VA Legislation | 2013 | Regular Session

Type

Status

Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB935	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; teacher contract and evaluation policies. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and retained. Teachers, assistant principals, principals, and supervisors who have not achieve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-31 Incorporated by Education and Health
HB2297	Intro Sine Die	Allocation of funds for railroad right-of-way access. Provides that funds for contract fees paid by the Virginia Railway Express for access to the rights-of-way of CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Corporation, and the National Railroad Passenger ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-31 Tabled in Transportation (11-Y 10-N)
SB1370	Intro Sine Die	Entitlement to sales and use tax revenue; City of Winchester. Allows a public facility in the City of Winchester to include retail, restaurants, offices, and other spaces devoted to commercial uses, so long as such commercial use is ancillary to the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N)
SB1002	Intro Sine Die	Emergency protective orders; expungement. Provides the mechanism for a person who is the subject of an emergency protective order issued in connection with a warrant for the arrest of such person to expunge the order from the record if the warrant di... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB1139	Intro Sine Die	Discovery rule; statute of limitations. Provides that the period of limitations for filing a cause of action for injury resulting from implanted medical devices, toxic exposure, and prescribed or over-the-counter medications accrues from the time the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB1351	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Port Authority, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and Commonwealth Transportation Board. Implements reforms of the Virginia Port Authority by adding the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Incorporated by Transportation
SB713	Intro Sine Die	Public-Private Transportation Act; definition of transportation facility; port facility excluded. Removes port facility as defined in § 62.1-140 from the definition of "transportation facility" under the Public-Private Transportation Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Incorporated by Transportation
SB1361	Intro Sine Die	Responsibilities of Department. Requires the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to provide the General Assembly with an economic and financial analysis of all proposed projects before receipt of any funding. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
SB716	Intro Sine Die	Virginia ports; change in ownership. Requires approval of both the Governor and the General Assembly before any change in ownership of any Virginia port is permitted. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Incorporated by Transportation
SB976	Intro Sine Die	Commonwealth Transportation Board; circumstances for removal from office by the Governor. Provides that the Governor may remove any citizen member of the Commonwealth Transportation Board from office for malfeasance, misfeasance, incompetence, or gro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
SB836	Intro Sine Die	Vacation of criminal conviction for fraud upon the court. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of the Code or any rule of court to the contrary, upon hearing of a motion by a person convicted of a felony or adjudicated delinquent of a felony o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
HB1329	Intro Sine Die	Local taxes; interest on refunds and delinquent taxes. Authorizes localities not to pay interest on the refund of local taxes when the refund is due to errors made by the taxpayer. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote
SB1323	Intro Sine Die	Temporary detention; execution of order; transportation. Requires the law-enforcement agency that is specified by a magistrate to execute a temporary detention order and provide transportation to do so by 5:00 p.m. on the day following receipt of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB693	Intro Sine Die	Appointment of judge by circuit court. Restricts the circuit courts from appointing to judicial office any person either house of the General Assembly failed to elect. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N 1-A)
SB732	Intro Sine Die	Composition of the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18, by the addition of one citizen member, and changes the areas of representation from the construction districts to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
SB914	Intro Sine Die	Fiduciary access to digital assets. Enables a fiduciary to gain access to the digital accounts and digital assets of the person or estate to whom he owes a fiduciary duty upon making a written request to the custodian of the digital accounts and digi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N)
HB1798	Intro Sine Die	Entitlement to certain sales and use tax revenues; City of Bristol. Provides that payments of sales and use tax revenue generated on the premises of a public facility located in the City of Bristol used to pay bonds issued to construct the public fac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote
SB868	Intro Sine Die	Criminal history record checks; barrier crimes. Clarifies the list of barrier crimes for individuals seeking employment or seeking to provide contract services at nursing homes, home care organizations, hospices, state facilities and private provider... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB1413	Intro Sine Die	Nonresident freshwater fishing license. Establishes a one-day fishing license for nonresidents to fish in the inland waters of the Commonwealth. The license will specify the date on which the license is valid. The Board of Game and Inland Fisheries w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
HB1450	Intro Sine Die	Additional state sales and use tax in the Hampton Roads Planning District; referendum. Provides for an additional one percent sales and use tax in the counties and cities located in the Hampton Roads Planning District, with the additional revenues ge... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Tabled in Finance by voice vote
HB1354	Intro Sine Die	Sales and use tax exemption; service charges of photographers and videographers. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for separately stated service charges of photographers and videographers. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote
HB2074	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Information Technologies Agency; procurement of information technology and telecommunications by state agencies. Clarifies that all information technology and telecommunications goods and services of every description procured on behalf of s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Stricken from docket by Science and Technology by voice vote
HB1873	Intro Sine Die	Health information technology; health benefit exchange participants. Requires the Information Technology Advisory Council, with input from the Health Information Technology Standards Advisory Committee, to adopt standards that allow consumers using a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Tabled in Science and Technology by voice vote
SB1058	Intro Sine Die	Judicial conferences; meetings. Restricts meetings of the mandatory judicial conferences to no more than once every other year. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB1777	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Open Education Resources Council and Virginia Digital Open Source Textbook Library. Establishes the Virginia Open Education Resources Council to (i) identify and acquire digital open source textbooks to be used in 50 undergraduate courses in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-30 Tabled in Science and Technology by voice vote
