| SB1120 | Pass | Board of Medicine; requirements for licensure. Requires applicants for licensure to practice medicine, osteopathy, or podiatry to receive at least 12 months of the required supervised clinical training in one program or institution approved by an acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| HB1493 | Pass | Enticing persons to dwelling house to commit certain crimes; penalty. Provides that a person who commits certain specified crimes, including capital murder, first and second degree murder, murder of a pregnant woman, abduction with intent to extort m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB1320 | Pass | Teacher licensure renewal; college credit. Prohibits the Board of Education from requiring teachers seeking licensure renewal to satisfy any renewal requirements by completing coursework and earning credit at an institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| SB845 | Pass | Immunity for volunteer first responders en route to an emergency. Provides that no volunteer firefighter or volunteer emergency services personnel shall be liable for any injury to persons or property arising out of the operation of an emergency vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| HB1542 | Pass | State Trails Advisory Committee established. Establishes an advisory committee of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to assist in developing and implementing a statewide system of attractive, sustainable, connected, and enduring trails for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| HB1880 | Pass | Workers' compensation; Uninsured Employer's Fund; financing tax. Extends until July 1, 2018, the existing 0.5 percent maximum tax rate that may be assessed on uninsured or self-insured employers. The maximum rate, which was increased from 0.25 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| HB1950 | Pass | Electric utilities; net energy metering. Increases, from 500 kilowatts to one megawatt, the maximum generating capacity of an electrical generating facility owned or operated by an electric utility's nonresidential customer that may be eligible for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB2098 | Pass | Tangible personal property; miscellaneous and incidental property. Declares miscellaneous and incidental property used in a trade or business with an original cost of less than $250 as a separate classification of tangible personal property, thereby ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HB2267 | Pass | Virginia Solar Energy Development Authority. Creates the Virginia Solar Energy Development Authority to facilitate, coordinate, and support the development of the solar energy industry and solar-powered electric energy facilities in the Commonwealth....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| HB1483 | Pass | Real property assessment; valuation for land preservation. Permits localities to set acreage requirements less than the current five-acre requirement for agricultural property to qualify for land use valuation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| HB2257 | Pass | Coal mine safety. Eliminates the requirement that every miner receive copies of the mine rules and the Coal Mine Safety Act and requires that the surface mine foreman ensure that miners are aware of hazardous conditions and that the health and safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB1640 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; certificates of fact. Removes several provisions relating to corporations that the clerk of the State Corporation Commission currently is required, upon request, to certify. The measure also allows the clerk's signature ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB2071 | Pass | Advisory Board on Service and Volunteerism. Codifies the Governor's Advisory Board on Service and Volunteerism to advise the Governor and Cabinet Secretaries on matters related to the promotion and development of national and community service in Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| HB1847 | Pass | Public assistance; eligibility determinations. Allows the Commissioner of Social Services, when necessary to overcome backlogs in the application and renewal process, to temporarily utilize other entities to receive and process applications for publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| HB1645 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; bed and breakfast licenses. Expands the privileges of a bed and breakfast license by authorizing the licensee to permit the consumption of lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages by persons to whom overnight lodging is being...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| SB1156 | Pass | Writ of habeas corpus; service; dismissal of petition. Specifies the proper respondent to be named in a writ of habeas corpus based upon whether the petitioner is in prison or jail, is on parole or probation, or has a suspended sentence. The bill als...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554) |
| SB1314 | 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 (CHAP0496) |
| SB1390 | Pass | Virginia Condominium Act; meetings of the unit owners' association; quorum. Provides for a unit owners' association or unit owner to petition the circuit court to order a meeting of the unit owners' association for the purpose of the election of offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB1303 | Pass | Department of Education; release of Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Department of Education to make available to school divisions Standards of Learning assessments typically administered by the middle and high schools by December 1 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| SB832 | Pass | Taking blood samples pursuant to search warrant; qualified immunity. Provides that no cause of action shall lie in any court against any person authorized by law to withdraw blood pursuant to a search warrant issued in accordance with § 19.2-53 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| SB1098 | Pass | Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Prevention. Broadens the scope of the Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice to include review of juvenile delinquency prevention activities in the Commonwealth. The bill also adds the Commissioner of Health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB1965 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Virginia Real Estate Transaction Recovery Fund. Clarifies the eligibility requirements for citizens to make a claim under either the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund or the Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| SB1206 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; required reports on intellectual property and externally sponsored research. Requires each public institution of higher education to include in its six-year plan the following for the most recently ended fisca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| HB1474 | Pass | Detention of delinquent juveniles; offenses causing death. Provides that a court may order that a juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would be punishable as a felony or a Class 1 misdemeanor if committed by an adult and wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| SB801 | Pass | Financing of clean