arena Authority; created, financing of a Hampton Roads arena and facility.
- SB 788 Grand larceny; increases threshold amount.
- SB 789 Advanced recycling; incentives in income tax, sales tax, and machinery and tools tax.
- SB 790 Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; provide benefits to conservation officers.
- SB 791 Menhaden; management of the fishery.
- SB 792 Nonpublic service companies, certain; conveyance of right-of-way usage.
- SB 793 Parole; exception to limitation on the application of parole statutes.
- SB 794 Utility easements; location of broadband and other communications facilities.
- SB 795 Offshore drilling; prohibition on leases, policy.
- SB 796 Hampton Roads Coastal Resiliency Authority; created.
- SB 797 Uniform Statewide Building Code; exceptions, provisions, and modifications.
- SB 798 Driving after forfeiture of license; guilty of certain offenses.
- SB 799 County food and beverage tax; eliminates limit that restricts a county from imposing.
- SB 800 Real property; tax exemption for certified pollution control equipment and facilities.
- SB 801 Subpoena duces tecum; attorney of record may issue in any criminal case.
- SB 802 Death penalty executions; imposes a moratorium.
- SB 803 Attorneys for the Commonwealth; compensation and collection of fees.
- SB 804 Employees providing domestic service; definitions, report.
- SB 805 Robbery; definition, penalty.
- SB 806 Criminal cases; ex parte requests for expert assistance.
- SB 807 Larceny; subsequent offenses, penalty.
- SB 809 Parole; application of statutes.
- SB 810 Discretionary sentencing guidelines worksheets; use by juries.
- SB 811 Sentencing in a criminal case; procedure for trial by jury, ascertainment of punishment, etc.
- SB 812 Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; telephone solicitation calls.
- SB 813 Virginia High Speed Chase Alert Program; created.
- SB 814 Driver's licenses; suspension for nonpayment of fines or costs.
- SB 815 Marijuana; decriminalization of simple possession, penalty.
- SB 816 Minimum wage; increases to $8.50 per hour on July 1, 2020, to $9.75 per hour on July 2, 2021.
- SB 817 Nuclear energy; considered a clean energy source.
- SB 818 Behavioral health dockets; established.
- SB 819 Drug Treatment Court Act; authorization and availability.
- SB 820 Constitutional amendment; personal property tax exemption for motor vehicle of a disable veteran.
- SB 821 Parole; exception to limitation on the application of parole statutes.
- SB 822 Telephone privacy protection; solicitor to immediately disclose who is calling, etc.
- SB 823 Writs of actual innocence; petition by person who was convicted of a felony, etc.
- SB 824 Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses, Internet orders and shipments.
- SB 825 Firearms; carrying loaded into public areas, government buildings.
- SB 826 Water and sewer service charges; tenant or lessee.
- SB 827 Industrial hemp; federal regulations, adoption in Virginia.
- SB 828 Carbon-free energy and clean energy; definition.
- SB 829 Governor; authority to reinstate professional licenses.
- SB 830 Pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technician trainees; registration.
- SB 831 Water utility or sewer utility asset acquisitions; fair market valuations.
- SB 832 Private schools; sexual misconduct, employment assistance prohibited.
- SB 833 Alcoholic beverage control; limitation of tasting licenses.
- SB 834 Affordable housing; certain localities allowed to adopt dwelling unit ordinances.
- SB 835 Municipal elections in November; council members appointed to fill vacancy ineligible to vote.
- SB 836 Naloxone; possession and administration, employee or person acting on behalf of a public place.
- SB 837 Corrections Private Management Act; name change, private management prohibited.
- SB 838 Nonpayment of wages; cause of action, penalties.
- SB 839 Zoning; permitted provisions in ordinance, worker protection.
- SB 840 Insanity; persons acquitted.
- SB 841 George Mason University; encouraged to establish a school of medicine.
- SB 842 Electric energy; customer choice.
- SB 843 Stormwater and erosion and sediment control; acceptance of plans in lieu of plan review.
- SB 844 Computer trespass; expands the crime.
- SB 845 School buildings, public; mold testing, effective date.
