Sponsored by M. Keith Hodges - Virginia (Current)
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB2276 | Virginia Port Authority, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and Commonwealth Transportation Board. Implements reforms of the Virginia Port Authority by adding the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| VA | HB2313 | Revenues and appropriations primarily for transportation. Makes several changes to the revenues collected by the Commonwealth, and the distribution of such revenues, primarily for the benefit of transportation. The changes are as follows: The bill ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| VA | HB1907 | Driving while texting; primary offense; increased penalties. Provides that driving while texting is a traffic infraction punishable, for a first offense, by a fine of $125 and, for a second or subsequent offense, by a fine of $250. The current penal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| VA | HJR551 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption for spouses of soldiers killed in action. Provides that the General Assembly may provide a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of surviving spouses of members ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| VA | HB2114 | State Inspector General; powers and duties. Grants additional powers to the State Inspector General relating to audit functions of state and nonstate agencies and provides that the State Inspector General and no more than 30 members of the investiga... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| VA | HB1783 | Tax-paid contraband cigarettes; penalties. Increases the penalty for possession with intent to distribute more than 25 but fewer than 500 cartons of tax-paid cigarettes by a person other than an authorized holder from a Class 2 to a Class 1 misdemean... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| VA | HB1845 | Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Reward Fund; amount of reward; duties of the State Inspector General. Reduces the minimum recovery required for an award from the Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Reward Fund from $10,000 to $5,000 and expands the purpos... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| VA | HB1767 | Grants for donation of machinery and equipment to certain schools; fund established. Establishes a fund for a grant program for business donations of new machinery and equipment, purchased within the last 12 months by the business, to Virginia's comm... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| VA | HB2181 | Medical equipment suppliers; delivery of sterile water and saline. Adds sterile water and saline to the list of prescription drugs and devices that a permitted medical equipment supplier may receive, store, and distribute to a consumer. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| VA | HB2189 | Home care organizations; proof of initial reserve operating funds. Requires every applicant for an initial license to operate a home care organization to submit proof of sufficient initial reserve operating funds in an amount determined by the State ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| VA | HB2073 | Liability of real estate brokers and salespersons; false advertising and false information. Clarifies that a licensed real estate broker or salesperson shall not be liable for providing false information under certain circumstances, which includes an... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| VA | HB1385 | Right to vote by secret ballot on labor organization representation. Declares that, in any procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorization of a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individual employee to vot... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| VA | HB1931 | Employment; release of personal information. Provides that an employer shall not be required to release, communicate, or distribute to a third party any current or former employee's personal identifying information, unless required by federal law, st... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| VA | HB1422 | Dispensing of interchangeable biosimilar biological products. Permits pharmacists to dispense a biosimilar that has been licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as interchangeable with a prescribed biological product unless the prescriber ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| VA | HB1975 | Certificate of public need; continuing care retirement communities; admissions to nursing home beds. Adds persons who are employees or members of the board of trustees or board of directors of a continuing care retirement community, family members of... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| VA | HB1806 | Substances used to manufacture methamphetamine. Adds ammonium nitrate to the list of substances of which the possession of two or more with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also strikes "metal" fr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| VA | HB1682 | Financial exploitation of incapacitated persons; penalty. Provides that it is unlawful for any person who knows or should know that another person suffers from mental incapacity to, through the use of that other person's mental incapacity, take, obta... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| VA | HB1746 | Sentencing guidelines; definition of violent felony. Adds to the list of violent felonies: killing of a fetus, criminal street gang recruitment using force, strangulation of another, assault and battery when it is a hate crime, felony violation of a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| VA | HB2334 | Renewable energy power purchase agreements. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to conduct a pilot program in a certain utility's service territory. Under the pilot program, a person that owns or operates a solar-powered or wind-powered e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| VA | HB1923 | Worker retraining tax credit; increase in credit amount. Increases the worker retraining tax credit for worker retraining courses taken by employees at private schools from a maximum of $100 per year per employee to $200 per year per employee or $300... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| VA | HB1709 | Dismissal of action by nonsuit; fees and costs. Clarifies that if notice to take a nonsuit is given to the opposing party during trial, the court may assess against the nonsuiting party reasonable witness fees and travel costs of expert witnesses sch... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| VA | HB1448 | Financing for repairs to failed septic systems. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to create a loan program to enable the repair of property owners' failed septic systems. Any such ordinance is required to describe the arrangement of the loan progr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185) |
