| 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 |
| HB773 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Nondiscrimination Act; creation. Creates the Government Nondiscrimination Act (the Act), which prohibits a government entity from taking any discriminatory action against a person on the basis that such person believes, speaks, or acts in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB568 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (Program), including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive a grant from the institution's appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB180 | Engross
Sine Die | Drug treatment court for City of Winchester and Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Warren. Authorizes the establishment of drug treatment courts in the City of Winchester and Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Warren. The bill limits the jurisdiction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB289 | Engross
Sine Die | Local regulation of driving in flooded areas; penalty. Allows localities to by ordinance prohibit any person from operating a motor vehicle or watercraft on a flooded street in such a manner as to increase the level of floodwaters to a level that cau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1197 | Engross
Sine Die | Internet publication of personal information of law-enforcement officers; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to publish, sell, solicit, or trade on the Internet the personal information of any law-enforcement officer or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1270 | Engross
Sine Die | Companion animal care advisory committee established. Authorizes the State Veterinarian to establish by January 1, 2017, a seven-member advisory committee to make recommendations and serve as a resource in the development of policies related to the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB812 | Engross
Sine Die | Limited Residential Lodging Act; penalty. Establishes the Limited Residential Lodging Act (the Act), which allows property owners to rent out their homes or portions thereof for charge for periods of less than 30 consecutive days or do so through a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB589 | Engross
Sine Die | Filing of petitions and motions by designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services; practice of law; duties of local directors of social services. Allows designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB350 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificate of public need. Makes changes to the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill removes various behavioral health facilities from the list of medical care facilities and projects subject to the requirement of a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB857 | Engross
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; definition of gift; technical amendment. Clarifies that gifts to certain members of an individual's family are not considered gifts. Currently, the definition of gift says that gifts from certain members of an individual's family...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB779 | Engross
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; required filings for multiple positions or offices. Provides that the filing of a single current statement of economic interests by an individual required to file such form shall satisfy the filin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; required information on disclosure forms. Removes from the Code the formatted forms of the lobbyist disclosure statement, the Statement of Economic Interests for state and local government of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB860 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; public access to requests for opinions and related records. Provides that records relating to formal advisory opinions or informal advice of the Council or its designee, including records of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB1361 | Engross
Sine Die | Lobbyist reporting; disclosure of certain persons attending entertainment events not required. Provides that a principal is not required to disclose the name of a legislative or executive official, or a member of his immediate family, who attends a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB868 | Engross
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; definition of procurement transaction. Provides that for purposes of the laws governing lobbyists and lobbyist disclosure, the definition of procurement transaction is limited to those in which the stated or expected value of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB144 | Engross
Sine Die | Special days; Indigenous Peoples Day. Designates Indigenous Peoples Day to be observed on the third Wednesday in November in each year as a special day to honor the great leaders of indigenous peoples who contributed to the history of the Commonwealt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB889 | Engross
Sine Die | Lobbyist disclosure; filing and inspection; technical amendment. Clarifies that lobbying disclosure reports are filed with the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council and are open to public inspection and copying in the office of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB891 | Engross
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; definition of gift. Clarifies that travel provided to facilitate attendance by a legislator at certain meetings where attendance is approved by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB861 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; extension of deadlines. Entitles any person required to file the required disclosures an extension of the filing deadlines where good cause for granting an extension has been shown, as determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB890 | Engross
Sine Die | Candidates; filing of statements of economic interests. Clarifies that candidates for statewide office, the General Assembly, and constitutional office are required to file a statement of economic interests with the Virginia Conflict of Interest and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB862 | Engross
Sine Die | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; prohibited gifts; technical amendment. Clarifies that for purposes of the gift limitations, gifts shall be aggregated by reporting year, defined as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-04
Incorporated by Rules |
| HB158 | Engross
Sine Die | Grass cutting; Caroline County. Provides that Caroline County may apply its grass-cutting ordinance to those portions of agricultural land that are assessed for residential purposes. If Caroline County has not enacted an ordinance pursuant to this ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HB193 | Engross
Sine Die | Certificates of public need. Creates a two-phase process to sunset certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with the requirement for a certificate of public need (i) for ambulatory and outpa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB768 | Engross
Sine Die | Victims of domestic violence, etc.; firearms safety or training course. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services may distribute funds from the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund to reimburse an entity that offers a fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1196 | Engross
