| SB176 | Pass | Life insurance; claims of creditors. Repeals a provision that excludes, from the protections from claims of creditors that are afforded life insurance policies and annuities, the cash surrender or loan value of a policy under which the right to chang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| HB509 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; solar facilities. Provides that a solar facility subject to provisions requiring the facility to be substantially in accord with a locality's comprehensive plan shall be deemed to be substantially in accord with the comprehensive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| SB831 | Pass | Practice of funeral services; sale of certain items. Provides that when arrangements for funeral services have been made by a licensed funeral service establishment, funeral service licensees shall accept caskets provided by third parties in accordan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB45 | Pass | Family life education curricula; personal privacy and personal boundaries. Requires any family life education curriculum offered in any elementary school, middle school, or high school to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| SB560 | Pass | Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services. Requires the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to administer Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services to assist individuals with disa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB754 | Pass | Elective share claim; calculation of the augmented estate. Provides that a surviving spouse claiming an elective share does not have the right to claim a share of the decedent spouse's separate property at death but that the decedent spouse may satis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| HB488 | Pass | Charter; Town of Blacksburg. Makes clarifying changes to language that provides that the town shall vote on a proposed ordinance two times and that an ordinance may only be passed at the same meeting at which the public hearing is held unless the age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| HB60 | Pass | Goochland County; Economic Development Authority; board of directors; quorum. Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Goochland County to appoint five members to the Board of Directors of the Goochland County Economic Development Authority. Three memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB190 | Pass | Real property tax; boards of equalization. Provides that applications for relief from real property assessments sent electronically to boards of equalization are deemed received on the date applicants send the applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| HB1383 | Pass | Marriage and family therapy; appraisal. Defines "marriage and family therapy" as the "appraisal and treatment" of cognitive, affective, or behavioral mental and emotional disorders within the context of marriage and family systems through the applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB823 | Pass | General contractors; waiver or diminishment of lien rights; subordination of lien rights. Provides that a general contractor may not waive or diminish his lien rights in a contract in advance of furnishing any labor, services, or materials. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| HB373 | Pass | Membership in Multistate Tax Commission. Requires the Tax Commissioner to take such steps as are necessary for Virginia to become an associate member of the Multistate Tax Commission and to participate in Multistate Tax Commission discussions and mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| SB594 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middleburg. Provides that the Middleburg town council may, notwithstanding any other provision of law, levy a tax on business personal property, as described in the Code of Virginia, without regard to the existence of, or rate of, ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB55 | Pass | Maximum speed limit on U.S. Route 501. Increases from 55 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour the maximum speed limit on U.S. Route 501 between the Town of South Boston and the North Carolina state line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB1095 | Pass | Chesapeake Bay public water access authorities; regional dredging. Authorizes the Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority and the Northern Neck Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority to undertake dredging projects and authorizes those...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0327) |
| HB1194 | Pass | Schedule I controlled substances. Adds drugs to the list of Schedule I controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
| HB1085 | Pass | Public schools; military students; enrollment. Requires any local school board of a school division in which a military installation or other military housing is located to establish and implement policies to provide for the enrollment to any school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB1467 | Pass | Virginia Research Investment Committee; membership; emergency. Replaces the Secretary of Technology with the Secretary of Commerce and Trade on the Virginia Research Investment Committee. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| SB573 | Pass | Green job creation tax credit; extends sunset provision. Extends through taxable year 2020 the sunset date for the green job creation tax credit. Under current law, the credit expires for taxable years beginning on January 1, 2018. This bill is ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| SB16 | Pass | Security freezes; fees. Reduces the maximum amount that a credit reporting agency may charge to place, remove, or lift a security freeze on a consumer's credit report from $10 to $5. This bill is identical to HB 1027 and incorporates SB 18, SB 22, SB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| SB451 | 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] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| HB1523 | Pass | Signs or advertisements. Removes the requirement that a sign placed on real property visible to traffic proceeding on any Interstate System highway and advertising activities being conducted on the real property be located no more than 250 feet from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| HB387 | Pass | Relating to driver's license renewals. Provides that a driver's license shall not be issued for a period of less than five years, unless otherwise provided by law. Current law provides that a driver's license shall not be issued for more than eight y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| HB1602 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; confectionery license. Creates a confectionery license, which authorizes the licensee to prepare and sell on the licensed premises for off-premises consumption confectionery that contains five percent or less alcohol by vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| SB544 | Pass | Prescription drug donation program. Requires that the existing prescription drug donation program regulated by the Board of Pharmacy accept eligible prescription drugs from individuals, including those residing in nursing homes, assisted living facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| SB232 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $21 million for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to HB 76...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| SB253 | 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] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359) |
