| SB194 | Pass | Date of valuation; inverse condemnation proceeding. Provides that the "date of valuation" of property in an inverse condemnation proceeding is the date determined by the court to be the date the property was taken or damaged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| SB627 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; training center residents; quality of care; disclosure. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to provide a training center resident who is to be transferred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| SB306 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments; reform. Provides that the number and type of Standards of Learning assessments shall not exceed 17 specified assessments in grades three through eight. The bill requires each local school board to certify that it ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB237 | Pass | Optional provisions in subdivision ordinances; sidewalk improvements. Adds to the list of optional provisions in local subdivision ordinances a provision allowing any town in the Northern Virginia Transportation District to require the dedication of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| SB641 | Pass | Exemption from reporting citizenship status of prisoners for certain correctional facilities. Provides that a sheriff or other officer in charge of a jail shall communicate the results of any immigration alien query that confirm that a person committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| SB448 | Pass | Hazing; penalty and institution policies. Requires the policies of any public school or public institution of higher education regarding hazing to be consistent with model policies established by the Department of Education or the State Council of Hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| SB95 | Pass | Precious metals dealers; waiver of permit fee for certain merchants. Authorizes the chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to waive the fee for obtaining a previous metals dealer permit for a retail merchant, provided (i) the retail merchant has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| SB658 | Pass | Inventory of physical evidence recovery kits. Requires all local and state law-enforcement agencies to report an inventory of all physical evidence recovery kits in their custody that may contain biological evidence that were collected but not submit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB104 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of gift shop licenses. Expands the privileges of a gift shop license to allow the licensee to give to any person to whom wine or beer may be lawfully sold (i) a sample of wine not to exceed two ounces by volume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| SB177 | Pass | Definition of "service dog." Expands the definition of "service dog" to include dogs trained to assist persons suffering from a physical, sensory, intellectual, developmental, or mental disability or mental illness. The current definition is limited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| SB178 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; handling of tasting fees by sight-seeing carrier. Creates a new permit that allows sight-seeing contract passenger carriers transporting individuals for compensation to a licensed winery, brewery, or restaurant to collect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| SB356 | Pass | Titling manufactured homes. Revises requirements and procedures for titling manufactured homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB464 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; state health plan. Removes "part-time state employees" from the definitions under the state health plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| SB587 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; causes of action for age discrimination. Provides that no employer employing more than five but less than 20 persons shall discharge any such employee on the basis of age if the employee is 40 years of age or older. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB398 | Pass | Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast of certain horse races. Allows the owner or operator of a steeplechase facility to simulcast the Kentucky Derby at the steeplechase facility in conjunction with holding the steeplechase races.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB175 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for religious bodies. Clarifies the meaning of real property used exclusively for religious worship for determining the real property tax exemption for religious bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| SB348 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; alternative purchase. Provides for the registration with the Common Interest Community Board of alternative purchases that are offered to potential purchasers during the developer's sales presentation. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB592 | Pass | Court-Appointed Special Advocate Program. Allows Court-Appointed Special Advocate volunteer appointments to continue for youth ages 18 and older who are in foster care when the juvenile court has retained jurisdiction and the judge determines such se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| SB270 | Pass | Third grade SOLs; math and English only. Directs the Board of Education to require only math and English reading Standards of Learning assessments for third graders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| SB156 | Pass | Electronic tolling facilities; fees. Directs VDOT to develop and implement a plan to eliminate E-ZPass transponder maintenance fees and encourages the Secretary of Transportation to examine and improve the retail distribution of E-ZPass transponders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| SB460 | Pass | Private institutions of higher education; certification. Increases, from 10 to 20, the number of years a private institution is required to have maintained a main or branch campus continuously in the Commonwealth under its current ownership and has b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB281 | Pass | Certificate of birth; naturalized citizen. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, for any adopted person who has attained United States citizenship through naturalization and upon request and receipt of evidence demonstrating such citizenship...