| HB725 | Pass | Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure; membership. Increases from 19 to 21 the total number of members and increases from two to four the number of members who shall be faculty members in teacher preparation programs in public or private ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| HB728 | Pass | Discriminatory and retaliatory action against whistle blower; remedies. Provides that no employer may discharge, threaten, or otherwise discriminate or retaliate against a whistle blower, in whole or in part, because the whistle blower is requested o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| 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) |
| HB198 | 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] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) |
| HB763 | Pass | Recorded writings; deeds; cover sheets; indexes. Permits, but does not require, the use of a cover sheet in the presentation of instruments for recordation in jurisdictions that do not currently mandate the use of cover sheets. The bill provides for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| HB607 | Pass | Clerk; recordation; marginal release. Removes the requirements that the clerk of the circuit court make recordings in the margins of pages in record books to accommodate the use of electronic filing databases by circuit court clerks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| 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) |
| HB768 | Pass | Enforcement of liens; mechanics liens; property value. Increases from $7,500 to $10,000 the maximum value of property that may be sold for cash at auction to satisfy a lien of an innkeeper, etc., keeper of a livery stable, marina, etc., mechanic, gar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB1241 | Pass | Issuing original driver's licenses to minors. Provides that when a judge presides over a ceremony to issue original driver's licenses to minors, the judge shall give the attorney for the Commonwealth the opportunity to participate in the ceremony and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| 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) |
| HB774 | 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 (CHAP0340) |
| 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) |
| HB335 | 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] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| HB219 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exemption for certain letters of recommendation for promotion. Adds a record exemption for educational institutions for confidential letters and statements of recommendation placed in the records of educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| 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) |
| HB776 | Pass | Surviving spouses; eligibility for in-state tuition charges. Waives the requirement that the factors presented in support of entitlement to in-state tuition must exist for the one-year period prior to the date of the alleged entitlement for spouses o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| 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) |
| HB608 | Pass | Special license plates for amateur radio operators. Eliminates the requirement that vehicles must have radio transmitting and receiving equipment permanently installed in order to be eligible for special license plates for amateur radio operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| HB1235 | Pass | Department of Health Professions; use of implantable medical devices distributed by physician-owned distributorships. Directs the Department of Health Professions to consider any issues related to the use of implantable medical devices distributed by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| HB972 | Pass | Protective orders; companion animals. Provides that a court may include in a protective order provisions granting to the petitioner possession of a companion animal if the petitioner is the owner of the animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| HB1036 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; availability of records. Requires the State Corporation Commission to make available for public inspection records that are related to matters related to the Commission's operational responsibilities and operational func...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| HB380 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); disclosure pursuant to court order or subpoena. Provides that nothing in FOIA shall have any bearing upon disclosures required to be made pursuant to any court order or subpoena, nor shall any discretionary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
| 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) |
| HB1013 | Pass | Record retention in district courts. Permits the chief judge of a juvenile and domestic relations district court to direct the clerk of that court to destroy documents related to civil and criminal cases that have been ended for a period of three yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| 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) |
| HB24 | Pass | Contracts; recording requirements. Deletes a reference to a subsection of the Code that was repealed in 2000 by House Bill 1204, which updated Article 9 (Secured Transactions) of the Uniform Commercial Code. There is no corresponding subsection in Ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| 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) |
| HB680 | 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] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) |
| 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) |
| HB890 | Pass | Social worker. Allows family-services specialists and qualified equivalent workers to perform tasks currently limited to social workers. The bill expands the authority of the Adult Protective Services Unit to establish minimum standards of training a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| HB263 | 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] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| HB888 | Pass | Uniform assessment instrument; regulations. Transfers authority for promulgating regulations governing uniform assessments for residents of assisted living facilities from the Board of Social Services to the Commissioner of the Department for Aging a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284) |
| HB771 | Pass | Mature driver crash prevention. Provides for a course in mature driver motor vehicle crash prevention and provides that such course is an option for the court in adjudicating defendants. The bill also lowers the age at which drivers are required to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) |
| HB393 | Pass | Judgment payment required to be noted by creditor; penalty. Provides that payment by a debtor shall be entered on the judgment docket by the creditor within 90 days of payment of a judgment or within 10 days of being notified of satisfaction. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| 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) |
| HB761 | 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] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281) |
| HB161 | Pass | Audio recording of proceedings in general district court. Allows the making of an audio recording of proceedings in general district court by a party or his counsel. Currently, such recording may only be done by tape recording.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| HB308 | 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 (CHAP0272) |
| HB278 | Pass | Expungement of juvenile and domestic relations district court records. Clarifies the law governing retention of juvenile and domestic relations district court records to provide that (i) when a juvenile is found guilty of an ancillary offense to a de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| HB322 | Pass | Charter; Town of Monterey. Reduces the total number of council members from seven to four, beginning in 2014. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| HB560 | Pass | Issuance of land use permits by Department of Transportation in connection with certain utility service. Exempts persons, including corporations, that provide utility service for their own agricultural or residential use from having to get land use p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277) |
| 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) |
| HB1216 | 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] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) |
| HB996 | Pass | Driver's licenses; applicants less than 19 years old. Changes the requirements for driver's license applicants who are less than 19 years old but have been licensed in other U.S. states, U.S. territories, Canadian provinces, or Canadian territories.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