Sine Die | Resisting arrest; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of resisting arrest, punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor, if a person intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a lawful arrest by failing to allow himself to be physically taken into cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | Unfaithful delegates; penalty. Provides that an individual representing the Commonwealth at a convention for proposing amendments to the United States Constitution called pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution who knowingly and inten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB922 | Engross
Sine Die | Computer trespass; government computers and computers used for public utilities. Increases the Class 1 misdemeanor computer trespass crimes to a Class 6 felony if the computer targeted is one that is exclusively for the use of, or used by or for, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB809 | Engross
Sine Die | Sale of firearms; persons not lawfully present in United States; penalty. Provides that the crime of selling, bartering, giving, or furnishing or possessing with the intent to sell, barter, give, or furnish a firearm to a person knowing that such per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB811 | Engross
Sine Die | Involuntary admission procedures. Provides that, as soon as practicable after being provided with the time and location of a commitment hearing, the community services board shall make a reasonable effort to notify the personal representative of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (1-Y 14-N) |
| HB625 | Engross
Sine Die | Abduction of minor for the purpose of prostitution. Expands the class of minors who may be the victim of the crime of abduction of a minor for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution, a crime punishable as a Class 2 felony, from minors under 16 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB34 | Engross
Sine Die | Safety inspections; appointments. Allows any motor vehicle inspection station to accept appointments for safety inspections. Under current motor vehicle safety inspection rules and regulations, 19VAC30-70, a motor vehicle inspection station may accep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB765 | Engross
Sine Die | First offense assault and battery against a family or household member; enhanced penalties. Provides that the deferral and dismissal of a first offense of assault and battery against a family or household member will be treated as a prior conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB754 | Engross
Sine Die | Domestic violence-related misdemeanors; enhanced penalty. Punishes a misdemeanor offense of violating a protective order, assault and battery against a family or household member, or stalking as a Class 6 felony if the person charged had been previou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1317 | Engross
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Provides that an adult who sexually abuses a child who is 13 or 14 years old where such act is accomplished against the will of the child by ruse is guilty of aggravated sexual battery, a felony punishable b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB602 | Engross
Sine Die | Petit larceny; prior convictions; penalty. Provides that, if it is alleged in the warrant, indictment, or information that a person had previously been convicted of larceny or any offense deemed to be or punished as larceny, robbery, or carjacking, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1070 | Engross
Sine Die | Toll violations; reciprocity agreements; enforcement. Allows the Commonwealth to enter into agreements with other states to provide for the enforcement of tolling violations occurring in Virginia on out-of-state residents and to enforce tolling viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Incorporated by Transportation |
| HB944 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; installation or use of landscape cover materials. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law, general or special, any ordinance in effect and any ordinance adopted by the governing body of the City of Harrisonb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 1-N) |
| HB724 | Engross
Sine Die | Quorum and action by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. Provides quorum and voting procedures for the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission that are analogous to those followed by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB102 | Engross
Sine Die | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB678 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; human trafficking training. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory training standards for law-enforcement personnel involved in criminal investigations or assigned to vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB770 | Engross
Sine Die | Conditional zoning. Provides that no locality shall (i) request or accept any unreasonable proffer in connection with a rezoning or a proffer condition amendment as a condition of approval of a new residential development or new residential use or (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Stricken from docket by Local Government (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB1325 | Engross
Sine Die | BVU Authority; Board powers, officers; broadband; FOIA. Alters the powers and duties of the Board of Directors (Board) of the BVU Authority (the Authority). The bill changes the operation of the Board by altering certain requirements regarding bylaws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-01
Incorporated by Local Government |
| HB517 | Engross
Sine Die | Warrantless arrest; certain cases. Allows a law-enforcement officer to make warrantless arrests for misdemeanors not committed in the officer's presence involving (i) reckless handling of a firearm; (ii) trespass on property where hunting, trapping, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| HB1174 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric energy consumption reduction goal; progress reports. Directs the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the staff of the State Corporation Commission, to report annually, commencing no later than December 15, 2017, on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 9-N) |
| HB867 | Engross
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; exemption related to disclosures; technical amendment. Corrects the exemption from mandatory disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act for records related to the disclosure statements filed by members of the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) |
| HB175 | Engross
Sine Die | Foreign business entities; service of process. Establishes that the registered agent of a foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability company, or business trust may be served with a subpoena for depositions, discovery, or documents, rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB986 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; membership. Increases the membership of the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council from 12 to 13 by increasing the number of nonlegislative citizen appointees made by the Speaker of the Hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| HB1282 | Engross
Sine Die | That the Secretary of Commerce and Trade; the Virginia-Israel Advisory Board;issues related to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). Requires the Secretary of Commerce and Trade shall work with the Virginia-Israel Advisory Board to im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB157 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; guidance documents. Requires that guidance documents developed by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services be approved by the Commissioner of Agriculture. The bill also requires the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-25
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
