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SB1264PassLaw-enforcement access to involuntary admission and incapacity information. Provides that certain information related to persons adjudicated incapacitated or ordered to involuntary inpatient or outpatient treatment or to persons who were subject to a...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540)
HB1351PassDiploma seals; biliteracy. Requires the Board of Education to establish, in time to apply to high school seniors graduating in 2016, criteria for awarding a diploma seal of biliteracy to any student who demonstrates proficiency in English and at leas...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564)
HB1470PassUse of revenues by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Includes transit projects in those transportation projects that will be rated by VDOT in accordance with § 33.2-257 before they are funded by the Authority. The bill has a delaye...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458)
SB1423PassPlacement of children entering foster care; Putative Father Registry. Requires local boards of social services to request a search of the Putative Father Registry within 30 days of accepting for foster care placement a child whose father is unknown t...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531)
HB2226PassState park master plans; update schedule. Changes the requirement that the Department and Board of Conservation and Recreation review and update the master plan for each state park from once every five years to once every 10 years.
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469)
SB709PassCreation of unlawful images; venue. Provides that venue for prosecution of the crime of creating unlawful images of a nonconsenting person is the same as venue for the Virginia Computer Crimes Act. The bill also clarifies a venue provision in the Vir...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423)
HB1942PassHealth insurance plans and programs; preauthorization for drug benefits. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier or its intermediary has the right or obligation to require preauthorization for a drug benefit to in...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515)
HB1767PassUnlawful detainer proceedings; satisfaction of judgments. Provides that in an unlawful detainer proceeding in which the defendant fails to appear, the plaintiff may submit evidence of outstanding rent and other damages by affidavit or sworn testimony...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547)
SB894PassCommunity Integration Advisory Commission; membership. Expands nonlegislative citizen membership eligibility to include one individual who is receiving or has received services in a state hospital operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and D...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533)
SB1381PassDefinition of private animal shelter. Clarifies that the purpose of a private animal shelter is to find permanent adoptive homes for animals.
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)
HB1721PassReal property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of armed forces killed in action. Exempts from taxation the dwelling of the principal residence of a surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces of the United States killed in action. If ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577)
SB707PassRestitution; damage to Capitol Square or any building, monument, etc., in Capitol Square or any other property assigned to the Capitol Police. Requires payment of restitution to the Commonwealth for any damage to Capitol Square or any building, monum...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550)
SB1262PassHealth insurance plans and programs; preauthorization for drug benefits. Requires certain health insurance contracts under which an insurance carrier or its intermediary has the right or obligation to require preauthorization for a drug benefit to in...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)
HB1336PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; policy on course credit at public institutions of higher education for certain examinations. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), in consultation with the governing board...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578)
HB1357PassAutomobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices. Adds the option that insurers may use any first class mail tracking method that is used, or has been approved, by the U. S. Postal Service (USPS) to demonstrate proof that ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)
HB1471PassAffordable housing. Adds the City of Fairfax to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)
HB1783PassChild support; arrearage. Allows the Department of Social Services to establish and operate an arrears compromise program pursuant to which it may compromise child support arrears and interest accrued thereon owed to the Commonwealth for reimbursemen...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506)
HB1957PassJuvenile records; Department of Motor Vehicles. Provides that Department of Motor Vehicles information on juvenile offenses that do not involve the operation of a motor vehicle shall be available only to the person himself, his parent or guardian, la...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478)
SB1403PassChildren receiving home instruction; educational growth and progress; certain test scores. Permits any parent who elects to provide home instruction for his child to submit a score on the ACT, SAT, or PSAT test that is equivalent to the fourth stanin...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567)
SB1335PassState Board for Community Colleges; policy for the award of academic credit for military training. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to adopt, no later than December 31, 2015, a policy for the award of academic credit to any student enr...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581)
HB2092PassSexual 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...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402)
SB1405PassHealth services plans; effects of actions of other states. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to conduct a proceeding to review and evaluate the effect of a law or other regulatory action of another state that requires a health services ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520)
HB1686PassStocking and sale of fish; permit. Directs the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to add largemouth bass and other members of the sunfish family to the types of fish that may be raised and sold from privately owned facilities. No license to fish from...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463)
SB871PassPolitical campaign advertisements; yard signs. Includes yard signs in the definition of print media and defines yard signs to be those signs paid for or distributed by a candidate, campaign committee, or political committee to be placed on public or ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573)
HB1914PassPharmacists; oxygen and epinephrine. Provides that a prescriber may authorize pharmacists to possess epinephrine and oxygen for administration in treatment of emergency medical conditions.
