VA Committee | House General Laws | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | SB822 | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; fees. Changes approval authority over fees that may be charged by the State Fire Marshal to recover enforcement costs from the Board of Housing and Community Development to the Virginia Fire Service... [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 | 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 | SB871 | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; examination; initial asbestos worker license applicants. Requires employers to provide each licensed asbestos worker with a written notice containing the following information: (i) a statement t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1253 | Smoking in certain public areas. Allows localities to ban smoking in designated public parks, public beaches, and similar outdoor public areas. [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 | SB748 | Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of $1 million in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | HB1659 | Private security services businesses; exceptions. Provides an exception from licensure requirements for private security services businesses from other states that are duly licensed in those states and that contract for a specific investigation with ... [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 | HB1973 | Real Estate Board; death or disability of a broker. Requires the Real Estate Board to grant approval to certain persons in a specific order of priority as may be designated by a broker in the event of his disability or death to conclude the business ... [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 | HB1966 | Enterprise zones; criteria. Permits a locality to apply for enterprise zone status based on distress factors in the area of the proposed enterprise zone, rather than in the entire locality. [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 | 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 | 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 | HB1737 | Transparency in Developer-Owned Country Clubs Act; established. Provides that for any refundable deposit paid by a member for the use of a developer-owned country club that is not held in an account segregated from other accounts of the owner of the ... [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 | 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 | HB1593 | Landlord and tenant laws; Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of methamphetamine laboratory; remedy for nondisclosure. Requires a landlord of a residential dwelling unit who has actual knowledge that the dwelling unit was previou... [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 | HB2218 | Condominium Act; convertible land. Provides that no mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien shall be subject to the provisions of a recorded declaration unless such mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien expressly so provides. The bill also provides t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2233 | Enterprise zones. Provides that the expiration date of any enterprise zone located in a locality in which the monthly unemployment rate exceeded six percent in any of the 12 months immediately preceding January 1, 2013, shall be extended until the fi... [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 | HB2309 | Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act. Prohibits smoking in health care facilities. [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 | HB2257 | Property Owners' Association Act; rule enforcement. Gives the association the right to file a legal action for an order of abatement as a separate remedy for rules violations by a lot owner. [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 | HB2140 | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; fees. Changes approval authority over fees that may be charged by the State Fire Marshal to recover enforcement costs from the Board of Housing and Community Development to the Virginia Fire Service... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1600 | Alcoholic beverage control; transfers of wine. Allows a retail off-premises or on-and-off-premises licensee to transfer any wine from one licensed place of business to another licensed place of business under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1761 | Property Owners' Association Act; waiver of assessments; voting. Prohibits, under certain circumstances, an association or board of directors from waiving for any lot owner for any reason any assessment authorized in the declaration. The bill also pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1851 | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; asbestos contractors; notice to asbestos workers. Authorizes the Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors to suspend, revoke, or deny renewal of an existing license of any asbestos contract... [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 | 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 | HB1469 | State Inspector General; financial audit of Virginia's four-year public institutions of higher education; report. Directs the State Inspector General to conduct a comprehensive financial audit of Virginia's four-year public institutions of higher edu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| 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 | HB1479 | Condominium and the Property Owners' Association Acts; agenda to be included in meeting notices; contents of declaration for property owners' associations. Provides that notice of meetings shall include a copy of the agenda for that meeting. Further,... [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 | 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 | SB194 | Memorialization of fallen Virginians at the Virginia War Memorial. Codifies the criteria for inclusion of Virginians who died while serving in the armed forces on the Shrine of Memory at the Virginia War Memorial, as was required by legislation adopt... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB593 | Economic development; Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; required provisions in economic development agreements. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority and any locality to include in an economic development... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB741 | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission; powers. Authorizes the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review the detailed proposal for certain qualifying transportation facilities under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB781 | Department of Minority Business Enterprises; 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... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB815 | University-related foundation funds; University of Virginia; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if the University of Virginia uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the University in relation t... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB816 | University-related foundation funds; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if a Virginia college or university uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the college or university in relation to the e... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB817 | Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a Virginia college or university may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB818 | Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that the University of Virginia may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by the Un... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1008 | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; rights of owners. Provides that no provision of the declaration or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall prohibit an owner or any person entitled to occupy a unit or lot from exercisin... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB452 | Charitable gaming; network bingo. Authorizes the conduct of a new charitable game known as network bingo. The bill sets out the terms and conditions under which network bingo may be conducted, provides for the licensing of network bingo network provi... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
