| HB1960 | Pass | Board for Contractors; necessity for license; commissioning of public works of art. Allows a person to bid upon or undertake public works of art commissioned by the Commonwealth; a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, including any county, city...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| HB2200 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; home-based businesses permitted. Provides that, except to the extent the declaration or rules and regulations duly adopted pursuant thereto expressly provide otherwise, no association shall prohibit any lot owner fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB1701 | Pass | Examination of driver's license applicants. Provides that no person who is at least 19 years old and who fails DMV's driver knowledge exam three times can take the exam a fourth time until he successfully completes a course of instruction based on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| HB1539 | Pass | Sale of motor vehicles on consignment. Provides that a "supplemental sales location" license is not required for a licensed motor vehicle dealer, licensed T&M dealer, licensed trailer dealer, or licensed motorcycle dealer to sell vehicles, traile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| SB715 | Pass | Transfer of vehicles on death. Provides for the transfer of title to motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers to a designated beneficiary upon the death of the owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| HB1752 | Pass | Powers of personal representatives; digital accounts. Provides that the personal representative of a deceased minor has the power to assume the deceased minor's terms of service agreement for a digital account with an Internet service provider, commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) |
| HB1866 | Pass | Public schools; expulsion of students. Removes certain weapons from the definition of "firearm" the possession of which by a student on school property or at a school-sponsored activity is punishable by mandatory expulsion from school for at least on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| HB1885 | Pass | Quantitative rating of pavement condition and ride quality of highways. Requires VDOT to determine a quantitative rating on the pavement condition and ride quality of every highway in the primary and secondary state highway systems at least every fiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| HB1889 | Pass | Public schools; personnel files. Requires performance indicators, or other data used by the local school board to judge the growth or quality of a teacher, to be kept confidential but permits such information to be disclosed pursuant to court order, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| HB1953 | Pass | U.S. Route 58 Corridor Development Program; issuance of bonds. Changes the maximum amount of bonds that the Commonwealth Transportation Board may issue from an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $704,300,000 to an aggregate principal amount not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| HB1723 | Pass | Child support; imputation of income; attendance in educational or vocational program. Provides that a parent's decision to attend and complete an educational or vocational program that is likely to maintain or increase the parent's earning potential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0276) |
| SB720 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; Grayson County. Adds Grayson County to the list of counties authorized to levy a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent. The bill makes technical revisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
| HB2061 | Pass | Human trafficking hotline; posted notices. Provides that any employer who operates a truck stop and who fails to post a notice, in the same location where other employee notices required by state or federal law are posted, of the existence of a huma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| HB1988 | Pass | Automated external defibrillators; immunity. Provides that a person who maintains an automated external defibrillator (AED) located on real property owned or controlled by such person shall not be civilly liable for any personal injury resulting from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| SB766 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption for hurricane preparedness equipment; eligible equipment. Adds gas-powered chain saws with a selling price of $350 or less and chain saw accessories to the list of equipment eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| HB2029 | Pass | Speed limits. Allows the Town of Quantico to reduce speed limits on any highways within its boundaries to less than 25 mph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| HB1941 | 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] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| HB2270 | Pass | Withdrawal from district board of social services. Establishes a process for withdrawal from a district board of social services by the local governing body of a county or city and provides for judicial review in cases in which the Board of Social Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| HB2110 | Pass | Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund; construction of natural gas service lines. Allows a locality in the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority to apply a portion of its Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund tax revenue collected from the seve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| HB1583 | Pass | Vacant building registration. Increases from $25 to $100 the maximum annual registration fee that a local ordinance may impose on the owner of a vacant building that meets the definition of "derelict building" under § 15.2-907.1. The bill incre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| SB770 | Pass | Fees for driver improvement clinics. Increases the cap that clinics may charge for driver improvement courses from $75 to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| HB1395 | Pass | Abandoned vehicles; sale of those taken into custody at auction. Provides that "public auctions" at which abandoned vehicles are sold by local governments can include Internet sales. The bill also reduces the time period that a locality must hold the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) |
| HB2019 | Pass | Public schools; policies and regulations. Requires that a current copy of all school division policies and regulations approved by the local school board must be posted on the division's website and available to employees and to the public. Printed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| HB1586 | Pass | Local arts and cultural districts; tax incentives. Permits a locality to include the rebate of real estate property taxes among the tax incentives it makes available in an arts and cultural district established by ordinance. Current law provides for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| HB1588 | Pass | Physician Loan Repayment Program. Extends eligibility for the Physician Loan Repayment Program to graduates of accredited medical schools who are currently employed in a geriatrics fellowship and who agree to a minimum two-year period of medical serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| HB1711 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; notice to owners of election of directors at a special meeting. Provides that in the event of the cancellation of any annual meeting at which members of the board of directors are elected, the seven-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0275) |
