| HB929 | Pass | Emergency vehicles of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that, for the purposes of exemptions granted to emergency vehicles in certain situations, the term "emergency vehicle" shall include any Virginia National Guard Civil Support Team vehicle wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0171) |
| HB284 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; air carrier licenses; privileges. Provides that for purposes of supplying its airplanes, as well as any airplanes of a licensed express carrier flying under the same brand, an air carrier licensee may appoint an authorized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0125) |
| HB282 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; contract winemaking facility; nonpayment. Allows a contract winemaking facility to sell the wine it produced if the terms of payment have not been fulfilled in accordance with the contract with the winery or farm winery th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124) |
| HB715 | Pass | Special archery license. Establishes a new combined license for persons hunting with a bow and arrow or a crossbow. The cost of the license is $17 for residents and $30 for nonresidents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) |
| HB127 | Pass | Use of muzzleloading pistols. Allows persons to hunt big game with muzzleloading pistols of a caliber of .45 or greater where and in those seasons when the use of muzzleloading rifles is permitted. The bill authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0117) |
| HB270 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; certain licensees to provide information to consumer while on the premises of licensed retailers. Allows any winery, farm winery, wine importer, or wine wholesaler licensee to provide to adult customers of licensed retail ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123) |
| HB1067 | Pass | Animal shelters; definitions. Substitutes the terms "private animal shelter" for "animal shelter" and "public animal shelter" for "pound." The bill also amends the definitions of "foster care provider," "foster home," and "home-based rescue."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| HB1116 | Pass | Scenic River designation. Extends the State Scenic River designation of the Banister River from the current 38.4 miles to 63.3 miles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| HB312 | Pass | Action for rescission of a deed or other instrument on grounds of undue influence; attorney fees. Provides that in any civil action to rescind a deed, contract, or other instrument, the plaintiff may be awarded reasonable attorney fees and costs asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164) |
| HB452 | Pass | Rejection of plea agreement; recusal. Provides that when a judge rejects a plea agreement he shall immediately recuse himself from any further proceedings on the same matter unless the parties agree otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0165) |
| HB668 | Pass | Independent living services; individuals between 18 and 21 years of age. Requires local departments of social services and child-placing agencies to provide independent living services to any person between 18 and 21 years of age who is transitioning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134) |
| HB745 | Pass | Internet publication of personal information; prohibition; attorneys for the Commonwealth. Adds attorneys for the Commonwealth to the current provision prohibiting a state or local agency from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet the home a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170) |
| HB542 | Pass | Wearing masks; exceptions; penalty. Provides that a person over the age of 16 who wears a mask, hood, or other device that hides or covers a substantial portion of the face with the intent to conceal his identity, subject to certain exceptions, is gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0167) |
| HB376 | Pass | Spotlighting of deer; exemption from restrictions. Allows the employment of lights by localities for the observation of deer (spotlighting) for certain activities authorized by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0126) |
| HB202 | Pass | Licensure of assisted living facilities; credit references. Updates requirements relating to applications for licensure as an assisted living facility, replacing the requirement for at least one letter of credit with the requirement for at least one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| HB655 | Pass | Management of the menhaden fishery. Extends the sunset date for management of the menhaden fishery from January 1, 2015, to July 1, 2016. The bill also allows any person purchasing more than one of the licenses for the same vessel to catch menhaden w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133) |
| HB1039 | Pass | Jury trial of right; demand; compliance with the Rules of Supreme Court. Provides that unless waived, any demand for a trial by jury in a civil case made in compliance with the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia shall be sufficient, without further n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0172) |
| HB648 | Pass | Oyster measures. Reduces from 2,800 cubic inches to 2,500 cubic inches the minimum size of the container that is one of the measures by which oysters in the shell may be bought or sold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| HB661 | Pass | Limitation of prosecutions; falsifying patient records. Increases from one year to three years the statute of limitations on prosecutions for the misdemeanor of falsifying patient records with the intent to defraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0169) |
| HB215 | Pass | Withdrawal from district board of social services. Establishes a process for withdrawal from a district board of social services by the local governing body of a county or city.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0119) |
| HB596 | Pass | Summons for unlawful detainer issued by magistrate or clerk or judge of a general district court; amendment of amount due. Provides that when a defendant does not make an appearance in an unlawful detainer hearing, upon request by the plaintiff and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168) |
| HB1035 | Pass | Veterinarians; dispensing compounded drug products. Provides that a veterinarian may dispense a 72-hour supply of a compounded drug product for a companion animal that is his patient when the compounded drug product is dispensed to treat an emergent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0147) |
| HB572 | Pass | Wetlands zoning ordinance; local credit for in-lieu fees. Requires a local wetlands board to give a permit applicant credit toward local in-lieu fees in the amount of the fee he has paid, as an agreed-upon permit condition, to the Virginia Aquatic Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| HB1014 | Pass | Coal mine safety; reciprocal agreements with other states. Empowers the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to enter into reciprocal agreements with responsible officers of other states and assigns to the Chief of the Division of Mines the duty ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0145) |
