| SB2 | Pass | 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] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| SB501 | Pass | Conditions of release on bond; no contact provision. Amends provision that allows a judicial officer to impose as a condition of release on bond for any felony or misdemeanor a provision that the accused may not have contact with a household member f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| SB311 | Pass | Appointment to industrial development authorities. Provides that in Frederick County the board of supervisors may appoint one of its members to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Frederick, Virginia. The bill contains technical amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| SB58 | Pass | Comprehensive plans; alignment of transportation services with accessible housing and other community services. Requires localities to take into consideration how to align transportation infrastructure and facilities with affordable, accessible housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| SB478 | Pass | Illegal distribution of tax-paid contraband cigarettes. Substantially increases the civil penalties for possession with intent to distribute tax-paid contraband cigarettes by a person other than an authorized holder. Penalties are graduated based on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| SB83 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. Adds the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| SB264 | Pass | Fare enforcement inspectors. Provides for the appointment of fare enforcement inspectors to enforce payment of fares for use of mass transit facilities operated in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia). The bill also provides that failure of a tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| SB337 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; certain licensees to provide information to consumer while on the premises of licensed retailers. Allows any winery, farm winery, wine importer, or wine wholesaler licensee to provide to adult customers of licensed retail ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| SB65 | Pass | Reckless handling of firearms; penalty. Provides that any person who recklessly handles a firearm and through such reckless handling causes the serious bodily injury of another person resulting in permanent and significant physical impairment is guil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| SB492 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Changes the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| SB517 | Pass | Banks; minimum capital stock requirement. Provides that the directive that the State Corporation Commission not issue a certificate of authority to a bank unless it finds that individuals have subscribed for specific amounts of the bank's capital sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
| SB253 | Pass | Civil immunity for members of or health care professional consultants to certain boards or committees. Extends civil liability protection to members of, or consultants to, boards or committees established (i) under the requirements of a national accr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| SB541 | Pass | Competency of criminal defendant; reports for restoration providers. Requires the defendant's attorney to make available to the director of the community services board, behavioral health authority, or inpatient facility charged with treating the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) |
| SB431 | Pass | Remediation fees. Removes the $5,000 cap on registration fees collected by the Department of Environmental Quality from persons conducting voluntary remediation on contaminated properties. The fees defray the costs of administering the voluntary reme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| SB484 | Pass | Pediatric oral health benefits; reasonable assurance of provision. Declares that a health carrier that makes available in the small group market or individual market outside an exchange a health benefit plan issued for policy or plan years beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| SB445 | Pass | Virginia Military Institute board of visitors; appointment of executive committee and president. Removes the requirement that the Virginia Military Institute board of visitors must wait until after July 1 in any year to appoint an executive committee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| SB634 | Pass | Decanting statute; conditions for second trust. Makes a technical correction to § 64.2-778.1. This statute authorizes a trustee to appoint all or part of the principal or income of a trust into a second trust for the benefit of the beneficiaries...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| SB124 | Pass | Constitutional officers. Includes electronic or other systems among those items that a local governing body shall provide for the use of clerks of all courts of record as in the governing body's judgment may be reasonably necessary for the proper con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| SB96 | Pass | Purchase, etc., of tobacco products by minors; nicotine vapor products and alternative nicotine products. Adds nicotine vapor products and alternative nicotine products to the list of tobacco products that cannot be sold to or purchased or possessed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| SB494 | Pass | Reduced cigarette ignition propensity; penalties. Transfers administration of the reduced cigarette ignition propensity (RCIP) program from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Executive Director of the Department of Fire Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| SB213 | Pass | Dextromethorphan Distribution Act; penalty. Provides that no pharmacy or retail distributor may knowingly or intentionally sell or distribute a product containing dextromethorphan (a cough suppressant found in many over-the-counter medications) to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| SB97 | Pass | Minimum clearance for passing bicycles, etc. Increases from two to three feet the minimum clearance between a passing vehicle and a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, animal, or animal-drawn ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| SB602 | Pass | Location of nonriparian blinds. Prohibits the placement of nonriparian stationary blinds in a marked navigation channel. The bill also removes the prohibition against such blinds being located in waters having a depth greater than eight feet at mean ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| SB504 | Pass | Watercraft titling certificates; amendments to uniform act. Amends the Virginia Uniform Certificate of Title for Watercraft Act to conform it to other watercraft-related laws; the Act, passed by the 2013 General Assembly, contains a delayed effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| SB100 | Pass | Sales and use tax; satellite television programming equipment. Provides that the separately stated charge for equipment of a provider of satellite television programming leased or sold to the customer of such programming is subject to sales and use t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359) |
