| HB1708 | Veto | Board of Education; standards of accreditation; industry certification credentials obtained by high school students. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to consider for inclusion in the student outcome measures included in the Standards of Ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1500 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 780, 2016 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03 (View Keeper of the Rolls' explanation for details) |
| HB1856 | Veto | Restitution; probation. Provides that for any offense that occurs on or after July 1, 2017, if restitution is ordered at the time of sentencing, the court shall place the defendant on an indefinite term of probation until all ordered restitution is p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB2442 | Veto | Local collection fees. Provides that an ordinance for collection of overdue accounts may also provide for the imposition of collection and administrative fees, not to exceed the amount provided for in § 58.1-3958. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1791 | Veto | Conspiracy; incitement, etc., to riot; public safety personnel; penalty. Provides that any person who conspires with others to cause or produce a riot against, or directs or incites other persons who participate in a riot to acts of force or violence... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB2168 | Pass | Virginia Coal Train Heritage Authority. Creates the Virginia Coal Train Heritage Authority (the Authority) with rights and powers to be exercised by a 25-member board, which will consist of three representatives from the governing body of each of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834) |
| HB2383 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ); combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Directs DEQ to identify the owner of any combined sewer overflow outfall that discharges into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and to determine w... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| HB2053 | Pass | Direct primary care agreements. Provides that a direct agreement between a patient, the patient's legal representative, or the patient's employer and a health care provider for ongoing primary care services in exchange for the payment of a monthly pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) |
| HB1854 | Pass | Lobbyist reporting, the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; filing of required disclosures; registration of lobbyists; candidate filings; judges; definition of gift; informal advi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| HB1960 | Pass | Tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators; requirements; penalties. Creates a civil penalty of $150 to be paid into the Literary Fund for any tow truck driver or towing and recovery operator convicted of improperly towing in Planning Distri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| HB1400 | Veto | Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School (the Board) as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the full-time virtual school programs offered to student... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB2101 | Pass | Health care providers; data collection. Defines "charity care" and "bad debt" as used in the context of certificate of public need, establishes a uniform framework for determining the value of charity care provided, and requires health care providers... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB1582 | Veto | Concealed handgun permits; age requirement for persons on active military duty. Allows a person at least 18 years of age but less than 21 years of age to apply for a concealed handgun permit if he is on active military duty or has received an honorab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB2191 | Veto | School boards; procedures; sexually explicit instructional materials or related academic activities. Requires each school board's procedures for handling challenged controversial instructional materials to include procedures for (i) annually notifyin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB1578 | Veto | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB1721 | Pass | State Board for Community Colleges; reduced rate tuition and mandatory fee charges; certain students who are active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States. Permits the State Board for Community Colleges to charge reduced rate tuition a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| HB1671 | Pass | Qualified projects of natural gas utilities. Exempts any natural gas utility serving fewer than 2,000 residential customers and fewer than 350 commercial and industrial customers in the year in which the utility makes an investment for qualifying pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) |
| HB2336 | Pass | Report of law-enforcement officer involved in accident. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who is listed as a driver in a motor vehicle accident report submitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles will not have the accident listed on his driv... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| HB2016 | Pass | Electric personal delivery devices. Allows for the operation of electric personal delivery devices on the sidewalks and shared-use paths and across roadways on crosswalks in the Commonwealth unless otherwise prohibited by a locality. The bill directs... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| HB1753 | Veto | Prohibit certain local government practices that would require contractors to provide certain compensation or benefits. Prohibits local governing bodies from establishing provisions related to procurement of goods, professional services, or construct... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB2411 | Veto | Health insurance; reinstating pre-Affordable Care Act provisions. Repeals provisions that were added, and restores provisions that were amended or repealed, by the General Assembly since 2011 in efforts to bring the laws of the Commonwealth in confor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1525 | Pass | Revocation or suspension of driver's licenses; laws of other jurisdictions. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles is limited to reviewing the text of another jurisdiction's law when determining whether a person's driver's... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| HB2149 | Pass | Registration of aircraft. Updates terminology by changing "license" to "registration" to better reflect the responsibility of the Department of Aviation to locate and count aircraft. The bill removes from the Virginia Aviation Board the power and dut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| HB1605 | Veto | Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established. Permits the parent of a public preschool, elementary, or secondary school student who meets certain criteria to apply to the school division in which the student resides for a one-year, renewabl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB2390 | Pass | Renewable energy power purchase agreements; pilot programs. Expands the pilot program for renewable energy power purchase agreements authorized under legislation enacted in 2013 by directing that a pilot program be conducted by Appalachian Power. Cur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| HB2014 | Pass | Board of Education; biennial review of the standards of quality; odd-numbered years. Changes from even-numbered years to odd-numbered years the biennial review of the standards of quality that is required of the Board of Education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| HB1851 | Pass | Assault and battery against a family or household member; deferred disposition; waiver of appeal. Provides that a person charged with a first offense of assault against a family or household member who consents to probation and a deferred disposition... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB1596 | Veto | Virginia Public Procurement Act; public works contracts; prevailing wage provisions. Prohibits state agencies from requiring bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors to pay, or require the payment of, wages, salaries, benefits, or other remu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB2017 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid, performance, and payment bonds; waiver by localities. Authorizes a locality, where the bid, performance, and payment bond requirements are waived, to waive the requirement for prequalification for a bidder or con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| HB2092 | Veto | Application for public assistance; eligibility; review of records. Requires entities processing applications for medical assistance and other public assistance to conduct a review of death records and records relating to incarceration status, employm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB2026 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; regulation of property carriers. Combines the current property carrier and bulk property carrier authorities and eliminates the current license requirement for property brokers. The bill eliminates the requirement for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HB2386 | Pass | Collection of unpaid court fines, etc. Increases the grace period after which collection activity for unpaid court fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution may be commenced from 30 days to 90 days after sentencing or judgment. The bill a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| HB2297 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; oyster planting grounds; notice of application for lease. Requires the Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) to post notice of an application to lease oyster planting grounds for 30 days on its website and to notif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) |
| HB1852 | Veto | Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB2002 | Veto | Department of Social Services; refugee and immigrant resettlements; report. Requires nonprofit resettlement agencies and their local affiliates that provide refugee or other immigrant resettlement services in the Commonwealth to annually report to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1532 | Pass | Fire Programs Fund. Increases the share of certain moneys in the Fire Programs Fund to be allocated to localities for the improvement of volunteer and career fire services from 75 percent to 80 percent. The measure does not become effective unless it... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| HB1411 | Pass | Withdrawal of privately retained counsel. Allows a privately retained counsel in a criminal case to withdraw from representation without leave of court after certification of a charge by a district court by providing written notice within 10 days of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| HB2342 | Veto | Public schools; regional charter school divisions. Authorizes the Board of Education (the Board) to establish regional charter school divisions consisting of at least two but not more than three existing school divisions in regions in which each unde... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1691 | Pass | Property conveyance; Department of Conservation and Recreation; Widewater Beach Subdivision. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convey certain real property in Stafford County to the Widewater Beach Subdivision Citizens Assoc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| HB1836 | Veto | Virginia Department of Transportation to maintain a certain segment of Spotsylvania Parkway beginning in 2020. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation, as of July 1, 2020, to take over maintenance of an approximately two-mile segment of Sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB2367 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority; Board of Commissioners. Provides that the 11 members of the Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Port Authority appointed by the Governor no longer serve at the pleasure of the Governor and may be removed prior to the expir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| HB1663 | Pass | Northern Virginia Community College; computer science training and professional development for teachers. Requires Northern Virginia Community College (i) in consultation with the Department of Education, to contract with a partner organization to de... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| HB2025 | Veto | Religious freedom; solemnization of marriage. Provides that no person shall be (i) required to participate in the solemnization of any marriage or (ii) subject to any penalty by the Commonwealth, or its political subdivisions or representatives or ag... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1432 | Veto | Carrying a switchblade knife; exception. Authorizes any person to carry a switchblade knife concealed when such knife is carried for the purpose of engaging in a lawful profession or lawful recreational activity the performance of which is aided by t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1829 | Pass | Teacher licensure; certification or training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the use of automated external defibrillators; hands-on practice. Specifies that the certification or training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmon... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| HB2198 | Veto | Coal tax credits. Reinstates the Virginia coal employment and production incentive tax credit. The credit, which expired on July 1, 2016, could be earned on and after January 1, 2017, but before January 1, 2022. The bill limits the aggregate amount o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB2105 | Pass | Investment of Public Funds Act; investment of funds in qualified investment pools. Authorizes a treasurer to act on behalf of his locality to become a participating political subdivision in qualified investment pools without an ordinance adopted by t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| HB1790 | Veto | Administrative Process Act; development and periodic review of regulations; report. Requires agencies to develop regulations in the least burdensome and intrusive manner possible and provides guiding principles for the development, adoption, and repe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 (67 affirmative votes required to override) |
| HB1539 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); public access to records of public bodies. Clarifies the definition of public record. The bill also (i) defines "personal contact information" that is excluded from FOIA's mandatory disclosure provisions in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| HB2324 | Pass | Payment of jurors; prepaid debit card or card account. Adds payment by credit to a prepaid debit card or card account to the methods by which a juror may be paid. The bill requires that, where such method is used, such card or card account permit the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799) |