Sponsored by J. Randall Minchew - Virginia (Current)
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1589 | Demolition of a derelict nonresidential structure with consent. Authorizes a locality to demolish or remove a derelict nonresidential structure and to file a lien against the property for the cost of the demolition or removal. The bill requires the l... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| VA | HB2005 | Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund. Renames the Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund to the Virginia Housing Trust Fund and codifies language in the latest appropriation act in which $7 million was appropriated to the Fund. The bill p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| 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 | HB2344 | School safety; threat assessment teams and oversight committees. Requires local school boards to establish policies and procedures for the establishment of threat assessment teams. The bill requires the division superintendent to establish for each s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| VA | HB2042 | DMV; customer service. Modifies requirements for (i) release by DMV of vehicle title information, (ii) automated electronic payments to the DMV, (iii) temporary motorcycle operator licenses, and (iv) deactivation, extension, and reactivation of vehic... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| VA | HB2345 | Virginia Center for School Safety; duties. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety, in conjunction with the Department of State Police, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, and the Department of Education, to develop... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| VA | HB1558 | Local endowment for certain libraries; Town of Leesburg. Provides that the Town of Leesburg by ordinance may establish an endowment fund for the purpose of supporting a library owned or operated by the town. The endowment may receive all gifts, grant... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| VA | HB2343 | Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013. Requires the Virginia Public School Authority to issue bonds for the funding of matching grants to local public school divisions for the purchase and installation of security equipment in public sch... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| 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 | HB1917 | Electric utilities; renewable thermal energy. Expands the definition of "renewable thermal energy" to include the energy output from certain solar energy systems located in the Commonwealth that heat air or water for residential, commercial, institu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| VA | HB2084 | Teacher licensure; Teach For America license. Creates a two-year provisional license for participants in Teach For America, a nationwide nonprofit organization focused on closing the achievement gaps among students in low-income areas, who meet certa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| VA | HB2266 | Interception of communications; sheriffs. Provides that the Attorney General may apply for authorization for the observation or monitoring by a sheriff's office of an interception of communications; under existing law the same may be done for a poli... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| 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 | HB1606 | Prostitution; solicitation of a minor; penalty. Provides that, in addition to the current Class 1 misdemeanor punishment for solicitation of prostitution generally, any person who solicits prostitution from a minor (i) 16 years of age or older is gu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| VA | HB1764 | State Board of Elections; Virginia Voter Registration System. Directs the State Board to cooperate with other states to develop systems to compare voters and registration lists in order to ensure accuracy of voter registration rolls, prevent duplicat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| VA | HB1586 | Local arts and cultural districts; tax incentives. Permits a locality to include the rebate of real estate property taxes among the tax incentives it makes available in an arts and cultural district established by ordinance. Current law provides for ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| VA | HB1697 | Real property tax; special valuation for land preservation. Makes it optional for localities to impose roll-back taxes when the owner of real property that qualifies for special land use valuation has the property rezoned for a more intensive use. Un... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| VA | HB1695 | Renewable energy; agricultural net metering. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a net energy metering program for eligible agricultural customers. Agricultural net metering will allow a customer that operates a solar, wind, or aer... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| VA | HB2061 | Human trafficking hotline; posted notices. Provides that any employer who operates a truck stop and who fails to post a notice, in the same location where other employee notices required by state or federal law are posted, of the existence of a huma... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| 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 | HB1349 | Dental hygiene and dental hygienist; definitions and licensure. Defines "dental hygiene" as duties related to patient assessment and the rendering of educational, preventive, and therapeutic dental services specified in regulations of the Board and n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) |
| VA | HB1699 | Tangible personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers. Creates a separate classification, for purposes of permitting localities to set a lower personal property tax rate, on computer equipment and peripherals used in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| VA | HB1451 | Retention of case records; general district court. Permits the chief judge of a general district court to direct the clerk of that court to destroy documents related to civil and criminal cases that have been ended for a period of three years, provid... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187) |
| VA | HB2041 | Fund for access roads and bikeways to public recreational areas and historical sites. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish guidelines, instead of regulations, in connection with use of recreational access funds. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0222) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1387 | Special license plates; supporters of the Washington Nationals baseball team. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Washington Nationals baseball team to support the Washington Nationals Dream Foundat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177) |
| VA | HB1933 | Lyme disease; disclosure of information to patients. Requires physicians to provide to each patient for whom a test for the presence of Lyme disease is ordered a written notice about Lyme disease, about testing for Lyme disease, and about the need f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1594 | Small estates; checks and negotiable instruments. Provides that if the successor to a decedent receives certain small assets in the form of checks, drafts, or other negotiable instruments that are payable to the decedent, the successor may endorse or... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) |
| 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 | HB1336 | Tax credit for employees who telework. Creates a $250 income tax credit for employees who telework a minimum of 20 hours per week during at least 45 weeks of the taxable year. The employee would apply for tax credit to the Department of Taxation. The... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HR230 | Commending Gabriella Miller. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 Bill text as passed House (HR230ER) |
| 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 | HJR947 | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Robert Loren Thoburn. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ947ER) |
| VA | HJR968 | Commending the Atlantic Coast Conference. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ968ER) |
| VA | HJR944 | Commending Christ Church Episcopal. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ944ER) |
| VA | HJR916 | Commending the Virginia National Guard. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ916ER) |
| VA | HJR650 | Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ650ER) |
| VA | HJR861 | Celebrating the life of Donald Neff Rose, Sr. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ861ER) |
| VA | HJR860 | Commending the Unison Preservation Society. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ860ER) |
| VA | HJR859 | Commending the Briar Woods High School football team. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ859ER) |
| VA | HJR858 | Celebrating the life of Joe L. Allbritton. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ858ER) |
| VA | HJR803 | Commending Luck Companies. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ803ER) |
| VA | HJR856 | Celebrating the life of William A. Hazel. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ856ER) |
