Here's a rundown of bills VICPP is watching (as of Wednesday at 10 a.m.); bills in bold are still alive:
BILL# PATRON DESCRIPTION STATUS
SB785 Marsden MINIMUM WAGE: Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $8.00 per hour effective July 1, 2017. DEAD
SB978 Dance MINIMUM WAGE: Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $10.00 per hour effective July 1, 2017. DEAD
HB1444 Rasoul MINIMUM WAGE: Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $10.00 per hour effective July 1, 2017. DEAD
HB1599 Farris DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS: Provides that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall restore a person’s driver’s license that has been suspended for failure to pay court-ordered fines, costs, forfeitures, restitution, or penalties if the person pays the required reinstatement fee and presents to the Department a written offer of employment hat is contingent on the person’s possessing a driver’s license. DEAD
SB1188 Edwards DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS: Removes the requirement that a person’s driver’s license be suspended for nonpayment of fines and court costs. Passed committee
HB1862 Lopez DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS: Removes the requirement that a person’s driver’s license be suspended for nonpayment of fines and court costs. DEAD
HB2049 Krizek DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS: Removes the requirement that a person’s driver’s license be suspended for nonpayment of fines and court costs. DEAD
HB2386 Loupassi DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS: Precludes a court from denying a defendant’s eligibility for a restricted driver’s license. Passed Committee
SB1125 Surovell PREDATORY LENDING: Makes a violation of the requirements applicable to open-end credit plan lending a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. DEAD
SB1126 Surovell PREDATORY LENDING: Provides that the laws regulating consumer finance companies apply to persons making loans to individuals for personal, family, household, or other nonbusiness purposes over the Internet to Virginia residents or any individuals in Virginia, whether or not the person making the loans maintains a physical presence in the Commonwealth. Passed Senate
HB1442 Farrell PREDATORY LENDING: Caps the amount of the origination fee that may be charged under an open-end credit plan to 5 percent. DEAD
HB1443 Farrell PREDATORY LENDING: Provides that the provisions of Chapter 15 (Consumer Finance Companies) of Title 6.2 apply to persons making consumer loans over the Internet to Virginia residents or any individual in Virginia, whether or not the person making the loan maintains a physical presence in the Commonwealth. DEAD
HB1419 Kory IMMIGRATION: Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue temporary driver’s licenses, permits, and special identification cards to certain aliens. DEAD
HB1682 Bloxom IMMIGRATION: Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a temporary driver’s license valid for one year to an applicant who is otherwise unable to be issued a driver’s license due to immigration status if such applicant (i) has established residency in the Commonwealth, (ii) has filed an income tax return with the Commonwealth, (iii) has registered with the Department of Homeland Security, and (iv) either demonstrates proof of a motor vehicle liability insurance. DEAD
HB1468 Marshall IMMIGRATION: Prohibits the Director of the Department of Corrections, sheriff, or other official in charge of a facility from releasing an incarcerated alien for whom a lawful detainer order has been received from U.S. ICE. Passed House
HB1779 Plum IMMIGRATION: Adds immigration status 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. DEAD
HB2000 Poindexter IMMIGRATION: Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent of the federal law. In Committee
HB2001 Poindexter IMMIGRATION: Requires the governing board and each employee of each public institution of higher education to cooperate in the enforcement of federal law by U.S. ICE. In Committee
HB2236 Cline IMMIGRATION: Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent of the federal law. In Committee
SB1458 McPike GUNS: Requires a person to have the express authorization of a place of religious worship to carry certain weapons to such place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held. DEAD
SB844 Howell VOTING: Allows for any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in person in any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason. DEAD
SJ243 Edwards CIVIL RIGHTS: Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies. Incorporated
SB1206 Lewis REDISTRICTING: Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans. DEAD
HB2280 Ward REDISTRICTING: Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly should adopt a resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would establish an independent redistricting commission to create and propose redistricting plans for House of Delegates, the Senate of Virginia and congressional districts. DEAD
HJ749 Bell REDISTRICTING: Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census of the United States. In Subcommittee
HB794 Lefwich DEATH PENALTH: Provides that a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty. DEAD
HB1704 Filer-Corn FELONY THRESHOLD: Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods taken at which the crime rises to grand larceny. DEAD
SB816 Surovell FELONY THRESHOLD: Increases from $200 to $1,000 the threshold amount of money or value of goods taken at which the crime rises to grand larceny. Passed Committee
SB923 Petersen FELONY THRESHOLD: Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods taken at which the crime rises to grand larceny. Incorporated
SB1066 Deeds CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Provides that a person may petition for a writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence regardless of the type of plea he entered at trial. Passed Committee
SB1152 Marsden CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentence shall be eligible for parole. Passed Committee
SB1174 Obenshain CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Provides that a court may permit an inmate to earn credits against any fines and court costs imposed against him by performing community service. Incorporated
SB1227 Baker CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Eliminates the restriction that renders persons convicted of certain violent felonies within the preceding 10 years ineligible to participate in a drug treatment court. Passed committee
SB1281 McDougle CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Authorizes a recovery community organization to provide substance abuse treatment to individuals ordered to such treatment by a court upon conviction or placement on first offender status of such individual for a crime involving controlled substances. DEAD
SB1232 Dunnavant OPIOID CRISIS: Prohibits a prescriber providing treatment for a patient in an emergency department of a corporation, facility, or institution licensed, owned, or operated by the Commonwealth to provide healthcare from prescribing a controlled substance containing an opioid in a quantity greater than a three-day period. Passed Senate
HB1398 Bell HATE CRIMES: Expands the definition of hate crime for the purpose of reporting hate crimes within the Department of State Police to include acts against persons employed as law-enforcement officers, firefighters, or emergency medical services personnel. DEAD
HB1776 Plum HATE CRIMES: Adds gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability 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. DEAD
HB1612 Marshall DISCRIMINATION: Prohibit anyone from using a sex-segregated restroom on government property - including schools, state colleges and universities, state parks, the General Assembly Building and other buildings unless the gender assigned to them at birth and recorded on their “original” birth certificate matches the sign on the restroom door. DEAD
HR303 Lopez DISCRIMINATION: Denounces the intimidation of Virginia's residents, affirms the state's commitment to diversity, and safeguards the civil rights and dignity of all Virginians. DEAD
HB1462 Sullivan VOTING: Expands the list of acceptable, valid photo IDs that voters may present to cast a ballot. DEAD
HB2283 Krizek WAGE THEFT: Provides that an employee has cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages. |
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