| 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) |
| SB1041 | Pass | City of Bedford reversion; taxation of real property that becomes part of Bedford County. Requires Bedford County to impose real property taxes on property that becomes part of the County as a result of the reversion of the City of Bedford to town st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| SB1028 | Pass | Confidentiality of child support guidelines worksheets in mediated agreements. Eliminates two provisions requiring the disclosure of financial information obtained for the purposes of completing a child support guidelines worksheet in the course of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| SB1021 | Pass | Cigarette and other tobacco products taxes; electronic transactions. Authorizes (i) the Attorney General and the Department of Taxation to accept electronic filing of reports by stamping agents and manufacturers and (ii) the Department of Taxation to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| SB1050 | Pass | Extension of loads beyond front of vehicles. Allows loads to extend 10 feet beyond the front of the vehicle for utility poles during the daytime and for emergency utility repair at night. Under current law, no vehicle is allowed to carry a load that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB1753 | Pass | Scenic river. Adds the 17.8-mile segment of the Meherrin River lying within Mecklenberg and Lunenburg Counties as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. The Meherrin River within Brunswick County, a distance of approximately 37 miles, adjo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| HB2305 | Pass | Solar panels in community associations. Clarifies that a community association may establish reasonable restrictions concerning the size, place, and manner of placement of solar energy collection devices on property designated and intended for indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| SB807 | Pass | Administration of drugs; private schools. Allows the administration of drugs by a person to a child in a private school that is accredited by the Virginia Council for Private Education and exempt from licensure by the Board of Social Services, or in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359) |
| HB1384 | Pass | Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability. Removes obsolete provision requiring the Commonwealth to provide the Commission with "adequate office space."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| HB1468 | 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] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| SB994 | Pass | Mortgage loan originators. Conforms Virginia statutory law to federal regulations implementing the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act. Changes include (i) expanding the definition of a mortgage loan originator to include an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| SB1198 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Allows the city to set the tax year for real estate, tangible personal property, and machinery and tools by ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| SB979 | Pass | Retention of case records; general district court. Permits the chief judge of a general district court to direct the clerk of that court to destroy documents related to civil and criminal cases that have been ended for a period of three years, provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| SB1092 | Pass | Cigarette taxes; certain bond or irrevocable letter of credit requirements. Provides that the bond or irrevocable letter of credit required to be filed by a wholesale dealer to obtain cigarette tax stamps without payment of the cigarette tax be in a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| HB1390 | Pass | Charter; Town of Kilmarnock. Amends the town's charter of 1952, as amended, regarding the town's boundaries; the service of council members appointed to fill vacant seats; the authorities of the town manager and the director of public utilities; the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| HB1721 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect investigations; time limit for reports. Provides that time during which the local department of social services is waiting to receive records that are necessary for the investigation of alleged sexual abuse of a child or alleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| SB1265 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Establishes a revised six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| SB837 | Pass | Special license plates; supporters of the Washington Nationals baseball team. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Washington Nationals baseball team to support the Washington Nationals Dream Foundat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| SB1065 | Pass | Local arts and cultural districts; tax incentives. Permits a locality to include the reduction or rebate of real estate property taxes among the tax incentives it makes available in an arts and cultural district established by ordinance. Current law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| SB1282 | 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 (CHAP0405) |
| HB1706 | Pass | Charter; City of Norfolk. Shifts the election cycle for the mayor by providing that the person elected mayor at the 2014 election shall be elected for a term of two years only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB2178 | Pass | Charitable gaming; network bingo. Authorizes the conduct of a new charitable game known as network bingo. The bill sets out the terms and conditions under which network bingo may be conducted, provides for the licensing of network bingo providers, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| SB1287 | Pass | Natural gas utility ratemaking; eligible safety activity costs. Permits natural gas utilities to recover certain safety activity costs incurred on or after January 1, 2013, in future rates by accounting for them as deferred costs. The amount deferred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| SB1288 | Pass | Criminal history checks of emergency medical services personnel. Provides that the State Board of Health shall require each person who, on or after July 1, 2013, applies to be a volunteer with or employee of an emergency medical services agency to su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| HB1401 | Pass | Real property tax; sale of sole dwelling for delinquent taxes. Requires that, prior to initiating judicial proceedings to sell real property because of delinquent taxes, the locality must notify the taxpayer that he has the right to request that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| SB953 | Pass | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; services for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Expands the duties of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services related to services for individuals with Alzheimer's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| SB850 | 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] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| SB1111 | Pass | Local gas severance taxes. Makes technical amendments that provide a period of time in which natural gas companies may appeal a local gas severance tax assessment made on or after January 1, 2014, for license years 2014, 2013, 2012, or 2011. In 2012,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| SB1124 | Pass | Auditing of local government records. Clarifies the authority of the Auditor of Public Accounts (APA) and the type of audit that shall satisfy the annual audit requirement for localities and constitutional officers. The bill provides that the complet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB2099 | Pass | Shooting of muskrats and raccoons. Allows a landowner to trap or shoot fur-bearing animals including muskrats and raccoons upon his own land during the closed season when these animals are causing damage to his crops or property, or are posing a thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| HB2220 | Pass | Banister River; state scenic river. Designates a 38.4-mile segment of the Banister River as a state scenic river.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| HB2222 | Pass | Appraisal management companies; provision of appraisal services. Provides that an appraisal management company shall not enter into any contracts or agreements with an independent appraiser for the performance of real estate appraisal services unless...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| SB1147 | Pass | Cemetery Board; resale of interment rights by churches or religious organizations; exemption. Establishes requirements for the resale of interment rights by churches or religious organizations. A resale conducted in compliance with the requirements s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| SB1159 | Pass | Virginia State Bar admission for full-time law school professors. Allows a full-time law professor to be admitted as an active member of the Virginia State Bar without examination provided that he is otherwise eligible to be admitted to the Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| SB1259 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; eligible energy. Provides that renewable energy that is purchased by a participating utility under an agreement executed on or after July 1, 2013, will count toward meeting the RPS Goals of the renewable e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
