| HB872 | Pass | Interjurisdictional law-enforcement agreements. Provides that interjurisdictional law-enforcement agreements may allow the loan of unmarked police vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| HB903 | Pass | Secretary of the Commonwealth; liaison to Virginia Indian tribes. Provides for the Secretary of the Commonwealth to serve as liaison to Virginia Indian tribes on behalf of the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| HB759 | Pass | Absentee voting and procedures; secure return of voted military-overseas ballots. Requires the State Board of Elections to provide instructions, procedures, services, a security assessment, and security measures for the secure return by electronic me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB949 | Pass | Natural gas utilities; upstream supply infrastructure projects. Authorizes a natural gas utility to recover eligible costs of eligible natural gas supply infrastructure projects. A plan for recovery of such costs may provide the utility with an optio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB709 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect investigations; time for determination. Provides for an extension of the time period during which a local department of social services must determine if a report of child abuse or neglect is founded from 60 to 90 days in case...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB570 | Pass | Charter; City of Colonial Heights. Repeals outdated provisions in the charter related to courts and provides that the city shall have separate courts and clerks for the General District Court and the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB733 | Pass | Parking in front of mailboxes. Allows localities by ordinance to prohibit vehicle parking that blocks access to mailboxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| HB614 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; energy submetering; local government fees. Provides that in lieu of increasing the rent, the owner, manager, or operator of a commercial or residential building or campground may employ a program that utilizes a mathematical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| HB507 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual banquet license for wine and beer. Expands the annual mixed beverage special events license to a duly organized private nonprofit corporation or association operating an art education and exhibition facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| HB574 | Pass | Temporary detention; duration; mandatory outpatient treatment. Extends the period that a person may be held pursuant to a temporary detention order from 48 hours to 72 hours. The bill also provides that the community services board required to monito...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| HB268 | Pass | Agricultural operations; local regulation of certain activities. Protects certain activities at agricultural operations from local regulation in the absence of substantial impacts on the public welfare and requires localities to take certain factors ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| HB1075 | Pass | Audits of certain political subdivisions. Provides that no audit shall be required for certain political subdivisions, the members of whose governing body are not elected by popular vote, for any fiscal year during which such entity's financial trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| HB540 | Pass | Licensure of private behavioral health services providers. Clarifies provisions governing issuance of a provisional license to a private provider by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providing that a provisional license ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| HB190 | Pass | Athletic trainers; possession and administration of oxygen. Provides that prescribers may authorize licensed athletic trainers to possess and administer oxygen for use in emergency situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB588 | Pass | Cemetery Board; powers and duties; special interments. Provides that, under certain conditions, a cemetery company may have a section in the cemetery devoted to the interment of human remains and the pets of such deceased humans or the interment of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB193 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; participation in meetings in event of emergency or personal matters. Removes the requirement that a public body approve by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting the remote participation in the meetin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| HB538 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council; sunset extended. Extends the sunset date for the Autism Advisory Council from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB210 | Pass | City of Martinsville; city reversion. Provides that any reversion initiated by the Martinsville City Council shall require that each elected member of the city council vote, unless otherwise prohibited by law, on the motion to initiate the reversion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| HB1141 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; annual arts venue event license. Creates a new annual arts venue event license and sets out the privileges of this new license and the state and local license taxes. The bill defines an arts venue as a commercial or nonpro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB628 | Pass | Hospital authorities. Provides that counties shall have the same powers with regard to the existing hospital authority enabling statute as cities. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| HB1176 | Pass | Health insurance; notice of increase in premium or deductible. Requires health insurers, including health maintenance organizations and corporations providing accident and sickness subscription contracts, to provide written notice of intent to increa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| HB1045 | Pass | Board for Contractors; additional monetary penalty for certain violations. Provides that if the Board for Contractors finds any licensed contractor to be in violation of a statute or regulation involving fraudulent or improper or dishonest conduct as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB652 | Pass | Boundary adjustments; notice. Provides that all affected landowners shall be given notice of a proposed voluntary boundary adjustment. The bill authorizes landowners to file a petition to intervene in the action under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| HB844 | Pass | Eastern Shore Water Access Authority Act. Allows the Counties of Accomack and Northampton by resolution to declare that there is a need for a public access authority. If an operating agreement is developed, the counties may form the Eastern Shore Wat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| HB1229 | Pass | Public schools; individual school performance grading system; delay. Delays the implementation of the A-to-F school performance grading system by two years, to October 1, 2016. The bill also requires the Board of Education to develop a preliminary pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| HB886 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education; postsecondary education and employment data. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to disseminate to each public high school and each institution of higher education in the Commonwealth for which the Counci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| HB1098 | Pass | Smart transportation pilot zone. Requires the Secretary of Transportation and VDOT to establish a smart transportation pilot zone to test state-of-the-art smart road technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| HB1090 | Pass | New technologies and innovations in statewide transportation programs. Requires the Secretary of Transportation and VDOT to incorporate new smart road technologies and innovations in statewide transportation technology programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB956 | Pass | Elections; filings by candidates and political parties. Streamlines the process by which information regarding candidates' filing of required statements of economic interests is transmitted to the State Board of Elections or local electoral boards. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| HB978 | Pass | Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; utility crossings. Requires a locality or political subdivision whose facilities are to be crossed or affected by a project under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 to cooperate fully with other e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB1006 | Pass | Update of the Probable Maximum Precipitation level. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to utilize a storm-based approach to calculate the Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) for various locations in or affecting Virginia. The meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB1102 | Pass | Longwood University Board of Visitors; removal of visitors. Provides that if any member of the Longwood University Board of Visitors fails to perform the duties of his office for one year without sufficient cause shown to the board, the office of suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB1024 | Pass | Elections; vacancies in elected constitutional and local offices. Requires the court to order a special election for a vacancy in any elected constitutional or local office to be held on the date of the next general election, unless the governing bod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| HB597 | Pass | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; name; composition of Board of Directors; powers. Renames the Authority as the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority and equalizes Board representation among the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, and Henr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB672 | Pass | Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Program. Expands the Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone into a statewide grant program and allows the Virginia Port Authority and the Department of Taxation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| HB1150 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; government stores; agents of Board. Provides that certain licensed distillers who are appointed agents of the ABC Board may blend or produce spirits using (1) copper or stainless steel pot stills or (2) the maceration of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| HB988 | Pass | Coyote control program. Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to promote programs to those seeking assistance with coyote control concerns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| HB703 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exemption for administrative investigations by public institutions of higher education. Exempts from FOIA administrative investigations conducted by a public institution of higher education relating to indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB473 | Pass | Local utilities; City of Richmond. Provides that the City of Richmond may develop criteria for providing discounted water and sewer fees and charges for low-income, elderly, or disabled customers. The City may also develop criteria for financial assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB520 | Pass | State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; membership. Removes the Governor's Special Advisor on Children's Services from and adds a juvenile and domestic relations district court judge to be appointed by the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| HB952 | Pass | Protection of confidential information in court files. Provides that whenever a party in a civil action files a motion or other document with a court containing a social security number or other identification numbers on driver's licenses, credit car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB1233 | Pass | Address Confidentiality Program; victims of stalking. Makes victims of stalking eligible for the Address Confidentiality Program. Under current law, only victims of domestic violence are eligible for participation. The bill also allows the Office of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB876 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners. Changes the composition of the Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Port Authority by adding a member from Greater Hampton Roads. The bill also requires that one member have maritime shipping experien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| HB702 | Pass | Uniform assessments; qualified assessors. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to enter into contracts with public and private entities to conduct community-based and institutional screenings in jurisdictions in which the screening ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| HB722 | Pass | Location of methadone clinics near schools and day care centers; exemptions for existing facilities and providers. Provides that licensed providers of methadone treatment that are exempt from restrictions regarding proximity to a school or day care c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB230 | Pass | Appointment to industrial development authorities. Provides that in Frederick County the board of supervisors may appoint one of its members to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Frederick, Virginia. The bill contains technical amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| HB617 | Pass | Personal property tax; classification. Authorizes a locality to establish lower personal property tax rates on the tangible property of businesses that locate for the first time in the locality. The lower rates would apply for the first two tax years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB439 | Pass | Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act; applicability to Virginia citizens. Expands the protections of the Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act to Virginia citizens and makes Virginia citizens eligible for an award from the Fraud and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| HB891 | Pass | Powers and duties of health regulatory boards; special conference committees. Provides that special conference committees may consider applications for a license, certificate, registration, permit, or issuance of a multistate licensure privilege and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| HB1012 | Pass | City of Suffolk; ordinance providing that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on real estate. Adds the City of Suffolk to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on the real es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
