| HB518 | Veto | Local school boards; public school choice. Requires, notwithstanding any agreement, waiver from the federal government, or provision of law to the contrary, the Board of Education, effective starting with the 2017-2018 school year, to select 12 schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Passed by for the day - Governor's veto sustained |
| HB29 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 665 of the 2015 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HJR123 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); real property tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may provide for a local option to exempt from taxation the real property that is the primary residence of the surviving spouse of any law-en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| HJR2 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization are denied the right to w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB1068 | Pass | Advanced Shipbuilding Production Facility Grant Program. Establishes a grant program for capital or lease cost of a new facility related to the production of a class of nuclear warships for the United States Navy not previously built in Virginia. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| HB1213 | Pass | Minors; education records; evidence. Provides that in any proceeding where a juvenile is alleged to have committed a delinquent act that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult on school property, property solely being used for a school-relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1255 | Pass | BVU Authority; Board powers, officers; broadband; FOIA. Reduces from nine to seven the number of directors on the Board of Directors (the Board) of the BVU Authority (the Authority) and alters the methods of their appointment and their powers and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| HB700 | Pass | Claims; Michael Kenneth McAlister. Provides relief in the amount of $1,268,694 to Michael Kenneth McAlister, who was incarcerated from 1986 until 2015 after being convicted of crimes of attempted rape and abduction with intent to defile. Another susp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| HB206 | Pass | Transfer of certain firearms; identification requirement. Allows Virginia residents to purchase a firearm by presenting only one photo-identification form issued by a governmental agency of the Commonwealth or by the U.S. Department of Defense that d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB220 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public access to resumes and other information related to gubernatorial appointees. Provides that the personnel, working papers, and correspondence record exemption shall not be construed to authorize the withhold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB1063 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $40,987,000 plus financing costs for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB766 | Veto | Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1189 | Pass | Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; child abuse and neglect; penalty. Provides that operating or engaging in the conduct of a child welfare agency without first obtaining a license when it is known that such license is required or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| HB605 | Pass | Restitution; revocation of probation or suspended sentence. Provides that a court may conduct a hearing to revoke a person's probation or suspended sentence within three years after the expiration of the period of probation or suspension if the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| HB879 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery and limited brewery licenses; land zoned agricultural. Clarifies that, for farm wineries and limited breweries, "land zoned agricultural" means land zoned as (i) an agricultural district or classification or (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| HB454 | Pass | Motor vehicles equipped with television and video. Provides that motor vehicles may be equipped with visual displays of moving images if the equipment is factory-installed and has an interlock device that disables the equipment when the motor vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| HB168 | Pass | Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons; rebutting presumption. Provides that a locality that has authorized by ordinance the installation and operation of a video-monitoring system on school buses for recording violations of unlawfully pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| HB775 | Pass | Fantasy Contests Act; registration required; conditions of registration; civil penalty. Creates the Fantasy Contests Act (the Act), which applies to fantasy contests with an entry fee offered in Virginia. The bill defines "fantasy contest" as any onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| HB98 | Pass | Special license plates for immediate family members of persons who have died in military service to their country. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to immediate family members of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB939 | Pass | State Police; guidelines for approval of auxiliary lighting on motorcycles. Directs the Superintendent of State Police to establish guidelines by January 1, 2017, that set forth a procedure for the submission and approval of auxiliary lights for moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB1383 | Pass | Commissioner of Highways; annual report to be made public. Requires the Commissioner of Highways to make his annual report public on the Department of Transportation's website. Currently such report is only provided to the Governor, the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| HB730 | Pass | Commuter parking lot signage. Requires that signage in commuter parking lots owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation in Planning District 8 clearly indicate that parking in such lots is only for commuters using mass transit or who are car ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| HB715 | Pass | HOV designation on Interstate 66. Adds to the criteria on which the Commonwealth Transportation Board must base its decision to change the HOV-2 designation to a more restrictive designation on Interstate 66 whether such change in designation has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| HB213 | Pass | Exceptions to motor vehicle inspection requirement. Exempts from the motor vehicle safety inspection requirement vehicles that are parked on a public highway and have been submitted for inspection to an official inspection station. The bill contains ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| HB859 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; beer-making equipment. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for machinery, tools, equipment, and materials used by a licensed brewer in the production of beer and materials such as labels and boxes for future use in pac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| HB407 | Pass | Designation of HOV lanes. Prohibits HOV-2 lanes of Interstate 66 from being converted to HOV-3 lanes or a more restrictive designation. