| HB1351 | Pass | Joint legal or physical child custody. Provides that the court shall consider and may award joint legal, joint physical, or sole custody of a child and there shall be no presumption in favor of any such form of custody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0857) |
| HB1144 | Veto | Voter registration; persons assisting with the completion or collection of completed voter registration applications; certain identifying information required. Requires any person who assists an applicant with the completion of a voter registration a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB638 | Pass | Trespass; unmanned aircraft system; report; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of another and come within 50 feet of a dwelling house (i) to coerce, intimidate, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0851) |
| HB665 | Pass | Coal tax credits. Reinstates the Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. The credit, which expired on July 1, 2016, can be earned on and after January 1, 2018, but before January 1, 2023, and only for metallurgical coal. This bill is identical t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0853) |
| HB1539 | Pass | Mass transit in the Commonwealth. Makes numerous changes to the administration of and revenues for mass transit in the Commonwealth, specifically as it relates to funding of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and the disbursem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0854) |
| HB1598 | Veto | Standards and criteria for congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria by which congressional and state legislative districts are to be drawn, including equal population, racial and ethnic fairness, respect for existing political...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1595 | Veto | Vested rights; existing landscape cover materials. Provides that, notwithstanding any local ordinance to the contrary, an owner of real property who has an occupancy permit issued as of January 1, 2018, shall not be required to retrofit existing land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB523 | Pass | Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects; membership. Adds two nonlegislative citizen members to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| HB158 | Veto | House of Delegates and Senate district boundaries. Authorizes the General Assembly to make technical adjustments to legislative district boundaries subsequent to the decennial redistricting solely for the purpose of causing legislative district bound...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB543 | Pass | Department of General Services; lease of surplus property. Permits the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor, to allow charitable organizations exempt from taxation under ?§501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| HB770 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority. Clarifies (i) that the members of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) Authority appointed by the Governor and the Joint Rules Committee are voting members of the Authority and (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| HB680 | Pass | Motor vehicle sales and use tax; semitrailers. Reduces the minimum motor vehicle sales and use tax on semitrailers from $75 to $35. The bill contains a reenactment clause regarding this change. The bill also directs the Commissioner of the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| HB286 | Pass | Wineries; dogs allowed inside. Provides that dogs may be allowed within a designated area inside or on the premises of a licensed winery or farm winery, distillery, or brewery or farm brewery, except in any area used for the manufacture of food produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| HB375 | Veto | Prohibit certain local government practices that would require contractors to provide certain compensation or benefits. Prohibits local governing bodies from establishing provisions related to procurement of goods, professional services, or construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB511 | Pass | Child abuse or neglect; sex offenders; investigations; reports to local attorney for the Commonwealth. Requires local departments of social services to notify the local attorney for the Commonwealth of all complaints of suspected child abuse or negle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| HB1167 | Veto | Jury commissioners; lists of unqualified persons provided to general registrars. Requires jury commissioners to collect the information obtained from those persons not qualified to serve as jurors as a result of (i) not being a citizen of the United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1568 | Veto | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; small business development programs. Transfers the administration of the Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Program and the Small Business Investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1204 | Veto | Real property tax; open space; special and separate assessment in certain counties. Requires the assessing official in any county that experienced at least a 14 percent increase in population from 2010 to 2016 to specially and separately assess real ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB765 | Pass | Transportation processes in the Commonwealth; responsibilities of transportation entities; funding. Expands the responsibilities of the Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment of the Secretary of Transportation (Office). The bill clarifies the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| HB110 | Veto | Employees; franchisees excluded. Provides that, notwithstanding any voluntary agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor and the franchisee or franchisor, neither a franchisee nor a franchisee's employee shall be deemed to be an employee of the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB376 | Pass | Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel; membership. Changes the appointing authorities for the members of the Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel who are selected from the Subcommittees on Public Safety of both houses from the subcommittees them...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| HB1450 | Pass | The BVU Authority. Authorizes the BVU Authority to execute, assign, or transfer property without implementing the provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act any internal contract between the divisions of the Authority that following such execu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839) |
| HB1257 | Veto | Sanctuary policies prohibited. Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
VOTE: OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO (51-Y 48-N) |
| HB919 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; course credit. Makes several changes relating to course credit at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Virginia Community College System to develop a 15-cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832) |
| HB1441 | Pass | Taxation of all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road motorcycles. Provides that all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road vehicles shall be subject to the motor vehicle sales and use tax but exempt from the retail sales and use tax. Current law pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838) |
