| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| HJR617 | Pass | Rotary Day in Virginia. Designates June 1, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Rotary Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Introduced bill reprinted 13103582D |
| HB2279 | Pass | Placement of children. Eliminates language providing that regulations of the Board of Social Services shall not prohibit placement of a nonresident child in a children's residential facility in the Commonwealth by a custodial parent who assumes full ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| HB2344 | Pass | School safety; threat assessment teams and oversight committees. Requires local school boards to establish policies and procedures for the establishment of threat assessment teams. The bill requires the division superintendent to establish for each s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| 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) |
| HB1397 | Pass | Scenic river designation. Designates a 15-mile segment of the Dan River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| HB2103 | Pass | Parole Board; parole review and denial. Requires the Parole Board to ensure that each person eligible for parole receives a timely and thorough review of his suitability for release on parole, including a review of any relevant post-sentencing inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| 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) |
| HB1337 | Pass | Elections; polling place procedures; voter identification requirements. Removes several items from the list of acceptable identification documents that a voter must present when voting at the polls on election day: a copy of a current utility bill, b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| HB2138 | Pass | Health Insurance Reform Commission created. Establishes the Health Insurance Reform Commission as a legislative commission. The duties of the Commission include monitoring the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; determi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| HB1344 | Pass | Special education; children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Permits local school divisions to ensure that individualized education program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| HB1629 | Pass | Eel pots. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue an annual permit to use eel pots in the waters of Back Bay and the North Landing River and their tributaries. The annual permit fee to catch eels for commercial purposes is $50 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB2065 | 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 it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| 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) |
| HB1858 | Pass | Career and technical occupational experiences for secondary school students; model waiver form. Requires the Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2014, a model waiver form for use by any entity providing a career and technical occupational exper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
