| HR265 | Pass | Commending the George Mason University Green Machine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-06
Introduced bill reprinted 15105286D |
| HB1673 | Veto | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; collection and use of personal information by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that, unless a criminal or administrative warrant has been issued, law-enforcement and regulatory agencies sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1879 | Veto | Coal tax credits. Limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated or claimed for the coal employment and production incentive tax credit to $7.5 million. An electricity generator must file an application with the Department of Taxation e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1702 | Pass | Transfer, etc., of firearms from licensed dealer; criminal history record information. Provides that a licensed firearms dealer may perform a criminal history record information check before selling, renting, trading, or transferring any firearm owne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| HB2148 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses. Defines "historically black college or university" and provides that the term "minority-owned business" includes historically black colleges or universities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| HB2206 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; training, orders of appointment, registration, etc. Makes various changes to the laws providing for the appointment of special conservators of the peace, including (i) requiring the Criminal Justice Services Board t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| HB2322 | Veto | Health benefit plans; essential health benefits waiver. Authorizes health carriers to offer, sell, issue, or renew any health benefit plan in the individual and group markets that does not include the essential health benefits as required by the fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1835 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA); methods of procurement; job order contracting and cooperative procurement. Clarifies that small purchase procedures include the procurement of non-transportation-related construction and that any such procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| HB1315 | Veto | Jury commissioners; lists of unqualified persons provided to general registrars. Requires the jury commissioner to retain information obtained from those persons not qualified to serve as jurors as a result of (i) not being a citizen of the United St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1842 | Pass | Performance and incentive grants. Provides (i) that no more than $20 million in Virginia Investment Performance Grants may be outstanding at any time on or after July 1, 2015, (ii) that grant payments under the Major Eligible Employer Grant Program w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| HB1296 | Veto | Vacancies in elected offices; terms of office; special elections. Prohibits a special election to fill a vacancy in an office from being held on the same day as the general election at which that office is regularly scheduled to be filled. The bill f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1570 | Pass | Family day homes and child day centers; licensure; background checks; reporting; notice. Requires fingerprint-based national criminal history records checks for licensed child day centers and family day homes and requires employees and volunteers of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| HB2286 | Pass | Possession, etc., of firearms, etc., by convicted felons; restoration of rights. Provides that the prohibition on the possession and transportation of firearms and ammunition by convicted felons does not apply to a felon whose right to possess firear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| HB2125 | Pass | Use of unmanned aircraft systems by public bodies; search warrant required. Replaces the moratorium currently set to expire on July 1, 2015, on the use of unmanned aircraft systems by state and local law-enforcement and regulatory entities, except in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| HB2070 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act, and Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; certain gifts prohibited; approvals required for certain travel. Removes the distinction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| HB1984 | Pass | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. The provisions of this bill apply to justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia and judges of the Court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| HB2323 | Pass | Information technology projects and services in the Commonwealth. Clarifies responsibilities related to information technology in the Commonwealth. The bill provides the Chief Information Officer (CIO) with the authority to approve and make decisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| HB1917 | Pass | Certain contracts between governmental agencies prohibited. Requires any governmental agency that intends to purchase services for an amount over $25,000 from another governmental agency, which service is found on the commercial activities list, to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736) |
| HB1639 | Pass | DUI; persons convicted under laws of other states or federal law; restricted license; ignition interlock. Provides that a person convicted in a federal court of an offense substantially similar to Virginia's DUI law may petition the general district ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB1332 | Veto | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 5 and 6 in Smyth County and between Districts 42 and 43 in Fairfax County in order to reflect new precinct lines. All four di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Passed by for the day |
| HB1833 | Pass | Naloxone; administration in cases of opiate overdose. Provides that a pharmacist may dispense naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal pursuant to an oral, written, or standing order issued by a prescriber and in accordance wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB2009 | Veto | Law-enforcement certification of certain firearms. Provides that when the certification of a chief law-enforcement officer is required by federal law for transfer of a firearm as defined in the National Firearms Act, such certification must be provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB1608 | Veto | Prohibiting certain local government practices that would require contractors to provide certain compensation or benefits. Prohibits local governing bodies from establishing provisions related to procurement of goods, professional services, or constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB1626 | Veto | Students receiving home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 66 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB2062 | Pass | Elections administration; pre-election and post-election activities. Makes technical amendments to certain pre-election and post-election activities, including voter registration, voting system requirements in polling places, and recounts, that refle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| HB2395 | Veto | Public works contracts; prevailing wage provisions. Prohibits state agencies from requiring bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors to pay, or require the payment of, wages, salaries, benefits, or other remuneration to persons employed