| HB11 | Engross
Sine Die | Public school textbooks; East Sea. Requires all textbooks approved by the Board of Education after July 1, 2014, to note that the Sea of Japan is also referred to as the East Sea.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1273 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Historic Resources; Advisory Commission to Protect Cemeteries and Gravesites of Our Fellow Virginians Held in Bondage As Slaves; report. Provides for the Department of Historic Resources to administer a program to provide funds to memor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB333 | Engross
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] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB1168 | Engross
Sine Die | Wetland and stream mitigation banks. Provides that state lands that are used to provide compensatory mitigation for wetland or stream impacts shall be used only for projects undertaken by a state agency, or a foundation related to a state institution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB610 | Engross
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] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB577 | Engross
Sine Die | Opening of the school year; alternative schedules. Permits a division superintendent, with the approval of the local school board, to (i) set the academic calendar for any school within the local school division that has failed to achieve full accred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB573 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive an award from the institution's approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB9 | Pass | Regulation or prohibition of parking of certain vehicles. Adds the Town of Blackstone to the list of counties and towns that may regulate or prohibit the parking of certain vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049) |
| HB509 | Pass | Permits for operation of specialized construction equipment. Authorizes the Commissioner of Highways to issue permits for operation of specialized construction equipment on and across structures maintained by VDOT.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) |
| HB341 | Pass | Natural gas vehicles; weight limit exception. Allows vehicles fueled, wholly or partially, by natural gas to weigh up to 2,000 pounds more than the applicable weight limit on non-Interstate highways. The bill requires the operator of the vehicle to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064) |
| HB1002 | Pass | Committee on Training within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Increases the membership of the Committee on Training within the Department of Criminal Justice Services from 14 to 15 by the addition of the Director of the Department of Juve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083) |
| HB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Public water and sewer utilities and authorities; service contracts. Authorizes localities and water and sewer authorities to establish and operate programs under which they agree to repair, replace, or maintain the water or sewer line of a customer'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1007 | Pass | High school equivalency programs and examinations. Replaces references throughout the Code to a General Education Development (GED) program or test with "a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0084) |
| HB225 | Pass | Reassessment of real estate and equalization of assessments; City of Richmond. Allows the City of Richmond by ordinance to provide for a board of equalization or a permanent board of equalization instead of a board of review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061) |
| HB1134 | Pass | Practice of physician assistants. Updates terminology related to practice agreements for physician assistants and adds physician assistants to the definition of "health care provider" for the purposes of medical malpractice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| HB411 | Pass | Vehicle safety inspection approval; armed services grace period. Increases the grace period for vehicle safety inspection from five business days to 14 calendar days for members of the armed services on active duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0067) |
| HB64 | Pass | Stephen L. Thompson Memorial Highway. Designates a portion of Virginia Route 24 in Rustburg the Stephen L. Thompson Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0051) |
| HB505 | Pass | Dextromethorphan Distribution Act; penalty. Provides that no pharmacy or retail distributor may knowingly or intentionally sell or distribute a product containing dextromethorphan (a cough suppressant found in many over-the-counter medications) to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0101) |
| HB525 | Pass | Real property tax; notice of assessment. Requires every notice of assessment to set forth (i) the new and prior two appraised values of land and appraised value of improvements, and the assessed values of such if different from the appraised values; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) |
| HB986 | Pass | Designating the Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge. Designates the Interstate Route 81 bridge over the Maury River in Rockbridge County the "Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0082) |
| HB488 | Pass | Golf carts and utility vehicles. Adds the Town of Clifton to the list of towns without their own police departments that may permit operation of golf carts and utility vehicles on their highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069) |
| HB730 | Pass | Secretary of Public Safety; Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security; transfer of certain powers and duties. Renames the Secretary of Public Safety as the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and reassigns duties currently assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| HB80 | Pass | Conditional guilty pleas. Gives the defendant the same right to enter a conditional guilty plea in a misdemeanor case in circuit court that exists in a felony case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| HB541 | Pass | Determination of death. Removes the requirement for a second physician to declare death when the initial declaration of death is made by a physician who is a specialist in the field of neurology, neurosurgery, electroencephalography, or critical care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073) |
| HB321 | Pass | Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program. Creates the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program, a pilot program administered by the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to improve outreach by state government to the private sector. The objectives of the Program are to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0063) |
| HB269 | Pass | Holding cases under advisement. Provides that a circuit court judge in a civil action who holds a decision on any matter, motion, or issue submitted to the court or any final decision in the action under advisement for more than 60 days after a decis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0062) |
