| HB367 | Pass | Nonconforming uses. Provides that if a use does not conform to the zoning prescribed for the district in which such use is situated, and if (i) a business license was issued by the locality for such use and (ii) the holder of such business license ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| HB381 | Pass | Children with disabilities; alternative methods to demonstrate achievement of the Standards of Learning. Requires the Board of Education to prescribe alternative methods of assessment administration for children with disabilities who meet criteria es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| HB434 | Pass | Licensure of private security services providers and personnel; waiver of prohibition for conviction of certain crimes. Requires that when the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services receives a written request from a person seeking to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| HB1053 | Pass | Investor-owned electric utilities; energy efficiency. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to evaluate the establishment of uniform protocols for measuring, verifying, validating, and reporting the impacts of energy efficiency measures impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| HB924 | Pass | Electronic communications; admissibility of written reports or records. Allows the provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service to verify the authenticity of written reports or records that it discloses by providing an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB1127 | Pass | Forest fire protection compacts; codification. Codifies the text of the Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact (the SIFFPC) and the Middle Atlantic Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact, originally incorporated into the Code of Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| HB1263 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business Loan Fund. Clarifies that the Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business Loan Fund (the Fund) is a permanent revolving loan fund and that moneys collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| HB1016 | Pass | Sexual assault response teams; participants; FOIA exclusion. Adds the Title IX coordinator; representatives from the office of student affairs, human resources, and counseling services; and a representative of campus security of any institution of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| HB1094 | Pass | Commodity boards; member nominations and terms; assessments. Alters the member nomination process and other functions of commodity boards that deal with apples, the beef industry, eggs, the horse industry, potatoes, peanuts, and the sheep industry. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565) |
| HB127 | Pass | Real property tax exemption; spouse of military service member killed in action. Clarifies that "killed in action" includes a determination by the U.S. Department of Defense of "died of wounds received in action" for purposes of the real property tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| HB404 | Pass | Equitable distribution; transfer of separate property. Provides that the court, upon a finding that separate property of one party is in the possession or control of the other party, may order the separate property to be transferred to the party whos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559) |
| HB1260 | Pass | Declaration of local emergency. Increases from 14 days to 45 days the time in which a local governing body shall call a special session, if a regularly scheduled session is not held, in order to confirm the declaration of a local emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| HB707 | Pass | Virginia Board for Contractors; methamphetamine manufacturing site remediators; disclosure. Provides that a license as a contractor from the Board for Contractors (the Board) is required in order to perform the remediation of residential property us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| HB675 | Pass | Auxiliary grants; supportive housing. Extends eligibility for auxiliary grants to include individuals residing in supportive housing, provided that the supportive housing provider has entered into an agreement for the provision of supportive housing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| HB1376 | Pass | Claims; Paul R. DesRoches II. Provides relief in the amount of $20,000 to Paul R. DesRoches II from the Virginia Real Estate Transaction Recovery Fund. A real estate firm fraudulently collected rent on behalf of Mr. DesRoches for several months witho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| HB307 | Pass | Insurance notices. Clarifies and updates provisions regarding notices from insurance companies to applicants and policyholders. The measure amends the requirement that insurers give insureds notice when increasing the premium on their policies due to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| HB16 | Pass | Insurance; payment for services by dentists and oral surgeons. Requires that reimbursements payable or paid by a dental plan for covered services be reasonable and not provide nominal reimbursement in order to claim that services are covered services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| HB961 | Pass | Four-year public institutions of higher education; alternative tuition or fee structures. Permits each public institution of higher education to offer alternative tuition or fee structures that result in lower cost of attendance to students. The Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| HB1102 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; trauma-informed sexual assault investigation training. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, in consultation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Virginia Association...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560) |
| HB393 | Pass | Insurance agencies; designated licensed producers. Requires that an insurance agency's designated licensed producer responsible for the agency's compliance with insurance laws and regulations be an employee, officer, or director of the agency. With r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| HB196 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools and local school divisions; information and forms. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to adopt policies to ensure that the Department of Education (the Department) does not require public elementary or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| HB87 | Pass | Health Insurance Reform Commission. Clarifies the applicable governmental agency that is tasked with determining whether a proposed mandated health insurance benefit exceeds the scope of the essential health benefits. The existing provision that give...