| HB1220 | Pass | Research and development expenses tax credit. Increases beginning with taxable year 2014 the amount of the credit allowed from 15 percent of the first $167,000 to 15 percent of the first $234,000 of Virginia qualified research and development expense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| HB869 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the Treasury Board to issue bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $245,020,705 plus financing costs to finance revenue-prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0213) |
| HB550 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; notice for requests to examine association records. Provides that, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the right of examination of association books and records may be exercised upo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) |
| HB456 | Pass | Workers' compensation; civil penalty for failure to make required reports; collection costs. Clarifies that the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission is authorized to assess a civil penalty against an insurance carrier, self-insurer, group self-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0203) |
| HB1062 | Pass | Banks; minimum capital stock requirement. Provides that the directive that the State Corporation Commission not issue a certificate of authority to a bank unless it finds that individuals have subscribed for specific amounts of the bank's capital sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| HB948 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; limitation of certain term contracts; exception. Provides that limitations imposed upon single project fees procured by competitive negotiation shall not apply to environmental, location, desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| HB790 | Pass | Department of General Services; inventory of all real property owned by the Commonwealth. Requires the Department of General Services to provide a listing of certain real property owned by the Commonwealth on the Department's website. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) |
| HB630 | Pass | Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission; filings. Eliminates the ability of parties to a workers' compensation proceeding to file documents or materials with the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission by telegraph. The measure also permits the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) |
| HB121 | Pass | Disclosure of certain tax information. Requires the Department of Taxation to disclose the total aggregate amount of an income tax deduction or credit taken by all taxpayers, regardless of how few the number of taxpayers, upon request by the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195) |
| HB1140 | Pass | Department of General Services; disposition of certain surplus materials. Permits surplus materials from the Department of Defense Excess Property Program or other surplus property programs administered by the Commonwealth to be transferred or sold t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| HB313 | Pass | Clerk of the State Corporation Commission; unauthorized filings. Authorizes the clerk of the State Corporation Commission, upon determining that a person who executed or delivered a business entity document to the clerk's office lacked the authority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197) |
| HB466 | Pass | Insurance companies; permitted investments in foreign securities. Increases the portion of a domestic insurer's total admitted assets that may be invested in permitted securities of a foreign country from 10 to 15 percent. The measure also increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| HB340 | Pass | Alternative Fuel Vehicle Conversion Fund. Allows moneys in the Fund to be used by local governments, local governmental agencies, and local school divisions for the purpose of assisting with the incremental cost of local government-owned alternative ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0199) |
| HB990 | Pass | Scope of Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies; replacement housing for homeowners and tenants. Provides that relocation assistance and real property acquisition policies of the Commonwealth apply in the case of transportation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0218) |
| HB1065 | Pass | Virginia Petroleum Products Franchise Act; right of first refusal. Grants franchise service station dealers the first right of refusal to purchase their business when the station's franchisor attempts to sell the business. A franchisor that owns or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0222) |
| HB1057 | Pass | Benefits consortium; exemption and exclusions. Exempts a benefits consortium and the benefits consortium's sponsoring association from the Commonwealth's insurance laws and regulations, including those otherwise applicable to multiple employer welfar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| HB69 | Pass | Extended service contracts. Expands the types of services that may be provided under an extended service contract to include certain types of damage to a motor vehicle, the replacement of motor vehicle keys, and the installation or application of cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0193) |
| HB459 | Pass | Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission; vacancies. Authorizes the chairman of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission to recall retired members of the Commission to participate in a review of an award when vacancies exist on the Commission. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205) |
| HB336 | Pass | Commercial liability insurance and medical malpractice joint underwriting associations. Updates the insurance company trade associations that are authorized to appoint directors to the Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association and the Commer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0198) |
| HB1069 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; grievance procedures for certain employees of the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that employees of the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice may appeal their terminations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223) |
| HB358 | Pass | Banks; interstate branching. Repeals a limitation on the establishment within the Commonwealth of branches of out-of-state banks. The limitation provides that such a branch may not be established unless the laws of the home state of the out-of-state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200) |
| HB900 | Pass | Condominium Act and Property Owners' Association Act; allowable fees. Provides that nothing in either Act shall be construed to authorize an association or common interest community manager to charge an inspection fee for a unit or lot unless specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216) |
| HB22 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; benefit ratio. Provides that an employer's payroll, for purposes of calculating its benefit ratio and state unemployment tax rate, shall be deemed to be $1 when the employer's taxable payroll for the applicable 12-month per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0191) |
| HB616 | Pass | Charitable gaming; interim certification of tax-exempt status. Removes the authority of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to issue interim certificates of tax-exempt status to charitable organizations that seek a permit to conduct c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0208) |
| HB147 | Pass | Deferred compensation plan for Medicaid program independent contractors. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to provide payments or transfers to the Virginia Retirement System's deferred compensation plan for dent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) |
