| 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) |
| SB206 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; ex parte communications. Provides that, during the period that a hearing is pending, a hearing officer is prohibited from communicating with any person concerning the hearing without notice and opportunity for all parties ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| SB125 | Pass | Punitive damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers. Provides that, for the purposes of a punitive damages award in a civil action for personal injury or death arising from the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated, in order to have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| 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) |
| SB712 | Pass | Dental hygienists; remote supervision. Authorizes dental hygienists to practice, with certain requirements and restrictions, under the remote supervision of a licensed dentist. The bill directs the Board of Dentistry to promulgate regulations to impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| SB364 | Pass | Local option health insurance plan. Allows the Department of Human Resource Management to develop a plan under the local option health insurance plan with benefits similar to those in the state employee health insurance plan and that uses a single ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| SB464 | Pass | Gas-powered low-speed vehicles. Includes in the definition of "low-speed vehicle" gas-powered vehicles that have a maximum speed of more than 20 miles per hour but not more than 25 miles per hour and are manufactured to comply with safety standards c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| 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) |
| SB446 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); right to work. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2016, election to approve or reject an amendment to Article I of the Constitution of Virginia to prohibit any agreement or combination between an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| 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) |
| SB664 | Pass | Ballots; candidates for school boards. Provides that the names of candidates for school boards shall be listed on the ballot in an order determined by the order of the priority of time of filing for that office. In the event that two or more candidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| 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) |
| SB7 | Pass | Appointed counsel for parents or guardians. Requires court-appointed counsel for a parent or guardian of a child in cases of alleged abuse or neglect or termination of parental rights to be selected from the list of attorneys who qualify as guardians...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| 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) |
| SB576 | Pass | New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, for the purpose of disbursing fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| 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) |
| SB556 | Pass | Opiate addiction treatment; nonmethadone opioid replacements. Removes certain restrictions on licensure of providers who provide treatment for persons with opiate addiction using opioid replacements that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| 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) |
| SB392 | Pass | Release of lien against real property. Provides that a judgment creditor may record an instrument, upon payment of the fees for recordation of the instrument, releasing the lien of any judgment docketed against one or more parcels of real property, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| 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) |
| SB71 | Pass | Entry of divorce decrees; maintenance and support of spouses. Provides that a court may still decree as to maintenance and support of a spouse even where a party fails to prove his grounds for divorce, provided that a claim for support has been prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| 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) |
| SB308 | 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] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| 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) |
| SB592 | Pass | Vital records; amending death certificates. Creates a process for amending certain information on a death certificate registered with the State Registrar. The bill requires a court order to change the name of the deceased, the deceased's parent, or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| 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) |
| SB316 | Pass | Contests of election for certain elections; service of process. Requires that contestees in a contest of (i) a primary election for the United States House of Representatives, the General Assembly, or a local office or (ii) any election for a local o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| 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) |
| SB463 | Pass | Nurse practitioners; certified nurse midwives; practicing in consultation with a licensed physician. Requires a nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing in the category of certified nurse midwife to practice in consultation w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| SB374 | Pass | Financial institutions; references to federal law. Updates references to the Federal Reserve Board and its regulations that were made obsolete by the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which, among other change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| SB381 | Pass | Election day program; permitted activities of participants. Allows election pages participating in the election day program for high school students to assist in the arrangement of voting equipment, furniture, and any other materials for the conduct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| 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) |
| SB315 | Pass | Voting equipment; locking and sealing of voting and counting machines after election. Provides that if a voting or counting machine secured by removal of a data storage device containing the only record of votes cast for any office or on any question...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| 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) |
| SB399 | Pass | Practitioners of the healing arts; temporary authorization to practice. Replaces the requirement for a temporary license or certification to practice medicine or the duties of a profession in the Commonwealth on a temporary basis with the requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| SB555 | Pass | Learner's permit holder; passenger limits; use of cell phone; licensure requirements for persons under 18. Prohibits a holder of a learner's permit from (i) using a cell phone while driving and (ii) having more than one passenger under age 21. Curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| SB137 | Pass | Absentee ballots; electronic transmission by general registrars. Provides that when a voter who is eligible to request to receive certain absentee voting materials, including the absentee ballot, by electronic transmission so requests, the email addr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| SB190 | Pass | Voting systems; use of direct recording electronic machines. Prohibits the use of direct recording electronic machines (DREs) in elections on and after July 1, 2020. The governing bodies of counties and cities have been prohibited from acquiring DREs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| 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) |
| SB377 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; tenant remedies. Provides that a general district court may (i) terminate a lease upon the request of the tenant or (ii) order the dwelling unit surrendered to the landlord if the landlord prevails on a request for possession...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
