| HB1360 | Intro
Sine Die | Bicycle helmets required to be worn by riders. Requires every rider of a bicycle or electric power-assisted bicycle less than 18 years of age to wear a helmet. Currently, localities may by ordinance require riders of bicycles, electric power-assisted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Energy Storage Consortium. Establishes the Virginia Energy Storage Consortium as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth for the purpose of positioning the Commonwealth as a leader in research, development, commercialization, manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Security for Public Deposits Act; State Treasurer; qualified public depository; credit unions. Adds credit unions as a qualified public depository for state funds. The bill also authorizes moneys to be paid into the state treasury to be depo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB366 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of unclaimed property held by locality. Limits the duty of a county, city, or town to report and remit abandoned intangible property by providing that intangible property that is held by a locality for the owner and that has remained uncl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HJR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; recognizing the need for educators in the Commonwealth to cultivate a Virginia high school graduate who is skilled in critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and citizenship. Recognizes the need for educators i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1113 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription drug price transparency. Requires every manufacturer of a prescription drug that is made available in the Commonwealth and has a wholesale acquisition price of $10,000 or more for a single course of treatment to report to the Commissione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy; efficient biomass. Excludes inefficient biomass from the definition of renewable energy. The measure provides that renewable energy includes any biomass energy capacity, efficient or otherwise, in operation prior to January 1, 2016,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; conduct of bingo games. Removes the provision limiting the conduct of bingo games to the locality or adjoining locality where the charitable organization conducting the bingo game has regularly been in existence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA); procurement of construction by certain localities using competitive negotiation. Authorizes any locality with a population in excess of 200,000 to enter into contracts using competitive negotiation for nontrans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Property conveyance; Shenandoah County Farm. Authorizes the conveyance of the Shenandoah County Farm near Maurertown to the County of Shenandoah.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Housing and Community Development; revision of the Uniform Statewide Building Code and the Statewide Fire Prevention Code; distillery operations. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to revise the Uniform State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Public safety answering points; deployment of text-to-9-1-1. Requires each public safety answering point (PSAP) by July 1, 2019, to be able to receive and process calls for emergency assistance sent via text message.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR171 | Intro
Sine Die | Cross-jurisdictional transportation for persons with disabilities. Urges localities to make a collaborative effort to provide affordable cross-jurisdictional public transportation to persons with disabilities by modifying and expanding current transp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1349 | Intro
Sine Die | Resettlement of refugees; review process. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth, political subdivision of the Commonwealth, officer or employee of either acting in his official capacity, or member of the Virginia National Guard or Virginia Defe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Incorporated by General Laws |
| HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; introduction of legislation; recorded vote. Requires all legislation introduced by a member of the House of Delegates or the Senate to be considered by the committee of purview or a subcommittee thereof and receive a recorded vote. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1347 | Intro
Sine Die | Wireless communications infrastructure. Prohibits a locality from charging an application fee, consulting fee, or other fee associated with the submission, review, processing and approval of an application to construct a new wireless support structur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Assisting federal government with resettling of certain refugees. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth, political subdivision of the Commonwealth, officer or employee of either acting in his official capacity, or member of the Virginia Nationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Incorporated by General Laws |
| HJR76 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Recognizes the existence of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy efficiency programs; total resource cost test. Defines the "total resource cost test" as a test to determine if the benefit-cost ratio of a proposed energy efficiency program or measure is greater than one. The measure defines "benefit-cost ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; conduct of bingo games. Increases from two to four the number of days per week on which bingo games may be conducted. The bill provides that this four-day limitation does not apply to any building or other premises owned by (i) a q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB839 | Intro
Sine Die | State Library Board; retention of surveillance videos. Requires the State Library Board to revise the retention schedule for surveillance videos, including visual or audiovisual recordings by license plate readers and body-worn camera systems utilize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals. Requires investor-owned electric utilities, cooperative electric utilities, and investor-owned natural gas distribution utilities to meet incremental annual energy efficiency goals. Electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1388 | Intro
Sine Die | Review of potential anti-competitive actions of state agencies, and promulgation of regulations. Agency heads shall be responsible for determining if actions and decisions may have a potential adverse impact on competition, and if so, whether such ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017 by voice vote |