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| HB386 | Pass | Certified nurse aides; training in observational and reporting techniques. Adds training in observational and reporting techniques to the list of training and education requirements for nurse aide training programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| HB1087 | Pass | Violation of protective order; firearm or other deadly weapon; penalty. Provides that any person who violates a protective order with which he has been served while knowingly armed with a firearm or other deadly weapon is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| HB238 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited contracts; exceptions for certain contracts entered into by an officer or employee of a soil and water conservation district. Provides an exception to the prohibition against officers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| HB1277 | Pass | Restaurants; annual inspections. Provides that every restaurant in the Commonwealth shall be inspected at least annually, with no more than 12 months elapsing between each such inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| HB1115 | Pass | Zebra mussels; education program. Requires the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to establish a program of education for boaters and other members of the public in methods of preventing zebra mussels or other nonindigenous aquat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| HB875 | Pass | Disclosure of real-time location data in emergencies. Provides that an investigative or law-enforcement officer may obtain real-time location data from an electronic communication service or remote computing service provider when the officer believes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| HB241 | Pass | Students who are English language learners; alternative assessments. Requires the Board of Education to consider assessments aligned to the Standards of Learning that are structured and formatted in a way that measures the content knowledge of studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| HB1114 | Pass | Charter; City of Colonial Heights. Clarifies that the city's director of finance has the responsibility of collecting all tax payments, fees, assessments, and charges imposed by the city. The city treasurer shall continue to collect all tax returns, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| HB499 | Pass | Professions and occupations; standards for regulation. Provides that a professional and occupational regulatory board cannot abridge the right of every person to engage in any lawful profession, trade, or occupation of his choice unless (i) it is cle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| HB1264 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; representations related to covenants and restrictions affecting the property. Provides that, in delivering the residential property disclosure statement to a prospective purchaser of residential property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| HB63 | Pass | Sales and use tax; exemption for certain nonprofit entities. Provides exemptions from sales and use tax and local license taxes for certain nonprofit veterans organizations. The sales and use tax exemption shall not be used by a nonprofit veterans or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HB519 | Pass | School-affiliated entities; student personal information. Extends various protections for student information that is collected and maintained, used, or shared on certain websites, mobile applications, or online services used by school-affiliated ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| HB521 | Pass | Board of Education; annual report; local reporting requirements. Requires the annual Board of Education report to the Governor and the General Assembly to include a complete listing of each report (i) that local school divisions are required to submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB421 | Pass | Real property tax exemptions; military members and their surviving spouses. Extends the property tax exemptions for the principal residences of certain disabled veterans and surviving spouses of members of the armed forces killed in action to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| HB450 | Pass | Certain comprehensive community colleges; veterans advisors and veterans resource centers. Requires each of the seven comprehensive community colleges in the Commonwealth with the highest number of enrolled students who are veterans to employ at leas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| HB118 | Pass | Urban county executive form of government; animal protection police officer. Amends the form of government applicable to Fairfax County by providing that the department of police may include an animal protection police officer who shall have all of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB364 | Pass | Fees for court-appointed attorney providing representation in commitment proceedings in a criminal case. Increases from $25 to $150 the fee paid to a court-appointed attorney for providing representation in commitment proceedings in a criminal case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB1292 | Pass | Schedule IV drugs; eluxadoline. Adds eluxadoline to the list of Schedule IV drugs. The bill contains a technical amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| HB684 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; rental of units and lots; disclosure packets. Prohibits a unit owners' association or property owners' association from charging an annual or monthly rental fee or any other fee not expressly authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| HB1015 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; law-enforcement agencies; response to sexual assault. Permits each public institution of higher education or nonprofit private institution of higher education to request the cooperation of the primary law-enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| HB1303 | Pass | Governing boards of public institutions of higher education; educational programs for members; member reappointment. Prohibits the reappointment of any member of the board of visitors of a four-year public institution of higher education or the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| HB1321 | Pass | Private institutions of higher education; memoranda of understanding; sexual assaults. Clarifies that nonprofit private institutions of higher education that have security departments instead of campus police forces are required to enter into a memor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| HB1259 | Pass | Auctioneers Board; continuing education; exception. Provides that no continuing education shall be required for any auctioneer licensed by the Auctioneers Board for 25 years or more and who is 70 years of age or older. The bill contains technical ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB1142 | Pass | Hunting with a slingshot. Allows the hunting of wild birds and wild animals, except deer, bear, elk, and turkey, with a slingshot unless shooting is expressly prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| HB851 | Pass | Insurance notices; electronic delivery. Repeals a clause that would have sunset on December 31, 2016, that (i) makes the notification to an insurer of any change of the electronic address for the named insured the sole responsibility of the named ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB1060 | Pass | Localities towing fees. Provides that localities in Planning District 8 shall establish by ordinance (i) a hookup and initial towing fee of $135; (ii) an additional fee of $25 for towing at night, on weekends, or on a holiday; and (iii) that no fee p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| HB287 | Pass | Mediation. Provides that, where a referral to mediation includes both custody or visitation and child or spousal support, the referral to mediation is considered to be two separate appointments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB1348 | Pass | Smoking in motor vehicles; presence of minor under age eight; civil penalty. Provides that any person who smokes in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, when a minor under the age of eight is in the motor vehicle is subject to a civil penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
