| SB381 | Pass | Secretary of Public Safety; Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security; transfer of certain powers and duties. Renames the Secretary of Public Safety as the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and reassigns duties currently assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| HJR468 | Pass | Commending Master Trooper Gene E. Ayers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-02
Introduced bill reprinted 14105304D |
| SB154 | Pass | Hunting on Sundays. Allows hunting on Sundays under certain circumstances. A person may hunt waterfowl, subject to restrictions imposed by the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and a landowner and his immediate family or a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| SB244 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; elimination of certain duties and programs. Eliminates the duty of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to (i) develop policies and procedures for disclosing certain information to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| HB844 | Pass | Eastern Shore Water Access Authority Act. Allows the Counties of Accomack and Northampton by resolution to declare that there is a need for a public access authority. If an operating agreement is developed, the counties may form the Eastern Shore Wat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| HB1229 | Pass | Public schools; individual school performance grading system; delay. Delays the implementation of the A-to-F school performance grading system by two years, to October 1, 2016. The bill also requires the Board of Education to develop a preliminary pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| SB394 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the Treasury Board to issue bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $245,020,705 plus financing costs to finance revenue-prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HB886 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education; postsecondary education and employment data. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to disseminate to each public high school and each institution of higher education in the Commonwealth for which the Counci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| HB1098 | Pass | Smart transportation pilot zone. Requires the Secretary of Transportation and VDOT to establish a smart transportation pilot zone to test state-of-the-art smart road technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| SB50 | Pass | Endangered and threatened species. Allows a person to possess, breed, sell, and transport any nonnative wildlife included on any federal list of endangered or threatened species when the federal government, under the Federal Endangered Species Act, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| HB1090 | Pass | New technologies and innovations in statewide transportation programs. Requires the Secretary of Transportation and VDOT to incorporate new smart road technologies and innovations in statewide transportation technology programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB956 | Pass | Elections; filings by candidates and political parties. Streamlines the process by which information regarding candidates' filing of required statements of economic interests is transmitted to the State Board of Elections or local electoral boards. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| HB978 | Pass | Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; utility crossings. Requires a locality or political subdivision whose facilities are to be crossed or affected by a project under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 to cooperate fully with other e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB1006 | Pass | Update of the Probable Maximum Precipitation level. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to utilize a storm-based approach to calculate the Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) for various locations in or affecting Virginia. The meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB1102 | Pass | Longwood University Board of Visitors; removal of visitors. Provides that if any member of the Longwood University Board of Visitors fails to perform the duties of his office for one year without sufficient cause shown to the board, the office of suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB1024 | Pass | Elections; vacancies in elected constitutional and local offices. Requires the court to order a special election for a vacancy in any elected constitutional or local office to be held on the date of the next general election, unless the governing bod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| SB361 | Pass | Elections; meeting of electoral board following election; adjournment. Strikes "from day to day" to allow the board to adjourn, for example, from Wednesday to Friday for the review of provisional ballots. Present law allows the electoral board to adj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| SB532 | Pass | Care of students who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Requires local school boards to permit students who are diagnosed with diabetes to (i) carry with them and use supplies, including a reasonable and appropriate short-term supply of carbohydrates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| SB135 | Pass | Special license plates; armed forces. Allows disabled veterans who have been honorably discharged to receive special license plates that are already developed for certain branches of the United States armed forces. The bill also makes a technical cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| SB582 | Pass | Update of the Probable Maximum Precipitation level. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to utilize a storm-based approach to calculate the Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) for various locations in or affecting Virginia. The meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HJR425 | Pass | Commending the Robinson Secondary School wrestling team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Introduced bill reprinted 14105293D |
| SB324 | Pass | Public schools; individual school performance grading system; delay. Delays the implementation of the A-to-F school performance grading system by two years, to October 1, 2016. The bill also requires the Board of Education to develop a preliminary pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| HB597 | Pass | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; name; composition of Board of Directors; powers. Renames the Authority as the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority and equalizes Board representation among the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, and Henr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB672 | Pass | Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Program. Expands the Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone into a statewide grant program and allows the Virginia Port Authority and the Department of Taxation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| SB279 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit; retired member of enforcement division of DMV; exception. Provides an exception for a concealed handgun permit for a qualifying retired member of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB1150 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; government stores; agents of Board. Provides