| HB494 | Pass | Localities; personnel policies related to the use of public property. Requires all localities, except those with a population of less than 3,500 that do not have a personnel policy, to establish personnel policies covering the use of public property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| HB873 | Pass | Ports tax credits. Changes Virginia's ports-related tax credits by increasing the annual amount of international trade facility tax credits that may be issued from $250,000 to $1.25 million, decreasing the annual amount of barge and rail usage tax cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| HB853 | Pass | Administration and enforcement of cigarette laws. Modifies several provisions relating to the administration and enforcement of Virginia's cigarette laws by providing that (i) violations of cigarette tax laws may be investigated by a multijurisdictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| HB1074 | Pass | Virginia Racing Commission. Transfers responsibility for the Virginia Racing Commission to the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry. Currently, the Virginia Racing Commission is under the authority of the Secretary of Commerce and Trade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB585 | Pass | Competency of criminal defendant; reports for restoration providers. Requires the defendant's attorney to make available to the director of the community services board, behavioral health authority, or inpatient facility charged with treating the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB1115 | Pass | Virtual Virginia; local school divisions; shared online courses. Permits the Department of Education to contract with one or more local school boards that have created online courses to make such courses available to other school divisions through Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB301 | Pass | Admissibility of business records. Provides that in any civil proceeding the authentication and foundation necessary for the admission of a business record under the business records exception to the rule against hearsay may be laid by witness testim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| HB1167 | Pass | Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance. Changes the name of the Virginia Coal Association to the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| HB128 | Pass | Cutting of grass and weeds. Adds the Towns of Front Royal and Gordonsville to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance for the cutting of grass and weeds on occupied property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| HB177 | Pass | Cutting of grass; statewide application. Makes current grass-cutting provisions applicable statewide for all localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB413 | Pass | Filing of evaluation reports for incapacitated persons; requirement for filing under seal. Requires that medical evaluation reports filed in guardian or conservator proceedings before the circuit court be filed under seal. The bill also requires that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| HB275 | Pass | Local electoral boards; meetings, proceedings, and records. Provides that the general registrar shall determine a reasonable charge, not to exceed the statutory amount set for copies of court records, for copies made of local electoral board books, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB326 | Pass | Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he, with the intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate the depicted person, maliciously disseminates or sells any videographic or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| HB634 | Pass | Annuity contracts; interest on proceeds. Clarifies that an insurance company is required to pay interest on a death benefit claim under a variable annuity contract commencing from the date of the insurer's receipt of a completed claim form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| HB470 | Pass | Charter; City of Manassas. Updates the city's charter to reflect a shift in the time of local elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB280 | Pass | False advertising for regulated services; notice; penalty. Prohibits persons from placing advertisements for services in the Commonwealth requiring a license, certification, or registration through the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| HB737 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance tax credits; percentage increase. Increases the percentage of persons served by a neighborhood organization and who are low-income, as defined in § 58.1-439.18, from 40% to 50%, for purposes of applying to the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| HB170 | Pass | Cutting of grass and weeds; Goochland County. Adds Goochland County to the list of those localities that have authority to require the cutting of grass and weeds under certain circumstances on occupied property. The county currently has such authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| HB296 | Pass | Comprehensive plans; alignment of transportation services with accessible housing and other community services. Requires localities to take into consideration how to align transportation infrastructure and facilities with affordable, accessible housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB191 | Pass | Expert witness testimony; chiropractor; physician assistant. Allows a properly qualified physician assistant to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his activities as authorized under Virginia law, exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| HB785 | Pass | Reduced cigarette ignition propensity; penalties. Transfers administration of the reduced cigarette ignition propensity (RCIP) program from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Executive Director of the Department of Fire Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB328 | Pass | Charter; City of Alexandria. Shifts dates related to the election of the council and the school board to reflect the City's change to November elections. The bill provides that the city attorney may be the legal advisor to the school board with the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| HB201 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. Adds the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB796 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; schedule for updates. Postpones the due date for quadrennial updates to the Virginia Energy Plan from July 1 to October 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB1087 | Pass | Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; sunset. Extends the sunset provision for the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB765 | Pass | Health care policy, group health benefit plan, and health plan; definitions. Updates references to federal programs in the definitions of "health care policy," "group health benefit plan," and "health plan."