VA Legislation | 2014 | Regular Session | Bills

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB772	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]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB1061	Intro Sine Die	Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Establishes minimum percentages of the RPS Goals that Dominion, defined as a Phase II utility, is required to meet from distributed generation energy sources. Dominion may meet this goal by applying renewa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB144	Intro Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; admission of students domiciled in Virginia. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for the Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk Stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB537	Intro Sine Die	State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of certain gifts. Requires disclosure of the receipt of any gift of more than $1,000 within 30 days of acceptance of the gift (i) by cand... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB782	Intro Sine Die	Home purchase from member of armed forces tax credit. Provides a $1,000 tax credit to persons who purchase a home from an active or reserved member of the armed forces who is selling his home because of deployment or relocation orders. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB1266	Intro Sine Die	Machine guns owned by trust. Provides that a trust is included in the types of entities that may lawfully possess a machine gun. The bill also provides that any certificate of registration for a machine issued by the Superintendent of State Police pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
HB220	Intro Sine Die	Driving while intoxicated; refusal of blood or breath tests. Requires that a person who has been arrested for driving while intoxicated and who has refused to submit to a blood or breath test must be given another opportunity to consent to testing af... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1262	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Delays from October 1, 2014, to October 1, 2017, the date by which the Board of Education is required to implement the A-to-F individual school performance grading system. The bill require... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB146	Intro Sine Die	Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Increases the size of the Commonwealth Transportation Board by six members (from 18 to 24).Three of the new members are to be members of the House of Delegates: two from the majority party and one from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Transportation Committee
HB808	Intro Sine Die	Electrical utility facilities; consideration of stability of fuel prices. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when required to approve the construction of any electrical utility facility, to consider the long-term price stability of any fuels ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB142	Intro Sine Die	Number of circuit court judges; Twentieth Judicial Circuit. Adds an additional circuit court judge to the 20th Judicial Circuit (Loudoun, Rappahannock, Fauquier), bringing the total to five. This additional position is recommended under the National ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB353	Intro Sine Die	Supreme Court of Virginia; judicial caseloads; weighted caseload system. Requires the Supreme Court to develop a weighted caseload system to assess judicial caseloads throughout the Commonwealth, and using that system, requires the Court to determine... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1271	Intro Sine Die	School board member training. Requires each newly elected or appointed member of a local school board in a school division that contains one or more schools denied accreditation or accredited with warning for three consecutive years to participate, w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB1170	Intro Sine Die	Stormwater management; separately built single-family residences. Expands the exemption from state stormwater permit requirements for certain separately built single-family residences by raising the area of disturbance for exempt projects from one ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
HB533	Intro Sine Die	Governor; state agencies' use of public media to influence proposed executive or legislative action prohibited; exception. Requires the Governor to ensure that neither the Virginia Department of Transportation nor the Commonwealth Transportation Boar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1155	Intro Sine Die	Seizure and forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of larcenies; certain other crimes. Provides that property used in connection with certain crimes associated with human trafficking is subject to forfeiture to the Commonwealth... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB348	Intro Sine Die	Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; eligibility for grants. Expands eligibility for grants from the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund to include counties or cities in which at least 40 percent of the assessed value of all real estate situa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1111	Intro Sine Die	Tobacco products; electronic cigarettes; minors. Defines "tobacco product" for the purposes of the prohibition on the purchase or possession by or sale to minors of tobacco products. The term "tobacco product" includes an electronic smoking device, w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB677	Intro Sine Die	School boards; annual workforce summit. Requires each local school board to annually host a workforce summit at which members of the local business community, including representatives from the local Chamber of Commerce or other similar organization,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB1113	Intro Sine Die	Adoption by person other than spouse of a parent. Provides that a person other than the spouse of a parent may adopt a child if the child has only one parent, the adoption would not terminate the parental rights of the parent, and the parent joins in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB535	Intro Sine Die	Transfer of firearms; criminal history record information check; penalties. Adds a definition of "firearms show vendor" and requires that a criminal history record information check be performed on the prospective transferee before the vendor may tra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
HB842	Intro Sine Die	Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone. Adds Accomack County and Northampton County to the localities composing the Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone. Certain new or expanded businesses located in su... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB982	Intro Sine Die	Expungement of police and court records; hearing. Provides that a circuit court may waive hearing in an expungement proceeding where an agreed order is submitted by the Commonwealth and the petitioner. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB384	Intro Sine Die	Local mandates; identification of sources of funding. Requires the assessment performed by state agencies to include the identification of sources of funding for the mandate. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House General Laws Committee
