| SB678 | Pass | Real property tax; notice of assessments. Clarifies that the information required on the notice of assessment regarding assessments in the immediately prior two tax years refers to the immediately prior two tax years' final assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157) |
| SB966 | Pass | Temporary detention order; custody. Removes the requirement that a person subject to a temporary detention order remain in the custody of the community services board for the duration of the order. This requirement was in conflict with other Code sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121) |
| SB969 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exception to open meeting requirements. Clarifies that the gathering or attendance of two or more members of a public body (i) at any place or function where no part of the purpose of such gathering or atte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| SB793 | Pass | Towing vehicles with occupants. Prohibits tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators from knowingly towing a motor vehicle with occupants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| SB1443 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; sea-level rise. Provides that any locality included in the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission shall incorporate into the next scheduled and all subsequent reviews of its comprehensive plan strategies to combat projected re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186) |
| SB1046 | Pass | Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards, if they composed the membership of a multiple employer welfare arrangement on December 31, 2014, to form a benefits consortium fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) |
| SB749 | Pass | Charter; City of Portsmouth. Allows any member of the city council to be a candidate for the office of mayor without resigning his office. Currently, the charter requires such a council member to resign by a specific date and sets out a procedure for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| SB1050 | Pass | Military and emergency laws; obsolete provisions. Repeals provisions of Title 44 deemed obsolete by the Code Commission. Provisions related to the Naval Militia are repealed as no evidence of the existence of the Naval Militia in Virginia can be foun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| SB963 | Pass | Action for personal injury or wrongful death; appointment of administrator. Provides that when a fiduciary qualifies for the sole purpose of prosecuting or defending a personal injury or wrongful death action, the court in which the fiduciary qualifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130) |
| SB1058 | Pass | Chiropractic schools; student training and practice. Authorizes students enrolled in chiropractic schools to (i) participate in preceptorship programs that are a part of the training program of the chiropractic school or (ii) practice in clinics, hos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122) |
| SB836 | Pass | Riding on motorcycles. Allows a operator of a motorcycle to stand on the footpegs, for no longer than is necessary, when dictated by safety concerns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0218) |
| SB1320 | Pass | Public schools; accreditation ratings. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations establishing additional accreditation ratings that recognize the progress of schools that do not meet accreditation benchmarks but have significantly impr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150) |
| SB792 | Pass | Taking streets into secondary state highway system. Expands the number of streets eligible to be taken into the secondary state highway system by changing the definition of "street" from including streets that were opened to public use and used by mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179) |
| SB1109 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); open meeting exemptions; discussions relating to cybersecurity. Expands the open meeting exemption for the discussion of plans to protect public safety as it relates to terrorism and security of governmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) |
| SB900 | Pass | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Department of Education to make available to school divisions certain Standards of Learning assessments by December 1 of the school year in which such assessments are to be administered ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| SB1106 | Pass | Unclaimed cremains of veterans; eligible dependents; veterans service organizations. Authorizes a funeral director to notify a veterans service organization as an alternative to notifying the Department of Veterans Services (Department) when cremains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) |
| SB1245 | Pass | Affordable housing in the City of Charlottesville; income level. Amends Chapter 693 of the Acts of Assembly of 2008, as amended by Chapter 527 of the Acts of Assembly of 2013, which authorized the City of Charlottesville to require developers to eith...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225) |
| SB1376 | Pass | State park master plans; update schedule. Changes the requirement that the Department and Board of Conservation and Recreation review and update the master plan for each state park from once every five years to once every 10 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185) |
| SB1203 | Pass | Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan. Directs state agencies to remove the Little Creek watershed from inclusion in the James River Basin for purposes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0184) |
| SB782 | Pass | Use of seclusion and restraint in public schools; Board of Education regulations. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations on the use of seclusion and restraint in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0147) |
| SB790 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; boxing, martial arts, and professional wrestling events and participants. Provides for the regulation of amateur boxing and martial arts and professional wrestling by the Director of the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216) |
| SB1330 | Pass | Board for Rights of the Disabled and Board for the Rights of Virginians with Disabilities. Repeals an obsolete section of the Code of Virginia stating that whenever the terms "Board for Rights of the Disabled" and "Board for the Rights of Virginians ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123) |
| SB936 | Pass | Unclaimed firearms; donation to Department of Forensic Science. Permits localities, the Capitol Police, and the State Police to donate unclaimed firearms to the Department of Forensic Science. The bill also extends from 60 to 120 days the period for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| SB955 | Pass | Industrial hemp production and manufacturing. Allows the cultivation of industrial hemp by licensed growers as part of a university-managed research program. The bill defines industrial hemp as the plant Cannabis sativa with a concentration of THC no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0180) |
| SB947 | Pass | Foster care plan. Removes the provision requiring that the Department of Social Services create a separate section within a foster care plan that describes the reasons why a child cannot be returned home and the alternative chosen and allows such inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) |
| SB817 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure of information. Requires the Director of the Department of Health Professions to disclose information from the Prescription Monitoring Program relevant to a specific investigation, supervision, or monitorin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| SB956 | Pass | Overheight vehicles on the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel. Exempts from penalties applicable to overheight vehicles the driver of any vehicle exceeding the prescribed maximum height who is attempting to drive through the westbound tunnel of the Hampton ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| SB1217 | Pass | Private police departments. Defines "private police department" as any police department that employs private police officers operated by an entity authorized by statute or an act of assembly to establish a private police department. The bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224) |
| SB1311 | Pass | Notice required upon transfer of prisoner. Requires the sheriff, superintendent, or Department of Corrections to give notice to any victim of the offense for which a prisoner was incarcerated as soon as practicable following the transfer of such pris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0101) |
| SB1014 | Pass | Charter; City of Suffolk. Amends the charter of the City of Suffolk to clarify the roles of the circuit court in appointing members of the board of equalization and of the qualified voters of the city in electing the members of the school board. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085) |
| SB1366 | Pass | Coal mine safety. Eliminates the requirement that every miner receive copies of the mine rules and the Coal Mine Safety Act and requires that the surface mine foreman ensure that miners are aware of hazardous conditions and that the health and safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0103) |
| SB1024 | Pass | Apprenticeship-related instruction. Transfers from the State Board for Community Colleges to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry the duty to establish policies for apprentices governing the provision of apprenticeship-related instruction delivered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0086) |
| SB972 | Pass | Buggs Island Lake. Allows state agencies and local governments to refer to Buggs Island Lake as John H. Kerr Reservoir or Kerr Lake, notwithstanding a previously passed House Joint Resolution requiring them to use the name Buggs Island Lake.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0084) |
| SB1031 | Pass | Real property tax exemption; certain leasehold interests. Authorizes localities to exempt from real property tax the leasehold interest in property in which the lessor is exempt from real property tax and the lessee is entitled to federal rehabilitat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0087) |
| SB989 | Pass | Overweight permits; forest products. Establishes an overweight permit for hauling forest products and provides for the weight limits and the fee of $130 for the permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) |
| SB701 | Pass | 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 applies to individual inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076) |
| SB702 | Pass | Antique vehicle exhaust systems. Exempts an antique motor vehicle manufactured prior to 1950, provided that the engine is comparable to that designed as standard factory equipment for that particular vehicle and that the exhaust system in good workin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0077) |
| SB1115 | Pass | Seizure of food and dairy products; sampling. Allows but does not require the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to sample goods that have been seized because they are believed to violate the law; current law makes such sampling mandat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091) |
| SB1413 | Pass | Fees for testing and monitoring of land application of industrial wastes. Allows localities to adopt ordinances that provide for the testing and monitoring of the land application of solid or semisolid industrial wastes. The bill requires the State W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0104) |
| SB1219 | Pass | Tangible personal property tax relief; autocycles. Adds autocycles to those motor vehicles that qualify for tangible personal property tax relief. Beginning in 2016, certain localities would be required to apply tangible personal property tax relief ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0096) |
| SB1043 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $67,500,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill has an emergency clause and is effective upon passage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| SB759 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax. Adds the County of Isle of Wight to the list of counties authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax of up to five percent, with any excess over two percent to be designated and spent solely for tourism purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0078) |
| SB1258 | Pass | Department of Corrections; interstate transportation of prisoners. Authorizes corrections personnel of other states and the United States to retain jurisdiction over any prisoner they transport within the Commonwealth. The bill also authorizes staff ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099) |
| SB685 | Pass | United States Postal Service; inspectors. Removes the word "Inspection" from references to the United States Postal Inspection Service in several criminal procedure sections. The United States Postal Service restructured its law-enforcement agencies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0075) |
| SB1218 | Pass | Motor vehicle emissions inspection program; autocycles. Exempts autocycles that have not been emissions certified with an on-board diagnostic system by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from the motor vehicle emissions inspection program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095) |
| SB933 | Pass | Individual income tax subtraction; discharge of student loan. Establishes beginning January 1, 2015, an individual income tax subtraction for income attributable to the discharge of a student loan solely by reason of the student's death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0082) |
| SB918 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration verification. Provides that the Department of Corrections or other supervisory personnel may cause to be physically verified by the Department of State Police the registration information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0081) |
| SB1240 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax. Adds Bland County and Russell County to the list of counties authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax of up to five percent, with any excess over two percent to be designated solely for tourism purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098) |
| SB1238 | Pass | Department of Emergency Management; electromagnetic pulses and geomagnetic disturbances. Requires the Department of Emergency Management, in carrying out its duties related to disaster preparedness planning and response, to specifically plan for disa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0097) |
| SB1099 | Pass | Virginia Solar Energy Development Authority. Creates the Virginia Solar Energy Development Authority to facilitate, coordinate, and support the development of the solar energy industry and solar-powered electric energy facilities in the Commonwealth....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090) |
