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SB576PassStream 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...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627)
SB741PassStormwater 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...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630)
SB294PassAdministrative 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...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646)
SB238PassCollection of student demographic data; prohibition. Prohibits local school boards from requiring a student or his parent to disclose information related to the student's race or ethnicity unless (i) the student or his parent is given an option to de...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587)
SB585PassChesapeake Bay Restoration Fund and Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund Advisory Committee. Clarifies the purposes for which grants from the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund (the Fund) are to be used and clarifies that guidelines for the use of such grant...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628)
HB278PassCompensation of guardian ad litem appointed to represent a child; adjustment by the court. Provides that a court may adjust the costs of a guardian ad litem's services for good cause shown or upon the failure of the guardian ad litem to substantially...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688)
SB614PassModification of spousal support. Provides that no request for modification of spousal support based on a material change in circumstances or the terms of stipulation or contract shall be denied solely on the basis of the terms of any stipulation or c...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701)
SB540PassModification of spousal support; retirement age. Provides that for the purposes of petitioning the court for a modification of spousal support, the payor spouse's reaching full retirement age pursuant to the federal Social Security Act shall be consi...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583)
HB1249PassDNA analysis upon conviction of certain misdemeanors. Adds misdemeanor violations of Â?§18.2-57 (assault and battery) and 18.2-119 (trespass) to the list of offenses for which an adult convicted of such offense must have a sample of his blo...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)
SB504PassFederal pilot programs; report. Requires the Department of Transportation to convene a work group to identify the implications of the Commonwealth's participation in a federal data collection pilot program or project involving six-axle tractor truck ...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554)
SB615PassSpousal support payments; employer withholding. Clarifies that spousal support orders may be enforced by a court order requiring the payor's employer to deduct the support amount due from the amounts due or payable to such payor. Under current law, i...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707)
SB651PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; executive branch agency's goals for participation by small businesses; requirements. Expands the requirement under the Virginia Public Procurement Act that any executive branch agency's goals for participation by smal...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680)
HB1486PassVirginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. Amends the methodology for allocating assessments for long-term care insurance written by an impaired or insolvent insurer. The measure requires that 50 percent of such assessments ...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706)
SB931PassPublic institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management plan; annual exercise. Requires each public institution of higher education to annually conduct a test or exercise in accordance with the protocols established by the institutio...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714)
SB680PassSpecial fee to fund emergency services in certain counties. Authorizes any county with a population of less than 3,000 to adopt an ordinance, after holding a public hearing, imposing a fee to fund the provision of emergency medical services in the co...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660)
SB571PassReleasing agencies; notice of dangerous animal; penalty. Requires a custodian of a releasing agency, animal control officer, law-enforcement officer, or humane investigator, upon taking custody of any dog or cat from a person in the course of his off...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678)
SB478PassDepartment of Professional and Occupational Regulation; contractors; prohibited acts. Provides that a construction contract entered into by a person undertaking work without a valid Virginia contractor's license shall not be enforceable by the unlice...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653)
SB538PassExpansion of courthouses to contiguous property. Provides that expansion of a courthouse to contiguous land within the same county or city shall not trigger a referendum requirement. The existing statute refers only to relocation within the same coun...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582)
SB568PassPublic institutions of higher education; student loan information. Requires any public institution of higher education that receives federal education loan information for a student enrolled in the institution to provide such student, at least once d...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589)
SB722PassCondominium Act and Property Owners' Association Act; access to association books and records; duty to redact. Provides that books and records kept by or on behalf of a unit owners' association or a property owners' association shall be withheld from...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663)
HB1393PassArrowgun hunting; license. Authorizes the use of an arrowgun, a pneumatic-powered air gun, for hunting and allows certain disabled hunters to obtain an archery license for hunting with an arrowgun. This bill is identical to SB 859.
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557)
HB139PassHealth insurance; physician reimbursements; credentialing. Requires health insurers and other carriers that credential the physicians in their provider networks to establish reasonable protocols and procedures for reimbursing a physician who has subm...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703)
SB547PassTransient occupancy tax; eligible historic lodging properties. Authorizes a qualified county to impose, after holding a public hearing, an additional transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent of the amount of the charge for the occupancy of ...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626)
SB633PassAuditor of Public Accounts; Commonwealth Data Point; employee compensation information. Adds state employee bonuses, total compensation, and the identifier associated with each position for which the annual rate of pay is more than $10,000 to the lis...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601)
SB846PassRestitution; penalties other than fines; limitations on actions. Provides that the enforcement of an order of restitution docketed as a civil judgment is not subject to any statute of limitations. The bill also provides that the recovery of penalties...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736)
SB170PassPublic schools; student discipline. Prohibits, except for drug offenses, firearm offenses, and certain criminal acts, students in preschool through grade three from being suspended for more than three school days or expelled from attendance at school...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585)
HB1505PassCapitol 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...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579)
HB161PassPowers of service districts. Adds general government facilities to those types of facilities that may be constructed pursuant to the power granted to service districts.
