| HB2211 | Pass | Penalty for second offense of stalking. Provides that, upon conviction of a second offense of stalking occurring within five years of a prior conviction of such an offense, if such person was also convicted within the five-year period prior to the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| HB2276 | 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 (CHAP0762) |
| HB2313 | Pass | Revenues and appropriations primarily for transportation. Makes several changes to the revenues collected by the Commonwealth, and the distribution of such revenues, primarily for the benefit of transportation. The changes are as follows: The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| 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) |
| SB1325 | Veto | Board of Counseling; fees. Requires the Board of Counseling to establish, among other fees, specified fees for the licensure and certification of professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, substance abuse treatment practitioners, substa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB1194 | Enroll
Sine Die | Juvenile alleged to be truant; development of truancy plan. Provides that in cases in which a school attendance officer files a complaint alleging that a juvenile is a truant and the juvenile has not previously been proceeded against informally or ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Communicated to Governor |
| HB2312 | Pass | Compounding pharmacies. Clarifies the definition of "compounding" and adds a requirement for a current inspection report for registration or renewal of a registration for a nonresident pharmacy. The bill also requires every pharmacist-in-charge or ow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| SB1324 | Enroll
Sine Die | Opportunity Educational Institution and Board 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 accredita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Communicated to Governor |
| HB1609 | 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] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| 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) |
| HB1562 | Pass | Control of dangerous and vicious dogs; penalties. Authorizes an animal control officer or law-enforcement officer to apply to a magistrate for a summons where the officer believes that the owner of a vicious dog has willfully failed to comply with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB2254 | Pass | Management of the menhaden fishery. Establishes a total allowable landings of 144,272.84 metric tons per year for Atlantic menhaden landed in Virginia by the purse seine menhaden reduction sector, the purse seine menhaden bait sector, and the non-pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| HB2347 | Pass | Confidentiality of juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principal. Provides that, in addition to disclosures of juvenile law-enforcement records that may already be made by chiefs of police and sheriffs to school principals, those...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| HB1577 | Pass | TANF; restrictions on use of cash assistance. Prohibits the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits in any electronic benefit transaction (i) for the purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, or sexually expl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB1589 | 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 (CHAP0734) |
| 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) |
| HB1907 | 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 penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| HB1350 | Pass | Mathematics assessments; targeted remediation and intervention for computational deficiencies. Requires local school divisions to provide targeted mathematics remediation and intervention to students in grades six through eight who show computational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB1633 | Pass | Local beautification projects. Requires localities that intend to install plant materials in a public right-of-way in connection with a local beautification project to provide advance notice thereof to VDOT. The bill requires any locality that violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| SB921 | Enroll
Sine Die | Health insurance reform. Revises Virginia's laws pertaining to the regulation of health insurance and related products in order to be consistent with relevant requirements of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that become ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Communicated to Governor |
| HB1825 | Pass | Riparian stationary blinds. Establishes time periods for a person to obtain a stationary blind license. A riparian landowner or his lessee or permittee seeking to license a riparian stationary blind that was not licensed by him the previous year may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| 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) |
| HB1440 | Pass | Charter; Town of Monterey. Enacts a charter for the Town of Monterey in Highland County, repealing the former charter of 1952, as amended. The charter describes the powers and boundaries of the town; provides for a mayor and town council and sets a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB1645 | Pass | Board for Contractors; tradesmen licenses. Provides that licenses for tradesmen shall be valid for three years from the date of issuance by the Board for Contractors. This measure is an attempt to sync changes to the Uniform Statewide Building Code, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| HB1824 | Pass | Virginia port volume increase tax credit. Extends the tax credit beginning in 2013 to growers or producers of (i) wheat, grains, fruits, nuts, crops; (ii) tobacco, nursery, or floral products; (iii) forestry products excluding raw wood fiber or wood ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| 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) |
| HB2331 | Pass | Election laws; enforcement and prosecution. Gives the Attorney General the independent authority to enforce and prosecute violations of election laws in addition to the existing authority granted to the Attorney General pursuant to a unanimous vote ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| HJR978 | Pass | Adjournment Sine Die.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ978ER) |
| HB1482 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals. Requires the Board to permit any Class 1 wastewater works operator to sit for the conventional onsite ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB1009 | Enroll
Sine Die | Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credits. Makes several changes to the requirements that a neighborhood organization must meet in order for a proposal to be approved under the Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credit program. In order to be approved for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Signed by Speaker as reenrolled |
| 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) |
| HB1862 | 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 (CHAP0750) |
| HB1861 | Pass | Notice of sale of certain residential property. Amends current provisions that require localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) to be given notice when residential property is subject to a sale under a deed of trust by making those provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| HB1952 | Pass | Boards of visitors of public institutions of higher education; public access to information and governance. Adds specific topics to be covered during the educational programs for governing boards and requires such programs to be delivered by the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0577) |
| HJR551 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption for spouses of soldiers killed in action. Provides that the General Assembly may provide a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of surviving spouses of members ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB2114 | 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 investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| HB2231 | Pass | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Fund; amount of financial assistance. Specifies that qualified survivors and dependents are eligible for financial assistance from the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Fund in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| 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) |
| HB1996 | 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] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| HB1406 | Pass | Parent educational information for public school students; eating disorders. Requires each school board to annually provide parent educational information on eating disorders for public school students in grades five through 12. The bill also require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| 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) |
| HB2176 | Pass | Northampton County School Board; terms. Shortens or lengthens the terms of the currently appointed members of the Northampton County School Board so they all expire on December 31, 2013, and provides for the initial staggering of terms of the member...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
