| SB566 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System benefits. Provides for an increase, beginning July 1, 2014, of the monthly retirement allowance payable to any person who retired with at least 15 years of creditable service before January 1, 1990, under the Virginia Retir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1070 | Intro
Sine Die | Litter Control and Recycling Fund Advisory Board; membership. Increases membership on the Advisory Board from five to six persons, with the new member designated to represent the craft brewery industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB521 | 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] | 2014-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management program; regulations; single-family residence. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that create a procedure for approving permits for individual parcels in a common plan of development, provide a General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| SB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; health insurance credit. Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired local government employees, local officers, general registrars, employees of a general registrar, and employees of local social services bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Retired state employees; health insurance credit. Increases the amount of the monthly health insurance credit for retired state employees from $4 per year of creditable service to $5 per year of creditable service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Life insurance for retired state employees. Provides that retired state employees be offered optional group life insurance coverage with premiums to be paid by the retirees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (17-Y 0-N) |
| HB649 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management program; regulations; single-family residence. Allows the submission of an agreement in lieu of a Virginia Stormwater Management Plan where certain land-disturbing activity is the result of the construction of a single-family re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of certain muzzleloading pistols. Allows the use of muzzleloading pistols of .50 caliber or larger that use at least 50 grains of black powder or black powder equivalent when hunting game birds and animals in certain counties east and west of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB190 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI; probation. Removes provision that, unless otherwise modified by the court, a defendant who has been convicted of a fourth or subsequent DUI in 10 years shall remain on probation and under the terms of any suspended sentence for the same period a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuance of warrants by magistrates. Requires a magistrate to receive the results of a law-enforcement investigation prior to issuing a misdemeanor arrest warrant where the accused is an elected official, judge, magistrate, law-enforcement officer, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 4-N) |
| SB84 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax; direct payment to the Department of Taxation. Adds providers of television satellite services to the types of businesses that may apply to the Tax Commissioner to pay sales and use tax directly to the Department of Taxation, rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (17-Y 0-N) |
| HB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Stormwater Management Program; exemptions for certain localities. Exempts the Towns of Chincoteague, Saxis, and Tangier from compliance with the Virginia Stormwater Management Program. The bill exempts Chincoteague and Tangier Islands from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management programs; appeals. Clarifies the appeals process for persons subject to state permit requirements under the Stormwater Management Act. The bill removes Virginia Stormwater Management Program (VSMP) authorities from the list of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Compounding of drug products; notice. Requires pharmacists to notify patients to whom compounded drug products are dispensed that the drug product has been compounded. This bill is carried over pursuant to Rule 22 of the House.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; export of Virginia products and services. Authorizes the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to undertake whatever activities the Authority deems appropriate to provide bridge loans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax liens. Provides that if a taxpayer agrees, a third party who pays the delinquent taxes due on the taxpayer's real property may be assigned the tax lien on the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB905 | Intro
Sine Die | State Registrar of Vital Records; disclosure of death index information. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to disclose death index information in bulk format to entities that establish or confirm an individual's status as deceased for leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Certified pollution control equipment and facilities; solar equipment. Adds solar equipment to the definition of certified pollution control equipment and facilities that are exempt from state and local taxation pursuant to Article X, Section 6 of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Incorporated by Finance |
| HB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial institutions; definition. Broadens the definition of the term "financial institution," as used in Title 6.2, to include any entity that is defined as a financial institution under Subchapter IV (Payment, Clearing, and Settlement Supervision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the State Inspector General; powers and duties. Clarifies that the powers and duties of the State Inspector General to conduct performance reviews of state agencies include assessing the effectiveness, efficiency, or economy of state progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Incorporated by General Laws |
| HB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Child welfare agencies; criminal history background checks. Establishes a requirement for national criminal history background checks for child-care providers, adds crimes requiring registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; examination; initial asbestos worker license applicants. Requires employers to provide each licensed asbestos worker with a written notice containing the following information: (i) a statement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Crohn's disease, colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome; identification cards and information. Directs the Department of Health to develop a process for issuing identification cards to individuals diagnosed by a health care provider as having Crohn's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Downtown Tunnel Construction Relief Grant Fund. Establishes the Downtown Tunnel Construction Relief Grant Fund to provide grants of up to $10,000 to businesses that have suffered economic damage as a result of road closures due to the construction of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (12-Y 2-N) |
| HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Investigation of alleged child abuse and neglect; agreements with school divisions. Requires local departments of social services and local school divisions to include, in written interagency agreements for the investigation of certain complaints of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurable interest requirement; annuity contracts. Prohibits a person from purchasing an annuity contract under which benefits are payable to another individual unless those benefits are payable to the annuitant, the annuitant's personal representati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; Self-Employment Assistance Pilot Program; report. Establishes the Self-Employment Assistance Pilot Program (Program), under which up to 100 unemployed individuals receive unemployment compensation while they are establishin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial credit reporting. Establishes a procedure through which a commercial enterprise operating in Virginia about whom a commercial credit report has been compiled may request access to view its commercial credit report, at no cost to the subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefit exchange; plan management functions. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission from contracting or entering into a memorandum of understanding to carry out its plan management functions with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Child welfare agencies; criminal history background checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB368 | Intro
Sine Die | Eye care coverage; carrier practices. Establishes requirements upon carriers, including indemnity insurers, health maintenance organizations, issuers of accident and sickness subscription contracts, and corporations operating optometric or vision car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW) program participant to determine whether probable cause exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal property tax; telephone and telegraph companies. Authorizes localities to tax the personal property of telephone and telegraph companies not used in furnishing telegraph, telephone, broadband personal, or mobile commercial communication serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver education programs. Expands the driver education program in Planning District Eight that deals with juvenile driver behavior, juvenile driving restrictions pursuant to the Code of Virginia, and the dangers of driving while intoxicated and unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Program. Expands the existing Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone Grant Fund and Program into a statewide program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Incorporated by Appropriations |
| HB453 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income taxes. Establishes beginning with the 2015 taxable year a $25,000 taxable income threshold for corporate income tax liability and increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the minimum amount of income tax a corporation expects to pay to requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| SB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearm transfers; penalties. Creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a person who is not a licensed dealer to sell, rent, trade, or transfer a firearm to any other person who is not a licensed dealer. The bill also creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB870 | Intro
Sine Die | New infrastructure investment tax credit. Creates an income tax credit beginning in taxable year 2014 for any business that places into service new infrastructure for its own use. Infrastructure eligible for the credit would include broadband infrast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosure of presence of dam. Requires the first seller of a residential property (developer) that is located in a dam break inundation zone to disclose to any prospective purchaser of the property that the property is located in such a zone and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; permissible fireworks. Redefines what constitutes permissible fireworks in Virginia. Under the bill, "permissible fireworks" means any small fireworks device designed to produce visible effects by combustion and that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding of sexual and domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. Creates a new subfund in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund to be known as the Sexual and Domestic Violence Subfund. The Subfund consists of all funds, from whate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB453 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking in persons for forced labor or sexual servitude. The bill adds definitions of coercion, commercial sexual activity, debt bondage, and serious harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery; conspiracy. Provides that conspiracy to commit misdemeanor assault or assault and battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; association charges. Clarifies that a property owners' association may only assess charges or fees for services provided or related to use of the common area that are expressly authorized in the Virginia Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) |
| HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal action for injury to person; malpractice against health care provider; failure to report diagnosis of cancer. Provides that where negligence for a delay in communicating to a patient the interpretation of an imaging or diagnostic test or stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; transportation construction services. Provides that for the award of transportation construction projects, certain specified factors other than price may be considered. The bill also provides that construction may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Funds to localities with high unemployment rates. Dedicates to localities with an unemployment rate greater that six percent (i) one-half of the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund and (ii) sales tax revenue generated by a sales and use tax of on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; inspection and enforcement. Provides that if any locality elects to enforce Part III of the Building Code, it shall also enforce the unsafe structures provisions for tenant complaints and enforce the elevator, escalat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB630 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; regulations. Authorizes the board of directors of the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program to adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purpose and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) |
