| HB30 | Pass | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of §2.2-1509, Code of Virginia, and to provide a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
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| HB1362 | Pass | Lobbyist reporting, the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; annual filing of required disclosures; definition of gift; separate report of gifts; definition of procurement transact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| HB846 | Pass | Virginia Collaborative Economic Development Act. Creates the Virginia Collaborative Economic Development Performance Grant Fund (the Fund). The Fund will be administered by the Go Virginia Board. Two or more localities that collaborate and adopt a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| HB1343 | Pass | Virginia Research Investment Committee and Fund established; report. Establishes the Virginia Research Investment Committee (the Committee) to administer grants and loans from the Virginia Research Investment Fund (the Fund), created by this bill, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| HB834 | Pass | Virginia Growth and Opportunity Act; report. Establishes the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board to administer grants from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund for regional economic and workforce development projects. The bill provides that reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| HJR452 | Pass | Commending Saving Sweet Briar, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Introduced bill reprinted 12105150D |
| HJR394 | Pass | Commending Katie Ruth Langley Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-22
Introduced bill reprinted 16105848D |
| HB47 | Pass | Mixed-Delivery Preschool Fund and Grant Program established. Establishes the Mixed-Delivery Preschool Fund and Grant Program for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to urban, suburban, and rural community applicants to field-test in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| HB1250 | Pass | Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act; consolidation of programs; opt-out for certain localities; penalties. Combines existing statutory programs relating to soil erosion and stormwater management, directing the State Water Control Board (th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| HB90 | Pass | Possession of handguns by members of the Virginia National Guard. Allows a member of the Virginia National Guard to possess a concealed handgun owned by him at National Guard facilities and facilities under contract with the National Guard if such me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| HB52 | Pass | Structured settlements. Amends the Structured Settlement Protection Act (the Act) to provide that the structured settlement obligor and the annuity issuer may rely on a court order approving a transfer of structured settlement payment rights in redir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| HB1108 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA) and contracting generally; use of experience modification factor in contracting prohibited. Prohibits the use of any experience modification factor as a condition of any bidder's or offeror's eligibility to part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| HB818 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); designation of FOIA officer; posting of FOIA rights and responsibilities. Requires certain local public bodies to post a FOIA rights and responsibilities document on their respective public government websi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| HB895 | Pass | Board of Education; high school graduation requirements. Removes existing provisions related to standard and advanced studies diplomas and standard and verified units of credit and requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| HB814 | Pass | Secretary of the Commonwealth; powers and duties; creation of a Virginia Indian advisory board. Authorizes the Secretary of the Commonwealth to establish a Virginia Indian advisory board to assist the Secretary in reviewing applications seeking recog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| HB1224 | Pass | Bank franchise tax. Sets a cap of $18 million on the total annual bank franchise tax liability per taxpayer. The cap will increase to $20 million if at least five taxpayers pay the $18 million cap for three consecutive years. After two years at $20 m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| HB1069 | Pass | Toll collection procedures, fees, and penalties; period of nonpayment; notice of unpaid tolls; reciprocity agreements and enforcement. Requires the Department of Transportation to allow E-ZPass account holders to provide an email or phone number and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| HB1231 | Pass | Dogs injuring or killing poultry. Allows the district court to order that any dog that has been found to have injured or killed only poultry be microchipped and either confined securely or transferred to another owner whom the court deems appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) |
| HB1344 | Pass | Bonds; certain capital projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority and the Virginia College Building Authority to issue bonds in a total aggregate amount not to exceed $2,235,432,677 plus costs to fund certain capital projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| HB815 | Pass | Method of execution. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with a pharmacy or outsourcing facility for the compounding of drugs necessary to carry out an execution by lethal injection and provides that the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| HB858 | Pass | Virginia International Trade Corporation. Establishes the Virginia International Trade Corporation (the Corporation) in the executive branch of state government to promote international trade in the Commonwealth. The bill (i) authorizes the Chief Exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| HB36 | Pass | High school Virginia and U.S. Government course; civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires each local school board to implement a program of instruction in the high school Virginia and U.S. Government course on all information and conc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| HB735 | Pass | Landlord and tenant laws. Provides under the landlord and tenant law and the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (VRLTA) that unless a tenant is at fault in cases of mold needing remediation, the landlord is obliged to pay all costs associat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| HB752 | 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] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| HB485 | Pass | Assault; family or household member. Provides that a first offense of simple assault against a family or household member may be subject to deferral and dismissal. Under current law, first offender status is only available to a person who commits ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| HB1228 