| HB1177 | Pass | Safe drinking water; local private well testing requirements. Adds the County of Bedford to the list of localities the governing bodies of which may establish reasonable testing requirements to determine compliance with existing drinking water qualit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| SB464 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; state health plan. Removes "part-time state employees" from the definitions under the state health plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| SB587 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; causes of action for age discrimination. Provides that no employer employing more than five but less than 20 persons shall discharge any such employee on the basis of age if the employee is 40 years of age or older. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB398 | Pass | Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast of certain horse races. Allows the owner or operator of a steeplechase facility to simulcast the Kentucky Derby at the steeplechase facility in conjunction with holding the steeplechase races.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| HB1261 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; carbon dioxide emission control impact; schedule. Requires the Virginia Energy Plan to include, with regard to any regulations proposed or promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce carbon dioxide emission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| HB451 | Pass | Elections; elected and certain appointed officers; removal from office. Adds sexual battery, attempted sexual battery, consensual intercourse with a child 15 years of age or older, indecent exposure, and peeping to the list of offenses for which a ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| HB1197 | Pass | Elections; absentee voting; return of unused and defaced absentee ballots. Provides that a voter who returns his unused or defaced absentee ballot before the day of the election shall be entitled to vote a regular ballot on election day if the electo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| HB1124 | Pass | Liability of owners or operators of dams. Requires the owner of a dam, prior to conveying ownership of the dam or decommissioning the dam to a third party, to notify the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation of the transfer in acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| SB175 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for religious bodies. Clarifies the meaning of real property used exclusively for religious worship for determining the real property tax exemption for religious bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| SB348 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; alternative purchase. Provides for the registration with the Common Interest Community Board of alternative purchases that are offered to potential purchasers during the developer's sales presentation. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB592 | Pass | Court-Appointed Special Advocate Program. Allows Court-Appointed Special Advocate volunteer appointments to continue for youth ages 18 and older who are in foster care when the juvenile court has retained jurisdiction and the judge determines such se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB670 | Pass | Elections; absentee ballots; name requirements. Provides that a voter's failure to provide his full middle name or his middle initial in the statement on the back of an absentee ballot envelope shall not render that absentee ballot void or provide of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| HB206 | Pass | Four-year public institutions of higher education; mental health resources. Requires each four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to create and feature on its website a page with information dedicated solely to the mental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| HB810 | Pass | Reckless handling of firearms; penalty. Provides that any person who recklessly handles a firearm and through such reckless handling causes the serious bodily injury of another person resulting in permanent and significant physical impairment is guil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| HB631 | Pass | Insurance contracts; principle-based reserve basis; use of valuation manual. Requires insurance companies to use (i) a principle-based reserve basis for life, annuity, and accident and health insurance contracts and (ii) a Valuation Manual adopted by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| HB205 | Pass | Boards of visitors; student-athlete discipline policies. Requires the board of visitors or other governing board of each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to establish policies for the discipline of students who participate i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| HB1173 | Pass | Stormwater management programs; optional for some localities. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a Virginia Stormwater Management Program (VSMP) for any locality that neither opts to establish its own program nor operates a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB1247 | Pass | Professions and occupations; expedited review; applications of spouses of military service members. Reduces from 30 to 20 days the allowable application review period after which a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| SB270 | Pass | Third grade SOLs; math and English only. Directs the Board of Education to require only math and English reading Standards of Learning assessments for third graders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| HB666 | Pass | County manager plan. Alters the time frame for special elections to fill board vacancies in counties that have adopted the county manager plan (Arlington County).