- SB 846 Organ, eye, or tissue transplantation; discrimination prohibited.
- SB 847 Public schools; reduces number of Standards of Learning assessments, report.
- SB 848 Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; changes report date.
- SB 849 Lawn fertilizer; contractor-applicators.
- SB 850 Central State Colony, etc.; repeals various Chapters relating to establishment.
- SB 851 Electric utility regulation; environmental goals.
- SB 852 Tobacco products; tax on all tobacco products, penalties.
- SB 853 Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee; established, report.
- SB 854 Virginia Urban Agriculture Advisory Council; created, report.
- SB 855 Financial institutions; small loans, penalty.
- 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 858 Naturopathic doctors; Board of Medicine to license and regulate.
- SB 859 Absentee voting; emergency absentee voting by and late applications for persons hospitalized.
- SB 860 Electric utilities; offshore wind development.
- SB 861 Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations, benefits consortium.
- SB 862 Pharmacy benefits managers; required to register with Commissioner of Bureau of Insurance.
- SB 863 Southwestern Va. Mental Health Institute; Governor to lease a portion of property to Smyth County.
- SB 864 Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency, repeals sunset provision.
- SB 865 Aircraft; registration, clarifies definition.
- SB 866 Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth.
- SB 867 Health care provider panels; vertically integrated carriers, providers.
- 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 870 Solar photovoltaic projects; special exceptions for any project.
- SB 871 Electric power-assisted bicycles; amends definition.
- SB 872 Guardian ad litem; appointment, court-ordered custody and visitation arrangements.
- SB 873 DPOR; regulatory boards expungement of disciplinary records.
- SB 874 Segregated accommodations & segregation districts for residences; repeals certain Acts of Assembly.
- SB 875 Solar energy projects; national standards.
- SB 876 Electric utility regulation; mandatory clean energy standard program.
- SB 877 Technology, Secretary of; transfer of duties to Secretaries of Administration & Commerce and Trade.
- SB 878 Court-appointed counsel; additional compensation, effective clause.
- SB 879 Absentee voting; no excuse required, registered voters.
- SB 880 School counselors; minimum staffing ratio, effective clause.
- 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 884 Teledentistry; definition, report, dental scans.
- SB 885 Performance of laboratory analysis; cannabidiol oil, THC-A oil, tetrahydrocannabinol.
- SB 886 Hunting with dogs; retrieval & trespass, discharge of firearm on road, civil & criminal penalties.
- SB 887 Voter registration; automatic voter registration.
- SB 888 School Construction and Modernization, Commission on; established, report.
- SB 889 Campaign contribution limits; civil penalty.
- SB 890 Transportation; amends numerous laws related to funds, safety programs, revenue sources, etc.
- SB 891 Animal welfare regulations; keeping of dogs, cats, and rabbits.
- SB 892 Ranked choice voting; elections for local governing bodies, local option pilot program.
- SB 893 Comprehensive plan; solar facilities review, exempts certain facilities.
- SB 894 Misclassification of workers; cause of action.
- SB 895 Higher educational institutions, public; six-year plans, pricing structure and tuition discounting.
- SB 896 Segregation in transportation; repeals certain Acts.
- SB 897 Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, educational programs.
- SB 898 Business advisory committee; established.
- SB 899 Transit funding; raises the existing regional transportation fee, etc.
- SB 900 Virginia Beach, City of; amending charter, council members.
- SB 901 Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required.
- SJ 41 Firearms; joint subcommittee to study issues related thereto and safety in the Commonwealth.
- SJ 42 Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force; DEQ to establish.
- SJ 43 Governor; confirming appointments.
- SJ 44 Governor; confirming appointments.
- SJ 45 Governor; confirming appointments.
- SJ 46 Governor; confirming appointments.
- SJ 47 Court of Appeals of Virginia; Judicial Council of Virginia to study jurisdiction and organization.
- SJ 49 Social workers; DHP to study need for additional, etc., workers.
- SJ 50 Commonwealth Corridor passenger rail service; DRPT to study feasibility of an east-west service.
- SJ 51 World Prematurity Month and Day; designating as November 2020, and November 17, 2020, respectively.