| SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Securities Act; Invest in Virginia Exemption. Creates an exemption from the securities, broker-dealer, and agent registration requirements of the Securities Act for an offer or sale of a security by an issuer, or an individual who represents an issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; expedited evictions for nonremediable breaches; continued disturbances of the peace. Provides for an expedited evictions process under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act for continued distur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; sale of certain tax delinquent property. Provides that a locality may condition the sale of certain tax delinquent real property on the purchaser's investing a certain amount in improvements to the property, provided that in determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; employment of outside counsel where a conflict of interests exists. Requires the Attorney General's office to enter into an agreement with outside counsel to provide legal services in a matter when the Attorney General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB218 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act, and Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; limitations on gifts and campaign contributions. Limits undue influence on statewide officers, legislators...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB471 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; filing of quarterly disclosure required for certain officers and employees. Requires the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Justices of the Supreme Court, and other persons occupying...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; limitations on gifts; disclosure of gifts; ethics expert. Limits the total value of all gifts received by a state official or employee and by a legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act. Provides for centralized filing of disclosure forms under both Acts with the Secretary of the Commonwealth and development of a searchable electronic database....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Child care services for TANF and low-income families. Directs the Department of Social Services to provide financial assistance to offset the cost of child care for individuals receiving TANF and other individuals whose household incomes are less tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; gifts; disclosures. Requires the disclosure on statements of economic interests for legislators and certain state and local government officers of g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; party identification on ballots; constitutional officers. Extends to elections for constitutional officers the requirement that ballots identify the nominating political party for party candidates and identify independent candidates as suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Tabled in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; lobbyists; prohibited gifts; disclosure. Establishes a ban on any single gift with a value in excess of $50, or gifts with an aggregate value in excess of $100, from a single donor, to members and members-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB408 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; elected and certain appointed officers; removal from office. Adds sexual battery, attempted sexual battery, consensual intercourse with a child 15 years of age or older, indecent exposure, and peeping to the list of offenses for which a ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB336 | 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] | 2014-01-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (6-Y 6-N) |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Statements of Economic Interests; disclosure thresholds. Lowers the value above which state and local government officers and members of the General Assembly must disclose specific economic interests on their Statements of Economic Interests from $10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Annexation Moratorium Statute; continuation of the moratorium on annexation by cities. Extends the temporary restrictions on granting city charters, filing annexation notices, and instituting annexation proceedings and county immunity proceedings unt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council. Creates the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to furnish advisory opinions, conduct training seminars and educational programs, and publish such educational materials ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of the Commonwealth; lobbyist disclosure. Redesigns the Lobbyist's Disclosure Statement to clarify information requested and increase compliance. Among other things, the redesigned form (i) requires a lobbyist to include a list of all House...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance; employees of localities. Expands the list of people who may be provided certain types of insurance by a locality, adding the dependents of officers and employees of a locality, as well as the dependents of those employed by commissions and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Tabled in Counties, Cities and Towns (13-Y 7-N) |
| SB307 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; composition of board. Changes the duties and compensation of the three-member Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. The bill provides that the chairman shall continue to serve full-time and receive a salary fixed by the Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voting procedures; and voter identification. Provides that an unexpired Virginia driver's license remains valid for purposes of voter identification at the polls notwithstanding the fact that it has been suspended or revoked under certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Tabled in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; Virginia Legislative Ethics Commission. Establishes the Commission to replace the current separate House and Senate Ethics Advisory Panels. The bill authorizes the seven-member Commission to review legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; lobbyist disclosure; prohibited gifts. Establishes a ban on gifts or aggregate of gifts that are reasonably expected to be in excess of $100 in valu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Corrections; notification of tertiary care of prisoner. Requires the Board of Corrections to promulgate regulations for state and local correctional facilities requiring that notification be made to a prisoner's family or stated emergency co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of State Police; appointment of supervisory officers. Establishes a career progression program that is based on years of service. The program provides for promotion to the rank of Senior Trooper after 10 years of service and promotion to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure requirements; gifts. Requires a legislator to report gifts received by a member of his immediate family exceeding $100 in value. The bill defines "immediate family" as the legislator's spouse an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB902 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia-recognized Indian Tribes. Provides that on any Indian Reservation recognized by the Commonwealth whereupon a state-recognized Indian Tribe has contracted with one or more qualified firms or individuals to perform building official functions,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Contract passenger carriers. Eliminates the requirements that (i) contract passenger carrier service be provided for a minimum of one hour per vehicle trip and (ii) each vehicle carry a trip sheet showing passenger destinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB744 | Intro
Sine Die | Blocking highway drains and culverts. Allows localities by ordinance to prohibit interfering with or impeding storm water runoff into drains or culverts on VDOT-controlled highway rights-of-way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB524 | 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] | 2014-01-23
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB424 | 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] | 2014-01-23
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| SB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensed providers of treatment for persons with opiate addiction; Prescription Monitoring Program. Requires licensed providers of treatment for persons with opiate addiction through the use of methadone or other opioid replacements to comply with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB326 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and the Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act; inclusion of deputy sheriffs; discriminatory and retaliatory action prohibited; remedies. Clarifies that deputy sheriffs employed by city or county sheriff's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Read third time and defeated by Senate (14-Y 24-N) |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Reckless driving; passing other vehicles at intersections. Clarifies the language of §46.2-858, which prohibits a person from overtaking or passing another vehicle stopped at a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection when a pedestrian is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Tabled in Transportation (12-Y 10-N) |
| HB1107 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; gourmet brewing shop license; tasting privilege. Allows gourmet brewing shop licensees to give samples of the wine or beer products being sold by the licensees to their customers to whom alcoholic beverages may be sold for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Home-produced or farm-produced products. Allows the sale of food products made from any fruit, grain, herbs, honey, meat, milk, mushrooms, nuts, poultry, seafood, or vegetables by a farm operation employing 10 or fewer people or by a private home, so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Establishes that a student shall be eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (ii) he has graduated fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 7-N) |
| SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Juvenile Justice; eligibility for medical assistance. Provides that Medicaid benefits shall be suspended, rather than terminated, upon a foster-care youth entering the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB216 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control. Eliminates the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (ABC) and replaces it with the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, created by the bill. The bill provides for the appointment of the board of directors of the Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Broadens eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program by including students whose Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession and administration of epinephrine. Authorizes any employee of a licensed restaurant, summer camp, or campground to possess and administer epinephrine, provided such employee is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; undocumented persons. Establishes that a student shall be eligible for in-state tuition if (i) he has attended a public or private high school in the Commonwealth for at least three years; (ii) he has graduated from a public or priv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; inspection of buildings; exception. Provides that neither the State Fire Marshal nor any local fire official shall inspect the premises of any tanning facility as defined in §59.1-310.1 or other business establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance for mopeds. Applies the same insurance requirements to mopeds that apply to motor vehicles, by removing the current exclusion of mopeds from the definition of "motor vehicle."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB559 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency. Advances conformity with the federal tax code from January 2, 2013, to December 31, 2013. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Number of circuit and district court judges in the 20th and 26th Circuits/Districts. Increases the number of circuit, general district, and juvenile court judges authorized for the 20th and 26th Judicial Circuits in accordance with a study report iss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Public comment and access; presentation to Committees of the General Assembly. Increases time periods for public comment and submission of competing proposals and transparency in agreements pursuant to the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Abandonment of a child; penalty. Provides that any parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care of a child who willfully renders a child abused or neglected by abandoning the child is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Disabled American Veterans Highway. Designates the entire length of Interstate Route 495 (Capital Beltway) in Virginia the "Disabled American Veterans Highway."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB39 | 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] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
