| 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) |
| SB1179 | 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] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| SB1200 | Pass | Regulation of traffic. Conforms Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles) of the Code of Virginia to recent changes to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| SB1203 | Pass | Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Removes references to the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and provides for the Assistant to the Governor for Intergovernmental Affairs to be responsible for all of the duties of the Office under current law. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB1756 | 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 (CHAP0342) |
| SB1220 | Pass | Virginia College Savings Plan; deposit of income tax refunds. Permits taxpayers to direct the Department of Taxation to deposit all or any part of an income tax refund into their Virginia College Savings Plan accounts. The provisions of the bill shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| SB1165 | Pass | Provisional driver's licenses. Provides that the holder of a provisional driver's license under age 18 is not authorized to operate a motor vehicle with more than one passenger who is less than 21 years old unless the driver is accompanied by a paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB1637 | Pass | Restoration of parental rights. Creates a procedure for restoring parental rights to a parent whose rights to his child have previously been terminated when the child is at least 14 years of age and the child has not achieved his permanency goal. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| SB913 | Pass | Powers of personal representatives; digital accounts. Provides that the personal representative of a deceased minor has the power to assume the deceased minor's terms of service agreement for a digital account with an Internet service provider, commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| SB1133 | Pass | Tangible personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers. Creates a separate classification, for purposes of permitting localities to set a lower personal property tax rate, on computer equipment and peripherals used in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| SB863 | Pass | Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| SB916 | Pass | Exhumations; basis for. Requires that a party petitioning a court to order the exhumation of the body of any dead person provide a sworn statement that sets forth facts establishing a reasonable possibility of a biological relationship between the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| HB2184 | Pass | Trip hunting and fishing licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue trip hunting licenses to nonresidents and trip fishing licenses to residents and nonresidents for time periods and at costs determined by the Board. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| HB1801 | Pass | Board for Contractors; Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Act. Makes several changes to the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Act to clarify the eligibility and assessment requirements for the claims review process including (i) adding a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| HB1805 | Pass | Lifetime saltwater recreational fishing license. Allows Virginia residents 65 years of age and older to purchase a lifetime saltwater recreational fishing license for $5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| SB920 | Pass | Emergency custody and involuntary temporary detention; transportation. Requires magistrates to consider a request to authorize alternative transportation, if available, for persons subject to an emergency custody or involuntary temporary detention or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| HB1990 | Pass | License taxes on certain motor vehicles. Allows localities to impose a license tax, not to exceed $250 annually, upon resident owners of motor vehicles that do not display license plates issued by the Commonwealth and that are not exempt from the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
