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HB1272Intro

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Governor; removal of board members; public institutions of higher education. Provides that the Governor may remove any member of the board of any public institution of higher education or other educational institution in Virginia with or without caus...
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2014-03-08
Failed to pass in House
HB1273Intro

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Department of Historic Resources; Advisory Commission to Protect Cemeteries and Gravesites of Our Fellow Virginians Held in Bondage As Slaves; report. Provides for the Department of Historic Resources to administer a program to provide funds to memor...
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2014-03-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
SB30Intro

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Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2015, and the thirtieth day of June, 2016.
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2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee
SB29Intro

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Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 806, 2013 Acts of Assembly.
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2014-03-04
To House Appropriations Committee
HB98Intro

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Sex-selective abortions; penalty. Provides that a person who performs an abortion with knowledge that the abortion is sought solely and exclusively on account of the sex of the unborn child is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill also requires that t...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB94Intro

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Assistance and documentation required from localities. Provides that in any instance in which a person is seeking a business permit, a license, or an application for any similar local government approval from a locality, the locality shall provide do...
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2014-02-12
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB1018Intro

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Appellate proceedings; audio and audio-visual records; circuit court opinions; fees; access. Requires the appellate courts to produce audio or audio-visual recordings of oral arguments and to make such recordings available to the public without charg...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB953Intro

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Office of the Attorney General; mandatory employment of special counsel for the State Board of Elections under certain circumstances. Provides that whenever the Attorney General is entitled to have his name printed on the ballot in a general or speci...
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2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
HB347Intro

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Taxable income; deduction for payment of certain tolls. Allows a qualified taxpayer to deduct from his Virginia adjusted gross income an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount paid by the taxpayer for tolls in a qualified locality. A qualified loca...
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2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HB941Intro

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Operating a vehicle or vessel containing a false compartment; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to (i) own or operate a vehicle or vessel containing a false or secret compartment; (ii) install, create, build, or fabricate in ...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1066Intro

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Industry certification and state licensure examinations; substitution for Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Board of Education to authorize local school boards to select and substitute industry certification and state licensure examinat...
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2014-02-12
To House Education Committee
HB23Intro

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Warning lights on certain vehicles. Provides that members of fire departments, volunteer fire companies, or volunteer rescue squads, ambulance drivers employed by a privately owned ambulance service, and police chaplains who equip a vehicle with flas...
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2014-02-12
To House Transportation Committee
HB496Intro

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Assault and battery of campus police; penalty. Adds campus police officers to the list of persons for which an enhanced penalty applies if such person is victimized because of his position.
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB747Intro

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In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares a student 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 pri...
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2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
HB433Intro

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Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption. Phases out over a five-year period the state and local sales and use tax on food purchased for human consumption. Under current law, the local tax rate on food is 1% and the state tax rate on s...
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2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HB116Intro

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Traffic light photo-monitoring systems. Amends provisions related to photo-monitoring systems by providing that certain safety analyses, currently required prior to implementation, shall also be required prior to renewal of such a system. Other chang...
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2014-02-12
To House Transportation Committee
HB363Intro

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Electric utility regulation; approval of generation facilities. Requires the State Corporation Commission, in its consideration of an application for approval of an electrical generation facility, to consider environmental effects not expressly gover...
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2014-02-12
To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB385Intro

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Expungement of certain misdemeanors. Allows a person convicted of certain misdemeanors who has successfully completed all terms of probation to file a petition for expungement 10 years after the conviction if he has not been convicted of any other of...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1094Intro

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Uniform Statewide Building Code; enforcement on Indian tribal lands. Provides that the Department of General Services shall not be required to function as the building official for enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code on Indian tribal l...
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2014-02-12
To House General Laws Committee
HB365Intro

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Standards of Learning assessments; revisions. Requires that all revisions to any Standards of Learning assessment are finalized by December 31 of the school year prior to the school year in which the revised assessment is administered.
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2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
HB1250Intro

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Hunting on Sundays. Authorizes the Counties of Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William to adopt an ordinance that allows the hunting of wild animals on private lands on Sunday.
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2014-02-12
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
HB723Intro

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Sentence credits; drug-related felonies. Allows a maximum of seven and one-half sentence credits to be earned for each 30 days served on sentence for drug-related felonies. All other felony sentences will continue to earn sentence credits at a maximu...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB938Intro

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Persons liable to serve as jurors. Provides that, for purposes of determining whether a person is liable to serve as a juror, military personnel of the United States Marine Corps and Coast Guard are not considered residents of the Commonwealth merely...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1201Intro

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Elections; absentee voting; special annual applications for absentee ballots for certain voters. Adds physician assistants and nurse practitioners to the list of health providers who may sign the statement verifying a voter's eligibility to vote by a...
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2014-02-12
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB89Intro

