| HB1583 | Pass | Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor. Establishes the position of Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor (Chief Advisor) within the Office of the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to serve as Virginia's single point of contact and integration for broadba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| SB587 | Pass | Conveyance of certain property in Caledon State Park. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to quitclaim and release all of its right, title, and interest in an unimproved parcel of land near the southwest corner of Caledon State P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| SB105 | Pass | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| HB101 | Pass | Board for Contractors; tradesmen licenses; expiration date. Provides that licenses for tradesmen shall expire three years from the date of issuance by the Board for Contractors. The bill requires the Board to sync the expiration date of a tradesman l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| HB80 | Pass | Teacher licensure by reciprocity; third-party verification of application documents. Requires the Board of Education, in its regulations providing for teacher licensure by reciprocity, to permit applicants to submit third-party employment verificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| HB287 | Pass | Special license plates; STOP GUN VIOLENCE. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of stopping gun violence bearing the legend STOP GUN VIOLENCE with an expiration date of July 1, 2020. The bill also authorizes the issuance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| SB394 | 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] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| SB930 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited conduct relating to contracts; exceptions; officer or immediate family member of an officer of Marine Resources Commission. Adds an officer or immediate family member of an officer of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| SB103 | Pass | Teacher licensure; reciprocity; spouses of Armed Forces members. Requires the Board of Education to provide for teacher licensure by reciprocity for any spouse of an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| HB1221 | Pass | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; additional duties of CIO; cybersecurity review. Requires the Chief Information Officer of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to (i) conduct an annual comprehensive review of cybersecurity policies o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| HB1550 | Pass | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| SB996 | Pass | Animal shelters; vaccinations; administration of biological products. Authorizes the operator or custodian of a public animal shelter to vaccinate animals that are confined in such shelter to prevent the risk of communicable diseases. The bill also p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| SB971 | Pass | Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Plan. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop and adopt an Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement plan and evaluate financing options for Interstate 81 corridor improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| SB349 | Pass | Teacher licensure. Makes several changes to the teacher licensure process, including (i) permitting teachers with a valid out-of-state license, with full credentials and without deficiencies, to receive licensure by reciprocity without passing additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| HB2 | Pass | Teacher licensure; reciprocity; spouses of Armed Forces members. Requires the Board of Education to provide for teacher licensure by reciprocity for any spouse of an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| SB959 | Pass | Disposition of unclaimed dead body; final orders of transportation and disposition. Provides that in cases in which a county or city attorney or the attorney for the Commonwealth for a county or city requests an order for transportation and dispositi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| HB793 | Pass | Nurse practitioners; practice agreements. Eliminates the requirement for a practice agreement with a patient care team physician for a licensed nurse practitioner who has completed the equivalent of at least five years of full-time clinical experienc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| HB1333 | Pass | Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives and ensure permanency for children for whom adoption or being returned home are not appropriate p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| HB1551 | Pass | Special Workforce Grant Fund; creation. Creates the Special Workforce Grant Fund to award grants to certain e-commerce companies that make a capital investment at a facility in Fairfax County of at least $84 million and create at least 1,500 new full...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| HB1125 | Pass | Teacher licensure. Makes several changes to the teacher licensure process, including (i) permitting teachers with a valid out-of-state license, with full credentials and without deficiencies, to receive licensure by reciprocity without passing additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| SB512 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); scholastic records; student addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. Prohibits the custodian of a scholastic record from releasing the address, phone number, or email address of a student in response ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| HB803 | Pass | High school equivalency programs; eligibility. Extends eligibility to participate in programs of preparation and instruction to take a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education to individuals who are at least 16 years of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| HB1537 | Pass | Animal boarding establishments; in-home care. Excludes from the definition of "boarding establishment" any private residential dwelling that shelters, feeds, and waters fewer than five companion animals that are not owned by the proprietor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| SB589 | Pass | Election day page program. Permits participants in the election day page program to assist in the counting of unmarked ballots at any time, at the direction and under the direct supervision of the chief officer of election. Currently, election pages ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| HB1452 | Pass | Regional industrial facility authority. Amends the enabling statute for creation of a regional industrial facility authority by reducing from three to two the required minimum number of participating localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB47 | Pass | Female genital mutilation; criminal penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 2 felony the penalty for any person to knowingly circumcise, excise, or infibulate the labia majora, labia minora, or clitoris of a minor; for any parent or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| SB346 | Pass | Fire