| 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) |
| HB325 | Pass | Practice of veterinary medicine. Eliminates the exception to licensure requirements for veterinarians licensed in other states who are called to attend a case in the Commonwealth and who do not open an office or appoint a place to practice within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB831 | Pass | Standards and programs of instruction; computer science and computational thinking. Requires the Standards of Learning established by the Board of Education and the program of instruction for grades kindergarten through 12 developed and implemented b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| HB820 | Pass | Insurance notices; electronic delivery. Authorizes a health carrier to deliver electronically to any of its policyholders, subscribers, or enrollees or to post to the health carrier's publicly available website, in lieu of any other method of deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB398 | Pass | Sales and use tax; refunds. Prohibits any taxpayer failing to give a dealer at the time of purchase an exemption certificate that was issued by the Department of Taxation from receiving interest on a refund claim for any period prior to the date the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| HB487 | Pass | School Resource Officer Grants Program school resource officers; conditions of employment. Relieves school resource officers employed pursuant to the School Resource Officer Grants Program from the obligation to enforce school board rules and codes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| HB15 | Pass | Personal property tax; classifications. Provides that if an item of tangible personal property falls within multiple classifications for local taxation, the rate of taxation is the lowest rate assigned to such classifications. Current law provides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB436 | Pass | Standards of Learning assessments in English reading and mathematics; retake; recovery credit. Requires the Department of Education to award recovery credit to any student in grades three through eight who fails a Standards of Learning assessment in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| HB1135 | Pass | Purchase of Virginia-grown food products by state agencies and institutions and local school divisions. Requires that the Department of General Services to include a link to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Virginia Grown ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| HB910 | Pass | Appeal of local tax assessments; confidentiality. Provides that, prior to the release of any confidential tax information pursuant to a discovery order, with regard to an application for relief to a circuit court to correct erroneous assessments of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| HB703 | Pass | Legal age for marriage; 18 years of age. Provides that both parties to a marriage must be 18 years of age or older or emancipated at the time of solemnization by removing exceptions that allow marriage at a minimum age of 16 with the consent of the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| HB1182 | Pass | Sheriffs; standard vehicle markings. Allows sheriffs' offices to use marked motor vehicles painted in any solid color. Current law requires the sheriff to obtain the concurrence of the local governing body to use any color other than dark brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB1291 | Pass | Virginia Lottery; ticket courier services. Prohibits the operation of a ticket courier service in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "ticket courier service" as a service operated for the purpose of purchasing Virginia Lottery tickets on behalf of in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| HB1146 | Pass | Permitting or licensure; locality shall not require consent of homeowners' association. Prohibits a locality from requiring the consent of a condominium association, homeowners' association, or real estate cooperative prior to the issuance of a permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| HR261 | Pass | Commending Consul General Do Ho Kang.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
Introduced bill reprinted 16106252D |
| HB477 | Pass | Bonds; veterans care centers. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue bonds in the amount of $29.3 million plus financing costs to construct veterans care centers in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB1311 | Pass | Killing or trapping of snakes. Authorizes the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to allow the use of snake exclusion devices by public utilities at their transmission or distribution facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0372) |
| HJR492 | Pass | Celebrating the life of James Douglas Owens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ492ER) |
| HB905 | Pass | Advance disclosure of allowed amount or charge for procedure. Requires every hospital to furnish a patient scheduled to receive an elective procedure, test, or service to be performed by the hospital, upon his request or the request of his legally au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0448) |
| HB832 | Pass | Vacancies in constitutional offices; special elections. Allows the governing body of a county or city in which a vacancy in a constitutional office has occurred to request in its petition for a writ of election that the circuit court order the specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0453) |
| HB1287 | Pass | Behind-the-wheel and knowledge examinations. Allows a person less than 19 years of age who has failed the behind-the-wheel examination for a driver's license three times to take a course of instruction based on the Virginia Driver's Manual before tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0381) |
| HB649 | Pass | Charter; Town of Damascus. Shifts the town's municipal elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| HB524 | Pass | Data on teacher performance and quality; confidentiality. Requires data collected by or for the Department of Education or the local school board or made available to and able to be used by the local school board to judge the performance or quality o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0390) |
