| HB1926 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control (ABC); definition of municipal golf course; food sales requirements for mixed beverage restaurant licensees located on the premises of and operated by municipal golf courses. Defines "municipal golf course" and provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| SB1309 | Pass | Transacting business under assumed name; filing certificate; penalty. Prohibits a person from conducting or transacting business under any assumed or fictitious name unless such person files in the office of the clerk of the State Corporation Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| HB2023 | Pass | Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes. Provides that cities and towns that receive highway maintenance payments from the Commonwealth based on moving-lane-miles of highway will not have such payments reduced if moving-lane-miles of highway are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| HB1993 | Pass | Pipeline construction; Department of Transportation oversight. Allows the Department of Transportation to enter into agreements with any entity constructing interstate pipelines setting forth a reasonable procedure to identify and remedy damage cause...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| SB965 | Pass | State 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 contracts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| SB1553 | Pass | Term limits; certain public bodies in City of Chesapeake. Provides that members of the Chesapeake Economic Development Authority, Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Chesapeake Airport Authority, and Chesapeake Hospital Authority shall be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| HB1520 | Pass | Reformulated gasoline; sale for farm use. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to seek an exemption from the federal reformulated gasoline (RFG) program for conventional, ethanol-free gasoline sold and delivered for use in farm motor vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| HB1929 | Pass | Public-Private Transportation Act; comprehensive agreement. Requires all comprehensive agreements originally entered into on or after July 1, 2017, resulting in privately funded roads open for public transportation to include a provision requiring fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| SB1195 | Pass | Produce safety; farm inspections; civil penalty. Prohibits certain farms from violating the federal regulations that set minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of fruits and vegetables. The bill authorizes the Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| SB815 | Pass | Priority of debts to be paid from decedent's assets; child support arrearages. Prioritizes debts owed for child support arrearages over debts and taxes due to localities and other, unenumerated claims against the estate of a decedent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB1413 | Pass | Immunity of persons; defamation; statements regarding matters of public concern communicated to a third party; statements made at a public hearing. Adds defamation to the causes of action from which a citizen shall be immune when making statements (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| HB1734 | Pass | Virginia Parole Board; exceptions to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Requires guidance documents of the Virginia Parole Board to be available as public records under FOIA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| HB2037 | Pass | Health insurance; calculation of cost-sharing provisions. Provides that when there is no amount actually paid or payable by a health insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization to a provider for the services provided, the insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| SB1509 | Pass | Charitable Gaming Board; exempt rulemaking for certain regulations. Provides that Charitable Gaming Board regulations relating to the approval and conduct of game variations for raffles, bingo, network bingo, and instant bingo games shall be exempt f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| HB2291 | Pass | Electric utilities; costs of modifications to nuclear generation facilities. Authorizes an investor-owned electric utility to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval of a rate adjustment clause for recovery of the costs of a system or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564) |
| HB2358 | Pass | Water utilities; temporary and interim rate increases. Extends the maximum period that the State Corporation Commission is authorized to suspend the implementation of a proposed rate increase rates from 150 to 180 days. The measure applies only to ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| HB2303 | Pass | Small agricultural generators. Establishes the parameters of a program under which small agricultural generators may sell the electricity generated from a small agricultural generating facility to its utility. Effective July 1, 2019, enrollment by el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565) |
| SB856 | Pass | Cats and dogs; lifetime licenses. Authorizes the governing body of a county or city to provide for a lifetime dog or cat license. The bill also removes the minimum annual tax for a dog or cat, sets the maximum tax for a lifetime license at $50, and l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| HB2331 | Pass | Community services boards; preadmission screening; regional jail inmates. Provides that the duties of a community services board include reviewing any existing Memorandum of Understanding between the community services board and any other community s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| SB1508 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracting; limitations on project fees; certain school divisions. Includes a school division in a locality with a population in excess of 78,000 under the exception fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| SB1027 | Pass | Cannabidiol 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| HB2237 | Pass | Office of the State Inspector General; extension of jurisdiction to local departments of social services. Extends the jurisdiction of the Office of the State Inspector General by amending the definition of "state agency" to include any local departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB1973 | Pass | Economic Development Access Program; bonded projects. Imposes a 48-month moratorium on the repayment of funds allocated to a locality for a bonded project pursuant to the Economic Development Access Program, provided that the conditions of the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| HB2024 | Pass | Condemnation powers and proceedings; notice to owner or tenant. Requires an authorized condemnor or the Commissioner of Highways to give notice to the owner or tenant of freehold property subject to condemnation between 30 and 45 days prior to the fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| SB1316 | Pass | Overweight permits for trucks hauling asphalt. Adds trucks hauling asphalt to those vehicles whose owner or operator may obtain an overweight permit from the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to operate in counties that impose a severa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| SB1507 | Pass | Safety inspections; appointments. Allows any motor vehicle inspection station to accept appointments for safety inspections in addition to accepting vehicles on a first-come, first-served basis, so long as at least one lane is reserved for the sole p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| SB899 | Pass | Reformulated gasoline; sale for farm use. