| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| HB2056 | Pass | Election administration; lists of registered voters and persons who voted in certain elections. Requires the local electoral boards to provide to the Department of Elections within 14 days after the election the list of persons who voted, including t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| HB1964 | Pass | Commercial sex trafficking; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking of persons for commercial sexual activity. The bill provides that any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause a person to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| HB2318 | Pass | High school graduation rate formula; Standards of Accreditation; exclusions. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to report high school graduation rates that exclude any student who fails to graduate because he is in the custody of the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| HB2391 | Pass | Allocation of highway funds by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Provides that the five percent of moneys currently allocated annually by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for paving unpaved highways carrying more than 50 vehicles per day wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| HB1355 | Pass | Use of photo-monitoring systems to enforce traffic light signals; appeals. Provides that an operator of a motor vehicle found in violation of an ordinance created to enforce photo-monitoring systems for traffic lights has a right to appeal to the cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| HB1790 | Pass | Prohibition on payments without an appropriation; prohibition on IOUs. Prohibits a state agency or official from attempting, guaranteeing, or purporting to pay for a good or service or a debt unless the General Assembly has appropriated funds, or fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| HB1887 | Pass | Transportation funding; formula, reporting, and allocations. Removes the Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority from the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) and makes the members of the CTB subject to removal by the Governor for malfea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| HB1609 | Pass | Severability. Removes severability clauses by repeal or amendment throughout the Code of Virginia pursuant to the general severability clause, §1-243. Severability clauses currently found in the Code are inconsistent and misleading and create th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| HB324 | Pass | Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the full-time virtual school programs offered to students enrolled i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| HB1757 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business Loan Fund. Abolishes the Capital Access Fund for Disadvantaged Businesses, which provides loan guarantees, loan loss reserves, and interest rate write downs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| HB1799 | Pass | Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority; powers. Provides the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (commonly known as the CIT) with the power to exclusively, or with any other person, form and otherwise develop, own, oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| HB1785 | Pass | Campus police departments; sexual assault reporting. Requires that mutual aid agreements between a campus police force and a law-enforcement agency contain provisions requiring either the campus police force or the agency with which it has establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| HB2015 | Pass | Exemption from creditor process; bankruptcy proceedings. Makes several changes to articles that may be exempted from creditor process: (i) removes the one-gun limit, though the $3,000 cap remains the same; (ii) removes the one-car limit, though the $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB1308 | Pass | Right to privacy in electronic communications; confidential relationship; civil action. Doubles the amount of liquidated damages that may be recovered against a person who intercepts, discloses, or uses wire, electronic, or oral communications in vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| HB1698 | Pass | Student questionnaires and surveys; parental notification and consent. Requires each school board, prior to administering any questionnaire or survey requesting that students provide sexual information, mental health information, medical information,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| HB1897 | Pass | Intercollegiate athletics programs. Prohibits the sum of school funds and student fees used to support intercollegiate athletics programs from exceeding a certain percentage of athletics revenues, as those terms are defined in the bill, at each four-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
