| HB889 | Intro
Sine Die | Economics education and financial literacy; online course of instruction. Requires (i) the Board of Education to develop an online course of instruction and assessment in the objectives of economics education and financial literacy and (ii) each loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| HB481 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Operating a vehicle or vessel containing a false compartment; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to (i) own or operate a vehicle or vessel containing a false or secret compartment; (ii) install, create, build, or fabricate in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjutant General. Provides for the Adjutant General of the Department of Military Affairs to report directly to the Governor rather than through the Secretary of Public Safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB995 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax and sales and use tax; expiration dates for credits and exemptions. Places two-year expiration dates on various income tax credits and sales and use tax exemptions. The revenue attributable to the expiration of these credits and exemptions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To House Finance Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Fire services and emergency medical services. Revises terminology related to fire services and emergency medical services and reorganizes provisions governing fire services and emergency medical services. The bill also eliminates provisions exempting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic cigarettes; prohibit purchase, etc., by minors. Provides that minors may not purchase or possess electronic cigarettes and that no person may sell electronic cigarettes to a minor. The bill defines an electronic cigarette as any electronic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; victims of sexual assault; cost-sharing requirement for HIV prevention medication. Prohibits certain insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts from imposing on an insured, subscriber, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Delinquent juveniles; commitment to Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the only juveniles who may be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice are those adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would be a felony if committed by an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB860 | Intro
Sine Die | Definition of criminal justice agency; Department of Criminal Justice Services. Specifies that the Department of Criminal Justice Services is a criminal justice agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentences. Provides that the punishment is a Class 2 felony (20 years to life) for persons convicted of a crime committed when a juvenile for which the only available punishment is a life sentence. The bill also provides that a ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentence modification. Establishes a procedure to retroactively modify a mandatory life sentence for persons convicted of a crime committed when a juvenile. The bill provides for an individualized assessment and allows the punishm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Implied warranty; new homes. Provides that if the vendor of a new home (i) is in the business of building or selling new dwellings and (ii) selected and installed the materials and fixtures used in the construction of the dwelling, he shall be held t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (1-Y 14-N) |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of criminal conviction record. Allows a person convicted of certain criminal offenses to petition to have his conviction expunged after a five-year period has expired following the conviction, upon a showing that his opportunities for emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount for the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Secondhand fixtures and scrap metal; payment. Requires persons acquiring secondhand building fixtures, scrap, metal articles, and proprietary articles to make payments for the materials in the form of a check. Currently, purchasers of certain secondh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | State Department of Emergency Management; state agency components to the State Emergency Operations Plan. Requires each state agency designated by the State Department of Emergency Management to submit the agency's supporting component of the State E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Fraudulent conversion 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 property. Such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Student information; release to federal government agencies. Prohibits a member or employee of a local school board or the Board of Education from transmitting personally identifiable information from a student's record to a federal government agency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HB825 | Intro
Sine Die | General district courts; days of operation. Provides that the clerk's office of every district court shall be kept open for the transaction of business on every day except Saturday, Sunday, and the statewide legal holidays designated in the Code of V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB447 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Treasury; Risk Management Division; liability coverage for certain pro bono attorneys. Provides for inclusion under the state's risk management plan attorneys providing pro bono legal services under a Virginia State Bar approved program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Collection of courts costs at DMV. Allows the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the collection of court costs at DMV customer service centers. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; accessible units. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to revise the Uniform Statewide Building Code to require that at least 10 percent of all dwelling units, but in no case less than one dwelling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in vehicle with minor present. Provides that any person who smokes in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, when a minor under the age of eight is in the motor vehicle is subject to a civil penalty of $100. The offense may be charged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; attorney fees. Provides that a court may award reasonable attorney fees, expenses, and court costs to any person, group, or entity that prevails in a zoning action brought against it or that successfully challenges the validity of a zoning or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2014-01-17
