| HB616 | Pass | Discharge from involuntary admission; advance directive. Requires that, prior to the release from involuntary admission or discharge from involuntary admission to mandatory outpatient treatment of an individual who has not executed an advance directi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| HB388 | Pass | Uninsured motor vehicle fee payment plan. Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish an uninsured motor vehicle fee payment plan to allow individuals to pay the $500 uninsured motor vehicle fee through an installment plan with the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB817 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); record exclusions; rule of redaction; no weight accorded to public body's determination. Reverses the holding of the Virginia Supreme Court in the case of Department of Corrections v. Surovell, by setting o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| HB883 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; telecommunications towers. Provides that a proposed telecommunications tower, and certain other facilities, shall be deemed to be substantially in accord with the comprehensive plan and planning commission approval shall not be re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| HB1111 | Pass | Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission. Allows an elected official of any of the four counties embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission (the Commission) who serves on the county's governing body and has b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| HB823 | Pass | Governmental agencies contracting for items listed on commercial activities list. Provides that any state governmental agency that purchases goods or services from another governmental agency, including those found on the commercial activities list, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| HB681 | Pass | Trafficking in persons; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action against individuals who engage in (i) abduction of any person for the purpose of prostitution, any child under 16 years of age for concubinage, or any minor for the purpose of manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| HB1377 | Pass | School boards; assignment of teachers; class size limits. Provides that, after September 30 of any school year, anytime the number of students in a class exceeds the statutorily prescribed class size limit, the local school division shall notify the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| HB279 | Pass | Career and technical education; three-year licenses. Directs the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of three-year licenses to qualified individuals to teach high school career and technical education courses in specific subject areas for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| HB1103 | Pass | ABLE savings trust accounts; exclusion from determination of state means-tested assistance and benefits. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of state law that requires consideration of one or more financial circumstances of an individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| HB786 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; awards as a result of authorized enhancement or remedial measures. Requires any enhancement or remedial measure authorized by the Governor under subsection C of § 2.2-4310 for procurement by state agencies to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| HB600 | Pass | Child welfare mandates. Imposes certain mandates related to the protection and encouragement of children, including a requirement that certain information and options be given to a child in connection with foster care plans, the imposition of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| HB1245 | Pass | Judicial Retirement System; mandatory judicial retirement. Broadens the age 73 mandatory retirement provision to include all judges regardless of when elected by the General Assembly. The bill has a delayed effective date of June 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| HB646 | Pass | Commissioner and Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; reporting duties. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to submit an annual report to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB894 | Pass | Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; membership. Requires that the membership of the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee include at least one representative of a four-year public institution of higher education and at least one represen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| HB668 | Pass | Spousal support factors. Provides that a court shall consider the circumstances and factors that contributed to the dissolution of the marriage, specifically including any ground for divorce, in determining the nature, amount, and duration of a spous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| HB942 | Pass | School property; reasonable access by youth-oriented community organizations. Requires school boards to provide reasonable and appropriate access to school property to youth-oriented community organizations, such as the Boy Scouts of America and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB1149 | Pass | Expungement of police and court records; costs. Provides that any costs paid by a person who petitions for the expungement of police and court records related to a crime of which the person was acquitted or the charge of which was otherwise dismissed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB1359 | Pass | Transit Capital Project Revenue Advisory Board. Establishes the Transit Capital Project Revenue Advisory Board (the Advisory Board) within the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to examine the effects of the loss of state transit capital fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| HB326 | Pass | Obtaining electronic communication service or remote computing service records. Provides that any subpoena issued by a court or grand jury, search warrant, or court order directing a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| HB19 | Pass | Ministers or other persons authorized to celebrate rites of matrimony; no oath required. Provides that no oath shall be required of a minister or other person who seeks authorization to perform the rites of matrimony and that no such authorized minis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| HB476 | Pass | Submission of animal intake policy. Requires animal control officers, law-enforcement officers, humane investigators, animal shelters, humane societies, and releasing agencies to annually submit a copy of their intake policy to the State Veterinarian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| HB41 | Pass | Virginia byway designation. Designates portions of Virginia Route 72, Virginia Route 619, and U.S. Route 58 Alternate in the Counties of Scott and Wise and the City of Norton as the "Thomas Jefferson Scenic Byway Loop." Such designations are typicall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| HB1166 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchase procedures; transportation-related construction. Provides that a public body may establish small purchase procedures not requiring competitive sealed bids or competitive negotiation for single or term c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB842 | Pass | Teacher preparation and licensure; dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Requires Board of Education regulations governing teacher licensure to require every person seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license to complete awareness training,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| HB373 | Pass | Confidentiality of information about victims of certain crimes. Provides that, in order to ensure the safety of any adult or child victim of a violation of § 18.2-48, 18.2-355, 18.2-356, 18.2-357, or 18.2-357.1 and their families, programs and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| HB25 | Pass | Tampering, etc., with firefighting equipment; penalty. Provides that a person who injures, destroys, removes, tampers with, or otherwise interferes with the operation of (i) any firefighting equipment or apparatus or (ii) any emergency medical servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| HB1289 | Pass | Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired; contracts for operation of certain vending machines. Provides for the Department of General Services to conduct the procurement process for goods and services related to the operation of vending machines ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB148 | Pass | Real property tax assessment; date to fix tax rate. Changes from April 15 to May 15 the date by which a county, city, or town is required to fix the real property tax rate for taxes due on or before June 30.