| HB2084 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| HB2062 | Pass | Citizens' Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion; membership. Re-staggers the terms of the membership of the Citizens' Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB2147 | Pass | Primaries; candidate petition signatures, certification by party chairman. Provides that in furnishing to the State Board of Elections or local electoral boards the names of candidates for nomination in a primary, including a presidential primary, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB2308 | Pass | Local correctional facilities; electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners. Adds Voice-over-Internet Protocol technology and web-based communication systems used for communication between prisoners and third parties to the types of communicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| HB2158 | Pass | Officers of election; multiple precincts. Provides that the local electoral board may reassign an officer of election from the precinct in which he was originally assigned to work to another precinct for the remaining portion of election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| HB1606 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| HB1335 | Pass | Electoral board; temporary appointment. Allows the senior judge, for good cause, to appoint a temporary member to the electoral board in order to maintain a quorum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB1559 | Pass | Felony DUI; penalty. Provides that any person convicted of a felony DUI offense (including DUI manslaughter and DUI maiming, by motor vehicle or watercraft) is guilty of a Class 6 felony for any subsequent DUI conviction, that punishment includes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB2255 | Pass | Voter lists. Requires a local electoral board to submit the list of persons who voted at any election to the State Board of Elections within 60 days after each election unless such list is not available due to a pending recount or election contest. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB2256 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation; membership of board. Increases the membership of the board of trustees of the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation from 22 to 23 by adding the Chairman of the Friends of Southwest Virginia. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| HB1684 | Pass | Identity theft; penalties. Raises the punishment for identity theft where five or more persons' identifying information has been obtained, recorded, or accessed in the same transaction or occurrence from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony and raises the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| HB2266 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| HB1582 | Pass | Armed security officers; protection of schools and child day centers. Permits any armed security officers licensed by the Department of Criminal Justice Services to carry firearms onto private or religious school property if such officer is hired by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| HB1635 | Pass | Temporary jail facilities; Chesapeake. Allows the City of Chesapeake to receive a waiver from the construction requirements of the "Standards for Planning, Design, Construction and Reimbursement of Local Correctional Facilities" for a jail enlargemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB1311 | Pass | Appeal of bond decision. Provides that when a bail, bond, or recognizance decision is appealed, the court that made the decision may, for good cause shown, stay the execution of the order for so long as reasonably practicable for the party appealing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB1435 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| HB1981 | Pass | Use of electronic tracking devices; penalty. Provides that any person who installs or places an electronic tracking device through intentionally deceptive means and without consent and uses it to track the location of another person is guilty of a C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB1961 | Pass | Charter; City of Portsmouth. Changes the deadline for the filing of a petition nominating a candidate for the office of mayor or city council member from the first Tuesday in June to the second Tuesday of June of the year of election. The amendment a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB1955 | Pass | Impersonating a law-enforcement officer or other public safety personnel. Provides that any unauthorized person who wears a uniform identical to or substantially similar to a standard uniform used by an office of sheriff to impersonate the office of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| HB1358 | Pass | Impersonating a law-enforcement officer. Adds federal law-enforcement officers and any local, city, county, and state law-enforcement officers to the list of law-enforcement officers for which it is a Class 1 misdemeanor to falsely assume or exercise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| HB1813 | Pass | City of Bedford reversion; special election for certain council members. Requires a special election for members of council for any town that, on July 1, 2013, is both created by a transition from city to town status and enlarged by annexing territor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB1481 | Pass | Secondhand articles; scrap metal purchasers; penalty. Provides that any person or business that purchases scrap metal in excess of $20,000 during a 12-month period shall be subject to requirements regarding the purchase of nonferrous scrap, metal ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB1363 | Pass | Private security services businesses; exemption. Exempts employees and sales representatives of an electronic security equipment retailer from training requirements when they (i) sell the equipment at a store location, online, or by telephone, but n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| HB1886 | Pass | Vehicle tire weight limitations. Prohibits operation, for a commercial purpose, of certain vehicles whose tire weight exceeds 125 percent of the tire weight limit guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB2241 | Pass | Vacant building registration. Adds the Town of Clifton Forge to those localities with authority to require the owner or owners of buildings that have been vacant for a continuous period of 12 months or more to register such buildings on an annual bas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| HB1929 | Pass | Deer kill permits. Authorizes the chief law-enforcement officer of a town to report to the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries that deer are creating a traffic hazard in the