| 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) |
| SB769 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; beer licenses. Creates a retail on-premises beer license for a nonprofit museum exempt from taxation under ?§501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, located in the Town of Front Royal, and dedicated to educating the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB1442 | Pass | Real property tax; assessment of wetlands. Directs the commissioner of revenue, when separately and specially assessing wetlands at the request of the property owner and if the assessing official disagrees with the property owner as to the presence o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| HB1404 | Pass | Snakehead fish; certified restaurants and retail markets. Exempts from the prohibition against importing, possessing, transporting, purchasing, or selling any nonindigenous aquatic nuisance species without a permit any Hazard Analysis and Critical Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559) |
| HB1055 | Pass | Sentencing guidelines; written explanation. Provides that the report of a judge's judicial performance evaluation, which is transmitted to the General Assembly, shall include the number of cases in which such judge did not file a written explanation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| SB154 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; hearing officers; timely decisions. Provides that a hearing officer conducting a formal hearing on behalf of an agency shall render a recommendation or conclusion within the time period specified in such agency's written r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| SB875 | Pass | State Board of Social Services; regulations related to staffing of assisted living facilities providing care for adults with serious cognitive impairments. Directs the State Board of Social Services to amend regulations governing staffing of assisted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB1390 | Pass | Bond referenda; authorizing counties to make bond issuance contingent on enactment of a food and beverage tax. Authorizes counties to enact ordinances providing that bonds shall be repaid from food and beverage tax revenues. The bill provides that if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| SB247 | Pass | Industrial hemp research programs. Authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to undertake research through the establishment of (i) a higher education industrial hemp research program, to be managed by institutions of higher ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| HB1552 | Pass | Virginia Board of Workforce Development; pilot program. Directs the Virginia Board of Workforce Development to recommend strategies to identify and engage discouraged workers and unemployed individuals not currently served by the workforce system and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB325 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services. Provides the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs (the Secretary) with greater direct oversight of the Department of Veterans Services (the Department). The bill requires (i) that the current cost-benefit and val...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| SB328 | Pass | Common Interest Community Board; disclosure packets; registration of associations. Requires the Common Interest Community Board to include information specifying the period or length of declarant control in its current one-page form that accompanies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| SB739 | Pass | Campaign finance; with whom former candidates file reports. Requires certain former candidates who are no longer seeking election but have not yet filed a final report as required by law and who file reports in nonelectronic format to file with the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB420 | Pass | Witness testimony accompanied by certified facility dogs. Provides that in any criminal proceeding the attorney for the Commonwealth or the defendant may request and the court may enter an order authorizing the use of a certified facility dog to aid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| SB670 | 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] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| HB1297 | Pass | Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; transfer to legislative branch. Transfers the Virginia-Israel Advisory Board (the Board) from the executive branch to the legislative branch. The bill also changes the membership of the Board by increasing the number o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| HB345 | Pass | Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection. Creates the executive branch position of Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection (the Assistant). The bill provides that the Assistant shall be t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| HB709 | Pass | Zoning violation penalties. Increases the maximum fine for failure to remove or abate a zoning violation after conviction from $1,500 to $2,000 for succeeding 10-day periods after two previous failures to remove or abate the violation in accordance w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1415 | Pass | Henrietta Lacks Commission; report; sunset. Creates the Henrietta Lacks Commission to establish through a public-private partnership the Henrietta Lacks Life Sciences Center in Halifax County as a cancer research and treatment center designed to (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| SB819 | Pass | MEI Commission; report. Clarifies that the annual report of the MEI Commission concerning endorsed incentive packages need only report on those incentive packages for which an offer has been made and publicly announced.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| HB153 | Pass | Revolutionary War cemeteries and graves. Authorizes the Comptroller of the Commonwealth to disburse appropriated sums to the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for the maintenance of no more than 4,050 Revolutionary War graves se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| SB664 | Pass | Graduation requirements; clock hours. Requires the Board of Education, in its graduation requirements, to permit local school divisions to waive the requirement for students to receive 140 clock hours of instruction after the student has completed th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB443 | Pass | 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 permit any English language learner who previously earne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB807 | Pass | Electric utilities; coal combustion residuals units; beneficial use projects. Directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to suspend, delay, or defer the issuance of any permit to provide for the closure of any coal combustion res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB1571 | Pass | William Preston Memorial Highway. Designates the portion of U.S. Route 220 in Botetourt County the "William Preston Memorial Highway."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB426 | Pass | Victims of domestic violence; list of local resources. Provides that upon issuance of an emergency, preliminary, or permanent protective order, the clerk of the court shall make available to the petitioner information that is published by the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| SB647 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control (ABC); applications for licenses. Removes the requirement that applicants for certain ABC licenses provide a statement, under oath, setting forth any information required by the Board of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| SB885 | Pass | Capitol Police; concurrent jurisdiction. Clarifies that in any case involving the theft or misappropriation of the personal property of any member or employee of the General Assembly, the Capitol Police shall have concurrent jurisdiction with law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| HB1525 | Pass | Use of handheld personal communications devices; highway work zones. Imposes a mandatory fine of $250 for using a handheld personal communications device for reading emails or texting while operating a motor vehicle in a highway work zone, defined in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB265 | Pass | Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection. Creates the executive branch position of Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection (the Assistant). The bill provides that the Assistant shall be t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| SB399 | Pass | Local or regional overdose fatality review teams. Authorizes any county or city, or any combination of counties, cities, or counties and cities, to establish a local or regional overdose fatality review team for the purpose of (i) conducting contempo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| SB576 | Pass | Stream restoration; standards and specifications. Allows a person engaging in more than one jurisdiction in the creation and operation of a stream restoration project for purposes of reducing nutrients or sediment entering state waters the same oppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| SB741 | Pass | Stormwater management; termination of general permit; notice. Requires a Virginia Stormwater Management Program Authority (VSMP authority) to recommend that the Department of Environmental Quality terminate coverage under a General Permit for Dischar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB294 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; exemption for certain regulations of the Department of Veterans Services. Provides an exemption from the Administrative Process Act for the Department of Veterans Services when promulgating rules and regulations pertaining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
