| 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) |
| HB1166 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchase procedures; transportation-related construction. Provides that a public body may establish small purchase procedures not requiring competitive sealed bids or competitive negotiation for single or term c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| SB230 | Pass | Income tax withholding; employer penalties. Codifies provisions in the current general appropriation act that (i) require all employers to electronically file withholding tax returns and (ii) require the annual withholding tax return and employee wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| HB842 | Pass | Teacher preparation and licensure; dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Requires Board of Education regulations governing teacher licensure to require every person seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license to complete awareness training,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| SB746 | Pass | Recovery of costs and attorney fees from agency; actions brought in violation of law or for an improper purpose. Provides that a person who contests an agency action in a civil case brought under the Administrative Process Act and who substantially p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| HB373 | 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 (CHAP0670) |
| HB25 | Pass | Tampering, etc., with firefighting equipment; penalty. Provides that a person who injures, destroys, removes, tampers with, or otherwise interferes with the operation of (i) any firefighting equipment or apparatus or (ii) any emergency medical servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| HB1289 | Pass | Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired; contracts for operation of certain vending machines. Provides for the Department of General Services to conduct the procurement process for goods and services related to the operation of vending machines ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB148 | Pass | Real property tax assessment; date to fix tax rate. Changes from April 15 to May 15 the date by which a county, city, or town is required to fix the real property tax rate for taxes due on or before June 30.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| SB337 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; Virginia War Memorial Division; names and homes of record designation for Virginians "Killed in Action." Clarifies that Virginians Killed in Action (i) as a result of military operations against terrorism, (ii) as a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| SB285 | Pass | Bail appeal; presumption against bail. Requires a district court to stay the imposition of its order granting bail in cases where there was a presumption against bail if the court receives notice that the Commonwealth is going to appeal the court's d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| HB711 | Pass | Protective orders in cases of family abuse; possession of premises. Provides that in a protective order in the case of family abuse, a person who is not a tenant or authorized occupant of the dwelling unit and who has obtained a protective order from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| SB597 | Pass | Appeal of local tax assessments; confidentiality. Provides that, prior to the release of any confidential tax information pursuant to a discovery order, with regard to an application for relief to a circuit court to correct erroneous assessments of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB117 | Pass | Opening and closing motor vehicle doors. Requires drivers to wait for a reasonable opportunity to open vehicle doors on the side adjacent to moving traffic. A violation constitutes a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB578 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; limited brewery licenses; land zoned agricultural. Clarifies that for limited breweries, "land zoned agricultural" means land zoned as (i) an agricultural district or classification or (ii) land otherwise permitted by a lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| SB313 | Pass | Virginia College Building Authority; projects; participating institutions. Permits any organization that is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is owned or controlled by a public inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| SB468 | Pass | Local stormwater utility; public-private partnership. Authorizes the creation of public-private stormwater management programs, to be known as stormwater management private property programs, and adds contracting for the construction and operation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| HB1237 | Pass | Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; powers. Authorizes the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority (RMTA) to construct, own, and operate coliseums and arenas, including facilities reasonably related to such coliseums and arenas, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| HB209 | Pass | Revision of Title 23, Educational Institutions. Creates proposed Title 23.1 (Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions) as a revision of existing Title 23 (Educational Institutions). Proposed Title 23.1 consists of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| SB323 | Pass | Violation of protective order; firearm or other deadly weapon; penalty. Provides that any person who violates a protective order with which he has been served while knowingly armed with a firearm or other deadly weapon is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB457 | Pass | Asset forfeiture; burden of proof. Changes the Commonwealth's burden of proof to clear and convincing evidence from preponderance of the evidence in proving that the property is subject to forfeiture in civil asset forfeiture cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| SB288 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; advisory opinions for local officers and employees. Removes the provision that allows a county, city, or town attorney to issue to a local officer or employee an advisory opinion that would shield...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB339 | Pass | Recordation tax; exemption. Provides an exemption from the grantor's tax if the grantor is a locality at a judicial sale of tax-delinquent property. The bill also provides an exemption from recordation tax for any deed of trust that secures a loan ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB240 | Pass | Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs; assistance to homeless veterans. Requires the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs to coordinate with federal, state, local, and private partners to assist homeless veterans in obtaining a state-issued ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB884 | Pass | Research and development expenses tax credits. Modifies the existing research and development expenses tax credit and creates a similar tax credit for businesses with Virginia research and development expenses in excess of $5 million for the taxable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| HB543 | Pass | Involuntary psychiatric admission from local correctional facility. Clarifies that for the purposes of petitioning for the involuntary psychiatric treatment of an inmate in a local correctional facility, the petition shall be filed by the sheriff or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| HB177 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act; penalty. Adds to the offenses for which registration is required on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry the crimes of (i) procuring a person for prostitution and receiving money fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| SB339 | Pass | Stalking; penalty. Provides that contacting or following or attempting to contact or follow the person at whom stalking conduct is directed after being given actual notice that the person does not want to be contacted or followed is prima facie evide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB709 | Pass | Recalled motor vehicles. Requires a manufacturer or distributor that establishes a program that prohibits dealers from selling used motor vehicles that have been issued a safety recall and remain unremedied to provide a remedy for each such vehicle o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| HB1012 | Pass | Virginia College Building Authority; projects; participating institutions. Permits any organization that is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is owned or controlled by a public inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