to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB1275 | Pass | Veterans Care Center projects. Allocates and appropriates $66.7 million in aggregate of Virginia Public Building Authority bonds for the design, environmental assessments, and construction of the Hampton Roads Veterans Care Center and the Northern Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| HB1444 | Pass | Vision care plans; reimbursement for services. Prohibits a participating provider agreement between a vision care plan carrier and an optometrist or ophthalmologist that is entered into, amended, extended or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| HB1955 | Pass | Administration and enforcement of cigarette laws. Modifies several provisions relating to the administration and enforcement of Virginia's cigarette laws by prohibiting persons convicted of certain offenses from being authorized holders, requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| HB1908 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; powdered or crystalline alcohol; penalty. Adds powdered or crystalline alcohol to the definition of alcoholic beverages, prohibits containers sold in or shipped into the Commonwealth from including powdered or crystalline ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| HB1473 | Veto | General registrars; appointment from adjoining locality. Permits local electoral boards to appoint a general registrar who is a qualified voter of a county or city that adjoins the county or city for which he is appointed. Current law requires the ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1457 | Pass | Direct access to physical therapy. Provides that a physical therapist who has completed a doctor of physical therapy program approved by the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education or who has obtained a certificate of authorization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| HB1752 | Veto | Board of Education; Common Core State Standards. Prohibits the Board of Education from replacing the educational objectives known as the Standards of Learning with Common Core State Standards without the prior statutory approval of the General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB1417 | Veto | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes to House of Delegates Districts 7, 8, and 12 in Montgomery County in order to eliminate split voting precincts. Each district will have a deviation of less than one percent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Passed by for the day |
| HB1402 | Pass | Highway maintenance payments; bicycle and transit lanes. Provides that cities and towns that receive highway maintenance payments from the Commonwealth based on moving-lane-miles of highway will not have such payments reduced if moving-lane-miles of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| HB1612 | Pass | School service providers; student personal information. Requires each entity that, pursuant to a contract with a local school division, operates a website, mobile application, or online service that (i) is designed and marketed solely for use in elem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB1318 | Veto | Applications for absentee ballots; photo identification required. Requires that any voter submitting his application for an absentee ballot by mail or by electronic or telephonic transmission to a facsimile device shall submit with his application a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Requires 66 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB1854 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses; enhancement or remedial measures. Requires state contracts awarded pursuant to enhancement or remedial measures implemented to enhance participation by small, women-o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB1564 | Pass | Schedule I drugs. Adds N-(1-amino-3-methyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(cyclohexylmethyl)indazole-3-carboxamide (other name: AB-CHMINACA), N-(1-amino-3-methyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(5-fluoropentyl)indazole-3-carboxamide (other name: 5-fluoro-AMB), and 3,4-methyl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1857 | Pass | Charter; Town of Weber City. Extends the terms of council members, the mayor, the treasurer, the clerk of the council, and the town sergeant from two to four years and deletes outdated language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| HB1826 | Pass | Virginia Racing Commission (VRC); powers. Revises the Virginia horse racing statute in light of Colonial Downs' surrender of its unlimited license to own and operate the racetrack in New Kent County and the nine satellite facilities (OTBs) in Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| HB2368 | Pass | Involuntary civil admissions; evaluations. Directs the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in conjunction with relevant stakeholders, to review the current practice of conducting emergency evaluations for individuals subject...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| HB1601 | Pass | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. Amends the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) to comply with amendments to the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance that were adopted i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB1930 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; reporting acts of sexual violence. Requires any responsible employee of a public or private nonprofit institution of higher education who in the course of his employment obtains information that an act of sexual viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| HB2316 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Health Authority; cooperative agreements. Authorizes the Southwest Virginia Health Authority (the Authority) to receive and review applications for approval of proposed cooperative agreements submitted by two or more hospitals and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| HB1458 | Pass | Naloxone; administration in cases of opiate overdose. Provides that a pharmacist may dispense naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal pursuant to an oral, written, or standing order issued by a prescriber and in accordance with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| HB1776 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control. Eliminates the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board and replaces it with the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, created by the bill. The bill provides for the appointment of the Board of Directors of the Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB2036 | Pass | Purchase, etc., of tobacco products by minors; liquid nicotine packaging; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell or distribute at retail a liquid nicotine container on or after October 1, 2015, unless the container is packaged in child-resistant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| HB1699 | Veto | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of two census blocks between Districts 25 and 26 in Rockingham County in order to reflect a new precinct line. Each district will have a deviation of less than one perce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Passed by for the day |
| HB1276 | Pass | Veterans Care Center projects. Allocates and appropriates $66.7 million in aggregate of Virginia Public Building Authority bonds for the design, environmental assessments, and construction of the Hampton Roads Veterans Care Center and the Northern Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
