| HB1747 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration activities by third parties. Requires individuals and groups conducting voter registration drives, when obtaining 25 or more voter registration applications from the State Board of Elections or local offices, to regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1751 | Engross
Sine Die | Crimes; assault and battery. Includes an employee or other individual who provides control, care, or treatment of sexually violent predators committed to the custody of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services within the enhance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1336 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credit for employees who telework. Creates a $250 income tax credit for employees who telework a minimum of 20 hours per week during at least 45 weeks of the taxable year. The employee would apply for tax credit to the Department of Taxation. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2235 | Engross
Sine Die | Use, display, or discharge of firearm in committing felony. Increases (exclusively mandatory minimum) penalties for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies from three to four years for a first offense and from five to si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB259 | Engross
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in House of Delegates Districts 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 59, 60, 64, 67, 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2229 | Engross
Sine Die | Detention and removal of a citizen from the Commonwealth by the federal government. Provides that the Secretary of Public Safety shall request from the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, when an agency of the federal government detains any citizen pursu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1653 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration verification. Provides that the Department of Corrections or other supervisory personnel may cause to be physically verified the registration information on the Sex Offender and Crimes Aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2096 | Engross
Sine Die | Opportunity Educational Institution established. Creates the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board. The bill requires any school that has been denied accreditation and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| HB2295 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; duties of the Assistant to the Governor. Provides for the Assistant to the Governor for Intergovernmental Affairs to convene at least annually a meeting of the Virginia Congressional Delegation and a delegation re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
Chair votes No |
| HB1725 | Engross
Sine Die | Delivery of completed absentee ballot applications by third parties. Provides that no person, with certain exceptions, shall offer to mail or deliver 25 or more completed absentee ballot applications on behalf of voters for any election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1823 | Engross
Sine Die | Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities. Requires local public bodies to post certain required procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website and makes newspap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 3-N) |
| HB2302 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; electronic security sales representatives. Provides that an electronic security sales representative shall possess a valid registration issued by the Department before selling or offering for sale any electron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB1766 | Engross
Sine Die | Prior sex offenses admissible in evidence. Provides that in a criminal case in which the defendant is accused of an offense of sexual abuse, evidence of the defendant's conviction of another offense or offenses of sexual abuse is admissible and may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB2284 | Engross
Sine Die | Licensure by the Commissioner of Social Services; submission of financial information. Reduces from three to one the number of credit references that an applicant for initial licensure as a child welfare agency, assisted living facility, or adult day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 0-N) |
| HB2008 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal sentencing; mandatory minimum sentences; work release programs. Clarifies that no person while serving that portion of a sentence that is a mandatory minimum is eligible for work release, unless such person is participating in a work or educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB1940 | Engross
Sine Die | Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors; student representatives to boards of visitors. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1430 | Engross
Sine Die | Right to Farm Act. Expands the definition of agricultural operations to include the commerce of farm-to-business and farm-to-consumer sales as well as commerce in other related items. The bill creates a rebuttable presumption that an agricultural ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1442 | Engross
Sine Die | Students receiving home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1926 | Engross
Sine Die | Selection of local school boards; school board selection commissions. Abolishes school board selection commissions in school divisions composed of a single county and gives the county governing body all powers and duties previously held by the school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1467 | Engross
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 10-N) |
| HB1948 | Engross
Sine Die | Definition of "tow." Supplies a definition of "tow" as the term is used in connection with the ticketing, removal, or immobilization of trespassing vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1631 | Engross
Sine Die | Drugs and paraphernalia forfeited to law enforcement. Provides that seized drugs and drug paraphernalia, the lawful possession of which is not established or the title to which cannot be ascertained, may be forfeited to a law-enforcement agency for r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB1494 | Engross
Sine Die | Authority to deputize persons to direct traffic. Expands the ability of sheriffs to deputize persons to direct traffic during periods of heavy traffic or congestion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-13
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1868 | Engross
Sine Die | First-time home buyer savings account. Establishes beginning in 2013 first-time home buyer savings accounts that accrue tax-free income and that are to be used for saving funds for the purchase of homes by first-time home buyers. Funds in the account...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1574 | Engross
