| HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual assault evidence collection and storage. Requires the Department of State Police, local law-enforcement agencies, and campus police departments to collect evidence obtained in sexual assault investigations, including physical evidence recovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility Transfers Act. Prohibits any person from acquiring or disposing of control of any of the assets of a telephone company without prior approval of the State Corporation Commission (SCC). Currently, SCC approval is required only for any acquisit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Truancy; educational neglect; penalty. Provides that any parent who willfully contributes to, encourages, or causes any act, omission, or condition that renders his child in need of supervision is guilty of educational neglect, punishable as a Class ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR124 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress regarding unaccompanied alien minors in Fairfax County. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to reimburse Fairfax County for the cost of resettling and providing services to unaccompanied alien minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any person coming into an office of the Department of M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Three-year moratorium on installation of synthetic turf that contains recycled crumb rubber from waste tires at schools and recreational parks. Places a three-year moratorium on the installation of synthetic turf that contains recycled crumb rubber f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle title loans and payday loans; military personnel. Conforms provisions that prohibit lenders from making payday loans or motor vehicle title loans to covered members of the armed forces, persons on active guard or reserve duty, and depen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of certain revenues by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Requires that 50% of the funds the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority has remaining after distribution to localities be used for bus rapid transit on Interstate 66 or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentencing guidelines; written explanation. Requires the written explanation that the court must file with the record of a case when departing from the sentencing guidelines to adequately explain the sentence imposed to promote fair sentencing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Status offenders; willful and material violation of court order or terms of probation; notice; orders of disposition for violation. Removes the option for a court to order a status offender be detained in a secure facility for a willful and material ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Practical design standards for projects. Requires the Department of Transportation to employ practical design standards for any highway system project, including all projects costing more than $5 million. "Practical design standards" are defined in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; exception for certain equipment and services. Provides that a certificate of public need shall not be required for the addition of certain medical care services or for the addition by an existing facility of certain new eq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB630 | Intro
Sine Die | Correctional officers; survey upon resignation, termination, employment transition. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to develop and administer a survey of each correctional officer who resigns, is terminated, or is transitioned ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Fantasy Contests Act; civil penalty. Creates the Fantasy Contests Act (the Act), which applies to fantasy contests offered in Virginia. The bill defines "fantasy contest," provides that fantasy contests do not constitute illegal gambling, and sets fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education guidelines for school division policies and procedures on concussions in student-athletes; Return to Learn Protocol. Requires the Board of Education to (i) include in its guidelines for school division policies and procedures on co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB1185 | Intro
Sine Die | Speeding; reckless driving. Raises the threshold for per se reckless driving for speeding from driving in excess of 80 miles per hour to driving in excess of 85 miles per hour if the applicable speed limit is 70 miles per hour. The threshold for per ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Site plans; submission for approval by local planning commission; Freedom of Information Act. Provides that any proposed plat, site plan, or plan of development that is officially submitted to the local planning commission for approval shall be consi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody; temporary detention; law-enforcement agency. Provides that for the purposes of executing emergency custody and temporary detention orders and providing transportation for persons subject to such orders, the definition of "law-enfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual assault evidence collection and storage. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to establish training standards and a model policy for law-enforcement personnel involved in sexual assault investigations for the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuance of licenses, permits, and special identification cards to certain aliens. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue temporary driver's licenses, permits, and special identification cards to aliens granted "withholding of removal" ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; design-build contracts; purchase of intellectual property of proposers by local public bodies. Allows local public bodies to purchase the intellectual property or other work product of a proposer, provided that (i) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB281 | Intro
