| 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) |
| HB1268 | 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 (CHAP0793) |
| HB829 | 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] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB1195 | Pass | Charter; Town of Rural Retreat. Provides a new charter for the Town of Rural Retreat containing powers typically granted to towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB1072 | 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 (CHAP0789) |
| HB1110 | Pass | Children placed in child-caring institutions or group homes; reimbursement of costs to educate. Requires a school division to be reimbursed by the school division in which a child's custodial parent or guardian or most recent custodial parent or guar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HB373 | Pass | School speech-language pathologists; licensure. Removes the Board of Education as a licensing entity for school speech-language pathologists and leaves the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology as the only licensing entity. The bill puts m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| HB334 | 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 (CHAP0780) |
| 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) |
| HB1242 | Pass | Elected school boards; tie breaker. Requires the tie breaker of any elected school board to be elected in the same manner and for the same length of term as the members of the school board and at a general election at which members of the school boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| 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) |
| HB478 | Pass | Emergency custody orders; duration; notification. Extends the time that a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order from four hours with a possible two-hour extension to eight hours. The bill also provides that a representative of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| HB1000 | Pass | Real property tax exemption; elderly and disabled. Provides that the real property tax exemption for the sole dwelling of the elderly and disabled includes dwellings held by certain trusts. The bill also provides that if a locality establishes income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| HB752 | Pass | Elementary and secondary school students; expulsion. Clarifies that students who have committed certain weapons or drugs offenses are not required to be expelled regardless of the facts of the particular situation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| HB1026 | Pass | Check cashers; recordkeeping requirements; civil penalty. Requires each registered check casher to make copies of, or maintain a record of information from, each item cashed and the customer's identification document prior to cashing the item. Record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| 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) |
| HB501 | Pass | Counting students granted in-state tuition for certain purposes. Requires (i) students who live outside the Commonwealth, have been employed full time inside Virginia for at least one year, and were granted in-state tuition and (ii) any active duty m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| 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) |
| HB1209 | Pass | Family day homes. Clarifies that a local governing body may, after notice and a public hearing, either approve, subject to such conditions as agreed upon by the applicant and the locality, or deny a zoning permit application for a family day home ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| HB410 | 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 (CHAP0760) |
| HB1043 | 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 (CHAP0769) |
| HB1106 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Youth; review and report on the use of seclusion and restraint in schools. Requires the Virginia Commission on Youth, in consultation with the Department of Education and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| HB180 | Pass | Invention development services; disclosure and civil penalty. Requires each contract for invention development services to include on its cover sheet a disclosure that the contract is a fee-for-service contract with no guarantees as to success of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| 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) |
| HB1232 | Pass | Acute psychiatric bed registry; create. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish an acute psychiatric bed registry that will provide real-time information on the availability of beds in public and private ps...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| 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) |
| HB793 | Pass | Transportation planning. Requires the Department of Transportation, when reviewing certain proposed comprehensive plan amendments from localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), to recommend specific transportation improvements to the Nor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| HB46 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum) and implementing legislation; property tax exemption for surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action. Provides for a referendum at the November 4, 2014, election to approve or reject an amendment to allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) |
| HB167 | Pass | Virginia Business One Stop electronic portal program; participation by State Corporation Commission. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) and the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (DSBSD), by December 1, 2014, to implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| HB700 | Pass | Optional retirement plans maintained by institution of higher education. Allows the governing board of an institution of higher education that has established its own optional retirement plan to establish a policy regarding the number of years of ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| HB293 | Pass | Determining facility of temporary detention. Provides that an individual for whom a temporary detention order is issued shall be detained in a state facility unless the state facility or an employee or designee of the community services board is able...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| 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) |
| HB516 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; certification of natural gas automobile mechanics and technicians. Establishes a regulatory program for certification of natural gas automobile mechanics and technicians by the Director of the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| 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) |
| HB708 | Pass | Assault and battery against a family or household member. Adds unlawful wounding in violation of § 18.2-51 and strangulation in violation of § 18.2-51.6 to the list of offenses that, if a person has been previously convicted of two such off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB976 | Pass | Accessories after the fact to certain homicides. Provides that an accessory after the fact to a homicide offense that is punishable by death or as a Class 2 felony is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, accessories after the fact to any felony are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| 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) |
| HB904 | Pass | Transportation projects; notice of public hearing. Requires VDOT, at least 30 days prior to any public hearing regarding a transportation project valued in excess of $100 million, to provide notice of the hearing by regular mail to all owners of prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| 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) |
