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SB648Intro

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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. Such compliance qualifies the locality for ma...
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2020-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 0-N)
HB635Intro

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Traffic incident management vehicles. Adds Traffic incident management vehicles. Adds traffic incident management vehicles, defined in the bill, operated by persons who meet certain training requirements to a list of vehicles exempt from certain traf...
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2020-01-21
Incorporated by Transportation
SJR11Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of Governor and Lieutenant Governor; residency requirement. Increases from five to eight the number of years a person must have been a resident of and registered voter in the Commonwealth in...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR2Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); personal reproductive liberty. Amends the Constitution of Virginia by adding a section establishing the individual right to personal reproductive autonomy. The amendment prohibits the denial or infringemen...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR6Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2025 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB43Intro

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Absentee voting; prohibiting release of absentee voter 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 cop...
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2020-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
HB930Intro

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Professions and occupations; expediting the issuance of credentials to spouses of military service members and veterans. Provides for the expedited issuance of credentials to the spouses of military service members who are ordered to federal active d...
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2020-01-21
Incorporated by General Laws
SB25Intro

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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 administer...
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2020-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (5-Y 10-N)
SJR16Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three full terms (12 years) and members of the House of Delegates to six full terms (12 years). The limitations apply to service for both cons...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB143Intro

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State subsidy of property tax exemptions for disabled veterans and surviving spouses. 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...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB487Intro

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Life insurance; notarized signature. Requires that any individual life insurance policy delivered or issued for delivery on or after January 1, 2021, contain the notarized signature of the individual on whose life the policy is issued.
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2020-01-21
Stricken from docket by Labor and Commerce (19-Y 0-N)
SJR63Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); uniform schedule of elections for members of the General Assembly and statewide offices. Provides for a uniform schedule for general elections of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Genera...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB547Intro

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Super precincts; pilot program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to conduct a pilot program under which one or more counties or cities, whose proposal for participation in such pilot program is unanimously approved by the State Board, would be...
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2020-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB866Intro

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Administrative Process Act; regulations; public notice and economic impact; prohibition on certain regulations. Requires that an agency prepare a detailed notice of intended regulatory action for any regulation that it plans to promulgate. Prior to p...
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2020-01-21
Stricken from docket by General Laws (21-Y 1-N)
SB205Intro

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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 Ass...
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2020-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SJR59Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of voters; automatic restoration of civil rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies upon completion of their sentences. The present Con...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR19Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); political reform. Prohibits the establishment of electoral districts that intentionally or unduly favor or disfavor any political party and requires the General Assembly to regulate the role of money in el...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB184Intro

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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 fina...
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2020-01-21
Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
HB843Intro

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Motor vehicle title loans, payday loans, consumer finance loans, and open-end credit plans; interest rate. Caps the rate of interest that may be charged on motor vehicle title loans, payday loans, and open-end credit plans at 36 percent per year. The...
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2020-01-21
Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
HB970Intro

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Use of transportation funds. States that it is the policy of the Commonwealth that revenues dedicated to transportation purposes shall not be used or redirected for any non-transportation purpose. Any attempt to repurpose funds dedicated to transport...
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2020-01-21
To House Transportation Committee
HB1265Intro

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Consumer finance companies. 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 lo...
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2020-01-21
Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
SB119Intro

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Precincts; wholly contained within single election district. 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 necessa...
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2020-01-21
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
HB579Intro

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Health insurance; coverage for mammograms. Requires health insurers, on and after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for low-dose screening mammograms at rates that are more frequent than is currently required if the covered individual has a family...
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2020-01-21
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
SB835Intro

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Municipal elections in November; council members appointed to fill vacancy ineligible to vote on ordinance to move election. Prohibits a council member appointed to fill a vacancy from voting on an ordinance to move the date of the election for counc...
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2020-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
SB699Intro

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Juries; fine for failure to respond to questionnaire. Permits a court to fine a person no more than $200 for failure to respond to a request from a jury commissioner or clerk of court containing questions to ascertain such person's eligibility to ser...
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2020-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB351Intro

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Authority of localities to provide broadband service. Provides that any locality may establish any department, office, board, commission, agency, or other governmental division or entity that has authority to offer telecommunications, Internet access...
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2020-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N)
HB1114Intro

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School principals; incident reports. Eliminates the requirement that school principals report certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense to law enforcement.
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2020-01-20
Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 0-N)
SJR48PassCelebrating the life of Dorothy Leah Gerber.
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2020-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ48ER)
SJR4PassCelebrating the life of Alan Arnold Diamonstein.
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2020-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ4ER)
SB796Intro

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Hampton Roads Coastal Resiliency Authority. Creates the Hampton Roads Coastal Resiliency Authority (the Authority) as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Authority may by ordinance consist of any locality that makes up the membership of ...
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2020-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N)
SJR62PassCommending the Washington Nationals.
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2020-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ62ER)
SB419Intro

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Conservation of trees; Town of Vienna. Allows the Town of Vienna, by ordinance, to require that a subdivision or development provide for the preservation or replacement of trees on the development site such that the minimum tree canopy 10 years after...
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2020-01-20
To Senate Local Government Committee
SB27Intro

Sine Die
Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. 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 unin...
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2020-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB958Intro

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Secretary of Education; establishment of College and Career Readiness Steering Committee. Requires the Secretary of Education to establish a 21-member College and Career Readiness Steering Committee to (i) develop and oversee implementation of a stra...
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2020-01-20
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2021 by voice vote
SB642Intro

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Functions of a multi-jurisdiction grand jury; failure to pay wages. Adds the offense of willfully failing to pay wages to the list of offenses that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury is authorized to investigate.
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2020-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N)
SJR54PassCelebrating the life of Adolph Schick.
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2020-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ54ER)
SJR65PassCelebrating the life of David L. King.
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2020-01-20
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ65ER)
HR21PassCelebrating the life of George Dragas, Jr.
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2020-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR21ER)
HR19PassCommending Maureen Caddigan.
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2020-01-20
Bill text as passed House (HR19ER)
SB654Intro

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Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations whose policy, contract, or plan includes coverage for medicines to classify medically necessary f...
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2020-01-20
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor
SB502Intro

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Department of Social Services; child support enforcement; distribution of support payments. Requires the Department of Social Services, in cases in which the Department receives child support payments, to enter into an agreement with the obligee that...
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2020-01-17
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
SB117Intro

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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.
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2020-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N)
HJR119PassCommending the Williamsburg-Jamestown airport.
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2020-01-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ119ER)
HB64Intro

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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, volunte...
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2020-01-16
Tabled in Labor and Commerce (20-Y 0-N)
HJR16PassCommending the Union High School boys' cross country team.
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2020-01-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ16ER)
HJR13PassCelebrating the life of Ben E. Allen.
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2020-01-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ13ER)
HJR12PassCelebrating the life of John Curtis Marion.
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2020-01-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ12ER)
HJR75PassCommending Tyrone Hines.
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2020-01-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ75ER)
HJR124PassCommending The Inn at Willow Grove.
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2020-01-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ124ER)
HJR122PassCelebrating the life of Roland Carroll Smith, Sr.
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2020-01-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ122ER)
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