| HB899 | Pass | Condominium Act; purchaser's right of cancellation. Reduces a purchaser's right of cancellation from 10 to five calendar days from the contract date of the disposition or delivery of the current public offering statement, whichever is later. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| HB848 | Pass | Electric utility regulation; recovery of costs of new underground distribution facilities. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to recover the costs of new underground distribution facilities through a rate adjustment clause. Eligible facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212) |
| HB1034 | Pass | Liability of owners of certain dams. Protects owners of land upon which dams that are owned, maintained, or operated by soil and water conservation districts are situated from liability for damages to the property of others or the injury to persons r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| HB858 | Pass | State forest activity fee. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to promulgate emergency regulations to establish a special use permit fee for activities taking place in state forests. Until the regulations become effective, a fee not to exceed $15 s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) |
| HB968 | Pass | Purchasers of brownfield properties. Changes the definition of the "bona fide prospective purchaser" of brownfield property to include not only the person who acquires or proposes to acquire ownership of a brownfield property but also the tenant of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144) |
| HB468 | Pass | Child day program licensure exemptions. Exempts from the child day program licensure requirement any summer instructional or athletic experience operated by an accredited private elementary, middle, or high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130) |
| HB1217 | Pass | Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas; documentation in lieu of proof of septic tank pump-out. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt certain criteria for use by local governments in evaluating development in Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151) |
| HB240 | Pass | Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Provides that the entity designated by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to operate the programs of the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall have access to facilities, cli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) |
| HB845 | Pass | Baylor Survey lines. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to reestablish the boundaries of the Baylor Survey between holders of leases on private grounds and the public grounds. Due to recent information that indicates that a number of private ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) |
| HB740 | Pass | Duty to seize or kill a dog killing or injuring livestock or poultry. Provides that a local animal control officer or other officer shall have a duty to seize or kill a dog found in the act of killing or injuring livestock or poultry. Current law pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0137) |
| HB1193 | Pass | Appointments to State Water Control Board. Requires the Governor, in making appointments to the State Water Control Board, to try to ensure that membership is geographically balanced.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150) |
| HB54 | Pass | Compensation for livestock or poultry. Establishes a $750 cap on the fair market value that the owner of livestock that has been killed or injured by dogs or hybrid canines is entitled to receive as compensation, provided certain procedures are follo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116) |
| HB412 | Pass | Child welfare agencies; criminal history background checks. Directs the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to review current state and federal laws and regulations governing criminal history background checks for child-care provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0128) |
| HB911 | Pass | Living shorelines general permit. Requires regulations for the issuance of general permits for living shoreline projects to include an expedited review process. The bill allows construction of such projects under the local wetlands and coastal primar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0143) |
| HB255 | Pass | "Photo-red" traffic light enforcement systems. Requires that all "photo-red" systems have yellow light signal lengths of at least three seconds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| HB450 | Pass | Background checks; employment prior to receipt of results. Provides that no person shall be employed in a position that involves direct contact with a patient of, or person or child receiving services from, a nursing home, home health organization, h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129) |
| HB485 | Pass | Administrative subpoena for electronic communication service or remote computing service records; abduction and prostitution offenses. Adds certain abduction and prostitution offenses to the list of crimes for which attorneys for the Commonwealth hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166) |
| HB857 | Pass | Hunting with a muzzle-loading rifle; blaze orange clothing. Requires muzzleloader deer hunters during the special season for hunting deer with a muzzle-loading rifle, in those counties and cities designated by the Department of Game and Inland Fisher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| HB1237 | Pass | Hunting on Sundays. Allows hunting on Sundays under certain circumstances. A person may hunt waterfowl, subject to restrictions imposed by the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and a landowner and his immediate family or a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152) |
| HB264 | Pass | Authority of local boards of social services to employ in-house counsel. Authorizes local boards of social services to employ in-house counsel to provide general legal advice and representation related to specific actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122) |
| HB262 | Pass | Local boards; appointment of members of boards of supervisors. Provides that in cases in which a member of a local board of social services is also a member of the board of supervisors of a county represented by the local board, he shall serve on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121) |
| HB710 | Pass | Reclamation of coal-mined areas. Amends the Virginia Coal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1979 by removing the ability of certain applicants to provide a bond without separate surety. The bill also raises the target balance of the Coal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| HB407 | Pass | Adoption; disclosure of identifying information. Provides that in cases in which an adult adopted person seeks disclosure of identifying information about his birth parents and consent of the birth parents is not obtainable due to the death or mental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127) |
| HB856 | Pass | Hazardous waste permit. Removes the requirement that a permit is required from the Department of Environmental Quality to transport hazardous waste. The federal government currently regulates the transporting of hazardous waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) |
| HB909 | Pass | Possession of channel bass. Repeals an obsolete section restricting the taking of channel bass. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission currently establishes the restrictions on the taking of channel bass (red drum).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142) |
