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SB47PassSouthern States Energy Board. Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the Senate Committee on Rules to each appoint three legislative members, of whom two members shall be alternate members. Alternate legislative members must possess the same qualifi...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)
SB391PassCommittee on Training within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Increases the membership of the Committee on Training within the Department of Criminal Justice Services from 14 to 15 by the addition of the Director of the Department of Juve...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535)
HB733PassParking in front of mailboxes. Allows localities by ordinance to prohibit vehicle parking that blocks access to mailboxes.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505)
SB241PassTransfer of development rights. Provides that a locality may require that development comply with any prior locality-adopted neighborhood design standards identified in the comprehensive plan for the receiving area in which the development shall occu...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)
HB614PassLandlord and tenant law; energy submetering; local government fees. Provides that in lieu of increasing the rent, the owner, manager, or operator of a commercial or residential building or campground may employ a program that utilizes a mathematical ...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501)
HB507PassAlcoholic beverage control; annual banquet license for wine and beer. Expands the annual mixed beverage special events license to a duly organized private nonprofit corporation or association operating an art education and exhibition facility.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495)
SB328PassSurgical technologists and surgical assistants. Prohibits any person from using or assuming the title "registered surgical technologist" unless such person is registered with the Board of Medicine and prohibits any person from using or assuming the t...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531)
SB440PassCampus police and security departments; DCJS to conduct study to identify potential minimum core operational functions. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to conduct a study to identify potential minimum core operational functions f...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539)
SB346PassIncreasing various allowances and other amounts related to wills, trusts, and fiduciaries. Increases the amounts of various allowances, threshold amounts, and other dollar-based provisions in Title 64.2 (Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries) to account for...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532)
HB574PassTemporary detention; duration; mandatory outpatient treatment. Extends the period that a person may be held pursuant to a temporary detention order from 48 hours to 72 hours. The bill also provides that the community services board required to monito...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499)
SB600PassConcealed handgun permits; records. Provides that any references to the issuance of a concealed handgun permit in any order book before July 1, 2008, are exempt from the requirement that such orders be withheld from public disclosure. The bill also d...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549)
HB268PassAgricultural operations; local regulation of certain activities. Protects certain activities at agricultural operations from local regulation in the absence of substantial impacts on the public welfare and requires localities to take certain factors ...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494)
SB222PassSolar panels in community associations. Clarifies a community association's authority to prohibit or restrict the installation of solar power devices. The measure bars a community association from prohibiting a property owner from installing a solar ...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525)
SB366PassMultijurisdiction grand juries. Adds the cigarette trafficking offenses to the list of crimes that a multijurisdiction grand jury may investigate.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)
HB1075PassAudits of certain political subdivisions. Provides that no audit shall be required for certain political subdivisions, the members of whose governing body are not elected by popular vote, for any fiscal year during which such entity's financial trans...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509)
SB229PassInjunctions; objection to petition for review. Requires an aggrieved party that files a petition for review of the granting or denial of an injunction with the Virginia Supreme Court or Court of Appeals to serve a copy of the petition for review on t...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)
SB643PassElectric utilities; costs of offshore wind facilities. Limits the portion of all costs incurred by an electric utility between July 1, 2007, and December 31, 2013, in developing an offshore wind facility that are recoverable through a rate adjustment...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550)
SB347PassVirginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; contents of time-share owners' association annual report; cost. Details the contents of the annual report provided by the time-share owners' association to its members. In addition, the bill extends the time in wh...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533)
HB540PassLicensure of private behavioral health services providers. Clarifies provisions governing issuance of a provisional license to a private provider by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, providing that a provisional license ...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497)
HB190PassAthletic trainers; possession and administration of oxygen. Provides that prescribers may authorize licensed athletic trainers to possess and administer oxygen for use in emergency situations.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491)
SB98PassWater and sewer system; City of Richmond. Provides that the City of Richmond may develop criteria for financial assistance to customers for plumbing repairs and the replacement of water-inefficient appliances.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522)
HB588PassCemetery Board; powers and duties; special interments. Provides that, under certain conditions, a cemetery company may have a section in the cemetery devoted to the interment of human remains and the pets of such deceased humans or the interment of p...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500)
HB193PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; participation in meetings in event of emergency or personal matters. Removes the requirement that a public body approve by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting the remote participation in the meetin...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)
SB496PassSpecial police officers in localities. Repeals the provisions of the Code allowing a circuit court for any locality to appoint special police officers for such locality upon application of the sheriff or chief of police. Under current law, all appoin...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)
SB503PassNotaries; providing advice on immigration; advertising. Prohibits a notary public from offering or providing legal advice to any person in immigration or other legal matters or representing any person in immigration proceedings unless such notary pub...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544)
