VA Legislation | 2014 | Regular Session | House | Bills

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB436	Pass	Public institutions of higher education; year-round instruction. Repeals the section of the Code of Virginia that continues in effect a chapter of the Acts of Assembly that directs certain public institutions of higher education to be placed on a yea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)
HB855	Pass	Health regulatory boards; reinstatement of licensure. Provides that an applicant for reinstatement of a certificate, registration, or license that has been revoked bears the burden of proof to show to the appropriate health regulatory board by clear ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011)
HB977	Pass	Teachers; dismissal. Extends from five business days to 10 business days the deadline for a teacher to request a hearing after receiving written notice of a recommendation of dismissal. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013)
HB612	Pass	Genetic counseling; licensure. Provides that no person shall practice or hold himself out as practicing genetic counseling without a valid, unrevoked license as a genetic counselor from the Board of Medicine. The bill establishes requirements and a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)
HB526	Engross Sine Die	Programs of physical fitness in high schools; Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Permits each local school board to include the option for high school students to satisfy all health and physical education and physical fitness program requiremen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB388	Engross Sine Die	Charter schools; funding. Requires each local school board to reimburse each public charter school in the school division in an amount equal to the difference between (i) the proportionate share of all state and federal resources allocated for studen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB355	Pass	Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Provides that the President of Virginia Commonwealth University shall serve as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)
HB188	Engross Sine Die	Appointment of jury commissioners and selection of jurors; selection of jurors to be placed on master jury list. Allows the chief judge of each circuit court to designate circuit court personnel to select and determine jurors to be placed on a master... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-19 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
HB1174	Engross Sine Die	Firearms training standard; auxiliary police officers. Provides that the minimum training standards for auxiliary police officers employed by any local or state government agency established by the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall includ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-19 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
HB1	Engross Sine Die	Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; joint subcommittee. Increases the maximum amount of covered expenses that may be paid to certain crime victims to $30,000 from $25,000 and the maximum amount of an emergency award to $3,000 from $2,000. The bill r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-19 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB960	Engross Sine Die	Sales and use tax; exemption for school supplies and clothing. Modifies the "back to school" sales tax exemption for certain items for three days in August by (i) decreasing the maximum sales price of each item of clothing and footwear eligible for t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 1-N)
HB675	Engross Sine Die	Elections; deadlines for candidate filings. Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Elections to extend for up to 10 days the deadlines for candidates to file their written statements of qualification and economic interests and certain campaig... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB1080	Engross Sine Die	Governor's Task Force for Local Mandate Review. Reconstitutes the five-member task force appointed by the Governor to review state mandates as the ten-member Joint Task Force for Local Mandate Review, with two additional appointments made by the Gove... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-18 Incorporated by Local Government
HB96	Engross Sine Die	Driving recklessly on a suspended or revoked license and causing the death of another person; penalty. Provides that any person convicted of reckless driving who, when he committed the offense, (i) was driving on a suspended or revoked operator's lic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-17 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N)
HB422	Engross Sine Die	Prohibiting certain local government practices that would require contractors to provide certain compensation or benefits. Prohibits local governing bodies from establishing provisions that would require a wage floor of any other employee benefit or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-17 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N 1-A)
HB994	Engross Sine Die	Human trafficking offenses. Directs the Virginia Code Commission to add the term "human trafficking" to the catchline of § 18.2-47 ("Abduction and kidnapping defined; punishment") in order to emphasize that section's applicability to offenses in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-17 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (9-Y 6-N)
HB523	Engross Sine Die	Registration of juveniles; petition for removal from registry. Requires juveniles adjudicated delinquent of rape, forcible sodomy, or object sexual penetration to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. The bill also provides... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-17 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
HB98	Intro Sine Die	Sex-selective abortions; penalty. Provides that a person who performs an abortion with knowledge that the abortion is sought solely and exclusively on account of the sex of the unborn child is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill also requires that t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB94	Intro Sine Die	Assistance and documentation required from localities. Provides that in any instance in which a person is seeking a business permit, a license, or an application for any similar local government approval from a locality, the locality shall provide do... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB1018	Intro Sine Die	Appellate proceedings; audio and audio-visual records; circuit court opinions; fees; access. Requires the appellate courts to produce audio or audio-visual recordings of oral arguments and to make such recordings available to the public without charg... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB953	Intro Sine Die	Office of the Attorney General; mandatory employment of special counsel for the State Board of Elections under certain circumstances. Provides that whenever the Attorney General is entitled to have his name printed on the ballot in a general or speci... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB347	Intro Sine Die	Taxable income; deduction for payment of certain tolls. Allows a qualified taxpayer to deduct from his Virginia adjusted gross income an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount paid by the taxpayer for tolls in a qualified locality. A qualified loca... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB941	Intro Sine Die	Operating a vehicle or vessel containing a false compartment; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to (i) own or operate a vehicle or vessel containing a false or secret compartment; (ii) install, create, build, or fabricate in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1066	Intro Sine Die	Industry certification and state licensure examinations; substitution for Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Board of Education to authorize local school boards to select and substitute industry certification and state licensure examinat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB23	Intro Sine Die	Warning lights on certain vehicles. Provides that members of fire departments, volunteer fire companies, or volunteer rescue squads, ambulance drivers employed by a privately owned ambulance service, and police chaplains who equip a vehicle with flas... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Transportation Committee
