| HB1382 | Pass | Agricultural best management practices tax credit; refundability for corporations. Allows taxpayers to apply for a refund of corporate income tax credits received for expenditures for agricultural best management practices. Under current law, corpora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| HB1453 | Pass | Real estate appraisers; evaluations. Changes the definition of "evaluation" from an analysis, opinion, or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value, or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real property to an opinion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| HB1142 | Pass | Qualification of fiduciary without security. Provides that a circuit court or circuit court clerk may allow a fiduciary to qualify by giving bond without surety when there are no assets or the asset or amount coming into the possession of such fiduci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| HB1454 | Pass | Civil immunity; programs for probationers; nonprofit corporation officials; worksite supervisors. Extends to state personnel and nonprofit corporation employees or officials the civil immunity afforded to probation officers, court personnel, county, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| HB1608 | Pass | The Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund; publicly owned treatment works; nutrient reduction. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to issue grants from the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| HB1546 | Pass | Removal of county courthouse. Provides that certain provisions regarding removal of a county courthouse shall not apply to the removal or relocation of any county courthouse, whether located on county or city property, that is entirely surrounded by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB1533 | Pass | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; applicability. Provides that the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act (?§55-508 et seq.) shall be applicable to any development established prior to the former Subdivided Land Sales Act (?§55-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| HB1148 | Pass | Reporting on economic growth-sharing agreements. Provides that all economic growth-sharing agreements between localities shall require, at least annually, a report from each locality that is a recipient of funds pursuant to the agreement to each of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB215 | Pass | Teacher licensure; one-year license; instructors at regionally accredited institutions of higher education. Declares eligible for a renewable one-year license to teach in public high schools in the Commonwealth any individual who has (i) received a g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| HB1605 | Pass | Disclosure of information under the Master Settlement Agreement and Non-Participating Manufacturer Adjustment Settlement Agreement. Provides that officers, employees, or agents of the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Taxation shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| HB1087 | Pass | Animal research; alternative test methods; civil penalty. Requires a manufacturer or contract testing facility to use an alternative test method when available. An alternative test method is defined as one which (i) provides information of equivalent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| HB1343 | Pass | Notaries; fee agreements with employer. Allows an employer to require a notary in his employment to surrender to such employer a fee, if charged, provided that the notarial act for which the fee is charged is performed during the course of the employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| HB640 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; broadband infrastructure. Provides that a locality's comprehensive plan shall consider strategies to provide broadband infrastructure that is sufficient to meet the current and future needs of residents and businesses in the local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| HB1183 | Pass | City of Hampton; volunteer property maintenance and zoning inspectors. Adds the City of Hampton to the list of cities that may utilize volunteer inspectors to issue notice of noncompliance with certain ordinances related to the external maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| HB911 | Pass | Automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers; penalties. Prohibits a supplier making an automatic renewal or continuous service offer to a consumer in the Commonwealth from (i) failing to present the automatic renewal or continuous service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| HB690 | Pass | General registrars; residency requirement; exemption for certain counties and cities. Exempts counties and cities with a population of 25,000 or less from the requirement that a person appointed to serve as a general registrar must be a qualified vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB220 | Pass | Local parks; waterway activities; liability. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of boating, canoeing, kayaking, or tubing activities on waterways and to exercise certain related powers. The bill relea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| HB1160 | Pass | Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program; appointments. Provides that the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Senate Committee on Rules shall each appoint one director of a local alcohol safety action program to the Commission o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| HB483 | Pass | Restitution; collection; Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Adds to the duties of the Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) in its role as administrator of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund (Fund) the obligation to (i) identify an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| HB1482 | Pass | Use of unmanned aircraft system; public bodies. Allows an unmanned aircraft system to be deployed without a warrant (i) by a law-enforcement officer to survey the scene of an accident for the purpose of crash reconstruction and record photographic or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| HB1301 | Pass | Judges; central registry records check; statement of economic interests. Requires that judges and substitute judges seeking reelection submit to a central registry records check for any founded complaint of child abuse or neglect. The bill also requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
