| HB166 | Pass | Clerks of court. States that the clerk of an appellate court may request paper trial court records to be forwarded to such clerk. The bill adds the Bond Book to the list of books for which a microphotographic process may be used to accomplish the rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| HB1388 | Pass | Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Services Act. Establishes requirements regarding the implementation of next generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) service. By July 1, 2023, the 9-1-1 Services Board (the Board) is required to develop and implement NG9-1-1 transi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| HB1151 | Pass | Nonresident youth fishing license; exemption. Authorizes a nonresident under age 16 to fish without a fishing license when accompanied by a person possessing a valid license to fish in Virginia and allows such nonresident to fish for trout without a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB329 | Pass | High school graduation requirements; course load. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit students to exceed a full course load in order to participate in courses offered by an institution of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| HB1362 | Pass | Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services; availability of testing services. Requires the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services, or any other laboratory with which the Department of Health has contracted, to provide screening tests for time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| HB1479 | Pass | Equine liability; execution of waiver. Prohibits a liability action against an equine activity sponsor if a waiver has been knowingly executed by the participant, the parent or guardian of a minor participant, or the duly authorized representative, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| HB589 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; diplomas; proof of education; method. Provides that each public institution of higher education and private institution of higher education may provide any diploma or other proof of education to requesting individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| HB214 | Pass | Overweight permits for hauling Virginia-grown farm produce; bridges and culverts. Provides that no five-axle-combination vehicle shall be issued an overweight permit for hauling Virginia-grown farm produce unless such vehicle has no less than 42 feet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| HB1154 | Pass | Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; powers and duties; grants. Authorizes the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to apply for and accept grants and gifts to carry out its powers and duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB508 | Pass | Local regulation of solar facilities. Provides that a property owner may install a solar facility on the roof of a dwelling or other building to serve the electricity or thermal needs of that dwelling or building, provided that such installation is i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| HB438 | Pass | Elementary and secondary schools; sexual misconduct. Requires the Department of Education and local school boards to adopt policies to implement the provisions of federal law that prohibit any local school board or any individual who is an employee, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| HB847 | Pass | Capitol Square Preservation Council. Changes the title of the chief officer of the Capitol Square Preservation Council from the Executive Director to the Chief Administrative Officer and authorizes the Council to enter into partnerships, joint ventur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| HB992 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure statements; multiple positions. Provides that only one disclosure statement per calendar year is required under the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act for an individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| HB993 | Pass | Sales tax revenue allocation; increase amount allocated to discretionary spending for airports. Requires the Aviation Board, during the second six months of each fiscal year, to allocate certain funds from the Commonwealth Airport Fund to all eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB1178 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; injunctive relief for failure to obtain a license. Provides that (i) the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board (the Board) or (ii) any licensed motor vehicle dealer who sustains injury or damage to his business or property may seek injunc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| HB528 | Pass | Department of Juvenile Justice; placement of certain individuals in independent living arrangement. Permits the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to place in an independent living arrangement an individual who is between the ages of 16 and 21 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| HB995 | Pass | Tracking wounded bear, deer, or turkey. Allows a licensed hunter to use tracking dogs to find a wounded or dead bear, deer, or turkey. The bill authorizes the hunter to have a weapon in his possession and to use it to humanely kill the tracked animal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| HB592 | Pass | Land bank entities; acquisition of property. Makes a technical change by correcting from an authority to a land bank entity the entity to which a locality may grant or convey real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB398 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid, performance, and payment bonds; waiver by localities; sunset. Adds a sunset date of July 1, 2021, to the provisions (i) authorizing a locality, where the bid, performance, and payment bond requirements are waived...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB358 | Pass | Ground water management; subdivisions; technical evaluation. Requires the developer of a subdivision located in a designated ground water management area for which the developer obtains plat approval on or after July 1, 2018, to apply for a technical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB614 | Pass | Practice of social work. Provides that the Board of Social Work may license baccalaureate social workers, master's social workers, and clinical social workers, as those terms are defined, and may register persons proposing to obtain supervised post-d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB489 | Pass | Registration and licensing of vehicles; payment of local taxes and fees. Provides that in localities in which the treasurer or director of finance has entered into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| HB1349 | Pass | Trespass towing. Exempts Planning District 16 (George Washington) from any requirement by a towing advisory board for written authorization, in addition to a written contract, in the event that a vehicle is being removed from private property. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| HB1412 | Pass | Mental health awareness training; firefighters and emergency medical services personnel. Requires fire departments and emergency medical services agencies to develop curricula for mental health awareness training for their personnel. