| 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) |
| HB2343 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| HB1844 | Pass | Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy; privatization. Makes various technical and other statutory changes necessary to implement the privatization of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| HB2072 | Pass | Local application process; condemnation. Provides that no locality shall condition or delay the timely consideration of any application for or grant of any permit or other approval for any real property over which it enjoys jurisdiction for the purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| SB893 | 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] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB1855 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exempt records of the Department of Aviation. Exempts from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA (i) documents and other information of a proprietary nature furnished by a licensed public-use airport to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| HB2271 | Pass | Adoption assistance payments and post-adoption services for children adopted from foster care. Requires the Department of Social Services to utilize all federal adoption bonus payments received in a fiscal year to support post-adoption services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| SB1376 | Pass | Civil immunity for certain persons; incidents on school property. Provides that any person who, in good faith and without malice, reports, investigates, or causes an investigation to be made into the activities of any person relating to conduct invol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB1820 | Pass | Unstamped cigarettes; sale, transport, possession, etc.; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to sell, purchase, transport, receive, or possess 500 or more packages of unstamped cigarettes and a Class 5 felony for a second offense; under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| HB2079 | Pass | 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][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| SB1373 | 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] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB1871 | Pass | Student and school employee conduct; bullying. Defines the term "bullying" and requires school boards to include in their codes of student conduct policies and procedures that include a prohibition against bullying. The bill also requires the Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| SB1018 | Pass | Unstamped cigarettes; sale, transport, possession, etc.; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to sell, purchase, transport, receive, or possess 500 or more packages of unstamped cigarettes; under current law, the threshold is 3,000 or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB1055 | Pass | Disposal of infectious waste. Repeals certain provisions regarding the permitting of infectious waste incinerators by the State Air Pollution Control Board and the Waste Management Board. The repeal of these sections will eliminate outdated regulatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB2280 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exempt records; disaster preparedness plans. Exempts from mandatory disclosure records of hospitals and nursing homes regulated by the Board of Health that are provided to the Board, to the extent such records rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| SB699 | Pass | Medical malpractice; expert witness certification; court review. Provides that in an action for medical malpractice or wrongful death premised on medical malpractice, the court, upon good cause shown, may conduct an in camera review of the opinion ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| HB1493 | 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 (CHAP0552) |