| HB1521 | Pass | Reformulated gasoline program; exemption; portion of Hopewell. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to seek an exemption from the federal reformulated gasoline program for conventional gasoline sold in that portion of the City of Hopewell ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| HB234 | Pass | Health insurance; synchronization of medications. Requires any health plan providing prescription drug coverage to permit and apply a prorated daily cost-sharing rate to prescriptions that are dispensed by a network pharmacy for a partial supply if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| HB532 | Pass | Industrial hemp research programs. Authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to undertake research through the establishment of (i) a higher education industrial hemp research program, to be managed by institutions of higher ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB1010 | Pass | Claims; Robert Davis. Provides relief in the amount of $582,313 to Robert Davis, who was incarcerated from 2004 until 2015 after entering an Alford Plea to charges of first-degree and second-degree murder. On December 15, 2016, Governor McAuliffe gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| HB1495 | Pass | Real property tax; boards of equalization. Provides that if a taxpayer applies to the commissioner of the revenue or other official performing the duties imposed on commissioners of the revenue for relief from a real property tax assessment prior to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB986 | Pass | Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement. Requires local boards of social services, prior to placement of a child in any foster home or children's residential facility, to provide to the foster home or residential facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| HB1277 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; sharing and dissemination of data. Amends the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (?§2.2-3800 et seq.) to facilitate the sharing of data among agencies of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| HB1276 | Pass | Federal pilot programs; report. Requires the Department of Transportation to convene a work group to identify the implications of the Commonwealth's participation in a federal data collection pilot program or project involving six-axle tractor truck ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| HB1003 | Pass | Health care data reporting; penalty for failure to report. Provides that any medical care facility that fails to report data on utilization of services for which a certificate of public need is required or data on charity care provided to satisfy the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB1157 | Pass | Substance-exposed infants; plan for services; report. Provides that the Department of Health (the Department) shall serve as the lead agency with responsibility for the development, coordination, and implementation of a plan for services for substanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| HB1560 | Pass | Hampton Roads area refuse collection and disposal system authority; board term. Provides that a board member of the Hampton Roads area refuse collection and disposal system authority appointed directly by a member locality shall not be subject to a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB1285 | Pass | Transportation project selection in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia); public meeting. Requires the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, the Virginia Railway Express, and the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| HB397 | Pass | Absentee voting; certain information not required when completing application in person. Provides that a person completing an application for an absentee ballot in person is not required to provide the last four digits of his social security number o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| HB1460 | Pass | Land preservation tax credits; transfer to a designated beneficiary. Provides that a person who has unused land preservation tax credits may provide that such credits be transferred to a designated beneficiary upon his death, so long as such person w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560) |
| HB188 | Pass | Sentence reduction; substantial assistance to prosecution. Allows a convicted person's sentence to be reduced if such person provides substantial assistance, defined in the bill, in the furtherance of the investigation or prosecution of another perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| HB871 | Pass | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that (i) land devoted to agricultural use includes land devoted to the sale of products made from plants and animals located on the property, (ii) land devoted to horticultural use includes land devoted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB1023 | Pass | Issuance of foreign subpoenas; clerk of court. Provides that no foreign subpoena issued in the Commonwealth pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (?§8.01-412.8 et seq.) may be issued by any person other than the applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| HB530 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation. Provides for the Speaker of the House of Delegates to make appointments of members of the House of Delegates to serve on intergovernmental boards, committees, and commissions. Currently, appointme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| HB901 | Pass | Department of Transportation to develop and submit for approval an expedited land use permit process; rights-of-way. Report. Directs the Department of Transportation (Department) to develop and submit for approval to the Federal Highway Administratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| HB482 | Pass | Witness testimony accompanied by certified facility dogs. Provides that in any criminal proceeding the attorney for the Commonwealth or the defendant may request and the court may enter an order authorizing the use of a certified facility dog to aid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| HB486 | Pass | Alcoholic 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| HB1475 | Pass | Sewerage systems; state adoption of federal criteria. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) not to adopt certain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) freshwater ammonia water quality criteria (the Criteria) unless the Board includes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB1530 | Pass | Career and technical education; diplomas. Requires the Board of Education to make recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than November 1, 2018, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| HB128 | Pass | Motion or petition for rule to show cause for violation of court order. Provides that, in any civil action in a court of record, a party requesting a rule to show cause for a violation of a court order shall file a motion or petition, which may be on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| HB762 | Pass | Claims; Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice. Provides for the relief of Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice, also known as the Norfolk Four, who were ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| HB991 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosures; Virginia College Savings Plan. Adds the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan to the list of independent government entities whose members are required to file a disclosure state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| HB129 | Pass | Worker retraining tax credit; manufacturing instruction for students. Modifies the worker retraining tax credit by allowing credit to manufacturers conducting a manufacturing orientation, instruction, and training program that is (i) provided to stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB1179 | Pass | Abandoned school revitalization zones. Allows localities to establish by ordinance one or more abandoned school revitalization zones for the purpose of providing incentives to private entities to purchase or develop real property or to assemble parce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB1370 | Pass | Requirements for home instruction of children; education options. Clarifies that a parent who provides a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered as home instruction is required to provide his child with such program of study or curriculu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
