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HB367PassNonconforming uses. Provides that if a use does not conform to the zoning prescribed for the district in which such use is situated, and if (i) a business license was issued by the locality for such use and (ii) the holder of such business license ha...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584)
SB491PassPrescription Monitoring Program; disclosures. Provides that the Director of the Department of Health Professions may disclose information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Proram about a specific recipient who is a member of a Virginia...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568)
HB381PassChildren with disabilities; alternative methods to demonstrate achievement of the Standards of Learning. Requires the Board of Education to prescribe alternative methods of assessment administration for children with disabilities who meet criteria es...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522)
SB679PassDepartment of General Services; dashboard compilation of data derived from enhancement or remedial measures implemented by the Governor. Requires the Department of General Services to make available a dashboard compilation of purchase order reports f...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578)
HB434PassLicensure of private security services providers and personnel; waiver of prohibition for conviction of certain crimes. Requires that when the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services receives a written request from a person seeking to...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561)
HB1053PassInvestor-owned electric utilities; energy efficiency. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to evaluate the establishment of uniform protocols for measuring, verifying, validating, and reporting the impacts of energy efficiency measures impl...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517)
HB924PassElectronic communications; admissibility of written reports or records. Allows the provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service to verify the authenticity of written reports or records that it discloses by providing an ...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549)
HB1127PassForest fire protection compacts; codification. Codifies the text of the Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact (the SIFFPC) and the Middle Atlantic Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact, originally incorporated into the Code of Vi...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566)
SB154PassAlcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses; performing arts facilities. Creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license for persons operating food concessions at any performing arts facility located in the City of Norfolk o...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536)
SB687PassTimber cutting; determination of damages; attorney fees. Clarifies that any person found liable for the unauthorized removal of, or the direction of unauthorized removal of, timber from another's land must also pay reasonable attorney fees incurred b...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562)
HB1263PassVirginia Small Business Financing Authority; Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business Loan Fund. Clarifies that the Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business Loan Fund (the Fund) is a permanent revolving loan fund and that moneys collect...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519)
SB765PassCommissioner of Highways; powers; emergency removal of snow and ice. Provides that the Commissioner of Highways has the authority to establish and use procedures as he deems necessary to ensure safe travel during an emergency or weather-related event...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538)
HB1016PassSexual assault response teams; participants; FOIA exclusion. Adds the Title IX coordinator; representatives from the office of student affairs, human resources, and counseling services; and a representative of campus security of any institution of hi...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550)
SB83PassInstitutions of higher education; required agreements with law enforcement. Requires all mutual aid agreements and memoranda of understanding required between public or private institutions of higher education and adjacent local law-enforcement agenc...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571)
HB1094PassCommodity boards; member nominations and terms; assessments. Alters the member nomination process and other functions of commodity boards that deal with apples, the beef industry, eggs, the horse industry, potatoes, peanuts, and the sheep industry. T...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565)
HB127PassReal property tax exemption; spouse of military service member killed in action. Clarifies that "killed in action" includes a determination by the U.S. Department of Defense of "died of wounds received in action" for purposes of the real property tax...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539)
SB542PassDelinquent sewer charges; lien; unlimited time. Allows a locality that provides water or sewer service to a property owner, rather than to a tenant, to place a lien on the property receiving the service in the amount of the number of months of delinq...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528)
SB493PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); closed meeting not authorized for discussion of compensation matters for local governing bodies and elected school boards. Clarifies that nothing in the personnel exemption in the open meetings law of FOIA ...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544)
SB590PassWhen circuit courts open; Judicial Council. Allows the Judicial Council to determine when the circuit courts are open subject to the current allowances in the Code for holidays and safety concerns. The bill also clarifies that these provisions do not...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548)
SB268PassAnimal disease violations. Authorizes the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to assess civil penalties not to exceed $1,000 per violation in lieu of criminal penalties for violations of the laws controlling livestock and poultry diseases and ...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563)
HB404PassEquitable distribution; transfer of separate property. Provides that the court, upon a finding that separate property of one party is in the possession or control of the other party, may order the separate property to be transferred to the party whos...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559)
HB1260PassDeclaration of local emergency. Increases from 14 days to 45 days the time in which a local governing body shall call a special session, if a regularly scheduled session is not held, in order to confirm the declaration of a local emergency.