| SB905 | Pass | Commercial rest areas. Prohibits a private entity from operating a rest area for commercial purposes without the approval of the General Assembly. The bill provides that the prohibition does not apply to any program or contract between a private enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| HB431 | Pass | Enterprise Zone Grant Program; designation of enterprise zone; amendments to the size of an enterprise zone. Codifies the minimum size and maximum size of enterprise zones under the Enterprise Zone Grant Program administered by the Department of Hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| SB974 | Pass | Stock corporations; action by shareholders without meeting. Creates an exception to the provision that authorizes shareholders of a corporation to act without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent of the shareholders. The exception states ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| SB291 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; electronic services. Codifies existing budget language in Item 442 A of the 2017 Appropriation Act that authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish, where feasible and cost efficient, contracts with public-p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| SB496 | Pass | Off-road recreational vehicles; highway speed limit. Increases from 25 to 35 miles per hour the maximum highway speed limit wherein the governing body of any county, city, or town embraced by the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority may by ordinan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| SB829 | Pass | Military medical personnel program; supervision. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a program in which military medical personnel may practice and perform certain delegated acts that constitute the practice of medicine or nursin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| SB501 | Pass | Admissions tax; Wythe County. Authorizes Wythe County to impose an admissions tax at a rate not to exceed 10 percent to any event held on the grounds of any exposition center that (i) has an indoor arena that seats at least 2,000 persons and an outdo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| SB847 | Pass | Purple Heart State; Department of Transportation. Directs the Department of Transportation to place and maintain signs along certain highways reflecting the 2016 designation by the General Assembly of Virginia as a Purple Heart State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB775 | Pass | Removal of snow and ice; county executive form of government. Authorizes any county outside Planning District 8 that has adopted the county executive form of government (Albemarle County) to provide by ordinance reasonable criteria and requirements f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| HB1491 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; conveyance of easement and rights-of-way; Rappahannock River. Authorizes the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to convey to Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Virginia Power) an easement and rights-of-way ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| HB347 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; longitudinal data. Requires the data that the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia annually collects and publishes on (i) the percentage of graduates of public institutions of higher education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB684 | Pass | Maximum speed limits on certain highways. Increases from 55 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour the maximum speed limit on State Route 3 between the corporate limits of the Town of Warsaw and the unincorporated area of Emmerton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| SB695 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; Internet beer retailers. Creates an Internet beer retailer license, establishes the privileges of and fee for the license, and defines "Internet beer retailer."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB1395 | Pass | Trooper Michael Walter Memorial Highway. Designates the portion of Virginia Route 13 in Powhatan County between Virginia Route 1002 (Emmanuel Church Road) and Cumberland County the "Trooper Michael Walter Memorial Highway."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| SB72 | Pass | Electric distribution lines; minimum height. Requires that electric distribution lines installed on or after July 1, 2018, upon or over agricultural land shall be placed at a height that is not less than the minimum height requirement that applies to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| HB316 | Pass | Charter; City of Norfolk; appointment of officers; record of ordinances; division of fire. Replaces references to election of certain city officers with references to appointment of such officers and deletes a reference to viva voce voting. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| HB274 | Pass | Informal truancy plans. Provides that a student may have up to three discretionary diversions for truancy so long as the immediately previous diversion occurred at least three calendar years prior to the current diversion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) |
| HB1093 | Pass | Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority; purpose. Authorizes the Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority (the Authority) to receive and expend public funds and private donations and apply for permits in order to perfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| HB1378 | Pass | Registration of surgical assistants; renewal of registration. Provides that in cases in which a surgical assistant was initially registered on the basis of a credential as a surgical assistant or surgical first assistant issued by the National Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| SB961 | Pass | Public schools; homeless children. Aligns provisions regarding when a homeless child or youth is deemed to reside in a school division with Subtitle VII-B of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. ?§11431 et se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| HB304 | Pass | Certain fraud crimes; Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Adds the offenses of obtaining money by false pretense, financial exploitation of mentally incapacitated persons, and construction fraud to the prohibited practices under the Virginia Consumer P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| SB248 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments. Makes technical amendments to Title 51.1, Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement, including clarifying that medical boards may be composed of not only physicians but also other health care professionals a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| HB800 | Pass | Towing; fees. Increases the maximum hookup and towing fee for passenger vehicles from $135 to $150. The bill contains a technical amendment. This bill is identical to SB 492.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
