| SB308 | Pass | Vacancies in constitutional offices; special elections. Allows the governing body of a county or city in which a vacancy in a constitutional office has occurred to request in its petition for a writ of election that the circuit court order the specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| HB1348 | Pass | Smoking in motor vehicles; presence of minor under age eight; civil penalty. Provides that any person who smokes in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, when a minor under the age of eight is in the motor vehicle is subject to a civil penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| HB325 | Pass | Practice of veterinary medicine. Eliminates the exception to licensure requirements for veterinarians licensed in other states who are called to attend a case in the Commonwealth and who do not open an office or appoint a place to practice within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB831 | Pass | Standards and programs of instruction; computer science and computational thinking. Requires the Standards of Learning established by the Board of Education and the program of instruction for grades kindergarten through 12 developed and implemented b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| SB592 | Pass | Vital records; amending death certificates. Creates a process for amending certain information on a death certificate registered with the State Registrar. The bill requires a court order to change the name of the deceased, the deceased's parent, or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB820 | Pass | Insurance notices; electronic delivery. Authorizes a health carrier to deliver electronically to any of its policyholders, subscribers, or enrollees or to post to the health carrier's publicly available website, in lieu of any other method of deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB398 | Pass | Sales and use tax; refunds. Prohibits any taxpayer failing to give a dealer at the time of purchase an exemption certificate that was issued by the Department of Taxation from receiving interest on a refund claim for any period prior to the date the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| SB316 | Pass | Contests of election for certain elections; service of process. Requires that contestees in a contest of (i) a primary election for the United States House of Representatives, the General Assembly, or a local office or (ii) any election for a local o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| HB487 | Pass | School Resource Officer Grants Program school resource officers; conditions of employment. Relieves school resource officers employed pursuant to the School Resource Officer Grants Program from the obligation to enforce school board rules and codes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| SB463 | Pass | Nurse practitioners; certified nurse midwives; practicing in consultation with a licensed physician. Requires a nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing in the category of certified nurse midwife to practice in consultation w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| SB374 | Pass | Financial institutions; references to federal law. Updates references to the Federal Reserve Board and its regulations that were made obsolete by the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which, among other change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| SB381 | Pass | Election day program; permitted activities of participants. Allows election pages participating in the election day program for high school students to assist in the arrangement of voting equipment, furniture, and any other materials for the conduct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB15 | Pass | Personal property tax; classifications. Provides that if an item of tangible personal property falls within multiple classifications for local taxation, the rate of taxation is the lowest rate assigned to such classifications. Current law provides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| SB315 | Pass | Voting equipment; locking and sealing of voting and counting machines after election. Provides that if a voting or counting machine secured by removal of a data storage device containing the only record of votes cast for any office or on any question...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB436 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments in English reading and mathematics; retake; recovery credit. Requires the Department of Education to award recovery credit to any student in grades three through eight who fails a Standards of Learning assessment in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| SB399 | Pass | Practitioners of the healing arts; temporary authorization to practice. Replaces the requirement for a temporary license or certification to practice medicine or the duties of a profession in the Commonwealth on a temporary basis with the requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| SB555 | Pass | Learner's permit holder; passenger limits; use of cell phone; licensure requirements for persons under 18. Prohibits a holder of a learner's permit from (i) using a cell phone while driving and (ii) having more than one passenger under age 21. Curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| SB137 | Pass | Absentee ballots; electronic transmission by general registrars. Provides that when a voter who is eligible to request to receive certain absentee voting materials, including the absentee ballot, by electronic transmission so requests, the email addr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| SB190 | Pass | Voting systems; use of direct recording electronic machines. Prohibits the use of direct recording electronic machines (DREs) in elections on and after July 1, 2020. The governing bodies of counties and cities have been prohibited from acquiring DREs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| HB1135 | Pass | Purchase of Virginia-grown food products by state agencies and institutions and local school divisions. Requires that the Department of General Services to include a link to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Virginia Grown ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| SB377 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; tenant remedies. Provides that a general district court may (i) terminate a lease upon the request of the tenant or (ii) order the dwelling unit surrendered to the landlord if the landlord prevails on a request for possession...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| HB910 | 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] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| HB703 | Pass | Legal age for marriage; 18 years of age. Provides that both parties to a marriage must be 18 years of age or older or emancipated at the time of solemnization by removing exceptions that allow marriage at a minimum age of 16 with the consent of the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| HB1182 | Pass | Sheriffs; standard vehicle markings. Allows sheriffs' offices to use marked motor vehicles painted in any solid color. Current law requires the sheriff to obtain the concurrence of the local governing body to use any color other than dark brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB1291 | Pass | Virginia Lottery; ticket courier services. Prohibits the operation of a ticket courier service in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "ticket courier service" as a service operated for the purpose of purchasing Virginia Lottery tickets on behalf of in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| HB1146 | Pass | Permitting or licensure; locality shall not require consent of homeowners' association. Prohibits a locality from requiring the consent of a condominium association, homeowners' association, or real estate cooperative prior to the issuance of a permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| HR261 | Pass | Commending Consul General Do Ho Kang.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
