TITLE: Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2020-02-10
DATE: 2020-02-10T00:00:00
SESSION: 2020 Regular (20201)
CHAMBER: Senate
SOURCE_API: https://lis.virginia.gov/Calendar/api/GetDocketsByIdAsync?docketID=15561
COMMITTEE_PAGE: https://lis.virginia.gov/committee-details?committeeId=23&sessionCode=20201

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  - Richard L. Saslaw (D) Chair

STAFF: Autumn Green, Thomas Stevens

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bills in Committee]
  999. SB274 - Motion picture theaters; required open-captioned showings.
       Patron(s): Barker
       Summary: Motion picture theaters; required open-captioned showings. Requires any motion picture theater that has four or more separate auditoriums to provide two scheduled showings of a motion picture that engages open captions for a particular showing of an open-captioned-available motion picture each week in any auditorium showing any open-captioned-available motion picture. The measure requires one showing in each auditorium to be during peak weekend motion picture attendance hours, and at least half of the other open-captioned showings to be during peak weekday motion picture attendance hours. If a
  999. SB542 - Securities Act; equity crowdfunding exemption.
       Patron(s): Edwards
       Summary: Securities Act; crowdfunding exemption. Repeals the sunset provision on the existing measure that authorizes the State Corporation Commission to adopt an exemption for limited offerings of securities by small and startup companies, known as equity crowdfunding, from the registration provisions of the Securities Act. These crowdfunding provisions, which were enacted in 2015, are currently scheduled to expire on July 1, 2020. The measure also broadens the existing exemption to apply to offerings conducted in accordance with Rule 147A adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 
  999. SB665 - Electronic Identity Management Act; definitions, federated digital identity systems.
       Patron(s): Boysko
       Summary: Electronic Identity Management Act; federated digital identity systems. Amends the Electronic Identity Management Act to accommodate federated digital identity systems. A federated digital identity system (federation) is defined in the measure as a digital identity system that uses federated identity management to enable the portability of identity information across otherwise autonomous security domains. Federated identity management is defined in the measure as a process that allows the conveyance of identity credentials and authentication information across digital identity systems through 
  999. SB785 - Mortgage loan originators; exempts retailers of manufactured or modular homes, etc.
       Patron(s): Lewis
       Summary: Mortgage loan originators; exemption. Exempts retailers of manufactured or modular homes and employees of such retailers from the licensing and other requirements applicable to mortgage loan originators. The exemption applies if the retailer or employee (i) does not receive compensation or gain for engaging in certain activities that exceeds any compensation or gain received in a comparable cash transaction; (ii) makes certain disclosures; and (iii) does not directly negotiate loan terms with the consumer or lender.
  999. SB952 - High-nicotine vapor products; specialty retail facility, penalty.
       Patron(s): Marsden
       Summary: High-nicotine vapor products; specialty retail facility; penalty. Prohibits the sale of nicotine vapor products that contain more than 20 milligrams of nicotine per milliliter at retail except at a retail facility that generates at least 50 percent of its revenue from the sale of tobacco products; nicotine vapor products, including liquid nicotine; and alternative nicotine products. The bill provides that any person who violates this prohibition is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
  999. SB953 - Virginia Wireless Service Authority Act; appointments to board.
       Patron(s): Edwards
       Summary: Virginia Wireless Service Authority Act; appointments to board. Provides that a board established under the Virginia Wireless Service Authority Act may contain either five or seven members, rather than five members as required under current law. This bill is identical to HB 1376.