| HB2744 | Pass | Virginia War Memorial Board; transfer of duties and sunset. Sunsets the Virginia War Memorial Board effective January 1, 2020, and, upon dissolution, transfers its advisory duties to the Board of Veterans Services. The Virginia War Memorial Board cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| HB1742 | Pass | Marsh Criminal-Traffic Division at Manchester General District Court and John Marshall Criminal-Traffic Division at Richmond General District Court; concurrent jurisdiction. Clarifies that the Marsh Criminal-Traffic Division at Manchester General Dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) |
| HB1936 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; in-state tuition; foreign service officers. Provides that members of the foreign service office who resided in the Commonwealth for at least 90 days immediately prior to receiving a foreign service assignment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| HB1923 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; tenant's right to reasonable attorney fees. Provides that a tenant is entitled to reasonable attorney fees when a tenant successfully raises as a defense the landlord'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| HB1629 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; request for proposals; publication. Removes the requirement for newspaper publication of Requests for Proposals for professional services. The bill also requires a local public body to post a Request for Proposal on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| HB2739 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; City of Alexandria. Adds six cemeteries in Alexandria to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| HB2071 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; job order contracting; limitations. Changes the maximum allowable sum of all jobs performed in a one-year contract term for job order contracts by increasing such maximum from the current amount of $5 million to $6 mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| HB1889 | Pass | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; meetings requirement. Requires the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to meet upon the call of the chairman or when a majority of Council members request a meeting. Cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| HB2521 | Pass | Board of Social Services; regulations governing assisted living facilities; staffing during overnight hours. Directs the Board of Social Services to amend regulations governing staffing of assisted living facility units with residents who have seriou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| HB1866 | Pass | Local audit. Requires that localities submit their annual local audit to the Auditor of Public Accounts. If the audit is not completed as required, the locality shall promptly post a statement on its website, if such website exists, declaring that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| HB2425 | Pass | Virginia Department of Health; monitoring of health care-associated infections. Requires health care facilities that are required to report information about health care-associated infections (HAIs) to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| HB2681 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; City of Hampton. Adds seven cemeteries in Hampton to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African Ameri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| HB2689 | Pass | Livestock definition; alpaca. Adds animals of the genus Vicugna, which includes alpacas, to the definition of "livestock" in the Domestic Animals law. Under current law, the definition includes animals of the genus Lama, which includes llamas but doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| HB2014 | Pass | Family First Prevention Services Act; statutory alignment. Aligns the Code of Virginia with the federal Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018. The bill contains an emergency clause for provisions of the bill relating to background checks for e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) |
| HB2384 | Pass | Public schools; tobacco products and nicotine vapor products. Requires each school board to (i) develop and implement a policy to prohibit the use and distribution of tobacco products and nicotine vapor products on a school bus, on school property, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| HB2298 | Pass | Banks; directors' meetings. Removes the ability of a bank's shareholders to fix the number that constitutes a quorum for a meeting of the bank's board of directors at not less than five. In its place, the measure authorizes a bank's shareholders to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242) |
| HB2539 | Pass | Sunset date for worker retraining tax credit; worker training investment tax credit. Advances the sunset date of the worker retraining tax credit from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2019, and creates the worker training investment tax credit to repla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189) |
| HB2045 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; certification of recovery residences; regulations; civil penalties. Provides for the promulgation of regulations for the certification of recovery residences by the Department of Behavioral ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| HB2720 | Pass | Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013; eligible security equipment. Specifies that, for the purpose of eligibility for grants for security equipment through the Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013, security equipment inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231) |
| HB2563 | Pass | Drug paraphernalia and controlled paraphernalia; fentanyl testing products. Clarifies that narcotic testing products used to determine whether a controlled substance contains fentanyl or a fentanyl analog are not drug paraphernalia or controlled para...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| HB1983 | Pass | Rail Enhancement Fund; matching funds. Provides that federal funds for freight rail projects may be used to satisfy the requirement that any project funded by the Rail Enhancement Fund include at least 30 percent matching funds from a private source....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185) |
| HB2220 | Pass | Special license plate; Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal or for unremarried surviving spouses of such persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0194) |
| HB1973 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; Pulaski County. Adds two cemeteries in Pulaski County to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0184) |
| HB2745 | Pass | Dangerous dog; deferral of proceedings. Authorizes a court to defer proceedings in the adjudication of an animal as a dangerous dog. Such authority requires the court to place conditions upon the owner of the animal, the violation of which shall auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190) |
| HB1666 | Pass | University of Virginia's College at Wise; reduced rate tuition. Permits the board of visitors of the University of Virginia to charge reduced rate tuition to any student enrolled at the University of Virginia's College at Wise who resides in the Appa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225) |
