| HB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; required information security training program for state employees. Requires the Chief Information Officer of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (the CIO) to develop and annually update a curriculum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| HB2777 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties; establishment of guidelines for the surrender of firearms. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall have the power and duty to develop guidance documents and instructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Ground water withdrawals; allocation. Requires any Ground water withdrawals; allocation. Requires any person applying for a ground water withdrawal permit in the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area (EVGMA) who proposes to use 50 percent or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1749 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; foreign injuries. Provides that an injured employee is eligible for benefits under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when a compensable accident happens while the employee is employed outside Virginia if (i) the employment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2472 | Intro
Sine Die | Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1830 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain institutions of higher education; sexual violence policies; scope; student rights. Requires the Virginia Community College System, Richard Bland College, each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, and each nonprofit private in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1902 | Intro
Sine Die | Solar Demonstration Projects Grant Program. Establishes Solar Demonstration Projects Grant Program. Establishes the Solar Demonstration Projects Grant Program (the Program). The Program, to be administered by the Virginia Solar Energy Center, will ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2134 | Intro
Sine Die | Private security services businesses; qualifications; felony convictions. Limits to Class 5 or Class 6 felonies the felony convictions for which the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services, upon written request, may waive the prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2200 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter referendum; independent redistricting commission. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether there should be an independent redistricting commission established in Virginia for the purpose of drawing the district maps for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2491 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; eliminate certain requirements. Eliminates the requirement that an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to the third trimester be performed in a hospital. The bill eliminates all the procedures and processes, including th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR694 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Police; air emergency medical services; report. Requests the Virginia State Police to study the availability and affordability of air emergency medical services throughout the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | Third-party power purchase agreements. Exempts sellers under third-party power purchase agreements from being defined as a public utility, public service corporation, public service company, or electric utility solely because of the sale of electrici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1717 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment discrimination; prohibited against electoral board members and assistant general registrars for election day service; penalty. Prohibits discrimination in employment against electoral board members and assistant general registrars on the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1843 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources on an individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1928 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy power purchase agreements; pilot programs. Increases the aggregated capacity of all solar-powered or wind-powered generation facilities that are subject to third party power purchase agreements from 50 megawatts to 150 megawatts in D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2619 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats of death or bodily harm on school property; penalty. Includes orally communicated threats of death or bodily harm on school property as conduct subject to the enhanced penalty of a Class 6 felony. Under current law, only such threats communic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2319 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary school students; permitted fees and charges. Prohibits school boards from levying fees and charges on students, with the exception of charging tuition under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for donation to public access authority. Establishes for taxable years 2019 through 2023 a nonrefundable income tax credit in the amount of 40 percent of a donation to a public access authority. A credit would be allowed only for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2435 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; local labor use requirement for certain construction contracts. Requires under the Virginia Public Procurement Act (?§2.2-4300 et seq.) that every public body, when engaged in procuring contracts for construction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1705 | Intro
Sine Die | Dulles Airport Access Road; high-occupancy vehicles. Permits a high-occupancy vehicle having two or more occupants to use the eastbound lanes of the Dulles Airport Access Road regardless of whether such vehicle is being used for airport-related purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2163 | Intro
Sine Die | New media and technology innovation income tax credit. New media and technology innovation income tax credit. Establishes a new media and technology innovation income tax credit, starting with taxable year 2019, which is a nonrefundable tax credit fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1653 | Intro
Sine Die | Custody and visitation arrangements; best interests of the child; domestic abuse; child abuse. Requires the court to consider domestic abuse, defined in the bill, and child abuse in addition to family abuse and sexual abuse in current law when determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1716 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal sexual assault; definition of sexual abuse; complaining witness under age 13. Includes in the definition of "sexual abuse" the intentional touching of any part of a complaining witness's body, either on the skin or the material covering the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1736 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Integration Advisory Commission; sunset. Extends the sunset provision of the Community Integration Advisory Commission from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2004 | Intro
Sine Die | Community health workers; certification. Requires the Department of Health to approve one or more entities to certify community health workers in the Commonwealth and prohibits a person from using or assuming the title of certified community health w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2274 | Intro
