| HB1345 | Pass | Line of Duty Act. Revises the Line of Duty Act (the Act) by codifying revisions to the Act from the appropriation act and, among other changes, transferring overall administration of the Act to the Virginia Retirement System (VRS), transferring admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB420 | Pass | Auxiliary grants; regulations. Clarifies that regulations adopted by the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services shall establish auxiliary grant rates for adult foster care homes and licensed assisted living facilities, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| SB460 | Pass | Voter registration; notification to other states of a person's registration in Virginia. Requires the general registrars, when registering any person who was previously registered in another state, to notify the appropriate authority in that state of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB912 | Pass | Department of Transportation; installation of broadband conduit on public highways. Allows the Department of Transportation to permit broadband service providers to install conduit capable of housing fiber optic cable to provide broadband service on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB1052 | Pass | Virginia Defense Force; training duty. Clarifies the definition of training duty for the Virginia Defense Force. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| HB616 | Pass | Discharge from involuntary admission; advance directive. Requires that, prior to the release from involuntary admission or discharge from involuntary admission to mandatory outpatient treatment of an individual who has not executed an advance directi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| HB388 | Pass | Uninsured motor vehicle fee payment plan. Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish an uninsured motor vehicle fee payment plan to allow individuals to pay the $500 uninsured motor vehicle fee through an installment plan with the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB817 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); record exclusions; rule of redaction; no weight accorded to public body's determination. Reverses the holding of the Virginia Supreme Court in the case of Department of Corrections v. Surovell, by setting o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| SB780 | Pass | Home instruction or religious exemption; information disclosure. Provides that a division superintendent or local school board may disclose, to the extent provided by the written consent of a student's parent, certain information that is provided by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| HB883 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; telecommunications towers. Provides that a proposed telecommunications tower, and certain other facilities, shall be deemed to be substantially in accord with the comprehensive plan and planning commission approval shall not be re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| SB9 | Pass | Civil immunity; first responders; forcible entry of motor vehicle to remove unattended companion animal. Provides that first responders who forcibly enter a motor vehicle to remove an unattended companion animal that is at risk of serious bodily inju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| HB1111 | Pass | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission. Allows an elected official of any of the four counties embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission (the Commission) who serves on the county's governing body and has b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| SB517 | Pass | Utilization of service disabled veteran businesses by state agencies. Requires every state agency to include as a component of any small business enhancement measure pursuant to § 2.2-4310 of the Code of Virginia a goal of a minimum of three per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB443 | Pass | Nutrient credit certification; timeline for consideration. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) to establish a timeline for consideration of applications for land conversion projects. The Department of Environmental Quality will be requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| SB204 | Pass | Real estate settlement agents. Adds to provisions relating to real estate settlement agents a new term, "closing disclosure," defined in the bill as the combined mortgage loan disclosure statement of final loan terms and closing costs prescribed unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| HB823 | Pass | Governmental agencies contracting for items listed on commercial activities list. Provides that any state governmental agency that purchases goods or services from another governmental agency, including those found on the commercial activities list, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| SB573 | Pass | Career and technical education; three-year licenses. Directs the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of three-year licenses to qualified individuals to teach high school career and technical education courses in specific subject areas for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB544 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit; judges exempt. Provides that a judge or justice of the Commonwealth may carry a concealed handgun throughout the Commonwealth without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| SB680 | Pass | General Assembly; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; fiscal impact statements for executive orders. Provides that, at the request of the chairman of any committee of the Senate or House of Delegates, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| HB681 | Pass | Trafficking in persons; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action against individuals who engage in (i) abduction of any person for the purpose of prostitution, any child under 16 years of age for concubinage, or any minor for the purpose of manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB750 | Pass | Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund; political contributions; reporting. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to provide to the Governor, his campaign committee, and his political action committee a quarterly report listing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| SB352 | Pass | Official emblems and designations. Designates Nelsonite as the state rock of Virginia. The bill also adds to § 1-510, which consolidates official state emblems and designations, two designations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| HB1377 | Pass | School boards; assignment of teachers; class size limits. Provides that, after September 30 of any school year, anytime the number of students in a class exceeds the statutorily prescribed class size limit, the local school division shall notify the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| HB279 | Pass | Career and technical education; three-year licenses. Directs the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of three-year licenses to qualified individuals to teach high school career and technical education courses in specific subject areas for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB695 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; wine and beer licenses for certain properties. Provides that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may grant retail on-premises wine and beer licenses to persons operating a concert and dinner-theater venue on property fron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| SB728 | Pass | Punitive damages; injury by intoxicated drivers; admission of evidence. Provides that, when considering what amount of punitive damages to award in a civil action for personal injury or death resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle while into...