| HB1386 | Pass | Disaster relief assistance by out-of-state businesses and employees. Provides that out-of-state businesses and employees who come into the Commonwealth solely for the purpose of performing disaster-related or emergency-related work in response to a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| HB1886 | Pass | Public-Private Transportation Act; finding of public interest. Establishes the requirements for a finding of public interest and requires such a finding prior to an initiation of procurement. The bill also establishes the Transportation Public-Privat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| HB1754 | Pass | Children receiving home instruction; educational growth and progress; certain test scores. Permits any parent who elects to provide home instruction for his child to submit a score on the ACT, SAT, or PSAT test that is equivalent to the fourth stani...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB1486 | Pass | Workers' compensation; exclusivity of remedy. Provides that if the Workers' Compensation Commission or a court on appeal from the Commission makes a finding in an unappealed order based on an evidentiary hearing or a factual stipulation of the partie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB923 | Pass | Child support for disabled child over the age of 18 (Conner's Law). Provides that a court may order child support for any child over the age of 18 who is severely and permanently mentally or physically disabled if such disability existed prior to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| SB1092 | 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 (CHAP0645) |
| SB1368 | Pass | Limited liability companies; liability. Clarifies that the existing provision that insulates a member, manager, organizer, or other agent of a limited liability company (LLC) from any personal obligation for any liability of the LLC applies without r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| HB2237 | Pass | Electric utilities; costs of solar energy facilities. Authorizes an investor-owned electric utility that purchases a generation facility consisting of at least one megawatt of generating capacity using energy derived from sunlight and located in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| HB2209 | Pass | General partnerships; formation. Provides that each person to be admitted as a partner to a general partnership may be admitted as a partner and may receive a partnership interest therein without making, or being required to make, a contribution to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| HB1751 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; certain review by Joint Commission on Administrative Rules. Provides that in the event the economic impact analysis completed by the Department of Planning and Budget (the Department) reveals that a proposed regulation wou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| HB2383 | Pass | Child support for disabled child over the age of 18 (Conner's Law). Provides that a court may order child support for any child over the age of 18 who is severely and permanently mentally or physically disabled if such disability existed prior to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| HB2396 | Pass | Surety on a bond; discharge from liability; magistrates. Allows a bail bondsman or his licensed bail enforcement agent to request the issuance of a capias for the arrest of his principal from a magistrate, which capias may be executed by the bondsman...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| HB2176 | Pass | Virginia Stock Corporation Act and Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act. Updates terminology and addresses shortcomings in the Virginia Stock and Nonstock Corporation Acts. The measure (i) authorizes fiduciaries to sign a corporate annual report; (ii) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| HB1400 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 3, Special Session I, of the Acts of Assembly of 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| SB1067 | Pass | Petition for attachment. Removes judges from the list of persons before whom a petition for attachment shall be filed. The bill also adds magistrates to those who may receive payments for an attachment petition. This bill is a recommendation of the J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| HB2331 | Pass | Definition of fur-bearing animal. Includes the fisher in the definition of "fur-bearing animals" for the purposes of hunting and trapping provisions of the Code of Virginia. The fisher (Martes pennanti), a small carnivorous mammal native to North Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| HB2189 | Pass | Motor Vehicle Dealer Board; authority over recreational, trailer, and motorcycle dealers; penalties. Transfers the oversight of recreational vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle dealers from the Department of Motor Vehicles to the newly created Motor Veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| HB1676 | Pass | Dual enrollment; career and technical education. Permits each local school board to enter into agreements for postsecondary credential, certification, or license attainment with community colleges or other public institutions of higher education or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| SB813 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments. Makes technical amendments to the programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| SB1089 | Pass | Constitutional office; filling a vacancy. Clarifies that the highest ranking deputy officer or, in the case of the office of attorney for the Commonwealth, the highest ranking full-time assistant attorney for the Commonwealth shall step in to fill a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| SB1197 | Pass | Stillbirths; data collection; policies. Requires the Virginia Congenital Anomalies Reporting and Education System to collect data on stillbirths. The bill defines a stillbirth as an unintended, intrauterine fetal death occurring after a gestational p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| SB1336 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, and platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000. The provisions of the bill expire January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| HB1285 | Pass | Workers' compensation; definition of employee; property owners' associations. Amends the definition of employee within the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to exclude noncompensated employees, directors, and executive officers of any entity that co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| HB2104 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act records held by both Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the VCU Medical Center; discussion of same. Provides that the record and open meeting exemptions for VCU Medical Center shall also apply when the reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| SB865 | Pass | Administration of intestate estate; person convicted of fraud, misrepresentation, robbery, etc. Provides that the clerk of court shall require any person seeking to be granted the administration of an estate to sign under oath that he has not been co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| SB938 | Pass | Fire services and emergency medical services. Revises terminology relating to fire services and emergency medical services and reorganizes provisions governing fire services and emergency medical services. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| SB1354 | Pass | Uniformed services-connected students; identification. Requires the Department of Education to establish a process for the identification by local school divisions of newly enrolled students who have a parent in the uniformed services. Local school d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| SB1081 | Pass | Intentional tripping of equines prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the intentional roping of or interference with the legs of an equine in order to cause it to trip or fall for the purpose of engagement in a rodeo or other contest or entertainment. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB2080 | Pass | Condominium Act and Property Owners' Association Act; notice of sale under deed of trust. Clarifies that the required notice of a sale under a deed of trust applies to individual residential lots located in a development subject to the Property Owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| SB1187 | Pass | DNA analysis upon conviction of certain misdemeanors. The bill adds misdemeanor violations of §§ 16.1-253.2 (violation of a protective order), 18.2-60.3 (stalking), 18.2-60.4 (violation of a stalking protective order), 18.2-67.4:1 (infected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| SB779 | Pass | Psychiatric treatment of minors; duration of admission. Increases from 96 to 120 hours the length of time a minor 14 years of age or older who objects to admission for inpatient treatment or who is incapable of making an informed decision may be admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| HB2049 | Pass | Preliminary hearing; certification of ancillary misdemeanor offenses. Provides that if, pursuant to a preliminary hearing, a district court certifies felony offenses to be tried in a circuit court, the court shall also certify any ancillary misdemean...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| HB2329 | Pass | Protective orders; compensation for required representation of respondents. Provides for the compensation of counsel or a guardian ad litem for the required representation of a respondent in a proceeding for the issuance of a protective order under C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB1086 | Pass | Trial for false statement or representation on application for Medicaid payment; venue. Provides that the venue for the trial of any person charged with making a false statement or representation with regard to an application for Medicaid payment sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| HB1843 | Pass | Green job creation tax credit; sunset. Extends the green job creation tax credit for three years, through taxable year 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| HB1446 | Pass | Financing of clean energy programs; development of underwriting guidelines. Expands the requirements of a local ordinance authorizing contracts to provide loans for clean energy improvements. The bill adds water efficiency improvements to the list of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| SB1039 | Pass | Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center; name change. Changes the name of the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center to the Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center to reflect its mission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| SB1395 | Pass | Electric utilities; net energy metering. Increases, from 500 kilowatts to one megawatt, the maximum generating capacity of an electrical generating facility owned or operated by an electric utility's nonresidential customer that may be eligible for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| SB1002 | Pass | Local workforce investment boards; pay-for-performance incentives. Encourages local workforce investment boards to implement pay-for-performance contract strategy incentives for training services as an alternative model to traditional programs. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| SB999 | Pass | State recordation taxes and fees. Clarifies and makes substantive and technical changes to state recordation taxes and fees, including requiring that the recordation tax on any deed of trust that is supplemental to an existing deed of trust be calcul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB1500 | Pass | Safe reporting of overdoses. Establishes an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for (i) simple possession of a controlled substance, marijuana, or controlled paraphernalia; (ii) intoxication in public; or (iii) the unlawful purchase, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB1734 | Pass | Loans for creation of living shorelines. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to provide loans from the Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund to (i) a local government for the purpose of establishing living shorelines that protect or improve w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB2081 | Pass | Employers; disclosure of social media account information. Prohibits an employer from requiring a current or prospective employee to disclose the username and password to his social media account. The measure also prohibits an employer from requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| HB1959 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; required reports on intellectual property and externally sponsored research. Requires each public institution of higher education to include in its six-year plan the following for the most recently ended fisca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| SB892 | Pass | Safe reporting of overdoses. Establishes an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for (i) simple possession of a controlled substance, marijuana, or controlled paraphernalia; (ii) intoxication in public; or (iii) the unlawful purchase, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB2332 | Pass | Roadside safety devices; identification numbers. Requires that certain roadside safety devices installed on or after July 1, 2016, be stamped with identification numbers by the manufacturer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| SB1133 | Pass | Prohibited conduct by state and local government officers and employees; retaliation. Prohibits a state or local government officer or employee from using his public position to retaliate or threaten retaliation against any person for expressing view...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| SB1151 | Pass | State and local advisory team; membership. Expands membership of the state and local advisory team for the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families to include (i) one parent representative who is not an employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| HB2195 | Pass | Revocation of fishing privileges. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to revoke the privilege to fish in tidal waters of any person who has been convicted of unlawfully taking oysters or other shellfish from oyster grounds. Currently, such a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| SB1111 | Pass | Virginia Board for People with Disabilities; membership; powers and duties. Modifies membership eligibility and the duties of the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities and changes the name of the State Planning Council to the State Council on D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