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643)
SB218PassRecycling; beneficial use. Defines "beneficial use," "beneficiation facility," and "recycling center" and provides that a beneficiation facility or recycling center shall be considered a manufacturer for the purpose of any state or local economic dev...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615)
SB555PassBarrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health treatment providers. Provides that a community services board or a substance abuse or mental health treatment provider licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services ...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569)
SB234PassAutism Advisory Council; sunset. Extends the sunset provision of the Autism Advisory Council from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2020. This bill incorporates SB 337.
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719)
SB531PassDepartment of Taxation; accelerated refund program. Requires the Department of Taxation to reestablish an accelerated refund program for taxpayers filing income tax returns in person or via the United States mail with a commissioner of the revenue fo...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625)
SB747PassPublic institutions of higher education; guaranteed admissions agreements. Provides that the guaranteed admissions agreements between baccalaureate public institutions of higher education and associate-degree-granting public institutions of higher ed...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593)
SB418PassPublic safety answering points; deployment of text-to-9-1-1. Requires each public safety answering point (PSAP), by July 1, 2020, to be able to receive and process calls for emergency assistance sent via text message.
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673)
HB1174PassNewborn screening; lysosomal storage disorders. Directs the Board of Health to amend regulations governing newborn screening to include screening for Pompe disease and mucopolysaccharidosis type 1 (MPS-1). This bill is identical to SB 449.
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562)
SB229PassSchool bus personnel; training program; autism spectrum disorders. Requires the Board of Education to establish a training program for school board employees who assist in the transportation of students on school buses, including individuals employed...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586)
HB1238PassTimeliness of indictments, etc.; discharge from jail. Clarifies that only a person in jail on a criminal charge that has been certified or otherwise transferred from a district court to a circuit court is to be discharged from jail if an indictment, ...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551)
HB1206PassState Water Control Board; Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System; abbreviated newspaper notice. Authorizes the newspaper publication, if the permit applicant so elects, of an abbreviated public notice of certain Virginia Pollutant Discharge...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552)
HB1524PassBoard of Medicine; regulations related to retention of patient records; time. Requires health care practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to maintain health records for a minimum of six years following the last patient encounter. The bill al...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718)
SB586PassExhaust system in good working order; exclusion. Excludes vehicles licensed as antique motor vehicles from the requirement that such vehicle be equipped with an exhaust system in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or un...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655)
SB984PassMotorboats; means of propulsion; wakesurfing. Allows a motorboat that is propelled by a means that is below the water line and forward of either the transom or an integrated swim platform to be accompanied by a person in the water. Current law allows...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637)
SB69PassTransient occupancy tax; Arlington County. Extends from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2021, the sunset date for the additional one-fourth of one percent transient occupancy tax authorized in Arlington County.
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611)
SB222PassMedically or ethically inappropriate care not required. Establishes a process whereby a physician may cease to provide health care that has been determined to be medically or ethically inappropriate for a patient. This bill is identical to HB 226.
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565)
HB1382PassAgricultural best management practices tax credit; refundability for corporations. Allows taxpayers to apply for a refund of corporate income tax credits received for expenditures for agricultural best management practices. Under current law, corpora...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556)
SB762PassBoard of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; definition of "licensed mental health professional." Directs the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (State Board) to amend regulations governing licensure of providers of...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572)
HB1453PassReal estate appraisers; evaluations. Changes the definition of "evaluation" from an analysis, opinion, or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value, or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real property to an opinion o...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644)
SB307PassDepartment of Aviation; unmanned aircraft systems. Directs the Department of Aviation to convene a work group with stakeholders to explore issues related to unmanned aircraft system activities in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration ...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617)
SB939PassRetired circuit court judges, Court of Appeals judges, and Supreme Court justices under recall; qualification by Committees for Courts of Justice. Requires that retired circuit court judges sitting as substitutes be found qualified every three years ...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709)
HB1142PassQualification of fiduciary without security. Provides that a circuit court or circuit court clerk may allow a fiduciary to qualify by giving bond without surety when there are no assets or the asset or amount coming into the possession of such fiduci...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575)
SB775PassPublic schools; military children; tuition. Prohibits the child of a person on active military duty who is attending school for free from being charged tuition upon such child's relocation pursuant to orders his parent received to relocate to a new d...
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2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594)
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