| SB496 | Pass | Special police officers in localities. Repeals the provisions of the Code allowing a circuit court for any locality to appoint special police officers for such locality upon application of the sheriff or chief of police. Under current law, all appoin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| SB503 | Pass | Notaries; providing advice on immigration; advertising. Prohibits a notary public from offering or providing legal advice to any person in immigration or other legal matters or representing any person in immigration proceedings unless such notary pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| SB245 | Pass | Qualification of administrator in action for wrongful death or personal injury. Clarifies that the appointment of a fiduciary in a foreign jurisdiction shall not preclude the fiduciary from qualifying as an administrator of an estate for the purpose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| SB546 | Pass | Virginia Defense Force. Authorizes a locality to appropriate such sums of money and real and personal property as it may deem proper to the Virginia Defense Force, when that organization is maintained within the limits of the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| SB417 | Pass | Authority of local boards of social services to employ in-house counsel. Authorizes local boards of social services to employ in-house counsel to provide general legal advice and representation related to specific actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| SB116 | Pass | Correcting errors in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; affidavit. Allows an attorney to record a corrective affidavit to correct an obvious description error contained in a recorded deed, deed of trust, or mortgage. Obvious description errors inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| SB415 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council; sunset extended. Extends the sunset date for the Autism Advisory Council from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| SB585 | Pass | Electric utility regulation; recovery of costs of new underground distribution facilities. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to recover the costs of new underground distribution facilities through a rate adjustment clause. Eligible facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| SB161 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; participation in meetings in event of emergency or personal matters. Removes the requirement that a public body approve by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting the remote participation in the meetin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| SB513 | Pass | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission created. Creates the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission, which is composed of the chief elected officers of the governing bodies of the 14 localities in Planning District 23, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB271 | Pass | Charges for additional services provided by a marriage celebrant. Allows a person other than a minister who is authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage to negotiate payment for any services in addition to the marriage ceremony that are agreed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| SB68 | Pass | Real estate with delinquent taxes. Changes, under certain circumstances, the criteria for transferring certain tax-delinquent real property to localities through a special commissioner in the Cities of Norfolk, Richmond, Hopewell, Newport News, Peter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| SB94 | Pass | Evidence by affidavit in divorce proceedings; residency requirement. Provides that the affidavits submitted as evidence by a party in a no-fault divorce action and by a corroborating witness affirm that at least one party to the suit is, and has been...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| SB456 | Pass | Elections; voting equipment. Makes technical amendments to reflect updates in voting equipment technology. The bill also authorizes the State Board of Elections to conduct audits of ballot scanner machines; currently, these audits are conducted as pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| SB60 | Pass | Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Extends the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| SB82 | Pass | Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; sunset. Extends the sunset provision for the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| SB439 | Pass | Temporary detention; duration; mandatory outpatient treatment. Extends the period that a person may be held pursuant to a temporary detention order from 48 hours to 72 hours. The bill also provides that the community services board required to monito...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| SB537 | Pass | Offenses requiring registration; withdrawal of plea by certain defendants. Provides that prior to conviction for an offense requiring registration on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry due to the minority, physical helplessness, or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| SB673 | Pass | Entitlement to sales tax revenue; public facility. Allows the entitlement to sales tax revenue to begin quarterly with the first quarter in which revenue is generated in a building or structure within the public facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| SB34 | Pass | Bail hearings. Provides that motions relating to bail or conditions of release must be held as soon as practicable but not later than three calendar days following the making of the motion. The bill provides exceptions for weekends, legal holidays, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| SB381 | 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] | 2014-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| SB154 | Pass | Hunting on Sundays. Allows hunting on Sundays under certain circumstances. A person may hunt waterfowl, subject to restrictions imposed by the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and a landowner and his immediate family or a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| SB244 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; elimination of certain duties and programs. Eliminates the duty of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to (i) develop policies and procedures for disclosing certain information to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| SB394 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the Treasury Board to issue bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $245,020,705 plus financing costs to finance revenue-prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| SB50 | Pass | Endangered and threatened species. Allows a person to possess, breed, sell, and transport any nonnative wildlife included on any federal list of endangered or threatened species when the federal government, under the Federal Endangered Species Act, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| SB361 | Pass | Elections; meeting of electoral board following election; adjournment. Strikes "from day to day" to allow the board to adjourn, for example, from Wednesday to Friday for the review of provisional ballots. Present law allows the electoral board to adj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| SB532 | Pass | Care of students who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Requires local school boards to permit students who are diagnosed with diabetes to (i) carry with them and use supplies, including a reasonable and appropriate short-term supply of carbohydrates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| SB135 | Pass | Special license plates; armed forces. Allows disabled veterans who have been honorably discharged to receive special license plates that are already developed for certain branches of the United States armed forces. The bill also makes a technical cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| SB582 | Pass | Update of the Probable Maximum Precipitation level. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to utilize a storm-based approach to calculate the Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) for various locations in or affecting Virginia. The meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| SB324 | Pass | Public schools; individual school performance grading system; delay. Delays the implementation of the A-to-F school performance grading system by two years, to October 1, 2016. The bill also requires the Board of Education to develop a preliminary pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| SB279 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit; retired member of enforcement division of DMV; exception. Provides an exception for a concealed handgun permit for a qualifying retired member of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| SB8 | Pass | Tow truck drivers; violent crimes. Creates an exception to current law prohibiting the registration as a tow truck driver of any person convicted of a violent crime. The bill grandfathers those that already held a tow truck driver authorization under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| SB228 | Pass | Pet dealers; diseased animals; veterinary certificate. Requires a pet dealer to reimburse certain veterinary fees when a consumer returns or retains a diseased dog or cat that has been certified by a veterinarian as being unfit for purchase. Current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| SB473 | Pass | Foreign judgments. Replaces the Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act enacted in Virginia in 1990 with the version approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2005, which has been adopted in 18 stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| SB315 | Pass | State Board of Elections; annual report. Requires the State Board to report by August 1 of each year to the Committees on Privileges and Elections on the activities undertaken by the Board to maintain the Virginia voter registration system and to com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| SB435 | Pass | Clerks; order books; remote access to court records; electronic filing; information technology fees; posting of certain information on the Internet. Provides that circuit court clerks may keep an automated system in lieu of order books and land books...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| SB266 | Pass | Unemployment benefits; financial literacy course. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC), either by itself or in collaboration with workforce service partner entities, to provide information to all unemployment benefits claimants and job s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| SB364 | Pass | Cigarette taxes; ineligibility to be authorized holder. Provides that persons who have been convicted of selling, purchasing, or possessing, etc., unstamped cigarettes for the purpose of evading taxes and persons convicted of possession with intent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| SB624 | Pass | Emergency care; school board employees. Provides that employees of a school board or a local health department approved by the local governing body to provide health services that render certain acts of emergency care, including emergency first aid,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| SB444 | Pass | Hybrid canines. Authorizes any locality to prohibit by ordinance the keeping of hybrid canines. The bill alters the definition of hybrid canine and makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| SB333 | Pass | Elections; absentee ballots; name requirements. Provides that a voter's failure to provide his full middle name or his middle initial in the statement on the back of the ballot envelope shall not render that absentee ballot void or provide officers o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| SB519 | Pass | Natural gas utilities; upstream supply infrastructure projects. Authorizes a natural gas utility to recover eligible costs of eligible natural gas supply infrastructure projects. A plan for recovery of such costs may provide the utility with an optio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| SB498 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Limits the ability of an electric utility participating in the renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) program to bank renewable energy sales or renewable energy certificates (RECs) that are in excess of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| SB404 | Pass | Health Club Act. Changes the term "health spa" to "health club" throughout what had been captioned the Virginia Health Spa Act. The measure includes technical and clarifying changes and adds a requirement that health club contracts state the name and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| SB114 | Pass | Suit for personal injury; report from health care provider licensed outside of the Commonwealth. Provides that in a personal injury suit tried in a general district court or appealed to the circuit court, either party may present evidence of the inju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| SB365 | Pass | Forfeiture of counterfeit and contraband cigarettes; use by law enforcement. Provides that counterfeit and contraband cigarettes that have been forfeited to law enforcement do not have to be destroyed, but may be used by law enforcement for the condu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| SB341 | Pass | Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Requires the President of Virginia Commonwealth University to serve as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Virginia C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| SB18 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; quit to follow military spouse. Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany the employee's spouse, who is on active duty in the military or naval services of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| SB298 | Pass | Funding of Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Codifies appropriation act language dealing with funding of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| SB335 | Pass | Money order sellers and money transmitters. Requires criminal background checks on members, senior officers, directors, and principals of applicants for licensure as a money order seller or money transmitter. Obligations imposed on a member apply onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