SB1103	Intro Sine Die	DUI; alcohol monitoring devices. Allows persons convicted of a first offense DUI to wear a transdermal alcohol monitoring device (generally a bracelet around the ankle) that continuously monitors the person's blood alcohol level. A person who wears t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB1109	Intro Sine Die	Prohibiting selling, etc., of firearms to certain persons; penalty. Adds persons found legally incompetent or mentally incapacitated, persons involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility or sent for involuntary outpatient mental health treatmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB1130	Intro Sine Die	Incest; definitions of parent, etc.; penalty. Provides that for the purposes of the crime of incest parent includes step-parent, grandparent includes step-grandparent, child includes step-child, and grandchild includes step-grandchild. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB1308	Intro Sine Die	Taxation of tangible personal property. Requires localities to tax campers and other recreational vehicles as real property if they are used as a primary residence and do not travel more than 250 miles per year. The bill provides for refunds for pers... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance by voice vote
SB1152	Intro Sine Die	Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; penalty. Adds "use of a communications system to facilitate certain offenses involving children" to the offenses that prohibit an adult convicted of such an offense from loitering within 100 feet of a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB712	Intro Sine Die	Hoax explosive devices; penalty. Raises from a Class 6 felony to a Class 5 felony the construction, use, placement, sending, or causing to be sent any hoax explosive device so as to intentionally cause another person to believe that such device is a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
HB1729	Intro Sine Die	Payment of wages to employees. Requires employers to maintain and preserve records regarding the rate of pay, hours worked, earnings due, wages paid, and related matters for each employee. The measure provides a standard for how an employee, in an ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB1173	Intro Sine Die	Computer trespass; penalty. Provides that certain actions that constitute computer trespass, which under current law are Class 1 misdemeanors if done maliciously, are Class 1 misdemeanors if done unlawfully and Class 6 felonies if done maliciously. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (15-Y 0-N)
SB1182	Intro Sine Die	Crimes; assault and battery. Includes an employee or other individual who provides control, care, or treatment of sexually violent predators committed to the custody of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services within the enhance... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB763	Intro Sine Die	Publication of unlawful photographs; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to publish on the Internet a photograph or video made in violation of the current law prohibiting filming, videotaping, or photographing a nonconsenting p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB813	Intro Sine Die	Compensation and expenses of electoral boards and general registrars. Provides for reimbursement by the state to the localities of the entire costs of compensation and expenses of the electoral boards and general registrars. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N)
SB1306	Intro Sine Die	Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credits; eligible neighborhood organizations. Provides that, in order to be eligible for an allocation of credits under the Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credit program from the Department of Social Services, at leas... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB1072	Intro Sine Die	Elections; electronic pollbooks; photographs. Provides that electronic pollbooks shall contain a photograph of and identifying information for each voter either received from the Department of Motor Vehicles or taken by an officer of election when th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
SB1360	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the General Assembly may, by appropriate legislative action, add full-time employees of the Department of Military Affairs who provide fire protection services for facilities of the Virginia Nat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N)
SB801	Intro Sine Die	Felony punishment for subsequent misdemeanor sex offense; penalty. Provides that when a person is convicted of a specified misdemeanor sex offense and it is alleged in the warrant that he was convicted of two or more substantially similar offenses un... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB722	Intro Sine Die	Emergency absentee ballots; hospitalized voters; electoral board representative. Permits an electoral board to designate a hospital administrator to serve as its representative and to provide applications for emergency absentee ballots to hospitalize... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
SB1341	Intro Sine Die	Renewable energy facilities; exemption from land use regulations. Exempts certain electrical generation facilities powered by renewable sources of energy from local zoning and land use requirements. The exemption applies to a facility that is owned b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N)
SB821	Intro Sine Die	Bristol Virginia Utilities Authority; eminent domain. Grants to the Authority the "quick take" condemnation powers that are currently available to the Virginia Department of Transportation. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N)
SB1240	Intro Sine Die	School resource officers; local law-enforcement agencies to provide. Requires every school board throughout the Commonwealth to coordinate with the local law-enforcement agency to provide at least one school resource officer for every public elementa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Incorporated by Finance
SB723	Intro Sine Die	Electoral College. Provides that the Commonwealth's electoral votes shall be allocated by congressional district. Receipt by a slate of presidential electors of the highest number of votes in a congressional district constitutes the election of the c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N)
SB1260	Intro Sine Die	Party nominating methods. Provides that no political party shall determine its candidates for statewide or General Assembly district office by a method that has the practical effect of excluding participation in the nominating process by active duty ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
SB1336	Intro Sine Die	Boundary adjustments; notice. Provides that all affected landowners shall be given notice of a proposed voluntary boundary adjustment. The bill authorizes landowners to file a petition to intervene in the action under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
SB962	Intro Sine Die	Officers of election. Provides that a local electoral board may appoint a person 17 years of age as an officer of election, provided such person is a citizen of the United States, a resident of the Commonwealth, and, to the extent practicable, a resi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N)
SB844	Intro Sine Die	Courthouse repair. Provides that counties with a population of less than 75,000 may by ordinance appoint a committee to examine court facilities and to report whether the court facilities are insecure, out of repair, or otherwise pose a danger to the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N)
HB2000	Intro Sine Die	Virginia ports; change in operation or ownership. Requires approval of both the Governor and the General Assembly before any change in the operation or ownership of any Virginia port is permitted. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2013-01-29 Incorporated by Transportation