VA Committee | House Commerce and Labor | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SB1230 | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation program. Establishes a short-time compensation program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to rec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | HB1368 | Employees; jury duty. Requires employers, including the Commonwealth and localities, to excuse an employee from employment for each day the employee's service as a juror exceeds three hours. The requirement applies when an employee is summoned for ju... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1946 | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Amends the existing renewable energy portfolio standard program to require that for calendar years 2016 through 2025 a utility shall apply (i) only renewable energy generated or purchased in Virginia, off ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1572 | Workers' compensation insurance; experience modification factor. Prohibits the use of an accident in determining an insured employer's experience modification factor or level, for purposes of workers' compensation insurance, if the accident is the fa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2323 | Local limitations as to number of certain businesses. Provides that a locality may by ordinance reasonably limit the number of motor vehicle title loan businesses, payday lenders, check cashers, and precious metals dealers that may be operated at any... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1417 | Health insurance; contraception coverage. Provides that no health insurance plan, regardless of whether such plan consists of self-insurance, purchased insurance, a combination of purchased and self-insurance, or the use of a health maintenance organ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1857 | Propane; discriminatory pricing. Prohibits dealers from engaging in discriminatory pricing by selling or offering to sell propane at different prices or rates when the difference is attributable to the ownership status of the storage tank into which ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1977 | Open-end credit plans. Prohibits anyone other than the seller of goods to be used for personal, family, or household purposes from extending credit under an open-end plan at interest rates that exceed the legal rate of interest. To extend credit unde... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1986 | Open-end credit plan loans. Establishes requirements for open-end credit plan loans, which are revolving loans made under an open-end credit or similar plan under which a finance charge is imposed only if the obligor fails to repay the loan in full p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2274 | Electric utility regulation; schedule for biennial reviews. Requires Appalachian Power, referred to as a Phase I utility, to delay the filing of its next biennial review from March 31, 2013, until March 31, 2014, upon giving the State Corporation Com... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2024 | Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service, test, or related procedure that is administered or conduct... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1580 | Telephone billing practices. Exempts a telephone company from existing requirements regarding authorization and verification for products, goods, and services billed on a telephone bill if the telephone company bills its customers pursuant to an exec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2160 | Workers' compensation; medical benefits. Establishes a one-year period of limitations on actions by a health care provider for payment of charges for services rendered under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. The period starts to run on the late... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2206 | Workers' compensation insurance; payments to providers of health care services. Provides that the rate of payment for medical, surgical, and hospital services provided under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act may be (i) established in an agreemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1612 | Workers' compensation; fee schedule for medical care services and prompt payment. Limits the pecuniary liability of an employer for medical, surgical, and hospital services provided on or after October 1, 2014, pursuant to the Virginia Workers' Compe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1935 | Unemployment compensation; Self-Employment Assistance Program. Establishes the Self-Employment Assistance Program, under which unemployed individuals receive unemployment compensation while they are establishing their own businesses and becoming self... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1678 | Check cashers; customer identification; civil penalty. Requires a person conducting business as a check casher to make a copy of each item cashed and either make a copy of the customer's valid identification document or obtain the customer's thumbpri... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR600 | Memorializing Congress to enact legislation reinstating the separation of commercial banking and investment banking. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in support of federal legislation, such as the Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2011, tha... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1314 | Health insurance; contraception coverage. Provides that each insurer issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies, corporation providing individual or group accident or sickness subscription contracts, or health maintenance or... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1315 | Health insurance; contraception coverage. Provides that no individual or group accident and sickness insurance policy, individual or group accident or sickness subscription contract, or health care plan for health care services shall provide coverage... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR669 | Study; mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program; report. Directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study the establishment of a mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program for the Commonwealth. The study will (i)... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1943 | Electrical utility facilities; consideration of stability of fuel prices. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when required to approve the construction of any electrical utility facility, to consider the long-term price stability of any fuels ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1466 | Unemployment compensation; benefit ratio. Establishes a methodology for calculating an employer's benefit ratio when the employer has no taxable payroll for the 12-month period preceding a calendar year. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2330 | Uranium mining; penalties. Establishes a process for the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) to issue permits for the mining of uranium ore. DMME, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Health, State C... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2090 | Renewable energy facilities; eligibility for incentives. Establishes a requirement that electricity generated from renewable sources be generated from a facility located in the Commonwealth, or a facility off the Commonwealth's shoreline if it is an ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2108 | Reduced electricity rates for certain low-income residential customers; tax credit. Requires investor-owned electric utilities to offer eligible residential customers a reduced rate for electric service during December through April of each year. The... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB643 | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; telephone calls. Provides that the term "telephone call" for purposes of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act includes any text message sent via short message service (SMS), any message co... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB679 | Unlawful sale of criminal history information. Provides that the sale or offer for sale of the criminal history information of a person pertaining to a charge or conviction of a criminal offense after the arrest and charge history for that offense ha... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB705 | Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service or test, or related procedure, that is administered or cond... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB709 | Motor vehicle insurance; medical expense benefits; assignments. Invalidates assignments of medical expenses benefits provided under a motor vehicle liability insurance policy. Medical expense benefits due to a covered injured person may be paid direc... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB835 | Unemployment compensation; shared work programs. Establishes a shared work program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensati... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB980 | Health insurance; time limit on submitting claims. Establishes a minimum period of one year for the filing of a claim with a health insurance carrier. If it is not reasonably possible to submit a claim within this period, the carrier shall not reduce... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1077 | Day labor centers; use of E-Verify program. Requires day labor centers to be enrolled in the E-Verify program by December 1, 2012, and to use the E-Verify program for each day laborer referred by the day labor center to a third-party employer for day... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1190 | Workers' compensation; pharmacy providers. Provides that neither an employer nor his agent shall restrict an injured employee's choice of pharmacy providers pursuant to a workers' compensation claim. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1246 | Dulles Greenway; outdoor advertising; tolls. Allows the Dulles Greenway to lease property under its control for purposes of outdoor advertising. The bill also requires that the amount of toll vary according to distance traveled and take into consider... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1254 | Unemployment benefits for symphony orchestra performers. Provides that an individual is not eligible for unemployment benefits based on services consisting of performing or training with a symphony orchestra. The provision applies to weeks of unemplo... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB219 | Unemployment benefits; volunteer service requirement; study; report. Provides that eligibility for unemployment benefits is contingent upon the claimant's performance of at least 24 hours per week of volunteer service with a nonprofit charitable orga... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB231 | Gas pipeline safety; information disclosures. Prohibits employees and members of the State Corporation Commission from disclosing to any person any investigative notes and other correspondence and information furnished in confidence by a public servi... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB429 | Telephone bills; blocking third-party charges. Prohibits a billing carrier from including in a customer's bill charges for products, goods, or services submitted by a service agent or service provider after the customer has requested the billing carr... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
