| HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Agricultural enterprise facilities. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) to establish agricultural enterprise facilities in rural areas of the Commonwealth, with each facility to include a commercial kitchen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Language development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing; assessment resources for parents and educators; advisory committee; report. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1421 | Intro
Sine Die | Closure of the Central Virginia Training Center prohibited. Provides that the Central Virginia Training Center shall not be closed and shall instead remain open.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB36 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar; opening day of the school year. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy property tax credit. Establishes, beginning in taxable year 2018, a tax credit for renewable energy property placed in service. The bill defines "renewable energy property" as certain biomass equipment that uses renewable biomass res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Three-year moratorium on installation of synthetic turf that contains recycled crumb rubber from waste tires at schools and recreational parks. Places a three-year moratorium on the installation of synthetic turf that contains recycled crumb rubber f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic toll collection device monthly statements; fees. Prohibits the Department of Transportation from charging monthly fees in connection with online monthly account statements for electronic toll collection devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1449 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduce or eliminate the waiting list for the Family and Individual Support Waiver. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to take measures to reduce or eliminate the Family and Individual Support Waiver waiting list for individuals who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HJR107 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; adequacy of prisoner educational and vocational training programs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to (i) identify all educational and vocational training programs provided to prisoners in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB560 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund. Creates the Virginia Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund to provide no-interest loans to any locality, school division, or public institution of higher education for energy conservation or efficiency projects, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB774 | Intro
Sine Die | Public procurement; contracting for construction on a construction management basis. Authorizes state public bodies and public institutions of higher education to enter into contracts for construction on a construction management basis where the esti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; persons age 65 or older. Entitles a person who will be age 65 or older on the day of an election to vote by absentee ballot in that election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; land use valuation. Reduces from 20 to 15 acres the minimum number of acres for real property to qualify as devoted solely to forest use for the purpose of land use valuation for the special assessment for land preservation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1487 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health services in local and regional correctional facilities. Requires the Board of Corrections to adopt standards for mental health services in local and regional correctional facilities, which shall include a requirement that (i) the sherif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for businesses participating in Virginia Registered Apprenticeship program. Authorizes a public body to give preference to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder (i) who is a resident of Virginia, (ii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Individuals receiving services; right to unmonitored communication and access to 911. Provides that each individual receiving services in a hospital, training center, or other facility or program operated, funded, or licensed by the Department of Beh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; no excuse required when voting in person. Provides that any registered voter may vote by absentee ballot in person in any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason for being unable to vote in person on elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1021 | Intro
Sine Die | Speed monitoring systems; school crossing zones. Provides that a locality may, by ordinance, establish a speed enforcement program utilizing an automated speed monitoring system, defined in the bill, that creates recorded images of vehicles traveling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation for professional services. Provides that for competitive negotiation for professional services, a public body may conduct negotiations simultaneously with the top two ranked offerors if the pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; maintenance of stormwater management facilities. Provides that the board of directors of each association shall be responsible for inspecting and maintaining the stormwater best management practice that serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR104 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonstock corporations; instructed proxies. Requires that the writing or transmission by which a member purports to appoint a proxy to vote in an election for one or more members of the board of directors of a nonstock corporation identifies the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR125 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; cost of implementing universal health care in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the cost of implementing universal health care in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1526 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive plan; telecommunications towers and facilities; Planning District 8. Provides that localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) have the option to enact ordinances that deem proposed telecommunications towers or facilities cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; no excuse. Allows any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons for which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality funding; apportionment of state and Standards of Quality funding; apportionment of state and local share. Directs the General Assembly, in apportioning the state and local share of the costs of meeting the Standards of Quality, b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the Department of State Police to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a check from licensed firea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; powers and duties of the Virginia Fire Services Board. Transfers primary authority for the adoption of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code from the Board of Housing and Community Development to the Virginia Fire Service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB576 | Intro
Sine Die | High school graduation requirements; substitution of computer coding credit for foreign language credit. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to provide for the substitution of computer coding course c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the Uniform Statewide Building Code (§36-97 et seq.) to require the installation of arc fault circuit interrupter protection for detached one-family...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Crab scraping; possession of hard crabs; characteristics of scrape. Removes the prohibitions against the possession of hard crabs while having a crab scrape on board a vessel and against the use of a mechanical scrape. The bill also increases the max...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of certain caregivers. Entitles a person to vote absentee if he is unable to go in person to the polls on the day of the election because he is primarily and personally responsible for the care of an ill or disabled indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health treatment providers. Provides that a substance abuse or mental health treatment provider licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or a community services board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB652 | Intro
Sine Die | School Divisions of Innovation; performance-based assessments. Provides that a local school board applying for its school division to be designated as a School Division of Innovation may apply to the Board of Education (Board) to replace certain Stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for awarding grants and loans. Changes the criteria for awarding funds from the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund (the Fund) to include a fiscally stressed locality with an above average...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1416 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher licensure; trade and industrial waiver and career and technical license. Extends the term of the waiver of the teacher licensure requirements that a division superintendent may apply to the Board of Education for any individual whom the local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain school divisions; plan to fund and phase in full-day kindergarten. Requires each local school board that does not offer a full-day kindergarten program for each kindergarten student in the school division to develop a plan to fund and phase i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Notice to patients of risk of cobalt poisoning. Requires the Board of Medicine to adopt regulations requiring health care providers who perform joint replacement surgery to inform patients on whom such surgery shall be performed of the risk of cobalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1269 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic Identity Management Act; federated digital identity systems. Amends the Electronic Identity Management Act to accommodate federated digital identity systems. A federated digital identity system (federation) is defined in the measure as a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1411 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; powers and duties of the Virginia Fire Services Board. Transfers primary authority for the adoption of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code from the Board of Housing and Community Development to the Virginia Fire Service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB44 | Intro
Sine Die | High school family life education curricula; law and meaning of consent. Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1186 | Intro
Sine Die | Ground water withdrawal permit; priority for human consumptive use; public supplier. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) to instruct the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to modify the permitted withdrawal amounts for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR141 | Intro
Sine Die | Transgender Day of Remembrance. Designates November 20, in 2018 and in each succeeding year, as Transgender Day of Remembrance in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1590 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility regulation; community choice aggregation. Authorizes localities to establish community choice aggregation programs for electric and natural gas utility service. The measure provides that a locality may aggregate the requirements of residentia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Light-emitting diode (LED) use on outdoor lighting fixtures. Requires any state agency that installs, replaces, or maintains an outdoor lighting fixture to use LEDs instead of traditional incandescent light bulbs when installing new outdoor lighting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Correctional officers; survey upon resignation, etc.; report. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the results of the survey administered to each correctional of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Costs of primary elections; payment by the proper political party. Requires the proper political party committee to reimburse each county and city conducting a primary election at the direction of the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that the cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonresident concealed handgun permits; fee. Increases from $100 to $150 the maximum fee that can be charged by the Department of State Police for issuing a nonresident concealed handgun permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
