| SB651 | Pass | Office of the Attorney General; employment of outside counsel where a conflict of interests exists. Requires the Attorney General's office to enter into an agreement with outside counsel to provide legal services in a matter when the Attorney General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| SB150 | Pass | Patent infringement; assertions made in bad faith. Prohibits any person from making in bad faith an assertion of patent infringement. The Attorney General or an attorney for the Commonwealth is empowered to accept assurances of voluntary compliance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| SB650 | Veto | Political contributions and gifts; prohibition in connection with the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund. Provides that the Governor, his campaign committee, and any political action committee established on his behalf shall not knowingly solici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB657 | Pass | Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals; onsite sewage installers and operators. Directs the Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals to extend one t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| SB282 | Pass | Virginia Fire Services Board; meetings. Allows the Virginia Fire Services Board to meet two additional times per calendar year for a total of six meetings. Under current law, the Board is limited to meeting no more than four times per calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820) |
| SB551 | Pass | Scenic river designation. Designates a 10.7-mile segment of the Cranesnest River in Dickenson County as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. The bill also removes from several sections a provision regarding the suitability of certain lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| SB377 | Pass | Firearm transfers to dealers; penalty. Establishes a process to be administered by the Department of State Police so that firearm dealers can find out whether a firearm that is being transferred to the dealer by a person other than a dealer, importer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821) |
| SB110 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation program. Establishes a short-time compensation program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| SB561 | Veto | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners; persons subject to protective orders ineligible. Provides that a prisoner who was convicted of a felony act of violence and who was subject to a protective order at the time of the offense is ineligible fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB443 | Pass | Number of circuit and district court judges. Increases and decreases the number of circuit, general district, and juvenile court judges authorized for each judicial circuit and district in accordance with a study report issued by the National Center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| SB71 | Pass | Emergency protective orders; arrests for certain offenses. Includes special conservators of the peace who have met the certification requirements for a law-enforcement officer in the definition of a law-enforcement officer for the purposes of obtaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| SB239 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; violence prevention committee policies and procedures. Requires the violence prevention committee of each public institution of higher education to establish policies and procedures that outline circumstances ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799) |
| SB14 | Pass | Certain sex crimes. Adds the words "anal intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, and anilingus" to numerous Code sections criminalizing certain conduct to clarify the behaviors that are prohibited. The bill also clarifies the sex crimes that are prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| SB236 | Veto | Student religious viewpoint expression. Codifies the right of students to (i) voluntarily pray or engage in religious activities or religious expression before, during, and after the school day in the same manner and to the same extent that students ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Requires 26 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB565 | Pass | Commercial driver's licenses, etc.; compliance with federal requirements. Amends several sections relating to commercial driver's licenses to comply with new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requirements relating to commercial motor vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| SB40 | Pass | Scanning information from driver's license. Prohibits any merchant in the Commonwealth from scanning the machine-readable zone of an individual's Department of Motor Vehicles-issued identification card or driver's license, except to (i) verify authen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| SB649 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council. Establishes the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council composed of 15 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| SB555 | Veto | Chaplains of the Virginia National Guard and Virginia Defense Force; sermons. Prohibits censorship by state government officials or agencies of the religious content of sermons made by chaplains of the Virginia National Guard while in Title 32 or Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Requires 26 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB480 | Pass | Real property tax; notice of assessment. Requires every notice of assessment to set forth (i) the new and prior two assessed values of land and assessed value of improvements; (ii) the new tax rate and the rates for the prior two tax years; (iii) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| SB310 | Veto | Senate districts; adjustments. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks in Districts 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, and 33 in Bedford, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Halifax, and Loudoun Counties and changes district assignments of two preci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Requires 26 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| SB376 | 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] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| SB421 | Pass | Local multidisciplinary child sexual abuse response teams. Requires every attorney for the Commonwealth to establish a multidisciplinary child sexual abuse response team to conduct regular reviews of cases involving felony sex offenses involving chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| SB145 | Pass | Special fox hunting license. Establishes a special license for hunting foxes on horseback with hounds but without firearms. The license exempts the licensee from the requirement that he complete a hunter education program. The bill provides that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) |
