| HB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; guidance documents for petitions to restore firearms rights. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in consultation with the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Office of the Exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1312 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentencing guidelines; appeals. Allows a court's departure from the discretionary sentencing guidelines to be reviewable on appeal, provided that the court failed to file the required written explanation of such departure and the sentence imposed exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB307 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited solicitation; penalty. Provides that no seller or person acting for him shall remain upon the land, buildings, or premises of another in order to make or attempt to make a home solicitation sale to any person that he knows or reasonably sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2018-02-15
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| HB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Pro se minors; signing of pleading, motion, or other paper by next friend. Provides that a minor who is not represented by an attorney shall sign his pleading, motion, or other paper by his next friend. The bill further provides that either or both p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1305 | Intro
Sine Die | Recovery of punitive damages. Eliminates the limitation of the total amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in an action. Current law provides that the total amount awarded for punitive damages shall not exceed $350,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of Chief Medical Examiner; collection of fees. Prohibits the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (the Office) from charging a fee for any services provided in connection with death investigations unless such fees are expressly authorized by s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Hate crimes; gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity of employers; employees and independent contractors convicted of a nonviolent offense; negligent hiring. Provides that no cause of action for negligent hiring against an employer shall arise solely because such employer hired an employee or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB566 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; annual inspection of disclosure forms. Requires the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to conduct an annual inspection of a random sample of disclosure statements filed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation of prosecutions; certain felonies. Provides that felony violations of ?§3.2-6570 (animal cruelty) and 18.2-386.1 (unlawful filming) are not subject to any statute of limitations on prosecution. With few exceptions, felonies are not su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person who is subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) to possess a firearm while the order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $1,000 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 c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal notices; online publications. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement may instead be published in an online...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB279 | Intro
Sine Die | RICO Act; computer crimes; penalty. Adds certain felony offenses contained in the Virginia Computer Crimes Act as qualifying offenses under the Virginia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act. Such crimes include computer fraud, tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Eluding police; penalty. Provides that the sentence for a person convicted of driving a motor vehicle in a willful and wanton disregard of a law-enforcement officer's signal to stop such vehicle so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB417 | Intro
Sine Die | Modification of sentencing guidelines; new sentencing proceeding. Creates a mechanism for a person incarcerated for a felony offense to petition for a new sentencing hearing if the sentencing guidelines for the offense have been modified subsequent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | DNA sample taken upon conviction; fee. Removes the limitation that the fee for withdrawing a sample of a person's blood, saliva, or tissue for DNA analysis upon conviction for a felony or certain misdemeanors be taxed only one time regardless of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a switchblade knife; exception. Authorizes any person who has a valid concealed handgun permit to carry a switchblade knife concealed when such knife is carried for the purpose of engaging in a lawful profession or lawful recreational activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1385 | Intro
Sine Die | Disqualifications for a concealed handgun permit; adjudications of delinquency. Provides that an individual is not disqualified from obtaining a concealed handgun permit on the basis of prior convictions or adjudications of delinquency if the individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Construction fraud; penalty. Revises the crime of construction fraud so that a person is guilty if he fraudulently fails or refuses to perform a promise for construction after having obtained an advance of money or other thing of value to do so. Curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; debt collection; fees. Limits the fee for collection of student debt on behalf of a public institution of higher education to 15 percent of the amount due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Breach of personal information notification; unreasonable delay. Defines the term "unreasonable delay" as a period not to exceed 30 days for purposes of the disclosure requirements imposed upon a person or entity that owns or licenses computerized da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Restitution; enforcement. Provides that the enforcement of an order of restitution docketed as a civil judgment is not subject to any statute of limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; limitations on causes of action. Allows courts to award front pay in addition to back pay as damages for discharging an employee in violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act (§2.2-3900 et seq.). The bill also removes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation; use of gender-neutral terms. Replaces the terms "husband" and "wife" as well as related terms with gender-neutral terms in Title 58.1 (Taxation) to comport with the United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $750 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] | 2018-02-15
