| SB1335 | Pass | Nondisclosure of concealed handgun permit information. Prohibits the clerk of a circuit court who issued a concealed handgun permit from publicly disclosing an applicant's name and any other information contained in a concealed handgun permit applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| SB842 | Pass | Charter; City of Hampton. Updates provisions related to the initial meeting of council and the election of the school board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| HB2346 | Pass | Yearly school lock-down drills, school safety audits, and school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each school, in its annual school safety audit, to complete a school inspection walk-through using a standar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| SB847 | Pass | Fingerprints and photos of arrestees. Provides that a judicial officer may require as a condition of release on bail that the accused accompany the arresting officer to the jurisdiction's fingerprinting facility to have his photograph and fingerprint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| HB2098 | Pass | School boards; releases from state regulations. Requires any school board that has requested a release from certain state regulations to provide a description of how the release from the state regulation is designed to increase the quality of instruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| SB1293 | 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 (CHAP0656) |
| HB2268 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB2077 | Pass | Motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing. Amends several motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing laws. The bill clarifies and strengthens fitness and operating authority requirements for intrastate motor carriers. It also enables Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| SB1296 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| HB1327 | Pass | Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone Grant Fund. Adds the City of Franklin and the Counties of Page and Shenandoah to the list of localities in which certain businesses related to commerce through the Port of Virginia may loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB1524 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; records of minors participating in park and recreation programs. Reverses the default rule of FOIA that certain park and recreation records of minors are subject to the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA unle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554) |
| SB944 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; issues on review. Provides that when a final decision of an agency is appealed under the Administrative Process Act and the decision on review is to be made based on the agency record established from a formal hearing, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| HB1692 | 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 (CHAP0560) |
| SB1262 | Pass | Admissions tax. Authorizes Stafford County to impose an admissions tax for attendance at entertainment venues, beginning July 1, 2014. The authority to impose the tax will expire on July 1, 2015, if no entertainment venues exist in Stafford County by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| HB1554 | Pass | Risk management insurance coverage for sheriffs; limitation of liability. Provides that no sheriff or deputy shall be liable in his individual capacity for any civil judgment in excess of the maximum liability coverage provided under the risk managem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| HB2246 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| HB1558 | Pass | Local endowment for certain libraries; Town of Leesburg. Provides that the Town of Leesburg by ordinance may establish an endowment fund for the purpose of supporting a library owned or operated by the town. The endowment may receive all gifts, grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| HB1615 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of methamphetamine laboratory. Requires the owner of residential property or a landlord of a residential dwelling unit who has actual knowledge that the residential property was previously used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| SB1236 | Pass | Personal property tax; advertising signs. Provides that outdoor advertising signs constitute a separate class of personal property for purposes of assessment, and requires localities to tax such signs as personal property, not as real property. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| SB969 | Pass | Lewd and lascivious cohabitation. Eliminates by repeal the crime of lewd and lascivious cohabitation by unmarried persons and the crime of open and gross lewdness and lasciviousness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| SB1209 | 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 (CHAP0646) |
| SB1221 | 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 (CHAP0649) |
| HB1783 | 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 (CHAP0567) |
| SB1215 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; revolving door for state employees. Provides that certain former employees of state agencies must wait one year before representing clients for compensation before their agencies in matters involv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| SB1019 | Pass | Counterfeit cigarettes; penalties. Provides that any person who knowingly distributes or possesses with the intent to distribute counterfeit cigarettes where the amount is fewer than 10 cartons is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB1020 | Pass | RICO; contraband cigarettes; penalties. Adds possession with intent to distribute tax-paid contraband cigarettes as a qualifying offense under the Virginia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| HB1785 | Pass | Sales and use tax revenue dedicated for public facility in Town of Wise. Adds the Town of Wise to the list of localities in which a public facility may be constructed or expanded, with the sales and use tax revenue generated in the public facility de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| HB1667 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses for certain properties. Authorizes the ABC Board to grant mixed beverage licenses to certain properties located in Smyth County, notwithstanding the requirement for a liquor-by-the-drink referendum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| SB1368 | Pass | Special license plates; PEACE BEGINS AT HOME. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend PEACE BEGINS AT HOME to support the programs of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance for the preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| HB1346 | Pass | Presidential elections and primaries; petition requirements. Reduces the number of signatures required for groups other than the major parties to gain access to the presidential election ballot from 10,000 to 5,000 signatures in the Commonwealth and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| HB1433 | 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] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| HB2177 | Pass | Board of Counseling; qualification of members. Reduces the number of professional counselors on the Board of Counseling from eight to six, increases the number of marriage and family therapists from two to three and requires that such members be clin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB1845 | 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] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| HB2190 | Pass | Stringency of stormwater management ordinances. Establishes a procedure for state review of the stringency of local stormwater ordinances. The bill requires localities within 30 days of the adoption of a more stringent stormwater ordinance or require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB1102 | Pass | Emissions inspection exemption. Decreases the minimum miles per gallon rating required to be exempt from emissions inspection testing from 50 to 48 miles per gallon for 2008 and 2009 hybrid vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| SB1234 | Pass | Placement in secure local facility. Clarifies that a juvenile 14 years of age or older who is eligible for commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice may be confined in a detention home or other secure local facility for more than 30 days prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB870 | Pass | Criminal procedure; contempt appeal. Provides that a circuit judge shall, sitting without a jury, hear an appeal from a summary contempt judgment of the district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| HB2311 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Changes the State Council of Higher Education by (i) expanding its purpose, (ii) altering its membership and setting forth the qualifications of appointees, (iii) requiring the presidents of the public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| HB2300 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exception. Provides an exception from the tied house restrictions by allowing the granting of any retail license to a distillery licensee, or to an applicant for such license, or to a lessee of such person, a wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB1906 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; programs to reduce unemployment among veterans. Provides for the Department of Veterans Services to develop a comprehensive program to reduce unemployment among veterans by assisting businesses to attract, hire, train...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| SB918 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| HB1809 | Pass | Powers of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB). Limits the ability of the CTB to reallocate funds from certain local highway projects that are inconsistent with the CTB's Statewide Transportation Plan or the Six-Year Improvement Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569) |
| HB2209 | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| HB2288 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; powers of Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; mixed beverage licenses. Authorizes the ABC Board, notwithstanding the requirement for a referendum, to grant a mixed beverage license to any establishment located on property wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| SB881 | 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] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| HB1964 | 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 (CHAP0578) |
| HB2216 | Pass | Local boundaries for law-enforcement purposes. Provides that localities may designate mutually agreed-upon boundary lines between contiguous localities for purposes of organizing 911 dispatch and response and clarifying issues related to coverage und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| SB1054 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| HB2298 | 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 (CHAP0603) |
| SB1051 | Pass | Dealer franchises; administrative fees and penalties. Extends the protection that dealers currently retain for chargebacks to administrative fees and other penalties. Current law protects dealers who seek to challenge chargebacks for warranty and sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