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| HB1103 | Pass | ABLE savings trust accounts; exclusion from determination of state means-tested assistance and benefits. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of state law that requires consideration of one or more financial circumstances of an individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| HB786 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; awards as a result of authorized enhancement or remedial measures. Requires any enhancement or remedial measure authorized by the Governor under subsection C of § 2.2-4310 for procurement by state agencies to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| HB600 | Pass | Child welfare mandates. Imposes certain mandates related to the protection and encouragement of children, including a requirement that certain information and options be given to a child in connection with foster care plans, the imposition of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| SB388 | Pass | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; failure to make required statement. Makes it a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for a supplier to fail to provide to a consumer, or to fail to use or include in any written document or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB732 | Pass | Assisted living facilities; hospice care. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, no assisted living facility shall be required to provide or allow hospice care if such hospice care restrictions are included in a disclosure statement tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB1245 | Pass | Judicial Retirement System; mandatory judicial retirement. Broadens the age 73 mandatory retirement provision to include all judges regardless of when elected by the General Assembly. The bill has a delayed effective date of June 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| SB758 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery license. Allows farm winery licensees to trade fruits or agricultural products grown or produced on such farms with other farm winery licensees and provides that such fruit or agricultural products shall be con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB646 | Pass | Commissioner and Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; reporting duties. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to submit an annual report to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB894 | Pass | Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; membership. Requires that the membership of the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee include at least one representative of a four-year public institution of higher education and at least one represen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| HB668 | Pass | Spousal support factors. Provides that a court shall consider the circumstances and factors that contributed to the dissolution of the marriage, specifically including any ground for divorce, in determining the nature, amount, and duration of a spous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| SB563 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; materials and equipment used to drill natural gas and oil. Extends the sunset from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2022, for the sales and use tax exemption for machinery and tools, materials, and supplies used to drill, extract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| HB942 | Pass | School property; reasonable access by youth-oriented community organizations. Requires school boards to provide reasonable and appropriate access to school property to youth-oriented community organizations, such as the Boy Scouts of America and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB1149 | Pass | Expungement of police and court records; costs. Provides that any costs paid by a person who petitions for the expungement of police and court records related to a crime of which the person was acquitted or the charge of which was otherwise dismissed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB1359 | Pass | Transit Capital Project Revenue Advisory Board. Establishes the Transit Capital Project Revenue Advisory Board (the Advisory Board) within the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to examine the effects of the loss of state transit capital fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| SB278 | Pass | Criminal history background checks; continued employment of individuals convicted of an offense. Prohibits assisted living facilities, adult day care centers, licensed and registered child welfare agencies, and family day homes approved by family day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB326 | Pass | Obtaining electronic communication service or remote computing service records. Provides that any subpoena issued by a court or grand jury, search warrant, or court order directing a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| SB294 | Pass | Retaliatory actions by state officers and employees against persons providing testimony before a committee or subcommittee of the General Assembly. Prohibits officers and employees of a state agency from retaliating or threatening to retaliate agains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB418 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; installation of artificial turf and track surfaces. Excludes the purchase of installation of artificial turf and track surfaces and all associated and necessary construction from the prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB360 | Pass | Superintendent of Public Instruction; teacher exit questionnaire. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and provide to local school divisions a model exit questionnaire for teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| HB19 | Pass | Ministers or other persons authorized to celebrate rites of matrimony; no oath required. Provides that no oath shall be required of a minister or other person who seeks authorization to perform the rites of matrimony and that no such authorized minis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| HB476 | Pass | Submission of animal intake policy. Requires animal control officers, law-enforcement officers, humane investigators, animal shelters, humane societies, and releasing agencies to annually submit a copy of their intake policy to the State Veterinarian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| HB41 | Pass | Virginia byway designation. Designates portions of Virginia Route 72, Virginia Route 619, and U.S. Route 58 Alternate in the Counties of Scott and Wise and the City of Norton as the "Thomas Jefferson Scenic Byway Loop." Such designations are typicall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| SB253 | Pass | Confidentiality of information about victims of certain crimes. Provides that, in order to ensure the safety of any adult or child victim of a violation of § 18.2-48, 18.2-355, 18.2-356, 18.2-357, or 18.2-357.1 and their families, programs and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| SB293 | Pass | Virginia National Guard Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Program and Fund. Establishes the Virginia National Guard Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Program and Fund to provide leisure, recreation, and lodging opportunities for Virginia National Guard m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
