| HB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability. Vests the Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability with the power and duty to make performance reviews of state agencies with transportation responsibilities to ensure that funds appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on the Reconveyance of Shenandoah National Park established; report; authority of Governor. Creates the Commission on the Reconveyance of Shenandoah National Park to develop recommendations regarding any proposed reconveyance of Shenandoah...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Local fiscal impact bills; first day introduction. Requires local fiscal impact bills to be introduced no later than the first day of the session. This bill was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
To House Rules Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole; nonviolent felons. Allows a parole hearing for nonviolent offenders whose crime was committed on or after January 1, 1995, and who have served 50% of their sentence. If the incarceration is the offender's second felony incarceration in Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; training center residents; quality of care. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to ensure that, before any training center resident is transferred to another facility or pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Voting equipment; DREs; Voting Equipment Grant Program and Fund. Prohibits the use of direct recording electronic machines (DREs) and requires the use of ballot scanning systems in all elections beginning January 1, 2019. The bill establishes the Vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 12-N) |
| HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Commission on Energy and Environment. Establishes the Virginia Commission on Energy and Environment as a legislative commission to review and recommend steps to implement the Virginia Energy Plan. The Commission is charged, among other thing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Sports Authority. Creates the Virginia Sports Authority. The powers and duties of the Virginia Sports Authority include the duty to promote sporting opportunities throughout the state, including by contracting with an existing nonprofit orga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Foster care; approval of applicant whose household includes certain individuals convicted of an offense. Provides that a child-placing agency may approve an applicant as a foster care provider whose household includes an adult who has been convicted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB1101 | 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] | 2014-01-31
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriation act conference report; availability. Requires the conference committee report of the appropriation act to be available online for 36 hours and distributed to each member of the General Assembly before a vote is taken on the report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Beach arena. Provides that the City of Virginia Beach may use its Arena Financing Fund to collect sales and use tax revenues and remit such revenues to the private facility owner as a contribution toward the cost of the facility if the City ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-31
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; withholding child from custodial parent. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any principal, assistant principal, or supervisor employed by a local school board who fails to or refuses to release a child into the custody of the child's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | The University of Virginia; board of visitors. Changes the composition of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia from 17 visitors appointed by the Governor to 13 visitors appointed by the Governor and four visitors directly elected by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Boating safety course. Exempts persons 45 years of age or older on July 1, 2014, from having to pass a boating safety education course in order to operate a motorboat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1207 | 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] | 2014-01-30
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; appeal of order. Provides that upon a finding by the circuit court that the appellant no longer meets the criteria for involuntary commitment (or mandatory outpatient treatment), the court shall reverse the order of the distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Acute psychiatric bed registry. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish an acute psychiatric bed registry that will provide real-time information on the availability of beds in public and private psychiatri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of stormwater; waiver of charges for places of worship. Requires a locality that adopts a system of stormwater management service charges to provide for a waiver of at least 50 percent of such charge to any church, synagogue, or other plac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody; time limit. Extends the time that a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order to 24 hours. Currently, a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order for up to four hours, with an additional two-hour ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB200 | 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] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; association charges. Provides that unless expressly authorized in the Property Owners' Association Act or in the declaration or otherwise provided by law, no association may make an assessment or impose a charge agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Repair of nonconforming billboards. Revises and updates statutory requirements pertaining to the maintenance and repair of nonconforming billboards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animal surgical sterilization program; fund; penalty. Establishes a fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or dogs. The bill provides that a surcharge of $50 per ton of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Navigation on certain waters. Provides that no person who is recreationally floating upon certain waters in a nonmotorized vessel shall be liable for civil or criminal trespass. The bill provides that existing ownership rights in real property shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Read third time and defeated by Senate (10-Y 30-N) |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Facility of temporary detention. Provides that an individual for whom a temporary detention order is issued shall be detained in a state facility unless the state facility or an employee or designee of the community services board is able to identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Acute psychiatric bed registry. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish an acute psychiatric bed registry that will provide real-time information on the availability of beds in public and private psychiatri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia's World War II Heritage Alliance Route. Requires the Department of Transportation to place and maintain appropriate markers indicating "Virginia's World War II Heritage Alliance Route," as designated by the Virginia World War II Heritage All...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited drug analogs; Board of Pharmacy may regulate; prohibition on sale; civil penalty. Authorizes the Board of Pharmacy to add substances that are considered prohibited drug analogs through an expedited regulatory process. A "prohibited drug an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB779 | Intro
Sine Die | DSS; diabetes self-care education pilot program. Requires the Department of Social Services to develop a pilot program for diabetes self-care education for individuals and families receiving public assistance, to improve clinical outcomes, health sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Check cashers; customer identification; civil penalty. Requires a person conducting business as a check casher to make a copy of each item cashed and either make a copy of the customer's valid identification document or obtain the customer's thumbpri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Underinsured motorist insurance coverage. Revises the process by which an injured person or, in the case of death, the decedent's personal representative may settle a claim with a liability insurer and its insured for the limits of the liability insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody and temporary detention. Extends the time that a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order to 12 hours. Currently, a person may be held for up to four hours, with an additional two-hour extension available upon a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Student data; cloud computing. Requires each cloud computing service provider that enters into a contract with a local school board to provide services to only process and monitor student data according to the terms of its contract with the local sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; preservation of Stadium Woods property. Prohibits the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Board of Visitors from transferring, building on, or otherwise disposing of the property kn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Delays from October 1, 2014, to October 1, 2015, the date by which the Board of Education is required to (i) assign a grade from A to F to each public school in the Commonwealth; (ii) make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB455 | 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] | 2014-01-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal Cruelty Registry established. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish and maintain an Animal Cruelty Registry for public access on the website of the Department of State Police. The Registry shall include the names of persons ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Revenues from local fines and penalties. Provides for a portion of the revenues from local fines and penalties to be segregated and deposited in a special fund in those counties or cities in which the local fines and penalties collected exceed a thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
| SB180 | Engross
Sine Die | Mature driver crash prevention. Provides for a course in mature driver motor vehicle crash prevention and provides that such course is an option for the court in adjudicating defendants. The bill also lowers the age at which drivers are required to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Chair votes No |
| SB319 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; primary elections; date of June primary elections. Changes the date of primary elections held in the month of June from the second Tuesday in June to the third Tuesday in June and changes candidate filing deadlines to reflect that change o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
Read third time and defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N) |