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| SB85 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; private security services businesses; exemption from training for certain central dispatchers. Provides that central station dispatchers employed by a central station that is certified by a Nationally Recogniz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| SB78 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exemption for administrative investigations by public institutions of higher education. Exempts from FOIA administrative investigations conducted by a public institution of higher education relating to indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| SB596 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; state and local license taxes on certain brewery licensees. Imposes a state license tax of $350 and a local license tax of $250 for breweries that manufacture no more than 500 barrels of beer during the licensing year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| SB64 | Pass | Inoperable motor vehicles. Adds the City of Hopewell and Prince George County to those localities that may prohibit any person from keeping, except within a fully enclosed building or structure or otherwise shielded or screened from view, on any prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB151 | Pass | Family abuse protective orders; motor vehicles. Modifies the provision specifying that the court may grant the petitioner temporary exclusive possession or use of a motor vehicle owned by the petitioner or jointly owned by the parties to provide that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| SB667 | Pass | Authorizing DBHDS to convey a portion of the real property known as the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute to the Mount Rogers Community Services Board. Corrects the legal description of property authorized by the 2013 General Assembly to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB461 | 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] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB490 | Pass | Carbon monoxide alarms; required installation in rental dwelling units. Amends the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to require a landlord to install carbon monoxide alarms upon the written request of a tenant. The bill also provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| SB284 | Pass | Kinship care; regulations. Directs the Department of Social Services to review current policies governing kinship care placements, propose regulations governing kinship care placements, and review the fiscal impact of the proposed regulations. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| SB476 | Pass | Incest; definitions of parent, etc.; penalty. Provides that for the purposes of the crime of incest, parent includes stepparent, grandparent includes step-grandparent, child includes stepchild, and grandchild includes step-grandchild.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| SB7 | Pass | Virginia State Bar; Clients' Protection Fund; sunset. Extends the sunset provision on the Supreme Court's authority to adopt rules assessing members of the Virginia State Bar an annual fee of up to $25 to be deposited in the Clients' Protection Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| SB31 | Pass | Methamphetamine cleanup; certification. Requires the Board of Health, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality and other entities, to establish a program certifying that a building that was previously a methamphetamine manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| SB10 | Pass | Discounted fees and charges for certain low-income and disabled customers; Town of Louisa. Permits the Town of Louisa by ordinance to develop criteria for providing discounted water and sewer fees and charges for low-income and disabled customers. Cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| SB459 | Pass | Electric utility regulation; recovery of nuclear costs. 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 w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| SB54 | Pass | General Assembly; signature for prefiled legislation. Removes the sunset clause from Chapter 670 of the Acts of Assembly of 2012, which allows the substitution of an electronic signature for a handwritten signature on prefiled legislation. The provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| SB47 | Pass | Southern States Energy Board. Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the Senate Committee on Rules to each appoint three legislative members, of whom two members shall be alternate members. Alternate legislative members must possess the same qualifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| SB391 | 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] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| SB241 | Pass | Transfer of development rights. Provides that a locality may require that development comply with any prior locality-adopted neighborhood design standards identified in the comprehensive plan for the receiving area in which the development shall occu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| SB328 | Pass | Surgical technologists and surgical assistants. Prohibits any person from using or assuming the title "registered surgical technologist" unless such person is registered with the Board of Medicine and prohibits any person from using or assuming the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| SB440 | Pass | Campus police and security departments; DCJS to conduct study to identify potential minimum core operational functions. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to conduct a study to identify potential minimum core operational functions f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| SB346 | Pass | Increasing various allowances and other amounts related to wills, trusts, and fiduciaries. Increases the amounts of various allowances, threshold amounts, and other dollar-based provisions in Title 64.2 (Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries) to account for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| SB600 | Pass | Concealed handgun permits; records. Provides that any references to the issuance of a concealed handgun permit in any order book before July 1, 2008, are exempt from the requirement that such orders be withheld from public disclosure. The bill also d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| SB222 | Pass | Solar panels in community associations. Clarifies a community association's authority to prohibit or restrict the installation of solar power devices. The measure bars a community association from prohibiting a property owner from installing a solar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| SB366 | Pass | Multijurisdiction grand juries. Adds the cigarette trafficking offenses to the list of crimes that a multijurisdiction grand jury may investigate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| SB229 | Pass | Injunctions; objection to petition for review. Requires an aggrieved party that files a petition for review of the granting or denial of an injunction with the Virginia Supreme Court or Court of Appeals to serve a copy of the petition for review on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| SB643 | Pass | Electric utilities; costs of offshore wind facilities. Limits the portion of all costs incurred by an electric utility between July 1, 2007, and December 31, 2013, in developing an offshore wind facility that are recoverable through a rate adjustment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| SB347 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; contents of time-share owners' association annual report; cost. Details the contents of the annual report provided by the time-share owners' association to its members. In addition, the bill extends the time in wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| SB98 | Pass | Water and sewer system; City of Richmond. Provides that the City of Richmond may develop criteria for financial assistance to customers for plumbing repairs and the replacement of water-inefficient appliances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
