| HB1564 | Pass | Administration of drugs; private schools. Allows the administration of drugs by a person to a child in a private school that is accredited by the Virginia Council for Private Education and exempt from licensure by the Board of Social Services, or in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| SB688 | Pass | Charter; City of Portsmouth. Changes the deadline for the filing of a petition nominating a candidate for the office of mayor or city council member from the first Tuesday in June to the second Tuesday of June of the year of election. The amendment a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| SB788 | 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 Other changes include removing or updating references to outdated town officers, removing outdated provisions related to the mayor's powers, revisin...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 (CHAP0330) |
| HB1672 | Pass | Naloxone; administration in cases of opiate overdose. Allows a person to obtain a prescription for and to possess and administer naloxone to a family member or friend for the purpose of counteracting the effects of opiate overdose. The bill also requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| HB1619 | Pass | Secure inpatient treatment hearings; report to counsel for respondent. Provides that copies of all reports evaluating the condition of a respondent in a hearing for continuation of secure inpatient treatment shall be provided to counsel for the respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| HB1671 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; tied house; exemption. Provides an exemption from the tied house restriction for one out-of-state winery, not under common control or ownership with any other winery, that is under common ownership or control with one rest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| HB1923 | Pass | Worker retraining tax credit; increase in credit amount. Increases the worker retraining tax credit for worker retraining courses taken by employees at private schools from a maximum of $100 per year per employee to $200 per year per employee or $300...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| HB1749 | 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] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279) |
| HB1666 | Pass | Licensure of professional counselors. Clarifies the definitions of "counseling" and "professional counselor" and adds definitions for "residency," "resident," and "supervision." The bill also requires the Board of Counseling to maintain a registry of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| HB1770 | Pass | Natural gas utility ratemaking; eligible safety activity costs. Permits natural gas utilities to recover certain safety activity costs incurred on or after January 1, 2013, in future rates by accounting for them as deferred costs. The amount deferred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281) |
| HB1913 | Pass | Mechanics' liens; licensed contractors. Provides that a person who is not a licensed contractor may not claim a mechanic's lien if a valid contractor's license or certificate was required by law for the labor performed. The bill also requires that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| HB2180 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; eligible energy. Provides that renewable energy that is purchased by a participating utility under an agreement executed on or after July 1, 2013, will count toward meeting the RPS Goals of the renewable e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB1632 | Pass | Dealer franchises; administrative fees and penalties. Extends the protection that dealers currently retain for chargebacks to administrative fees and other penalties. Current law protects dealers who seek to challenge chargebacks for warranty and sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| HB1799 | Pass | Natural gas utilities; investments in qualifying projects. Exempts any natural gas utility that serves fewer than 1,000 residential customers and fewer than 250 commercial and industrial customers from the cap on the amount of investments in qualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284) |
| HB1349 | Pass | Dental hygiene and dental hygienist; definitions and licensure. Defines "dental hygiene" as duties related to patient assessment and the rendering of educational, preventive, and therapeutic dental services specified in regulations of the Board and n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) |
| HB1630 | 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 (CHAP0259) |
| HB1453 | Pass | Extension of loads beyond front of vehicles. Allows loads to extend 10 feet beyond the front of the vehicle for utility poles during the daytime and for emergency utility repair at night. Under current law, no vehicle is allowed to carry a load that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242) |
| HB1640 | Pass | Child care providers; background checks for eligibility for child care subsidy payments. Requires any person seeking to enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services for the provision of child c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) |
| HB1872 | Pass | Online investments; eligible for state tax credits. Specifies that investments transacted via an online general solicitation, online broker, or a funding portal shall be eligible for state tax credits, so long as the investment otherwise meets all re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| HB1461 | Pass | Eligibility for in-state tuition charges; military. Clarifies eligibility for in-state tuition of current and former military personnel and their dependents. The bill also grants eligibility for in-state tuition charges to veterans residing within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| HB1860 | Pass | Personal property tax; advertising signs. Provides that outdoor advertising signs constitute a separate class of personal property for purposes of assessment, and requires localities to tax such signs as personal property, not as real property. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| HB2219 | Pass | Cigarette taxes; certain bond or irrevocable letter of credit requirements. Provides that the bond or irrevocable letter of credit required to be filed by a wholesale dealer to obtain cigarette tax stamps without payment of the cigarette tax be in a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311) |
| HB1475 | Pass | Motorcycle titling; purchase of new motorcycles for parts. Allows licensed motorcycle manufacturers with a salvage dealer license to purchase new motorcycles of a different line-make for parts without obtaining a certificate of title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| HB1892 | Pass | Childhood sexual abuse; statute of limitations. Clarifies that the discovery rule used to determine when a cause of action for childhood sexual abuse accrues upon the later of the removal of the disability of infancy or incapacity or when the fact o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) |