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| HB957 | Pass | Transportation commission membership. Delays the effective date of House Bill 2152 (2013) to July 1, 2015. House Bill 2152 gives the Chairman of the Commonwealth Transportation Board or his designee equal voting weight on the Virginia Railway Express...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| HB17 | Pass | Warrant requirement for certain telecommunications records; real-time location data. Provides that a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service shall not disclose real-time location data to an investigative or law-enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| HB822 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Limits the ability of an electric utility participating in the renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program to bank renewable energy sales or renewable energy certificates (RECs) that are in excess of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| HB209 | Pass | Preliminary subdivision plats. Provides that localities may mandate the submission of preliminary subdivision plats for tentative approval only for plats involving more than 50 lots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| HB799 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; change in circumstances. Removes from the requirement that, at or before settlement, the owner be required to disclose to the purchaser any material change in the disclosures made relative to the property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| HB86 | Pass | Inpatient psychiatric hospital admission from local correctional facility; criteria. Repeals the second enactment of the 2012 act that amended the criteria for the psychiatric admission of inmates from local correctional facilities to add mentally il...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB632 | Pass | Elections; request for removal of officer of election. Authorizes an electoral board member to request in writing the removal of an officer of election whom he knows to be the spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, child, or grandchild of a candidate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| HB683 | Pass | Investigation of alleged child abuse and neglect; agreements with school divisions. Requires local departments of social services and local school divisions to develop written interagency agreements for the investigation of all complaints of child ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| HB218 | Pass | Purchase, etc., of tobacco products by minors; nicotine vapor products and alternative nicotine products. Adds nicotine vapor products and alternative nicotine products to the list of tobacco products that cannot be sold to or purchased or possessed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| HB887 | Pass | Board of Education; Academic-Year Career and Technical Education Governor's School. Requires the Board of Education to develop model criteria and procedures for establishing a jointly operated high school with a career and technical education focus t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| HB522 | Pass | Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; appeals. Requires community policy and management teams to establish policies and procedures for appeals by youth and their families of decisions made by local family assessment and planning team...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| HB837 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); state agencies to post notice of allowable charges for producing records. Requires state agencies in the executive branch to post on their respective public government websites the following statement: "A p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| HB1089 | Pass | Zoning; agricultural products. Clarifies the definition of agricultural products. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| HB357 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit applicant; access to information. Allows a clerk of a circuit court to disclose information contained in a concealed handgun permit application to the applicant. Currently, the clerk may not disclose such information to anyon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB1086 | Pass | Special education; full-time virtual school programs. Requires each local school board to provide free and appropriate special education for each student with a disability who attends a full-time virtual school program in the school division but resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB1049 | Pass | Independent criminal justice academies; fee. Changes the date by which a locality must have been operating a certified independent criminal justice academy from July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2012, to allow certain localities to charge a fee for operating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| HB56 | Pass | Multi-jurisdiction grand juries. Makes a number of changes to the laws governing multi-jurisdiction grand juries, including (i) providing that the grand jury's subpoena power must be executed through special counsel and that such subpoenas must be re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| HB720 | Pass | School board policy; employee lactation support. Requires each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| HB518 | Pass | Certificates of analysis admitted into evidence; electronic signature. Allows the Department of Forensic Science to electronically scan a blood withdrawal certificate into the Department's Laboratory Information Management System and to electronicall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| HB1166 | Pass | Blanket group accident and sickness insurance policies. Authorizes the delivery of blanket accident and sickness insurance policies. A blanket policy is a form of limited accident and sickness insurance that is defined as an excepted benefit and that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| HB232 | Pass | Immediate sanction probation program; expansion. Extends the sunset provision on the establishment of immediate sanction probation programs, which provides for expedited proceedings for probation violations for certain nonviolent offenders, until Jul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| HB449 | Pass | Student information; release to federal government agencies. Prohibits a member or employee of a local school board or the Department of Education from transmitting personally identifiable information from a student's record to a federal government a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| HB467 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; interstate agreements. Authorizes the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to enter into interstate reciprocity agreements authorizing postsecondary distance education. SCHEV will admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| HB1032 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy; automatic review of certain case decisions. Provides that, in cases in which a monetary fine may be imposed for a violation of the Drug Control Act relating to the practice of pharmacy and the pharmacy subject to the fine is affili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
