| 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) |
| HJR490 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization are denied the right to wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| SB761 | Pass | Personal injury and wrongful death actions; disclosure of address of insured person. Requires an insurance company to disclose the address of an alleged tortfeasor upon request of an injured person, personal representative, or attorney in a cause of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| 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) |
| SB1036 | Pass | DMAS; waiver eligibility criteria; dependents of active duty military. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend eligibility criteria for the Intellectual Disability waiver and the Individual and Family Developmental Disabilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| 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) |
| SB1451 | Pass | Tolls on interstate highways. Requires General Assembly approval prior to tolling on Interstate 95 south of Fredericksburg, pursuant to the federal Interstate System Reconstruction or Rehabilitation Pilot Program. This bill codifies the 11th enactmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| 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) |
| SB982 | Pass | Graduation requirements; local alternative paths to standard units of credit. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, to permit local school divisions to waive the requirement for stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| 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) |
| SB755 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Adds to the description of the city boundary a reference to land added by a court order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| 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) |
| SB1385 | 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 (CHAP0687) |
| 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) |
| HB2067 | Pass | Daylighted streams. Provides that the State Water Control Board (SWCB), when developing the criteria for a Resource Protection Area (RPA) under the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, shall not require that a daylighted stream become an RPA. The bill re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| HB1998 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System work group to develop recommendations to encourage and facilitate saving for retirement. Requires the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to convene a work group to review current state and federal programs that encourage citi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB2026 | Pass | Health Insurance Reform Commission. Requires the Division of Legislative Services to provide legal, research, policy analysis, and other staffing services to the Health Insurance Reform Commission (Commission). Staffing for the Commission is currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| HB2295 | Pass | Real Estate Board; educational requirements for brokers and salespersons. Requires curricula for brokers and salespersons who are new licensees of the Real Estate Board and continuing education curricula for salespersons to include information on flo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB1366 | Pass | Sex offenses prohibiting entry onto school or other property; hearing. Provides that a sex offender who is prohibited from entering upon school or child day center property who petitions the circuit court for permission to enter such property must ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| SB931 | Pass | Veterans identification card; definition of veteran. Defines "veteran" for the purposes of issuance of a veterans identification card as a Virginia resident who has served in the United States armed forces or reserves or the Virginia National Guard a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| HB1532 | Pass | Charter; City of Roanoke. Shifts authority to appoint the director of finance from the city council to the city manager. This bill is a companion bill to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB1610 | Pass | Punitive or exemplary damages. Provides consistency by changing references to "exemplary damages" or "punitive or exemplary damages" to "punitive damages." The terms "exemplary" and "punitive" are interchangeable. The bill also makes technical correc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| HJR597 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may provide for a local option to exempt from taxation the primary residence of the surviving spouse of any law-enforcement officer, firefigh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| HB1364 | Pass | Fees for testing and monitoring of land application of industrial wastes. Allows localities to adopt ordinances that provide for the testing and monitoring of the land application of solid or semisolid industrial wastes. The bill requires the State W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB2379 | Pass | Voter list maintenance; list comparison data. Requires the State Board of Elections to use the data received through list comparisons with other states to maintain the overall accuracy of the voter registration system by identifying duplicate registr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| HB1469 | Pass | Marriage certificates; names of parties. Provides that the parties to a marriage shall be able to designate themselves on the application for marriage license as spouse, bride, or groom. The bill also requires the clerk of court to retain one copy of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB1047 | Pass | Stormwater utility fee; waiver. Provides that where two adjoining localities subject to a revenue sharing agreement each hold a permit to discharge stormwater from a municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), a waiver of charges to a public entity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB1188 | 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 (CHAP0691) |
| SB1331 | Pass | Natural Gas Conservation and Ratemaking Efficiency Act; cost-effective programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether a natural gas conservation or energy efficiency program is cost-effective, to assign administrative c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| HB1675 | Pass | Graduation requirements; local alternative paths to standard units of credit. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, to permit local school divisions to waive the requirement for stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB1811 | Pass | Harvesting clams. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to issue permits for the possession and use of a handheld hydraulically operated device for harvesting cultured clams from leased grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| SB838 | Pass | State resident licenses; military dependents. Extends the entitlement to obtain a state resident license to hunt, trap, or fish to members of the immediate family of a member of the armed forces. Current law entitles members of the armed forces to ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| SB951 | Pass | Disposition of dead bodies. Clarifies the role of a person other than a decedent's next of kin, a person designated to make arrangements for the decedent's burial or the disposition of his remains, an agent named in an advance directive, or a court-a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| HB1738 | Pass | Hospices; notice of patient's death to dispenser. Requires every hospice licensed by the Department of Health or exempt from licensure pursuant to § 32.1-162.2 with a hospice patient residing at home at the time of death to notify every pharmacy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB1362 | Pass | State song. Designates "Our Great Virginia," lyrics by Mike Greenly and arranged by Jim Papoulis, as the official traditional state song and "Sweet Virginia Breeze," by Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett, as the official popular state song. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| HB1927 | Pass | Venue in criminal cases. Provides that if it cannot readily be determined where a crime was committed in the Commonwealth, venue for the prosecution of the crime may be had in any county or city (i) in which the defendant resides or (ii) in which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| SB1074 | Pass | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (the Registry) that would include information on persons w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| HB1307 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; student identification numbers. Prohibits the Department of Education (the Department) and each local school board from requiring any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school or receiving ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| HB2384 | Pass | Workers' compensation; electronic billing and payment. Requires the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission to establish, by January 1, 2016, a schedule for employers, employers' workers' compensation insurance carriers, and providers of workers' c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| SB888 | Pass | Electronic summons systems; fees; towns. Allows towns to assess a fee not to exceed $5, as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case in the district or circuit courts located where such cases are brought, to be used for the implementation an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB1434 | Pass | Disposition of dead bodies. Provides that in cases in which the identity of a decedent and the county or city in which the decedent resided at the time of death are known, the person or institution having initial custody of the dead body shall notify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| HB2357 | Pass | Insurance rates; policies transferred pursuant to agent book transfer. Clarifies that an insurer may cap the renewal rates for policies that have been transferred by an agent from one insurer to another insurer pursuant to an agent book transfer, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| HB1780 | Pass | Circuit court clerk responsibilities. Revises certain circuit court clerk responsibilities, including (i) permitting the posting of notices on the circuit court clerk's website; (ii) clarifying that, if a name change is granted to a convicted sex off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| HB1940 | Pass | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| SB1466 | Pass | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. Postpones the scheduled expiration of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB889 | Pass | Affordable housing. Adds the City of Fairfax to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