Sine Die | FOIA; exclusion pursuant to nondisclosure agreement; building permits. Removes any building permit submitted to a locality for final approval from an exclusion from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that otherwise protects confi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; composition. Allows an elected official of any of the four counties embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission who serves on the county's governing body and has been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; no-excuse, in-person. Allows qualified voters to vote absentee in person without providing an excuse for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the statutory list of specific reasons allowing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR116 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Transportation to study proposed Interstate 73; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to conduct a preliminary engineering study on proposed Interstate 73. Such study shall include information on surveying and the pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1219 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; graduation requirements; computer programming as foreign language. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, to provide that the standard units of credit in foreign ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacturing, etc., a controlled substance resulting in overdose; penalty. Makes it a Class 5 felony to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a Schedule I or II controlled substance where the use of such substance results in another person's overdo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB93 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB277 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacture, etc., of heroin; mandatory minimum sentence. Provides for an additional 10-year mandatory minimum sentence to be served consecutively with any other sentence upon a conviction for manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1195 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats of death or bodily injury; penalty. Removes the requirement that a threat of death or bodily injury be communicated in a writing for the offense of threatening to kill or do bodily injury to a person or any member of his family or for the enh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; administrative expenses. Allows the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission to spend Hampton Roads Transportation Fund moneys on administrative and operating expenses and removes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Coercion of pregnant woman prohibited. Provides that no practitioner of the healing arts shall make any attempt or take any action intended to coerce a pregnant woman regarding options related to the birth of her child, including consenting to surgic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Student attendance; withdrawal of students absent without excuse. Requires a public elementary orsecondary school student to be dropped from the roll and marked as "withdrawn" if he has been absent without excuse for 15 consecutive school days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB1106 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession or transportation of firearms following convictions for certain misdemeanor crimes; penalty. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery or assault and battery where the victim is a family or household member fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; causes of action. Provides that no employer may discharge any employee on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including lactation. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | FOIA; exclusion pursuant to nondisclosure agreement. Requires that a nondisclosure agreement by a public body be approved at an open meeting if it is to serve as the basis for an exclusion from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of juvenile records; nonviolent misdemeanors. Provides that the records connected with any proceeding concerning a juvenile shall be eligible for expungement when the juvenile has attained the age of 18 years if the underlying proceeding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Bail bondsmen; solicitation of business. Provides that any bail bondsman who directly solicits business from any person in court, jail, lock-up, or surrounding government property is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides that any ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Towing motor vehicles; companion animals. Prohibits tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators from knowingly towing a motor vehicle occupied by a companion animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription of opioids and benzodiazepines; urine drug screening. Provides that prior to initiating a course of treatment that includes the prescription of opioids or benzodiazepines for a period that is expected to last more than 90 consecutive day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms businesses; local regulation; proximity to schools. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance regulating or prohibiting anyone from engaging in the business of selling firearms at retail, providing gunsmithing services, or operating a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB795 | Intro
Sine Die | City of Chesapeake; pilot program for problem-solving docket. Authorizes the City of Chesapeake to establish a pilot program to promote public safety and reduce recidivism by creating a problem-solving docket to address substance abuse, mental illnes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1370 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition of certain high school level course grading policies. Prohibits high school level course grading policies at the high school and local school board level that (i) prohibit homework assignments from counting toward any student's grade in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorneys for the Commonwealth; prosecution of compulsory school attendance cases. Relieves attorneys for the Commonwealth from the duty to prosecute all cases arising under the provisions of law in Title 22.1 relating to compulsory school attendance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil immunity; forcible entry of motor vehicle to remove unattended companion animal. Provides civil immunity to any person who forcibly enters a motor vehicle to remove an unattended companion animal that is at risk of serious bodily injury or deat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB432 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public access to certain criminal investigative files. Limits the application of the exemption for criminal investigative files to active criminal investigative files. As a result, closed or inactive criminal inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Court reporters; indigent persons in a civil case. Provides that in a civil case in which a litigant is a person deemed indigent the court shall not require use of a court reporter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Dredging projects in certain oyster grounds. Allows dredging projects to occur that improve, deepen, or restore navigation channels in the waters of the Lynnhaven River and its creeks and tributaries in specific areas approved by the Virginia Marine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Abduction of minor for the purpose of prostitution or child pornography; penalty. Provides that the use of force, intimidation, or deception is not an element of the crime of abducting a minor for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution or for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
