| 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) |
| HB2122 | Pass | Photographs of abused, incapacitated adult. Provides that in any case of suspected abuse of an incapacitated adult, photographs, X-rays, and other medical imaging of such incapacitated adult may be taken without the consent of the person responsible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| SB811 | Pass | Filing fraudulent liens or encumbrances against the property of another; penalty. Provides that any person who maliciously files a fraudulent lien or encumbrance in a public record against the real or personal property of another, knowing that such l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| SB1304 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license. Creates the annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license and sets out the privileges of the license and state and local license taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB1422 | 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] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| HB2057 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; memoranda of understanding. Clarifies the procedure for adopting new measures to be followed by institutions of higher education that seek to enter into memoranda of understanding for additional operational au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| SB1235 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores. Clarifies that the requirement that all alcoholic beverages sold at government stores be in closed containers, sealed, and affixed with labels prescribed by the ABC Board does not apply to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| HB2031 | Pass | Audiology and speech-language pathology. Provides that the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology may issue a provisional license to an applicant for licensure in speech-language pathology who has met the education and examination requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB1975 | Pass | Certificate of public need; continuing care retirement communities; admissions to nursing home beds. Adds persons who are employees or members of the board of trustees or board of directors of a continuing care retirement community, family members of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB2045 | Pass | Foster care and adoption; decisions regarding federal benefits; appeal to the Commissioner. Establishes a right to review by the Commissioner of Social Services of any decision of a local board of social services granting, denying, or changing a bene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| SB1118 | Pass | Appeal of bond decision. Provides that when a bail, bond, or recognizance decision is appealed, the court that made the decision may, for good cause shown, stay the execution of the order for so long as reasonably practicable for the party appealing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| SB1010 | Pass | Identity theft; penalties. Raises the punishment for identity theft where five or more persons' identifying information has been obtained, recorded, or accessed in the same transaction or occurrence from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony and raises the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| SB1119 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; definition of personal interest in a transaction. Amends the definition of personal interest in a transaction to clarify that such an interest does not exist when an officer, employee, or elected ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| SB729 | Pass | Temporary jail facilities; Chesapeake. Allows the City of Chesapeake to receive a waiver from the construction requirements of the "Standards for Planning, Design, Construction and Reimbursement of Local Correctional Facilities" for a jail enlargemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB2022 | Pass | Voter registration exchange. Directs the State Board of Elections to request voter registration information and lists of persons voting at primaries and elections, if available, from the states that border the Commonwealth in order to identify duplic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| SB963 | Pass | Officers of election; multiple precincts. Provides that the local electoral board may reassign an officer of election from the precinct in which he was originally assigned to work to another precinct for the remaining portion of election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| SB1334 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; records exemption for the Commonwealth's Attorneys' Services Council. Provides an exemption from the mandatory disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act for records of the Commonwealth's Attorneys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
