| SB1438 | Pass | Virginia Tax Amnesty Program. Establishes the Virginia Tax Amnesty Program to be administered by the Department of Taxation (the Department) during the 2017-2018 fiscal year for not less than 60 nor more than 75 days, as determined by the Tax Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB2045 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; designation of authorized representative by seller; association disclosure packet. Provides that unless expressly authorized by the Property Owners' Association Act (§ 55-508 et seq.) or the declaration or as otherw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB1571 | Pass | Workers' compensation; fees for medical services. Provides that the pecuniary liability of an employer for a medical service provided for the treatment of a traumatic injury or serious burn includes liability for any professional service rendered dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| HB1820 | Pass | Real property tax; board of equalization in certain counties. Requires that the board of equalization of real estate assessments in any county having the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) be composed of an odd number of not less th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| SB922 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Department of Health Professions; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting. Provides that certain powers of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| HB1572 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; registration as commercial fisherman; family member or employee. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to grant a preference for an exception to the two-year delay in the effective date of a registration as a commercial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB2095 | Pass | Registration of peer recovery specialists and qualified mental health professionals. Authorizes the registration of peer recovery specialists and qualified mental health professionals by the Board of Counseling. The bill defines "qualified mental hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| SB1369 | 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 HB 22...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| HB2404 | Pass | Advisory Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS). Creates the Advisory Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| HB2152 | Pass | Charter; City of Hopewell; water renewal commission. Changes the membership of the Hopewell Water Renewal Commission (the Commission) from a total of eight members appointed by the city council, five of whom are nominees of five manufacturers, to up ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| HB1574 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; oysters; culling. Provides that when a person charged with violating an oyster culling regulation is required to scatter the entire cargo of oysters on the public rocks, no portion of the cargo shall be scattered anywhere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| HB2009 | Pass | Stormwater and erosion management; administration of program by certified third party. Authorizes the hiring of certified third-party professionals to administer any or all aspects of a program for the management of stormwater and erosion, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| HB1775 | Pass | Persons with developmental disabilities; terminology. Corrects numerous sections of the Code of Virginia by replacing the term "intellectual disability" with "developmental disabilities" as appropriate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| HB1970 | Pass | Creation of economic revitalization zones in counties. Grants counties authority to create economic revitalization zones. The zones shall be for the purpose of providing incentives to private entities to purchase real property and interests in real p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| SB974 | Pass | Palliative care information and resources. Requires the Department of Health to make information about and resources on palliative care available to the public, health care providers, and health care facilities on its website. This bill is identical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| HB1524 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; liability insurance. Requires that each person registered as or seeking registration as a special conservator of the peace be covered by a policy of (i) personal injury liability insurance, (ii) property damage liab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| HB1848 | Pass | Comprehensive community colleges; tuition grants. Provides that certain Virginia students who were in foster care or in the custody of the Department of Social Services or considered a special needs adoption and are enrolled in a noncredit workforce ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| SB1293 | Pass | Department 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| SB1254 | Pass | Department of Elections; annual audit of ballot scanner machines. Requires the Department of Elections to coordinate a post-election risk-limiting audit annually of ballot scanner machines in use in the Commonwealth. The localities selected for the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| SB1173 | Pass | Vested property rights. Provides that if a structure is one that requires no permit, and an authorized local government official informs the property owner that the structure will comply with the zoning ordinance, and the improvement was thereafter c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB2423 | Pass | Golf carts on public highways; exceptions. Permits the use of golf carts on public highways in the Town of Jarratt if the governing body of the town reviews and approves such highway usage. Current law prohibits such usage because the Town of Jarratt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| HB2055 | Pass | Rural Coastal Virginia Community Enhancement Authority. Establishes the Rural Coastal Virginia Community Enhancement Authority, consisting of the 12 counties within the Northern Neck, Middle Peninsula, and Accomack-Northampton planning districts, if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| HB2034 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act. Adds two new disclosures required to be made by a seller of residential real property to a purchaser, one for whether the property is subject to one or more conservation or other easements and a second fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| SB991 | Pass | Residential rental property. Removes a provision that allows a tenant to remain in a dwelling unit that has been foreclosed upon pursuant to the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act because the Act expired on December 31, 2014, and is no lon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| HB1474 | Pass | Dental hygiene; remote supervision. Eliminates the requirement that a dental hygienist providing dental hygiene services under remote supervision be employed by the supervising dentist; clarifies continuing education requirements for dental hygienist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| SB1586 | Pass | Local and regional libraries; boards not mandatory. Provides an exemption for counties with a charter from having to create a managing library board appointed by the local governing body. This bill is identical to HB 1787.