| 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) |
| HB2107 | Pass | Elections; absentee ballot procedures and count. Requires the prompt counting of absentee ballots immediately after the close of the polls and advance steps by the general registrar to prepare for the prompt counting of absentee ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| HB2193 | Pass | Child abuse investigations; employees of school divisions. Expands the class of individuals whom a local department of social services must report to a local school board upon determination that a complaint alleging that such individual has committed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB2315 | Pass | Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads; report to the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board. Requires the Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads to submit an annual financial report on the use of funds received from the sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| HB2143 | Pass | Provisional ballot envelopes. Specifies that provisional ballot envelopes are to be placed in the ballot container promptly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| HB2341 | Pass | Electronic transmission of voter registration information. Provides that a person who is qualified to register to vote may apply to register to vote by electronic means authorized by the State Board of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| HB2128 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small procurements; localities. Provides that local public bodies are not required to post on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website for small purchase procurements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| SB1197 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; contracts for architectural or professional engineering services by certain localities. Authorizes any city within Planning District 8 to enter into individual contracts for architectural or professional engineering s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| HB1339 | Pass | Local election districts and redistricting. Permits any county, city, or town governing body to exclude from the census population used in decennial redistricting the adult inmate populations of federal, state, or regional adult correctional faciliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB2260 | Pass | Charter; Town of Coeburn. Clarifies that the town council may appoint certain town officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| HB2262 | Pass | Exemptions from requirements applicable to restaurants. Exempts, from the regulations applicable to restaurants, certain nonprofit organizations that hold occasional fund raisers for the duration of the event at which food (i) prepared in the homes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| SB690 | Pass | Presidential elections and primaries; petition requirements. Reduces the number of signatures required for groups other than the major parties to gain access to the presidential election ballot from 10,000 to 5,000 signatures in the Commonwealth and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| SB1320 | Pass | Job investment and incentive grant programs; information to verify employment status. Authorizes state entities awarding grants or other incentives that are based on employment goals to require the recipient to provide copies of the employer quarterl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB1931 | Pass | Employment; release of personal information. Provides that an employer shall not be required to release, communicate, or distribute to a third party any current or former employee's personal identifying information, unless required by federal law, st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| HB2310 | Pass | Mountain ridge construction. Clarifies that localities have flexibility to define by ordinance the height of "tall buildings and structures" for purposes of mountain ridge construction regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| SB1039 | Pass | Access to vital records; certified copies of vital records. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Health and the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to enter into a memorandum of understanding to develop a program to allow DMV to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| HB2265 | Pass | Cash proffers. Provides that a locality may waive certain written notice requirements in order to reduce, suspend, or eliminate outstanding cash proffer payments for residential construction calculated on a per-dwelling-unit or per-home basis that ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
