| SB821 | Pass | New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority; annual contributions. Authorizes the Board of the New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority to develop an allocation formula to determine each participating political su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| SB137 | Pass | Notification of local appropriation to acquire property rights; Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field. Requires that the member of the House of Delegates and the member of the Senate of Virginia representing the area in which the Fentress Naval Auxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB527 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries and graves; Portsmouth. Adds the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in the City of Portsmouth, with 266 eligible gravesites, to the list of historical African American cemeteries for which qualifying charitable organizations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| SB535 | Pass | Personal injury claim; disclosure of insurance policy limits. Provides that in a civil action for personal injuries sustained from a motor vehicle accident, regardless of the amount of losses sustained by an injured person, an insurance company shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB134 | Pass | Value engineering. Raises the minimum project cost requiring the use of value engineering from $5 million to $15 million. The bill exempts projects that are designed utilizing (i) a design-build contract or (ii) the Public-Private Transportation Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| SB20 | Pass | Department of Planning and Budget; regulatory reduction pilot program; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget (the Department), under the supervision of the Secretary of Finance (the Secretary), to administer a three-year regulatory re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| HB591 | Pass | Land bank entities; real property tax exemption for certain leasehold interests. Exempts from real property taxation leasehold interests in property acquired or used by a land bank entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| HB1088 | Pass | Hospitals; security and emergency department staff; mental health training. Requires the Board of Health to include in its regulations governing licensed hospitals a requirement that every hospital with an emergency department establish protocols to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| HB879 | Pass | Hospitals and nursing homes; frequency of inspections. Clarifies, in provisions governing frequency of hospital and nursing home inspections, that a second inspection of a hospital or nursing home that has previously been inspected may be performed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB686 | Pass | Unclaimed property; deposits with financial institutions; charges and interest. Clarifies the criteria that must be met for a bank or other financial organization to impose charges or cease to pay interest on a dormant or inactive account that differ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| SB171 | 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] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB1132 | Pass | Dinwiddie Airport and Industrial Authority; residency requirements. Provides that at least four members of the seven-member Dinwiddie Airport and Industrial Authority (Authority) shall be residents of the County of Dinwiddie and removes the requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB799 | Pass | Public aircraft; definition. Provides that the definition of "public aircraft" includes any fighter or attack jet, defined in the bill, that is leased or owned by a private entity, provided that the aircraft operations are conducted exclusively for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| SB211 | Pass | Comprehensive plans; groundwater and surface water. Authorizes a locality to show in the locality's comprehensive plan the locality's long-range recommendations for groundwater and surface water availability, quality, and sustainability. The bill req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| HB260 | Pass | Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a critically missing adult, defined as an adult whose whereabouts are unknown, who is believed to have been abducted, and whose disap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB737 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles documents; veteran indicator. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver's licenses, permits, and identification cards displaying an indicator signifying that the holder is a veteran, provided that the appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| HB167 | Pass | Diploma seals; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Requires the Board of Education to establish criteria for awarding a diploma seal for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for the Board of Education-approved diplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| SB14 | Pass | Service of process on county attorney. Removes the requirement that in an action against a supervisor, county officer, employee, or agent of the county, each member of the county board be served; instead, only the county attorney, or the clerk of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB552 | Pass | Definition of restaurant; exception; bed-and-breakfast operations. Exempts from requirements related to restaurants, including licensure requirements, any bed-and-breakfast operation that prepares food for and offers food to guests, regardless of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB883 | Pass | Department of Planning and Budget; regulatory reduction pilot program; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget (the Department), under the supervision of the Secretary of Finance (the Secretary), to administer a three-year regulatory re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| HB123 | Pass | Town of Buchanan charter; elections; town council members; employees of town. Staggers the elections of the town's four council members so that, beginning with the November general election in 2019, two members shall be elected to two-year terms in o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB236 | Pass | Parked vehicles; registration, licensing, and titling requirements. Expands from vehicles operated on a highway to vehicles operated or parked on a highway the class of vehicles subject to registration, licensing, and titling requirements. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| HB1096 | Pass | Dredged material siting; fast-track permitting program. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to develop a fast-track regulatory permitting program for the selection and use of appropriate sites in Tidewater Virginia for the disposal of material dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| HB790 | Pass | Licensed barbers and cosmetologists; exemptions. Exempts persons working in a barbershop or cosmetology salon whose duties are confined to blow drying, cleansing, and styling hair from being required to obtain an occupational license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB760 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; exemption for Virginia-grown food products; required documentation. Requires a public body to accomplish procurement by obtaining written informal solicitation of a minimum of three bidders or offerors if practicable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| HB1047 | Pass | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; definition of manufactured home park. Reduces from 10 to five the minimum number of manufactured homes on a parcel of land under single or common ownership that meets the definition of a manufactured home park subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB505 | Pass | Traffic signs; people with disabilities. Allows any person who is deaf, blind, or deaf-blind, any person with autism or an intellectual or developmental disability, or the agent of any such person to request that the Department of Transportation (Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB1138 | Pass | Office of the Qualified Education Loan Ombudsman. Establishes the Office of the Qualified Education Loan Ombudsman (the Office) within the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The Office's duties include (i) receiving, reviewing, and attem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB1500 | Pass | New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority; annual contributions. Authorizes the Board of the New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority to develop an allocation formula to determine each participating political su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| SB57 | Pass | Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer. Relocates the existing section prohibiting fleeing from a law-enforcement officer to a more logical location with prohibitions for obstructing justice and resisting arrest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| HB922 | Pass | Electric vehicle charging stations; local and public operation. Authorizes any locality or public institution of higher education, or the Department of Conservation and Recreation, to locate and operate a retail fee-based electric vehicle charging st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB360 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; Charlottesville; Daughters of Zion Cemetery. Adds the Daughters of Zion Cemetery in Charlottesville, which cemetery contains 192 eligible graves, to the list of those cemeteries for which qualified charitable o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| HB1428 | Pass | Charter; Town of Jonesville. Lengthens the terms of councilmen and the mayor from two years to four years. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| SB71 | Pass | Service of process on domestic limited liability company. Extends to domestic limited liability companies the rules for service of process on a domestic corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB897 | Pass | Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; six-year plans. Specifies that the six-year plan and amendments to or affirmation of such plan that are required to be submitted no later than July 1 of each year to various executive and l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HB211 | Pass | Ground water withdrawal permit term; lengthening to 15 years; permit fee. Lengthens from 10 years to 15 years the maximum term of a ground water withdrawal permit issued by the State Water Control Board. The bill also lengthens from 10 years to 15 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| SB95 | Pass | Security freezes for protected consumers. Provides that sufficient proof of authority for a person to place a security freeze for a protected consumer includes a birth certification or a written, notarized statement signed by a representative that ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| HB212 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Allows any school district to invoke the current exemption from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school district employee wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB632 | Pass | Career investigation courses and programs of instruction. Requires the Board of Education (Board) to (i) establish content standards and curriculum guidelines for courses in career investigation; (ii) develop, in consultation with certain stakeholder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| SB78 | Pass | Trust decanting; authorized fiduciary. Reinstates the restriction in Virginia's former trust decanting law that limits the type of fiduciary who may exercise the decanting power to a disinterested trustee. The bill also reinstates the former provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| HB28 | Pass | Voter registration list maintenance; due date of annual report. Clarifies that the annual report made by the Department of Elections on its activities undertaken to maintain the Virginia voter registration system is due by October 1. The report is re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| HB729 | Pass | Virginia Fire Services Board; powers and duties; modular training program for volunteer firefighters. Directs the Virginia Fire Services Board to develop a modular training program for volunteer firefighters for adoption by local volunteer fire depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| SB374 | Pass | Cattle Industry Board; assessment from sale of cattle. Renames the Beef Industry Council as the Cattle Industry Board (the Board) and renames the Virginia Beef Industry Fund as the Virginia Cattle Industry Fund (the Fund). The bill simplifies the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB1164 | Pass | Return of search warrants to jurisdiction where executed. Provides that return made on search warrants for records or other information pertaining to a subscriber to, or customer of, an electronic communication service or remote computing service sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| HB554 | Pass | Broker's licenses; bed and breakfast establishments. Permits operators of bed and breakfast establishments, defined in the bill, to sell or offer for sale to their guests transportation for compensation without first obtaining a broker's license issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| HB821 | Pass | Conveyance of Little Island Coast Guard Station. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convey all of its right, title, and interest in a parcel in Virginia Beach within Little Island Park known as the Little Island Coast Guard S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| HB590 | Pass | Real property tax; assessment or exemption of property conveyed or owned by a community land trust. Requires the assessor, in determining the fair market value of structural improvements conveyed by a community land trust, subject to a ground lease h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB1044 | Pass | School board policies; healthy school workplaces. Requires each school board to adopt policies to (i) prohibit abusive work environments in the school division, (ii) provide for the appropriate discipline of any school board employee who contributes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| HB71 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption for surviving spouses of certain disabled veterans. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2018, election to approve or reject an amendment to the real property tax exempt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| SB186 | Pass | Unmanned aircraft by a locality; search warrant; exception. Authorizes a state or local government department, agency, or instrumentality having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement or regulatory violations to utilize an unmanned aircraft syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