| SB67 | Pass | Discounted fees and charges for certain customers; City of Richmond. Allows the City of Richmond to develop criteria for providing discounted water and sewer fees and charges for low-income, elderly, or disabled customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| SB489 | Pass | Possession with intent to distribute tax-paid, contraband cigarettes; authorized holder. Clarifies that it is not necessary to prove that the perpetrator is not an authorized holder in order for such perpetrator to be guilty of the crime of possessio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| SB615 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; carbon dioxide emission control impact; schedule. Requires the Virginia Energy Plan to include, with regard to any regulations proposed or promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce carbon dioxide emission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| SB554 | Pass | Driver education instructors. Allows community colleges to offer courses required to become driver education instructors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| SB564 | Pass | Board of Accountancy; licensing requirements. Requires certified public accounting firms to participate in the Facilitated State Board Access process established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for peer review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| SB412 | 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] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| SB242 | Pass | Higher education; students' personal information. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from selling students' personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, to any person. The bill does not apply to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| SB542 | Pass | Health benefit exchanges; regulation of navigators. Requires navigators, on and after September 1, 2014, to be registered with the State Corporation Commission, in addition to being certified by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HH...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| SB562 | Pass | College partnership laboratory schools; tuition. Authorizes the school board of a school division that partners with a college partnership laboratory school to charge tuition to students enrolled in the college partnership laboratory school who do no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| SB188 | Pass | Deferred compensation plans for state and local employees. Authorizes the inclusion of a Roth contribution program in deferred compensation retirement plans for state and local government employees beginning July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| SB345 | Pass | Trust directors; defenses to liability. Clarifies that a trust director is liable for a breach of the trust director's fiduciary duty to the same extent a trustee would be liable for a breach of his fiduciary duty and that a trust director is able to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| SB172 | Pass | Student-athletes; concussion policies. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property to (i) establish policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of suspected concussions in student-athl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| SB79 | Pass | Optional retirement plan maintained by institution of higher education; withdrawal of contributions before retirement. Allows the governing board of an institution of higher education to establish a policy regarding the number of years of service, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| SB593 | Pass | Urban county executive form of government; Loudoun County; disclosure in land use proceedings. Alters disclosure provisions for land use proceedings in counties with the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) and Loudoun County. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| SB312 | Pass | Annexation Moratorium Statute; continuation of the moratorium on annexation by cities. Extends the temporary restrictions on granting city charters, filing annexation notices, and instituting annexation proceedings and county immunity proceedings unt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| SB579 | Pass | Sales and use tax; revenues from certain baseball facilities. Adds to the definition of "public facility," for the purpose of entitlement to certain sales tax revenues, a sports complex consisting of a minor league baseball stadium and related tourna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| SB276 | Pass | Charter schools; restrictions and pre-lottery enrollment for current students of conversion charter schools. Provides that in the case of the conversion of an existing public school, students who attend the school and the siblings of such students ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB516 | Pass | Employment preference for veterans and spouses of certain veterans. Provides that private employers may grant preference in hiring and promotion to a veteran or the spouse of a veteran with a service-connected permanent and total disability. The meas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| SB575 | Pass | Advance Health Care Directive Registry; submission of documents. Provides that the legal representative or designee of an individual who has executed a health care power of attorney, advance directive, or declaration of an anatomical gift may submit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| SB486 | Pass | Department of Treasury; Risk Management Division; liability coverage for certain pro bono attorneys. Provides for inclusion under the state's risk management plan of attorneys providing pro bono legal services under a Virginia State Bar approved prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB238 | Pass | Charter; City of Fairfax. Makes numerous technical changes to the City Charter. The bill also clarifies the duties and organization of the fire department and requires members of the elected school board to have lived in the city for one year prior t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| SB230 | Pass | Judgment on affidavit in action upon contract or note; grounds for dismissal. Provides that in an action upon a contract or note for which the plaintiff is entitled to judgment on an affidavit the plaintiff shall be entitled to a continuance in the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| SB321 | 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] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| SB640 | Pass | Witness's right to nondisclosure of certain information. Adds witnesses in criminal prosecutions of manufacturing, selling, giving, etc., a controlled substance and of violent felonies to the list of those witnesses who may request to have their addr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| SB259 | Pass | Special license plates; PROTECT POLLINATORS. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of pollinator conservation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| SB482 | Pass | DUI; probation; license suspension, etc. Removes the provision that, unless otherwise modified by the court, a defendant who has been convicted of a fourth or subsequent DUI in 10 years shall remain on probation and under the terms of any suspended s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| SB578 | Pass | Damages, attorney fees, and costs for unconstitutional grant or denial by locality of certain permits and approvals. Provides that an applicant aggrieved by the grant or denial by a locality of any approval or permit, where such grant included, or de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