Introduced bill reprinted 16106252D |
| HB477 | Pass | Bonds; veterans care centers. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue bonds in the amount of $29.3 million plus financing costs to construct veterans care centers in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB1311 | Pass | Killing or trapping of snakes. Authorizes the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to allow the use of snake exclusion devices by public utilities at their transmission or distribution facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0372) |
| HJR492 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James Douglas Owens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ492ER) |
| SB115 | Pass | Tax credit for contributions to political candidates; expiration. Sunsets the individual income tax credit for contributions to political candidates beginning with taxable year 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| HB905 | Pass | Advance disclosure of allowed amount or charge for procedure. Requires every hospital to furnish a patient scheduled to receive an elective procedure, test, or service to be performed by the hospital, upon his request or the request of his legally au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0448) |
| HB832 | Pass | Vacancies in constitutional offices; special elections. Allows the governing body of a county or city in which a vacancy in a constitutional office has occurred to request in its petition for a writ of election that the circuit court order the specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0453) |
| HB1287 | Pass | Behind-the-wheel and knowledge examinations. Allows a person less than 19 years of age who has failed the behind-the-wheel examination for a driver's license three times to take a course of instruction based on the Virginia Driver's Manual before tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0381) |
| HB649 | Pass | Charter; Town of Damascus. Shifts the town's municipal elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| HB524 | Pass | Data on teacher performance and quality; confidentiality. Requires data collected by or for the Department of Education or the local school board or made available to and able to be used by the local school board to judge the performance or quality o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0390) |
| HR250 | Pass | Commending the High School League of the Peninsula Conference of Rugby Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House (HR250ER) |
| HB470 | Pass | Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority Act. Grants the Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority the power to request and accept legal advice and assistance from the Office of the Attorney General.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0395) |
| HB1253 | Pass | School board of the City of Norfolk. Repeals obsolete provisions for the appointment of members to the school board of the City of Norfolk. The selection of members of such school board was changed to direct election by the voters by referendum in 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0385) |
| HR263 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House (HR263ER) |
| HB1122 | Pass | Commonwealth Space Flight Fund; transfer of funds. Extends through fiscal year 2023-2024 the annual transfer from the Transportation Trust Fund to the Commonwealth Space Flight Fund and increases the transfer from $9.5 to $15.8 million to reflect the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| SB595 | Pass | Dead bodies; storage. Requires any institution that has initial custody of a dead human body to ensure, if the dead body is to be stored for more than 48 hours, that the dead body is maintained in refrigeration at no more than approximately 40 degree...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0411) |
| HB750 | Pass | Student personal information; school services; college and career readiness assessment. Excludes any website, mobile application, or online service that is used for the purposes of college and career readiness assessment from the definition of "schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0439) |
| HB233 | Pass | Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment; funding by locality. Allows any locality to fund the cost of participation in mental health treatment and counseling programs by a member of a volunteer fire or rescue company. A mental health progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0417) |
| HR248 | Pass | Commending James K. Spore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House (HR248ER) |
| HB813 | Pass | Offshore waters and submerged lands; Commonwealth jurisdiction to three miles; survey. Updates the description of the offshore waters over which the Commonwealth has jurisdiction. In place of a reference to certain seas claimed in the Virginia Consti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0371) |
| HB742 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Program tax credits; eligibility. Creates an exception to the requirement that each affiliate of a neighborhood organization must also meet all program regulations and guidelines as a condition of the neighborhood organization...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0426) |
| HB919 | Pass | Water and sewer service provided by locality; canceling service for nonpayment of charges. Shortens from two months to 30 days the period after which a locality providing water or sewer service may shut off service for unpaid charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0415) |
| HB1276 | Pass | Motorcycle rider safety training courses. Provides that "motorcycle rider safety training courses" means courses of instruction in the operation of motorcycles for the purposes of obtaining a waiver from the examination or road test for (i) both two-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0380) |
| HB1329 | Pass | Trespass by hunters using dogs; penalty. Punishes as a Class 3 misdemeanor the intentional release by a person of hunting dogs on the lands of another to hunt without the consent of the landowner. The bill punishes a second or subsequent offense comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0373) |
