| SB544 | Pass | Charter; Town of Victoria. Establishes a new charter for the Town of Victoria and repeals the current charter. The proposed charter contains powers typically granted to towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB454 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act; solicitation of prostitution; pandering; minors. Amends the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act to add solicitation of prostitution from a minor and pandering involving a minor. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| SB196 | Pass | Charter; Town of Tazewell. Makes numerous technical changes to the town's charter and revises or repeals many outdated provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB595 | Pass | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Board of Directors. Provides that nonlegislative citizen members of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority shall serve no more than four consecutive two-year term...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| SB357 | Pass | Competency to stand trial; recommended treatment. Provides that in cases in which the evaluation report prepared by a qualified mental health expert indicates that the defendant requires treatment, the report shall state whether inpatient or outpatie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| SB488 | Pass | King William County and the Town of West Point; allocation of revenues for schools. Creates a special school tax district in King William County and governs the allocation of revenue for schools in King William County and the Town of West Point as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| SB202 | Pass | Auctioneers; exemption from licensure. Requires an organization to be a charitable organization granted tax-exempt status under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code in order to be exempt from licensure as an auctioneer or auction firm for sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| SB198 | Pass | Charter; City of Norfolk; council meetings and deputy police chief. Requires the city council to hold regular meetings on at least a monthly basis rather than at least 36 weekly meetings per year and creates the position of deputy chief of police as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB290 | Pass | Real property lien; water and sewer charges. Adds Prince George and Smyth Counties to those localities in which charges for water and sewer constitute a lien against the real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB296 | Pass | Motor Vehicle Dealer Board, motor vehicle dealers, and T&M vehicle dealers. Provides for more efficient operations of the Board, ensures solvency of the Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund, and reduces the number of agency regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| SB570 | Pass | Assault and battery; school employees; penalty. Provides that a battery against any full-time or part-time employee of a public or private elementary school who is engaged in the performance of his duties is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| SB563 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit Program. Increases by $500,000 in each of fiscal years 2015 and 2016 the amount of tax credits that may be issued under the tax credit program for both donations supporting education programs and donations suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB653 | Pass | Renewable energy property grants. Establishes, beginning with fiscal year 2016, grants for placing into service renewable energy property. The grant would equal 35 percent of the costs paid or incurred to place the renewable energy property into serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| SB211 | Pass | Destruction of controlled substances, etc. Eliminates the requirement that law-enforcement reports on the destruction of seized controlled substances and other drugs and paraphernalia be submitted to the Board of Pharmacy. A return under oath by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| SB577 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; public offering statement; multisite registration. Allows for the developer, in the case of a time-share project located outside the Commonwealth, to amend the public offering statement to reflect any additions or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB215 | Pass | Virginia College Savings Plan; incorporated government agency. Declares the Virginia College Savings Plan to be a body politic and corporate. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| SB367 | Pass | Driver's license and special identification card designations; persons with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum disorder. Permits the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon the request of the applicant and presentation of a signed statement by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| SB205 | Pass | Licensure and examination for persons age 19 or older. Allows persons age 19 or over the option of taking the behind-the-wheel examination at a driver training school as long as they complete the current requirements already in place for persons unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| SB302 | Pass | Allegations of untrue, deceptive, or misleading advertising; real estate licensees. Provides that an allegation that a real estate licensee has engaged in untrue, deceptive, or misleading advertising shall be stated with particularity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| SB571 | Pass | Virginia Beach arena. Allows the City of Virginia Beach to use its Arena Financing Fund to contract for the construction, development, operation, or maintenance of facilities and prohibits the pledging of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| SB397 | Pass | Rural gravel road network in Loudoun County. Provides specific goals for VDOT's maintenance of the rural gravel road network in Loudoun County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| SB378 | Pass | Notary public; application for recommission. Allows persons already commissioned as notaries public or electronic notaries public to submit applications for recommission to the Secretary of the Commonwealth in person, by first-class mail, or online, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| SB363 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Updates the charter to reflect the shift from May to November city elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| SB601 | Pass | Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads. Staggers the terms of the Governor's appointments to the commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB358 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; date of adoption or readoption of a regulation for purposes of appeal. Clarifies the date of adoption or readoption for purposes of an appeal under the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia as the date of publication in the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| SB611 | Pass | Automated sales suppression device; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to willfully utilize any device or software to falsify the electronic records of cash registers or manipulate transaction records that affect any state or local tax liabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| SB260 | Pass | Emergency custody and temporary detention; duration; facility of temporary detention; acute psychiatric bed registry. Extends the time that a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order from four hours with a possible two-hour extension...