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to seek an exemption from the federal reformulated gasoline (RFG) program for conventional, ethanol-free gasoline sold and delivered for use in farm motor vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB1054 | Pass | Activation of fire alarms; reimbursement of expenses; penalty. Removes the condition that a building must be for public use in order for the Class 1 misdemeanor for maliciously activating a building's fire alarm to apply. The bill authorizes any loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| SB975 | Pass | Community services boards; preadmission screening; regional jail inmates. Provides that the duties of a community services board include reviewing any existing Memorandum of Understanding between the community services board and any other community s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| HB2015 | Pass | DRIVE SMART Virginia Education Fund. Establishes a method by which holders of an account for an electronic toll collection device that is the property of the Commonwealth may opt in to make a voluntary contribution through electronic means to the DRI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| HB2477 | Pass | Department of Health to take steps to begin eliminating site evaluation and design services for onsite sewage systems and private wells. Directs the Department of Health to take certain steps to begin eliminating site evaluation and design services f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB2410 | Pass | Providing support to terrorist organizations; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly provides any material support to an individual or organization whose primary objective is to commit an act of terrorism and does so with the intent to furth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| HB2250 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $13,637,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to SB 13...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| SB1376 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; public notice of planned tuition increase. Prohibits the governing board of a public institution of higher education from approving an increase in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees without first providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| SB1043 | Pass | Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Extends the expiration of the Joint Commission on Health Care from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 1736.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| HB2148 | Pass | Veterans Services Foundation; powers and duties; appointment of Executive Director; report. Requires the Veterans Services Foundation to provide an annual report on its funding levels and services to the General Assembly. The bill also (i) authorizes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB806 | Pass | Interstate 73 Corridor Development Fund and Program. Establishes the Interstate 73 Corridor Development Fund and Program and reallocates to the I-73 Fund the $40 million from state recordation taxes that is currently allocated annually to the U.S. Ro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| SB1261 | Pass | Official emblems and designations; George Washington's rye whiskey; state spirit. Designates George Washington's rye whiskey produced at Mount Vernon, Virginia, as the state spirit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| HB2064 | Pass | Assault and battery against a family or household member; eligibility for first offender status. Precludes a person who has been convicted of any felony defined as an act of violence from being eligible for first offender status for assault and batte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| HB2282 | Pass | Board of Education; guidelines for training on the prevention of trafficking of children. Requires the Board of Education to develop guidelines for training school counselors, school nurses, and other relevant school staff on the prevention of traffi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| SB1506 | Pass | Applicant Fingerprint Database; Federal Bureau of Investigation records. Authorizes the Department of State Police to submit fingerprints and accompanying records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to be advised through the FBI's Next Gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| HB2311 | Pass | Nutrient Offset Fund; sale of credits. Requires the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to use certain funds to purchase nutrient credits for point or nonpoint sources that achieve reductions beyond the requirements of state or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| SB1117 | Pass | School counselors; licensure. Requires every person seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license with an endorsement as a school counselor to complete training in the recognition of mental health disorder and behavioral distress, including depre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| SB1245 | Pass | Public education; economics education and financial literacy. Requires the Board of Education to include evaluating the economic value of postsecondary studies, including the net cost of attendance, potential student loan debt, and potential earnings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| SB1382 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; applications for retail license; health permit or inspection. Requires applicants for retail licenses for establishments that serve food or are otherwise required to obtain a food establishment permit from the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB2474 | Pass | Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; report. Creates the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to improve the transportation into, from, within, and through Southwest Virginia; assist in regional economic development; and generally enhance hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| SB1085 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; expiration and renewal of driver credentials. Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to digitally verify the authenticity and validity of driver's licenses, learner's permits, and special identification cards for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| SB1330 | Pass | Critical incident stress management team and critical stress management team privileged communications. Provides that certain communications regarding a critical incident to a peer support team member are included in the critical incident stress mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| SB1084 | Pass | Charter; Town of Herndon; elections. Shifts the town's municipal elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| HB2218 | Pass | Public charter school applications and charter agreements; findings by the Board of Education. Permits the Board of Education to communicate any Board finding relating to the rationale for the local school board's denial of a public charter school ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