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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...
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2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HB386Intro

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School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educati...
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2014-02-12
To House Education Committee
HB52Intro

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Workers' compensation insurance; use of experience rating; loss limitation for not-at-fault motor vehicle accidents. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to adopt regulations that establish standards for determining a loss limitation to be ...
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2014-02-12
To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB115Intro

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Enterprise Zone Grant Program; redesignation of certain joint enterprise zones. Removes the requirement that a locality contiguous to an existing multi-locality, joint enterprise zone must have lost at least 900 jobs in a 12-month period to be eligib...
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2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
HB1154Intro

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Expungement for misdemeanors deferred and dismissed. Provides that expungement of a criminal record is available to a petitioner whose misdemeanor charges are dismissed without adjudication of guilt following a deferral of proceedings and satisfactio...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1219Intro

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Unconstitutional acts and ultra vires enforcement by localities. Provides that any zoning ordinance of a locality that violates or unreasonably restricts the free exercise of rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution or the Constitution ...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1255Intro

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Access to electronic textbooks. Prohibits school boards from making electronic textbooks available for use by students in their residence or residences unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that by July 1, 2017, every student in the local s...
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2014-02-12
To House Education Committee
HB59Intro

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In-state tuition; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares a student 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 pri...
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2014-02-12
To House Education Committee
HB117Intro

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Paper and plastic bag tax. Imposes a tax of five cents ($0.05) beginning on July 1, 2015, on disposable paper bags and disposable plastic bags used by purchasers to carry tangible personal property purchased in grocery stores, convenience stores, or ...
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2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HB76Intro

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Provisional voting; attendance at meetings of the electoral board to determine the validity of provisional ballots. Permits the representative or legal counsel of a person whose provisional vote is being considered to attend the meeting of the electo...
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2014-02-12
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB95Intro

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Legal notices; advertisement by locality. Allows localities with a population of 50,000 or greater to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio, or television instead of a newspaper of general circulation.
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2014-02-12
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
HB51Intro

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Minimum speed limits. Prohibits driving at less than the posted maximum speed limit in the left-most lanes of Interstate Highways.
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2014-02-12
To House Transportation Committee
HB1091Intro

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Opportunity Educational Institution; supervision of schools. Increases the number of years, from four to five, that a school must fail to meet the requirements to be rated fully accredited before the supervision of such school is transferred to the O...
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2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
HB502Intro

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Employer quality child care program tax credit. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit beginning in 2014 for amounts paid or incurred by employers for the operating costs of quality child care programs used by the children of their...
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2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HB440Intro

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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. The bill also permits for the payme...
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2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HB1182Intro

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A-to-F school grading system; exemption for schools with alternative accreditation plans. Exempts from the A-to-F school grading system schools for which the Board of Education has approved an alternative accreditation plan to meet the graduation and...
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2014-02-12
To House Education Committee
HB61Intro

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Firearms; purchase and sale of rifles or shotguns; penalties. Prohibits the sale of any rifle, shotgun, or assault rifle by a federally licensed firearms dealer to any out-of-state resident. Under current law, out-of-state residents may purchase rifl...
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2014-02-12
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
HB330Intro

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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...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB912Intro

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Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW); Workforce Development Pilot Program. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a Workforce Development Pilot Program. The Program will allow participants to divide their employment r...
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2014-02-12
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
HB252Intro

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Misuse of public assets; penalty. Provides that any officer, agent, or employee of the Commonwealth or of any political subdivision who, without lawful authorization, uses or permits the use of public assets for private or personal purposes unrelated...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB238Intro

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Higher education; spending. Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education to ensure that all funds received from in-state undergraduate tuition are dedicated to the purpose of undergraduate edu...
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2014-02-12
To House Education Committee
HB1185Intro

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Health insurance; coverage for mental health services. Prohibits an insurer that provides coverage for inpatient and partial hospitalization mental health and substance abuse services for a family member of the insured or subscriber from denying cove...
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2014-02-12
To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB245Intro

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State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited contracts between the Governor and certain of his appointees. Prohibits a business or contractual relationship between the Governor and a Secretary or agency head appointed by the Gover...
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2014-02-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1156Intro

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Divisionwide ratios of students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions. Reduces the maximum class size and the ratio of students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions in kindergarten an...
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2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
HB239Intro

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Home school instruction tax credit. Creates an individual income tax credit beginning January 1, 2014, for amounts paid by a parent or legal guardian for his child for home instruction-related materials and services used in the home instruction. The ...
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2014-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HB852Intro

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State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; application of the Administrative Process Act. Provides that the State Executive Council in exercising certain powers and duties is subject to the Administrative Proce...
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2014-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
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