| HB2112 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; community renewable projects. Requires the State Corporation Commission to adopt rules under which community renewable projects are authorized to operate. A community renewable project is a solar or wind-powered electric generatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1868 | Intro
Sine Die | Child labor; tobacco farms. Prohibits any person from employing a child under the age of 18 to work in direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves unless (i) the owner of the farm or other location at which such work is conducted is th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1745 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Provides a mechanism for reporting to the Department of State Police when a circuit court restores a felon's right to possess, transport, and carry a firearm, ammunition for a firearm, or a stun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1631 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; early voting. Allows any registered voter to vote early in any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making prior application for an absentee ballot. The bill requires that early voting be available beginn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2126 | Intro
Sine Die | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. Entitles individuals to a family and medical leave insurance (FMLI) benefit payment for each month they are engaged in qualified caregiving, not to exceed 60 qualified caregiving days per year. Qualified ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1844 | Intro
Sine Die | Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court; case information system. Requires the Executive Secretary to maintain a free online statewide name-searchable case information system of all criminal cases in the circuit courts, general district courts, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2337 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificates of public need. Creates a two-phase Certificates of public need. Creates a two-phase process to sunset certificate of public need (COPN) requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with the requirement for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2115 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; Department of Planning and Budget; fiscal impact statements. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to prepare a fiscal impact statement for any bill, except the Budget Bill and debt bills, that increases or decreases the to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of persons age 65 or older. Entitles a person who will be age 65 or older on the date of the election for which an absentee ballot is requested to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1703 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; wage offset. Provides that the weekly unemployment benefit to which an eligible individual is entitled shall be reduced by one-half of the amount of any wages payable to the individual. Currently, such individual's weekly b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1808 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting; construction and professional services. Authorizes any public body to procure construction on a best value procurement basis using a numerical scoring system consisting of the following:...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2013 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; board of directors; qualifications. Adds the Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority and the Vice President of Economic Development for the Virginia Port Authority, or their designees, as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2440 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Appomattox. Shifts the town's municipal elections from May to November and provides for staggered elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR538 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2340 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote. Establishes the Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote in the legislative branch of state government. The Commission is charged with pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1435 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Social Services; pilot program for substance abuse screening and assessment for VIEW; report. Requires the Department of Social Services to develop a pilot program for screening and assessing participants in the Virginia Initiative for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1446 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; permitted use of excess funds. Provides that contributions received by a candidate or his campaign committee that are in excess of the amount necessary to defray his campaign expenditures may be disposed of only by transferring for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1639 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; disclosure of relationship between landlord and insurance company. Requires a landlord, prior to the execution or renewal of a rental agreement, to provide a written disclosure to a tenant in cases where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1904 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification requirements; repeal of photo identification requirements. Repeals the requirement that voters show a form of identification containing a photograph in order to be allowed to vote. The bill requires a voter to show either his vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2344 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; domicile; individuals granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Declares, absent congressional intent to the contrary, that any individual granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1800 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; third party power purchase agreements. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to own and operate, or contract with other persons to own, operate, or both, a renewable electrical generating facility unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1881 | Intro
