| HB1498 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; assignment of teachers; class size limits. Reduces from 29 to 28 the maximum class size in kindergarten; from 30 to 28 the maximum class size in grades one, two, and three; and from 35 to 29 the maximum class size in grades four, five,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial hemp production; authorization. Removes all restrictions on the production of industrial hemp, including licensing and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; conduct of instant games, etc.; number of sessions. Allows a qualified organization to conduct instant bingo, pull tabs, seal cards, or any other authorized charitable game (i) outside of the social quarters of an organization or (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1783 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health screening of prisoners in local correctional facilities. Requires that the staff of a local, regional, or community correctional facility screen persons admitted to the facility for mental illness using a scientifically validated instru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR629 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1724 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for in-state tuition charges; members of the Virginia National Guard who reside in the Commonwealth. Declares eligible for in-state tuition charges any member of the Virginia National Guard who resides in the Commonwealth, regardless of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Social Services; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Scholarship Pilot Program. Directs the Department of Social Services (the Department) to establish and administer a three-year Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Schol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Herndon. Amends the town's boundary description and reflects the town's change of municipal elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2080 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; eligible employees. Includes Department of Emergency Management hazardous materials officers as employees covered by the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System, provided that such officers shall accrue reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2265 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1553 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; board of directors; actions taken without a meeting. Conforms the Property Owners' Association Act with the provisions of the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act as the latter relates to authorized actions that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2081 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; central electronic procurement website. Directs the Department of General Services, in an effort to facilitate prompt payment by contractors to subcontractors, to post on its central electronic procurement website cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | Central absentee voter precincts; expedited counting of absentee ballots. Allows the officers of election at a central absentee voter precinct to begin counting those absentee ballots that are counted by hand at any time after 6:00 a.m. on the day of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR552 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); registration of voters. Permits the General Assembly to provide by law for the use of a portion of an applicant's social security number on the voter registration application. Currently, an applicant is re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1841 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Veteran Entrepreneurship Grant Program and Fund. Establishes the Virginia Veteran Entrepreneurship Grant Program and Fund to provide grants to eligible providers of educational, training, or other services to veterans in the areas of startin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1620 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end credit plans. Prohibits any person licensed to make motor vehicle title loans from engaging in the extension of credit under an open-end credit plan. The measure also prohibits a third party from engaging in the extension of credit under an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1935 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; no-excuse, in-person available 21 days prior to election. Allows any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in person in any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making a prior application for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1752 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority (VEDP); grants and other economic incentive programs administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; waiver. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law or applicable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1817 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer finance loans; rate of interest. Increases, from $2,500 to $4,000, the threshold under which consumer finance loans are subject to a maximum interest rate of 36 percent per year. Under this measure, a licensed consumer finance lender may cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2228 | Intro
Sine Die | Aerospace Advisory Council; reorganize as Advisory Committee on Aerospace. Moves the existing Aerospace Advisory Council, renamed the Advisory Committee on Aerospace, to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) to advise VEDP on issues re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2370 | Intro
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; reconsideration of an agency's final decision; intermediate relief; suspension of effective date of a regulation or agency decision. Provides that if a petition for reconsideration is timely filed, the final decision shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1953 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification. Adds to the list of accepted forms of identification for purposes of voting a valid identification card that contains a photograph of the voter and is issued by any private entity that is licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2199 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Chief Executive Officer; powers and duties. Requires the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority (the Authority) to develop a comprehensive operatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1690 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Preschool Initiative; local matching funds. Removes the requirement for local governing bodies to commit to providing the required matching funds in order to qualify for grants under the Virginia Preschool Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1430 | Intro
Sine Die | Third-party registration groups; registration, disclosure, and recordkeeping requirements; compensation prohibition. Requires any individual or organization that will be distributing and collecting voter registration applications to register as a thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2221 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Subcommittee to Evaluate Professional and Occupational Licensing Requirements. Creates the Joint Subcommittee to Evaluate Professional and Occupational Licensing Requirements of the various regulatory boards within the Department of Professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1458 | Intro
Sine Die | Local law enforcement; fees for concealed handgun permits; courthouse and courtroom security; assessment. Eliminates (i) the fee, under current law up to $35, that a local law-enforcement agency is permitted to charge for conducting the background in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2261 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; unlawful discriminatory practice; anti-Semitism. Provides that the terms "because of religion" and "on the basis of religion," and terms of similar import, when used in reference to discrimination in the Code of Virginia an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; extended time for new citizens to register to vote. Provides that any person who becomes a citizen during the period immediately following the close of registration records pursuant to ? 24.2-416 and the day of the election and is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Electoral fusion; form of ballot; candidate's name appearing more than once for same office. Removes the provision prohibiting a candidate's name from appearing on the ballot more than once for the same office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2365 | Intro
Sine Die | Registration records; deadline extension. Allows the State Board of Elections, by a majority vote, to extend the date of the closing of the registration records for a period not to exceed seven days in the event of an emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1612 | Intro
Sine Die | Physical Privacy Act. Creates the Physical Privacy Act, which requires that a government entity provide for members of the opposite sex separate restrooms and other facilities in a building owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the entity. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1764 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional school boards; full-time virtual school programs. Requires the establishment of eight regional school boards composed of one member of each local school board that governs each local school division in each of the eight superintendent's regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1782 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Corrections; membership; powers and duties; review of deaths of inmates in local correctional facilities. Authorizes the State Board of Corrections (Board) to conduct a review of the death of any inmate in a local or regional correctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1464 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation for wrongful incarceration for a felony conviction. Establishes a process for a person wrongfully incarcerated to submit a written request to the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia for the disbursement of the transition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1803 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; disease presumptions; correctional officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1988 | Intro
Sine Die | Light-emitting diode (LED) use on outdoor lighting fixtures. Requires any authority, department, agency, or institution of the Commonwealth that installs, replaces, or maintains an outdoor lighting fixture to use LEDs instead of traditional incandesc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1459 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; penalty. Prohibits the conversion of any contributed moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property by any person to the personal use of a candidate or a member of the candidate's immediate family,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2170 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; construction. Allows public bodies to utilize cooperative procurement for construction not exceeding $500,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2315 | Intro
Sine Die | Instant runoff voting. Provides for instant runoff voting in elections for statewide offices, the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and the General Assembly. With instant runoff voting, voters rank the candidates for e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1636 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1972 | Intro
Sine Die | Closure of the Southwestern Virginia Training Center and the Southeastern Virginia Training Center prohibited. Provides that the Southwestern Virginia Training Center and the Southeastern Virginia Training Center shall not be closed and shall instead...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1923 | Intro
Sine Die | Virtual Virginia; availability. Requires that the Virtual Virginia program, established by the Department of Education, be made available to all public middle and high schools. The bill provides that such program may be made available to all public e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR763 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; political considerations prohibited. Prohibits any electoral district from being drawn in order to favor or disfavor any political party, incumbent legislator, member of Congress, or other i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR764 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); enactment of laws at special sessions. Requires an affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of the members elected to each house in order to pass a bill at a special session that is convened after a genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2010 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Lottery; repeal prohibition against sale of lottery tickets over Internet. Repeals the prohibition against the sale of lottery tickets over the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2387 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; waiver of first-time licensing fees for low-income applicants. Requires a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to waive the initial application fee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1462 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification. Adds to the list of acceptable forms of voter identification a valid student photo identification card issued by any institution of higher education located in any other state or territory of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1715 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988. Gives the State Corporation Commission discretion to approve any request to increase tolls on the Dulles Greenway by a specified annual percentage increase. The measure also gives the Commission discretion to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1465 | Intro
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, 2018, on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