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| SB156 | Pass | Electronic tolling facilities; fees. Directs VDOT to develop and implement a plan to eliminate E-ZPass transponder maintenance fees and encourages the Secretary of Transportation to examine and improve the retail distribution of E-ZPass transponders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| HB1121 | Pass | Composition of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries. Changes the criteria for appointments made to the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries. The bill requires the 11 members of the Board, appointed by the Governor, to be citizens of the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB369 | Pass | Parking management companies. Expands the powers of parking management companies operating under contracts with local governments to enforce local parking restrictions and reduces the population requirement of a city that allows the city to provide b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| SB460 | Pass | Private institutions of higher education; certification. Increases, from 10 to 20, the number of years a private institution is required to have maintained a main or branch campus continuously in the Commonwealth under its current ownership and has b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| HB364 | Pass | Commission on Civics Education reestablished. Reestablishes the Commission on Civics Education, which expired on June 30, 2013. The purposes of the Commission are to educate students on the importance of citizen involvement in a constitutional republ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| HB669 | Pass | Elections; absentee ballots; date requirement. Provides that a voter's failure to provide the date, or any part of the date, on which he signed the statement on the back of the return envelope shall not render that ballot void or provide officers of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| SB281 | Pass | Certificate of birth; naturalized citizen. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, for any adopted person who has attained United States citizenship through naturalization and upon request and receipt of evidence demonstrating such citizenship...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| HB1137 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; unfunded scholarships. Adds graduate assistants to the number of graduate students used to calculate the total value of unfunded scholarships annually awarded to graduate students and clinical faculty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| SB85 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; private security services businesses; exemption from training for certain central dispatchers. Provides that central station dispatchers employed by a central station that is certified by a Nationally Recogniz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| HR63 | Pass | Commending the Mechanicsville American Legion Post 175 baseball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Introduced bill reprinted 14100163D |
| SB78 | 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] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| SB596 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; state and local license taxes on certain brewery licensees. Imposes a state license tax of $350 and a local license tax of $250 for breweries that manufacture no more than 500 barrels of beer during the licensing year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| 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) |
| SB64 | Pass | Inoperable motor vehicles. Adds the City of Hopewell and Prince George County to those localities that may prohibit any person from keeping, except within a fully enclosed building or structure or otherwise shielded or screened from view, on any prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB151 | Pass | Family abuse protective orders; motor vehicles. Modifies the provision specifying that the court may grant the petitioner temporary exclusive possession or use of a motor vehicle owned by the petitioner or jointly owned by the parties to provide that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| SB667 | Pass | Authorizing DBHDS to convey a portion of the real property known as the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute to the Mount Rogers Community Services Board. Corrects the legal description of property authorized by the 2013 General Assembly to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| 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) |
| SB461 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; limitation of certain term contracts; exception. Provides that limitations imposed upon single project fees procured by competitive negotiation shall not apply to environmental, location, desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB490 | Pass | Carbon monoxide alarms; required installation in rental dwelling units. Amends the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to require a landlord to install carbon monoxide alarms upon the written request of a tenant. The bill also provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| SB284 | Pass | Kinship care; regulations. Directs the Department of Social Services to review current policies governing kinship care placements, propose regulations governing kinship care placements, and review the fiscal impact of the proposed regulations. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| 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) |
| SB476 | Pass | Incest; definitions of parent, etc.; penalty. Provides that for the purposes of the crime of incest, parent includes stepparent, grandparent includes step-grandparent, child includes stepchild, and grandchild includes step-grandchild.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| 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) |
| SB7 | Pass | Virginia State Bar; Clients' Protection Fund; sunset. Extends the sunset provision on the Supreme Court's authority to adopt rules assessing members of the Virginia State Bar an annual fee of up to $25 to be deposited in the Clients' Protection Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| SB31 | Pass | Methamphetamine cleanup; certification. Requires the Board of Health, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality and other entities, to establish a program certifying that a building that was previously a methamphetamine manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| SB10 | Pass | Discounted fees and charges for certain low-income and disabled customers; Town of Louisa. Permits the Town of Louisa by ordinance to develop criteria for providing discounted water and sewer fees and charges for low-income and disabled customers. Cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| SB459 | Pass | Electric utility regulation; recovery of nuclear costs. Requires an electric utility to establish a regulatory asset for regulatory accounting and ratemaking purposes under which it shall defer operation and maintenance costs incurred in connection w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| SB54 | Pass | General Assembly; signature for prefiled legislation. Removes the sunset clause from Chapter 670 of the Acts of Assembly of 2012, which allows the substitution of an electronic signature for a handwritten signature on prefiled legislation. The provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