Incorporated by Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Provides a mechanism for reporting when a circuit court restores a felon's right to possess a firearm to the Department of State Police. Prior to entry of a restoration order, the petitioner's f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB951 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole board; parole review; required release. Requires the Parole Board to release any person eligible for parole whose time served, including earned sentence credits and good conduct credits, exceeds the midpoint of the most recent discretionary se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | Jail construction; state reimbursement; mental health beds. Provides that the Commonwealth will reimburse 50% of the cost of constructing, enlarging, or renovating a jail or regional jail to provide mental health beds and 100% of the cost of treating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Municipal deed restrictions on certain property in Virginia Beach. Provides that certain deed restrictions shall include the authority to construct and operate a Beach Maintenance and Operations Facility or a Hampton Roads Transit Shuttle Operation F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HB1145 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Provides a mechanism for reporting when a circuit court restores a felon's right to possess a firearm to the Department of State Police. Prior to entry of a restoration order, the petitioner's f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; wineries; on-premises events. Allows winery licensees to host no more than 12 special events per calendar year on the premises of the licensee, during which the licensee may sell and serve wine for on-premises consumption ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking; legislative commission created; study; report. Creates a legislative commission for the purpose of developing and implementing a State Plan for the Prevention of Human Trafficking. The commission will expire in two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; residents of the Commonwealth. Allows any resident of the Commonwealth who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken from docket by Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Jail authorities; sovereign immunity. Provides that regional jail authorities enjoy sovereign immunity in the performance of government functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Explosive material; method of ignition. Adds high impact velocity to the methods of ignition contained in the definition of "explosive material." It is a Class 5 felony to possess materials that may be used to manufacture explosive materials or to ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB272 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Juvenile Justice; use of isolation and restraint. Prohibits the Department of Juvenile Justice and any mental health facility to which a child in its custody has been transferred from isolating or physically restraining a child unless i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB557 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control (ABC); distillers' licenses; tasting privileges; distillers' special event licenses. Creates a new distillers' special event license and sets its privileges and state and local license taxes. The bill also grants to a disti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Dead bodies, disposition. Authorizes the Department of Corrections to accept and dispose of an unclaimed dead body of a person who has been received into the state corrections system and died prior to his release and whose body the Commissioner of He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual school performance; A-to-F grading system. Requires the Board of Education to (i) provide an opportunity for public comment on the A-to-F school grading system and the grades assigned to each public school in the Commonwealth and (ii) incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspension of tidal fishing privileges. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to suspend for five years the tidal fishing privileges of any commercial fisherman who has violated the tidal fishery laws five times or more in a two-year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB372 | Intro
Sine Die | Early childhood education. Requires, on and after July 1, 2019, all school divisions to provide early childhood education programs for four-year-olds and five-year-olds who are not eligible to attend kindergarten or at-risk early childhood education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement consolidation plan. Directs the Secretary of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Marine Resources Commission, to develop a plan for the consolidation of the law-enforcement functi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Pollutant discharge permit for surface mining. Eliminates the requirements that the Director of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy submit a copy of the application for a discharge permit to the State Water Control Board for its review and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N) |
| HB816 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Adds lawful source of income to the list on the basis of which it is unlawful to discriminate in fair housing practices. The bill defines lawful source of income as any income used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption assistance. Clarifies provisions related to adoption assistance for children with special needs and makes the provision of state-funded maintenance payments for children with special needs who do not qualify for federal adoption assistance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Solicitation of contributions on roadways. Provides that any locality may by ordinance allow pedestrians over the age of 18 who are part of, or working on behalf of, a §501(c)(3) organization, to enter one or more roadways for the purpose of sol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Funeral services, cremation. Provides that, in cases where no next of kin, designated person, or agent is available, any person over 18 years of age who is able to provide visual identification of a deceased and is willing to pay the costs of cremati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; administrative investigations; local inspectors general. Adds a records exemption for administrative investigations conducted by a local inspector general or other local investigator appointed by the local governi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
