| SB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Raises the penalty for sexual abuse (a defined term) of a child aged 13 or 14 from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of photo-monitoring systems for traffic lights; repeal. Repeals the authority for localities to operate a photo-monitoring system for traffic light enforcement, colloquially known as a "photo red" program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (8-Y 13-N) |
| HB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $8.50 per hour effective July 1, 2014, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The act will expire at su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; recovery of distribution system costs. Authorizes any electric utility to petition the State Corporation Commission for approval of a rate adjustment clause to recover from non-industrial customers the projected and actua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Arrest photos on Internet. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for the owner of a website to both post an arrest photo and solicit, request, or accept money for removing the photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Convention to amend the United States Constitution; delegates. Establishes the procedure for appointing delegates to a convention to amend the United States Constitution and specifies the duties of delegates at such a convention. The bill also classi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (4-Y 10-N 1-A) |
| HB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; renewable energy certificate registration and tracking system. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a system for registering and tracking renewable energy certificates in order to facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB472 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices by localities. Allows localities to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio, or television rather than being limited to a newspaper of general circulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement. Eliminates the limitation for cooperative procurement for construction in excess of $200,000 by a local public body from the contract of another local public body that is more than a straight ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Service districts; underground utilities. Adds Prince William County to the list of those localities with authority to establish service districts to impose taxes or assessments upon the owners of abutting property for the underground relocation of d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposal of solid waste fees; Southampton County. Allows Southampton County to levy fees for the disposal of solid waste at a county collection or disposal facility not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and disposing of sol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $8.25 per hour effective July 1, 2014, and to $9.25 per hour effective July 1, 2015, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; creation of Department of Minority Business Enterprise and the Department of Business Assistance. Eliminates the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and re-creates the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; disclosure of cost estimates in solicitations prohibited. Provides that no Invitation to Bid or Request for Proposal shall contain the public body's cost estimate for that which is sought to be procured.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; disability program for hybrid retirement plan participants. Provides that a disability program that provides income protection of at least 60% through the use of paid leave, or disability payments, is deemed a program comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 11-N) |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of unlawful photographs; venue. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to publish on the Internet a photograph or video made in violation of the current law prohibiting filming, videotaping, or photographing a nonconsenting per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitations on eminent domain; right of quiet and peaceful enjoyment. Recognizes the property right of quiet and peaceful enjoyment and provides that just compensation is owed to the owner of property subject to condemnation when quiet and peaceful e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking of children; reports and investigation. Requires individuals currently required to report suspected child abuse or neglect to also report suspected cases of human trafficking of a child and specifies the duties of local departments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | Trespass; signs prohibiting trespass. Provides that a nonresidential building shall not be considered to be posted no trespassing with regard to signs prohibiting the carrying of a firearm or a particular type of firearm unless such signs (i) have be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody orders; duration; extension. Provides for a second two-hour extension of the time during which a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary detention order; facility of detention. Provides that in cases in which a facility for temporary detention has not been identified prior to the running of the time for emergency custody, the magistrate shall issue the temporary detention or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB434 | Intro
Sine Die | Machinery and tools, merchants' capital and BPOL taxes; maximum rates established. Prohibits a locality from increasing its business machinery and tools tax, merchants' capital tax, and local license (BPOL) fees and taxes above the locality's rates i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery of campus police and school security officers; penalty. Adds campus police officers and school security officers and includes all full-time or part-time school personnel to the list of persons for which an enhanced penalty applies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Parking violations at VDOT commuter lots; failure to appear. Provides that if a person issued a summons for a parking violation at a commuter parking lot owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation fails to appear after being mailed a summons ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Common-law crime of suicide. Abolishes the common-law crime of suicide. Suicide is currently a common-law crime in Virginia, although there is no statutorily prescribed punishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Noncompliant health benefit plans. Authorizes a health carrier to continue offering, issuing, issuing for delivery, delivering, selling, or renewing any health benefit plan that provides the same coverage, limits, conditions, restrictions, and benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB916 | Intro
