| HJR597 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may provide for a local option to exempt from taxation the primary residence of the surviving spouse of any law-enforcement officer, firefigh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| HB1364 | 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] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB2379 | Pass | Voter list maintenance; list comparison data. Requires the State Board of Elections to use the data received through list comparisons with other states to maintain the overall accuracy of the voter registration system by identifying duplicate registr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| HB1469 | Pass | Marriage certificates; names of parties. Provides that the parties to a marriage shall be able to designate themselves on the application for marriage license as spouse, bride, or groom. The bill also requires the clerk of court to retain one copy of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB1047 | Pass | Stormwater utility fee; waiver. Provides that where two adjoining localities subject to a revenue sharing agreement each hold a permit to discharge stormwater from a municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), a waiver of charges to a public entity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB1188 | Pass | Commercial sex trafficking; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking of persons for commercial sexual activity. The bill provides that any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause a person to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB1331 | Pass | Natural Gas Conservation and Ratemaking Efficiency Act; cost-effective programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether a natural gas conservation or energy efficiency program is cost-effective, to assign administrative c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| HB1675 | Pass | Graduation requirements; local alternative paths to standard units of credit. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, to permit local school divisions to waive the requirement for stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB1811 | Pass | Harvesting clams. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to issue permits for the possession and use of a handheld hydraulically operated device for harvesting cultured clams from leased grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| SB838 | Pass | State resident licenses; military dependents. Extends the entitlement to obtain a state resident license to hunt, trap, or fish to members of the immediate family of a member of the armed forces. Current law entitles members of the armed forces to ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| SB951 | Pass | Disposition of dead bodies. Clarifies the role of a person other than a decedent's next of kin, a person designated to make arrangements for the decedent's burial or the disposition of his remains, an agent named in an advance directive, or a court-a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| HB1738 | Pass | Hospices; notice of patient's death to dispenser. Requires every hospice licensed by the Department of Health or exempt from licensure pursuant to § 32.1-162.2 with a hospice patient residing at home at the time of death to notify every pharmacy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB1362 | Pass | State song. Designates "Our Great Virginia," lyrics by Mike Greenly and arranged by Jim Papoulis, as the official traditional state song and "Sweet Virginia Breeze," by Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett, as the official popular state song. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| HB1927 | Pass | Venue in criminal cases. Provides that if it cannot readily be determined where a crime was committed in the Commonwealth, venue for the prosecution of the crime may be had in any county or city (i) in which the defendant resides or (ii) in which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| SB1074 | Pass | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (the Registry) that would include information on persons w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| HB1307 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; student identification numbers. Prohibits the Department of Education (the Department) and each local school board from requiring any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school or receiving ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| HB2384 | Pass | Workers' compensation; electronic billing and payment. Requires the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission to establish, by January 1, 2016, a schedule for employers, employers' workers' compensation insurance carriers, and providers of workers' c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| SB888 | Pass | Electronic summons systems; fees; towns. Allows towns to assess a fee not to exceed $5, as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case in the district or circuit courts located where such cases are brought, to be used for the implementation an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB1434 | Pass | Disposition of dead bodies. Provides that in cases in which the identity of a decedent and the county or city in which the decedent resided at the time of death are known, the person or institution having initial custody of the dead body shall notify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| HB2357 | Pass | Insurance rates; policies transferred pursuant to agent book transfer. Clarifies that an insurer may cap the renewal rates for policies that have been transferred by an agent from one insurer to another insurer pursuant to an agent book transfer, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| HB1780 | Pass | Circuit court clerk responsibilities. Revises certain circuit court clerk responsibilities, including (i) permitting the posting of notices on the circuit court clerk's website; (ii) clarifying that, if a name change is granted to a convicted sex off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| HB1940 | Pass | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| SB1466 | Pass | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. Postpones the scheduled expiration of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB889 | Pass | Affordable housing. Adds the City of Fairfax to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| HB2177 | Pass | Certificate of public need. Amends the definition of "project" for which a certificate of public need is required to include capital expenditures of $15 million or more by or on behalf of a medical care facility other than a general hospital. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB1435 | Pass | Eminent domain; lost profits and just compensation. Requires that any and all liability for lost profits claimed in an action for compensation pursuant to a taking under eminent domain be set forth specifically in the award for just compensation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB1204 | Pass | Sale of secondhand building materials; exemptions. Exempts the donation of certain secondhand material from requirements otherwise applicable to transactions involving such materials, when the materials are donated by their owner or the owner's contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| HB1472 | Pass | State song. Designates "Our Great Virginia," lyrics by Mike Greenly and arranged by Jim Papoulis, as the official traditional state song and "Sweet Virginia Breeze," by Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett, as the official popular state song. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| SB1085 | Pass | Enforcement of liens; property value. Increases from $10,000 to $12,500 the maximum value of property that may be sold for cash at auction to satisfy a lien on a motor vehicle without petitioning for a court order for the sale of such property. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| HB2229 | Pass | Small estates; checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments. Provides that if the successor to a decedent receives certain small assets in the form of checks, drafts, or other negotiable instruments that are payable to the decedent's estate, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB1750 | Pass | Expanded access to investigational drugs, biological products, and devices. Provides that a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make such drug, product, or device available to a person who has a terminal conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB2204 | Pass | Line of Duty Act. Revises the Line of Duty Act (the Act) by codifying revisions to the Act in the appropriation act, transferring overall administration of the Act to the Virginia Retirement System (VRS), transferring administration of health insuran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB1784 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority; capital projects. Restricts expenditures by the Virginia Port Authority on capital projects, except certain specified projects, to those located on real property that is owned, leased, or operated by the Virginia Port Authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| HB1353 | Pass | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (Robby's Rule). Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (the Registry) that would include informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| SB1190 | Pass | Motor vehicle liability insurance; underinsured motorist claims; settlement procedures; subrogation. Establishes a procedure by which an injured person or personal representative may settle a claim with a liability insurer or insurers and the liabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| HB2385 | Pass | Possession, etc., of wireless telecommunications device by prisoner; penalty. Provides that a person who provides or causes to be provided a wireless telecommunications device to a prisoner or person committed to a juvenile correctional center, or a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| HB2048 | Pass | Payment of funds into circuit court. Provides that where judgment is taken in the circuit court, upon motion of a party for good cause shown, the court may enter an order directing the clerk to hold certain funds. The bill further provides that where...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB2276 | Pass | Standard diploma; career and technical education credential; exemption. Permits a student to receive satisfactory competency-based instruction to satisfy the standard diploma requirements in lieu of achieving a career and technical education credenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| HB1451 | Pass | Landlord and tenant laws. Provides that in cases of a change in use, the 120-day termination notice shall not be waived, except in the case of a tenancy from month to month, which may be terminated by the landlord by giving the tenant 30 days' writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| SB1316 | Pass | Circuit court clerks; electronic records, fees, etc. Makes various changes to the operations of circuit court clerks, including (i) allowing any agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth to submit records in electronic form; (ii) providing that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| HB1849 | Pass | Variances. Changes the standard by which a board of zoning appeals shall grant an application for a variance by eliminating or altering several of the requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| SB1127 | Pass | Tangible personal property; miscellaneous and incidental property. Declares miscellaneous and incidental property employed in a trade or business with an original cost of less than $250 as a separate classification of tangible personal property. A lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| HB1616 | Pass | Career and technical education; alignment with national certification requirements. Requires each sequence of courses constituting a career and technical education program to be aligned with national certification requirements, if any, unless such pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| HB2369 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; order of appointment. Provides that a judge may revoke an order of appointment for a special conservator of the peace for good cause shown and after the special conservator of the peace has been given notice and an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB1715 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; students exhibiting suicidal tendencies or behavior; notification of student health or counseling center. Requires each public institution of higher education's policies that advise students, faculty, and sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| SB1269 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; tasting events held by distiller licensee or manufacturer of distilled spirits. Allows a licensed distiller who is an agent of the ABC Board to provide samples of beer, wine, or cider manufactured on the licensed premises ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB1433 | Pass | General registrars; reassigning duties of the electoral board. Reassigns duties of the electoral board related to absentee voting and campaign finance to the general registrars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| HB1460 | Pass | Campaign finance reports; filing schedule. Ends the pre-election reporting period for certain campaign finance reports 12 days before the election and begins the special large contribution reporting period 11 days before the election. This change eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| SB1383 | Pass | Home instruction; religious exemption; information privacy. Prohibits a division superintendent or local school board from disclosing to the Department of Education or any other person or entity outside of the local school division information provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB1924 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee established. Establishes the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee (the Committee) to assist the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in developing, revising, and im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