| HB2027 | Pass | In-state tuition; active duty members. Allows any active duty member, activated guard or reservist member, or guard or reservist member mobilized or on temporary active orders for six months or more to pay no more than the in-state tuition rate to at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| SB772 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; developer control in time-share estate program; control liens; foreclosure procedure. Provides that in addition to the current developer control termination provisions and to the extent that the purchase contract ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0327) |
| HB1709 | Pass | Dismissal of action by nonsuit; fees and costs. Clarifies that if notice to take a nonsuit is given to the opposing party during trial, the court may assess against the nonsuiting party reasonable witness fees and travel costs of expert witnesses sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| SB773 | Pass | Administration of medications. Clarifies the circumstances under which emergency medical services personnel may administer medications and provides that emergency medical services personnel may administer medications pursuant to an oral or written or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| HB1705 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Provides that the Fund has a lien on a victim's claim if an award was made from the Fund. The bill also provides that if the defendant pays restitution, and the Fund has made any payments for expenses included in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| HB1595 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; assessments; imposition of late fees. Provides that, except to the extent that the governing documents or rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto provide otherwise, (i) condominium and pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| HB2194 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Establishes a revised six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| SB776 | Pass | Virginia New Hire Reporting Center; employer reporting of newly hired employees. Expands the obligations of employers to report information about the hiring of employees to the Virginia New Hire Reporting Center. Employers are required to submit info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| HB1519 | Pass | The Community Integration Advisory Commission; sunset. Changes the sunset provision affecting the Community Integration Advisory Commission from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
| HB1699 | Pass | Tangible personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers. Creates a separate classification, for purposes of permitting localities to set a lower personal property tax rate, on computer equipment and peripherals used in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| HB1521 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosures; tourism activity zones. Authorizes any locality to designate one or more tourism activity zones as areas that may be used for special events, including parades, events requiring temporary str...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| HB1698 | Pass | Charter; Town of Clintwood. Updates the boundary description in the charter of the Town of Clintwood. Other changes include removing or updating references to outdated town officers, removing outdated provisions related to the mayor's powers, revisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| HB1697 | Pass | Real property tax; special valuation for land preservation. Makes it optional for localities to impose roll-back taxes when the owner of real property that qualifies for special land use valuation has the property rezoned for a more intensive use. Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| HB1695 | Pass | Renewable energy; agricultural net metering. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a net energy metering program for eligible agricultural customers. Agricultural net metering will allow a customer that operates a solar, wind, or aer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| HB2100 | Pass | Local coal severance taxes. Establishes gross receipts for purposes of the local coal severance tax by providing that the only deduction allowed from gross receipts is for non-local transportation and processing costs of coal. The bill establishes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| HB1982 | Pass | Local tax bills. Permits treasurers to convey, with the consent of the taxpayer, any tax bill by permitting the taxpayer to access his tax bill online from a database on the treasurer's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| HB1547 | Pass | Cemeteries. Provides that the minimum tree canopy as required by localities during the development process shall be 10 percent for cemeteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| HB1332 | Pass | Local government audit; Auditor of Public Accounts. Allows a local governing body to request an audit from the Auditor of Public Accounts at any time upon a majority vote, with the expense of the audit to be borne by the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0239) |
| HB1553 | Pass | Real property tax assessment; affordable housing. Modifies the special means of assessing the value of affordable rental housing units by permitting a taxpayer who owns certain multiple units and has expenses that are common to two or more units to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| HB2245 | Pass | Council on Virginia's Future. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2017, for the Council on Virginia's Future.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| HB1607 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance policies; electronic notices. Removes provisions that prevent property and casualty insurers from delivering electronically notices of cancellation of certain policies of property or casualty insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| HB2248 | Pass | Money laundering investigations by multijurisdiction grand jury. Adds investigations of money laundering violations to the jurisdiction of multijurisdiction grand juries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| HB1561 | Pass | Agreements for consolidation or cooperation of police departments; private police departments. Allows localities to enter into reciprocal agreements with private police departments that are certified by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| HB1563 | Pass | Cemetery Board; cemetery operators; itemized statement and general price list. Provides that the Cemetery Board shall develop a process whereby a consumer is provided with a current general price list or itemized statement of charges by a cemetery co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