jurisdiction. If after an investigation the Director fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| HB1452 | Pass | Charter; Town of Chase City. Increases salary caps for the mayor and members of town council. The bill also removes outdated provisions related to a municipal court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| HB2228 | Pass | Overweight vehicle permit fees. Provides that the fee for engineering analysis performed prior to issuance of an overweight vehicle permit is not to exceed three hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| HB1753 | Pass | Scenic river. Adds the 17.8-mile segment of the Meherrin River lying within Mecklenberg and Lunenburg Counties as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. The Meherrin River within Brunswick County, a distance of approximately 37 miles, adjo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| HB2305 | Pass | Solar panels in community associations. Clarifies that a community association may establish reasonable restrictions concerning the size, place, and manner of placement of solar energy collection devices on property designated and intended for indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| HB1384 | Pass | Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability. Removes obsolete provision requiring the Commonwealth to provide the Commission with "adequate office space."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| HB1468 | Pass | Public schools; possession and administration of epinephrine. Adds employees of local governing bodies and employees of local health departments to the lists of individuals who are permitted to possess and administer epinephrine and not be held liabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB1390 | Pass | Charter; Town of Kilmarnock. Amends the town's charter of 1952, as amended, regarding the town's boundaries; the service of council members appointed to fill vacant seats; the authorities of the town manager and the director of public utilities; the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| HB1721 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect investigations; time limit for reports. Provides that time during which the local department of social services is waiting to receive records that are necessary for the investigation of alleged sexual abuse of a child or alleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| HB1706 | Pass | Charter; City of Norfolk. Shifts the election cycle for the mayor by providing that the person elected mayor at the 2014 election shall be elected for a term of two years only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB2178 | Pass | Charitable gaming; network bingo. Authorizes the conduct of a new charitable game known as network bingo. The bill sets out the terms and conditions under which network bingo may be conducted, provides for the licensing of network bingo providers, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| HB1401 | Pass | Real property tax; sale of sole dwelling for delinquent taxes. Requires that, prior to initiating judicial proceedings to sell real property because of delinquent taxes, the locality must notify the taxpayer that he has the right to request that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| HB2099 | Pass | Shooting of muskrats and raccoons. Allows a landowner to trap or shoot fur-bearing animals including muskrats and raccoons upon his own land during the closed season when these animals are causing damage to his crops or property, or are posing a thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| HB2220 | Pass | Banister River; state scenic river. Designates a 38.4-mile segment of the Banister River as a state scenic river.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| HB2222 | Pass | Appraisal management companies; provision of appraisal services. Provides that an appraisal management company shall not enter into any contracts or agreements with an independent appraiser for the performance of real estate appraisal services unless...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| HB1756 | Pass | City of Bedford reversion; taxation of real property that becomes part of Bedford County. Requires Bedford County to impose real property taxes on property that becomes part of the County as a result of the reversion of the City of Bedford to town st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| HB1637 | Pass | Restoration of parental rights. Creates a procedure for restoring parental rights to a parent whose rights to his child have previously been terminated when the child is at least 14 years of age and the child has not achieved his permanency goal. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| HB2184 | Pass | Trip hunting and fishing licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue trip hunting licenses to nonresidents and trip fishing licenses to residents and nonresidents for time periods and at costs determined by the Board. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| HB1801 | Pass | Board for Contractors; Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Act. Makes several changes to the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Act to clarify the eligibility and assessment requirements for the claims review process including (i) adding a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| HB1805 | Pass | Lifetime saltwater recreational fishing license. Allows Virginia residents 65 years of age and older to purchase a lifetime saltwater recreational fishing license for $5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| HB1990 | Pass | License taxes on certain motor vehicles. Allows localities to impose a license tax, not to exceed $250 annually, upon resident owners of motor vehicles that do not display license plates issued by the Commonwealth and that are not exempt from the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| HB2334 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| HB1829 | Pass | Using a GPS device to manage dogs in pursuit of foxes. Allows hunters to use a GPS (Global Positioning System) or other electronic tracking device to manage dogs that are hunting or pursuing a fox. Current law distinguishes actually following a dog f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| HB2301 | Pass | Volunteer fire departments; billing by localities. Allows localities to directly bill homeowners on behalf of local volunteer fire departments under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| HB2089 | Pass | Electronic transmission of permits. Allows the Department of Environmental Quality to transmit electronically air pollution control, water quality, and waste management permits or certificates, as well as other information such as plan approvals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
