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SB1322PassPublic-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Renames the Transportation Public-Private Partnership Advisory Committee the Transportation Public-Private Partnership Steering Committee (the Steering Committee) and provides that the Deputy Secretary of Tr...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551)
HB2449PassTerm 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...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541)
HB1540PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); public access to meetings of public bodies. Revises FOIA's various open meeting exemptions relating to legal matters, litigation, certain museums, and the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Auth...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616)
SB1350PassMotor vehicle sales and use tax; refund. Allows a purchaser to be refunded any motor vehicle sales and use tax paid if the vehicle is returned pursuant to the Virginia Motor Vehicle Warranty Act, or if the vehicle is returned within 45 days of purcha...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552)
SB1558PassBlanket surety bonds; proof of coverage of local officer. Allows a local officer required to give bond to provide confirmation from the Division of Risk Management that such officer is included in a blanket surety bond. Current law requires the offic...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598)
SB935PassInpatient psychiatric hospital admission; defendant found incompetent. Removes the prohibition on inpatient psychiatric hospital admission for defendants who have already been ordered to receive treatment to restore their competency to stand trial. T...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605)
SB1370PassPrior authorization of bonds to fund certain revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education; Virginia State University. Expands the scope of a revenue-producing capital project at Virginia State University funded by a prior bo...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614)
HB1971PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; record and meeting exclusions for multidisciplinary child abuse teams. Excludes the records of a multidisciplinary team as they relate to individual child abuse or neglect cases or sex offenses involving a child f...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587)
HB1555PassAgency directors; human resources training and succession planning. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management (the Department) to administer training programs to familiarize agency directors with state human resource policies, such as compe...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)
HB1815PassComputer trespass; government computers and computers used for public utilities; penalty. Increases the Class 1 misdemeanor computer trespass crimes to a Class 6 felony if the computer affected is one that is exclusively for the use of, or used by or...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562)
HB2239PassRegistration exemption for certain farm use vehicles; highway distance limitations. Increases from 50 to 75 miles the maximum travel distance allowable for travel to obtain supplies or from one part of the owner's land to another by a vehicle used fo...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538)
SB1334PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; small business enhancement program; limitations. Provides that any enhancement or remedial measure authorized by the Governor for state public bodies may allow for small businesses certified by the Department of Small...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578)
HB2463PassCommissioner of Highways; commercial establishment entrances. Requires the Commissioner of Highways to document and maintain a list of anyone who has requested an onsite meeting with the resident engineer or his staff for the purpose of connecting co...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542)
SB1514PassLocal regulation of parking of certain vehicles. Adds Leesburg to the towns that are permitted to regulate or prohibit the parking on any public highway of watercraft, boat trailers, motor homes, and camping trailers and to regulate or prohibit the p...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556)
SB1325PassAlcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses for certain properties. Increases from 1,500 feet to 3,000 feet the distance from Interstate 81 within which the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may grant mixed beverage licenses to establishments ...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595)
HB1998PassSecure Commonwealth Panel; membership and duties. Revises the membership of the Secure Commonwealth Panel, renamed the Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel, and requires the Panel to create an Emergency Management Awareness Group consisting of the...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512)
SB873PassAuthority of fire chief over immediate airspace at a fire, explosion, or uncontrolled release of hazardous materials. Includes immediate airspace under the current authority of the fire chief or other officer in charge of maintaining order where ther...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517)
SB1083PassCharter; Town of Herndon. Amends the town's boundary description.
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570)
HB1490PassSchool board members who engage in war service or are called to active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States; appointment of acting school board members. Requires each school board member who is relieved from the duties of his office by reaso...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508)
HB2139PassCommissioner of Highways; annual report requirements. Requires that the Commissioner of Highways, in his annual report, report specifically about transportation projects approved or modified during the prior fiscal year and include a listing of the t...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537)
SB1384PassMotor carrier size and weight limitations; compliance with federal law. Amends several size and weight provisions to comply with the federal Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act of 2015 (the FAST Act). The bill (i) allows automobile and waterc...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554)
HB2127PassRights of victims of sexual assault; physical evidence recovery kits. Requires that victims of sexual assault be advised by the investigating law-enforcement agency of their rights regarding physical evidence recovery kits. The bill requires the Divi...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535)
HB1761PassRegulation of taxicabs. Provides that the governing body of any county, city, or town that regulates taxicabs may authorize any taxicab to operate software-based devices that utilize GPS or other measurement data in the calculation of time-and-distan...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528)
SB1172PassFare enforcement inspectors. Provides for the appointment of fare enforcement inspectors to enforce payment of fares for use of mass transit facilities operated anywhere in the Commonwealth. Currently, fare enforcement inspectors may be appointed onl...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548)
HB2138PassState and local transportation planning. Provides that prior to the adoption of or amendment to any comprehensive plan that substantially affects transportation on state-controlled highways in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), the Department o...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536)
SB1234PassPublic institutions of higher education; passport credit program. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council) and each public institution of higher education to develop a passport credit program that will be offered at e...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)
HB1401PassPublic institutions of higher education; speech on campus. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from abridging the constitutional freedom of any individual, including enrolled students, faculty and other employees, and invited guests, to...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506)
HB2244PassPublic-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Renames the Transportation Public-Private Partnership Advisory Committee the Transportation Public-Private Partnership Steering Committee (the Steering Committee) and provides that the Deputy Secretary of Tr...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539)
HB2185PassAlcoholic beverage control; granting of certain mixed beverage licenses. Provides that, notwithstanding the requirement for a referendum for liquor by the drink, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may issue a mixed beverage license to establishment...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589)
HB2374PassCharitable gaming; conduct of raffles. Increases from one to three the number of times per calendar year that a qualified organization qualified as a tax-exempt organization pursuant to § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code may conduct a raffle for ...
