| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Law Enforcement United. Authorizes the issuance of special revenue-sharing license plates to members and supporters of Law Enforcement United to support its programs and activities in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; out-of-state requests for records. Sets out the process for public bodies to respond to record requests made by out-of-state requesters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB787 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; application to the State Corporation Commission; exemptions; proceedings for enforcement. Provides that the State Corporation Commission (Commission) is a public body for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Soil and water conservation district signs. Exempts certain soil and water conservation district signs from regulation as outdoor advertising structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB981 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; certain tobacco laws; enforcement by the Department of State Police; penalty. Transfers the enforcement of alcoholic beverage control laws and certain tobacco laws from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1046 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; medical treatment; nurse practitioners. Authorizes an employer or its workers' compensation insurer to include an advanced practice registered nurse, who is licensed by the Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing, on the thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Law Enforcement United. Authorizes the issuance of special revenue-sharing license plates to members and supporters of Law Enforcement United to support its programs and activities in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Reporting of water usage. Requires electric generating stations seeking a Virginia Water Protection Permit to submit an estimate of the amount of water that will be withdrawn and consumed for the lifecycle of the fuel used by the proposed generating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB509 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; kindergarten instructional time. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations, by July 1, 2016, establishing standards for accreditation that include a requirement that the standard school day for students in kindergarten ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia community college mental health services pilot program. Requires the Virginia Community College System to create a pilot program to establish a plan or contract with community groups or both to provide mental health services to uninsured stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB558 | Intro
Sine Die | State recordation taxes and fees. Makes substantive and technical changes to state recordation taxes and fees, including defining the value of property for recordation tax purposes as the value determined by a licensed appraiser within the six months...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; certified industrial parks. Provides that the Authority shall develop a program by which local industrial parks may become certified by the Commonwealth. In developing such a program, the Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax rate. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from 6% to 5%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| SB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Local economic development. Provides that the Virginia income tax net revenue and sales and use tax generated by certain corporations or limited liability companies within a qualified locality shall be transferred to the qualified locality under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit; principal paid on business loans. Establishes an individual income tax credit based on the amount attributable to a Virginia income tax deduction associated with the principal paid by an eligible business on a loan during the taxable year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | Student teachers; fingerprinting, criminal history records check, and child abuse and neglect data. Permits education preparation program faculty to require student teachers at public institutions of higher education, as a condition of participation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; hearing to be held simultaneously with pending criminal action. Provides that, whenever practical, a court having jurisdiction over both a petition for a protective order and a pending criminal action in which the defendant is also...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N) |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Casino Gaming Commission as the licensing body for casino gaming. The bill sets up the licensing scheme for casino gaming and provides penalties for viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Dumping of menhaden. Requires commercial fishermen to report any release, disposal, or dumping of more than 2,000 harvested menhaden to the Commissioner of the Marine Resources Commission. The commercial fisherman is also responsible for cleaning up ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Admission of minors to mental health facility for inpatient treatment. Removes provisions of the Code requiring the consent of a minor 14 years of age or older prior to admission to a mental health facility for inpatient treatment. The bill allows fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Community services boards and behavioral health authorities; information for secondary school students about available services. Requires each community services board and each behavioral health authority to annually make a presentation to each local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB775 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Disaster Relief Fund established. Creates the Virginia Disaster Relief Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. The bill provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used solely for the purpose of helping Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Local departments; consent to treatment and collection of evidence. Provides that a local director of social services or his designee may consent to (i) surgical or medical treatment of a minor in the custody of the local department of social service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Eminent domain; costs; attorney fees. Requires the court, in certain condemnation proceedings, to award costs, including reasonable attorney fees, to the owner of property taken by condemnation. Under current law, awarding costs is discretionary and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 4-N) |
