| 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 |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of physically disabled or socially isolated persons. Provides that it is unlawful for any person who knows or should know that another person suffers from a physical disability or social isolation to, through the use of that ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal background check for transfer of firearms; exemption for holders of concealed handgun permits. Provides that a licensed firearms dealer does not have to have a criminal background check performed to determine a person's eligibility to purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB24 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of Downtown and Midtown Tunnels by law enforcement, school buses, emergency medical vehicles, and employees. Adds local police officers, emergency medical vehicles, school buses, and employees of the transportation facility to the list of persons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of firearms; penalty. Provides that any person who sells or otherwise transfers a firearm to a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm by state or federal law is guilty of a Class 6 felony if the transferor does not obtain a backg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Elimination of the corporate income tax. Eliminates the corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, by setting the rate of the tax at zero percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credit; retention of qualified mineral interest. Disallows a tax credit for the donation of an interest in land, including the donation of a conservation easement, where the donor retains a qualified mineral interest as defined ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex Offender Registry; notification of laws. Requires the Attorney General to annually prepare a pamphlet listing and summarizing laws containing requirements and prohibitions relevant to persons required to register as sex offenders and communicate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR108 | Pass | Commending Desiree Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ108ER) |
| SB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Number of circuit court judges; 10th Judicial Circuit. Adds a fourth circuit court judge to the 10th Judicial Circuit (Appomattox, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Prince Edward). This additional position is rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Agricultural operations; local regulation of certain activities. Protects customary agritourism activities at agricultural operations from local bans in the absence of substantial impacts on the public welfare and requires localities to take certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricted driver's license; written offer of employment. Provides that a court may authorize the issuance of a restricted driver's license to a person whose license has been suspended for failure to pay fines, etc., if he presents to the court a wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB123 | Engross
Sine Die | Wind energy projects; regulations to mitigate adverse effects of turbine blades on wildlife. Directs the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to adopt regulations establishing mitigation measures to reduce the adverse effects of wind turbines on wildli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 20-N) |
| SB531 | 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] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Transportation; notice and public comment on projects. Requires VDOT to post notice on its website and provide for public comment prior to undertaking a safety-related or congestion management transportation project and when a project i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB644 | Intro
Sine Die | Educational neglect or fraud (Ben's law). Provides that it is a felony for an educational professional or education-related service provider, by willful act or omission, to fail to provide the educational services outlined in an individualized educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB368 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of transportation of a loaded rifle or shotgun. Provides that lawful concealed carry permit holders shall not be subject to the provisions of certain local ordinances that make it unlawful for any person to transport, possess, or carry a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; additional requirements for certain comprehensive agreements. Provides that no comprehensive agreement providing for the lease, operation, or transfer of ownership of a qualifying transportation facility und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; KENTUCKY COLONELS. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for members and supporters of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels bearing the legend KENTUCKY COLONELS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information checks; protective order registry; dissemination of information. Provides that certain criminal history record information and protective order registry information shall be made available to the Attorney General o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of mopeds; insurance. Requires drivers of mopeds to obtain a driver's license and maintains the requirement that drivers obtain a motorcycle driver's license when driving a moped over 35 miles per hour. The bill also applies the same insura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Agreements as to compensation. Requires that the Commissioner of Highways' decisions regarding agreements be reasonable and not arbitrary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Equality Virginia. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of Equality Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive agreement; reduced rates for commuters. Requires comprehensive agreements under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 to include a provision providing for reduced rates for commuters who use the facility at least 20 times per mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Response to claims. Requires the Division of Risk Management or a transportation district to acknowledge claims within 30 days and resolve claims within 60 days. The bill places the same requirements on VDOT for claims less than $1,000 and provides t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-22
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadband and other telecommunications services; provision by localities. Expands the area within which a locality may provide broadband and other services to the zone within 100 miles of the geographic boundaries of its electric distribution system....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB506 | Intro
Sine Die | Littering. Provides that a person charged with littering in an amount no more than 0.7 cubic feet may prepay a fine of $50 in lieu of appearance in court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; method of nominating party candidates. Removes the power of incumbent officeholders in some cases to insist on a primary as the method of nominating political party candidates and removes the power of General Assembly incumbents seeking re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (4-Y 9-N 1-A) |
| SB507 | Intro
Sine Die | Party nomination methods. Provides that no political party shall determine its candidates for statewide or General Assembly district office by a method that has the practical effect of excluding participation by active duty personnel and military res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of competitive telephone companies. Establishes a procedure by which certain telephone companies may elect to be regulated as competitive telephone companies. In order to make such an election, a telephone company shall be either an incumb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Practice of medicine and other healing arts; unprofessional conduct; purchase of prescription drugs from unlicensed wholesale distributor. Adds knowingly purchasing prescription drugs from an unlicensed wholesale distributor to the list of actions th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of communications sales and use tax revenues. Changes the distribution of communications sales and use tax revenues beginning with the month of August 2014 by providing that (i) first, each town would receive the same proportion of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; funding and review. Creates a Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Fund and provides for the funding of Line of Duty claims. The bill also establishes an advisory review board to assist the Comptroller in the review of claims invo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB581 | 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] | 2014-01-21
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Action Act; duties of the Secretary of Commerce and Trade. Makes the necessary changes to the Community Action Act to reflect the transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development of the duties of the designated agency under t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; funding and review. Creates a Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Fund and provides for the funding of Line of Duty claims. The bill also establishes an advisory review board to assist the Comptroller in the review of claims invo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Incorporated by Finance |
| HB839 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); applicability to the Office of the Attorney General. Clarifies that for the purposes of FOIA applicable to access to public records, the Office of the Attorney General shall be considered a public body and,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Local paper and plastic bag tax. Authorizes localities in Planning District 8 by ordinance to impose a tax on disposable paper bags and disposable plastic bags. Revenues from the local tax would be collected by the Tax Commissioner and distributed mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Committee substitute printed to Web only 14104048D-S1 |
| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Task Force for Local Mandate Review. Reconstitutes the five-member task force appointed by the Governor to review state mandates as the nine-member Joint Task Force for Local Mandate Review, with the additional four appointments to be made...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Incorporated by Local Government |
| HB895 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; membership. Changes membership requirements for the Board of Medicine, replacing requirements for one medical physician from each congressional district and one osteopathic physician with a requirement for 12 allopathic or osteopat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting and procedures; secure return of voted military-overseas ballots. Requires the State Board of Elections to provide instructions, procedures, and services to enable uniformed-service voters outside of the United States to return voted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB528 | Intro
Sine Die | "Revenue-sharing" highway funds. Provides for use of so-called revenue-sharing highway funds for construction and maintenance of ditches and other drainage facilities and obtaining voluntary drainage easements or voluntary permission to enter private...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment applications; inquiries regarding criminal arrests, charges, or convictions; penalty. Prohibits state agencies and private employers from including on any employment application a question inquiring whether the prospective employee has eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Trade and commerce; misrepresentation of geographic location of florist business; penalty. Prohibits the misrepresentation of the geographical location of a florist business in the listing of the business in a telephone directory or other directory a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| HR87 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Ashby Page Entsminger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Introduced bill reprinted 14100754D |
| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $1,000 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 c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-20
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) |
| 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 |
