| HB1969 | Pass | Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Program. Reduces from 50 percent to 35 percent the minimum percentage of revenues that a small business must derive from out-of-state sources in order to be eligible for grants from the Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| HB1537 | Pass | Active duty service; contract termination. Authorizes any member of the United States Armed Forces or Virginia National Guard who receives military orders to relocate for a period of service of at least 90 days, his spouse, or his dependent, at any t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| SB1229 | Pass | Issuance of a driver's license or learner's permit; minimum standards for vision tests. Increases the minimum visual acuity an applicant must possess for issuance of a driver's license or learner's permit from a field of 100 degrees of horizontal vis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279) |
| HB1883 | Pass | Occupational health and safety laws; amount of civil penalties. Increases the maximum amount of civil penalties that may be assessed by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry for certain violations of occupational safety and health laws from $7,000 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| HB1730 | Pass | Description of duties and responsibilities of local electoral boards; Department of Elections to provide annually to certain entities. Requires the State Board of Elections, with the cooperation of the local electoral boards and general registrars, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| HB2040 | Pass | Postsecondary schools; enrollment agreement. Prohibits postsecondary schools that are required to be certified by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council) from enrolling students without entering into an enrollment agreement w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| SB1580 | Pass | Charter; City of Petersburg. Updates and reorganizes the city's charter. Obsolete provisions are either repealed or updated, and numerous technical amendments are made. This bill is identical to HB 2464.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Bill text as passed Senate and House reprinted (SB1580ER) |
| HB1712 | Pass | Procurement; energy performance-based contracting. Authorizes a public body, defined as a contracting entity, to purchase energy conservation or operational efficiency measures from an energy performance-based contract entered into by another contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| SB1425 | Pass | Rights to resell tickets; civil penalty. Prohibits any person that issues tickets for admission to a professional concert, professional sporting event, or professional theatrical production, open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| HB2319 | Pass | National Flood Insurance Program; participation by localities; report. Requires the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue a report by November 1, 2018, listing any locality not participating in the Community Rating System of the National Flood Insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| HB2241 | Pass | Department of Transportation; Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment of the Secretary of Transportation; responsibilities. Shifts responsibilities for transportation planning activities from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| HB2257 | Pass | High school family life education curricula; elements of effective and evidence-based programs on consent. Provides that any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division may incorporate age-appropriate elements of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| HB1461 | Pass | Charter; Town of Quantico; town officers. Removes the town treasurer, town clerk, and town sergeant as officers of the town elected by the town council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| SB1523 | Pass | Teacher turnover; exit questionnaire; pilot program. Requires the Department of Education to develop and oversee a pilot program to administer across five geographically and demographically diverse school divisions the model exit questionnaire for te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB1556 | Pass | Real Estate Appraiser Board; evaluations. Allows a licensed residential real estate appraiser, certified residential real estate appraiser, or certified general real estate appraiser to provide an evaluation of real estate or real property in connect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| HB2167 | Pass | Boards of Dentistry and Medicine; regulations for the prescribing of opioids and buprenorphine. Directs the Boards of Dentistry and Medicine to adopt regulations for the prescribing of opioids and products containing buprenorphine. The bill requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| HB1656 | Pass | Health insurance; proton radiation therapy coverage decisions. Prohibits health insurance policies and plans from holding proton radiation therapy to a higher standard of clinical evidence for benefit coverage decisions than is applied for other type...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| HB2143 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); training provided by the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council. Requires the Freedom of Information Advisory Council to maintain on its website a listing of all FOIA officers, including name, con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| SB1148 | Pass | Authority to lease or convey airspace. Provides that the Commissioner of Highways has the authority to select any competitive procurement process for leases and conveyances of airspace and that he may reject any bid he believes is not in the best int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278) |
| SB1534 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; general education course credit; dual enrollment courses. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), in consultation with each public institution of higher education, to establish a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| HB1719 | Pass | Wireless E-911 Fund; distribution percentages. Postpones from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, the date by which the Department of Taxation is required to conduct its first recalculation of the percentage of funds in the Wireless E-911 Fund that is req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| HB1547 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries and graves. Directs the distribution of funds appropriated for such purpose to qualifying charitable organizations that preserve historical African American cemeteries established before 1900. The funding formul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| HB2106 | Pass | Virginia Board of Workforce Development. Revises the composition of the Virginia Board of Workforce Development (Board) to conform to requirements of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). One member shall be a representative of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| HB1746 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; possession and administration of epinephrine, insulin, and glucagon. Authorizes and provides liability protection for employees of a public or private institution of higher education who are authorized by a prescribe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| SB1069 | Pass | Titling out-of-state salvage vehicles. Provides a process by which the owner of a salvage vehicle that has been rebuilt, titled, and registered in another state may obtain a nonnegotiable title for such vehicle to operate on the highways of the Commo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277) |