| HB1773 | Pass | Definition of pawnbrokers. Amends the definition of "pawnbroker" to only include natural persons. Under current law, a person, defined to include corporations, partnerships, associations, cooperatives, limited liability companies, trusts, joint ventu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0238) |
| HB1746 | Pass | Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare; name change. Changes the name of the Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare to the Virginia Initiative for Education and Work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| HB1766 | Pass | Charter; Newport News; inaugural meeting of newly elected council. Authorizes the Newport News City Council to set the time of the inaugural meeting of the newly elected council that is held on the first regular meeting date in July after council ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0198) |
| HB2648 | Pass | Crime victim rights; notice of release of defendant found unrestorably incompetent or acquitted by reason of insanity. Provides that, upon the request of the victim of a crime, the Commissioner of Behavioral Health or his designee shall notify the vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216) |
| HB2360 | Pass | Governor's required submission of bond bills. Changes the requirement that the Governor submit certain bond bills concurrently with the submission of his Budget Bill, or his gubernatorial amendments to the Budget Bill, to require that the Governor en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0188) |
| HB2242 | Pass | Statute of limitations; action based on an unsigned, written contract. Provides that the statute of limitations for an action based on an unsigned, written contract is three years after the cause of action has accrued. This bill is a recommendation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) |
| HB2796 | Pass | Watercraft; transfer by operation of law; transfer on death. States that a watercraft may be transferred by operation of law through the execution of a statement of transfer on death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
| HB2499 | Pass | DOC; policies to improve exchange of offender medical information. Directs the Department of Corrections to develop policies to improve the exchange of offender medical and mental health information, including policies to improve access to electronic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0202) |
| HB2659 | Pass | Bail bondsman; surrender of principal; deposit. Requires a bail bondsman on a bond in a recognizance who surrenders his principal for any reason other than a summons to show cause issued by the court for which the defendant is to appear to deposit wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205) |
| HB2357 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $17,500,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 1319.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187) |
| HB2158 | Pass | Dispensing of naloxone. Expands the list of individuals who may dispense naloxone pursuant to a standing order to include health care providers providing services in hospital emergency departments and emergency medical services personnel and eliminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| HB2217 | Pass | Department of Education; establishment of microcredential program. Permits the Department of Education to establish a microcredential program for the purpose of permitting any public elementary or secondary school teacher who holds a renewable or pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| HB1674 | Pass | Abuse and neglect of incapacitated adults; informed consent. Clarifies, for the purposes of the exemptions to abuse and neglect of incapacitated adults, that the informed consent or a declaration of the incapacitated person must have been given when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| HB1673 | Pass | Preliminary protective orders; full hearing date; court closure. Provides that if a court is lawfully closed and such closure prevents the full hearing for a preliminary protective order from being held within 15 days of the issuance of the prelimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197) |
| HB2558 | Pass | Medicaid recipients; treatment involving opioids or opioid replacements; payment. Prohibits health care providers licensed by the Board of Medicine from requesting or requiring a patient who is a recipient of medical assistance services pursuant to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223) |
| HB2548 | Pass | Restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Creates a method whereby circuit courts shall report to the Department of State Police the issuance of a restoration order that unconditionally authorizes the possession, transportation, or carr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0203) |
| HB2239 | Pass | Court buildings; ownership, location, and jurisdiction. Allows courthouses to be located on property owned jointly by a county and city. Other changes allow Albemarle County to locate its general district courts immediately across the street from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) |
| HB2699 | Pass | Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; task force; membership. Adds five members to the task force established to assist the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in its work regarding the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| HB2342 | Pass | Conditional rezoning proffers. Makes extensive changes to conditional zoning provisions first enacted in 2016. Specific amendments include the addition of provisions stating that no local governing body shall require any unreasonable proffer, as desc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
| HB2414 | Pass | Transfer of venue; delinquency; adjudication. Provides that a transfer of venue in delinquency proceedings, which under current law may occur only after adjudication, may occur when such adjudication consists of a finding of facts sufficient to justi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235) |
| HB1893 | Pass | Charter; City of Waynesboro; city council procedures; real estate tax assessments. Amends the City of Waynesboro charter to authorize any person aggrieved by a real estate assessment made by the assessor of real estate to have the right to a hearing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0239) |
| HB1970 | Pass | Telemedicine services; coverage. Requires insurers, corporations, or health maintenance organizations to cover medically necessary remote patient monitoring services as part of their coverage of telemedicine services to the full extent that these ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) |
| HB2439 | Pass | DNA analysis; conviction of certain crimes or similar ordinance of a locality. Adds persons convicted of a violation of a local ordinance that is similar to certain crimes listed under current law to the list of persons from whom a blood, saliva, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201) |
| HB2093 | Pass | Virginia Fire Services Board; membership. Changes the membership of the Virginia Fire Services Board by removing a member of the Virginia Society of Fire Service Instructors and the State Fire Marshal and adding a certified Virginia fire service inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0208) |
| HB2078 | Pass | Forfeiture on recognizance; bail bondsman; suspension of license. Provides that if a forfeited recognizance is not paid within 150 days, the license of any bail bondsman on the bond shall be suspended by the Department of Criminal Justice Services (t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200) |