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514)
HB2193PassUse of grant funds for battlefield preservation. Expands the types of battlefields eligible to receive grants from the Virginia Battlefield Preservation Fund (the Fund), previously known as the Civil War Site Preservation Fund. Currently, moneys in t...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467)
HB2161PassState recordation taxes and fees. Clarifies and makes substantive and technical changes to state recordation taxes and fees, including requiring that the recordation tax on any deed of trust that is supplemental to an existing deed of trust be calcul...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488)
HB2373PassUniformed services-connected students; identification. Requires the Department of Education to establish a process for the identification by local school divisions of newly enrolled students who have a parent in the uniformed services. Local school d...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582)
SB1241PassDrugs forfeited to law enforcement; research and training. Amends the provision that allows seized drugs to be forfeited to a law-enforcement agency for research and training purposes pursuant to a court order to require the law-enforcement agency to...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429)
HB1637PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; design professional term contracts. Decreases the population threshold for localities for the procurement of architectural and engineering services from 80,000 to 78,000 and increases the single project limit for arch...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570)
HB1871PassRegistration of wells. Requires certified water well systems providers to register wells being constructed in ground water management areas with the State Water Control Board (SWCB) within 30 days of the completion of the well's construction. The bil...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465)
HB2330PassTobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission; financial viability and feasibility study prior to disbursement; Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund. Renames the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission as t...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399)
HB1901PassDepartment of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definition of small business. Changes the definition of small business to require the business, together with affiliates, to meet the small business size standards established by the regulations of...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
HB2299PassHealth services plans; effects of actions of other states. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to conduct a proceeding to review and evaluate the effect of a law or other regulatory action of another state that requires a health services ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519)
HB1890PassVirginia Retirement System; purchase of service credit for prior service. Makes numerous changes to the purchase of service credit program to simplify it and make it more cost-neutral to the Retirement System fund and more in line with other states' ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508)
SB1048PassCapitol Police; security for Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General-elect, and members of the Court of Appeals. Expands the jurisdiction of the Capitol Police for the purpose of providing security for the Governor-elect, Lieutena...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455)
SB695PassCharter; City of Hampton; candidacy of councilmembers in mayoral election. Bars any City of Hampton mayoral candidate from simultaneously running for a place on the Hampton city council and establishes a procedure for the resignation of any serving c...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440)
HB1764PassDissemination, etc., of criminal history record; civil action. Provides that a person who disseminates, publishes, or maintains or causes to be disseminated, published, or maintained the criminal history record information of an individual pertaining...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415)
HB1860PassSolicitation of contributions; collection receptacles. Provides that no (i) business as defined in § 58.1-3700.1, other than a charitable or civic organization to which contributions are deductible under § 170 of the Internal Revenue Code, ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476)
SB803PassSpeed limits in school zones. Allows counties in Planning District 8 to increase or decrease the speed limits in school zones; current law allows cities and towns to do so.
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460)
SB1260PassRegulations governing restaurants; training in food safety and food allergy awareness and safety. Requires the State Board of Health to include training standards that address food safety and food allergy awareness and safety in its regulations gover...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528)
HB1338PassElectronic textbooks; School Performance Report Card; instructional costs. Requires the Department of Education, for the purpose of including in the annual School Performance Report Card for school divisions the percentage of each school division's a...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563)
HB1827PassExemption for routine highway maintenance projects. Exempts routine highway maintenance projects of the Virginia Department of Transportation from the requirements of the Erosion and Sediment Control Act, including the reduction of flow runoff rates....
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497)
HB2378PassGovernor; operational and programmatic review by the General Assembly of all state agencies in the executive branch by Secretariat; disclosure of certain information. Requires the Secretaries of Administration, Finance, and Technology to jointly esta...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473)
SB1464PassManagement of the menhaden fishery. Authorizes the Governor to implement by proclamation a revised quota for menhaden landings if the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission acts to increase the total allowable landings during a specific time per...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493)
HB1946PassAdministrative subpoenas; electronic communication services nondisclosure of subpoena. Authorizes the Attorney General, as attorneys for the Commonwealth are currently authorized, to issue administrative subpoenas to obtain certain records and other ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544)
HB2350PassDepartment of Education; student data security. Directs the Department of Education (the Department), in collaboration with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, to develop a model data security plan that may be used by school divisions to im...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561)
SB846PassRecipients of public assistance; access to financial literacy courses. Directs the Department of Social Services, in consultation with the Virginia Employment Commission and Virginia Community College System, to develop and implement a plan under whi...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)
SB1351PassPolling place; authorized representative of political party; permitted handheld wireless communication devices. Removes the prohibition against use of handheld wireless communications devices containing a camera or other imaging device by authorized ...
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575)
HB1700PassBrake lights on motorcycles and autocycles. Repeals the five-second maximum duration of increased brightness of motorcycle and autocycle brake lights when the vehicle's brakes are applied.
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2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405)
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