| SB510 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession of firearms following conviction of certain crimes; penalty. Prohibits any person who is convicted of stalking, sexual battery, or assault and battery of a family member involving the use of force from possessing, transporting, or carrying...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB573 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive an award from the institution's approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB500 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation of members of the General Assembly. Prohibits compensation to legislators for attending conferences for which the agenda and materials are not available to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB9 | Pass | Regulation or prohibition of parking of certain vehicles. Adds the Town of Blackstone to the list of counties and towns that may regulate or prohibit the parking of certain vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049) |
| HB509 | Pass | Permits for operation of specialized construction equipment. Authorizes the Commissioner of Highways to issue permits for operation of specialized construction equipment on and across structures maintained by VDOT.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) |
| SB540 | Pass | Confederate graves. Allows disbursement of funds for the care and maintenance of three additional graves at Skinquarter Baptist Church Cemetery in Chesterfield County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0110) |
| HB341 | Pass | Natural gas vehicles; weight limit exception. Allows vehicles fueled, wholly or partially, by natural gas to weigh up to 2,000 pounds more than the applicable weight limit on non-Interstate highways. The bill requires the operator of the vehicle to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064) |
| SB647 | Engross
Sine Die | DMAS; teledentistry pilot program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to create a two-year pilot program to provide dental services to school-age children who are eligible to receive pediatric dental services through the Smiles for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB43 | Pass | Teachers; dismissal. Extends from five business days to 10 business days the deadline for a teacher to request a hearing after receiving written notice of a recommendation of dismissal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0103) |
| HB1002 | Pass | Committee on Training within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Increases the membership of the Committee on Training within the Department of Criminal Justice Services from 14 to 15 by the addition of the Director of the Department of Juve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083) |
| HB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Public water and sewer utilities and authorities; service contracts. Authorizes localities and water and sewer authorities to establish and operate programs under which they agree to repair, replace, or maintain the water or sewer line of a customer'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1007 | Pass | High school equivalency programs and examinations. Replaces references throughout the Code to a General Education Development (GED) program or test with "a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0084) |
| SB49 | Pass | Management of the menhaden fishery. Extends the sunset date for management of the menhaden fishery from January 1, 2015, to July 1, 2016. The bill also allows any person purchasing more than one of the licenses for the same vessel to catch menhaden w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0104) |
| HB225 | Pass | Reassessment of real estate and equalization of assessments; City of Richmond. Allows the City of Richmond by ordinance to provide for a board of equalization or a permanent board of equalization instead of a board of review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061) |
| HB1134 | Pass | Practice of physician assistants. Updates terminology related to practice agreements for physician assistants and adds physician assistants to the definition of "health care provider" for the purposes of medical malpractice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| SB257 | Pass | Scenic river designation. Designates a 12.7-mile segment of the Tye River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0107) |
| SB451 | Engross
Sine Die | Definition of law-enforcement officer; municipal park rangers. Adds sworn municipal park rangers who are conservators of the peace to the definition of law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB463 | Pass | Health regulatory boards; reinstatement of licensure. Provides that an applicant for reinstatement of a certificate, registration, or license that has been revoked bears the burden of proof to show to the appropriate health regulatory board by clear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0096) |
| HB411 | 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] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0067) |
| SB441 | Pass | Elementary and secondary school students; expulsion. Clarifies that students who have committed certain weapons or drug offenses are not required to be expelled regardless of the facts of the particular situation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| HB64 | Pass | Stephen L. Thompson Memorial Highway. Designates a portion of Virginia Route 24 in Rustburg the Stephen L. Thompson Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0051) |
| HB505 | Pass | Dextromethorphan Distribution Act; penalty. Provides that no pharmacy or retail distributor may knowingly or intentionally sell or distribute a product containing dextromethorphan (a cough suppressant found in many over-the-counter medications) to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0101) |
| HB525 | Pass | Real property tax; notice of assessment. Requires every notice of assessment to set forth (i) the new and prior two appraised values of land and appraised value of improvements, and the assessed values of such if different from the appraised values; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) |
| HB986 | Pass | Designating the Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge. Designates the Interstate Route 81 bridge over the Maury River in Rockbridge County the "Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0082) |
| HB488 | Pass | Golf carts and utility vehicles. Adds the Town of Clifton to the list of towns without their own police departments that may permit operation of golf carts and utility vehicles on their highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069) |
| SB560 | Pass | Reclamation of coal-mined areas. Amends the Virginia Coal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1979 by removing the ability of certain applicants to provide a bond without separate surety. The bill also raises the target balance of the Coal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0111) |
