| HB1927 | Pass | Emergency medical services personnel; penalty for assault and battery. Adds emergency medical services personnel members who are employed by or volunteers of an emergency medical services agency and engaged in the performance of their public duties t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| SB1123 | Pass | State Shakespeare Festival designated. Designates the Virginia Shakespeare Festival held in Williamsburg as the official Shakespeare festival of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| HB1617 | Pass | Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| HB2203 | Pass | Fee for solid waste disposal; exemption. Provides that Pittsylvania County may impose a fee for solid waste disposal in part to purchase or subsidize the purchase of equipment used for the collection of solid waste. The bill also provides that in Pit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| SB1074 | Pass | Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB1750 | Pass | Participation in interscholastic programs; students residing on a military or naval reservation. Requires any student who resides on a military or naval reservation with military-owned housing located wholly or partly within the geographical boundari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB1769 | Pass | Health insurance; plan management and rate review. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to perform plan management functions for participation in the federal health benefit exchange established by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| SB958 | Pass | Voter registration; final day of registration and mail registration application. Provides that the principal office of the registrar shall close for registration purposes at 5:00 p.m. on the final day for registration before an election. The same dea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| HB1532 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; certain local employees. Makes technical changes necessary to carry out the purpose of Chapter 811 of the 2012 Acts of Assembly, permitting localities to exempt firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law-enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| SB1164 | Pass | Action for expenses for infant's injury; statute of limitations. Provides that any action by a parent or guardian of an infant for the expenses of curing or attempting to cure the infant from the result of a personal injury or loss of services of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| SB1185 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| HB2345 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| SB799 | Pass | Real property tax; special valuation for land preservation. Permits Goochland County to adopt certain variations in administering the special valuation of real property for land preservation for real property in service districts created after July 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| SB1207 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| SB1077 | Pass | Registered voters; citizenship; SAVE Program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to apply to participate in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program) operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB1999 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| SB974 | Pass | Nursing homes; electronic monitoring by patients. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations governing the implementation of voluntary electronic monitoring in the rooms of residents of nursing homes, which shall include existing policies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB1110 | Pass | Oyster inspection tax. Authorizes the Potomac River Fisheries Commission to impose an oyster inspection tax not to exceed $2 per bushel. Currently, under the Potomac River Compact, the Commission can impose an inspection tax that cannot exceed the hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| HB2042 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| SB959 | Pass | Crossing highways. Allows local governing bodies to adopt ordinances requiring users of shared-use paths to stop before crossing highways at marked crosswalks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB1089 | Pass | Health insurance program for local government employees and other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth. Removes the authority of centers for independent living and area agencies on aging to join the Local Choice Plan for their employees because...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| HB2130 | Pass | Nursing homes; electronic monitoring by patients. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations governing the implementation of voluntary electronic monitoring in the rooms of residents of nursing homes, which shall include existing policies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| HB1601 | Pass | Commission on Civics Education; sunset extended. Extends the sunset date for the Commission on Civics Education to July 1, 2016. The bill also repeals the provision that made the existence of the Commission contingent on continued funding in a gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| SB1178 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| SB1241 | Pass | Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency. Advances the conformity with the federal tax code from December 31, 2011, to January 2, 2013, and restores conformity with the federal earned income tax credit. The bill contains an eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| HB2338 | Pass | Erroneously admitted evidence; appeal. Provides that when a criminal conviction is appealed based on a claim that the evidence to convict was insufficient because the trial court improperly admitted evidence, the reviewing court shall consider all ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| SB1049 | Pass | Candidate petitions; qualifications to have candidate's name appear on the ballot. Provides that the signatures of qualified voters who have been assigned inactive status shall be deemed valid for purposes of candidate petitions. The bill also requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| SB1263 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB1264 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; access to criminal and other records held by public bodies engaged in criminal law-enforcement activities. Reorganizes § 2.2-3706 of the Freedom of Information Act relating to access to criminal records and other reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| SB922 | Pass | Health insurance; plan management and rate review. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to perform plan management functions for participation in the federal health benefit exchange established by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| HB1642 | Pass | Rights of parents. Provides that a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent's child. The bill further provides that the provisions of the bill codify the opinion of the Supreme Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB908 | Pass | Rights of parents. Provides that a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent's child. The bill further provides that the provisions of the bill codify the opinion of the Supreme Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| HB1876 | Pass | Sterilization operations for persons capable of informed consent. Eliminates the requirement for a 30-day waiting period prior to a sterilization operation for persons who are over the age of 18 and capable of giving informed consent who have not pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| SB1035 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; collection of overpayments. Provides that any person who has received an overpayment of unemployment benefits under a federal program or a program of any other state is liable to the Virginia Employment Commission for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB1076 | 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] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| HB1497 | Pass | Participation in public school interscholastic programs by students in military families. Prohibits public elementary or secondary schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| SB1363 | Pass | Transfer of firearms; residency of armed forces members. Provides that residency for members of the armed forces for the purpose of firearms purchases in the Commonwealth shall include both the member's permanent duty post and the nearby state in whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB2272 | Pass | Satisfaction of judgments; motor vehicle accident. Provides that a suspension of a judgment debtor's driver's license shall not extend (i) beyond 10 years from the date of judgment for any civil judgment obtained in a general district court or (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB1717 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; transportation. The bill allows the Department of Transportation and a locality to agree on a time period shorter than 90 days for the Department to provide written comments on the locality's transportation plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| HB2116 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| HB1767 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| SB1309 | Pass | Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board's powers and duties. Transfers authority for administration of the nutrient management certification program and responsibility for adopting regulations on nitrogen application rates from the Department of C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| SB1112 | Pass | DUI; exemplary damages. Provides that for the purpose of awarding exemplary damages in an action for personal injury or death arising from the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence, it shall be rebuttably presumed that the blood alco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| SB1122 | Pass | Deadman's Statute; corroboration of testimony by business records. Revises the Deadman's Statute by allowing for the corroboration of the testimony of an adverse or interested party by an entry in a business record authored by the adverse or interest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| SB1128 | 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 exercis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| HB2326 | Pass | Regional strategic plans. Provides that in planning districts in which regional planning is conducted by multi-state councils of government, each planning district commission may prepare a regional strategic plan for the guidance of the district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB1040 | Pass | Charter; Town of Bedford. Creates a charter for the Town of Bedford, formerly the City of Bedford. The charter describes the incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the new town; provides for the administration, government, and financial administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| HB2151 | Pass | Public schools; evaluation policies and grievance procedures. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated. The bill requires teachers, assistant principals, and principals to be evaluated every ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| SB1140 | Pass | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Implements performance-based funding for mass transit for revenues generated above $160 million in 2014 and after. Creates the Transit Service Delivery Advisory Committee to advise the Department of Rail and Public Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| SB1017 | Pass | Tax-paid contraband cigarettes; penalties. Increases the penalty for possession with intent to distribute more than 25 but fewer than 500 cartons of tax-paid cigarettes by a person other than an authorized holder from a Class 2 to a Class 1 misdemean...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
