Sponsored by Michael B. Watson - 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 | HB1707 | Unemployment compensation; notice penalty for fraud. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to provide claimants with notices of the sanctions to which a claimant is subject as a consequence of providing false or misleading statements to obtain ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| VA | HB1609 | Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Provides that the governing board of each public four-year institution of higher education may establish written memoranda of understanding with its local community services board or behavioral... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1996 | Tax credits for donations to nonprofits providing assistance to low-income families. Makes several changes to the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit and Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits programs including (i) allowing tax credits fo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1906 | Department of Veterans Services; programs to reduce unemployment among veterans. Provides for the Department of Veterans Services to develop a comprehensive program to reduce unemployment among veterans by assisting businesses to attract, hire, train... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| VA | HB2300 | Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exception. Provides an exception from the tied house restrictions by allowing the granting of any retail license to a distillery licensee, or to an applicant for such license, or to a lessee of such person, a wh... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| 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 | HB2101 | Career and technical education; High School to Work Partnerships. Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for the establishment of High School to Work Partnerships between public high schools and local businesses to create apprenticeship... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| 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 | HB1765 | Disqualification of voters; felons; procedure. Codifies the State Board of Elections current practice to check the monthly list of felony convictions received from the Central Criminal Records Exchange (CCRE) against the registered voters maintained ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| 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 | HB1671 | Alcoholic beverage control; tied house; exemption. Provides an exemption from the tied house restriction for one out-of-state winery, not under common control or ownership with any other winery, that is under common ownership or control with one rest... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| VA | HB1649 | Pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers; required to be maintained; certain digital images. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers to take a digital image of the form of identification used by the person pawning, pledging, or selling the go... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| 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 | HB1439 | Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the requirement for criminal history background checks for children's residential facilities shall also apply to local secure detentio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| VA | HB1760 | Virginia Business One Stop electronic portal program; participation by State Corporation Commission. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by June 30, 2018, to fully integrate processes and forms into the Business Permitting Center administered ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HJR922 | Celebrating the life of Ralph Michael Della Ratta. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ922ER) |
| VA | HJR927 | Commending Michael Suttle III. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ927ER) |
| VA | HJR954 | Commending John C. Jamison. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ954ER) |
| VA | HJR955 | Commending Williamsburg Regional Library. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ955ER) |
| VA | HJR956 | Commending the Hunter Smith Family Foundation. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ956ER) |
| VA | HJR957 | Commending Vangelis Dimopoulos. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ957ER) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1823 | Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities. Requires local public bodies to post certain required procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website and makes newspap... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB1587 | Alcoholic beverage control; powers of Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to issue certain case decisions. Empowers the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to render a determination in response to a petition by any beer wholesaler against a brewery, or by ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003) |
| VA | HJR807 | Commending the William and Mary ice hockey team. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ807ER) |
| VA | HJR813 | Commending the Newport News Fire Department Bomb Squad. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ813ER) |
| VA | HJR814 | Commending the Heritage High School Governor's STEM Academy. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ814ER) |
| VA | HJR817 | Commending Walter Segaloff. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ817ER) |
| VA | HJR819 | Commending Sam C. Canavos. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ819ER) |
| VA | HJR622 | 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] | 2013-02-12 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HJR775 | Celebrating the life of Leeser Boone Howell. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ775ER) |
| 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) |