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555)
HB707PassVirginia Board for Contractors; methamphetamine manufacturing site remediators; disclosure. Provides that a license as a contractor from the Board for Contractors (the Board) is required in order to perform the remediation of residential property us...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)
SB701PassCannabidiol oil and THC-A oil; permitting of pharmaceutical processors to manufacture and provide. Authorizes a pharmaceutical processor, after obtaining a permit from the Board of Pharmacy (the Board) and under the supervision of a licensed pharmaci...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577)
HB675PassAuxiliary grants; supportive housing. Extends eligibility for auxiliary grants to include individuals residing in supportive housing, provided that the supportive housing provider has entered into an agreement for the provision of supportive housing ...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567)
HB1376PassClaims; Paul R. DesRoches II. Provides relief in the amount of $20,000 to Paul R. DesRoches II from the Virginia Real Estate Transaction Recovery Fund. A real estate firm fraudulently collected rent on behalf of Mr. DesRoches for several months witho...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530)
SB710PassAppointing authority for Board of Directors of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Changes from the U.S. Administrator of General Services to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation the appointing authority for the two fede...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535)
HB307PassInsurance notices. Clarifies and updates provisions regarding notices from insurance companies to applicants and policyholders. The measure amends the requirement that insurers give insureds notice when increasing the premium on their policies due to...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558)
HB16PassInsurance; payment for services by dentists and oral surgeons. Requires that reimbursements payable or paid by a dental plan for covered services be reasonable and not provide nominal reimbursement in order to claim that services are covered services...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556)
HB961PassFour-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures. Permits each public institution of higher education to offer alternative tuition or fee structures that result in lower cost of attendance to students. The Stat...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)
HB1102PassDepartment of Criminal Justice Services; trauma-informed sexual assault investigation training. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Virginia Association...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560)
HB393PassInsurance agencies; designated licensed producers. Requires that an insurance agency's designated licensed producer responsible for the agency's compliance with insurance laws and regulations be an employee, officer, or director of the agency. With r...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552)
HB196PassPublic elementary and secondary schools and local school divisions; information and forms. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to adopt policies to ensure that the Department of Education (the Department) does not require public elementary or...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)
HB87PassHealth Insurance Reform Commission. Clarifies the applicable governmental agency that is tasked with determining whether a proposed mandated health insurance benefit exceeds the scope of the essential health benefits. The existing provision that give...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570)
SB607PassSafety and health program for public employees. Directs the Commissioner of Labor and Industry or the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations for enforcing the occupational and health program applicable to employees of the Commonwealth, it...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)
HB386PassCertified nurse aides; training in observational and reporting techniques. Adds training in observational and reporting techniques to the list of training and education requirements for nurse aide training programs.
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582)
SB296PassSpecial conservators of the peace; criminal history record information check required. Requires that a criminal history record information check be part of the background investigation required for appointment or temporary registration as a special c...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551)
HB1087PassViolation 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.
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585)
SB358PassHearsay; exception; children; certain felonies. Establishes a hearsay exception to certain out-of-court statements made by a child under the age of 13 at the time of trial in cases involving a violation or attempted violation of an "offense against c...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542)
HB238PassState and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited contracts; exceptions for certain contracts entered into by an officer or employee of a soil and water conservation district. Provides an exception to the prohibition against officers a...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531)
HB1277PassRestaurants; annual inspections. Provides that every restaurant in the Commonwealth shall be inspected at least annually, with no more than 12 months elapsing between each such inspection.
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581)
SB743PassDivision of Energy; state certifying authority. Adds to the duties of the Division of Energy of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy the duty of serving as the state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for s...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518)
HB1115PassZebra mussels; education program. Requires the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to establish a program of education for boaters and other members of the public in methods of preventing zebra mussels or other nonindigenous aquat...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540)
SB363PassRights of persons with disabilities in public places and places of public accommodation; fraudulent representation of a service or hearing dog; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly and willfully fits a dog with a harness, collar, vest, sig...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575)
HB875PassDisclosure of real-time location data in emergencies. Provides that an investigative or law-enforcement officer may obtain real-time location data from an electronic communication service or remote computing service provider when the officer believes...
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2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576)
HB241PassStudents who are English language learners; alternative assessments. Requires the Board of Education to consider assessments aligned to the Standards of Learning that are structured and formatted in a way that measures the content knowledge of studen...
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2016-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)
HB1114PassCharter; City of Colonial Heights. Clarifies that the city's director of finance has the responsibility of collecting all tax payments, fees, assessments, and charges imposed by the city. The city treasurer shall continue to collect all tax returns, ...
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2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514)
SB382PassLocal electoral boards; reassigning certain duties related to elections administration. Reassigns duties of the electoral boards related to elections administration to the general registrars. When performing these duties, the general registrars are a...
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2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)
HB499PassProfessions and occupations; standards for regulation. Provides that a professional and occupational regulatory board cannot abridge the right of every person to engage in any lawful profession, trade, or occupation of his choice unless (i) it is cle...
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2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467)
HB1264PassVirginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; representations related to covenants and restrictions affecting the property. Provides that, in delivering the residential property disclosure statement to a prospective purchaser of residential property ...
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2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505)
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