HB653	Intro Sine Die	Allocations by Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Limits allocations by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority for transit, rail, and public transportation projects to no more than 25 percent of its total allocations. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Transportation Committee
HB906	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]	2014-02-12 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB152	Intro Sine Die	Department of State Police; variable housing allowance. Provides a housing allowance for full-time, sworn State Police officers, based upon pay grade and geographical location, from funds that are appropriated for such purpose. The rates of the varia... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Appropriations Committee
HB591	Intro Sine Die	Unsolicited demands for payment. Prohibits solicitations through the use of a document that reasonably could be considered a bill, invoice, or statement of account due, if the document (i) is in fact an offer to sell goods or services to a consumer t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1151	Intro Sine Die	Low-income tax credit; refundable. Changes the low-income tax credit to make any amount that exceeds the taxpayer's income tax liability refundable to the taxpayer. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB222	Intro Sine Die	Licensure of behavioral health care providers; notice to local governing body. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to notify the local governing body of a locality in which a provider has proposed or applied for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
HB590	Intro Sine Die	Charitable gaming; raffles by nonprofit organizations. Clarifies that the exemption for nonprofit organizations from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Division of Charitable Gaming prior to conducting raffles that generate annual gross rece... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House General Laws Committee
HB8	Intro Sine Die	Fees for concealed handgun permits. Decreases the local law-enforcement background investigation fee from $35 to $10, which includes any amount assessed by the FBI for providing criminal history record information. The total amount assessed for proce... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
HB489	Intro Sine Die	House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 5 and 6 in Smyth County in order to reflect a new precinct line. Both Districts will have a deviation of less than one percent... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB963	Intro Sine Die	Secretary of Education; annual report. Requires the Secretary of Education, on or before October 1 of each year, to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the Commonwealth's efforts to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathema... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee
HB151	Intro Sine Die	Individual income tax refunds; payment. Requires the Tax Commissioner and State Comptroller to implement procedures to allow an individual to elect to have his income tax refund paid by check mailed to his address. If the individual makes no election... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB75	Intro Sine Die	Elections; no-excuse in-person absentee voting. Allows qualified voters to vote absentee in person without providing an excuse for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the statutory list of specific reasons allowing a vo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB153	Intro Sine Die	Writ of actual innocence based on nonbiological evidence; additional petitions allowed. Removes the limitation that only one petition may be filed by allowing additional petitions based on new retroactive rules of constitutional law and changes in st... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1260	Intro Sine Die	Electronic transmission of sexually explicit images by minors; penalty. Provides that a minor who knowingly transmits, distributes, publishes, or disseminates to another minor an electronically transmitted communication containing a sexually explicit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB3	Intro Sine Die	2013 Session omnibus transportation bill (HB 2313); expiration date. Provides that all provisions of the 2013 Session omnibus transportation bill [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Finance Committee
HB1060	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; appointment of chief executive officer. Provides that the Governor and not the Authority board of directors shall appoint the executive director of the Authority. The bill further provides that the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House General Laws Committee
HB7	Intro Sine Die	Restoration of civil right to vote. Provides for the automatic restoration of the civil right to be eligible to register to vote to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of sentence... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB366	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Tourism Authority; Blue Ridge Highlands region. Requires the Virginia Tourism Authority to designate the Blue Ridge Highlands region to enhance tourism development efforts. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House General Laws Committee
HB532	Intro Sine Die	Governor; state agencies' use of public media to influence proposed executive or legislative action prohibited; exception. Requires the Governor to ensure that no state agency uses or attempts to use appropriated funds or grant or contract funds to s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House General Laws Committee
HB646	Intro Sine Die	Replacement concealed handgun permits. Provides that no fees shall be charged for the issuance of a replacement concealed handgun permit because the permit holder has changed his address (currently subject to a maximum fee of $10) or to replace a los... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
HB967	Intro Sine Die	Duties of the chief judges. Places the authority for recalling judges for duty after retirement with the chief judges of the district and circuit courts. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB5	Intro Sine Die	Compensation and expenses of electoral board members and general registrars. Provides for reimbursement by the Commonwealth to the localities of the full cost of compensation and expenses of electoral board members and general registrars. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB613	Intro Sine Die	Violations of certain mandatory school attendance laws; penalty. Provides that individuals who violate certain compulsory school attendance laws are guilty of a misdemeanor and may be confined not more than 30 days or fined not more than $500 or both... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB918	Intro Sine Die	Elections; separation of ballots. Removes the requirement that mechanical voting devices and ballots approved for use in elections must be capable of segregating ballots containing write-in votes from all other ballots. The bill also repeals the requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB568	Intro Sine Die	Nursing home standards of care. Increases the staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum of specific direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
HB1123	Intro Sine Die	Students and officially recognized student organizations; right to hire counsel and right of review of disciplinary decisions. Grants (i) any student enrolled at a public institution of higher education who is accused of a violation of the institutio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-02-12 To House Education Committee