| HB1649 | Pass | Pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers; required to be maintained; certain digital images. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers to take a digital image of the form of identification used by the person pawning, pledging, or selling the go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| SB750 | Pass | Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; notice of liability insurance coverage. Provides that regulations of the Board of Health shall require nursing homes and certified nursing facilities to maintain liability insurance coverage in a minimum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| HB1859 | Pass | Rabies clinics. Requires a local governing body to ensure that a rabies clinic is conducted to serve the jurisdiction at least once every two years. Currently, a clinic is to be held once a year if the local government finds that the number of reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| SB984 | Pass | Notification of settlement payment. Requires an insurer that has made a payment of at least $5,000 in a single check to an attorney or other representative of a claimant or judgment creditor, in settlement or satisfaction by an insured or a third par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| HB1499 | 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] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0191) |
| SB703 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit fees; correctional officers; exemption. Provides an exemption for any retired correctional officer with at least 15 years of service from any fee charged for the issuance of a concealed handgun permit. The bill contains techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| SB943 | Pass | Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice; powers and duties of the Director. Provides the Directors of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice with the power to designate certain employees with internal investigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0143) |
| HB1726 | Pass | Non-gravel effluent drain systems for onsite sewage systems; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations for chamber and bundled expanded polystyrene effluent distribution systems for onsite sewage systems and other effluent di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0202) |
| HB1507 | Pass | Recording deeds; statement of preparation. Clarifies that the circuit court clerk may reject for filing or recording a deed conveying not more than four residential dwelling units if the deed does not state on its first page that it was prepared eith...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0193) |
| HB1372 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; disqualification from benefits due to loss of license or certification. Provides that an individual is ineligible for unemployment benefits if he has been discharged because he lost or failed to renew a license or certifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| HB1515 | Pass | Service pistol of Captain Randy Marshall Widgeon. Transfers the service pistol of Captain Randy Marshall Widgeon to his widow, Pamela Turlington Widgeon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194) |
| HB1771 | Pass | Local gas severance taxes. Makes technical amendments that provide a period of time in which natural gas companies may appeal a local gas severance tax assessment made on or after January 1, 2014, for license years 2014, 2013, 2012, or 2011. In 2012,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0208) |
| HB1772 | Pass | Department of Corrections; electronic notice. Provides that the Department of Corrections may use electronic means to provide notice to the appropriate parties prior to the release of a prisoner. Under current law, the Department may only provide suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) |
| HB2146 | Pass | Virginia War Memorial division; powers and duties. Provides for the powers and duties of the Virginia War Memorial division of the Department of Veterans Services. The bill removes certain powers and duties from the Virginia War Memorial Board and pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| HB1526 | Pass | HOT lanes. Provides that emergency vehicles and law-enforcement vehicles that otherwise would be allowed free use of HOT lanes cannot do so when the vehicle is being used to commute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195) |
| HB1531 | Pass | Sand replenishment for public beaches. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality to establish an expedited application review process for dredging of sand and beach replenishment on the public beaches abut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) |
| HB1784 | Pass | Individual accident and sickness insurance; open enrollment program. Repeals the requirement that a health insurer that is, or is successor to, a health services plan provide an open enrollment program for individual accident and sickness contracts....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| SB794 | Pass | Temporary removable windshield placards. Allows licensed physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, podiatrists, or chiropractors to certify 15 days in advance of a medical procedure that an applicant will have a temporary disability that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0137) |
| HB1760 | Pass | Virginia Business One Stop electronic portal program; participation by State Corporation Commission. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by June 30, 2018, to fully integrate processes and forms into the Business Permitting Center administered ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| SB1029 | Pass | Planning and zoning; effects of development on military installations. Requires any local planning commission to consult with the commander of a military installation that will be affected by development within the locality in order to reasonably pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| HB1501 | Pass | Pharmacy; collaborative agreements. Clarifies parties with whom a pharmacist may enter into a collaborative agreement; provides that a patient who does not wish to participate in a collaborative procedure must notify the prescriber of his decision; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0192) |
| SB1166 | Pass | Littering and illegal dumping; community service. Provides that when a person is convicted of illegally dumping or disposing of garbage or refuse on public property or on private property without the permission of the owner, the court may order a ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0156) |
| SB1171 | Pass | Public schools; early intervention services for reading and mathematics. Adds kindergarten and grades one and two to the requirement that local school divisions provide early intervention services to students in grade three who demonstrate deficienci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157) |
| SB1172 | Pass | Standards of Quality; assignment of certain staff. Permits local school divisions that employ a sufficient number of librarians, guidance counselors, and school-based clerical personnel to meet the staffing requirements that are prescribed in Standar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158) |
| HB1731 | Pass | Self storage unit insurance. Establishes a procedure for lessors of self storage units to sell insurance that provides coverage against loss of or damage to items of personal property stored in a self storage unit in accordance with the terms of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0203) |
| SB1180 | 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] | 2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160) |
