VA Legislation | 2014 | Regular Session | House | Bills | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB1105	Engross Sine Die	Life insurance for retired state employees. Provides that the basic life insurance coverage for retired state employees with 30 or more years of creditable service shall not be reduced to less than $8,000, indexed to the amount of post-retirement sup... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-08 Failed to pass in House
HB30	Engross Sine Die	Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2015, and the thirtieth day of June, 2016. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-08 Failed to pass in House
HB29	Engross Sine Die	Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 806, 2013 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-08 Failed to pass in House
HB594	Engross Sine Die	Commission on Local Government; local mandates. Extends from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016, the task force appointed by the Governor to review state mandates on localities. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-08 Failed to pass in House
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
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
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)
HB286	Engross Sine Die	State Inspector General; appointment. Provides that the General Assembly appoints the State Inspector General. Currently, the Governor appoints the State Inspector General. The bill contains technical amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N)
HB1147	Engross Sine Die	Health insurance; offering plans. States that, notwithstanding any other provision of Virginia law, insurance companies shall be allowed to continue offering health insurance plans in all product markets that were in effect at any time during 2012 an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N)
HB1263	Engross Sine Die	The Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates; membership. Requires one of the citizen members appointed by the Governor to serve on the Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates to be a person who served and has been honorably discharged from the armed forc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 9-N)
HB1059	Engross Sine Die	Electric utilities; generation facility cost recovery. Requires an electric utility to establish a regulatory asset for regulatory accounting and ratemaking purposes under which it shall defer operation and maintenance costs incurred in connection wi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-03 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1122	Engross Sine Die	Service of process; social security numbers. Requires a person serving process to redact a party's social security number from any writing, process, or attached pleading before service of process is effected on the party by any method other than deli... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-27 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB754	Engross Sine Die	Student discipline; modifying long-term suspensions and expulsions. Permits a school board or a committee thereof to reduce the long-term suspension or expulsion of a student or students who received a greater punishment in cases in which the school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-27 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB461	Engross Sine Die	Coalbed methane gas; release of funds held in escrow or suspense. Requires the operator of certain previously pooled coalbed methane gas wells to request, by the beginning of 2015, the release of any funds held in escrow or suspense to the person who... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-27 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
HB324	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the online educational programs and services offered to students enr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-27 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB786	Engross Sine Die	Dismissal of teachers and other school board employees; grounds. Provides that no school board employee shall be dismissed or placed on probation solely on the grounds that (i) he possessed an unloaded firearm that is in a closed container in or upon... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-27 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
HB515	Engross Sine Die	Suspension and expulsion of students; parental notification. Requires the school principal or his administrative designee to exercise reasonable efforts to notify the parents of any student who violates a school board policy or the compulsory school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-27 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB1183	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Transportation Solutions Working Group. Changes the name of the Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability to the Virginia Transportation Solutions Working Group and authorizes it to advise the Commonwealth Transportation Board on mat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (10-Y 5-N)
HB731	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; liability for employment discrimination. Provides that when an employee is discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment in whole or in part because of lawful acts done in furtherance of an acti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N)
HB1120	Engross Sine Die	Warning lights on privately owned vehicles. Provides more detailed requirements relating to warning lights on privately owned vehicles used by firefighters, volunteer rescue squad members, certain ambulance drivers, and police chaplains to respond to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 To Senate Transportation Committee
HB741	Engross Sine Die	Vehicle exhaust systems; antique motor vehicles. Exempts antique motor vehicles with exhaust systems in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise from the requirement that they have an exhaust system that is s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 To Senate Transportation Committee
HB82	Engross Sine Die	Following too closely. Includes non-motor vehicles (bicycles, electric assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds) among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (11-Y 4-N)
HB780	Engross Sine Die	Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program; distribution of benefits; restrictions. Provides that the Department of Social Services shall distribute TANF benefits only in the form of debit cards or direct deposits into savings or checkin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1256	Engross Sine Die	Detention and removal of a citizen from the Commonwealth by the federal government. Provides that the Secretary of Public Safety shall request from the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, when an agency of the federal government detains any United States... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 4-N)
HB593	Engross Sine Die	Entitlement to certain sales and use tax revenues; City of Bristol and Washington County. Expands the payments of sales and use tax revenue generated on the premises of a public facility located in the City of Bristol used to pay bonds issued to cons... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 4-N)
HB877	Engross Sine Die	Hybrid retirement program; school division deferred compensation and cash match plans. Allows school divisions the option of establishing and administering their own deferred compensation and cash match plans if they elect not to participate in those... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-26 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB105	Engross Sine Die	Elections; write-in votes; threshold amount required for certain actions by electoral boards. Saves time and resources for electoral boards in accounting for write-in votes after the election by eliminating the five percent threshold, instead allowin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-25 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N)
HB917	Engross Sine Die	Elections; recount; programming of optical scan tabulators. Provides that if an optical scan tabulator cannot be programmed to count only the ballots for an office or issue in question in a recount, the tabulator shall be programmed to set aside all ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-25 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB45	Engross Sine Die	General Assembly districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes to House of Delegates Districts 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 6... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-25 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N)
HB1200	Engross Sine Die	Elections; qualifications of candidates; residency of candidates for General Assembly. Provides that a person seeking to qualify in a special election as a candidate for the General Assembly who establishes residency in a General Assembly district in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-25 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 1-N)
HB511	Engross Sine Die	Deferral and dismissal of serious juvenile offenses. Provides that the juvenile court or circuit court hearing the case shall not, except with the concurrence of the attorney for the Commonwealth, defer disposition for any criminal offense alleged to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-24 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N)
HB339	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Freedom of Information Act FOIA); certain proprietary records of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Provides an exemption for confidential proprietary information and trade secrets, including commercial or financial informatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-24 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
HB1052	Engross Sine Die	Method of execution. Provides that if the Director of the Department of Corrections certifies that lethal injection is not available as a method of execution, electrocution shall be used instead. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-21 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
HB521	Engross Sine Die	Comprehensive services for at-risk youth and families; state and local advisory team; membership. Provides that nonstate agency members of state and local advisory teams established to advise the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-21 Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 3-N 1-A)
HB706	Engross Sine Die	Legislative standing to defend laws of the Commonwealth. Provides that the General Assembly, the House of Delegates, the Senate of Virginia, or a member of the General Assembly has standing to represent the interests of the Commonwealth in a proceedi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-21 Passed by indefinitely in Rules (12-Y 4-N)
HB63	Engross Sine Die	Students receiving home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-20 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
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
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)