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| HB711 | Pass | Protective orders in cases of family abuse; possession of premises. Provides that in a protective order in the case of family abuse, a person who is not a tenant or authorized occupant of the dwelling unit and who has obtained a protective order from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| HB1237 | Pass | Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; powers. Authorizes the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority (RMTA) to construct, own, and operate coliseums and arenas, including facilities reasonably related to such coliseums and arenas, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| HB209 | Pass | Revision of Title 23, Educational Institutions. Creates proposed Title 23.1 (Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions) as a revision of existing Title 23 (Educational Institutions). Proposed Title 23.1 consists of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| HB339 | Pass | Recordation tax; exemption. Provides an exemption from the grantor's tax if the grantor is a locality at a judicial sale of tax-delinquent property. The bill also provides an exemption from recordation tax for any deed of trust that secures a loan ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB240 | Pass | Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs; assistance to homeless veterans. Requires the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs to coordinate with federal, state, local, and private partners to assist homeless veterans in obtaining a state-issued ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB884 | Pass | Research and development expenses tax credits. Modifies the existing research and development expenses tax credit and creates a similar tax credit for businesses with Virginia research and development expenses in excess of $5 million for the taxable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| HB543 | Pass | Involuntary psychiatric admission from local correctional facility. Clarifies that for the purposes of petitioning for the involuntary psychiatric treatment of an inmate in a local correctional facility, the petition shall be filed by the sheriff or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| HB177 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act; penalty. Adds to the offenses for which registration is required on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry the crimes of (i) procuring a person for prostitution and receiving money fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| HB1012 | Pass | Virginia College Building Authority; projects; participating institutions. Permits any organization that is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is owned or controlled by a public inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| HB760 | Pass | Auditor of Public Accounts; Commonwealth Data Point. Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts (the Auditor) to incorporate in the Commonwealth Data Point the following enhancements: (i) graphs, charts, or other visual displays of aggregated data showi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB1279 | Pass | Public schools; fire drills; lock-down drills. Requires every public school to hold a fire drill at least twice during the first 20 school days of each school session and at least two additional fire drills during the remainder of the school session....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| HB1318 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); noncriminal incidents and reports. Clarifies that the FOIA exclusion for noncriminal incidents and reports applies to any public body that engages in criminal law-enforcement activities and does not rely on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| HB1013 | Pass | Threat assessment teams; local school boards. Excludes from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act any records received by the Department of Criminal Justice Services pursuant to the operation of or for the purposes of evaluating threat assessment t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554) |
| HB1020 | Pass | Unclaimed property; payment of property of deceased owner. Provides a means for the State Treasurer to pay unclaimed property of a deceased owner to a claimant who provides certain evidence of his entitlement to payment, including (i) a certificate o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| HB1288 | Pass | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of employment services organizations; public procurement. Provides that for solicitations under the Virginia Public Procurement Act, each public body shall include, in addition to sma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| HB536 | Pass | Sponsored residential and shared living services; background checks. Establishes a requirement for a national fingerprint-based background check for providers of sponsored residential and shared living services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| HB535 | Pass | Limited liability for beekeepers. Provides that a beekeeper shall not be liable for any personal injury or property damage that occurs in connection with his keeping and maintaining of bees, bee equipment, queen breeding equipment, apiaries, or appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564) |
| HB227 | Pass | Hearsay; exception; children; certain felonies. Establishes a hearsay exception to certain out-of-court statements made by a child under the age of 13 at the time of trial in cases involving a violation or attempted violation of an "offense against c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| HB920 | Pass | Barrier crimes. Adds conviction or a finding that a person is not guilty by reason of insanity of any offense that results in the offender's requirement to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry to the list of crimes that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| HB1110 | Pass | Temporary detention; notice of recommendation; communication with magistrate. Provides that the magistrate conducting a temporary detention hearing shall consider, if available, information provided by the person who initiated emergency custody. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569) |
| HB610 | Pass | Violations of protective orders; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to stalk a party protected by a protective order or to commit an assault and battery upon a party protected by a protective order if such assault and battery results in bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
