| HB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Guardianship; communication between incapacitated persons and others; notification of relatives. Prohibits a guardian of an incapacitated person from restricting such incapacitated person's ability to communicate with, visit, or interact with other p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which an attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a circuit court judge for a warrant to remove firearms from a person who poses a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1014 | Intro
Sine Die | CBD oil and THC-A oil; certification for use; dispensing. Provides that a practitioner may issue a written certification for the use of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil for the treatment or to alleviate the symptoms of any diagnosed condition or disease ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Misdemeanor sexual offenses; statute of limitations. Eliminates the statute of limitations for prosecuting misdemeanor violations of the following crimes: female genital mutilation, carnal knowledge of offender by employee of bail bond company, sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB706 | 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
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | Petit larceny; state of emergency; penalty. Provides that the penalty for committing petit larceny of goods or merchandise from a store or mercantile establishment shall include a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 days if such larceny occurs within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Marriage-related criminal laws; gender-neutral terms; adultery repeal; penalty. Amends various criminal and criminal procedure laws to make them applicable to both same-sex and opposite married couples to comport with the United States Supreme Court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB989 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; formal advisory opinions. Authorizes the designee of the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council (Council) to release proposed formal advisory opinions for public comment pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Definition of birth control. Defines "birth control" as contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and provides that birth control shall not be considered abortion for the purposes of Title 18.2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB792 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; subtraction for military veterans with a permanent service-connected disability. Establishes for taxable years beginning January 1, 2018, an individual income tax subtraction for the military retirement income of veterans with a 100 perce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; no excuse. Allows for any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons for which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care provider panels; vertically integrated carriers; public hospitals. Requires any vertically integrated carrier, which is a health insurer or other carrier that owns an interest in an acute care hospital facility, to offer to every public h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. Entitles Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. Entitles individuals to a family and medical leave insurance (FMLI) benefit payment for each month they are engaged in qualified caregiving, not to excee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $9 per hour effective July 1, 2018, to $10 per hour effective January 1, 2019, to $11 per hour effective January 1, 2020, to $13 per hour effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain areas of the Commonwealth; price floor. Establishes a floor on the 2.1 percent sales tax imposed on motor vehicle fuels sold in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads by requiring that the average wholesale price...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; notification of denial. Requires notice of a denial of an application for voter registration to be provided by the general registrar to the applicant within 10 days of the denial. Such notice is required to be made by all availabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority; refinancing loan guaranty program. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority (the Authority), to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevailing wage; public works contracts; penalty. Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency for public works to pay wages, salaries, benefits, and other remuneration to any mechanic, laborer, or worker empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms by localities; lawful demonstrations and protests. Allows a locality to adopt an ordinance that prohibits the possession or transportation of firearms, ammunition, or components or a combination thereof during a demonstration, mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Replacement of trees during development process; Chesapeake Bay watershed. Authorizes any locality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the land development process. Current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing home standards of care. Increases the staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum of specific direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher licensure; prerequisites. Eliminates the requirements that teachers seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license (i) demonstrate proficiency in the use of educational technology for instruction and (ii) receive professional development i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain transportation districts. Provides that the tax that is imposed on the sales price of motor fuel in Northern Virginia shall be imposed on the regional price of gas, defined and computed as a six-month average ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Interest Community Board; powers and duties concerning associations. Requires the Common Interest Community Board to intervene in the internal activities of an association to the extent necessary to prevent or cure violations pursuant to the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Water supplies and water works; domestic use. Replaces the defined term "human consumption" with the defined term "domestic use" in the context of water supplies and waterworks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1391 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; overtime compensation. Excludes from the definition of wages any part of the individual's remuneration paid as overtime compensation required by §207 of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The exclusion applies only ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licensee; commission from sales on licensed premises; samples; hours of operation; markup. Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (the Authority) to pay a licensed distiller a commission of 25 percent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax in certain areas of the Commonwealth; price floor. Establishes a floor on the 2.1 percent sales tax imposed on motor vehicle fuels sold in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads by requiring that the average wholesale price...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint members to the Digital Citizenship, Inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Voter registration; automatic voter registration. Provides for the automatic electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB968 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Student Loan Authority established. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Authority, to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program by which (i) each individual who incurred qualified education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1586 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school buses; seat belts. Requires the Board of Education to make regulations to require each new public school bus purchased for the transportation of students to be equipped with a seat belt in every seat. The bill requires each school board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1576 | Intro
Sine Die | Local ability to pay; certain counties. Provides that if a county contains a school division composed of a town, the county's composite index shall be calculated as if the school division were not in the county. Under current law as provided in the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; feminine hygiene products. Exempts the following feminine hygiene products from sales and use tax: sanitary napkins, tampons, sanitary towels, menstrual cups, and sanitary pads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HJR35 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census of the United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal ash recycling or reuse. Prohibits disposal of coal combustion residuals except by recycling or beneficial reuse, unless it can be shown by clear and convincing evidence that such recycling or beneficial reuse is not cost-effective compared with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR70 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; costs of education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy efficiency programs. Provides that an energy efficiency program proposed by an electric utility is in the public interest if the net present value of the benefits exceeds the net present value of the costs as determined by any three of four be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Financing Authority (Authority); Virginia Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Fund created. Creates the Virginia Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Fund (the Fund) to provide short-term direct loans to eligible small businesses impa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1529 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental and supplemental family leave benefits. Parental and supplemental family leave benefits. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management (the Department) to implement and administer a parental leave benefits program (the parental leave ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; suspension of reviews of earnings; transitional rate period. Provides that the transitional rate period for Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion) will conclude on December 31, 2018, and its next biennial review w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Full-day kindergarten program plans. Requires each local school board that does not offer a universal full-day kindergarten (FDK) program for each kindergarten student in the school division to develop and implement a plan to fund and phase in a univ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB700 | Intro
Sine Die | School readiness tax credits. Establishes tax credits for five categories of expenditures related to school readiness: (i) parents' child care expenses, (ii) child care providers' expenses, (iii) educational development expenses of child care facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of certain monuments and memorials. Provides that for any monument or memorial erected prior to 1900, notwithstanding any Act of Assembly regarding the preservation of monuments or memorials enacted prior to 1900, the governing body of the lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1318 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver privilege cards. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an individual who has (i) reported income from Virginia sources on an individual tax return filed with the Commonwealth in the preced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; in-state tuition; certain residents of United States territories. Declares eligible for in-state tuition at public institutions of higher education until July 1, 2022, any resident of a United States territory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Officer-involved shootings; model policy for investigations; disclosure of report. Provides that an attorney for the Commonwealth shall disclose a report of his findings for any "officer-involved shooting" if no criminal charges are brought against a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; child sexual abuse. Requires the Board of Education to include in its Standards of Learning for family life education standards for age-appropriate instruction in the prevention, recognition, and awareness of child abduction, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1396 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; exception. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner to accept, review, and issue a certificate of public need for the establishment of and related equipment for a freestanding diagnostic imaging center located in Planning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
