| SB1045 | Pass | Board of Medicine; information about autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Board of Medicine to make information about the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorder and the role of health care providers in identifying, dia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| SB1378 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Provides that a public body may purchase from the contract of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The bill also provides that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| SB1018 | Pass | Board of Nursing; criminal history record check for applicants for licensure. Establishes state and federal criminal history background check requirements for applicants for licensure as a practical nurse or registered nurse. The bill has a delayed e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| SB1461 | Pass | Renewal of waterfowl blind licenses. Exempts persons holding a waterfowl blind license for a blind located in Virginia Beach from the requirement to remove his blind when his license expires, if he notifies the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| SB1008 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; statement of unit and lot owner rights. Provides that every unit owner under the Virginia Condominium Act and every lot owner under the Property Owners' Association Act who is a member in good standi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| SB1119 | Pass | Sales and use tax; gross proceeds. Provides that "gross proceeds," as it relates to the collection of sales and use tax on the lease or rental of tangible personal property, does not include finance, interest, or other similar charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| SB1010 | Pass | Disclosure of information. Authorizes the Department of Taxation to disclose (i) whether a person, firm, or corporation is registered as a retail sales and use tax dealer and whether a certificate of registration number for such tax is valid, (ii) to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| SB868 | Pass | Water or sewer systems; delinquent payment of rates and charges. Repeals a provision of the Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act that limits a landlord's liability for a tenant's separately metered sewer or water charges to three delinquent billi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284) |
| SB1012 | Pass | Income tax subtraction; sale of land for open-space use. Eliminates the income tax subtraction available for the gain derived from the sale of land for open-space use for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| SB1358 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority police powers. Expands the police powers of the Virginia Port Authority by allowing the Authority to employ special police officers on property owned, leased, or operated by the Authority or its subsidiaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| SB1007 | Pass | Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Fund and Program. Allows a qualified company to receive a second grant from the Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Fund if the company locates or expands an ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| SB1247 | Pass | City of Charlottesville; authority to amend zoning ordinance. Authorizes the City of Charlottesville, as part of its zoning ordinance, to offer developers certain options regarding the construction of sidewalks. The bill amends a 2013 act of assembly...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| SB1236 | Pass | Special diplomas. Eliminates the term "special diploma" and specifies that students identified as disabled who complete the requirements of their individualized education programs and meet certain requirements prescribed by the Board pursuant to regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| SB896 | Pass | Child labor laws; appeal procedures. Clarifies the procedures and rules relating to agency actions to prosecute violations of child labor statutes. The measure imposes a 21-day time limit during which an employer charged with a violation may seek an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| SB690 | Pass | Chaplains of the Virginia National Guard and Virginia Defense Force; sermons. Prohibits censorship by state government officials or agencies of the religious messages or other speeches within religious services made by chaplains of the Virginia Natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283) |
| SB1165 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; alcohol by volume. Allows farm winery licensees to manufacture wine containing 21 percent or less of alcohol by volume. Under current law, farm winery licensees may manufacture wine containing 18 percent or less of alcohol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| SB1037 | Pass | Green job creation tax credit; sunset. Extends the green job creation tax credit for three years, through taxable year 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| SB1223 | Pass | Four-year public institutions of higher education; websites; consumer information. Requires each four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to maintain on the home page of its website and annually update no later than Septem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| SB962 | Pass | Virginia Military Advisory Council (VMAC); membership. Reduces the number of members of the Virginia Military Advisory Council from 27 to 11. The bill increases from four to five the number of members appointed by the Governor, eliminates 17 members ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) |
| SB1125 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; technical updates to conform with recently updated professional standards and requirements for out-of-state CPA firms. Clarifies that out-of-state certified public accountant (CPA) firms practicing in Virginia must adhere to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| SB1372 | Pass | Virginia Board of Workforce Development. Makes several changes to the Virginia Board of Workforce Development (the Board), including (i) requiring quarterly meetings of the Board; (ii) establishing a full-time director position to be supervised by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) |
| SB847 | Pass | Interstate 73 Transportation Compact. Creates the Interstate 73 Transportation Compact to develop and plan the Interstate 73 corridor, advocate for federal and other funding resources for the project, and facilitate plans and programs for the project...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| SB1121 | Pass | IT responsibility of agency directors. Provides that the director of every department in the executive branch of state government shall be responsible for securing the electronic data held by his department and shall comply with the requirements of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) |
| SB1040 | Pass | License tax; businesses ceasing operations. Allows a person, firm, or corporation that ceases business in one year, but attempts to settle existing, outstanding accounts in the next year, to pay a license tax based on the estimate of the current year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| SB979 | Pass | Special license plates; recipients of Legion of Merit Medal. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for recipients of the Legion of Merit Medal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