| SB134 | Pass | Independent living services; individuals between 18 and 21 years of age. Requires local departments of social services and child-placing agencies to provide independent living services to any person between 18 and 21 years of age who is transitioning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0094) |
| SB614 | Pass | Transportation of waste kitchen grease; decal. Requires certain persons transporting waste kitchen grease to affix a decal issued by the Commissioner on the outside of any vehicle used for such purpose. Current law requires the person to display his ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0114) |
| HB730 | Pass | Secretary of Public Safety; Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security; transfer of certain powers and duties. Renames the Secretary of Public Safety as the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and reassigns duties currently assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| HB80 | Pass | Conditional guilty pleas. Gives the defendant the same right to enter a conditional guilty plea in a misdemeanor case in circuit court that exists in a felony case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| SB209 | 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] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0106) |
| HB541 | Pass | Determination of death. Removes the requirement for a second physician to declare death when the initial declaration of death is made by a physician who is a specialist in the field of neurology, neurosurgery, electroencephalography, or critical care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073) |
| HB321 | Pass | Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program. Creates the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program, a pilot program administered by the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to improve outreach by state government to the private sector. The objectives of the Program are to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0063) |
| HB269 | Pass | Holding cases under advisement. Provides that a circuit court judge in a civil action who holds a decision on any matter, motion, or issue submitted to the court or any final decision in the action under advisement for more than 60 days after a decis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0062) |
| HB611 | Pass | Health regulatory boards; denial or suspension of a license, certificate, or registration; exception. Creates an exception to the requirement that health regulatory boards within the Department of Health Professions shall refuse to issue a license, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076) |
| SB526 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure method. Specifies that when the Director, in his discretion, discloses information that is in the possession of the program concerning a recipient who is over the age of 18 to that recipient, the informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0097) |
| HB164 | Pass | Background checks of applicants of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Authorizes the chief of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police department, or his designee, to conduct criminal background checks through the Central Cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0057) |
| HB187 | Pass | Real and personal property tax exemption; aviation museum. Permits any locality to exempt any real or personal property the legal title to which is not held by a nonprofit entity but is subject to the sole use and occupancy of a nonprofit entity, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0060) |
| SB569 | Pass | Living shorelines general permit. Requires regulations for the issuance of general permits for living shoreline projects to include an expedited review process. The bill allows construction of such projects under the local wetlands and coastal primar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112) |
| HB159 | Pass | Fraudulent conversion or removal of leased property; restitution. Provides that a court shall order a person found guilty of fraudulent conversion of leased personal property to make restitution as the court deems appropriate to the lessor of the pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056) |
| HB122 | 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] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053) |
| HB893 | Pass | Anatomic pathology services; fees. Prohibits practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine from charging a fee for anatomic pathology services performed by a person other than the practitioner or a person under the direct supervision of the practit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0081) |
| HB123 | Pass | Amber warning lights; petroleum and propane transport vehicles. Allows amber warning lights on petroleum and propane transport vehicles to be lit when the vehicle is parked or delivering petroleum or propane products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054) |
| HB176 | Pass | Tow truck drivers; violent crimes. Creates an exception to current law prohibiting the registration as a tow truck driver of any person convicted of a violent crime. The bill grandfathers those that already held a tow truck driver authorization under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059) |
| HB166 | Pass | Salvage vehicles. Enhances and clarifies certain requirements and practices relating to the licensing and activities of vehicle demolishers, rebuilders, salvage dealers, salvage pools, and vehicle removal operators, including: (i) requiring that vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058) |
| HB415 | Pass | Overweight permits for truck cranes. Allows the DMV Commissioner and cities and towns to authorize overweight permits for truck cranes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) |
| HB704 | Pass | Recording of trial, etc.; misdemeanor cases in circuit court. Requires the circuit court in misdemeanor cases to allow the Commonwealth, the defendant, or both to record evidence and incidents of trial by a mechanical or electronic device in cases in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0078) |
| HB141 | Pass | Court orders in pending suit for divorce; life insurance policies. Provides that a court may, pending a suit for divorce, compel a party, or the parties together, to maintain a life insurance policy on the other party or another beneficiary for the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0055) |
| HB758 | Pass | Teacher licensure; career and technical education endorsement. Requires every teacher seeking initial licensure with an endorsement in the area of career and technical education to have an industry certification credential in the area in which the te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0079) |
| HB1144 | Pass | Law enforcement of private roads in Greene County. Provides that the governing body of Greene County may designate private roads in residential developments with 25 or more lots as highways for law-enforcement purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090) |
