| HB793 | Pass | Transportation planning. Requires the Department of Transportation, when reviewing certain proposed comprehensive plan amendments from localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), to recommend specific transportation improvements to the Nor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| HB46 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum) and implementing legislation; property tax exemption for surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action. Provides for a referendum at the November 4, 2014, election to approve or reject an amendment to allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) |
| HB167 | Pass | Virginia Business One Stop electronic portal program; participation by State Corporation Commission. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) and the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (DSBSD), by December 1, 2014, to implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| HJR8 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); real property tax exemption for spouses of soldiers killed in action. Provides that the General Assembly may provide a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of surviving spouses of members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| HB700 | Pass | Optional retirement plans maintained by institution of higher education. Allows the governing board of an institution of higher education that has established its own optional retirement plan to establish a policy regarding the number of years of ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| HB293 | Pass | Determining facility of temporary detention. Provides that an individual for whom a temporary detention order is issued shall be detained in a state facility unless the state facility or an employee or designee of the community services board is able...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| HB516 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; certification of natural gas automobile mechanics and technicians. Establishes a regulatory program for certification of natural gas automobile mechanics and technicians by the Director of the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| HB708 | Pass | Assault and battery against a family or household member. Adds unlawful wounding in violation of § 18.2-51 and strangulation in violation of § 18.2-51.6 to the list of offenses that, if a person has been previously convicted of two such off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB976 | Pass | Accessories after the fact to certain homicides. Provides that an accessory after the fact to a homicide offense that is punishable by death or as a Class 2 felony is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, accessories after the fact to any felony are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| HB904 | Pass | Transportation projects; notice of public hearing. Requires VDOT, at least 30 days prior to any public hearing regarding a transportation project valued in excess of $100 million, to provide notice of the hearing by regular mail to all owners of prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB1210 | Pass | Community improvement district. Allows for the creation of a community improvement district in any locality by ordinance. The bill provides that the locality's governing board will have all of the powers with respect to the district that it has with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736) |
| HB235 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act; solicitation of prostitution; pandering; minors. Amends the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act to add solicitation of prostitution from a minor and pandering involving a minor. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| HB1025 | Pass | Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program. Changes the amount of the grant for biofuels produced in the Commonwealth from $0.10 for each gallon produced and subsequently sold to (i) $0.04 for each gallon sold in calendar year 2014, (ii) $0.03 for e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB885 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Allows the Fund to extend the time for filing a claim if the attorney for the Commonwealth submits written notice that the crime is being investigated as a result of newly discovered evidence. This provision appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB1093 | Pass | Health center commissions; Chesterfield County. Provides that in Chesterfield County, the members of the health center commission shall not be removable at any time by the County's governing body except for malfeasance or at the end of the member's t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| HB118 | Pass | Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; appointments. Removes the requirement that persons appointed shall be residents of the appointing locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB1251 | Pass | Sex offenders; reregistration; name change. Provides that a person required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry must reregister in person with the local law-enforcement agency within three days following a change of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB925 | Pass | Driver education instructors. Allows community colleges to offer courses required to become driver education instructors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| HB874 | Pass | Designation and reporting of drugs of concern. Authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to identify "drugs of concern" and requires such drugs of concern to be reported to the Prescription Monitoring Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB400 | Pass | Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads. Staggers the terms of the Governor's appointments to the commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB62 | Pass | Disposal of solid waste fees; Southampton County. Allows Southampton County to levy fees for the disposal of solid waste at a county collection or disposal facility not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and disposing of sol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB690 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; merger of developments; reformation of declaration. Provides a process for the merger of two or more associations and a process for seeking judicial reformation of the declaration in both Acts. The r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| HB1180 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties; land and utility ownership. Removes the power of the Fort Monroe Authority to exercise the powers of the Commonwealth over its Area of Operation, which consists of land acquired or to be acquired from the fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| HB567 | Pass | Sexual battery by touching a person's intimate parts; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of sexual battery (punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor) if he sexually abuses within a two-year period more than one complaining witness or one complainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB259 | Pass | Allegations of untrue, deceptive, or misleading advertising; real estate licensees. Provides that an allegation that a real estate licensee has engaged in untrue, deceptive, or misleading advertising shall be stated with particularity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| HB1083 | Pass | Workers' compensation; payment for medical services. Limits the liability of an employer for medical treatment provided to an injured person that is rendered by a nurse practitioner or physician assistant serving as an assistant-at surgery to no more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| HB460 | Pass | Income tax; motion picture production credit. Changes the motion picture production income tax credit by (i) increasing the total cap for all such credits from $5 million per biennium to $6.5 million each fiscal year and (ii) having the credit expire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB576 | Pass | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; residency requirements. Deems certain surviving spouses and dependents of military service members eligible for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program if the serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| HB165 | Pass | Charter; Town of Culpeper; November elections, town council, vice-mayor. Moves the date of election for the members of the town council, the mayor, and the vice-mayor from May to November beginning in 2017. The bill also substitutes the general law f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| HB1253 | Pass | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission created. Creates the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission, which is composed of the chief elected officers of the governing bodies of the 14 localities in Planning District 23, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| HB851 | Pass | Assault and battery; school employees; penalty. Provides that a battery against any full-time or part-time employee of a public or private elementary school who is engaged in the performance of his duties is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| HB701 | Pass | Inoperable motor vehicles. Adds the City of Hopewell and Prince George County to the list of localities that may by ordinance prohibit any person from keeping, except within a fully enclosed building or structure or otherwise shielded or screened fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| HB1008 | Pass | Voluntary apprenticeships. Conforms provisions of Virginia's voluntary apprenticeship program to federal law in order to ensure the Department of Labor and Industry's continued recognition as a State Apprenticeship Agency. Changes include transferrin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| HB273 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; applicability; security deposits. Changes the applicability of the Virginia Residential Landlord Tenant Act from the ownership of no more than 10 single-family residences to ownership of no more than two ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| HB157 | Pass | Charter schools; restrictions and pre-lottery enrollment for current students of conversion charter schools. Provides that in the case of the conversion of an existing public school, students who attend the school and the siblings of such students ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| HB356 | Pass | Virginia Community College System; quorum and main office of the State Board for Community Colleges. Removes the requirement that the main office of the State Board for Community Colleges be located in the City of Richmond and permits the main office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| HB197 | Pass | Supplementary written materials on documents of Virginia history and the United States Constitution. Requires teachers to ensure that all supplementary written materials used to teach the Declaration of American Independence, the general principles o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB359 | Pass | Jurisdiction; custody and visitation arrangements for minor children; definitions; person with a legitimate interest. Adds step-grandparents to the list of persons and parties with a legitimate interest involving custody, visitation, and support matt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| HB208 | Pass | Vested rights. Amends the existing vested rights statute by clarifying that structures that meet certain conditions shall be considered nonconforming. Additional changes make clear that a requirement under existing law to bring certain structures int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| HB1267 | Pass | Virginia Beach arena. Allows the City of Virginia Beach to use its Arena Financing Fund to contract for the construction and operation of facilities and prohibits the pledging of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth to meet the city's contractual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| HB933 | Pass | Update to child support guidelines. Provides for updated child support guidelines. The new guidelines specify obligors' monthly child support obligation on the basis of gross monthly income in increments up to $35,000, with an additional amount calcu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| HB374 | Pass | Charter; City of Fairfax. Makes numerous technical changes to the City Charter. The bill also clarifies the duties and organization of the fire department and requires members of the elected school board to have lived in the city for one year prior t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| HB1088 | Pass | Capital Region Airport Commission. Updates the police power and bond-issuance provisions of the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| HB840 | Pass | Special license plates supporting Eastern Shore business community. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates supporting education, charity, and scientific study for Virginia's Eastern Shore business community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB764 | Pass | Assistant speech-language pathologists. Permits a person to practice as an assistant speech-language pathologist upon meeting the requirements prescribed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| HB331 | Pass | First-time home buyer savings plans. Establishes first-time home buyer savings accounts that are to be used for saving funds for the purchase of homes by first-time home buyers. Moneys in the account are required to be used solely for the down paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB1112 | Pass | Cannabimimetic agents; controlled substance analogs; regulation by Board of Pharmacy; penalties. Substitutes the term "cannabimimetic agents" for the term "synthetic cannabinoids" to describe certain substances that are unlawful to possess, sell, giv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| HB660 | Pass | Seizure and forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of certain crimes. Provides that property used in connection with certain crimes associated with human trafficking is subject to forfeiture to the Commonwealth. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| HB864 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; definition of eligible business and business enterprise. Expands the definition of an eligible business under the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority to include any for-profit enterprise that exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB1239 | Pass | Real and personal property tax exemption; solar energy equipment, facilities, or devices. Exempts from real and personal property tax business-owned or business-operated solar energy equipment, facilities, or devices that collect, generate, transfer,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
