| HB2317 | Pass | Transfer of firearms; residency of armed forces members. Provides that residency for members of the armed forces for the purpose of firearms purchases in the Commonwealth shall include both the member's permanent duty post and the nearby state in whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB2174 | Pass | Workers' compensation; awards of compensation. Provides that wages paid to an employee who is physically unable to return to his pre-injury work due to a compensable injury and who is provided work within his capacity at a wage equal to or greater t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| SB1284 | Pass | Escort driver certification. Provides for the certification and regulation of escort drivers in the Commonwealth. The bill also adds a traffic infraction for impeding or disrupting vehicles operating under a hauling permit that requires an escort veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| SB1333 | Pass | Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; membership. Authorizes the Senate Committee on Rules to determine if the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee or the Chairman Emeritus of the Senate Finance Committee will serve on the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| SB846 | Pass | Dual enrollment; certain community colleges. Requires Danville Community College, Patrick Henry Community College, Southside Virginia Community College, Virginia Western Community College, and Wytheville Community College, under the terms of their ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| HB2084 | Pass | Teacher licensure; Teach For America license. Creates a two-year provisional license for participants in Teach For America, a nationwide nonprofit organization focused on closing the achievement gaps among students in low-income areas, who meet certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| HB2062 | Pass | Citizens' Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion; membership. Re-staggers the terms of the membership of the Citizens' Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| SB854 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; certain local employees. Allows that a political subdivision may by resolution irrevocably declare that persons employed as firefighters, emergency medical technicians, or law-enforcement officers shall be considered to ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| HB2147 | Pass | Primaries; candidate petition signatures, certification by party chairman. Provides that in furnishing to the State Board of Elections or local electoral boards the names of candidates for nomination in a primary, including a presidential primary, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB2308 | Pass | Local correctional facilities; electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners. Adds Voice-over-Internet Protocol technology and web-based communication systems used for communication between prisoners and third parties to the types of communicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| HB2158 | 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 (CHAP0444) |
| HB1606 | Pass | Prostitution; solicitation of a minor; penalty. Provides that, in addition to the current Class 1 misdemeanor punishment for solicitation of prostitution generally, any person who solicits prostitution from a minor (i) 16 years of age or older is gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| SB1298 | Pass | Special license plates. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for active duty members, retirees, or honorably discharged veterans with six months of service in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Air Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| HB1335 | Pass | Electoral board; temporary appointment. Allows the senior judge, for good cause, to appoint a temporary member to the electoral board in order to maintain a quorum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB1559 | Pass | Felony DUI; penalty. Provides that any person convicted of a felony DUI offense (including DUI manslaughter and DUI maiming, by motor vehicle or watercraft) is guilty of a Class 6 felony for any subsequent DUI conviction, that punishment includes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB2255 | Pass | Voter lists. Requires a local electoral board to submit the list of persons who voted at any election to the State Board of Elections within 60 days after each election unless such list is not available due to a pending recount or election contest. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB2256 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation; membership of board. Increases the membership of the board of trustees of the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation from 22 to 23 by adding the Chairman of the Friends of Southwest Virginia. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| HB1684 | 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 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| HB2266 | 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] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| SB995 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System. Makes technical changes to carry out provisions enacted by the General Assembly in 2012 regarding retirement plans administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| HB1582 | Pass | Armed security officers; protection of schools and child day centers. Permits any armed security officers licensed by the Department of Criminal Justice Services to carry firearms onto private or religious school property if such officer is hired by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| SB1008 | Pass | Voter registration; registration activities by third parties. Requires individuals and groups conducting voter registration drives, when obtaining 25 or more voter registration applications from the State Board of Elections or local offices, to regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| SB1015 | Pass | Prostitution; solicitation of a minor; penalty. Provides that, in addition to the current Class 1 misdemeanor punishment for solicitation of prostitution generally, any person who solicits prostitution from a minor (i) 16 years of age or older is gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| SB1027 | Pass | Voting; overvoted ballots. Provides, in the case of ballots that are inserted into an electronic counting device, that if a ballot is found to have voted for a greater number of names for one office than the number of persons required to fill the off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| SB1031 | 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 (CHAP0470) |
