| HB1317 | Engross
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Provides that an adult who sexually abuses a child who is 13 or 14 years old where such act is accomplished against the will of the child by ruse is guilty of aggravated sexual battery, a felony punishable b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB602 | Engross
Sine Die | Petit larceny; prior convictions; penalty. Provides that, if it is alleged in the warrant, indictment, or information that a person had previously been convicted of larceny or any offense deemed to be or punished as larceny, robbery, or carjacking, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1070 | Engross
Sine Die | Toll violations; reciprocity agreements; enforcement. Allows the Commonwealth to enter into agreements with other states to provide for the enforcement of tolling violations occurring in Virginia on out-of-state residents and to enforce tolling viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Incorporated by Transportation |
| HB944 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; installation or use of landscape cover materials. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law, general or special, any ordinance in effect and any ordinance adopted by the governing body of the City of Harrisonb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 1-N) |
| HB724 | Engross
Sine Die | Quorum and action by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. Provides quorum and voting procedures for the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission that are analogous to those followed by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| HJR64 | Pass | Appointment; Chairman of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission. Confirms the appointment by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia of the Honorable Edward L. Hogshire as Chairman of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ64ER) |
| HB131 | Veto | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Required 66 affirmative votes to override the Governor's Veto |
| HJR210 | Pass | Election of a Supreme Court of Virginia Justice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ210ER) |
| HB102 | Engross
Sine Die | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB678 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; human trafficking training. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory training standards for law-enforcement personnel involved in criminal investigations or assigned to vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB498 | Pass | TPA-certified optometrists; prescription of certain Schedule II controlled substances. Provides that a TPA-certified optometrist who is authorized to prescribe controlled substances may issue prescriptions for or provide manufacturer's samples of ana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0086) |
| HB208 | Pass | Tributary plans. Repeals provisions that prescribe the content of tributary plans as part of the tributary strategies. Tributary strategies have been replaced by Watershed Implementation Plans (WIP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) |
| HB221 | Pass | Active duty health care providers at public or private health care facilities; provision of health care services in accordance with duties. Changes the requirement that active duty health care providers in active service in the army, navy, coast guar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074) |
| HB440 | Pass | Impaired waters clean-up plan; progress report; annual submission. Reduces from semiannual to annual the requirement in the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Waters Clean-Up and Oversight Act that the Secretary of Natural Resources submit a progress report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127) |
| HB637 | Pass | Medical malpractice actions; limitations period. Extends the two-year limitations period for personal injury actions in malpractice cases arising out of the negligent failure to diagnose an intracranial, intraspinal, or spinal schwannoma or to commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190) |
| HB330 | Pass | Registration of clinical nurse specialists. Provides that the Board of Nursing may register an applicant as a clinical nurse specialist if such applicant is an advanced practice registered nurse who (i) holds a valid license to practice professional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083) |
| HB527 | Pass | Registration of nonresident medical equipment suppliers. Requires any person located outside the Commonwealth other than a registered nonresident pharmacy that ships, mails, or delivers to a consumer in the Commonwealth any hypodermic syringes or nee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088) |
| HB504 | Pass | Renewal of certification as nurse aide. Changes the frequency with which certification as a nurse aide must be renewed from biennially to annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0087) |
| HB1062 | Pass | Management agreements. Corrects incorrect Code references relating to management agreements entered into by public institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152) |
| HB671 | Pass | Appointed counsel for parents or guardians. Requires court-appointed counsel for a parent or guardian of a child in cases of alleged abuse or neglect or termination of parental rights to be selected from the list of attorneys who qualify as guardians...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) |
| HB252 | Pass | Assistant speech-language pathologists; duties. Allows a person who has met the qualifications prescribed by the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (the Board) to practice as an assistant speech-language pathologist in accordance with r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0077) |
| HB507 | Pass | Exceptions to motor vehicle inspection requirement. Allows the purchaser of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer from an auto auction to operate such vehicle without a safety inspection from the auction to an official safety inspection station on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0128) |
| HB230 | Pass | Judicial creation of trusts. Clarifies that a circuit court may create and establish a trust upon petition of an interested party. The bill states that its provisions are declarative of existing law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186) |
| HB1077 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule I. Adds certain chemical substances to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances to Schedule I in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0103) |
| HB802 | Pass | Veterinary technicians; supervision; reporting of animal cruelty. Clarifies the licensing requirements for a veterinarian in charge of a licensed veterinary technician by specifying that the supervising veterinarian shall be licensed in the Commonwea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0100) |
| HB51 | Pass | Purchase of weapons other than handguns by certain officers. Allows officers of certain agencies to purchase, at a fair market price and with approval of the agency head, weapons other than handguns that are issued for personal use of an officer so l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) |
| HB514 | Pass | Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund; wild fish and shellfish. Clarifies that commercially harvested wild fish and commercially harvested wild shellfish are included within the definition of "agricultural products." The Gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0169) |
