VA Code | §2-2 | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1478 | State Inspector General; powers and duties. Requires the State Inspector General, beginning July 1, 2014, to develop standard operating procedures and a schedule for performance reviews of executive branch agencies, which procedures shall include the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1489 | Department of Accounts; payroll of state employees. Directs the Comptroller to pay state employees on a weekly basis. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1602 | Virginia Workforce Council; annual informational brochure for eleventh grade students in public high schools. Requires the Virginia Workforce Council to assist the Governor in developing and annually updating a brochure containing information on voca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1529 | Justice for Victims of Sterilization Act. Establishes the Justice for Victims of Sterilization Act to provide compensation to persons involuntarily sterilized between 1924 and 1979. The bill creates the Justice for Victims of Sterilization Compensati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1882 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; resident employment and apprenticeship participation; required contract provisions. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract of more than $100,000 that involves the performance of work within the Commo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1758 | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; export of Virginia products and services. Authorizes the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to undertake whatever activities the Authority deems appropriate to provide bridge loans... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1936 | Department of Minority Business Enterprise; definition of small business. Changes the definition of "small business" to be a business located in Virginia that meets the definition of a small business concern as defined in the federal Small Business A... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1945 | Major Employment and Investment Project Site Planning Grant Fund; definition of "MEI project." Revises the definition of "MEI project" by decreasing the requirement for private capital investment from $250 million to $50 million and decreasing the nu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1976 | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. Clarifies that the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments is required to evaluate potential appointees to higher education governing boards and to make recommendations to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2075 | IEIA; Commonwealth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Measurement System. Authorizes the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority to create the Commonwealth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Measurement System as a tool to measure areas within... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2087 | Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Moves the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department of Business Assistance to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1951 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder if the bid ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1992 | State grievance procedure; review of hearing decisions. Provides that upon the request of a party to a grievance hearing for an administrative review of the hearing decision based on the party's assertion that the hearing decision is inconsistent wit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1998 | Food stamps program. Updates obsolete references to Food Stamps program and requires the State Board of Social Services to establish broad-based categorical eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2002 | Powers of the State Inspector General; legislative and judicial branches. Authorizes the State Inspector General to conduct performance reviews of legislative and judicial branch agencies in addition to executive branch agencies; however, such review... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2021 | Public employment; nondiscrimination. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on race, color, religion, political affiliation, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other reason except reasons related to skills, knowledge, or abil... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2032 | Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings. Allows regional public bodies to conduct electronic meetings in the same manner as state public bodies. The bill also removes the requirement that a public body hold one meeting each year at which no m... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2078 | Public procurement; design-build; construction management; protests; private investment. Increases public notice of requests for proposals from 10 to 30 days. The bill also (i) limits the use of competitive negotiation for construction projects, incl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2097 | Career Pathways System Advisory Council; established. Establishes the Career Pathways System Advisory Council. The purpose of the council is to ensure the coordination and collaboration of career and technical education, adult education, and workforc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2125 | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; requests for records. Provides that FOIA requests may be made by any citizen of the United States and not just citizens of the Commonwealth. The bill also allows a public body to require prepayment before providin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2133 | Employment discrimination; current employment status. Provides that no employer employing more than five but fewer than 15 persons shall fail or refuse to hire an individual on the basis of the individual's current employment status. The bill provide... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2134 | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; state agencies to post schedule of costs for producing records. Adds a requirement that each state public body created in the executive branch of state government and subject to FOIA make available to the public u... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2210 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of professional services. Allows any city located in Planning District 8 to procure architectural or professional engineering services relating to multiple construction projects where the sum of all such p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2230 | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments; composition. Adds a tenured faculty member from a four-year public institution of higher education and a faculty member from a community college to the Virginia Commission on Higher Educatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2278 | Department of State Police; variable housing allowance. Provides a housing allowance for full-time, sworn State Police officers, based upon pay grade and geographical location, from funds that are appropriated for such purpose. The rates of the varia... