| SB1512 | Pass | Charitable gaming; conduct of games; special permits. Authorizes the Charitable Gaming Board to grant special permits to qualified organizations to replace (i) an approved game that falls on a legal holiday or (ii) an approved game that has been canc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| SB1594 | Pass | Conservators of the peace; investigator employed by an attorney for the Commonwealth. Designates an investigator who is employed by an attorney for the Commonwealth as a conservator of the peace, provided that such investigator was an active law-enfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| HB1994 | Pass | Board of zoning appeals. Clarifies that provisions that currently state that appeal costs may not be awarded against the locality unless it appears to the court that the locality acted in bad faith also apply to the governing body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| SB1343 | Pass | Reimbursement for cost of guardian ad litem. Codifies the requirement that, for cases in which a guardian ad litem has been appointed to represent a child, a judge shall order a parent, or other party with a legitimate interest who has filed a petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| SB1202 | Pass | Commercial Space Flight Authority. Requires the Executive Director of the Commercial Space Flight Authority (the Authority) to develop and present to the Authority's board of directors (the Board) every four years a six-year strategic plan for its ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB1912 | Pass | Absentee voting; eligibility of persons granted protective order. Entitles a person to vote absentee if the person has been granted a protective order issued by or under the authority of any court of competent jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| SB1136 | Pass | Money transmitters; investments. Permits the aggregate dollar amount of the outstanding stored value products of a licensed money transmitter to be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Such licensees are required to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| SB1108 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; culinary walking tour permit. Creates a new permit that allows tour companies guiding individuals for compensation on a culinary walking tour to licensed on-premises retail establishments to collect as one fee from tour pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| HB1697 | Pass | Extension of approvals to address housing crisis. Extends the sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2020. The bill also expands the scope of such measures that will be subject to the exte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB1573 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; licenses; revocation. Provides that when the Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) revokes a fishing license for a violation of the tidal fisheries law, it shall revoke only the particular type of license that is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| HB2395 | Pass | Public schools; dyslexia advisor. Requires one reading specialist employed by each local school board that employs a reading specialist to have training in the identification of and the appropriate interventions, accommodations, and teaching techniqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| HB1654 | Pass | Examining and approving a statement in lieu of the settlement of accounts; fee for commissioner of accounts. Removes the provision that allows the commissioner of accounts to charge a fee of up to $75 for the examination and approval of a statement i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| HB2230 | Pass | Stock corporations; shareholders' meetings. Authorizes the board of directors of a stock corporation to determine that any meeting of shareholders not be held at any place and instead be held by means of remote communication, if the articles of incor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| SB1180 | 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] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB1158 | Pass | Insurance; reciprocals. Allows a foreign reciprocal to obtain a license to transact the business of insurance in the Commonwealth if an affiliate of the foreign reciprocal is licensed to write the class of insurance it proposes to write in Virginia a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB1874 | Pass | Search warrants; customer records from financial institutions. Provides that a search warrant for records pertaining to a customer of a financial institution, money transmitter, commercial business that provides credit reports, or credit card issuer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| SB1501 | Pass | Victim's right to notification of scientific analysis information. Provides that for any physical evidence recovery kit that was received by a law-enforcement agency prior to July 1, 2016, and submitted for analysis, the victim, a parent or guardian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| HB2347 | Pass | Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund; limitation on use of moneys from the Fund. Provides that unless an exception has been granted by the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, moneys in the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund shall not be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| SB1498 | Pass | Punitive damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers; evidence. Extends to blood tests performed by the Department of Forensic Science pursuant to a search warrant the rebuttable presumption in civil cases for punitive damages for injuries cau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| SB1154 | Pass | Providing support to terrorist organizations; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly provides any material support to an individual or organization whose primary objective is to commit an act of terrorism and does so with the intent to furth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB1074 | Pass | Automobile clubs; insurance. Provides that a service agreement offered by an automobile club does not constitute insurance. The measure also provides that the types of services related to motor travel or to the operation, use, or maintenance of a mot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| SB1573 | Pass | Appraisal management companies; compensation to appraisers. Requires that an appraisal management company compensate the appraiser within 30 days of the initial delivery by the appraiser of the completed appraisal report, except in the case of breach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| SB1494 | Pass | Transportation network company; brokers. Allows brokers to arrange rides with transportation network company (TNC) partner vehicles. The bill requires such brokers to be licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles and includes insurance requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB1479 | Pass | Claims; Keith Allen Harward. Provides relief in the amount of $1,548,439 to Keith Allen Harward, who was incarcerated from 1983 until 2016 after being convicted of first degree murder. In 2016 he was granted a Writ of Actual Innocence by the Supreme ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| HB1731 | Pass | Joint Commission on Administrative Rules; periodic review of exemptions from the Administrative Process Act. Requires the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, beginning November 1, 2017, on a schedule to be established by the Commission, to cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| SB1559 | Pass | Board of zoning appeals. Requires that the recipient of certain notices from the board of zoning appeals receive notice via registered mail to the last known address or usual place of abode of the property owner or its registered agent, if any, prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB2436 | Pass | Auditor of Public Accounts; online database; register of funds expended. Requires the Commonwealth Data Point website administered by the Auditor of Public Accounts to include information for major categories of spending for each state agency and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| SB1060 | Pass | Female genital mutilation; criminal penalty and civil action. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly circumcise, excise, or infibulate the labia major, labia minora, or clitoris of a minor. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| SB1118 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; firefighter trainees. Includes under the Line of Duty Act a person with a recognized membership status with a fire company or department who is enrolled in a Fire Service Training course offered by the Virginia Department of Fire Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| SB1276 | Pass | Dismissal of certain traffic violations for proof of compliance with law. Provides that a court may, in its discretion, dismiss a violation for failure to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of change of address, for failure to register, title, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| HB2296 | Pass | Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; identification of the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia. Directs the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to identify the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| SB1307 | Pass | Auditor of Public Accounts; online database; register of funds expended. Requires the Commonwealth Data Point website administered by the Auditor of Public Accounts to include information for major categories of spending for each state agency and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB1025 | Pass | Payment of estimated taxes by certain public service corporations; repeal. Repeals provisions requiring that certain public service corporations make payments of estimated state licenses taxes to the State Corporation Commission. The bill has a delay...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| HB1768 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; stress testing and reporting policies. Requires the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to formally adopt stress testing and additional reporting policies. The bill requires VRS to analyze and regularly report on projections ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| SB936 | Pass | Employees of constitutional officers; local leave benefits. Authorizes constitutional officers who have contracted with a county or city to grant vacation and sick leave to their employees under the locality's benefits leave policy instead of the sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB1549 | Pass | Community services boards and behavioral health authorities; services to be provided. Provides that, effective July 1, 2019, the core of services provided by community services boards and behavioral health authorities shall include (i) same-day acces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB1548 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; Virginia Sheriffs' Association. Provides that a public body may purchase from the contract of the Virginia Sheriffs' Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB1396 | Pass | Charter; Town of Grottoes. Authorizes the town council to appoint a member to the office of vice-mayor, to serve in the event of the mayor's absence or inability to act. This bill is identical to SB 786.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| HB2144 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; membership; effect of missing meetings. Increases the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council from 12 members to 14 members by adding one additional member from the House of Delegates and one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| SB1412 | Pass | Parental leave benefits. Creates a new program of parental leave benefits for full-time state employees with one or more years of continuous employment with the Commonwealth who (i) adopt an infant under one year of age or (ii) are the natural father...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| HB2360 | Pass | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; procurement of information technology; compliance with federal laws and regulations pertaining to information security and privacy. Requires the Chief Information Officer of the Virginia Information Technolog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB1832 | Pass | Negotiable instruments; statute of limitations. Provides that the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code establishing a six-year limitations period on actions to enforce the obligation of a party to pay the instrument apply to negotiable and non-n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| SB1210 | Pass | Civil action for unlawful creation of image of another or unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another. Creates a civil cause of action against an individual who knowingly and intentionally (i) creates any videographic or still image of any no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB1876 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public access to library records of minors. Excludes from mandatory disclosure library records that can be used to identify any library patron under the age of 18 years. The bill provides that access shall not be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB1516 | Pass | Public schools; dyslexia advisor. Requires one reading specialist employed by each local school board that employs a reading specialist to have training in the identification of and the appropriate interventions, accommodations, and teaching techniqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB1342 | Pass | District courts; attorney fees. Provides that the jurisdictional limit for general district courts does not include any attorney fees. The bill requires that the amount of an appeal bond required for appeals from a district court include any amount a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| SB946 | Pass | Appeal to Supreme Court; time frame for filing of petition. Expresses the time frame within which petitions for appeal from a final judgment of a trial court or the State Corporation Commission to the Supreme Court shall be filed, currently expressed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB1359 | Pass | Local school boards; school buildings; potable water; lead testing. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a plan to test for lead and, if necessary, remediate potable water from sources identified by the U.S. Environmental Protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB947 | Pass | Petition for appeal to Supreme Court; time period within which petition must be presented. Authorizes the Supreme Court of Virginia to grant a 30-day extension of the deadline for presentation of the petition for appeal in all cases for good cause sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| HB2146 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); Freedom of Information Advisory Council; online public comment form. Requires the Freedom of Information Advisory Council to develop an online public comment form to be posted on its official public governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
