| HB1602 | Intro
Sine Die | Invasion of privacy; civil action; damages; attorney fees and costs. Creates a civil cause of action for the physical and constructive invasion of privacy where a person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass, enters onto the land or into ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2091 | 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 |
| HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Planning and Budget; establishment of the Division of Regulatory Management and the Red Tape Reduction Commission; review of regulatory requirements; report. Creates the Division of Regulatory Management (the Division) within the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2309 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $11 per hour effective July 1, 2017, and to $15 per hour effective July 1, 2019, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2173 | Intro
Sine Die | Class size limits; grades six through 12; science laboratory classes. Establishes a maximum class size of 24 students in science laboratory classes in grades six through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of certain persons. Entitles a person to vote absentee if he is unable to go in person to the polls on the day of the election because he is primarily and personally responsible for a child or for an ill or disabled indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1833 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2420 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small business and microbusiness procurement enhancement program. Codifies the Governor's Executive Order 20 (2014) establishing a statewide small business and microbusiness procurement enhancement program. The bill e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1416 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Increases from $100,000 to $125,000 the sum payable out of the general fund to the beneficiary of a deceased law-enforcement officer or other person covered by the Line of Duty Act whose death occurred on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1755 | Intro
Sine Die | Step therapy protocols; disclosures. Requires health insurers that limit coverage for prescription drugs through the use of a step therapy protocol to have in place a process for a prescribing provider to request an override of the protocol for a pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2069 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjustment of local election district boundaries subsequent to decennial redistricting. Limits changes in election district boundaries in order to conform them to state legislative or congressional district boundaries to changes that affect no more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2398 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; pilot program; license. Directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish a pilot program to study and grow industrial hemp and to create a license for such program. The license is valid for three years and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2472 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; spirits tastings by distiller licensee. Increases the single sample size for tastings of spirits to one ounce or two ounces when served as a mixed beverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2211 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; investment by Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission. Authorizes the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to manage and invest the assets of the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2104 | Intro
Sine Die | Machinery and tools tax; valuation; appeal of certain local Machinery and tools tax; valuation; appeal of certain local taxes. Permits the commissioner of the revenue to utilize any method that may reasonably be expected to determine actual fair mark...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2122 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; construction. Allows public bodies to utilize cooperative procurement for construction projects not exceeding $200,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1583 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwestern Virginia Training Center; delay closure. Provides that the Southwestern Virginia Training Center shall remain open until June 30, 2019, and continue to accept new admissions of individuals with intellectual disabilities for whom treatmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1967 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; hybrid retirement program. Modifies the hybrid retirement program by (i) increasing the mandatory employer contribution to the defined contribution component from 1% to 2% of creditable compensation, (ii) decreasing the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2182 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; opt-out voter registration. Provides for the electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; tastings conducted by manufacturers, wine and beer wholesalers, and authorized representatives. Increases the amount allowed to be spent on the purchase of alcoholic beverages used in a tasting conducted by manufacturers, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1955 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration records; deadline extension. Provides for the extension of the date for the closing of the registration records in the event that a failure of the Virginia voter registration system occurs prior to the close of the registration rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1594 | Intro
Sine Die | Local election districts and precincts. Provides that any property line or subdivision boundary shown on an official local property map will constitute a "clearly observable boundary" for the purpose of constituting a district or precinct boundary. C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Requires school divisions to provide a health insurance credit of $4 per year of service to all retired members of local school divisions with at least 15 years of total creditable servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1813 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; assignment of benefits. Prohibits insurers issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, corporations providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1995 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in individuals of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1603 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of certain caregivers. Entitles a person to vote absentee if the person is unable to go in person to the polls on the day of the election because he is primarily and personally responsible for the care of an ill or disabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2088 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; opt-out voter registration. Provides for the electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2465 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; open-end credit Virginia Consumer Protection Act; open-end credit plans. Makes a violation of the requirements applicable to open-end credit plan lending a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2129 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; public employment, public accommodation, and housing; prohibited discrimination; sexual orientation. Prohibits discrimination in employment and public accommodation on the basis of sexual orientation. The bill defines "sexu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Student Loan Authority established. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Authority, to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program by which (i) each individual who incurred qualified education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | Riparian planting grounds lease; eligibility. Reduces from 205 feet to 105 feet the minimum low-water shore front that makes the landowner eligible to apply for riparian planting grounds assignment by the Commissioner of the Marine Resources Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2444 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential candidates; required statement regarding disclosure of federal tax returns and foreign payments and remuneration. Requires any person seeking the nomination for the office of President of the United States to submit a statement, signed u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2401 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; minutes of closed meetings required; audio recordings. Provides that a public body shall (i) take closed meeting minutes, (ii) also make an audio recording of the entirety of every meeting that is closed to the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1999 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of Immigrant Assistance created. Establishes in the Department of Social Services (the Department) an Office of Immigrant Assistance (the Office) to assist persons lawfully entering the United States and the Commonwealth for the purpose of bec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1872 | Intro
Sine Die | State employee health insurance plan; coverage for vision therapy. Requires the state employee health insurance plan to include coverage for vision therapy, defined in the bill as orthoptic or pleoptic training when medically necessary to diagnose, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2280 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter referendum; independent redistricting commission. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly should adopt a resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would establish an inde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1914 | Intro
Sine Die | Elected and appointed school board members; criminal Elected and appointed school board members; criminal history record information and child abuse and neglect data. Requires each individual who is elected or appointed to a school board to (i) submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1624 | Intro
Sine Die | Host Cities Economic Development Incentive and Host Cities Transportation Support Funds. Creates the Host Cities Economic Development Incentive Fund, administered by the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, to support economic development, growth of exis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end credit plan loans. Establishes requirements for open-end credit plan loans, which are revolving loans made under an open-end credit or similar plan under which a finance charge is imposed only if the obligor fails to repay the loan in full p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2458 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; reports. Makes changes to the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill (i) removes specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of lithotrip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1601 | Intro
Sine Die | Electors for President and Vice President; allocation of electoral votes by congressional district. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that a vote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1771 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour effective January 1, 2018, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Effective Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2068 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of persons with disabilities and persons age 65 or older. Entitles (i) persons with disabilities who are not reasonably able to go in person to the polls on election day and (ii) persons who will be age 65 or older on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1867 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Trust Fund; revenue deposits. Provides that 20% of annual recordation tax revenue in excess of $325 million shall be deposited into the Virginia Housing Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2357 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; eligibility. Extends the benefits of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program to the spouse or child of a veteran with at least a 90 percent permanent, service-rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Personnel Act; equal pay for equal work; policy of the Commonwealth. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth that there shall be no discrimination between state employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to state employees at a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2385 | Intro
Sine Die | Assessed court costs; electronic summons system. Requires, in any criminal or traffic case in which the Virginia State Police issued the summons, ticket, or citation, executed the warrant, or made the arrest for a violation of any statute, an additio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1915 | Intro
Sine Die | Student loan servicers; student loan ombudsman. Prohibits Student loan servicers; student loan ombudsman. Prohibits any person from acting as a student loan servicer without first obtaining a license from the State Corporation Commission (SCC) and es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Public contracts; civil liability; gender identity; sexual orientation. Prohibits agencies of the Commonwealth and other public bodies from requiring any contractor entering into a public contract to agree to additional nondiscrimination provisions w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1638 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; insurance; early termination of rental agreement. Prohibits a landlord from requiring a tenant to agree to a waiver of subrogation for damage or renter's insurance. The bill also (i) requires a landlord t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
