Sponsored by T. Scott Garrett - Virginia (Current)
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1577 | TANF; restrictions on use of cash assistance. Prohibits the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits in any electronic benefit transaction (i) for the purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, or sexually expl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| 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 | 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 | HB2116 | Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Amends the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to create new efficiencies and streamline procedures b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| VA | HB2268 | Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of farm winery licensees. Allows a farm winery licensee to pre-mix wine to be served and sold for on-premises consumption at the retail establishments of the licensee. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| 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 | HB1871 | Student and school employee conduct; bullying. Defines the term "bullying" and requires school boards to include in their codes of student conduct policies and procedures that include a prohibition against bullying. The bill also requires the Board o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2022 | Voter registration exchange. Directs the State Board of Elections to request voter registration information and lists of persons voting at primaries and elections, if available, from the states that border the Commonwealth in order to identify duplic... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| 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 | HB1561 | Agreements for consolidation or cooperation of police departments; private police departments. Allows localities to enter into reciprocal agreements with private police departments that are certified by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| VA | HB1941 | Synthetic cannabinoids; research chemicals; penalties. Amends provisions added to the Code in previous years regarding the criminalization of synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals known as "research chemicals" (previously referred to as "bath salts") ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| VA | HB1778 | Mammography results; information about dense breast tissue. Clarifies the conditions under which a mammography services provider must notify a patient of dense breast tissue. The bill provides that such notice must be sent to patients who are determi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) |
| VA | HB1640 | Child care providers; background checks for eligibility for child care subsidy payments. Requires any person seeking to enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services for the provision of child c... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2018 | Workers' compensation coverage for trainees at criminal justice training academies. Clarifies that any individual who receives training at a criminal justice training academy is not an employee of the academy. The academy is not required to provide w... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| 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 | HB2154 | Virginia Workforce Council; composition; powers. Provides for the Virginia Workforce Council to review the state's annual plan for postsecondary vocational education activities authorized under the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Techn... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
| VA | HB2083 | Teacher performance; Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative created. Establishes the Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative and Fund, which provide that local school divisions may submit proposals to the Board of Education to receive grants that ma... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| 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 | HB1791 | Suspension of license, registration, or certificate by a health regulatory agency; practice pending appeal. Prohibits a practitioner of the healing arts whose license, certificate, registration, or permit has been suspended or revoked by a health reg... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| VA | HB1849 | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of contract winemaking facilities. Includes in the privileges for winery and farm winery licensees the ability to operate a contract winemaking facility. In the bill, "contract winemaking facility" is defined as ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0117) |
| VA | HB2068 | Public schools; early intervention services for reading and mathematics. Adds kindergarten and grades one and two to the requirement that local school divisions provide early intervention services to students in grade three who demonstrate deficienci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123) |
| VA | HB1569 | Criminal Justice Training Academies; sovereign immunity of trainers. Expands the immunity from civil liability that exists for any criminal justice training academy and its directors, officers, and employees to include (i) any trainer at the academy ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0066) |
| VA | HB2167 | Individual income tax deductions; life, medical, and dental insurance premiums. Provides that beginning January 1, 2013, an individual age 66 or older with earned income of at least $20,000 for the year and federal adjusted gross income not in excess... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088) |
| 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 | HB1790 | Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium. Establishes the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth for the purposes of making the Commonwealth a national and global leader in nuclear energy and serving as ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0057) |
| 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 | 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 | HJR758 | Urban Agriculture Month. Designates October, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Urban Agriculture Month in Virginia. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ758ER) |
| 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 | HJR755 | Tax restructuring; report. Requests the Virginia Municipal League, Virginia Association of Counties, Virginia Small Business Commission, and Virginia Manufacturing Development Commission to evaluate and develop a plan for implementing tax restructuri... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| VA | HJR586 | Weight limits on interstate highways. Memorializes the Virginia Congressional Delegation to support efforts to allow states to authorize higher weight limits for commercial motor vehicles carrying agricultural and forestry products on interstate high... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| VA | HJR826 | Commending the Virginia Councils of the Boy Scouts of America. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ826ER) |
| 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 | HB1868 | First-time home buyer savings account. Establishes beginning in 2013 first-time home buyer savings accounts that accrue tax-free income and that are to be used for saving funds for the purchase of homes by first-time home buyers. Funds in the account... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-12 Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (15-Y 0-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 | HJR785 | Celebrating the life of John White Campbell, M.D. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ785ER) |
| 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) |