HB496	Intro Sine Die	Assault and battery of campus police; penalty. Adds campus police officers to the list of persons for which an enhanced penalty applies if such person is victimized because of his position. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB747	Intro Sine Die	In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares a student eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (ii) he has graduated from a public or pri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB433	Intro Sine Die	Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption. Phases out over a five-year period the state and local sales and use tax on food purchased for human consumption. Under current law, the local tax rate on food is 1% and the state tax rate on s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB116	Intro Sine Die	Traffic light photo-monitoring systems. Amends provisions related to photo-monitoring systems by providing that certain safety analyses, currently required prior to implementation, shall also be required prior to renewal of such a system. Other chang... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Transportation Committee
HB363	Intro Sine Die	Electric utility regulation; approval of generation facilities. Requires the State Corporation Commission, in its consideration of an application for approval of an electrical generation facility, to consider environmental effects not expressly gover... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB385	Intro Sine Die	Expungement of certain misdemeanors. Allows a person convicted of certain misdemeanors who has successfully completed all terms of probation to file a petition for expungement 10 years after the conviction if he has not been convicted of any other of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1094	Intro Sine Die	Uniform Statewide Building Code; enforcement on Indian tribal lands. Provides that the Department of General Services shall not be required to function as the building official for enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code on Indian tribal l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House General Laws Committee
HB365	Intro Sine Die	Standards of Learning assessments; revisions. Requires that all revisions to any Standards of Learning assessment are finalized by December 31 of the school year prior to the school year in which the revised assessment is administered. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1250	Intro Sine Die	Hunting on Sundays. Authorizes the Counties of Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William to adopt an ordinance that allows the hunting of wild animals on private lands on Sunday. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
HB723	Intro Sine Die	Sentence credits; drug-related felonies. Allows a maximum of seven and one-half sentence credits to be earned for each 30 days served on sentence for drug-related felonies. All other felony sentences will continue to earn sentence credits at a maximu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB938	Intro Sine Die	Persons liable to serve as jurors. Provides that, for purposes of determining whether a person is liable to serve as a juror, military personnel of the United States Marine Corps and Coast Guard are not considered residents of the Commonwealth merely... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1201	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting; special annual applications for absentee ballots for certain voters. Adds physician assistants and nurse practitioners to the list of health providers who may sign the statement verifying a voter's eligibility to vote by a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB89	Intro Sine Die	Individual income tax refunds; payment. Requires the Tax Commissioner and State Comptroller to implement procedures to allow an individual to elect to have his income tax refund paid by check mailed to his address. If the individual makes no election... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB386	Intro Sine Die	School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB52	Intro Sine Die	Workers' compensation insurance; use of experience rating; loss limitation for not-at-fault motor vehicle accidents. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to adopt regulations that establish standards for determining a loss limitation to be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB115	Intro Sine Die	Enterprise Zone Grant Program; redesignation of certain joint enterprise zones. Removes the requirement that a locality contiguous to an existing multi-locality, joint enterprise zone must have lost at least 900 jobs in a 12-month period to be eligib... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1154	Intro Sine Die	Expungement for misdemeanors deferred and dismissed. Provides that expungement of a criminal record is available to a petitioner whose misdemeanor charges are dismissed without adjudication of guilt following a deferral of proceedings and satisfactio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1219	Intro Sine Die	Unconstitutional acts and ultra vires enforcement by localities. Provides that any zoning ordinance of a locality that violates or unreasonably restricts the free exercise of rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution or the Constitution ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1255	Intro Sine Die	Access to electronic textbooks. Prohibits school boards from making electronic textbooks available for use by students in their residence or residences unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that by July 1, 2017, every student in the local s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB59	Intro Sine Die	In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares a student eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (ii) he has graduated from a public or pri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB117	Intro Sine Die	Paper and plastic bag tax. Imposes a tax of five cents ($0.05) beginning on July 1, 2015, on disposable paper bags and disposable plastic bags used by purchasers to carry tangible personal property purchased in grocery stores, convenience stores, or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB76	Intro Sine Die	Provisional voting; attendance at meetings of the electoral board to determine the validity of provisional ballots. Permits the representative or legal counsel of a person whose provisional vote is being considered to attend the meeting of the electo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB95	Intro Sine Die	Legal notices; advertisement by locality. Allows localities with a population of 50,000 or greater to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio, or television instead of a newspaper of general circulation. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB51	Intro Sine Die	Minimum speed limits. Prohibits driving at less than the posted maximum speed limit in the left-most lanes of Interstate Highways. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Transportation Committee
HB1091	Intro Sine Die	Opportunity Educational Institution; supervision of schools. Increases the number of years, from four to five, that a school must fail to meet the requirements to be rated fully accredited before the supervision of such school is transferred to the O... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee