| SB1083 | Pass | Synthetic cannabinoids; research chemicals; penalties. Amends provisions added to the Code in previous years regarding the criminalization of synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals known as "research chemicals" (previously referred to as "bath salts") ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| SB1097 | Pass | Deaf and hearing-impaired children; special education. Permits local school divisions to ensure that individualized education program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of hearing-impaired children and address those needs as approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| SB1117 | Pass | Watercraft titling certificates; adoption of uniform act; penalty. Repeals Virginia's existing watercraft titling law and enacts in its place the Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act as adopted in 2011 by the National Conference of Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| SB1038 | Pass | 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] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| SB1024 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; DCJS; exemption. Provides an exemption from the Administrative Process Act for the Department of Criminal Justice Services whenever the Department develops, issues, or revises any training standards approved by the Crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) |
| SB1033 | Pass | Correctional centers; adult and juvenile; penalties. For selected offenses, imposes the same penalties for offenses committed by persons confined in a juvenile correctional center as currently exist for adult prisoners. Persons who deliver certain i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| SB1032 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act; offenses requiring registration. Adds to the list of offenses that require a person to register on the Sex Offender Registry certain offenses comparable to those currently requiring registration wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| SB744 | Pass | Demolition of a derelict nonresidential structure with consent. Authorizes a locality to demolish or remove a derelict nonresidential structure and to file a lien against the property for the cost of the demolition or removal. The bill requires the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB804 | Pass | Voluntary boundary agreement between Louisa and Goochland Counties; attachment of GIS map to petitions. Allows Louisa and Goochland Counties, in adopting a voluntary boundary agreement, to attach to their petitions to the circuit court a Geographic I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| SB1305 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and Commonwealth Transportation Board. Implements reforms of the Virginia Port Authority by adding the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| SB1261 | Pass | Health benefit exchange; regulation of navigators. Prohibits an individual or entity selected to serve as a navigator in a health benefit exchange from engaging in any activity that would require an insurance agent license under Title 38.2, offering...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| SB832 | Pass | Mandatory minimum sentences to be served consecutively; penalty. Provides that for certain crimes where a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment must be imposed on the guilty party, such sentence shall be served consecutively with any other sente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| SB839 | Pass | Local boundaries for law-enforcement purposes. Provides that localities may designate mutually agreed-upon boundary lines between contiguous localities for purposes of organizing 911 dispatch and response, determining territorial jurisdiction in cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| SB1277 | Pass | Wildlife exhibitor permit. Requires the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to establish standards for the possession and display of wildlife by elementary and secondary school teachers for educational purposes. The bill exempts such exhibits from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| SB1279 | Pass | Consolidation of water quality programs. Moves several water quality programs currently administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| SB960 | Pass | Public schools; residency of children in kinship care. Allows a child receiving kinship care from an adult relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bill also allows local school divisions to require one l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| SB1331 | Pass | Drones; moratorium. Places a moratorium on the use of unmanned aircraft systems by state and local law enforcement and regulatory entities until July 1, 2015, except in defined emergency situations or in training exercises related to such situations....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| SB775 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; noncharging of overpayments; penalty for fraudulent claims. Provides that an employer shall not be relieved from a claimant's benefit charges relating to an overpayment of unemployment benefits when the employer has establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| SB779 | Pass | Limited liability companies; assignment of interest. Amends the Virginia Limited Liability Company Act to provide that an assignment of an interest in a limited liability company does not entitle the assignee to participate in the management and affa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| SB1195 | Pass | Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program. Creates the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program, a pilot program administered by the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to improve outreach by state government to the private sector. The objectives of the Program are to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| SB1218 | Pass | DMV; customer service. Modifies requirements for (i) release by DMV of vehicle title information, (ii) automated electronic payments to the DMV, (iii) temporary motorcycle operator licenses, and (iv) deactivation, extension, and reactivation of vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| SB1317 | Pass | Property conveyance; certain real property to the Mennel Milling Company located in Roanoke County, Virginia. Modifies a 2011 enactment whereby the Department of General Services was authorized to convey certain real property to the Mennel Milling Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| SB1222 | Pass | Driving while texting; primary offense; increased penalties. Provides that driving while texting is a traffic infraction punishable, for a first offense, by a fine of $125 and, for a second or subsequent offense, by a fine of $250. The current penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| SB1378 | Pass | Sale and transport for sale of firearms to certain persons; penalty. Provides that a person who engages in the "strawman" purchase of a firearm, where he purchases a firearm with the intent to resell or transport with the intent to resell outside of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| SB887 | Pass | Farm use vehicles. Increases the distance that farm use vehicles used for