VA Legislation | 2013 | Regular Session

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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)
SB1316	Pass	Board for Professional Soil Scientists, Wetland Professionals, and Geologists; requirements for certification as a wetland delineator. Removes the requirement that experience in wetland delineation prior to applying for certification as a wetland del... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546)
SB1226	Pass	Zoning; cash proffers. Extends from seven to 12 years the time by which a locality must begin utilization of cash proffers. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541)
HB1807	Pass	Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; disclosure of qualification for federal financing. Requires the disclosure in the respective association disclosure packets for purchasers to include a statement indicating any known project approval... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)
SB1229	Pass	State Board of Elections; Director of Elections. Changes the name of the State Board of Elections (the agency that administers election law) to the Department of Elections. The three-member board appointed by the Governor that is also known as the St... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542)
HB1890	Pass	Department of General Services; standard vendor accounting information. Requires the Division of Purchases and Supply of the Department of General Services and the State Comptroller to adhere to the adopted data standards and match all purchases of g... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493)
SB1246	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 pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)
SB886	Pass	Affordable housing in the City of Charlottesville; Consumer Price Index. Amends Chapter 693 of the Acts of Assembly of 2008, which authorized the City of Charlottesville to require developers to either provide Affordable Dwelling Units or make a cont... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)
HB1641	Pass	Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers and duties of regulatory boards; waiver of informal fact-finding conference. Requires any regulator board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to provide a r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486)
HB2028	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 (CHAP0498)
HB2217	Pass	Crossing highways. Allows local governing bodies to adopt ordinances requiring users of shared-use paths to stop before crossing highways at marked crosswalks. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507)
SB890	Pass	Local endowment for certain libraries; Town of Leesburg. Provides that the Town of Leesburg by ordinance may establish an endowment fund for the purpose of supporting a library owned or operated by the town. The endowment may receive all gifts, grant... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528)
SB894	Pass	Uniform Statewide Building Code; who may be cited for violations. Clarifies that a local enforcement officer may issue a summons or a ticket to the lessor or sublessor of a residential dwelling unit for violation of any Building Code provision, provi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529)
HB1648	Pass	Discounted fees and charges for certain low-income and disabled customers. Provides that any locality that owns a water and sewer system and has a population density of 200 persons or fewer per square mile may by ordinance develop criteria for provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487)
HB2238	Pass	Recorded plats and final site plans. Provides that a site plan shall be deemed final once it has been reviewed and approved by the locality if the only requirements remaining to be satisfied in order to obtain a building permit are the submission of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509)
HB2239	Pass	Cash proffers. Provides that cash proffers shall not be used for any capital improvement to an existing facility that does not expand facility capacity or for any operating expense of an existing facility such as ordinary maintenance or repair. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510)
SB1310	Pass	Licensure by the Commissioner of Social Services; submission of financial information. Reduces from three to one the number of credit references that an applicant for initial licensure as a child welfare agency, assisted living facility, or adult day... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545)
HB1917	Pass	Electric utilities; renewable thermal energy. Expands the definition of "renewable thermal energy" to include the energy output from certain solar energy systems located in the Commonwealth that heat air or water for residential, commercial, institu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494)
HB2328	Pass	Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; listing of licensed providers. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to list providers included on a website of the Department's Office of Licensing by the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451)
SB942	Pass	Certificate of public need; amendment of charity care provisions upon expansion of the state program of medical assistance. Provides that the Commissioner of Health may accept and approve requests for amendments to certain conditions of existing cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460)
HB1716	Pass	Clerks' fees; case management systems, etc. Allows circuit court clerks to establish and maintain their own case management systems, financial management systems, or other independent technology. Data from a clerk's independent system may be provided... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422)
HB1745	Pass	Sex offenses involving a child; communications systems and indecent liberties. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person 18 years of age or older to use a communications system, including computers, computer networks, bulletin boards, or any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423)
HB2120	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]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441)
HB1746	Pass	Sentencing guidelines; definition of violent felony. Adds to the list of violent felonies: killing of a fetus, criminal street gang recruitment using force, strangulation of another, assault and battery when it is a hate crime, felony violation of a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424)
HB1826	Pass	Law-enforcement officers; exceptions to territorial limits. Provides that whenever the necessity arises for the enforcement of laws related to kidnapping, police officers and other officers, agents, and employees of a locality, Capitol Police officer... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428)
HB1764	Pass	State Board of Elections; Virginia Voter Registration System. Directs the State Board to cooperate with other states to develop systems to compare voters and registration lists in order to ensure accuracy of voter registration rolls, prevent duplicat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425)
SB706	Pass	Financial exploitation of incapacitated persons; penalty. Provides that it is unlawful for any person who knows or should know that another person suffers from mental incapacity to, through the use of that other person's mental incapacity, take, obta... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452)
SB1047	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]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472)
SB957	Pass	Electoral boards, meetings. Provides that electoral boards need to meet the first week of February only in the year in which terms of officers of election expire and new officers must be appointed. Electoral boards are currently required to meet duri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461)
HB1685	Pass	Conveyance of property located in the City of Richmond; Department of General Services. Authorizes the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor, to convey to P&J Properties, Inc., a parcel of land located in the City of R... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421)
HB1806	Pass	Substances used to manufacture methamphetamine. Adds ammonium nitrate to the list of substances of which the possession of two or more with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also strikes "metal" fr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426)
SB1350	Pass	Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity created. Creates the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity by consolidating the powers and duties of the Department of Business Assistance and the Department of Minority Business Enter... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482)
HB1682	Pass	Financial exploitation of incapacitated persons; penalty. Provides that it is unlawful for any person who knows or should know that another person suffers from mental incapacity to, through the use of that other person's mental incapacity, take, obta... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419)
SB1026	Pass	Law-enforcement officers; grounds for decertification. Provides that no person who becomes a law-enforcement officer on or after July 1, 2013, may have been convicted of or pled guilty or no contest to any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, inclu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468)
HB1856	Pass	Emergency medical services; procedures and practice. Requires the Board of Health to direct the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board to develop and facilitate implementation of (i) a process for informing an emergency medical services prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429)