| 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) |
| HB2202 | Pass | Vehicle towing charges. Increases from $125 to $135 the maximum hookup and initial towing fee that may be charged for the towing of a passenger car from private property without its owner's consent, unless a local ordinance sets a different limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB2152 | Pass | Transportation commission membership. Gives the Chairman of the Commonwealth Transportation Board or his designee equal voting weight on the Virginia Railway Express oversight board. The bill also provides that the Chairman of the Commonwealth Transp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| SB1022 | Pass | Forfeiture of cigarettes. Allows forfeiture of cigarettes possessed in violation of laws regarding the sale, purchase, transport, receipt, or possession of unstamped cigarettes and the possession with intent to distribute of certain amounts of tax-pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| HB1679 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit; retired investigator of the State Lottery Department; exception. Provides an exception for a concealed handgun permit for a qualifying retired investigator of the security division of the State Lottery Department. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559) |
| HB2294 | Pass | Carnal knowledge of an inmate; expansion to include defendants on bond. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender if he (i) is an owner or employee of the bail bond company that posted the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| SB1349 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| SB1167 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| SB1043 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; emergency regulations. Extends the initial effective period of emergency regulations from 12 months to 18 months and adds a requirement that the current authority of the Governor to extend the effective period for up to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| HB1847 | Pass | Criminal street gang predicate offenses. Expands the definition of a predicate criminal act associated with gang activity to include the following crimes: murder, aggravated malicious wounding, reckless endangerment by throwing objects, strangulation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| HB1755 | 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 (CHAP0565) |
| HB2127 | Pass | Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan; elected positions. Eliminates the position of secretary from the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan. The bill also changes the time frame for the election of Board positions from each calendar year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| SB1347 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| SB1191 | 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] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| HB2322 | Pass | State Board for Community Colleges; mental health policies. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop a mental health referral policy that would require community colleges to designate at least one individual at each college to serve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB1193 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; renewal of licenses; payment of license tax and civil penalty. Authorizes the ABC Board to permit a licensee who fails to timely pay the required license tax and civil penalty to pay the tax in lieu of posting and publishi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB1196 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB1201 | Pass | Board of Education; regulations. Removes the requirement that the Board of Education promulgate regulations concerning the process for submitting proposals for the consolidation of school divisions and temporarily employed teachers. The bill also rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| HB1743 | Pass | Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564) |
| SB1205 | Pass | Criminal street gang predicate offenses. Expands the definition of a predicate criminal act associated with gang activity to include the following crimes: murder, aggravated malicious wounding, reckless endangerment by throwing objects, strangulatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| SB1214 | Pass | Sentencing guidelines; definition of violent felony. Adds to the list of violent felonies: killing of a fetus, criminal street gang recruitment using force, strangulation of another, assault and battery when it is a hate crime, felony violation of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| SB1223 | 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 (CHAP0650) |
| SB977 | Pass | Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; review of proposals. Requires public entities to post a notice, when they receive a proposal under the PPTA, and allow a 120-day submission period for competing proposals. The bill requires the notice to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB820 | Pass | Billboards. Establishes conditions under which certain billboard signs may be relocated if land on which the billboard sign is located is acquired by eminent domain in connection with a highway project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| SB1243 | Pass | Coverage for newborns; health maintenance organizations. Requires health care plans provided by a health maintenance organization to provide coverage for newborn children. The same requirement currently exists for health insurance policies and subsc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| HB1734 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Provides that where there is more than one tenant subject to a rental agreement, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by each of the tenants, disposition of the security deposit shall be made with one ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| HB2033 | Pass | Provisional driver's license; restriction exceptions. Provides that the restriction on operating a motor vehicle between midnight and 4:00 a.m. for a minor who holds a provisional driver's license does not apply if the minor is driving to or from an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| SB967 | Pass | Application for absentee ballot. Eliminates certain additional information that a person applying for an absentee ballot must submit regarding the reason the applicant will be absent or cannot vote at his polling place on the day of the election, inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| HB1720 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; proof of legal age required. Provides that it is a Class 3 misdemeanor to sell alcoholic beverages to an individual under 21 years of age if the seller does not require the individual to present bona fide evidence of legal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| SB1108 | Pass | Illegal fishing in the Potomac River; penalty. Amends the Potomac River Compact by changing the penalty for violating the fishing laws in the Potomac River from the current $1,000 maximum penalty to a maximum penalty of $3,000. The bill also requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB833 | Pass | Voluntary economic growth-sharing agreements; Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone. Allows localities located within the Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone to enter into a voluntary economic growth-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| SB1272 | 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] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB2275 | Pass | Condominium Act; declarant control. Expands the respective declarant control period during which the declarant has reserved the power to add more units to the condominium, notwithstanding the limitations in the Condominium Act, at the request of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| HB2144 | Pass | Standards of Quality; waivers from third grade Standards of Learning assessments in certain scenarios. Allows a public elementary school that had an adjusted pass rate of less than 75 percent on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| HB2043 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; closed meetings; Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Allows the board of trustees of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation to convene a closed meeting when the topic is the discussion or consideration of matters relating t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