| HB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; fees for disclosure packets. Conforms the maximum fee that may be charged for an association disclosure packet by a property owners' association to that in corresponding provisions in the Property Owners' Association...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; assignment of benefits. Prohibits health care coverage plan providers from refusing to accept assignments of benefits executed by covered individuals in favor of health care providers and hospitals. The bill is applicable to (i) ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility customer account information; warrant required. Provides that an electric utility shall not disclose any customer account information absent a search warrant or the customer's consent. The electric utility may still release customer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Health and Human Resources; task force to study requirements for criminal history background checks for child-care providers; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a task force composed of child-care prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Distributed electric generation; community solar gardens. Authorizes the establishment of community solar gardens, which are required to be owned by a subscriber organization that has at least 10 subscribers. Subscribers will receive credits on their...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving; penalty. Expands the prohibition on manually entering multiple letters or text in a handheld communications device while operating a motor vehicle to also prohibit the manual selection of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Distributed and renewable generation of electric energy; net energy metering and third party purchase agreements. Exempts generators that are not organized as a public service company and that provide electric energy from renewable energy to retail c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1133 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave pilot program. Establishes a pilot program under which employers with 50 or fewer employees may volunteer to participate. Participating employers agree to provide to full-time employees paid sick days, to be accrued at a rate of no le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Community energy programs. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives to establish a community energy program with a community subscriber organization. Under a community energy program, community subscribers and community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio. Reduces from 45 to 25 percent the requirement for mixed beverage restaurant licensees for the ratio of combined gross receipts from the sale of food consumed on the premises and nonalcoholic beverages ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; conduct of instant bingo, network bingo, pull tabs, and seal cards. Removes the requirement that the playing of instant bingo, network bingo, pull tabs, and seal cards games only occur when regular bingo games are played. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | Receipt of pleadings despite failure to pay fees in a civil case. Provides that a circuit court clerk shall receive and file a complaint or petition commencing a civil action, or a counterclaim or claim impleading a third-party defendant, despite a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to keep and bear arms. Codifies the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that the right to keep and bear arms conferred by the United States Constitution and the Constitution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun; exception. Allows any person who regardless of having met the demonstration of competence requirement is otherwise qualified to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a handgun concealed in any place where such perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; apportionment of state and local share. Directs the General Assembly, in apportioning the state and local share of the costs of meeting the Standards of Quality, beginning July 1, 2016, to implement a formula that determines eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| HB1099 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Extends the benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child of a veteran with at least a 90 percent permanent, service-rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HB1019 | Intro
Sine Die | Educational improvement scholarships tax credit program; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Modifies the educational improvement scholarships tax credit program by including as eligible scholarship recipients children enrolled in or attending nonpublic pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | Sanctuary policies prohibited. Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | False representation of military status; stolen valor; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit, falsely represents himself to be a member or veteran of the military, or a recipient o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Grapevine Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Grapevine Grant Fund and Program to fund grants to independent cideries, farm wineries, orchards, and vineyards that purchase materials for vines or fruit trees in order to establish or expand vineyards o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Public and private elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education; selection of for-profit motor carriers. Requires each public and private elementary and secondary school and institution of higher education in the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HB761 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of concealed handguns; females at public institutions of higher education. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from adopting or enforcing any rules prohibiting a female who possess a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Problem-Solving Courts; established. Establishes the Problem-Solving Court Act (the Act). The bill allows the establishment of problem-solving courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering judi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; informed written consent. Provides that a woman seeking an abortion may decline to participate with any of the procedures or processes required to effect the informed written consent, including the performance of ultrasound imaging, that mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Fraudulent representation about receipt of military decorations; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit, fraudulently holds himself out to be a recipient of certain military decorat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher licensure; technology education; military technology training. Requires the Board of Education to establish criteria in its regulations to effectuate the substitution of military technology training for the coursework required to obtain a lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| HB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of gas emission from certain landfills. Requires all active sanitary landfills that hold a Title V operating permit issued by the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board and are located within one-half mile of any residence or residentially zone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