Sine Die | Meat; food labeling; misbranding. Provides that a food product shall be deemed misbranded if it purports to be, or is represented as, a meat food product while containing no meat, except to the extent that its label bears the word "imitation" followe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1616 | Intro
Sine Die | Use or display of firearm during commission of a felony; killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Adds maliciously shooting, stabbing, wounding, or otherwise causing bodily injury to or administering poison to any animal used or trained by a law-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes against incapacitated and vulnerable adults; penalties. Expands the crime of abuse and neglect of an adult to include abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults, defined in the bill as persons 60 years of age or older. Current law applies only to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2196 | Intro
Sine Die | Debt settlement services; civil penalties. Establishes procedures and requirements for the licensure by the State Corporation Commission of agencies providing debt settlement services. The measure defines debt settlement services as any action or neg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2545 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's secretaries; Secretary of Workforce Development created. Creates in the Governor's cabinet the position of Secretary of Workforce Development (the Secretary). The bill removes the position of Chief Workforce Development Advisor and reassig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1641 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; no-excuse absentee. Permits 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 under which a person may be entitled to vote by abse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1769 | Intro
Sine Die | Management of menhaden. Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) to adopt regulations to implement the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden and authorizes the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1899 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence. Removes the option for concealed handgun permit applicants to demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing an electronic, video, or online course conducted by a state-certified or Nationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HJR627 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); electoral college. Provides that the candidates for President and Vice President who receive the highest number of votes cast statewide are allocated two electoral votes and the candidates for President an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2112 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas companies; right of entry upon property. Natural gas companies; right of entry upon property. Curtails the ability of a natural gas company to enter upon real property for the purpose of conducting surveys and other tests for its proposed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2254 | Intro
Sine Die | Ice cream trucks; warning lights. Authorizes ice cream trucks to be equipped with amber warning lights for use when the vehicle is stationary or being operated on a highway with a speed limit that does not exceed 25 miles per hour. The bill contains ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Energy Plan; covenants restricting solar energy collection devices. Clarifies that no condominium instruments may be amended to prohibit a property owner in a community association from installing a solar energy collection device on that own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; pilot program for Electric utility regulation; pilot program for undergrounding electrical transmission lines. Provides that the State Corporation Commission's approval of a proposed transmission line for inclusion in a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2531 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Insurance Premium Payment program; enrollment of eligible individuals. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to enroll in the Health Insurance Premium Payment program every person who is eligible for medical assistance service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2646 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; assignment of teachers; class size limits. Reduces from 29 to 28 the maximum class size in kindergarten; from 30 to 28 the maximum class size in grades one, two, and three; and from 35 to 29 the maximum class size in grades four, five,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1747 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; retaliatory discharge of employee. Prohibits an employer or other person from discharging an employee if the discharge is motivated to any extent by knowledge or belief that the employee has filed a claim or taken or intends to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1844 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher shortages; data; task force. Requires (i) each school board to report to the Department of Education annually no later than December 31 the number of full-time teacher vacancies in the school division as of November 1, by endorsement area, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1764 | Intro
Sine Die | Strikes by government employees. Repeals the provisions of the Code of Virginia that, among other things, provide that any employee of the Commonwealth, a locality, or other political subdivision who strikes or willfully refuses to perform the duties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Transportation to study State Route 28; report. Directs the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of implementing improvements to State Route 28 between U.S. Route 15 in Fauquier County and State Route 29 in Fairfax Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR685 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; fiscal and power restraints on the federal government. Makes an application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention pursuant to Article V of the United Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1619 | Intro
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1989 | Intro
Sine Die | Extended Employment Services. Removes the eligibility of individuals with a significant disability to receive Extended Employment Services. Under current law, Extended Employment Services are available to individuals with a significant disability or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1904 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration on election day; registration of provisional voters; close of registration records. Provides that persons who are otherwise qualified to register to vote are entitled to register to vote and cast a ballot in person in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2402 | Intro
Sine Die | Public employment; limitations on inquiries by state agencies and localities regarding criminal arrests, charges, or convictions. Prohibits state agencies and localities from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Minority language accessibility; voting and election materials. Requires the State Board of Elections to prescribe, and a covered locality to provide, voting and election materials in languages other than English. A county, city, or town is designate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