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| HB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Unlawful creation of image of another; incapacitated adult; penalty. Provides that knowingly and intentionally creating a videographic or still image of a nonconsenting person if such person is totally nude, clad in undergarments, or in a state of un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following convictions for certain misdemeanor crimes; penalty. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery or assault and battery where the victim is a family or househol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1601 | Intro
Sine Die | Domestic terrorism offenses. Creates a new Domestic terrorism offenses. Creates a new series of separate and distinct felonies and misdemeanors based on prohibited domestic terrorism activity and participation in such domestic terrorism activity. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB974 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical marijuana; written certification. Allows a Medical marijuana; written certification. Allows a person to possess marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a physician for the treatment of any medical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Statement of expenses incident to prosecution. Clarifies that no expense on the statement of expenses incident to prosecution prepared by the clerk of court after a criminal trial shall exceed any applicable statutory limit set for such expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Juveniles; trial as adult. Increases the minimum age that a juvenile can be tried as an adult in circuit court for a felony from 14 years of age to 16 years of age. The bill would still allow juveniles 14 years of age or older to be tried as an adult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing a stopped school bus; penalty. Requires that any person who fails to stop his vehicle and remain stopped when approaching, from any direction, a school bus that is stopped on any highway, private road, or school driveway for the purpose of ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1384 | Intro
Sine Die | Hands-free operation of handheld personal communications devices in motor vehicles; exceptions. Expands the prohibition on using a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle to all communications unless the device is spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Pretrial Services Act; repeal. Repeals the Pretrial Services Act (§19.2-152.2 et seq.). The Act authorized the establishment of local pretrial services agencies that were intended to assist judicial officers in making bail determinations. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification registration. Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and operated in response to a declared state o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic case papers; transmission between district and circuit courts. Makes applicable to juvenile and domestic relations district courts current provisions related to electronic case papers and transmission of such papers between the general dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB510 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving while using handheld personal communications device; penalty. Provides that a person who, as a result of driving while in violation of the prohibition on using handheld personal communications devices in certain vehicles, unintentionally caus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery; public transportation operators; penalty. Provides that the punishment for battery of a person who is the operator of a vehicle operated by a public transportation service who is engaged in the performance of his duties is a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1403 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic wills. Provides a process for the Electronic wills. Provides a process for the execution of an electronic will, which has the same force and effect as a traditional, written will. The bill requires the electronic will to be kept under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Female genital mutilation; criminal penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for any person to knowingly circumcise, excise, or infibulate the labia major, labia minora, or clitoris of a minor; for any parent or g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Use or display of firearm during commission of a felony; killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Adds maliciously shooting, stabbing, wounding, or otherwise causing bodily injury to or administering poison to any animal used or trained by a law-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Guardianship; communication between incapacitated persons and others. Prohibits a guardian of an incapacitated person from restricting such incapacitated person's ability to communicate with, visit, or interact with other persons with whom the incapa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Strip searches of certain misdemeanants, etc. Authorizes the strip search of a person in custodial arrest for a traffic infraction, a Class 3 or Class 4 misdemeanor, or a local ordinance punishable by no more than 30 days in jail for a controlled sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Scope of discovery; deposing certain corporate officers. Provides that parties to a civil action may obtain discovery regarding any matter, not privileged, that is relevant to the subject matter and proportional to the needs of the case. The bill sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB983 | Intro
Sine Die | Street gangs; predicate criminal acts; penalty. Adds burglary with the intent to commit larceny, assault and battery, or certain felonies and burglary with the intent to commit any other misdemeanor to the list of predicate criminal acts associated w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; interdiction; possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages by interdicted persons; repeal. Repeals provisions allowing for a court to enter an order of interdiction prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages to any pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Abusive language; sports official; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to, in the presence or hearing of a sports official, curse or abuse the sports official or use violent abusive language toward the sports official concerning the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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| HB1457 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity of employers and potential employers; reports of violent behavior. Provides civil immunity to an employer who makes a report to a potential employer or law-enforcement agency of violent or threatened violent behavior, as defined in the bill,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
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