Sine Die | Access to records. Requires the Information Technology Advisory Council (ITAC), with input from the Health Information Technology Standards Advisory Committee, to adopt standards that allow consumers to have safe, secure, machine-readable access to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Science and Technology (9-Y 13-N) |
| HB1227 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco products tax; premium cigars. Changes the tobacco products tax on premium cigars, as defined, from a wholesale tax to a retail tax at a rate of 6.25 percent on the sale of each premium cigar to an ultimate consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Provides that tax credits issued for monetary or marketable securities donations made beginning in taxable year 2014 can be claimed for the taxable year of the donation. Under current law, Education Imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; school supplies. Increases from $20 to $50 the maximum sales price of an article of school supplies that is exempt from sales and use tax during a three-day period in August.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Tabled in Finance by voice vote |
| HB624 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders. Provides that a court may include in a protective order provisions prohibiting harm to a companion animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB580 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; renewable energy certificate registration and tracking system. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a system for registering and tracking renewable energy certificates in order to facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB746 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; gifts; disclosures. Requires the disclosure on statements of economic interests for legislators and certain state and local government officers of g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited conduct by state and local government officers and employees; retaliation. Prohibits a state or local government officer or employee from using his public position to retaliate or threaten retaliation against any person for expressing view...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 8-N) |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; working papers and correspondence of members of the General Assembly. Limits the record exemption for working papers and correspondence of members of the General Assembly by providing that such records are protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Digital impersonation; penalty. Provides that a person who knowingly and without authorization credibly impersonates a living individual through or on an Internet website or by any other electronic means with the intent to harass, intimidate, or defr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody orders; duration; extension. Provides for a second two-hour extension of the time during which a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order upon a finding by the magistrate that the person continues to meet the criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of communications sales and use tax revenues. Changes the distribution of communications sales and use tax revenues beginning with the month of August 2014 by providing that (i) first, each town would receive the same proportion of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Parking violations at VDOT commuter lots; failure to appear. Provides that if a person issued a summons for a parking violation at a commuter parking lot owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation fails to appear after being mailed a summons ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Working family child care tax credit. Establishes, beginning with the 2015 taxable year, an individual income tax credit for child-care expenses incurred during the year by a parent or legal guardian for a child age six years or younger enrolled for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1178 | Intro
Sine Die | Trespass; physical interference with rights of owner; penalty. Provides that a person who trespasses on the property of another in any manner to physically interfere with the right of the owner, user, or occupant of the property to use such property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering by municipalities and multifamily customer-generators. Authorizes municipal renewable energy net metering projects. Participating municipalities are authorized to aggregate the electric energy load of their governmental buildings,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deduction; insurance premiums. Eliminates the requirements of at least $20,000 in earned income and no more than $30,000 in federal adjusted gross income in order for individuals age 66 or older to deduct prepaid funeral, medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance disclosure; out-of-state political committees. Includes §501(c)(4) social welfare organizations in the provisions applicable to §527 groups in the definition of out-of-state committees that are required to file statements o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody order; extension. Provides that a magistrate shall order a second two-hour extension to an emergency custody order if good cause is shown to grant such an extension, provided the community services board submits to the magistrate a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment by computer; impersonating another; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for a person having assumed the identity of another living individual to use a computer to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB599 | Intro
Sine Die | DBHDS; develop a plan for a psychiatric bed registry. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop a plan for a registry of beds for individuals in need of emergency, voluntary, or involuntary mental health care i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Fiduciaries; letters of administration; bond without surety. Provides that certificates of qualification and letters of administration for obtaining probate must state the amount of any surety required, or that no surety was required. The bill also r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (8-Y 14-N) |
| SB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; creation of Department of Minority Business Enterprise and the Department of Business Assistance. Eliminates the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and re-creates the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