| SB930 | Pass | Virginia Military Family Relief Fund; benefits for state active duty missions. Allows members of the Virginia National Guard and Virginia residents who are members of the reserves of the United States Armed Forces to receive benefits from the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| SB839 | Pass | Special license plates; Newport News Shipbuilding. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of Newport News Shipbuilding bearing the legend NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242) |
| SB1070 | Pass | Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority; dedicated revenues. Extends through fiscal year 2016 the dedication of certain income tax revenues to the Authority. Current law dedicates the income tax revenues attributable to the sale of commercial huma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| SB1430 | Pass | Display of salvage license numbers. Prohibits advertising to the public the sale, transport, delivery, removal, or receipt of a salvage or nonrepairable vehicle, or the major component parts of such vehicle, unless the seller is a licensee or an exem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| SB811 | Pass | Evaluate the safe storage of chemicals. Directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality, the State Health Commissioner, and the State Coordinator of Emergency Management to evaluate various existing laws and regulations to ensure that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) |
| SB861 | Pass | Nurse practitioners. Allows a nurse practitioner to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his activities and adds nurse practitioner to the definition of "health care provider" under the medical malprac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| SB1079 | Pass | Flood protection plan. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to regularly update the flood protection plan for the Commonwealth and to make the plan accessible online. This is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Formulate Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| SB1191 | Pass | Firearms, other weapons on school property. Amends the statute that makes it a crime to possess a firearm, stun weapon, knife, or certain other weapons on school property to require that the person knowingly possess the firearm or other weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| SB1231 | Pass | Cigarettes; possession with intent to distribute contraband; fraudulent purchase; penalties. Lowers the felony threshold for possession with intent to distribute tax-paid cigarettes from 500 cartons to 200 cartons and creates a criminal offense and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| SB1339 | Pass | School board clerks; electronic maintenance of records. Permits the clerk of each school board to keep volumes of meeting minutes and receipt and disbursement records, vouchers, contracts, and other official papers electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| SB1404 | Pass | Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) savings trust accounts established; administered by the Virginia College Savings Plan. Establishes ABLE savings trust accounts to be administered by the Virginia College Savings Plan to facilitate the saving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| SB872 | Pass | Assessment of real property; explanation of increased assessment. Requires an assessing officer of a governing body to provide, upon taxpayer request, a written explanation of or justification for an increase in the assessed value of the taxpayer's p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| SB816 | Pass | Absentee voting; reason for application. Removes the requirement that a person applying for an absentee ballot because of an obligation occasioned by his religion provide information regarding the nature of such obligation. Instead, he is required to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| SB1341 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee established. Establishes the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee (the Committee) to assist the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in developing, revising, and im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| SB1003 | Pass | Titling and registration requirements; off-road motorcycles converted to on-road use; penalty. Establishes titling and registration requirements for off-road motorcycles converted to on-road use and includes off-road motorcycles converted to on-road ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| SB1263 | Pass | Civil admission process; alternative transportation. Provides that a magistrate may authorize alternative transportation for a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary detention order when there exists a substantial likelihood that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| SB1411 | Pass | Collection of court costs by DMV. Allows the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the collection of court fines, costs, forfeitures, and penalties and court-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| SB1214 | Pass | Charter; City of Alexandria. Deletes numerous outdated provisions and updates references to the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| SB843 | Pass | Claims; Jonathan Christopher Montgomery. Provides relief in the amount of $175,440 to Jonathan Montgomery, who was incarcerated for a total of three years, 11 months, and 18 days after being convicted of forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| SB874 | Pass | Public schools; Standards of Learning tests. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test, with the exception of the writing Standards ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| SB944 | Pass | Home health and hospice organizations; reporting requirements concerning health professionals. Requires a director of a licensed home health organization, a director of a licensed hospice organization, and a director of an accredited home health orga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0119) |
| SB1184 | Pass | Missing persons; search and rescue. Provides that no local law-enforcement agency shall establish or maintain any policy that requires a waiting period before accepting a critically missing adult report and requires a local law-enforcement agency tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223) |
| SB1360 | Pass | Commonwealth's Attorneys Training Fund. Establishes the Commonwealth's Attorneys Training Fund to be used for the purpose of supporting prosecutor training and law-enforcement training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| SB1129 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exemption for public safety; cybersecurity. Expands the current record exemption for plans and information to prevent or respond to terrorism to include information not lawfully available to the public rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0183) |
| SB1094 | Pass | Sexual and domestic violence; establishment of committees. Establishes the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Program Professional Standards Committee and requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to administer its activities by providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0222) |
