| HB395 | Pass | Public safety employees; testing for blood-borne pathogens. Adds the Department of Forensic Science to the definition of "public safety agency," employees of which may be requested or required to undergo testing for certain blood-borne pathogens foll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0275) |
| 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) |
| HB416 | Pass | Rural gravel road network in Loudoun County. Provides specific goals for VDOT's maintenance of the rural gravel road network in Loudoun County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0276) |
| 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) |
| HB1076 | Pass | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces the term "functional and central nervous system disabilities" with the term "physical or sensory disability" and changes the name of the Long-Term Rehabilitative Case Management System to the commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| HB1095 | Pass | Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund. Creates the Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund to fund pilot programs and fully developed initiatives pertaining to high-tech infrastructure improvements and requires the Commonwealth Transpor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| 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) |
| HB784 | Pass | Various boards; membership and terms. Reduces the number of nonlegislative citizen members who serve on the Virginia Geographic Information Network Advisory Board from nine to seven by eliminating the position for an elected official who serves on a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283) |
| HB143 | Pass | Courthouse; posting of notices; website. Provides that documents required to be posted by a clerk on or at the front door of a courthouse or on a public bulletin board at a courthouse may instead be posted on the public government website of the loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| HB587 | Pass | Campus police and security departments; DCJS to conduct study to identify potential minimum core operational functions. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to conduct a study to identify potential minimum core operational functions f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278) |
| 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) |
| HB1019 | Pass | Divorce; affidavit in support. Changes the requirements in affidavits for no-fault divorce relating to incarceration from affirming or verifying that neither party is incarcerated to affirming or verifying the incarceration status of both parties. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| HB589 | Pass | Personal property tax; exemption for household goods. Provides that the personal property tax exemption for household goods includes property primarily used for household purposes, including electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets, and person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279) |
| HB1196 | Pass | Clerks offices; recordation; possession of child pornography; when security is required. Makes various changes to laws relating to clerks of court, including (i) providing that the orders making up each day's proceedings that have been recorded in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| SB330 | Pass | Genetic counseling; licensure. Provides that no person shall practice or hold himself out as practicing genetic counseling without a valid, unrevoked license as a genetic counselor from the Board of Medicine. The bill establishes requirements and a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| SB418 | Pass | Certified pollution control equipment and facilities; solar equipment. Exempts from real and personal property tax business-owned or business-operated solar energy equipment, facilities, or devices that collect, generate, transfer, or store thermal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| SB88 | Pass | Insurers; Own Risk and Solvency Assessments. Requires insurance companies to maintain a risk management framework to assist with identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing, and reporting on material and relevant risks. As part of this requirement, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| SB186 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Allows the Fund to extend the time for filing a claim if the attorney for the Commonwealth submits written notice that the crime is being investigated as a result of newly discovered evidence. The bill applies to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| SB383 | Pass | New vehicle classification; autocycle. Defines a new class of vehicle, known as an autocycle, and provides for examination of drivers, registration fees, safety, inspection, and other requirements pursuant to creating this new class of vehicle. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| HB1011 | Pass | Commission on Local Government; local mandates. Extends from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2018, the task force appointed by the Governor to review state mandates on localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242) |
| HB455 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Health Authority. Expands the Authority to include the Counties of Smyth and Washington.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
| HB233 | Pass | How name of person may be changed; sex offenders; probationers; incarcerated persons. Establishes procedures for name change applications from probationers, persons required to register as sex offenders, and incarcerated persons. The court is require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232) |
| HB579 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Updates the charter to reflect the shift from May to November city elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) |
| HB527 | Pass | Group homes; zoning. Provides that for purposes of zoning, a residential facility in which no more than eight individuals with mental illness, intellectual disability, or developmental disabilities reside, with one or more resident or nonresident sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0238) |