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB166 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties; land and utility ownership. Removes the power of the Fort Monroe Authority to exercise the powers of the Commonwealth over its Area of Operation, which consists of land acquired or to be acquired from the fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB438 | Pass | Real Estate Board; death or disability of a broker. Requires the Real Estate Board to grant approval to certain persons in a specific order of priority as may be designated by a broker in the event of his disability or death to conclude the business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| SB567 | 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] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| SB268 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses. Provides that mixed beverage licenses may be granted to establishments located (i) on property adjacent to the intersection of U.S. Route 220 North and State Route 57, operated as a country club as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| SB594 | Pass | Cannabimimetic agents; controlled substance analogs; regulation by Board of Pharmacy; penalties. Substitutes the term "cannabimimetic agents" for the term "synthetic cannabinoids" to describe certain substances that are unlawful to possess, sell, giv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| SB362 | 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] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| SB75 | Pass | Charter; Town of Honaker; November elections and mayoral term. Moves town council elections from May to November and extends the term of the mayor from two years to four years beginning with the mayor elected in November 2014. This bill contains an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| SB549 | Pass | Donations by localities; emergency relief. Provides that a locality may make gifts and donations to any nonprofit tax-exempt organization that is engaged in providing emergency relief to residents, including providing the repair or replacement of pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB80 | 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] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| SB518 | Pass | Funding among highway systems. Includes primary state highway system extensions, the part of the primary highway that runs through a city or town, in the list of highways that receive the 25 percent for reconstruction of deteriorated highways of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| SB620 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores. Provides that the ABC Board may appoint the holder of a distiller's license or its officers and employees as agents of the Board for the sale of spirits, manufactured by or for, or blended b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| SB609 | Pass | Charter; City of Covington. Updates the city's charter to reflect a shift to November municipal elections. The bill also deletes outdated provisions and contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| SB72 | Pass | Tourist Train Development Authority. Reinstates the Authority and its board, repealed by the General Assembly in 2011, which consists of representatives from the governing bodies of Tazewell County, the Town of Bluefield, and the Town of Pocahontas; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| SB66 | 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] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB631 | Pass | Authorities for development of former federal areas; dissolution. Provides that such authorities that are created by proclamation of the Governor prior to January 1, 1997, may be dissolved by the affected locality or localities without a proclamation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| SB11 | Pass | Absentee voting and procedures; secure return of voted military-overseas ballots. Requires the State Board of Elections to provide instructions, procedures, services, a security assessment, and security measures for the secure return by electronic me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| SB42 | Pass | Penning of fox or coyote; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to erect or maintain an enclosure for the purpose of pursuing, hunting, or killing a fox or coyote with dogs. Until July 1, 2054, the bill exempts from the ban any foxho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| SB669 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; educational program for governing boards. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's educational program for members of governing boards of public institutions of higher education in the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| SB605 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage license for Virginia State Fair. Updates the license for the Virginia State Fair.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB502 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage restaurant licenses. Allows limited mixed beverage restaurant licensees to sell and serve wine, beer, and champagne for on-premises consumption, provided the sale of such alcoholic beverages, togethe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| SB449 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; articulation, dual admissions, and guaranteed admissions agreements. Renames the State Transfer Module as the State Transfer Tool and requires the State Council of Higher Education to develop guidelines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB413 | Pass | Wildlife rehabilitators. Allows persons authorized by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to provide care for wildlife as long as the care provided complies with the Department's regulations and permit conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| SB538 | Pass | Absences on legislative commissions. Provides that the absence of any appointed nonlegislative citizen member from three consecutive meetings of a legislative study entity shall be sufficient cause for the position to be declared vacated and replaced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
