| SB89 | Pass | Civil proceedings involving child abuse or neglect; testimony of children. Adds proceedings involving family abuse protective orders to the list of civil proceedings involving alleged abuse and neglect of a child for which a court may order that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564) |
| HB1454 | Pass | Civil immunity; programs for probationers; nonprofit corporation officials; worksite supervisors. Extends to state personnel and nonprofit corporation employees or officials the civil immunity afforded to probation officers, court personnel, county, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB663 | Pass | Air medical transportation; informed decision. Requires each hospital to establish a protocol requiring that, before a health care provider arranges for air medical transportation services for a patient who does not have an emergency medical conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB933 | Pass | Pharmacists and pharmacy practices. Provides that no provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent shall contain a provision (i) authorizing the carrier or its pharmacy benefits ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB1608 | Pass | The Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund; publicly owned treatment works; nutrient reduction. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to issue grants from the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| SB888 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; conveyance of easement and rights-of-way; Rappahannock River. Authorizes the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to convey to Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Virginia Power) an easement and rights-of-way ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| SB376 | Pass | Entities entitled to voluntary contributions of tax refunds; listing on individual income tax return. Allows the organization Children of America Finding Hope to be listed on the individual income tax return for taxable years 2018 through 2020 as an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| HB1546 | Pass | Removal of county courthouse. Provides that certain provisions regarding removal of a county courthouse shall not apply to the removal or relocation of any county courthouse, whether located on county or city property, that is entirely surrounded by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| SB508 | Pass | Use of unmanned aircraft system; public bodies. Allows an unmanned aircraft system to be deployed without a warrant (i) by a law-enforcement officer to survey the scene of an accident for the purpose of crash reconstruction and record photographic or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| SB490 | Pass | Temporary General Assembly Building; Pocahontas Building. Designates the Pocahontas Building as the temporary General Assembly Building and a part of the Capitol Square complex until reconstruction is completed on the General Assembly Building. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| HB1533 | Pass | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; applicability. Provides that the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act (?§55-508 et seq.) shall be applicable to any development established prior to the former Subdivided Land Sales Act (?§55-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| SB177 | 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 6,000 Revolutionary War graves se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| SB658 | Pass | Literary Fund; application for loans by regional and joint schools. Clarifies that school boards of school divisions participating in a regional or joint school may jointly apply to the Board of Education for a loan from the Literary Fund to benefit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB562 | Pass | Restitution; collection; Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Adds to the duties of the Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) in its role as administrator of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund (Fund) the obligation to (i) identify an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| HB1148 | Pass | Reporting on economic growth-sharing agreements. Provides that all economic growth-sharing agreements between localities shall require, at least annually, a report from each locality that is a recipient of funds pursuant to the agreement to each of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| SB609 | Pass | Retention of jurisdiction over juvenile offenders. Clarifies that when a juvenile and domestic relations district court obtains jurisdiction in the case of any child, such jurisdiction includes the authority to suspend, reduce, modify, or dismiss the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB215 | Pass | Teacher licensure; one-year license; instructors at regionally accredited institutions of higher education. Declares eligible for a renewable one-year license to teach in public high schools in the Commonwealth any individual who has (i) received a g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB330 | Pass | CBD and THC-A oil. Adds cannabidiol oil (CBD oil) or THC-A oil to the list of covered substances the dispensing of which must be reported to the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill requires a practitioner, prior to issuing a written certificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| SB947 | Pass | Special license plates; emergency medical services agencies; fire departments. Requires volunteer emergency medical services agencies or volunteer emergency medical services agency auxiliaries to notify the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB392 | Pass | Involuntary commitment of a juvenile; notification of parents. Permits the court to proceed with a hearing for the involuntary commitment of a juvenile in instances where both parents cannot be notified if the court determines that copies of the peti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| HB1605 | Pass | Disclosure of information under the Master Settlement Agreement and Non-Participating Manufacturer Adjustment Settlement Agreement. Provides that officers, employees, or agents of the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Taxation shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| SB73 | Pass | Overweight permits for hauling Virginia-grown farm produce; bridges and culverts. Provides that no five-axle-combination vehicle shall be issued an overweight permit for hauling Virginia-grown farm produce unless such vehicle has no less than 42 feet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| HB1087 | Pass | Animal research; alternative test methods; civil penalty. Requires a manufacturer or contract testing facility to use an alternative test method when available. An alternative test method is defined as one which (i) provides information of equivalent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| SB410 | Pass | Steady-burning blue or red lights on law-enforcement vehicles. Permits law-enforcement vehicles to be equipped with steady-burning blue or red lights in addition to being equipped with flashing, blinking, or alternating blue, blue and red, blue and w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB389 | Pass | Substance-exposed infants; plan for services; report. Provides that the Department of Health (the Department) shall serve as the lead agency with responsibility for the development, coordination, and implementation of a plan for services for substanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| SB912 | Pass | Retired law-enforcement officers; carrying a concealed handgun; return to work. Clarifies that a retired law-enforcement officer shall surrender his proof of consultation to carry a concealed handgun when he returns to work as a law-enforcement offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB1343 | Pass | Notaries; fee agreements with employer. Allows an employer to require a notary in his employment to surrender to such employer a fee, if charged, provided that the notarial act for which the fee is charged is performed during the course of the employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| SB371 | Pass | Local parks; waterway activities; liability. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of boating, canoeing, kayaking, or tubing activities on waterways and to exercise certain related powers. The bill relea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB359 | Pass | Driver education courses; instructor qualifications. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles (Commissioner) may, in lieu of the requirements established by the Department of Education for driver education instructor qualifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| SB356 | Pass | Charter; City of Richmond; office of the inspector general; city auditor. Creates an office of the inspector general for the City of Richmond. The inspector general shall be appointed by the council, and the duties of the inspector general shall be t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| SB368 | Pass | Education preparation programs; reading specialists; dyslexia. Requires each education preparation program offered by a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education that leads to a degree, concentration, or certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| SB340 | Pass | The Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund; publicly owned treatment works; nutrient reduction. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to issue grants from the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| SB564 | Pass | Public access to nonconfidential court records. Provides that a clerk of court or the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court shall make nonconfidential court records or reports of aggregated, nonconfidential case data available to the public upon r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| SB859 | Pass | Arrowgun 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 HB 1393.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| HB640 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; broadband infrastructure. Provides that a locality's comprehensive plan shall consider strategies to provide broadband infrastructure that is sufficient to meet the current and future needs of residents and businesses in the local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| HB1183 | Pass | City of Hampton; volunteer property maintenance and zoning inspectors. Adds the City of Hampton to the list of cities that may utilize volunteer inspectors to issue notice of noncompliance with certain ordinances related to the external maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| HB911 | Pass | Automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers; penalties. Prohibits a supplier making an automatic renewal or continuous service offer to a consumer in the Commonwealth from (i) failing to present the automatic renewal or continuous service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| HB690 | Pass | General registrars; residency requirement; exemption for certain counties and cities. Exempts counties and cities with a population of 25,000 or less from the requirement that a person appointed to serve as a general registrar must be a qualified vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB220 | Pass | Local parks; waterway activities; liability. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of boating, canoeing, kayaking, or tubing activities on waterways and to exercise certain related powers. The bill relea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| HB1160 | Pass | Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program; appointments. Provides that the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Senate Committee on Rules shall each appoint one director of a local alcohol safety action program to the Commission o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| SB652 | Pass | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; powers of director related to certification; report. Provides that all employment services organizations certified by the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (the Department) for ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB717 | Pass | Accident and sickness insurance rate filings; agent commissions. Requires that premium rate filings for certain health benefit plans include a description of agent commissions and any limitations or exceptions as they relate to the payment of such co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB989 | Pass | Virginia Antitrust Act; exemption for hospitals. Removes the exemption from the Virginia Antitrust Act that currently exists for certain activities of nonprofit hospitals or their officers, directors, or employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| SB673 | Pass | Emergency custody; time period. Repeals the June 30, 2018, sunset on provisions authorizing a community services board to continue to attempt to identify a facility other than a state hospital that is able and willing to provide temporary detention a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| SB950 | Pass | Pipeline construction; Water Protection Permit; additional certification for upland impacts. Provides that, for the construction of certain natural gas transmission pipelines greater than 36 inches inside diameter (Pipelines), the issuance of a Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB483 | Pass | Restitution; collection; Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Adds to the duties of the Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) in its role as administrator of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund (Fund) the obligation to (i) identify an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| SB813 | Pass | Sharing of forfeited assets; report. Provides that a state or local agency that receives a forfeited asset or an equitable share of the net proceeds of a forfeited asset from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (Department) or from a federal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| SB833 | Pass | Installation of a pen register or trap and trace device; emergency circumstances. Provides that when disclosure of real-time location data is not prohibited by federal law, an investigative or law-enforcement officer may obtain a pen register or trap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| HB1482 | Pass | Use of unmanned aircraft system; public bodies. Allows an unmanned aircraft system to be deployed without a warrant (i) by a law-enforcement officer to survey the scene of an accident for the purpose of crash reconstruction and record photographic or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| HB1301 | Pass | Judges; central registry records check; statement of economic interests. Requires that judges and substitute judges seeking reelection submit to a central registry records check for any founded complaint of child abuse or neglect. The bill also requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