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2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566)
HB2231PassIgnition interlock; duration; installation. Provides that the period of time during which a person is (i) prohibited from operating a motor vehicle that is not equipped with an ignition interlock system or (ii) required to have an ignition interlock ...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499)
HB2107PassHealth Insurance Reform Commission; Bureau of Insurance assessment. Provides that the Chairman of the standing committee requesting the Health Insurance Reform Commission (the Commission) to assess a proposed mandated health insurance benefit or prov...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485)
HB2269PassState Police motor vehicle safety inspection data. Authorizes the Superintendent of State Police to provide, upon request, verification of the inspection status of a vehicle and to charge a reasonable fee for providing such information. Fees shall no...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322)
SB875PassRecordation tax; exemption. Exempts from recordation tax deeds of trust given by utility consumer services cooperatives. This bill is identical to HB 1478.
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442)
HB1943PassAdministrative Process Act; economic impact analysis; opportunity for comment by affected businesses or other entities. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to revise and reissue its economic impact analysis within the time limits set forth...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483)
HB2285PassGubernatorial appointments to boards; membership and terms. Clarifies and corrects the statutory requirements for the membership and terms of several boards. The bill also standardizes the term dates for several appointments to the Latino Advisory Bo...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395)
HB2455PassTangible personal property tax; list of uncollected balances. Expands the uncollected personal property tax on vehicles for which the treasurer is required to compile a list to include the personal property tax on trailers, semitrailers, watercraft, ...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440)
HB1579PassTransportation order for defendant held in correctional facility. Requires the court or clerk, upon request of the attorney for the Commonwealth or counsel for the defendant, to issue a transportation order for a defendant to be brought to court from...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479)
HB2391PassDepartment of Human Resources Management; criminal background checks; state agency positions designated as sensitive; agencies to report to the Department. Requires each state agency to continue to record in the Personnel Management Information Syste...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421)
SB969PassLegislative drafting requests. Provides that legislative drafting files related to laws enacted beginning with the 1989 Session of the General Assembly are the property of the requester. This is consistent with the treatment of laws enacted prior to ...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489)
SB1391PassAlcoholic beverage control; new license for certain commercial lifestyle centers. Defines "commercial lifestyle center" and creates a new nonretail license for commercial lifestyle centers. The bill sets out the privileges of the license and imposes ...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)
HB2174PassSchool boards; pupil/teacher ratios; public report. Requires each school board to annually report to the public the actual pupil/teacher ratios in middle school and high school by school for the current school year.
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321)
HB1946PassOffice of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Amends Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Amends provisions related to the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman (the Office) and its access to and handling of certain information and re...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460)
SB932PassConveyance of utility easements; transportation. Exempts from the public hearing requirement prior to disposal of real property by a locality the conveyance of utility easements related to transportation projects. This bill incorporates SB 1259.
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401)
HB1590PassDuty of care to law-enforcement officers and firefighters; fireman's rule. Provides that the common-law doctrine known as the fireman's rule, as described in the bill, shall not be a defense to certain claims. The fireman's rule is based on assumptio...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315)
HB2428PassWorkforce Transition Act; eligibility. Provides that employees of the Virginia College Savings Plan are eligible for transitional severance benefits conferred by the Workforce Transition Act.
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359)
SB866PassBoating safety course; database listing operators who have passed course. Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, by July 1, 2018, to create a database listing the name and date of birth and course passage date of every person who has pa...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360)
HB2258PassDepartment of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; report on activities related to suicide prevention. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on its activitie...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464)
HB1835PassInformation about a decedent's life insurance policy. Allows a funeral service provider to request, and allows a life insurer to provide, information about a deceased person's life insurance policy, including the name and contact information of any b...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482)
HB2184PassEvaluation of inmate; inpatient psychiatric hospital admission. Requires that if the person having custody of an inmate of a local correctional facility files a petition for inpatient psychiatric hospital admission of the inmate, the person having cu...
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2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463)
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