Subject Study Commissions, Committees, and Reports | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB2254 | Management of the menhaden fishery. Establishes a total allowable landings of 144,272.84 metric tons per year for Atlantic menhaden landed in Virginia by the purse seine menhaden reduction sector, the purse seine menhaden bait sector, and the non-pur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| 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 | HB2320 | City of Virginia Beach; sports or entertainment arena. Gives the City of Virginia Beach rights similar to those that had been given in the past to the Hampton Roads Sports Facility Authority in constructing an arena for professional sports teams or f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| VA | SB1324 | Opportunity Educational Institution and Board established. Creates the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board. The bill requires any school that has been denied accredita... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB1261 | Health benefit exchange; regulation of navigators. Prohibits an individual or entity selected to serve as a navigator in a health benefit exchange from engaging in any activity that would require an insurance agent license under Title 38.2, offering... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| VA | SB1305 | 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 (CHAP0794) |
| 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 | HB1718 | Transportation planning and projects. Requires a locality to repay the Department of Transportation when a locality requests termination of a project and the Department does not agree to the termination or the locality or metropolitan planning organi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| VA | SB1279 | Consolidation of water quality programs. Moves several water quality programs currently administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Wa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| VA | HB2048 | Consolidation of water quality programs. Moves several water quality programs currently administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Wa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| 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 | HB2012 | Drones; moratorium. Places a moratorium on the use of unmanned aircraft systems by state and local law enforcement and regulatory entities until July 1, 2015, except in defined emergency situations or in training exercises related to such situations.... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| VA | SB1331 | Drones; moratorium. Places a moratorium on the use of unmanned aircraft systems by state and local law enforcement and regulatory entities until July 1, 2015, except in defined emergency situations or in training exercises related to such situations.... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| VA | HB1645 | Board for Contractors; tradesmen licenses. Provides that licenses for tradesmen shall be valid for three years from the date of issuance by the Board for Contractors. This measure is an attempt to sync changes to the Uniform Statewide Building Code, ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| VA | SB775 | Unemployment compensation; noncharging of overpayments; penalty for fraudulent claims. Provides that an employer shall not be relieved from a claimant's benefit charges relating to an overpayment of unemployment benefits when the employer has establi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| VA | HB1952 | Boards of visitors of public institutions of higher education; public access to information and governance. Adds specific topics to be covered during the educational programs for governing boards and requires such programs to be delivered by the Stat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0577) |
| 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 | SB1176 | 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 investigat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| VA | HB1406 | Parent educational information for public school students; eating disorders. Requires each school board to annually provide parent educational information on eating disorders for public school students in grades five through 12. The bill also require... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| VA | HB2138 | Health Insurance Reform Commission created. Establishes the Health Insurance Reform Commission as a legislative commission. The duties of the Commission include monitoring the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; determi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| VA | SB1178 | 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] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| VA | SB1207 | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "stude... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| VA | HB1999 | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "stude... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| VA | SB1263 | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; meeting by electronic communication means by certain committees, subcommittees, etc., of state public bodies; personal matters. Authorizes an advisory public body, defined as any state public body classified as ad... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| 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 | HB2079 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement. Reorganizes the definitions of and processes for competitive sealed bidding and competitive negotiation. The bill also adds a definition of job order contracting and specifies procedures to be ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| 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 | SB1209 | 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 (CHAP0646) |
| VA | SB1167 | Student growth indicators. Requires the Board of Education to develop student growth indicators by October 1, 2014, to be used in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also requires the Department of Education to submi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| VA | SB1196 | Board of Education; report to include information on school choice. Requires the Board of Education to include information regarding school choice in its annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| VA | SB1296 | Unclaimed tax credits; report. Declares a tax credit obsolete if it has not been claimed by any taxpayer during the preceding five calendar years, and prohibits the Department of Taxation from authorizing any taxpayer to claim a tax credit once it ha... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| VA | HB2246 | Health benefit exchange; regulation of navigators. Prohibits an individual or entity selected to serve as a navigator in a health benefit exchange from engaging in any activity that would require an insurance agent license under Title 38.2, offering ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| VA | SB1054 | Voluntary contributions of taxpayer refunds; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Adds the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan submitted by the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an option under the Voluntary Chesapeake Bay Restoration Contribution, to the l... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| 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 | SB1347 | Southwest Virginia Health Authority. Clarifies the definition of "hospital or health center" by adding references to dental facilities. The bill also adds provisions related to the authority of an industrial development authority to issue bonds in fu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| VA | SB1349 | Alcoholic beverage control; mandatory revocation of mixed beverage licenses. Requires the ABC Board to revoke the license of a licensee that (i) has defrauded or attempted to defraud the ABC Board, or any federal, state, or local government or govern... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| VA | SB918 | Local coal severance taxes. Establishes gross receipts for purposes of the local coal severance tax by providing that the only deduction allowed from gross receipts is for non-local transportation and processing costs of coal. The bill establishes a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| VA | HB1435 | Judges; senior judge system for the circuit and district courts of Virginia; study. Allows the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to contract with an independent entity such as the National Center for State Courts to s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| 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 | HB1856 | Emergency medical services; procedures and practice. Requires the Board of Health to direct the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board to develop and facilitate implementation of (i) a process for informing an emergency medical services prov... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| VA | SB1350 | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity created. Creates the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity by consolidating the powers and duties of the Department of Business Assistance and the Department of Minority Business Enter... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| VA | SB1138 | 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] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| VA | SB1075 | Transportation planning and projects. Requires a locality to repay the Department of Transportation when a locality requests termination of a project and the Department does not agree to the termination or the locality or metropolitan planning organi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| VA | SB933 | Movable Soccer Goal Safety Act created. Requires every organization that owns and controls a movable soccer goal to establish a soccer goal safety and education policy that outlines how the organization will address any safety concern related to mova... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| 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 | HB1672 | Naloxone; administration in cases of opiate overdose. Allows a person to obtain a prescription for and to possess and administer naloxone to a family member or friend for the purpose of counteracting the effects of opiate overdose. The bill also requ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| VA | SB1137 | 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 (CHAP0155) |
| 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 | HB2040 | Noise abatement practices and technologies. Extends for two additional years (until June 30, 2015) VDOT's evaluation of noise abatement practices and technologies demonstration projects. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) |
| VA | SJR277 | National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management; report. Requests the Virginia Secretary of Public Safety to establish a Statewide Traffic Incident Management Committee to coordinate the adoption and implementation of the National Unified Goal ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ277ER) |