that certain licensed distillers who are appointed agents of the ABC Board may blend or produce spirits using (1) copper or stainless steel pot stills or (2) the maceration of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| SB8 | Pass | Tow truck drivers; violent crimes. Creates an exception to current law prohibiting the registration as a tow truck driver of any person convicted of a violent crime. The bill grandfathers those that already held a tow truck driver authorization under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| SB228 | Pass | Pet dealers; diseased animals; veterinary certificate. Requires a pet dealer to reimburse certain veterinary fees when a consumer returns or retains a diseased dog or cat that has been certified by a veterinarian as being unfit for purchase. Current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| SB473 | Pass | Foreign judgments. Replaces the Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act enacted in Virginia in 1990 with the version approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2005, which has been adopted in 18 stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB988 | Pass | Coyote control program. Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to promote programs to those seeking assistance with coyote control concerns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| HB703 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exemption for administrative investigations by public institutions of higher education. Exempts from FOIA administrative investigations conducted by a public institution of higher education relating to indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB473 | Pass | Local utilities; City of Richmond. Provides that the City of Richmond may develop criteria for providing discounted water and sewer fees and charges for low-income, elderly, or disabled customers. The City may also develop criteria for financial assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB520 | Pass | State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; membership. Removes the Governor's Special Advisor on Children's Services from and adds a juvenile and domestic relations district court judge to be appointed by the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| HB952 | Pass | Protection of confidential information in court files. Provides that whenever a party in a civil action files a motion or other document with a court containing a social security number or other identification numbers on driver's licenses, credit car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB1233 | Pass | Address Confidentiality Program; victims of stalking. Makes victims of stalking eligible for the Address Confidentiality Program. Under current law, only victims of domestic violence are eligible for participation. The bill also allows the Office of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB876 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners. Changes the composition of the Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Port Authority by adding a member from Greater Hampton Roads. The bill also requires that one member have maritime shipping experien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| SB315 | Pass | State Board of Elections; annual report. Requires the State Board to report by August 1 of each year to the Committees on Privileges and Elections on the activities undertaken by the Board to maintain the Virginia voter registration system and to com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| HB702 | Pass | Uniform assessments; qualified assessors. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to enter into contracts with public and private entities to conduct community-based and institutional screenings in jurisdictions in which the screening ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| HB722 | Pass | Location of methadone clinics near schools and day care centers; exemptions for existing facilities and providers. Provides that licensed providers of methadone treatment that are exempt from restrictions regarding proximity to a school or day care c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB230 | Pass | Appointment to industrial development authorities. Provides that in Frederick County the board of supervisors may appoint one of its members to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Frederick, Virginia. The bill contains technical amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| SB435 | Pass | Clerks; order books; remote access to court records; electronic filing; information technology fees; posting of certain information on the Internet. Provides that circuit court clerks may keep an automated system in lieu of order books and land books...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| SB266 | Pass | Unemployment benefits; financial literacy course. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC), either by itself or in collaboration with workforce service partner entities, to provide information to all unemployment benefits claimants and job s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| SB364 | Pass | Cigarette taxes; ineligibility to be authorized holder. Provides that persons who have been convicted of selling, purchasing, or possessing, etc., unstamped cigarettes for the purpose of evading taxes and persons convicted of possession with intent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| HB617 | Pass | Personal property tax; classification. Authorizes a locality to establish lower personal property tax rates on the tangible property of businesses that locate for the first time in the locality. The lower rates would apply for the first two tax years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB439 | Pass | Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act; applicability to Virginia citizens. Expands the protections of the Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act to Virginia citizens and makes Virginia citizens eligible for an award from the Fraud and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| HB891 | Pass | Powers and duties of health regulatory boards; special conference committees. Provides that special conference committees may consider applications for a license, certificate, registration, permit, or issuance of a multistate licensure privilege and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| HB1012 | Pass | City of Suffolk; ordinance providing that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on real estate. Adds the City of Suffolk to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on the real es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| SB624 | Pass | Emergency care; school board employees. Provides that employees of a school board or a local health department approved by the local governing body to provide health services that render certain acts of emergency care, including emergency first aid,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| HB494 | Pass | Localities; personnel policies related to the use of public property. Requires all localities, except those with a population of less than 3,500 that do not have a personnel policy, to establish personnel policies covering the use of public property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| SB444 | Pass | Hybrid canines. Authorizes any locality to prohibit by ordinance the keeping of hybrid canines. The bill alters the definition of hybrid canine and makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
