Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. [SB-390]
Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.
SB-390: Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Left In Education And Health on 12/04/2020
Charitable gaming; creates special permit for the play of electronic versions of instant bingo, etc. [SB-387]
Charitable gaming; special permit for the play of electronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards on certain premises. Creates a special permit that shall be granted to a qualified organization that has already received a general permit for the conduct of charitable gaming from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to allow such organization to place Department-approved electronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards on the licensed premises of an entity licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises
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SB-387: Charitable gaming; creates special permit for the play of electronic versions of instant bingo, etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 12/04/2020
Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices. [SB-382]
Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, health maintenance organizations, and the Commonwealth's Medicaid program to provide coverage for prosthetic devices, including myoelectric, biomechanical, or microprocessor-controlled prosthetic devices that have a Medicare code. The measure repeals the existing requirement that coverage for prosthetic devices be offered and made available. The measure has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021.
SB-382: Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices.
Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger
Left In Labor And Commerce on 12/04/2020
Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment; funding by locality. [SB-134]
Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment; funding by locality. Allows any locality to fund the cost of participation in mental health treatment and counseling programs by a member of a volunteer fire or rescue company. A mental health program in which such volunteers are eligible to participate must be comparable to an employee assistance program offered to paid employees of the locality.
SB-134: Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment; funding by locality.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Incorporated By Local Government on 01/19/2016
Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons. [SB-16]
Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons. Provides that a locality that has authorized by ordinance the installation and operation of a video-monitoring system on school buses for recording violations of unlawfully passing a stopped school bus may execute a summons for such violation by mailing a copy of the summons to the owner of a vehicle that unlawfully passed a stopped school bus.
SB-16: Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Incorporated By Transportation on 01/20/2016
Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. [SB-203]
Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learning assessments to the minimum requirements established by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The bill requires the Board of Education to adopt and implement a transition plan over two years beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.
SB-203: Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Committee Substitute Printed To Web Only 16105139d-s1 on 02/04/2016
Police and court records; expungement of certain offenses. [SB-22]
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 and five years have elapsed since the date of completion of all terms of sentencing and probation.
SB-22: Police and court records; expungement of certain offenses.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In Courts Of Justice on 03/08/2016
U. S. of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia; purchase of flags by public bodies. [SB-229]
Purchase of flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia by public bodies. Provides that whenever a state or local public body or school division purchases a flag of the United States or a flag of the Commonwealth for public use, such flag must be made in the United States from articles, materials, or supplies that are grown, produced, and manufactured in the United States, if available. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2017.
SB-229: U. S. of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia; purchase of flags by public bodies.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0289) on 03/07/2016
Toll relief; Department of Transportation to study. [SB-255]
Department of Transportation to study toll relief. Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a survey of other states' toll relief programs and evaluate potential methods of toll relief for citizens of the Commonwealth. The Department shall submit a report of its findings no later than the first day of the 2017 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
SB-255: Toll relief; Department of Transportation to study.
Sponsored by: Sen. Scott Surovell
Continued To 2017 In Rules (14-y 0-n) on 02/05/2016