| HB2161 | Pass | State 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| HB2373 | Pass | Uniformed 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| SB1241 | Pass | Drugs 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| HB1637 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| HB1871 | Pass | Registration 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| HB2330 | Pass | Tobacco 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| HB1901 | Pass | Department 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB2299 | Pass | Health 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| HB1890 | Pass | Virginia 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' ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| SB1048 | Pass | Capitol 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| SB695 | Pass | Charter; 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| HB1764 | Pass | Dissemination, 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB1860 | Pass | Solicitation 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, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| SB803 | Pass | Speed 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| SB1260 | Pass | Regulations 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| HB1338 | Pass | Electronic 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| HB1827 | Pass | Exemption 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....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| HB2378 | Pass | Governor; 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| SB1464 | Pass | Management 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| HB1946 | Pass | Administrative 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| HB2350 | Pass | Department 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| SB846 | Pass | Recipients 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| SB1351 | Pass | Polling 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| HB1700 | Pass | Brake 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| HB1952 | Pass | Transfer and sale of school buses between local school divisions. Permits any local school board, notwithstanding any regulation to the contrary, to sell or transfer any of its school buses to another school division or purchase a used school bus fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559) |
| SB1412 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited trade practices. Allows a winery, brewery, or distillery licensee to pay royalties to a historical preservation entity pursuant to a bona fide intellectual property agreement that authorizes the winery, brewery,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| SB815 | Pass | Co-chairmen of the Virginia-North Carolina Interstate High-Speed Rail Compact Commission. Allows Virginia and North Carolina to each elect a co-chairman from among its membership. This will allow a co-chairman from each state to serve together instea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| SB781 | Pass | Passing with a double yellow line. Allows drivers to cross double yellow lines or a solid yellow line immediately adjacent to a broken yellow line in order to pass a pedestrian or a device moved by human power, if such movement can be made safely. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| SB1355 | Pass | Local planning commission; action on proposed plat. Applies certain provisions, including a 60-day time limit, to the process of approval by any local planning commission of a plat or site plan that solely involves commercial real estate. Currently, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB1440 | Pass | Tobacco 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB1360 | Pass | Securities Act; crowdfunding exemption. Creates an exemption from the securities, broker-dealer, and agent registration requirements of the Securities Act for any security issued by a Virginia entity if (i) the offering is conducted in accordance wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| SB773 | Pass | Psychiatric treatment of minors; objecting minor; criteria. Amends the criteria for admitting an objecting minor 14 years of age or older for psychiatric treatment to match the criteria for determining whether a nonobjecting minor or a minor younger ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| HB1915 | Pass | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional plan. Requires NVTA's regional transportation plan to make reducing congestion in Planning District 8 its primary objective to the greatest extent practicable. The bill requires each locality embra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| SB762 | Pass | Tenancy by the entireties; property held in trust. Clarifies that the proceeds of the sale of property held as tenants by the entireties in a trust retain the same immunity from a separate creditor of one spouse as is provided for the property itself...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| HB1758 | Pass | Boards of zoning appeals; City of Portsmouth. Adds the City of Portsmouth to a provision requiring the governing body to appoint members and alternates to the board of zoning appeals. Under the general law, the circuit court appoints the members of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| HB2173 | Pass | Real property tax; waiver of delinquent taxes. Authorizes any locality to waive delinquent taxes on real property in exchange for the owner's donation of the property to a nonprofit organization that builds, renovates, or revitalizes affordable housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB2042 | Pass | Food truck vending on state highway rights-of-way. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to amend its regulations to permit food truck vending on state highway rights-of-way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| HB1820 | Pass | Workers' compensation; payment for medical services. Requires the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission to determine the number and geographic area of communities across the Commonwealth. The measure also requires the Commission to convene a work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| SB1445 | Pass | Appraisal management companies; compensation of appraisers. Provides for an appraisal management company to compensate appraisers in compliance with § 129E(i) of the federal Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq.).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| HB2178 | Pass | Hybrid retirement program; school division deferred compensation and cash match plans. Allows school divisions the option of establishing and administering their own deferred compensation and cash match plans for the hybrid retirement program. Employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| SB895 | Pass | Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Clarifies the definition of embalming to include details on the process and its purpose; eliminates the requirement that the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers offer examinations for licensure at least ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| HB1800 | Pass | Open-end lending by banks, savings institutions, and credit unions; credit cards; grace period. Adjusts the period used in determining whether a borrower has repaid his open-end credit card balance in full and therefore is exempt from a finance charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| SB1056 | Pass | Child pornography; obscenity; penalties. Adds a mens rea of "knowingly" for the offenses of (i) reproducing child pornography and (ii) soliciting child pornography to gain entry to a group and removes the requirement of lascivious intent for these of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| HB1717 | Pass | Psychiatric treatment of minors; objecting minor; criteria. Amends the criteria for admitting an objecting minor 14 years of age or older for psychiatric treatment to match the criteria for determining whether a nonobjecting minor or a minor younger ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| SB744 | Pass | Boards of zoning appeals; City of Portsmouth. Adds the City of Portsmouth to a provision requiring the governing body to appoint members and alternates to the board of zoning appeals. Under the general law, the circuit court appoints the members of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| HB1653 | Pass | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification. Adds to the list of accepted forms of identification for purposes of voting valid student photo identification cards issued by any private school located in the Commonwealth. Students of public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| SB914 | Pass | Retention of court case files. Requires that the circuit court case files on crimes for which a person can be committed as a sexually violent predator be retained for 50 years or until the sentence term ends, whichever comes later. Juvenile court rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| HB1374 | Pass | Special license plates; disabled veterans. Permits all veterans who are receiving ongoing disability pensions to be issued disabled veteran license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| HB1531 | Pass | Speed 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| HB1560 | 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] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