| SB261 | Pass | DBHDS; evaluate qualifications and training of individuals performing evaluations of individuals subject to emergency custody orders; report. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to review requirements for qualificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| SB430 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; limited brewery license created; local regulation of certain activities. Creates a new limited brewery license for breweries that manufacture no more than 15,000 barrels of beer per calendar year, are located on a farm in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| SB185 | Pass | Expert witness testimony; chiropractor; physician assistant. Allows a properly qualified physician assistant to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his activities as authorized under Virginia law, exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| SB467 | Pass | Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to grant an easement and rights-of-way across beds of the York River, including a portion of the Baylor Survey Grounds No. 5, to Plains Marketing for the expansion, construction, upda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| SB59 | Pass | Maintenance of certain warrants by clerks of court. Provides that the responsibility for maintaining the files of executed administrative search warrants, investigation warrants, and inspection warrants lies with the clerk of the circuit court of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| SB77 | Pass | Disposition of remains; absence of next of kin. Provides that, in the absence of a next of kin, a person designated to make arrangements for disposition of a decedent's remains, an agent named in an advance directive, or a guardian who exercises pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| SB597 | Pass | Independent criminal justice academies; fee. Changes the date by which a locality must have been operating a certified independent criminal justice academy from July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2012, to allow certain localities to charge a fee for operating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| SB87 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System. Makes technical amendments to the programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| SB576 | Pass | Mental health; prohibition of firearms. Requires the district court judge or special justice to file any order from a commitment hearing for involuntary admission or involuntary outpatient treatment or any certification of voluntary admission subsequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| SB584 | Pass | Regulation of competitive telephone companies. Establishes a procedure by which certain telephone companies may elect to be regulated as competitive telephone companies. A competitive telephone company will be exempt from the Securities Act. The SCC ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| SB639 | Pass | Department of Social Services; plan for national background checks for child care providers. Directs the Department of Social Services to convene a work group to review current state and federal laws and regulations governing criminal history backgro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| SB69 | Pass | Pretrial appeals by Commonwealth. Provides that a petition for a pretrial appeal can be filed with the Court of Appeals not more than 14 days after the notice of the filing of a transcript or statement of facts is filed; under current law, the petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| SB25 | Pass | Offshore natural gas and oil royalties; establishment of Virginia Offshore Energy Emergency Response Fund. Establishes the Virginia Offshore Energy Emergency Response Fund and directs to it the first $50 million in royalties received by the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| SB201 | Pass | Health insurance; prescription drugs; formularies. Requires any health insurer, corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, or health maintenance organization that applies a formulary to prescription drug b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297) |
| SB331 | Pass | Investigation of cases involving alleged sexual abuse of a child; qualifications of investigator. Prohibits any individual who has not previously participated in investigations of alleged abuse or neglect of a child from participating in investigatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| SB399 | Pass | Sharing of information of a member of the Virginia National Guard with the Virginia Employment Commission. Requires the Adjutant General of the Virginia National Guard to establish a program under which the Department of Military Affairs shall, upon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| SB332 | Pass | Suspected abuse or neglect of a child; reports to law enforcement. Requires the local department of social services to notify the local attorney for the Commonwealth and the local law-enforcement agency of all complaints of suspected child abuse and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| SB466 | Pass | Liability of owners of certain dams. Protects owners of land upon which dams that are owned, maintained, or operated by soil and water conservation districts are situated from liability for damages to the property of others or the injury to persons r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| SB352 | Pass | Sealed pack labeled as cigarettes; prima facie evidence. Provides that where a sealed pack is labeled as containing cigarettes, such labeling shall be prima facie evidence that the contents of the pack are cigarettes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| SB295 | Pass | Adjustment or relocation of billboard signs. Includes the erection of a sound barrier as an action that allows relocation of a billboard sign. The bill also allows a billboard to remain in its original location until the Commissioner of Highways or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| SB118 | Pass | Transitional mortgage loan originators; licensing. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to issue transitional mortgage loan originator licenses. Such a license allows an individual to engage in business as a mortgage loan originator for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| SB623 | Pass | Research and development expenses tax credit. Increases beginning with taxable year 2014 the amount of the credit allowed from 15 percent of the first $167,000 to 15 percent of the first $234,000 of Virginia qualified research and development expense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| SB120 | Pass | Benefits consortium; exemption and exclusions. Exempts a benefits consortium and the benefits consortium's sponsoring association from the Commonwealth's insurance laws and regulations, including those otherwise applicable to multiple employer welfar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| SB423 | Pass | Stormwater management programs; optional for some localities. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a Virginia Stormwater Management Program (VSMP) for any locality that neither opts to establish its own program nor operates a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| SB485 | Pass | Magistrates and district court judges; territorial jurisdiction; search warrants. Authorizes magistrates and district court judges to exercise powers regarding search warrants throughout the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