| HB1635 | 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 (CHAP0418) |
| HB1311 | 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 (CHAP0408) |
| HB1435 | Pass | Judges; senior judge system for the circuit and district courts of Virginia; study. Allows the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to contract with an independent entity such as the National Center for State Courts to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| HB1981 | Pass | Use of electronic tracking devices; penalty. Provides that any person who installs or places an electronic tracking device through intentionally deceptive means and without consent and uses it to track the location of another person is guilty of a C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| SB888 | Pass | Advertising within highway rights-of-way. Provides that penalties and costs collected as the result of an agreement between the Commissioner of Highways and a locality to enforce the prohibition on advertising within highway rights-of-way may be paid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| HB1961 | 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] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB1955 | Pass | Impersonating a law-enforcement officer or other public safety personnel. Provides that any unauthorized person who wears a uniform identical to or substantially similar to a standard uniform used by an office of sheriff to impersonate the office of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| HB1358 | Pass | Impersonating a law-enforcement officer. Adds federal law-enforcement officers and any local, city, county, and state law-enforcement officers to the list of law-enforcement officers for which it is a Class 1 misdemeanor to falsely assume or exercise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| SB1042 | Pass | City of Bedford reversion; special election for certain council members. Requires a special election for members of council for any town that, on July 1, 2013, is both created by a transition from city to town status and enlarged by annexing territor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| SB896 | Pass | Workers' compensation; injuries incurred by public safety employees. States that an injury to a public safety officer in situations where weather constitutes a particular risk of his employment shall be compensable where the injury arose out of and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| SB997 | 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 (CHAP0464) |
| HB1813 | Pass | City of Bedford reversion; special election for certain council members. Requires a special election for members of council for any town that, on July 1, 2013, is both created by a transition from city to town status and enlarged by annexing territor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB1481 | Pass | Secondhand articles; scrap metal purchasers; penalty. Provides that any person or business that purchases scrap metal in excess of $20,000 during a 12-month period shall be subject to requirements regarding the purchase of nonferrous scrap, metal ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB1363 | Pass | Private security services businesses; exemption. Exempts employees and sales representatives of an electronic security equipment retailer from training requirements when they (i) sell the equipment at a store location, online, or by telephone, but n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| HB1886 | Pass | Vehicle tire weight limitations. Prohibits operation, for a commercial purpose, of certain vehicles whose tire weight exceeds 125 percent of the tire weight limit guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| SB1059 | Pass | Dental and optometric services plans. Provides that two existing provisions, relating to the payment of interest on accident and sickness claim proceeds and to the use of explanation of benefits forms, that apply to insurance companies will also appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| SB938 | Pass | Multijurisdiction grand jury. Adds to the criminal violations that a multijurisdiction grand jury may investigate the following: crimes by mobs, malicious felonious assault and malicious bodily woundings, robbery, carjacking, felonious sexual assault...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| SB980 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; Dickenson County. Adds Dickenson County to the list of counties that may impose a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent, rather than the two percent rate available to all counties. Any revenue attributable to any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| SB1093 | Pass | Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act; adoption. Codifies the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, which authorizes the creation of a transfer on death deed, which, when properly executed and recorded, passes title directly to named ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB2241 | Pass | Vacant building registration. Adds the Town of Clifton Forge to those localities with authority to require the owner or owners of buildings that have been vacant for a continuous period of 12 months or more to register such buildings on an annual bas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| HB1929 | Pass | Deer kill permits. Authorizes the chief law-enforcement officer of a town to report to the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries that deer are creating a traffic hazard in the jurisdiction. If after an investigation the Director fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| HB1452 | Pass | Charter; Town of Chase City. Increases salary caps for the mayor and members of town council. The bill also removes outdated provisions related to a municipal court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| HB2228 | Pass | Overweight vehicle permit fees. Provides that the fee for engineering analysis performed prior to issuance of an overweight vehicle permit is not to exceed three hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| SB1138 | Pass | Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium. Establishes the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth for the purposes of making the Commonwealth a national and global leader in nuclear energy and serving as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| SB1023 | Pass | Renewable energy power purchase agreements. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to conduct a pilot program in a certain utility's service territory. Under the pilot program, a person that owns or operates a solar-powered or wind-powered el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
