Status Report

Budget
HB 1400 (Jones) – Increases the Governors Opportunity Fund
Status: Conference
SB 800 (Colgan) – Opportunity Fund
Status: Committee

School Calendar
HB 1550 (Greason) – School Boards Responsible for Calendar
Status: Defeated 9-5 in Senate, Ed & Health

HB 1838 (Robinson) – Eliminates Post Labor Day Start Requirement
Status:  Defeated 9-5 in Senate, Ed & Health

Workforce Development
HB 1986 (Byron) – Makes a number of changes to the governance of Workforce Development programs in the Commonwealth
Status: Passed House and Senate - Pending Governor’s Action

Energy
SB 1349 (Wagner) – Freezes electric rates in the Commonwealth and suspends reviews of earnings for five years
Status: Passed House and Senate – Pending Governor’s Action

Minimum Wage
HB 1512 (Simon) – Increased minimum wage to $15.15 hr –
Status:  Tabled
HB 1654 (Plum) – Increased minimum wage to $8.00 hr –
Status:  Tabled
SB 681 (Marsden) – Increased minimum wage to $8.00 hr –
Status:  P.B.I.
SB 706 (Puller) – Increased minimum wage to $8.00 hr –
Status:  Stricken

Veterans
HB 1275 (Cox) – Provides funding for Hampton Roads Veterans Care Center
Status: Passed House/Senate Substitute Rejected by House

Right to Work
HJ 490 (Bell) – Constitutional amendment – Right to Work
Status: Adopted House/Senate Reported from P&E Committee

Plastic Shopping Bags
SB 880 (Lewis) – Prohibits retailers from providing plastic shopping bags
Status: Defeated in Local Government Committee

SB 1103 (McWaters) – Allows localities to prohibit plastic shopping bags
Status:  House Tabled in Commerce and Labor

Hospitality
HB 1762 (Watts) SB 1210 (Ebbin) – Bills required intermediaries like on line travel companies to separately state the taxes on a bill or invoice and to collect the tax based on total charges.
Status:  Defeated in House Finance and Defeated in Senate floor vote

Coal Tax Credits
HB 1879 (Kilgore) SB 741 (Carrico) – Places limits of production incentives to $500,000 per return.  Extends sunset  provision.
Status:  Passed Senate and House with substitutes       

Transportation
HB 1886 (Jones) – Public Private Transportation Act – Establishes requirement for finding of public interest.
Status:  Passed House, Reported from Senate Transportation with a substitute.

HB 1887 (Jones) – Transportation funding, formula reporting and allocations.  Requires the CTB to develop a priority ranking system for structurally deficient bridges and deteriorated pavements.  This bill has $40M for transit.
Status:  Passes House/Reported from Senate Transportation with a substitute

Unemployment Insurance
HB 1382 (Head) – Changes the responsibility of the most recent employer/unemployment insurance.
Status:  Left in House Commerce and Labor Committee

Workers Compensation
HB 1820 (Farrell) – Requires the Virginia Workers Comp Commission to establish the prevailing community rate for medical, surgical or hospital services in the provision of medical services in Workers Comp.
Status:  Passed House/sent to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Other Bills of Business Interest
HJ 637 (Landes) – JLARC Study of Medicaid
HJ 515 (Head) – Constitutional Amendment – Legislative Suspension of regulations
Status:  Reported from Senate P & E. Committee
HJ 608 (Kilgore) – Resolution opposing EPA regulations.

HB 1940/SB 1457 – Insurance Mandate – (Greason/Vogel) – Autism coverage insurance mandate will increase the cost of private medical insurance in the Commonwealth

Uber/Lyft/HB 1662 (Rust) SB 1025 (Watkins) – Regulates Uber and Lyft in the Commonwealth

HB 2070 (Gilbert) – Ethics – limits tangible and intangible gifts to elected officials and families.

SJR 284 (Lucas) – Redistricting – Establishes a Virginia Redistricting Commission
Status:  Referred to House Privileges and Elections

HB 1352 (Romadan) – Provided BPOL tax deduction for amounts paid under subcontracts
Status:  Tabled in House Finance

SB 1283 (Martin) – Changes the current Certificate of Public Need Process in the Commonwealth
Status:  Passed Senate, reported from House Health, Welfare and Institutions

SB 1424 (Norment) – Ethics Reform
Status:  Passed House with a substitute