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2017, and an expiration date of January 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| HB886 | Pass | Stalking; penalty. Provides that a second offense of stalking committed within five years of a prior stalking conviction is punishable as a Class 6 felony. Under current law, a second offense of stalking only qualifies for the Class 6 penalty if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| HB1160 | Pass | Physical evidence recovery kits. Establishes a comprehensive procedure for the collection and analysis of physical evidence recovery kits for victims of sexual assault, including those who elect at the time of the exam not to report a sexual assault ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| HB810 | Pass | Transfer of assault weapon; proof of citizenship. Makes consistent the type of identification and other documentation that a purchaser of a firearm must present when purchasing any type of firearm from a licensed dealer by removing the additional req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| HB525 | Pass | Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; review of standardized testing in public high schools in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee to review and, no later than November 1, 2016, make recommendations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB1330 | Pass | Private police departments; successors in interest. Allows a successor in interest of an entity authorized by statute or an act of assembly to establish and operate a private police department to establish and operate a private police department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| HB46 | Pass | Secretary of Education; establishment of School Readiness Committee. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a School Readiness Committee with the first goal of addressing the development and alignment of an effective professional development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| HB1331 | Pass | Income tax withholding. Codifies provisions in the current general appropriation act that (i) require all employers to electronically file withholding tax returns and (ii) require the annual withholding tax return and employee withholding statements ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB467 | Pass | Limited standing to seek injunctive relief against manufacturing companies. Provides that no action shall be initiated or maintained to enjoin the continued use and operation of a previously existing manufacturing company solely on the basis of a cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB526 | Pass | Living shorelines; tax exemption. Provides that any living shoreline project approved by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission or the applicable local wetlands board and not prohibited by local ordinance shall qualify for full exemption from local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| HB332 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit; judges exempt. Provides that a judge or justice of the Commonwealth may carry a concealed handgun throughout the Commonwealth without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| HB64 | Pass | Transmission of case papers to appellate court; acceptability of electronic case papers. Provides that, upon agreement of the general district court and the appellate court, case papers shall be transmitted electronically to the appellate court by an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| HB643 | Pass | Department of Taxation; limitations on collecting taxes. Provides that the Department of Taxation shall cease efforts to collect a tax seven years after assessment of the tax. The bill applies only to tax assessments made on or after July 1, 2016, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| HB1312 | Pass | Special license plates; MEG'S MILES. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of the safety of runners bearing the legend MEG'S MILES.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| HB523 | Pass | Higher education; student mental health policies. Specifies that the contact person designated by a memorandum of understanding between a public four-year institution of higher education and a mental health care provider to be notified when a student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| HB1273 | Pass | Regulation of X-ray machines. Clarifies the authority of the Department of Health (the Department) related to registration and inspection of X-ray producing devices and requires the Department to develop a list of qualified private inspectors of X-ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| HB665 | Pass | Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform established. Creates the Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform (the Commission) in the legislative branch to study and make recommendations relating to the financia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| HB1150 | Pass | Willful failure to pay wages; penalty. Clarifies that wages owed to more than one employee may be aggregated in determining whether an employer's willful failure to pay wages is a misdemeanor or a felony. Currently, an employer who willfully and with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| HB1207 | Pass | Family and Children's Trust Fund; exempt from taxation. Clarifies that the Family and Children's Trust Fund performs an essential governmental function and thus gifts, contributions, grants, devises, or bequests, whether personal or real property, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| HB451 | Pass | Commission on Economic Opportunity for Virginians in Aspiring and Diverse Communities; report. Establishes a 13-member legislative Commission on Economic Opportunity for Virginians in Aspiring and Diverse Communities (the Commission) to determine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| HB256 | Pass | Relief; Robert Scott. Provides relief in the amount of $26,367.50 to Robert Scott from the Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund (the Fund) because Mr. Scott did not meet the statutorily required time frame to submit his claim to the Fund. Mr. Scot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB1345 | Pass | Line of Duty Act. Revises the Line of Duty Act (the Act) by codifying revisions to the Act from the appropriation act and, among other changes, transferring overall administration of the Act to the Virginia Retirement System (VRS), transferring admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB420 | Pass | Auxiliary grants; regulations. Clarifies that regulations adopted by the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services shall establish auxiliary grant rates for adult foster care homes and licensed assisted living facilities, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB912 | Pass | Department of Transportation; installation of broadband conduit on public highways. Allows the Department of Transportation to permit broadband service providers to install conduit capable of housing fiber optic cable to provide broadband service on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB1052 | Pass | Virginia Defense Force; training duty. Clarifies the definition of training duty for the Virginia Defense Force. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