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; enforcement by towns. Provides that if any town does not elect to enforce the Uniform Statewide Building Code, then such enforcement shall be the responsibility of the county in which the town is situated. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB1483 | Engross
Sine Die | Record on appeal from district court. Provides that, upon the appeal of a general district court or juvenile and domestic relations district court judgment in a civil case to circuit court, except cases involving protective orders or a civil offense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB1911 | Engross
Sine Die | Judicial Council; law clerks; report. Directs Judicial Council to report on law clerks used by the appellate and circuit courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2049 | Engross
Sine Die | Composition of Commonwealth Transportation Board. Increases the total membership of the Commonwealth Transportation Board from 17 to 20 members by doubling the representation for the Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia highway construction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
VOTE: RECONSIDER (46-Y 51-N) |
| HB2051 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Front Royal. Amends the town's charter by updating the boundary description. The bill also details the duties of town officers, updates references to the timing of elections, clarifies various town powers, and eliminates or updates n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1984 | Engross
Sine Die | Non-conventional vehicles. Provides for the titling and registration of mopeds and distinctive license plates for low-speed vehicles. The bill also requires a moped operator to carry government-issued photo identification and wear a face shield, safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, by a person in his dwelling against an intruder in the dwelling who has committed an overt act against him or another person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-12-13
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Child support arrearages; publication of names. Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement of the Department of Social Services to publish a list of parents who are delinquent in the payment of child support in order to facilitate locating s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB576 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; teacher contract and evaluation policies. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and retained. Teachers, assistant principals, and principals who have not achieved continuing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB807 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of electronic tracking devices; penalty. Provides that any person who uses an electronic tracking device through intentionally deceptive means and without consent to track the location of another person is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB864 | Engross
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts and three more will be at-large appointees. The three ex officio members rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB966 | Engross
Sine Die | Child custody; guardian ad litem. Provides that a court shall not appoint a guardian ad litem for a child or a child's parent or guardian in any case in which the child is alleged to have committed a delinquent act unless there is a conflict of inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1112 | Engross
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccination; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement for vaccination against human papillomavirus for female children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections and ballots. Allows write-in votes in primary elections when the duly constituted political party authorities have authorized write-in votes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1265 | Engross
Sine Die | Mechanics' lien notice. Provides that any person intending to perfect a mechanics' lien against a one- or two-family residential dwelling unit must send the mechanics' lien agent designated on the building permit or, if no agent is designated, the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Rights of unborn children. Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and Constitution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB8 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting of vessel accident; penalty. Requires any passenger 18 years of age or older who is a passenger in a vessel that is involved in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury or death and in which the operator has (i) failed to stop and ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | BPOL tax; maximum fee and tax rates established. Prohibits a locality from increasing its local license (BPOL) fees or taxes above the rates of its BPOL fees and taxes imposed for the 2011 license year. The prohibition on increasing BPOL fees and tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB59 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; persons entitled to place on ballot; compliance with campaign finance disclosure provisions. Provides that a candidate will not be entitled to have his name printed on the ballot unless he has filed all required campaign finance reports an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB218 | Engross
Sine Die | Deaf and hard of hearing children; special education. Requires local school divisions to ensure that Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing children and address those needs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits. Increases the number of circuit court judges in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit from eight to nine, and decreases the number of such judges in the Seventeeth Judicial Circui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Correcting errors in deeds; affidavit. Allows, in the event that a recorded deed or other instrument contains an obvious description error, the recordation of a corrective affidavit by an attorney, settlement agent, or title insurance company involve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers; records required to be maintained; digital images. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers to take a digital image of (i) the form of identification used by the person involved in the transaction, which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB463 | Engross
Sine Die | Legal custody of juveniles in custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that commitment of a child by a court to the Department of Juvenile Justice is a transfer of legal custody if, at the time of commitment, the child is in foster c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB483 | Engross
Sine Die | Real property tax; collection of certain taxes. Provides that the current authority to increase the assessment of real property taxes for three preceding tax years by increasing the amount of the valuation of the property applies only to errors relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