| HB1427 | Pass | Wireless support structures; public rights-of-way use fees. Establishes an annual wireless support structure public rights-of-way use fee to be charged to wireless services providers and wireless infrastructure providers in connection with a permit f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| HB763 | Pass | Revenue Reserve Fund created. Creates the Revenue Reserve Fund to be used to offset shortfalls in the budget of two percent or less of general fund resources collected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827) |
| HB192 | Pass | Rainwater and gray water; regulations. Directs the State Board of Health (the Board) to adopt regulations regarding the use of gray water and rainwater. The regulations shall provide standards for the use of rainwater harvesting systems, which shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| HB83 | Pass | Feminine hygiene products; no cost to female prisoners or inmates. Directs the State Board of Corrections and the Director of the Department of Corrections to each adopt and implement a standard or procedure to ensure the provision of feminine hygien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| HB1270 | Veto | Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; prohibition on participation by Commonwealth. Prohibits the Governor or any state agency from adopting any regulation establishing a carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program or bringing about the participation by the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB365 | Pass | Income tax subtraction; Virginia real estate investment trust income. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax subtraction for income attributable to an investment in a Virginia real estate investment trust, defined in the bill as an invest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821) |
| HB1258 | Pass | Zoning for wireless communications infrastructure. Establishes parameters regarding applications for zoning approvals for certain wireless support structures. Applications for certain new wireless support structures that are 50 feet or less above gro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| HB1000 | Pass | School boards; employment of certain individuals. Permits any school board to employ an individual who, at the time of the individual's hiring, has been convicted of a felony, provided that such individual (i) was employed in good standing by a schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) |
| HB888 | Pass | Onsite sewage systems; evaluation and design services. Directs the Department of Health to take steps to eliminate evaluation and design services for onsite sewage systems and private wells provided by the Department. The bill provides specific requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| HB1328 | Pass | Hunting; disabled hunter exempt from local tree stand requirement. Exempts certain disabled hunters from any local ordinance requiring hunting from an elevated platform or tree stand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836) |
| HB284 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; owners and localities receiving funds. Adds any locality or person that owns a historical African American cemetery to the list of qualified organizations able to receive funds for the preservation of historica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| HB155 | Pass | Clinics for the treatment of opioid addiction; location. Provides that the prohibition on locating clinics for the treatment of persons with opiate addiction through the use of methadone or opioid replacements other than opioid replacements approved ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| HB887 | Pass | Onsite sewage systems; maintenance. Provides that the adjustment or replacement of sewer lines, conveyance lines, distribution boxes, or header lines is considered maintenance of an onsite sewage system and thus does not require a permit. Under curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) |
| HB1163 | Pass | Fire protection; applicant preemployment information with fire departments. Allows any fire department, pursuant to a local ordinance adopted in accordance with ?§19.2-389, to require applicants for employment to submit to fingerprinting and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834) |
| HB297 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; guidance documents. Exempts guidance documents, defined in the bill, from the requirements of the Administrative Process Act (?§2.2-4000 et seq.), provided that the agency that developed the guidance document certifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820) |
| HB990 | Pass | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; deadline extensions. Clarifies that the authority of the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council (Council) to grant extensions from the deadline for filing disclosure forms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| HB798 | Pass | Income tax; apportionment of sales for debt buyers. Requires debt buyers, defined in the bill, to apportion their income from the collection of debt to Virginia based on a single sales factor starting with taxable year 2019. Generally, under current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| HB594 | Pass | Local government; authority to require abatement of criminal blight on real property. Authorizes any locality to enact an ordinance that requires corrective action to address criminal blight conditions on certain real property. The bill defines crimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| HJR6 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); real property tax; exemption for surviving spouse of a disabled veteran. Provides that the real property tax exemption for the principal residence of the surviving spouse of a disabled military veteran ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| HB222 | Pass | Income tax; modification for certain companies; grants. Establishes an income tax modification for companies that, from 2018 through 2024, either (i) invest at least $5 million in new capital investment in a qualified locality and create at least 10 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| HB1 | Pass | Scholastic records; disclosure of directory information. Clarifies that student directory information may be publicly disclosed by a school if the school has given notice to the parent or eligible student of (i) the types of information that the scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| HB1609 | Pass | Horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering. Establishes historical horse racing as a form of horse racing. The bill defines historical horse racing as a form of racing that creates pari-mutuel pools from wagers placed on previously conducted horse races a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| HB768 | Pass | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain areas of the Commonwealth; price floor. Establishes a floor on the 2.1 percent sales tax imposed on motor vehicle fuels sold in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads by requiring that the average distributor pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) |
| HB1419 | Pass | Public schools; instructional time. Requires local school boards to provide (i) a minimum of 680 hours of instructional time to students in elementary school, except for students in half-day kindergarten, in the four academic disciplines of English, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB886 | Pass | Admissions for mental health treatment; toxicology. Requires the Board of Health to include in regulations governing hospitals a provision that requires every hospital that provides inpatient psychiatric services to establish a protocol that requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