energy programs; development of underwriting guidelines. Expands the requirements of a local ordinance authorizing contracts to provide loans for clean energy improvements. The bill adds water efficiency improvements to the list of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB1562 | Pass | Electronic identity management; standards; liability. Creates the Identity Management Standards Advisory Council to advise the Secretaries of Technology and Transportation on the adoption of technical and data standards regarding the verification and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| HB1918 | Pass | Public assistance; determining eligibility. Requires a local director of social services (i) to verify the identity, income, and assets of and other information about an applicant for public assistance necessary to determine the applicant's eligibil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| HB1794 | Pass | Advertisement of foreclosure sale by a trustee or trustees in execution of a deed of trust; time-share properties. Allows the optional streamlined advertisement of a time-share property being foreclosed upon, requiring publication of the time, place,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB1891 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Revises the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| SB1268 | Pass | Adoption; child in custody of prospective adoptive parent(s) for five years or more. Allows the juvenile and domestic relations district court to accept consent to a parental placement adoption without a home study and certain meeting and counseling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| HB1905 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; retaliatory conduct by landlord. Removes the requirement in the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act that the court determine that the "primary" reason for a landlord taking an action for possession or termination of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| SB1162 | 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 (CHAP0538) |
| HB2040 | Pass | Pandering; minors; penalty. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalty for pandering involving a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB1893 | Pass | Charter; City of Bristol. Clarifies the relinquishment of certain powers set out in the charter of the City of Bristol that were transferred to the BVU Authority in 2010. The bill also removes provisions related to the Youth Services Department and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| HB1841 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; requirements for dispensers. Requires the Department of Health Professions to register every dispenser licensed by the Board of Pharmacy with the Prescription Monitoring Program and eliminates the requirement that suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| HB1951 | Pass | Child support; proportionate share of health insurance premiums. Provides that only the proportionate share of a health insurance premium for a child who is the subject of a support order shall be added to the child support obligation. The bill requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB2293 | Pass | Department of General Services; Division of Engineering and Buildings; use of value engineering. Eliminates the need for a value engineering report for projects that (i) are designed utilizing either the design-build or construction management at ris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| SB1117 | Pass | Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect; time period for investigation and report; school division employees. Clarifies that, in cases of alleged child abuse or neglect where the subject of the report is an employee of a school division who is su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| SB1417 | Pass | Board of Counseling; client notification. Requires any person licensed by the Board of Counseling and operating in a nonhospital setting to post a copy of his license in a conspicuous place. The posting shall also provide clients with (i) the number ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| SB717 | Pass | Board of Health; medical school scholarships. Expands eligibility for the medical school scholarship program administered by the Board of Health for medical students who agree to practice in underserved areas of the Commonwealth to include students o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| SB941 | Pass | Protective orders; compensation for required representation of respondents. Provides for the compensation of counsel or a guardian ad litem for the required representation of a respondent in a proceeding for the issuance of a protective order under C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| HB2114 | Pass | Competitive foods; school-sponsored fundraisers. Requires the regulations setting nutritional guidelines for competitive foods to permit each public school to conduct on school grounds during regular school hours no more than 30 school-sponsored fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| SB814 | Pass | Electronic identity management; standards; liability. Creates the Identity Management Standards Advisory Council to advise the Secretaries of Technology and Transportation on the adoption of technical and data standards regarding the verification and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB1810 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; subpoenas. Provides that records in possession of the Prescription Monitoring Program shall not be available for civil subpoena, nor shall such records be disclosed, discoverable, or compelled to be produced in any ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| SB1118 | Pass | Hearing officer requirements. Requires that reasonable efforts be made to hire hearing officers for hearings regarding franchise dealers of motor vehicles that have at least five years of experience as a hearing officer in administrative hearings in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| HB1584 | Pass | Fire services and emergency medical services. Revises terminology relating to fire services and emergency medical services and reorganizes provisions governing fire services and emergency medical services. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| SB1042 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Revises the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB1812 | Pass | Secretary of Natural Resources; Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement; annual report. Updates the requirements for the annual report concerning the Chesapeake Bay prepared by the Secretary of Natural Resources by substituting the recently agreed-to 2014...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| SB1307 | Pass | Search warrants; computers, networks, and other electronic devices. Clarifies that a search warrant that authorizes the lawful seizure of digital evidence from a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| SB858 | Pass | Conservation officers; Breaks Interstate Park. Establishes qualifications and procedures for the commissioning as conservation officers of employees of Breaks Interstate Park, a park located in both Kentucky and Virginia and administered by the Break...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
