| HB873 | Pass | Ports tax credits. Changes Virginia's ports-related tax credits by increasing the annual amount of international trade facility tax credits that may be issued from $250,000 to $1.25 million, decreasing the annual amount of barge and rail usage tax cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| SB333 | 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 the ballot envelope shall not render that absentee ballot void or provide officers o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB853 | Pass | Administration and enforcement of cigarette laws. Modifies several provisions relating to the administration and enforcement of Virginia's cigarette laws by providing that (i) violations of cigarette tax laws may be investigated by a multijurisdictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| SB519 | 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] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| HB1074 | Pass | Virginia Racing Commission. Transfers responsibility for the Virginia Racing Commission to the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry. Currently, the Virginia Racing Commission is under the authority of the Secretary of Commerce and Trade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| SB498 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Limits the ability of an electric utility participating in the renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program to bank renewable energy sales or renewable energy certificates (RECs) that are in excess of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| SB404 | Pass | Health Club Act. Changes the term "health spa" to "health club" throughout what had been captioned the Virginia Health Spa Act. The measure includes technical and clarifying changes and adds a requirement that health club contracts state the name and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| HB585 | Pass | Competency of criminal defendant; reports for restoration providers. Requires the defendant's attorney to make available to the director of the community services board, behavioral health authority, or inpatient facility charged with treating the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| SB114 | Pass | Suit for personal injury; report from health care provider licensed outside of the Commonwealth. Provides that in a personal injury suit tried in a general district court or appealed to the circuit court, either party may present evidence of the inju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| SB365 | Pass | Forfeiture of counterfeit and contraband cigarettes; use by law enforcement. Provides that counterfeit and contraband cigarettes that have been forfeited to law enforcement do not have to be destroyed, but may be used by law enforcement for the condu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| HB1115 | Pass | Virtual Virginia; local school divisions; shared online courses. Permits the Department of Education to contract with one or more local school boards that have created online courses to make such courses available to other school divisions through Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB301 | Pass | Admissibility of business records. Provides that in any civil proceeding the authentication and foundation necessary for the admission of a business record under the business records exception to the rule against hearsay may be laid by witness testim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| HB1167 | Pass | Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance. Changes the name of the Virginia Coal Association to the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| HB128 | Pass | Cutting of grass and weeds. Adds the Towns of Front Royal and Gordonsville to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance for the cutting of grass and weeds on occupied property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| HB177 | Pass | Cutting of grass; statewide application. Makes current grass-cutting provisions applicable statewide for all localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB413 | Pass | Filing of evaluation reports for incapacitated persons; requirement for filing under seal. Requires that medical evaluation reports filed in guardian or conservator proceedings before the circuit court be filed under seal. The bill also requires that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| HB275 | Pass | Local electoral boards; meetings, proceedings, and records. Provides that the general registrar shall determine a reasonable charge, not to exceed the statutory amount set for copies of court records, for copies made of local electoral board books, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB326 | Pass | Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he, with the intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate the depicted person, maliciously disseminates or sells any videographic or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| HB634 | Pass | Annuity contracts; interest on proceeds. Clarifies that an insurance company is required to pay interest on a death benefit claim under a variable annuity contract commencing from the date of the insurer's receipt of a completed claim form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| HB470 | Pass | Charter; City of Manassas. Updates the city's charter to reflect a shift in the time of local elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB280 | Pass | False advertising for regulated services; notice; penalty. Prohibits persons from placing advertisements for services in the Commonwealth requiring a license, certification, or registration through the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| SB341 | Pass | Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Requires the President of Virginia Commonwealth University to serve as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Virginia C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| HB737 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance tax credits; percentage increase. Increases the percentage of persons served by a neighborhood organization and who are low-income, as defined in § 58.1-439.18, from 40% to 50%, for purposes of applying to the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| HB170 | Pass | Cutting of grass and weeds; Goochland County. Adds Goochland County to the list of those localities that have authority to require the cutting of grass and weeds under certain circumstances on occupied property. The county currently has such authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| SB18 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; quit to follow military spouse. Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany the employee's spouse, who is on active duty in the military or naval services of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| HB296 | Pass | Comprehensive plans; alignment of transportation services with accessible housing and other community services. Requires localities to take into consideration how to align transportation infrastructure and facilities with affordable, accessible housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB191 | Pass | Expert witness testimony; chiropractor; physician assistant. Allows a properly qualified physician assistant to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his activities as authorized under Virginia law, exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| HB785 | Pass | Reduced cigarette ignition propensity; penalties. Transfers administration of the reduced cigarette ignition propensity (RCIP) program from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Executive Director of the Department of Fire Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB328 | Pass | Charter; City of Alexandria. Shifts dates related to the election of the council and the school board to reflect the City's change to November elections. The bill provides that the city attorney may be the legal advisor to the school board with the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| HB201 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. Adds the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB796 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; schedule for updates. Postpones the due date for quadrennial updates to the Virginia Energy Plan from July 1 to October 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB1087 | Pass | Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; sunset. Extends the sunset provision for the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB765 | Pass | Health care policy, group health benefit plan, and health plan; definitions. Updates references to federal programs in the definitions of "health care policy," "group health benefit plan," and "health plan."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| SB298 | Pass | Funding of Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Codifies appropriation act language dealing with funding of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB957 | Pass | Transportation commission membership. Delays the effective date of House Bill 2152 (2013) to July 1, 2015. House Bill 2152 gives the Chairman of the Commonwealth Transportation Board or his designee equal voting weight on the Virginia Railway Express...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| HB17 | Pass | Warrant requirement for certain telecommunications records; real-time location data. Provides that a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service shall not disclose real-time location data to an investigative or law-enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| HB822 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Limits the ability of an electric utility participating in the renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program to bank renewable energy sales or renewable energy certificates (RECs) that are in excess of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB335 | Pass | Money order sellers and money transmitters. Requires criminal background checks on members, senior officers, directors, and principals of applicants for licensure as a money order seller or money transmitter. Obligations imposed on a member apply onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| SB2 | Pass | Public school textbooks; East Sea. Requires all textbooks approved by the Board of Education after July 1, 2014, to note that the Sea of Japan is also referred to as the East Sea.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| HB209 | Pass | Preliminary subdivision plats. Provides that localities may mandate the submission of preliminary subdivision plats for tentative approval only for plats involving more than 50 lots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| HB799 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; change in circumstances. Removes from the requirement that, at or before settlement, the owner be required to disclose to the purchaser any material change in the disclosures made relative to the property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| SB501 | Pass | Conditions of release on bond; no contact provision. Amends provision that allows a judicial officer to impose as a condition of release on bond for any felony or misdemeanor a provision that the accused may not have contact with a household member f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| HB86 | Pass | Inpatient psychiatric hospital admission from local correctional facility; criteria. Repeals the second enactment of the 2012 act that amended the criteria for the psychiatric admission of inmates from local correctional facilities to add mentally il...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB632 | Pass | Elections; request for removal of officer of election. Authorizes an electoral board member to request in writing the removal of an officer of election whom he knows to be the spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, child, or grandchild of a candidate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| SB311 | 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 (CHAP0381) |
| HB683 | Pass | Investigation of alleged child abuse and neglect; agreements with school divisions. Requires local departments of social services and local school divisions to develop written interagency agreements for the investigation of all complaints of child ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| HB218 | Pass | Purchase, etc., of tobacco products by minors; nicotine vapor products and alternative nicotine products. Adds nicotine vapor products and alternative nicotine products to the list of tobacco products that cannot be sold to or purchased or possessed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| SB58 | Pass | Comprehensive plans; alignment of transportation services with accessible housing and other community services. Requires localities to take into consideration how to align transportation infrastructure and facilities with affordable, accessible housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB887 | Pass | Board of Education; Academic-Year Career and Technical Education Governor's School. Requires the Board of Education to develop model criteria and procedures for establishing a jointly operated high school with a career and technical education focus t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| HB522 | Pass | Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; appeals. Requires community policy and management teams to establish policies and procedures for appeals by youth and their families of decisions made by local family assessment and planning team...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
