| 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) |
| HR250 | Pass | Commending the High School League of the Peninsula Conference of Rugby Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House (HR250ER) |
| HB470 | Pass | Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority Act. Grants the Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority the power to request and accept legal advice and assistance from the Office of the Attorney General.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0395) |
| HB1253 | Pass | School board of the City of Norfolk. Repeals obsolete provisions for the appointment of members to the school board of the City of Norfolk. The selection of members of such school board was changed to direct election by the voters by referendum in 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0385) |
| HJR359 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Virginia Urological Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HR263 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House (HR263ER) |
| HB1122 | Pass | Commonwealth Space Flight Fund; transfer of funds. Extends through fiscal year 2023-2024 the annual transfer from the Transportation Trust Fund to the Commonwealth Space Flight Fund and increases the transfer from $9.5 to $15.8 million to reflect the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| HB750 | Pass | Student personal information; school services; college and career readiness assessment. Excludes any website, mobile application, or online service that is used for the purposes of college and career readiness assessment from the definition of "schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0439) |
| HB233 | Pass | Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment; funding by locality. Allows any locality to fund the cost of participation in mental health treatment and counseling programs by a member of a volunteer fire or rescue company. A mental health progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0417) |
| HR248 | Pass | Commending James K. Spore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House (HR248ER) |
| HB813 | Pass | Offshore waters and submerged lands; Commonwealth jurisdiction to three miles; survey. Updates the description of the offshore waters over which the Commonwealth has jurisdiction. In place of a reference to certain seas claimed in the Virginia Consti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0371) |
| HB742 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Program tax credits; eligibility. Creates an exception to the requirement that each affiliate of a neighborhood organization must also meet all program regulations and guidelines as a condition of the neighborhood organization...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0426) |
| HJR485 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Virginia Capitol Connections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB919 | Pass | Water and sewer service provided by locality; canceling service for nonpayment of charges. Shortens from two months to 30 days the period after which a locality providing water or sewer service may shut off service for unpaid charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0415) |
| HB1276 | Pass | Motorcycle rider safety training courses. Provides that "motorcycle rider safety training courses" means courses of instruction in the operation of motorcycles for the purposes of obtaining a waiver from the examination or road test for (i) both two-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0380) |
| HB1329 | Pass | Trespass by hunters using dogs; penalty. Punishes as a Class 3 misdemeanor the intentional release by a person of hunting dogs on the lands of another to hunt without the consent of the landowner. The bill punishes a second or subsequent offense comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0373) |
| HB417 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles transactions. Allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to enter into contracts with contractors of state or federal agencies to conduct customer service transactions on behalf of such agencies for the benefit of Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0368) |
| HB1044 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosures. Provides that the Director of the Department of Health Professions may disclose information in the possession of the Prescription Monitoring Program about a specific recipient who is a member of a Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0410) |
| HB1101 | Pass | Automatic notification of registration of sex offenders; common interest communities. Provides that the association for a common interest community may request and receive from the State Police notice of the registration or reregistration of sex offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0424) |
| HJR333 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Robley Shelton Jones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR475 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Bobby Conner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HR255 | Pass | Commending the Herndon High School girls' basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Bill text as passed House (HR255ER) |
| HB1011 | Pass | Rental inspection programs; exemptions. Authorizes a locality to exempt a residential rental unit otherwise subject to a rental inspection ordinance if the unit is managed by (i) any person licensed as a real estate firm, real estate salesperson or b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| HB1305 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption and real and personal property tax exemption; solar and wind energy equipment, facilities, and devices. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for machinery, tools, and equipment of a public service corporation used to gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| HB741 | Pass | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; licensing of home inspectors. Provides that beginning July 1, 2017, home inspectors must be licensed by the Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors (the Board). Currently, home in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0436) |
| HB588 | Pass | Protective orders; contacts. Provides that an emergency protective order may prohibit the respondent from being in the physical presence of the petitioner or the petitioner's family or household members. The bill provides that the term "physical pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0455) |
| HJR44 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Honorable John C. Watkins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB622 | Engross
Sine Die | Entering vehicle; interference with rights of owner. Provides that any person who, without the consent of the owner or other person in charge of a motor vehicle, enters into a motor vehicle occupied by such owner or other person with the intent to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB234 | Pass | Corporate action without board meeting. Establishes a procedure by which actions of the board of directors of a nonstock corporation may be taken without a meeting by fewer than all of the directors if authorized in the articles of incorporation. Suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0382) |