| HB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy property tax credits. Establishes beginning with taxable year 2014 tax credits for placing into service renewable energy property. The credit would equal 40 percent of the costs paid or incurred to place the renewable energy property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on location of a landfill. Requires the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality, during his consideration of whether to issue a permit for a new solid waste management facility or the expansion of an existing facility, to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deduction; mental health professionals volunteering at community services boards. Provides an individual income tax deduction of $1,500 beginning with taxable year 2014 to a qualified mental health professional who volunteers at least 20 h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; powers and duties of the State Board of Elections. Provides that the powers granted and duties assigned to the State Board of Elections shall not be delegated to any other entity and shall be carried out by the State Board, but gives the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter schools; personnel. Allows public charter schools to designate in their applications whether their employees will participate in the Virginia Retirement System. The bill directs the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 11-N) |
| SB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System and local government retirement systems; investments. Authorizes the Virginia Retirement System and any local government retirement system to purchase investment grade life insurance policies and annuity policies on their m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (11-Y 0-N) |
| HB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Alternative onsite sewage systems; licensure of installers. Removes the requirement for an applicant for licensure as an installer of alternative onsite sewage systems to pass an examination if such applicant demonstrates to the Board for Waterworks ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Referendum in Grayson County. Provides for a referendum in Grayson County at the November 2014 election on the question whether the County's zoning ordinance should be repealed. The results of the referendum are binding. If a majority of the voters v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Motion picture production tax credit. Increases the percentage of the production company's qualifying expenses that can be taken as a refundable credit from 15 to 20 percent and increases the alternative option of taking the percentage of such expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (17-Y 0-N) |
| HB1139 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information. Prohibits insurers from setting rates for motor vehicle insurance on the basis of a person's credit history or credit score. The measure will become effective January 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI maiming; penalty. Raises the penalty for DUI maiming and for operating a motorcraft while intoxicated, causing permanent impairment, from a Class 6 to a Class 4 felony and creates a Class 6 felony when the offense causes serious bodily injury wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses. Defines "historically Black colleges and universities" and provides that the term "minority-owned business" includes historically Black colleges and universities, reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB426 | Intro
Sine Die | I-66 improvements. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to include in the next update of its Six-Year Improvement Program a project to add at least two non-high-occupancy vehicle lanes in each direction to I-66 inside the Capital Beltway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas; incentives for expanded use as transportation fuel. Establishes financial and regulatory incentives for expanding the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for transportation purposes in the Commonwealth. Ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency medical services providers; certification. Provides that regulations of the Board of Health governing qualifications for certification of emergency medical services providers shall require no more than 40 hours of classroom instruction for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Statute of limitations; sexual crimes against minors. Extends the statute of limitations to one year after the victim reaches 18 years of age for the misdemeanor violations of the following crimes: carnal knowledge of consenting victim age 13 or 14 w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Political contributions; prohibitions during procurement process. Includes the mayor or chief executive officer of a locality, school superintendent, and any member of a local governing body, planning commission, or school board in the current prohib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; public libraries; penalty. Provides that any adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2014, shall as part of his sentence be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny and property injury; health and safety made an element of crimes where coal mine damaged; trespass; penalty.Defines certain offenses against coal mine property as grand larceny, injury to property, or trespass. The bill provides that la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; consideration of early payment discounts. Prohibits the consideration of discounts for early payment of invoices offered by any bidder in the determination of the lowest priced bid on any contract awarded using compet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; on-bill financing programs for eligible energy efficiency measures. Requires electric utilities to file with the State Corporation Commission a plan for implementing an on-bill financing program. An on-bill financing program allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter registration lists; interstate cross-checking programs. Prohibits the cancellation of the registration of an active voter identified on the basis of interstate cross-check lists as registered in another state without corroboration th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB214 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitlement to certain sales and use tax revenues; City of Bristol and Washington County. Expands the payments of sales and use tax revenue generated on the premises of a public facility located in the City of Bristol used to pay bonds issued to cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 12-N) |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocation of federal funds for establishment and maintenance of trails. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board to allocate eligible federal funds for use in the establishment and maintenance of trails.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Neighborhood revitalization. Provides that a locality may by ordinance adopt a program to establish and impose an annual blighted property assessment fee on real properties that have remained vacant for one year or longer if the property has been per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