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; boxing and wrestling events; sanctioning organizations. Enhances the conflict of interest provisions for sanctioning organizations required for approval by the Director of the Department of Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| HB97 | Pass | Interstate 95 corridor traffic congestion evaluation. Directs the Department of Transportation (the Department) to conduct an evaluation with the Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization of traffic congestion on the Interstate 95 corrid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| HB1030 | Pass | Officers of election; required training. Requires each officer of election to receive training before the first election in which he will be serving as an officer of election. Such requirement applies to each term for which he is appointed. Each offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| HB1017 | Pass | Education improvement scholarships tax credit; reporting and other requirements. Modifies the tax credit by (i) making the current required report based upon donations qualifying for the credit and scholarships awarded from such donations as of June ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| HB653 | Pass | Consent to organ donation. Eliminates the requirement that a person indicate his willingness to make an anatomical gift every time he renews or replaces his license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| HB29 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 665 of the 2015 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HJR123 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); real property tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may provide for a local option to exempt from taxation the real property that is the primary residence of the surviving spouse of any law-en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| HJR2 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization are denied the right to w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB1068 | Pass | Advanced Shipbuilding Production Facility Grant Program. Establishes a grant program for capital or lease cost of a new facility related to the production of a class of nuclear warships for the United States Navy not previously built in Virginia. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| HB1213 | Pass | Minors; education records; evidence. Provides that in any proceeding where a juvenile is alleged to have committed a delinquent act that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult on school property, property solely being used for a school-relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1255 | Pass | BVU Authority; Board powers, officers; broadband; FOIA. Reduces from nine to seven the number of directors on the Board of Directors (the Board) of the BVU Authority (the Authority) and alters the methods of their appointment and their powers and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| HB700 | Pass | Claims; Michael Kenneth McAlister. Provides relief in the amount of $1,268,694 to Michael Kenneth McAlister, who was incarcerated from 1986 until 2015 after being convicted of crimes of attempted rape and abduction with intent to defile. Another susp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| HB206 | Pass | Transfer of certain firearms; identification requirement. Allows Virginia residents to purchase a firearm by presenting only one photo-identification form issued by a governmental agency of the Commonwealth or by the U.S. Department of Defense that d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB220 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public access to resumes and other information related to gubernatorial appointees. Provides that the personnel, working papers, and correspondence record exemption shall not be construed to authorize the withhold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB1063 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $40,987,000 plus financing costs for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB1189 | Pass | Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; child abuse and neglect; penalty. Provides that operating or engaging in the conduct of a child welfare agency without first obtaining a license when it is known that such license is required or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| HB605 | Pass | Restitution; revocation of probation or suspended sentence. Provides that a court may conduct a hearing to revoke a person's probation or suspended sentence within three years after the expiration of the period of probation or suspension if the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| HB879 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery and limited brewery licenses; land zoned agricultural. Clarifies that, for farm wineries and limited breweries, "land zoned agricultural" means land zoned as (i) an agricultural district or classification or (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| HB454 | Pass | Motor vehicles equipped with television and video. Provides that motor vehicles may be equipped with visual displays of moving images if the equipment is factory-installed and has an interlock device that disables the equipment when the motor vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| HB168 | Pass | Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons; rebutting presumption. Provides that a locality that has authorized by ordinance the installation and operation of a video-monitoring system on school buses for recording violations of unlawfully pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| HB775 | Pass | Fantasy Contests Act; registration required; conditions of registration; civil penalty. Creates the Fantasy Contests Act (the Act), which applies to fantasy contests with an entry fee offered in Virginia. The bill defines "fantasy contest" as any onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| HB98 | Pass | Special license plates for immediate family members of persons who have died in military service to their country. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to immediate family members of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB939 | Pass | State Police; guidelines for approval of auxiliary lighting on motorcycles. Directs the Superintendent of State Police to establish guidelines by January 1, 2017, that set forth a procedure for the submission and approval of auxiliary lights for moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB1383 | Pass | Commissioner of Highways; annual report to be made public. Requires the Commissioner of Highways to make his annual report public on the Department of Transportation's website. Currently such report is only provided to the Governor, the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| HB730 | Pass | Commuter parking lot signage. Requires that signage in commuter parking lots owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation in Planning District 8 clearly indicate that parking in such lots is only for commuters using mass transit or who are car ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