| HB390 | Pass | Sand replenishment. Provides that when sand or other material is placed on state-owned bottomlands seaward of the mean low-water mark in order to provide beach nourishment or storm protection or as a result of a dredging project, the deposited materi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| HB399 | Pass | Charter; City of Norfolk; council meetings and deputy police chief. Requires the city council to hold regular meetings on at least a monthly basis rather than at least 36 weekly meetings per year and creates the position of deputy chief of police as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235) |
| HB962 | Veto | Carrying concealed handgun; secured container or compartment in vehicle. Provides that for purposes of the exception to the prohibition against carrying a concealed weapon if it is in a secured container or compartment in a personal, private motor ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB5 | Pass | Right to Farm Act; restoration of provisions. Restores application of certain provisions of the Right to Farm Act to cities and towns that currently only apply to counties. The proposed amendments were enacted in 2007 (Chapter 444 of the Acts of Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| SB433 | Pass | Delay proposed modifications to the discretionary sentencing guidelines; possession of child pornography. Provides that proposed modifications to the discretionary sentencing guidelines for possession of child pornography adopted by the Virginia Crim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| SB400 | Pass | Kinship foster care; removal. Prohibits the removal of a child placed in kinship foster care from the physical custody of the kinship foster parent, provided the child has been living with the kinship foster parent for six consecutive months and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| SB203 | Pass | Occupational therapy; practice as a therapist or therapist assistant applicant. Provides that a person who has graduated from a duly accredited educational program in occupational therapy may practice under the title "Occupational Therapist, License ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| SB470 | Pass | Maximum speed limit on nonsurface-treated highways. Applies statewide the 35 mph maximum speed limit on nonsurface-treated highways that is currently applied only in Albemarle, Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, Montgomery, Nelson, Page, Rappahann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) |
| SB402 | Pass | Overweight permits for truck cranes. Allows the DMV Commissioner and cities and towns to authorize overweight permits for truck cranes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| SB138 | Pass | Vehicle safety inspection approval; armed services grace period. Increases the grace period for vehicle safety inspection from five business days to 14 calendar days for members of the armed services on active duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| SB349 | Pass | Drugs and paraphernalia forfeited to law enforcement. Provides that seized drugs and drug paraphernalia, the lawful possession of which is not established or the title to which cannot be ascertained, may be forfeited to a law-enforcement agency for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| HB171 | Pass | Crime victim rights; offenses by juveniles. Expands the list of offenses for which a victim of a delinquent act committed by a juvenile may request that the victim be informed of the charge brought, the findings of the court, and the disposition of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| SB545 | Pass | Reforestation Operations Fund. Changes the current Reforestation Operations Fund to a nonreverting special fund in which the interest generated by the Fund is credited to the Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| SB128 | Pass | Commitment of juvenile to Department of Juvenile Justice; consideration of social history. Requires a judge to review and take into consideration the results of an investigation of the social history of a juvenile before ordering the juvenile to be c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| HB120 | Pass | Riverside Regional Jail Authority. Allows sheriff members of the Riverside Regional Jail Authority to appoint alternates to vote when sheriff members are not present at a meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) |
| HB566 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; late fees. Clarifies the amount of late fees that may be assessed against an owner for nonpayment of assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0239) |
| HB283 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; suspension of license for local tax delinquency. Authorizes the ABC Board to suspend or revoke the license of a licensee who is delinquent for a period of 90 days or more in the payment of any taxes, or any penalties or in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) |
| SB371 | Pass | Terms of hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses and permits. Allows the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses valid for one year from a future effective date. Under current law, such licenses are va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| SB536 | 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] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| HB795 | Pass | Transportation of waste kitchen grease; decal. Requires certain persons transporting waste kitchen grease to conspicuously display a decal issued by the Commissioner on the outside of any vehicle used for such purpose. Current law requires the person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) |
| SB342 | Pass | Forensic Science Board; Scientific Advisory Committee; membership. Provides that the positions on the Scientific Advisory Committee that are required to be filled by members of the Board of the International Association for Identification and the Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| HB217 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage license for Virginia State Fair. Updates the license for the Virginia State Fair.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231) |
| HB1149 | Pass | Charter; Town of Tazewell. Makes numerous technical changes to the town's charter and revises or repeals many outdated provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
