| 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 |
| HB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; publication of street address for return of absentee ballots. Requires the instructions for completing and returning absentee ballots and applications for absentee ballots to include a street address for the offices of the general re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1142 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; firearms safety courses. Clarifies that in order to serve as proof of demonstrated competence with a handgun for purposes of obtaining a concealed handgun permit, a firearms safety or training course must utilize firearms i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; costs of primaries; reimbursement to localities. Provides that each county and city conducting a primary election at the direction of the Commonwealth shall be reimbursed in full for the costs of the primary election by the proper politica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Planned Parenthood; funding. Prohibits provision of state funds to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or any subsidiary thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Opportunity Educational Institution; funding. Requires the transfer of per pupil funding from the local school division of residence to the Opportunity Educational Institution for each student enrolled in a school under the supervision of the Opportu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1021 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; military retirement pay subtraction. Establishes an individual income tax subtraction for annual retirement compensation received for service as a member of the armed forces of the United States or the Virginia National Guard. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Birth control; definition. Adds a definition of birth control. "Birth control" means contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Birth control shall not be considered abortion for the purposes of Title 18.2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB498 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Learning assessments and alternative assessment tools. Requires the Standards of Learning assessments administered to students (i) in grade three to be limited to English and mathematics, (ii) in grade four to be limited to English, math...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Places limitations and conditions on funding by the Authority of mass transit and highway projects to ensure comparative analysis of project costs and benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Weight limits of coal trucks. Provides that if the load of a coal truck does not rise above the top of the bed or the line painted to indicate the maximum permissible height of the load, there is an irrebuttable presumption, rather than prima facie e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end credit agreements. Allows only a seller of goods to extend credit under an open-end credit agreement at such interest rates as the seller and borrower agree, provided a finance charge is not imposed if payment in full of the unpaid balance i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Students admitted to certain children's residential facilities. Requires each student admitted under a physician's order, due to medical necessity and not solely for school purposes, to a children's residential facility licensed by the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles. Repeals the $64 annual license tax on hybrid electric motor vehicles that was first imposed beginning July 1, 2013. The bill also provides for refunds of the license tax paid on hybrid electric mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | School buildings; National Register of Historic Places and Virginia Landmarks Register. Requires each local school board to maintain an inventory of all school buildings over 50 years old and determine, in consultation with the Department of Historic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; vote-by-mail system for elections; pilot program. Requires the State Board of Elections to develop a pilot program for a vote-by-mail system for elections. Localities may opt into the pilot program for one or more elections. The local elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of historically underutilized business zones (HUB zones). Requires the Department of General Services and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to develop procurement regulations for the utilizati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB714 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewal of concealed handgun permit; no fees required. Provides that a person who has previously been issued a concealed handgun permit does not have to pay any fees to renew such permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB940 | Intro
Sine Die | Adultery; civil penalty. Reduces the penalty for adultery from a Class 4 misdemeanor to a civil penalty of not more than $250.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | General district courts; days of operation. Provides that the clerk's office of every district court shall be kept open for the transaction of business on every day except Saturday, Sunday, and the statewide legal holidays designated in the Code of V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Judgment rate of interest, cap. Provides that the interest rate on a money judgment entered on or after July 1, 2014, in an action arising from a contract shall be the rate provided by the contract until the judgment date and six percent thereafter. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Livable Home Tax Credit. Increases the total amount of tax credits granted for the Livable Home Tax Credit program in any fiscal year from $1 million to $2 million and increases the total amount of tax credits made available through the program alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-11
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (17-Y 0-N) |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; permitted interest. Repeals provisions of the Payday Loan Act that authorize lenders to charge a loan fee or verification fee, thereby limiting permissible charges on payday loans to simple interest at a maximum annual rate of 36 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; limitation on collection and use of personal information by law enforcement. Limits the ability of law-enforcement and regulatory agencies to use technology to collect and maintain personal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting coyotes on Sunday. Makes it lawful to hunt or kill coyotes on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
Stricken from Senate calendar (39-Y 1-N) |
| SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Method of execution. Provides that if the Director of the Department of Corrections certifies that lethal injection is not available as a method of execution, electrocution shall be used instead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; permitted interest. Repeals provisions of the Payday Loan Act that authorize lenders to charge a loan fee or verification fee, thereby limiting permissible charges on payday loans to simple interest at a maximum annual rate of 36 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; testimony under oath before committee or subcommittee. Authorizes the chairman or at least one-third of the total membership of a committee or subcommittee to request any person addressing the committee or subcommittee to take an oa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited conduct by legislators; retaliation. Prohibits a member of the General Assembly from using his public position to retaliate or threaten retaliation against any person for expressing views on matters of public concern or for exercising any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| HB1118 | 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] | 2014-02-07
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