Sine Die | Toll rate approval by the State Corporation Commission under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988. Requires the State Corporation Commission to ensure that the cost of operating tolled roadways under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 19...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; fees for disclosure packets by associations not professionally managed. Provides that an association that is not professionally managed may act as a professionally managed association only upon complying with specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1482 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the United States Constitution gives the states ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2018 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Alternative Energy and Coastal Protection Act. Requires the Governor to seek to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or other carbon trading program with an open auction of carbon allowances. The Department of Environmental Quality is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Instructional positions; students identified as having limited English proficiency. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support 20 full-time equivalent instructional positions for each 1,000 students ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1722 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds colorectal cancer to, and removes rectal cancer from, the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1701 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory (FOIA) Council; membership. Increases the membership of the FOIA Council from 12 to 13. The bill increases the number of nonlegislative citizen appointees made by the Speaker of the House of Delegates that rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1819 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; no-excuse, in-person. Allows qualified voters to vote absentee in person without providing an excuse for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the statutory list of specific reasons allowing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR710 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor; enter into agreements regarding Medicaid services, benefits, and programs. Encourages the Governor to enter into an agreement with the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to extend to all eligible residents of the Commonwealth the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR749 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census of the United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | Third or subsequent violation of family abuse protective order; private security services. Authorizes courts, upon a defendant's third or subsequent violation of certain family abuse protective orders against the same victim, to modify such order to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2208 | Intro
Sine Die | Food stamp program; electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card. Requires that each EBT card issued to a food stamp program recipient display a photograph of the recipient. The bill directs the Department of Social Services to (i) establish procedures to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB2320 | Intro
Sine Die | Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction Act of 2017. Establishes the Commonwealth as a Nonfederal Sponsor of Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction Projects. The bill also establishes the Virginia Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction Authority, a Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1499 | Intro
Sine Die | Apportionment of income; corporate income tax. Makes several changes to the current method used by multistate corporations to apportion income to Virginia for purposes of the corporate income tax, including (i) establishing sales as the sole factor t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1683 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited public carrying of certain firearms; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of a loaded shotgun or rifle in places open to the public in certain cities and counties. Current law prohibits the carrying in such locations of certain loaded firearms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord to inspect vacated dwelling unit for abandoned animals; penalty. Requires a landlord who knows or should have known that a dwelling unit has been vacated to inspect such dwelling unit within two ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1918 | Intro
Sine Die | Acute psychiatric patient registry. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop and administer a web-based acute psychiatric patient registry to collect, aggregate, and display de-identified information about ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2349 | Intro
Sine Die | Bioengineered foods; GMO content; genetically modified fish; labeling. Requires certain products containing a genetically modified organism (GMO) to bear a label stating, "Congress prohibits states from requiring the on-package labeling of the GMO co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2085 | Intro
Sine Die | Petition for writ of actual innocence. Provides that a person may petition for a writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence regardless of the type of plea he entered at trial. Under current law, a person may petition for a writ based on bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1473 | Intro
Sine Die | Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (the Act). The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks' gestation unless, in reasonable medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1655 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentencing guidelines; appeals. Allows a court's failure to file the required written explanation deviating from the discretionary sentencing guidelines to be reviewable on appeal, provided that the sentence imposed exceeded the maximum of the senten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2098 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to possession of certain firearms by minors; parental permission; penalty.Requires any minor who possesses certain firearms in the home or on the property of his parent, grandparent, or legal guardian to have prior permission from such paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1633 | Intro
Sine Die | Careless driving; cause of injury to vulnerable road user. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and shall have his license suspended who operates a motor vehicle in a careless or distracted manner and is the proximate cause of se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1860 | Intro
Sine Die | Aboveground storage tanks; fund; civil and criminal penalties. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) to regulate aboveground storage tanks that measure more than 5,000 gallons in capacity and are used to contain dangerous substances other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Discovery in criminal cases; duty to provide. Provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth, upon written notice by an accused to the court and to the attorney for the Commonwealth, must permit the accused to inspect, copy, or photograph (i) any re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1398 | Intro
Sine Die | Hate crimes; acts against law-enforcement officers, firefighters, and EMS personnel. Expands the definition of hate crime for the purpose of reporting hate crimes within the Department of State Police to include acts against persons employed as law-e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1575 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; oyster dredge; sanctuary area. Provides that the prohibition against carrying an oyster dredge except when traveling to or from (i) the licensed oyster ground or (ii) maintenance docks does not bar the carrying of a dredg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1792 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms; shared residence. Exempts a person prohibited from possessing a firearm due to a felony conviction from such prohibition if he is in constructive possession of a firearm owned by another person by virtue of sharing a residence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