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| HB84 | Pass | Instruction in American Sign Language; academic credit; foreign language requirements. Requires any local school board that does not offer any elective course in American Sign Language to (i) grant academic credit for successful completion of an Amer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| HB453 | Pass | Airport boards and authorities; funding transparency. Requires any (i) airport board or authority created by a locality or group of localities and (ii) public use privately owned airport that receives funding from the Department of Aviation or Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB97 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement; single or term contracts for professional services. Increases the maximum permissible aggregate or sum of all phases of single or term contracts for professional services that may be procured w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| HB1600 | Pass | Student discipline; long-term suspension. Reduces the maximum length of a long-term suspension from 364 calendar days to 45 school days. The bill permits a long-term suspension to extend beyond a 45-school-day period, not to exceed 364 calendar days,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB1275 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); record exclusion for trade secrets supplied to the Virginia Department of Transportation. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| HB527 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries and graves; Portsmouth. Adds the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in the City of Portsmouth, with 266 eligible gravesites, to the list of historical African American cemeteries for which qualifying charitable organizations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB134 | Pass | Value engineering. Raises the minimum project cost requiring the use of value engineering from $5 million to $15 million. The bill exempts projects that are designed utilizing (i) a design-build contract or (ii) the Public-Private Transportation Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| HB591 | Pass | Land bank entities; real property tax exemption for certain leasehold interests. Exempts from real property taxation leasehold interests in property acquired or used by a land bank entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| HB1088 | Pass | Hospitals; security and emergency department staff; mental health training. Requires the Board of Health to include in its regulations governing licensed hospitals a requirement that every hospital with an emergency department establish protocols to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| HB879 | Pass | Hospitals and nursing homes; frequency of inspections. Clarifies, in provisions governing frequency of hospital and nursing home inspections, that a second inspection of a hospital or nursing home that has previously been inspected may be performed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB686 | Pass | Unclaimed property; deposits with financial institutions; charges and interest. Clarifies the criteria that must be met for a bank or other financial organization to impose charges or cease to pay interest on a dormant or inactive account that differ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB1132 | Pass | Dinwiddie Airport and Industrial Authority; residency requirements. Provides that at least four members of the seven-member Dinwiddie Airport and Industrial Authority (Authority) shall be residents of the County of Dinwiddie and removes the requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB799 | Pass | Public aircraft; definition. Provides that the definition of "public aircraft" includes any fighter or attack jet, defined in the bill, that is leased or owned by a private entity, provided that the aircraft operations are conducted exclusively for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| HB260 | Pass | Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a critically missing adult, defined as an adult whose whereabouts are unknown, who is believed to have been abducted, and whose disap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB737 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles documents; veteran indicator. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver's licenses, permits, and identification cards displaying an indicator signifying that the holder is a veteran, provided that the appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| HB167 | Pass | Diploma seals; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Requires the Board of Education to establish criteria for awarding a diploma seal for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for the Board of Education-approved diplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| HB552 | Pass | Definition of restaurant; exception; bed-and-breakfast operations. Exempts from requirements related to restaurants, including licensure requirements, any bed-and-breakfast operation that prepares food for and offers food to guests, regardless of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB883 | Pass | Department of Planning and Budget; regulatory reduction pilot program; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget (the Department), under the supervision of the Secretary of Finance (the Secretary), to administer a three-year regulatory re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| HB123 | Pass | Town of Buchanan charter; elections; town council members; employees of town. Staggers the elections of the town's four council members so that, beginning with the November general election in 2019, two members shall be elected to two-year terms in o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB236 | Pass | Parked vehicles; registration, licensing, and titling requirements. Expands from vehicles operated on a highway to vehicles operated or parked on a highway the class of vehicles subject to registration, licensing, and titling requirements. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| HB1096 | Pass | Dredged material siting; fast-track permitting program. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to develop a fast-track regulatory permitting program for the selection and use of appropriate sites in Tidewater Virginia for the disposal of material dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| HB790 | Pass | Licensed barbers and cosmetologists; exemptions. Exempts persons working in a barbershop or cosmetology salon whose duties are confined to blow drying, cleansing, and styling hair from being required to obtain an occupational license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB760 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; exemption for Virginia-grown food products; required documentation. Requires a public body to accomplish procurement by obtaining written informal solicitation of a minimum of three bidders or offerors if practicable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| HB1047 | Pass | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; definition of manufactured home park. Reduces from 10 to five the minimum number of manufactured homes on a parcel of land under single or common ownership that meets the definition of a manufactured home park subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB505 | Pass | Traffic signs; people with disabilities. Allows any person who is deaf, blind, or deaf-blind, any person with autism or an intellectual or developmental disability, or the agent of any such person to request that the Department of Transportation (Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB1138 | Pass | Office of the Qualified Education Loan Ombudsman. Establishes the Office of the Qualified Education Loan Ombudsman (the Office) within the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The Office's duties include (i) receiving, reviewing, and attem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
