VA Legislation | 2017 | Regular Session | House | Bills | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB1616	Engross Sine Die	Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass
HB1566	Engross Sine Die	Professions and occupations; regulatory boards. Establishes a statewide policy for the regulation of professions and occupations specifying criteria for government regulation with the objective of increasing opportunities, promoting competition, enco... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass
HB2251	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; optional defined contribution retirement plan. Requires the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to establish an optional defined contribution retirement plan for state and local employees. Participation in the plan is in lieu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass
HB1530	Engross Sine Die	Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations; appeals. Removes the exemption from the Administrative Process Act (the Act) currently gran... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass
HB1534	Engross Sine Die	Student discipline; long-term suspension. Reduces the maximum length of a long-term suspension from 364 calendar days to 90 school days. The bill prohibits a long-term suspension from extending beyond any 45 school day period unless the school princi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB1536	Engross Sine Die	Public schools; student discipline. Prohibits students in preschool through grade three from being suspended for more than five school days or expelled except for drug offenses, firearm offenses, or certain criminal acts. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass
HB1692	Engross Sine Die	Effect of divorce proceedings; transfer of matters to the juvenile and domestic relations district court; concurrent jurisdiction. Provides that, where a circuit court enters a divorce decree and transfers certain matters to the juvenile and domestic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass in Senate
HB2220	Engross Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. Creates a new limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. The bill sets out the privileges of this new license, including a requirement that at least 60 per... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass in Senate
HB1974	Engross Sine Die	Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to receive approval from the General Assembly for a state implementation plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-25 Failed to pass
HB2394	Engross Sine Die	Pawnbrokers; allowable late fees. Provides that a pawnbroker may charge a late fee, not to exceed 10 percent of the amount loaned, for each item that is not claimed by the pledged due date. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-22 Chair votes No
HB1595	Engross Sine Die	Local vehicle license fees and taxes. Allows counties and adjoining towns to enter into reciprocal agreements to collect each other's vehicle license fees and taxes. Currently, such collection is limited to nondelinquent license fees and taxes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To Senate Rules Committee
HB1598	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration; proof of citizenship required to register to vote in certain elections. Requires persons applying to register to vote to provide proof of United States citizenship in a form enumerated in the bill. An applicant who does not provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB1653	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Code Commission; duties. Limits the duties of the Virginia Code Commission relating to the codification of laws enacted by the General Assembly to codifying only those laws for which the General Assembly has expressed its intent for such law... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To Senate Rules Committee
HB1606	Engross Sine Die	Use of handheld personal communications devices in highway work zones. Prohibits any person from texting or otherwise using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, defined in the bill, when wo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB1681	Engross Sine Die	Transient occupancy tax; state parks. Permits localities to impose transient occupancy taxes on transient room rentals and travel campgrounds in state parks. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1409	Engross Sine Die	House of Delegates and Senate district boundaries. Authorizes the General Assembly to make technical adjustments to legislative districts subsequent to the decennial redistricting solely for the purpose of causing legislative district boundaries to c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB1420	Engross Sine Die	Certificate of public need; psychiatric beds and services. Repeals the requirement for a certificate of public need for certain projects involving mental hospitals or psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities established primarily for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-21 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB2351	Engross Sine Die	Unoccupied property; grass cutting; Buchanan County. Authorizes Buchanan County, by ordinance, to require owners of unoccupied or abandoned property to cut grass on the property or to cut grass on the property and charge the owner for the service. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-20 Requires 27 affirmative votes for passage
HB2402	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; willful violations; grounds for termination. Provides that if the court finds that any officer or employee of a public body (i) receives a request for records that was sent by a requester by certified mail, return... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-20 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 7-N)
HB1399	Engross Sine Die	State Board of Elections and local electoral boards; appointments; proportion of political party representation. Provides that in the appointment of members to the State Board of Elections and to the local electoral boards, one member shall be of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-20 Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N)
HB2145	Engross Sine Die	Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; regulation of land surveyor photogrammetrists. Provides for the licensure of land surveyor photogrammetrists by the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-20 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N)
HB2242	Engross Sine Die	Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; regulatory boards within the Department; expiration of regulations. Requires all proposed and final regulations promulgated by any regulatory board within the Department on or after July 1, 2017... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-20 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 8-N)
HB1526	Engross Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage annual live entertainment venue license. Creates the mixed beverage annual live entertainment license to allow any person operating a live entertainment venue to sell, on the dates of performances and one ho... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-17 Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (6-Y 8-N)
HB1696	Engross Sine Die	Filling vacancies in the United States Senate. Removes the language limiting the date at which a special election can be held to fill a vacancy occurring in the representation of the Commonwealth in the United States Senate. The bill also removes the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-17 Chair votes No
HB2142	Engross Sine Die	Redesigned high school graduation requirements; implementation; one-year delay. Delays by one year the implementation of the redesigned high school graduation requirements established pursuant to Chapter 750 of the Acts of Assembly of 2016. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-16 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB1410	Engross Sine Die	Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; duties. Requires the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, except Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State University, and Virginia State Univers... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-16 Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N)