agricultural and horticultural purposes and the seasonal transportation of produce and livestock may travel on the highways from 30 to 50 miles. This bill also makes technical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| SB899 | Pass | Bumper stickers on school buses. Authorizes local school divisions to place decals on the rear of school buses noting that the buses stop at railroad crossings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| SB892 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; vehicles used by commercial fishermen. Provides that a commercial fisherman may transport boats or other equipment or harvested seafood up to 50 miles without having the vehicle registered. Currently the exemption applie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| SB1052 | Pass | Revising and recodifying the laws pertaining to wills, trusts, and fiduciaries. Reinserts language that was inadvertently omitted from Chapter 614 of the Acts of Assembly of 2012, which created Title 64.2. The bill contains an emergency clause and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| SB1345 | Pass | Teacher licensure; renewal requirements. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require any individual licensed and endorsed to teach (i) middle school civics or economics or (ii) high school government or history who is seeking ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| SB1104 | Pass | State officers and employees; removal of certain officers from office. Repeals an archaic provision that provides that the Secretary of the Commonwealth, State Treasurer, Comptroller, Superintendent of Public Instruction, or Commissioner of Agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| SB1256 | Pass | Voter identification requirements; photo ID. Requires photo ID at the polls by eliminating all forms of identification that do not contain a photograph of the voter from the list of forms of identification any one of which a voter must present in ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| SB956 | Pass | Electric utility rate schedules; declining block rates. Requires any investor-owned electric utility that uses declining block rates for residential customers during winter months to assess the appropriateness of such rates in integrated resource pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB1176 | Pass | State Inspector General; powers and duties. Grants additional powers to the State Inspector General relating to audit functions of state and nonstate agencies and provides that the State Inspector General and no more than 30 members of the investigat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| SB1225 | Pass | Entitlement to sales and use tax revenues; City of Fredericksburg. Adds the City of Fredericksburg to the list of localities that are permitted to retain sales and use tax revenue generated within a public facility to pay off bonds issued for the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| SB1342 | Pass | Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Provides that the governing board of each public four-year institution of higher education may establish written memoranda of understanding with its local community services board or behavioral...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| SB1227 | Pass | Tax credits for donations to nonprofits providing assistance to low-income families. Makes several changes to the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit and Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits programs including (i) allowing tax credits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| SB1013 | Pass | Landlord and tenant laws; application to certain occupants of hotel, motel, extended stay facilities, and similar lodging. Provides that an occupant in a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, vacation residential facility, boardinghouse, or similar t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB853 | Pass | Assault and battery of magistrate; penalty. Elevates the punishment for committing an assault and battery against a magistrate who is engaged in the performance of his public duties from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony, with a six-month man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB707 | Pass | Health care providers; submitting health insurance claims. Requires any in-network provider that provides health care services to a covered patient to submit its claim to the health insurer for the health care services in accordance with the terms of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| SB1123 | Pass | State Shakespeare Festival designated. Designates the Virginia Shakespeare Festival held in Williamsburg as the official Shakespeare festival of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| SB1074 | Pass | Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| SB958 | Pass | Voter registration; final day of registration and mail registration application. Provides that the principal office of the registrar shall close for registration purposes at 5:00 p.m. on the final day for registration before an election. The same dea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| SB1164 | Pass | Action for expenses for infant's injury; statute of limitations. Provides that any action by a parent or guardian of an infant for the expenses of curing or attempting to cure the infant from the result of a personal injury or loss of services of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| SB1185 | Pass | Teacher performance; Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative created. Establishes the Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative and Fund, which provide that local school divisions may submit proposals to the Board of Education to receive grants that ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB799 | Pass | Real property tax; special valuation for land preservation. Permits Goochland County to adopt certain variations in administering the special valuation of real property for land preservation for real property in service districts created after July 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| SB1207 | Pass | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| SB1077 | Pass | Registered voters; citizenship; SAVE Program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to apply to participate in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program) operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| SB974 | Pass | Nursing homes; electronic monitoring by patients. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations governing the implementation of voluntary electronic monitoring in the rooms of residents of nursing homes, which shall include existing policies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB1110 | Pass | Oyster inspection tax. Authorizes the Potomac River Fisheries Commission to impose an oyster inspection tax not to exceed $2 per bushel. Currently, under the Potomac River Compact, the Commission can impose an inspection tax that cannot exceed the hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| SB959 | Pass | Crossing highways. Allows local governing bodies to adopt ordinances requiring users of shared-use paths to stop before crossing highways at marked crosswalks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