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB1687 | Pass | Nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles. Eliminates the requirement that nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles have incurred damage that exceeds 90 percent of their cash value prior to such damage to meet the definition of nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| SB1230 | Pass | Opiate prescriptions; electronic prescriptions. Requires a prescription for any controlled substance containing an opiate to be issued as an electronic prescription and prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a controlled substance that contains an op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| HB1517 | Pass | General permit for sand management. Authorizes the Virginia Beach Wetlands Board to adopt a General Permit for Sand Management and Placement Profiles for properties in the Sandbridge Beach Subdivision of Virginia Beach and authorizes the Norfolk Wetl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| HB1838 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit program; Board of Education. Requires any neighborhood organization submitting a proposal to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for an allocation of tax credits for the program year beginning July 1, 2017,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| HB1952 | Pass | Department of General Services; review of proposed acquisitions of real property; exceptions. Provides an exception to the requirement that before any agency of the state acquires real property, it must follow the guidelines adopted by the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| HB2072 | Pass | Nursing home family councils; rights of family members. Provides that no family member of a resident of a nursing home or other resident representative shall be restricted from participating in meetings in the facility with the families or resident r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| SB1075 | 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] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| HB2306 | Pass | Arlington County School Board; maximum salary of members. Removes the $25,000 cap on the salary of certain members of the Arlington County School Board, thereby permitting each member of such school board to be paid a salary in accordance with the ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| HB2119 | Pass | Practice of laser hair removal. Limits the practice of laser hair removal to a properly trained person licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine or licensed as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner or to a properly trained person un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB1858 | Pass | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to adopt regulations that mandate certificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| HB1484 | Pass | Board of Medicine to amend regulations governing licensure of occupational therapists to specify Type 1 continuous learning activities. Directs the Board of Medicine to amend regulations governing licensure of occupational therapists to provide that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| HB1737 | Pass | Personal jurisdiction over a person; domicile and residential requirements for suits for annulment, affirmance, or divorce; civilian employees and foreign service officers. Extends to all civilian employees of the United States, where current law app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| HB2453 | Pass | Flashing amber lights; amateur radio operators. Permits vehicles used or operated by federally licensed amateur radio operators participating in emergency communications drills on behalf of federal, state, or local authorities or providing communicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| SB968 | Pass | Hunting license; bear, deer, or turkey; electronic carry. Removes the requirement that a license to hunt bear, deer, or turkey be carried in paper form, allowing it to be carried by electronic or computerized means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| SB982 | Pass | Motion picture production tax credit. Extends the sunset date of the motion picture production tax credit from January 1, 2019, to January 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 1665.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| SB1255 | Pass | Condominium Act; resale by purchaser; designation of authorized representative. Provides that unless expressly authorized by the Condominium Act or the condominium instruments or as otherwise provided by law, no unit owners' association may require t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| SB1511 | Pass | Advance directives; mental health treatment; capacity determinations. Provides that in cases in which a person has executed an advance directive granting an agent the authority to consent to the person's admission to a facility for mental health trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB2240 | Pass | Crime victim's right to nondisclosure of certain information; murder. Requires that written consent provided by the victim's next of kin to law enforcement is necessary, if the victim is a minor, before a law-enforcement agency may disclose any infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| SB1390 | Pass | Purchase of cigarettes for resale; penalties. Creates a new requirement that purchasers of cigarettes for resale must apply for a special cigarette exemption certificate from the Department of Taxation in order to not be liable for the payment of sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB1597 | Pass | Local stormwater management utility; waiver of charges; stormwater retained on site. Requires any locality establishing a stormwater management utility to provide a full or partial waiver of charges for a person whose approved stormwater management p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB1600 | Pass | Sanitary landfill; gas collection and control system. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the Region 2000 Services Authority (the Authority) to continue to reduce the odor issues at the landfill operated by the Authority in Campbell C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| SB852 | Pass | Pet shops; procurement of dogs from unlicensed dealers. Prohibits any companion animal dealer who is not licensed or exempted from licensure by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from selling any dog to a pet shop. The bill prohibits a pet sho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| HB1909 | Pass | Real property tax; nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent property. Permits the nonjudicial sale of unimproved real property valued at less than $5,000 if taxes are delinquent for at least three years. The bill also permits the nonjudicial sale of real p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| SB1019 | Pass | Board of Accountancy. Amends provisions governing the regulation of certified public accountants (CPAs) by the Board of Accountancy, including (i) clarifying that CPAs are subject to the continuing professional education requirements without regard t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
