VA Committee | House Appropriations | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1596 | Opening of the school year; alternative schedules in school divisions containing low-performing schools. Permits a division superintendent, with the approval of the local school board, to (i) set the academic calendar for any school within the local ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2199 | Public schools; Standards of Learning tests. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to increase the number of students and the number of grade levels that are eligible for an expedited retake of an end-of-course Standards of Learnin... [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 | HB2168 | Virginia Retirement System; hybrid retirement program. Increases the maximum amount of the employer's matching contribution on behalf of the employee from 2.5 percent of creditable compensation to 2.8 percent of creditable compensation. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2173 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1331 | Retirement benefits for local employees. Provides that any locality may establish and maintain a defined contribution retirement plan for its employees in lieu of any other retirement plans for employees hired on or after July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2232 | Problem Gambling Treatment Fund established. Establishes the Problem Gambling Treatment Fund for the prevention and treatment of gambling addiction and other problems related to gambling and for the administration of such programs. The Fund shall rec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2244 | School Resource Officer Grants Program and Fund. Provides that proceeds of the School Resource Officer Grants Fund may be disbursed to award matching grants to local law-enforcement agencies and local school boards that have established a collaborati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1555 | Virginia State Virtual School; created as school division. Establishes the Virginia State Virtual School as a statewide school division, to be supervised and administered by the Board of Education, for the delivery of full-time online educational pro... [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 | HB2340 | Assisting federal gun control efforts. Prevents any agency, political subdivision, or employee of Virginia from assisting the federal government of the United States in any investigation, prosecution, detention, arrest, search, or seizure, under the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1568 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1543 | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Broadens eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program by including students whose Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the fa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1340 | Compensation and expenses of electoral boards and general registrars. Provides for reimbursement by the state to the localities of the entire costs of compensation and expenses of the electoral boards and general registrars. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1341 | Presidential primary costs. Provides that localities shall be reimbursed by the state for all costs incurred in conducting the presidential primary. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2287 | Local school boards; mental health first aid training plan. Requires each local school board, in conjunction with a local community services board located in the local school division, to seek to complete development of a mental health first aid trai... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1312 | Board of Education; administration. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations providing for an additional testing period, to occur prior to March 1 of each year, for the administration of Standards of Learning assessments to students. Loca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1313 | Income tax. Deconforms Virginia income tax laws from two provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that otherwise would increase the state income tax. [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 | HB1625 | Virginia Retirement System; collection of overpayments to retirees and beneficiaries. Prohibits VRS from collecting overpayments made to a retiree or beneficiary if the proximate cause of the overpayment was a computational error made by VRS or one o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1414 | Local jails; compensation for cost of incarceration. Changes the date on which the Department of Corrections shall begin compensating local jails for the cost of incarcerating state prisoners from the sixty-first to the thirty-first day following the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2335 | Transportation Revenue Fund. Establishes the Transportation Revenue Fund and dedicates revenues attributable to economic growth from Virginia's cargo marine terminals to the Fund. The bill also provides that if the operations at one or more ports of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1636 | Workers' compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl... [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 | HB1356 | Health insurance for local government employees. Gives local governments the option of having all their employees and retirees, as well as their dependents, eligible to participate in the state employee health insurance plan in lieu of the current s... [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 | HB2289 | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Expands the recipients of the health insurance credits currently going to retired teachers to all retired employees of local school divisions. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1789 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2296 | Best management cost-share program. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation to administer an urban best management practices cost-share program. The program would provide matching funds of up to 50 percent to promote best management pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1496 | Senior citizens; reduced tuition for attendance at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Permits a senior citizen whose taxable income exceeded $15,000 in the year preceding the year in which enrollment is sought to pay reduced... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB486 | Virginia Retirement System; certain employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education. Provides employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education the opportunity to purchase service credit in ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB216 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB814 | Virginia Public Health Foundation; established. Creates the Virginia Public Health Foundation in order to (i) support the development and implementation of innovative activities and creative solutions for the prevention of disease and the promotion o... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB832 | Distribution of sales tax revenue to localities based on school-age population. Permits local school divisions that make the determination that the annual estimate of school-age population within the division provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB850 | Appointment, compensation, and offices of general registrars. Provides that all general registrars shall serve on a full-time basis. The bill takes effect on enactment of an appropriation to effectuate its purposes. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB73 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1012 | Criminal history record information checks; elimination of fees. Eliminates the fees to be collected by licensed dealers for every firearms transaction that requires a criminal history record information check. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB465 | Appointment, compensation, and offices of general registrars. Provides that all general registrars shall serve on a full-time basis. The bill takes effect on enactment of an appropriation to effectuate its purposes. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB494 | Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities and combined sewer overflow projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $378 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wast... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1165 | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; police. Provides that the Authority may exercise full law-enforcement powers upon all property owned, operated, managed, leased, or maintained by or under the control of the Authority; establish and maintain a police... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1180 | Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $300 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wastewater treatment facilities to comply... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB208 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB6 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB428 | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law-enf... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