| HB1275 | Pass | Copies of statements in support of arrest warrants. Provides that if an officer authorized to issue criminal warrants does not issue an arrest warrant in response to a written complaint, the written statement shall be returned to the complainant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204) |
| HB114 | Pass | Warning notice at agritourism location. Provides the operators of agritourism locations with the option of using the terms "WARNING" or "ATTENTION" on signage or contracts that indicate the operator's immunity from liability in the case of injury or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166) |
| HB624 | Pass | Retention of court records; violent felonies and acts of violence. Requires that the circuit court case files involving a conviction on crimes that are considered to be violent felonies or acts of violence be retained for 50 years or until the senten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0180) |
| HB1056 | Pass | Family abuse protective orders; extensions. Corrects a reference to a member of the respondent's family or household to be consistent with the defined term "family or household member," relating to petitioners in proceedings for extensions of protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0102) |
| HB116 | Pass | Reappointment of jury commissioners. Provides that jury commissioners are eligible for reappointment. Current law prohibits reappointment of a jury commissioner for at least three years after the expiration of the one-year term to which he was appoin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177) |
| HB657 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; indicators of misuse; disclosure of information. Directs the Director of the Department of Health Professions to develop, in consultation with an advisory panel that shall include representatives of the Boards of Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098) |
| HB343 | Pass | Nursing homes; reimbursement of unexpended patient funds. Requires the Board of Health to include in its regulations a provision requiring nursing homes to provide a full refund of any unexpended patient funds on deposit with the facility following t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085) |
| HB262 | Pass | Allowing the sale of wildlife products. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to adopt regulations that allow a licensed hunter or trapper to manufacture and sell products made from wildlife that he has legally harvested, except when the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121) |
| HB608 | Pass | Immediate sanction probation programs; extension. Extends the sunset provision on the establishment of immediate sanction probation programs, which provides for expedited proceedings for probation violations for certain nonviolent offenders, from Jul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201) |
| HB1211 | Pass | Animal control officers; training. Requires animal control officers hired on or after July 1, 2017, to complete a basic animal control course within one year after the date of hire, or within two years of the date of hire if the officer is attending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0172) |
| HB115 | Pass | Diversion of agriculture commodity funds. Removes the authority of the General Assembly to disburse the unexpended balances in the special agriculture commodity funds for purposes other than each fund's intended purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0167) |
| HB770 | Engross
Sine Die | Conditional zoning. Provides that no locality shall (i) request or accept any unreasonable proffer in connection with a rezoning or a proffer condition amendment as a condition of approval of a new residential development or new residential use or (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Stricken from docket by Local Government (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB231 | Pass | Augmented estate; elective share of surviving spouse. Revises provisions of the Code related to the elective share of the surviving spouse of a decedent dying on or after January 1, 2017, to track revisions made to the Uniform Probate Code by the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187) |
| HB117 | Pass | Permits for excessive size. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue permits for vehicles transporting boats or other watercraft that exceed an outside width of 102 inches but do not exceed an outside width of 108 inch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| HB353 | Pass | Local school boards; transportation agreements with nonpublic schools. Authorizes local school boards to enter into agreements with nonpublic schools to provide student transportation to and from school field trips. Current law authorizes such agreem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0145) |
| HB357 | Pass | Public schools; physical activity requirement. Requires at least 20 minutes of physical activity per day or an average of 100 minutes per week during the regular school year for students in grades kindergarten through five. This requirement becomes e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| HB580 | Pass | Nurses; definitions. Adds definitions of "advanced practice registered nurse," "certified nurse midwife," and "certified registered nurse anesthetist" as they apply to the licensing chapters of the Code of Virginia for the Boards of Medicine and Nurs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093) |
| HB387 | Pass | Secure Commonwealth Panel; membership; reporting. Adds the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs to the Secure Commonwealth Panel and changes from quarterly to annual the Panel's report to the Governor concerning the state's emergency preparednes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200) |
| HB583 | Pass | Certification of peer providers. Authorizes the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to certify individuals as peer providers in accordance with regulations adopted by the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0094) |
| HB137 | Pass | Killing feral hogs. Allows employees of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and federal agencies having responsibility for fisheries and wildlife management to hunt or kill, from aircraft and with the permission of the landowner, feral hogs i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116) |
| HB564 | Pass | Optometrists; continuing education requirements. Increases the total number of hours of continuing education required for optometrists from 16 to 20, requires that at least 10 of such hours be obtained through real-time interactive activities, and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| HB557 | Pass | School efficiency reviews; scope and costs. Eliminates the 25 percent match required of local school divisions that request an efficiency review from the Department of Planning and Budget. This provision was in conflict with the current appropriation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) |
| HB267 | Pass | Length of vehicle combinations. Clarifies that the provision limiting vehicles coupled with another vehicle to a maximum combined length of 65 feet applies to motor homes and buses. The bill is declarative of existing law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122) |