| HB2278 | Pass | Virginia Tourism Authority; Cooperative Marketing Fund; eligibility. Provides that proposals for existing programs that have a measurable return on investment are eligible for matching grant funds under the Cooperative Marketing Fund. The bill also (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| SB944 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; possession and administration of epinephrine, insulin, and glucagon. Authorizes and provides liability protection for employees of a public or private institution of higher education who are authorized by a prescribe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| HB1888 | Pass | Use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons driving school buses. Allows school bus drivers to use, in addition to two-way radio devices, wireless telecommunications devices that are used hands free to communicate with school or public safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| HB1763 | Pass | Special license plates; highway safety. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of highway safety, including awareness of distracted driving. The bill exempts the plate from the requirement to obtain 450 prepaid applications ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| SB829 | Pass | Public schools; suspensions. Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards. This bill is identical to HB 1924.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| HB1467 | Pass | Board of Health to adopt regulations to include neonatal abstinence syndrome on the list of reportable diseases. Requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations to include neonatal abstinence syndrome on the list of diseases that shall be required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) |
| HB1475 | Pass | Common Interest Community Board; information on covenants; association disclosure packets. Requires the Common Interest Community Board to include in its current one-page form that accompanies association disclosure packets that are required to be pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| HB1616 | Engross
Sine Die | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass |
| HB1566 | Engross
Sine Die | Professions and occupations; regulatory boards. Establishes a statewide policy for the regulation of professions and occupations specifying criteria for government regulation with the objective of increasing opportunities, promoting competition, enco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass |
| HJR967 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Maria J. K. Everett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HR475 | Pass | Commending Virginia DeMolay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Bill text as passed House (HR475ER) |
| HB2251 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; optional defined contribution retirement plan. Requires the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to establish an optional defined contribution retirement plan for state and local employees. Participation in the plan is in lieu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass |
| 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 |
| SB1128 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; failure to respond to request for records; rebuttable presumption. Provides that there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a failure to respond to a request for records was willful and knowing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB1530 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations; appeals. Removes the exemption from the Administrative Process Act (the Act) currently gran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass |
| HB2264 | Veto | Department of Health; restrictions on expenditure of funds related to abortions and family planning services. Prohibits the Department of Health from spending any funds on an abortion that is not qualified for matching funds under the Medicaid progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
VOTE: SUSTAINED GOVERNOR'S VETO (62-Y 33-N) |
| SB1264 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act. Provides that a seller may be held liable for violations of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act that are committed by a third-party telemarketer under common law principles of agency when the third...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR981 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of William Henry Anderson, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1534 | Engross
Sine Die | Student discipline; long-term suspension. Reduces the maximum length of a long-term suspension from 364 calendar days to 90 school days. The bill prohibits a long-term suspension from extending beyond any 45 school day period unless the school princi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SJR388 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Kenneth Mason Easley, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HJR646 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Johnny S. Joannou.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| SB1554 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation district commissions; Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission. Provides that the membership of the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission shall consist of nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB1536 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; student discipline. Prohibits students in preschool through grade three from being suspended for more than five school days or expelled except for drug offenses, firearm offenses, or certain criminal acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass |
| HJR911 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Broad Run High School DECA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1692 | Engross
Sine Die | Effect of divorce proceedings; transfer of matters to the juvenile and domestic relations district court; concurrent jurisdiction. Provides that, where a circuit court enters a divorce decree and transfers certain matters to the juvenile and domestic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in Senate |