HB1679	Engross Sine Die	Well permit applications; disclosure of trade secrets. Authorizes the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (the Department) to require disclosure of chemical ingredient names, chemical abstracts numbers, or the amount or concentration of chemical... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-16 Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N)
HB2225	Engross Sine Die	Hospital data reporting; charity care and other activities. Defines "charity care" as care provided in accordance with a provider's policy of providing health care services free of charge or at a reduced rate because of the indigence or medical indig... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-16 Incorporated by Education and Health
HB2238	Engross Sine Die	DUI manslaughter; ignition interlock. Requires that, as a condition of being granted a restricted driver's license, a person convicted of manslaughter as a result of driving under the influence be prohibited from operating a motor vehicle without an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB2020	Engross Sine Die	Issuance of temporary licenses, permits, or special identification cards; requirements. Allows the issuance of a temporary driver's license, permit, or special identification card to an applicant presenting valid documentary evidence that a federal c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-15 Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 7-N)
HB1487	Engross Sine Die	Maximum number of circuit court judges; 19th Judicial Circuit. Reduces from 15 to 14 the maximum number of circuit court judges in the 19th Judicial Circuit (Fairfax, Fairfax County), effective July 1, 2018, or upon the death, resignation, or retirem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N 1-A)
HB2288	Engross Sine Die	Computer trespass; computer invasion of privacy; penalty; civil relief. Makes it a Class 5 felony for a person to maliciously install or cause to be installed a computer program that takes control of or restricts access to another computer or compute... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB2473	Engross Sine Die	Violation of protective order or stalking; third or subsequent offense. Expands the offenses for which a conviction of a third or subsequent offense, when the offense is committed within 20 years of the first conviction and when either the instant or... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB1448	Engross Sine Die	Qualified trustee of self-settled spendthrift trusts. Allows any legal entity authorized by law to act as a trustee to serve as a qualified trustee of a self-settled spendthrift trust. Under current law, only a natural person who resides in the Commo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N 1-A)
HB2007	Engross Sine Die	Students who receive home instruction; dual enrollment courses. Requires each school board to permit any student who receives home instruction and resides in the local school division to apply for enrollment as a part-time student, as defined in the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-14 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (8-Y 8-N)
HB2233	Engross Sine Die	Health benefit plans offered by foreign health insurers. Authorizes any foreign health insurer to sell individual or group health benefit plans in the Commonwealth if it is approved to sell such plans in the foreign health insurer's domiciliary state... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (11-Y 3-N)
HB2073	Engross Sine Die	Certain fraud crimes; multi-jurisdiction grand jury; Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Adds the offenses of obtaining money by false pretense, financial exploitation of mentally incapacitated persons, and construction fraud to the criminal violations... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
HB1678	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (§ 59.1-336 et ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-13 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 8-N)
HB1589	Engross Sine Die	Order of publication; use of electronic medium. Provides that a court may direct that an order of publication be electronically posted using an electronic medium chosen by the court, in lieu of directing such order be published in a newspaper. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-10 Defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N)
HB2439	Engross Sine Die	General Assembly; regulatory penalty statement. General Assembly; regulatory penalty statement. Requires, beginning January 1, 2018, the inclusion of a regulatory penalty statement in any legislation that imposes a requirement on a business or entity... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-10 Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter (13-Y 0-N)
HB1983	Engross Sine Die	School calendar; opening day of the school year. 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
HB2166	Engross Sine Die	Possession of controlled substances. Lists possession of certain controlled substances (buprenorphine, cocaine, codeine, fentanyl, heroin, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, methadone, methamphetamine; methylphenidate, morphine, and oxycodone) as separate o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
HB1640	Engross Sine Die	Department of Motor Vehicles; titling an out-of-state trailer. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to publish on its website a detailed guide for obtaining a title for a trailer that was purchased out of state and was not required by the state ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (13-Y 0-N)
HB1657	Engross Sine Die	Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; license plate readers. Codifies an opinion of the Attorney General regarding the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act by limiting the ability of law-enforcement and reg... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-07 VOTE: DEFEATED (30-Y 67-N)
HB1879	Engross Sine Die	Disqualification for a concealed handgun permit; persons under 21 driving after illegally consuming alcohol. Disqualifies a person convicted or adjudicated delinquent of driving after illegally consuming alcohol as a person under the age of 21 or adj... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-07 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1900	Engross Sine Die	Dogs running at large; civil penalty. Prohibits dog owners from allowing dogs to run at large on the property of another after the landowner has given notice to the dog owner to keep the dog off of the property. The bill provides for a civil penalty ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-06 VOTE: DEFEATED (47-Y 48-N)
HB1812	Engross Sine Die	Presentence reports; access by work release programs. Authorizes the court to provide a copy of a presentence report to the director or administrator of a work release program if the person who is the subject of the report is under consideration for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-06 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N)
HB2268	Engross Sine Die	Ignition interlock violations; venue. Provides that venue for the prosecution of any offense of (i) tampering or attempting to circumvent an ignition interlock system, (ii) starting a motor vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock for a person pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-06 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N)
HB1621	Engross Sine Die	Preliminary hearing; certification of ancillary misdemeanors; fees and costs. Provides that if, pursuant to a preliminary hearing, a district court certifies a felony offense and any ancillary misdemeanor offense for trial in circuit court, fees and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-06 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N)
HB1680	Engross Sine Die	Marine Resources Commission; advisory committees. Establishes four advisory committees to make recommendations to the Marine Resources Commission on issues relating to the management of, respectively, crab, finfish, shellfish, and habitat. The bill a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (6-Y 8-N)