Programs Fund; cancer prevention. Authorizes moneys in the Fire Programs Fund to be used for the purpose of providing training and education and purchasing products that are designed to reduce the incidence of cancer among firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| SB677 | Pass | Local tourism board; membership; member of a governing body of a locality. Authorizes a member of a governing body of a locality to be elected or appointed by that governing body to be a member of a local convention, visitors, or tourism board, autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| SB840 | Pass | Local school boards; school meal policies. Requires each local school board to adopt policies that (i) prohibit school board employees from requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or who owes a school meal debt to do chores or other w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB643 | Pass | Department of Transportation; electronic toll collection device fees or exchange. Prohibits the Department of Transportation from charging maintenance fees for or requiring users to exchange their electronic toll collection device as a result of inac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB567 | Pass | Agricultural operations; nuisance. Requires agricultural operations to be in substantial compliance, defined in the bill, with applicable laws, regulations, and best management practices in order to be exempt from becoming a public or private nuisanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB1379 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; records of retail licensees. Establishes that electronic records of retail licensees may be stored off site, provided that such records are readily retrievable and available for electronic inspection by the Board of Direct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| SB684 | 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] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| HB1534 | Pass | Department of Health; means of protecting the public from cancer caused by radon. Directs the Department of Health to review consumer complaints regarding radon testing and mitigation received since 2013 and the current certification requirements for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| SB993 | Pass | Local planning commissions; proposed plats. Prohibits a local planning commission from delaying the official submission of any proposed plat, site plan, or plan of development by requiring presubmission conferences, meetings, or reviews. The bill eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| SB487 | Pass | Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; civil penalties; rate of inflation. Raises the amounts for the civil penalties in the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act from not less than $5,500 and not more than $11,000 to not less than $10,957 and not more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB792 | Pass | Special license plates; Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Provides that funds received by Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc., as a result of its special revenue-sharing license plate fees may be used to support the group's operation and program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| SB854 | Pass | Renewal of nursery stock licenses; late fee. Imposes a $50 late fee for a nurseryman and $15 late fee for a dealer for failure to renew a nursery stock license within 30 days of the December 31 expiration date. The bill exempts from prosecution for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| HB1323 | Pass | Military surplus motor vehicles; registration and operation on highways. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a registration card and license plates for military surplus motor vehicles, as defined in the bill. The bill limits the use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| SB219 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption for flooding remediation, abatement, and resiliency. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2018, election to approve or reject an amendment to allow the General Assembly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| SB450 | Pass | Battlefield property; transfer of easements to United States. Directs the Secretary of Natural Resources (the Secretary) to endeavor to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States to accomplish the transfer of the Commonweal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB841 | Pass | Truancy; procedures. Makes several changes to the procedures relating to interventions when a pupil fails to report to school for a total of five scheduled school days for the school year, no indication has been received by school personnel that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| HB1599 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; definitions; law-enforcement officer. Adds (i) members of the investigations unit designated by the State Inspector General to investigate allegations of criminal behavior affecting the operations of a state o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| SB924 | Pass | Standards for the display of the Honor and Remember Flag at state buildings and facilities outside of Capitol Square. Provides that in the absence of a directive from the Governor or the Director of the Department of General Services, the head of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| HB1246 | Pass | Identity Theft Passport; police reports submitted to the Attorney General. Provides that a person whose name or other identification has been used without his consent or authorization by another person may file with the Attorney General for the purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| SB693 | Pass | Virginia Waterway Maintenance Fund; Grant Program. Establishes the Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program and Fund, administered by the Virginia Port Authority (the Authority), to provide grants to political subdivisions and local governing bodi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB375 | Pass | Sunday hunting; exceptions; raccoons. Removes the prohibition on hunting or killing raccoons after 2:00 a.m. on Sunday. This bill is identical to HB 239.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| SB486 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licensee; samples; banquet licenses. Allows licensed distillers to include in mixed beverages samples spirits or vermouth not manufactured on the licensed premises, provided that at least 75 percent of the alcoho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| SB637 | Pass | Virginia Longitudinal Data System; workforce data. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), through the Virginia Longitudinal Data System, to report additional information regarding the alignment of postsecondary education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| SB580 | Pass | Data collection and dissemination; governance. Amends the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (?§2.2-3800 et seq.) to facilitate the sharing of data among agencies of the Commonwealth and between the Commonwealth and polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