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2283 | Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority. Designates the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority as an agency in the executive branch of state government that, as such, reports to the Secretary of Natural Resources. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2321 | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; application to the State Corporation Commission. Makes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and designates venue for FOIA petitions against the SCC. The bill reve... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB872 | Assignment of general fund balance; Transportation Trust Fund. Increases from 67 percent to 75 percent the portion of the general fund surplus remaining at the end of each fiscal year that is deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund. Such deposit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | HB1683 | Office of Comprehensive Services; reporting expenditures for children receiving services. Adds community-based mental health services to the list of services for which expenditures must be reported by the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-Risk ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0001) |
| VA | HB1926 | Selection of local school boards; school board selection commissions. Abolishes school board selection commissions in school divisions composed of a single county and gives the county governing body all powers and duties previously held by the school... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB701 | Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or sta... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB800 | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 3, 2012 Special Session I Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB781 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; women-owned and minority-owned businesses; remedial measures. Provides that the Governor shall require state agencies to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law when a per... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB791 | Performance review of state agencies. Requires the Office of the State Inspector General to develop and implement an audit work plan using existing funding and in coordination with other pertinent agencies, as appropriate, to schedule executive branc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB879 | Employee Misclassification Task Force. Establishes the Employee Misclassification Task Force to, among other things, develop and recommend legislation to provide a clear and consistent definition of "employee" to ensure conformance with relevant fede... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB929 | Department of State Police; variable housing allowance. Provides a housing allowance for full-time, sworn State Police officers, based upon pay grade and geographical location, from funds that are appropriated for such purpose. The rates of the varia... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB991 | Department of Veterans Services; veterans identification card; discount on state-operated attractions. Provides a 50 percent discount on the admission fee to all state-operated attractions for a Virginia veteran who presents a valid veterans identifi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1134 | Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Moves the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department of Business Assistance to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1181 | IEIA; Commonwealth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Measurement System. Authorizes the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority to create the Commonwealth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Measurement System as a tool to measure areas within... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | HB1823 | Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities. Requires local public bodies to post certain required procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website and makes newspap... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1170 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; resident employment and apprenticeship participation; required contract provisions. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract of more than $100,000 that involves the performance of work within the Common... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1188 | Career Pathways System Advisory Council; established. Establishes the Career Pathways System Advisory Council. The purpose of the Council is to ensure the coordination and collaboration of career and technical education, adult education, and workforc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1301 | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; export of Virginia products and services. Authorizes the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to undertake whatever activities the Authority deems appropriate to provide bridge loans... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | HB1646 | Comprehensive services for at-risk youth and families; eligibility for state pool of funds. Provides that foster care services shall include independent living services provided to a former foster child who is over the age of 18 years but who has not... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 5 (effective 7/1/13) |
| VA | SB829 | Department of Veterans Services; programs to reduce unemployment among veterans. Provides for the Department of Veterans Services to develop a comprehensive program to reduce unemployment among veterans by assisting businesses to attract, hire, train... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034) |
| VA | HB2295 | Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; duties of the Assistant to the Governor. Provides for the Assistant to the Governor for Intergovernmental Affairs to convene at least annually a meeting of the Virginia Congressional Delegation and a delegation re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Chair votes No |
| VA | SB1212 | Provision of information to Department of Environmental Quality; protection of trade secrets. Requires that every person who the Department of Environmental Quality has reason to believe is generating or handling waste provide the Department with inf... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054) |
| VA | HB2229 | Detention and removal of a citizen from the Commonwealth by the federal government. Provides that the Secretary of Public Safety shall request from the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, when an agency of the federal government detains any citizen pursu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 Failed to pass in House |
| VA | SB1291 | Management of the menhaden fishery. Establishes a total allowable landings of 144,272.84 metric tons per year for Atlantic menhaden landed in Virginia by the purse seine menhaden reduction sector, the purse seine menhaden bait sector, and the non-pur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059) |
| VA | HB1818 | Powers and duties of the Commonwealth's Attorneys' Services Council. Requires the Council to provide information on changes in the law that affect the duties and responsibilities of law-enforcement officers and make such information available to law-... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0079) |
