| HB2343 | Pass | Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013. Requires the Virginia Public School Authority to issue bonds for the funding of matching grants to local public school divisions for the purchase and installation of security equipment in public sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| HB1844 | Pass | Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy; privatization. Makes various technical and other statutory changes necessary to implement the privatization of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| HB2072 | Pass | Local application process; condemnation. Provides that no locality shall condition or delay the timely consideration of any application for or grant of any permit or other approval for any real property over which it enjoys jurisdiction for the purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| SB893 | Pass | Public schools; possession and administration of epinephrine. Adds employees of local governing bodies and employees of local health departments to the lists of individuals who are permitted to possess and administer epinephrine and not be held liabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB1855 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exempt records of the Department of Aviation. Exempts from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA (i) documents and other information of a proprietary nature furnished by a licensed public-use airport to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| HB2271 | Pass | Adoption assistance payments and post-adoption services for children adopted from foster care. Requires the Department of Social Services to utilize all federal adoption bonus payments received in a fiscal year to support post-adoption services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| SB1376 | Pass | Civil immunity for certain persons; incidents on school property. Provides that any person who, in good faith and without malice, reports, investigates, or causes an investigation to be made into the activities of any person relating to conduct invol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB1820 | Pass | Unstamped cigarettes; sale, transport, possession, etc.; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to sell, purchase, transport, receive, or possess 500 or more packages of unstamped cigarettes and a Class 5 felony for a second offense; under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| HB2079 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement. Reorganizes the definitions of and processes for competitive sealed bidding and competitive negotiation. The bill also adds a definition of job order contracting and specifies procedures to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| SB1373 | Pass | Interception of communications; sheriffs. Provides that the Attorney General may apply for authorization for the observation or monitoring by a sheriff's office of an interception of communications; under existing law the same may be done for a poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB1871 | Pass | Student and school employee conduct; bullying. Defines the term "bullying" and requires school boards to include in their codes of student conduct policies and procedures that include a prohibition against bullying. The bill also requires the Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| SB1018 | Pass | Unstamped cigarettes; sale, transport, possession, etc.; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to sell, purchase, transport, receive, or possess 500 or more packages of unstamped cigarettes; under current law, the threshold is 3,000 or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB1055 | Pass | Disposal of infectious waste. Repeals certain provisions regarding the permitting of infectious waste incinerators by the State Air Pollution Control Board and the Waste Management Board. The repeal of these sections will eliminate outdated regulatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB2280 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exempt records; disaster preparedness plans. Exempts from mandatory disclosure records of hospitals and nursing homes regulated by the Board of Health that are provided to the Board, to the extent such records rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| SB699 | Pass | Medical malpractice; expert witness certification; court review. Provides that in an action for medical malpractice or wrongful death premised on medical malpractice, the court, upon good cause shown, may conduct an in camera review of the opinion ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| HB1493 | Pass | Charter; City of Hampton. Updates provisions related to the initial meeting of council and the election of the school board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| SB1070 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses for certain properties. Authorizes the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to grant a mixed beverage license, notwithstanding the outcome of the mixed beverage referendum, on property within the bounda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| SB1356 | Pass | Board of equalization; Loudoun County. Authorizes the governing body of Loudoun County to appoint the members of its board of equalization rather than the appointment of such members by the circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| HB1703 | Pass | Municipal deed restrictions on certain property in Virginia Beach. Provides that certain deed restrictions shall include the ability to enter into public-private partnerships with nonprofit entities that provide services for the benefit of veterans a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| HB1765 | Pass | Disqualification of voters; felons; procedure. Codifies the State Board of Elections current practice to check the monthly list of felony convictions received from the Central Criminal Records Exchange (CCRE) against the registered voters maintained ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| SB1011 | Pass | Licensed clinical social workers; educational requirements. Requires the Board of Social Work to accept proof of the successful completion of the following as evidence of the satisfaction of the educational requirements for licensure as a clinical so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| HB2226 | Pass | Grass cutting; Town of Cedar Bluff. Adds the Town of Cedar Bluff to the list of localities that may, by ordinance, have agents or employees of the locality cut grass and weeds from occupied property and charge the cost to the property owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| SB1144 | Pass | Conversion of leased property. Provides that failure to return leased property to the lessor within 30, as opposed to 10, days after written notice has been given that the rental period for the property has expired is prima facie evidence of the int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| HB2181 | Pass | Medical equipment suppliers; delivery of sterile water and saline. Adds sterile water and saline to the list of prescription drugs and devices that a permitted medical equipment supplier may receive, store, and distribute to a consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB2273 | Pass | Enterprise Zone Grant Program; redesignation of certain joint enterprise zones. Provides that when a county or city was previously added to an existing enterprise zone to create a joint enterprise zone, the Department of Housing and Community Develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| SB759 | Pass | Guardianship and conservatorship. Makes various changes to guardianship and conservatorship laws, including: (i) permitting another person to initiate a guardianship proceeding before an incapacitated child turns 18 if there is no living parent; (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| SB1186 | Pass | State Medical Assistance Plan; investigatory powers of the Attorney General. Provides that subpoenas issued by the Attorney General or his authorized representative during an investigation of providers of services under the State Medical Assistance P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| SB1189 | Pass | School boards; releases from state regulations. Requires any school board that has requested a release from certain state regulations to provide a description of how the release from the state regulation is designed to increase the quality of instruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| HB1994 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract pricing arrangements. Provides that the award of a public contract may be made on the basis of cost plus a percentage of the private investment made by a private entity in cases of the procurement of commerci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| SB718 | 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] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| HB1744 | Pass | Cutting of grass; notice. Adds the City of Hampton and the County of Dinwiddie to existing provisions related to regulation of the cutting of grass and provides that one notice per incident or per growing season shall constitute reasonable notice to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| HB1385 | Pass | Right to vote by secret ballot on labor organization representation. Declares that, in any procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorization of a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individual employee to vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| SB798 | Pass | Amendment of service district boundaries. Allows localities to modify the boundaries of service districts. Any such modification requires public notice and a majority vote of the governing body of each affected locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| HB1736 | Pass | Real Estate Board; protection of escrow funds by real estate licensee; payments made under a rental agreement. Provides that for any landlord-tenant relationship within the purview of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, any prepaid rent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB2023 | Pass | Travel insurance. Provides authorization for a business entity that is licensed as a travel agent, or acting under direction of a licensed travel agent, to offer travel insurance under a limited lines travel insurance agent license, upon complying wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| SB1100 | Pass | Elections; in-person absentee voting. Removes the requirement that the general registrar's office be open for eight hours on the second Saturday before a May election and retains the requirement that the office be open on the Saturday before the May ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| SB802 | Pass | Electoral boards; meetings. Provides that a telephone call between two members of an electoral board or a telephone call between two members of the State Board of Elections in preparation for a meeting shall not constitute a meeting for Virginia Free...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| HB2292 | Pass | Certificates of public need. Establishes a procedure for acceptance and review, by the Commissioner of Health, of applications (i) for the transfer of nursing facility beds from one planning district to another planning district in the absence of a R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| SB986 | Pass | Public schools; cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators. Allows school boards to require current certification or training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and the use of automated external defi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| HB1393 | Pass | Department of General Services; guidance documents establishing policy for fleet management. Provides for the Department of General Services to issue guidance documents, rather than regulations, to govern use of vehicles in the state fleet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| SB1004 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; early termination of rental agreements by victims of family abuse or sexual assault. Provides that a tenant who is a victim of (i) family abuse, (ii) sexual abuse, or (iii) criminal sexual assault may terminate a rental agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| SB1006 | Pass | Individual incapable of making an informed decision; procedure for physical evidence recovery kit examination. Authorizes a licensed physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse to perform a physical evidence recovery kit e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| HB2318 | Pass | Charter; Town of Richlands. Provides a new charter for the town. The bill updates references to the Code of Virginia, provides gender neutrality, and corrects outdated provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| SB841 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; establishment of occupancy standards for residential dwelling units by owners or managing agents. Authorizes an owner or managing agent of a residential dwelling unit to develop and implement reasonable occupancy sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| SB1285 | Pass | Dispensing of interchangeable biosimilar biological products. Permits pharmacists to dispense a biosimilar that has been licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as interchangeable with a prescribed biological product unless the prescriber ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| HB2316 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; multiple project contracts for architectural or professional engineering services relating to construction. Raises, in the case of airport and aviation transportation projects, the maximum cost of architectural or pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| SB1145 | Pass | Absentee ballots; confirmation of receipt. Requires the Secretary of the State Board of Elections, in coordination with local election officials, to implement a free-access system by which a voter may determine whether his application for an absentee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| HB2189 | Pass | Home care organizations; proof of initial reserve operating funds. Requires every applicant for an initial license to operate a home care organization to submit proof of sufficient initial reserve operating funds in an amount determined by the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| HB2101 | Pass | Career and technical education; High School to Work Partnerships. Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for the establishment of High School to Work Partnerships between public high schools and local businesses to create apprenticeship...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB2073 | Pass | Liability of real estate brokers and salespersons; false advertising and false information. Clarifies that a licensed real estate broker or salesperson shall not be liable for providing false information under certain circumstances, which includes an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