SB245PassQualification of administrator in action for wrongful death or personal injury. Clarifies that the appointment of a fiduciary in a foreign jurisdiction shall not preclude the fiduciary from qualifying as an administrator of an estate for the purpose ...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528)
HB538PassAutism Advisory Council; sunset extended. Extends the sunset date for the Autism Advisory Council from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496)
SB546PassVirginia Defense Force. Authorizes a locality to appropriate such sums of money and real and personal property as it may deem proper to the Virginia Defense Force, when that organization is maintained within the limits of the locality.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547)
SB417PassAuthority of local boards of social services to employ in-house counsel. Authorizes local boards of social services to employ in-house counsel to provide general legal advice and representation related to specific actions.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536)
SB116PassCorrecting errors in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; affidavit. Allows an attorney to record a corrective affidavit to correct an obvious description error contained in a recorded deed, deed of trust, or mortgage. Obvious description errors inc...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)
SB415PassAutism Advisory Council; sunset extended. Extends the sunset date for the Autism Advisory Council from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537)
HB210PassCity of Martinsville; city reversion. Provides that any reversion initiated by the Martinsville City Council shall require that each elected member of the city council vote, unless otherwise prohibited by law, on the motion to initiate the reversion ...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493)
SB585PassElectric utility regulation; recovery of costs of new underground distribution facilities. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to recover the costs of new underground distribution facilities through a rate adjustment clause. Eligible facilit...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548)
SB161PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; participation in meetings in event of emergency or personal matters. Removes the requirement that a public body approve by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting the remote participation in the meetin...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524)
HB1141PassAlcoholic beverage control; annual arts venue event license. Creates a new annual arts venue event license and sets out the privileges of this new license and the state and local license taxes. The bill defines an arts venue as a commercial or nonpro...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510)
HB628PassHospital authorities. Provides that counties shall have the same powers with regard to the existing hospital authority enabling statute as cities. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502)
HB1176PassHealth insurance; notice of increase in premium or deductible. Requires health insurers, including health maintenance organizations and corporations providing accident and sickness subscription contracts, to provide written notice of intent to increa...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511)
SB513PassHampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission created. Creates the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission, which is composed of the chief elected officers of the governing bodies of the 14 localities in Planning District 23, ...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545)
SB271PassCharges for additional services provided by a marriage celebrant. Allows a person other than a minister who is authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage to negotiate payment for any services in addition to the marriage ceremony that are agreed to...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529)
SB68PassReal estate with delinquent taxes. Changes, under certain circumstances, the criteria for transferring certain tax-delinquent real property to localities through a special commissioner in the Cities of Norfolk, Richmond, Hopewell, Newport News, Peter...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519)
SB94PassEvidence by affidavit in divorce proceedings; residency requirement. Provides that the affidavits submitted as evidence by a party in a no-fault divorce action and by a corroborating witness affirm that at least one party to the suit is, and has been...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)
HB1045PassBoard for Contractors; additional monetary penalty for certain violations. Provides that if the Board for Contractors finds any licensed contractor to be in violation of a statute or regulation involving fraudulent or improper or dishonest conduct as...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508)
SB456PassElections; voting equipment. Makes technical amendments to reflect updates in voting equipment technology. The bill also authorizes the State Board of Elections to conduct audits of ballot scanner machines; currently, these audits are conducted as pa...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540)
HB652PassBoundary adjustments; notice. Provides that all affected landowners shall be given notice of a proposed voluntary boundary adjustment. The bill authorizes landowners to file a petition to intervene in the action under certain circumstances.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503)
SB60PassJoint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Extends the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2018.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518)
SB82PassAlzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; sunset. Extends the sunset provision for the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2017.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520)
SB439PassTemporary detention; duration; mandatory outpatient treatment. Extends the period that a person may be held pursuant to a temporary detention order from 48 hours to 72 hours. The bill also provides that the community services board required to monito...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538)
SB537PassOffenses requiring registration; withdrawal of plea by certain defendants. Provides that prior to conviction for an offense requiring registration on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry due to the minority, physical helplessness, or m...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546)
SB673PassEntitlement to sales tax revenue; public facility. Allows the entitlement to sales tax revenue to begin quarterly with the first quarter in which revenue is generated in a building or structure within the public facility.
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551)
SB34PassBail hearings. Provides that motions relating to bail or conditions of release must be held as soon as practicable but not later than three calendar days following the making of the motion. The bill provides exceptions for weekends, legal holidays, a...
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2014-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515)
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