| VA | HB1499 | Administration of medications. Clarifies the circumstances under which emergency medical services personnel may administer medications and provides that emergency medical services personnel may administer medications pursuant to an oral or written or... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0191) |
| VA | HB2136 | Adding methasterone and prostanozol to Schedule III. Adds methasterone and prostanozol to Schedule III. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) |
| VA | HB1638 | Department of Military Affairs; providing of flag to next of kin. Adds the Virginia State Defense Force to the list of organizations that receive state appropriations for presentation of a flag of the Commonwealth to the next of kin of a person who, ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0198) |
| VA | HB1501 | Pharmacy; collaborative agreements. Clarifies parties with whom a pharmacist may enter into a collaborative agreement; provides that a patient who does not wish to participate in a collaborative procedure must notify the prescriber of his decision; a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0192) |
| VA | HB1372 | Unemployment compensation; disqualification from benefits due to loss of license or certification. Provides that an individual is ineligible for unemployment benefits if he has been discharged because he lost or failed to renew a license or certifica... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| VA | HB2004 | Liability for injury to trespasser. Provides that the possessor of real property owes no duty of care to a trespasser except in those circumstances where a common law right of action, statutory right of action, or judicial exception existed as of Jul... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| VA | HB1508 | Congressman William Wampler, Sr., Memorial Highway. Designates I-81 between the Virginia/Tennessee line and Exit 118 the "Congressman William Wampler, Sr., Memorial Highway." [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112) |
| VA | HB2117 | Foster care; time to conduct hearings, etc. Adjusts certain time frames for conducting or petitioning for hearings of a child in foster care and filing foster care plans in order to bring Virginia into compliance with Title IV, Part E (Federal Paymen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130) |
| VA | HB1618 | Venue in civil cases; conduct of business activity; change of venue. Provides that Category B venue exists where a defendant that is not an individual has its principal office or principal place of business. Currently, Category B venue exists where t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) |
| VA | HB1708 | Civil remedies; use of depositions. Allows that requests for admission for which the responses are submitted in support of a motion for summary judgment may be based, in whole or in part, upon discovery depositions and may include admitted facts lear... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076) |
| VA | HJR868 | Child Identification Program Day. Designates May 25, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Child Identification Program Day in Virginia. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 Introduced bill reprinted 13105013D |
| VA | HJR974 | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Clifton Alexander Woodrum III. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ974ER) |
| VA | HB1400 | Oyster replenishment tax; penalties. Reorganizes, clarifies, and renames the oyster replenishment tax system as a system of oyster resource user fees. In addition to repealing four Code sections, the bill replaces the former price-based replenishment... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038) |
| VA | HR224 | Commending Charlie Hill. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House (HR224ER) |
| VA | HR225 | Commending Golden Bethune-Hill. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House (HR225ER) |
| VA | HJR916 | Commending the Virginia National Guard. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ916ER) |
| VA | HJR909 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Rejected by Senate (15-Y 24-N) |
| VA | HJR820 | Commemorating the life and legacy of Captain Michael Dermott Mullan. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ820ER) |
| VA | HB2093 | Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth Circuit. Creates an additional circuit court judgeship in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit (City of Fredericksburg and Counties of Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King George, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Spo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1430 | Right to Farm Act. Expands the definition of agricultural operations to include the commerce of farm-to-business and farm-to-consumer sales as well as commerce in other related items. The bill creates a rebuttable presumption that an agricultural ope... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HJR654 | Opposing United Nations Agenda 21. Recognizes the need to oppose United Nations Agenda 21 due to its radical plan of purported "sustainable development." The resolution states that the General Assembly recognizes the policy's infringement on the Amer... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| VA | HJR775 | Celebrating the life of Leeser Boone Howell. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ775ER) |
| VA | HJR771 | Commending Danny Joyce. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ771ER) |
| VA | HJR760 | Commending Steven Allan Spielberg. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ760ER) |
| VA | HJR784 | Celebrating the life of Sergeant Aaron Xavier Wittman. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ784ER) |
| VA | HR157 | Celebrating the life of Tucker Carrington Watkins IV. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-08 Bill text as passed House (HR157ER) |
| VA | HJR776 | Commending Francena McCorory. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ776ER) |
| VA | HB1447 | Littering. Provides increased specificity as to what constitutes littering, and provides an alternative penalty for persons who litter in quantities no greater than 0.7 cubic feet. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
