| SB1564 | Pass | DUI; search warrants for blood withdrawals. Provides that an application for a search warrant to perform a blood test on a person suspected of committing a DUI-related offense shall be given priority over pending matters that do not involve an immine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| SB1459 | Pass | Discharge of treasurer; legal pleadings. Provides that the attorney for a locality may prepare and file any pleadings necessary in a proceeding to discharge the treasurer. If the locality does not have an attorney, or the attorney declines or is unab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| SB926 | Pass | Noise violations; civil penalties. Allows localities to authorize the chief law-enforcement officer in the locality to enforce a uniform schedule of civil penalties for violation of that locality's noise ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| HB2178 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); proprietary records and trade secrets; charitable gaming supplies. Expands the existing FOIA record exclusion for information of a proprietary nature furnished by a supplier of charitable gaming supplies to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| SB1588 | Pass | Sale of surplus property from the General Assembly Building replacement project; emergency. Requires the Department of General Services to conduct public sales or auctions of the surplus property, as defined in the bill, from the General Assembly Bui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| SB928 | Pass | Substitute judges. Removes the prohibition against substitute judges sitting in the courts in which they regularly practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| HB2422 | Pass | Insurance institutions and agents; notice of financial information collection and disclosure practices. Creates an exemption from the requirement that insurance institutions and agents provide policyholders with an annual notice of financial informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| HB2102 | Pass | Insurance regulation; corporate governance annual Insurance regulation; corporate governance annual disclosures. Requires each insurer domiciled in the Commonwealth, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, to submit to the State Corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB1257 | Pass | Two-way video testimony; forensic analysis and examination. Provides that any testimony offered by either party in a preliminary hearing or sentencing hearing, or offered by the accused in any hearing other than a trial, from a person who performed a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB2183 | Pass | Medicaid; eligibility of incarcerated individuals. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group to identify and develop processes for streamlining the application and enrollment process for the Commonwealth's program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0198) |
| HB2096 | Pass | Procurement; exemption for Virginia Industries for the Blind. Exempts from the requirements of the Public Procurement Act (? 2.2-4300 et seq.) the Virginia Industries for the Blind when procuring components, materials, supplies, or services for use i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB1393 | Pass | Electric utilities; community solar pilot programs. Requires Dominion Virginia Power and Appalachian Power to conduct a community solar pilot program for retail customers. A pilot program will authorize the participating utility to sell electric powe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| SB927 | Pass | Eminent domain; timing for initiation of "quick-take" condemnation procedure and petition for determination of just compensation. Provides that an authorized condemnor in a "quick-take" condemnation proceeding shall institute such proceedings within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| SB1228 | Pass | Virginia Fair Housing Law; rights and responsibilities with respect to the use of an assistance animal in a dwelling. Sets out the rights and responsibilities under the Virginia Fair Housing Law (§ 36-96.1 et seq.) with respect to maintaining an ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| HB2429 | Pass | Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms; petition to restore right. Provides that any person who is not a resident of the Commonwealth and who is prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting any firearm in the Commonwealth due ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| HB1941 | Pass | Immunity of persons; defamation; statements regarding matters of public concern communicated to a third party; statements made at a public hearing. Adds defamation to the causes of action from which a citizen shall be immune when making statements (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| HB1944 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services and Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; certain regulations. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to revise and reissue its economic impact analysis on proposed regulations o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| HB1570 | Pass | Local industrial development authority; Louisa County airports. Authorizes Louisa County, by ordinance, to empower a local industrial development authority to acquire, own, operate, and regulate the use of airports and related facilities. The bill au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560) |
| SB867 | Pass | Lien against person whose negligence causes injury; emergency medical services agency. Clarifies that whenever any person sustains personal injuries caused by the alleged negligence of another and receives emergency medical services and transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| SB1196 | Pass | James River State Scenic River designation. Extends the scenic river designation of a portion of the James River located in Botetourt and Rockbridge Counties from 14 miles to 59 miles. This bill is identical to HB 1454.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB2470 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule II and Schedule V. Adds thiafentanil to Schedule II of the Drug Control Act and brivaracetam to Schedule V of the Drug Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| SB868 | Pass | State Board of Social Services; complaints of child abuse or neglect where child is under the age of two. Requires the State Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations that require local departments of social services to respond to valid repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| SB913 | Pass | Uniform Trust Decanting Act; creation. Codifies the Uniform Trust Decanting Act, which governs a trustee's ability to distribute assets from one trust into a second trust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB1587 | Pass | Uniform Statewide Building Code; security of certain records. Provides that information contained in engineering and construction drawings and plans for any single-family residential dwelling submitted for the purpose of complying with the Uniform St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB1485 | Pass | Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; penalty. Includes in the list of certain sex offenses that prohibit a person convicted of such offenses from being or residing in proximity to schools and certain other property where children congregat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB1938 | Pass | Slingbow hunting; license. Authorizes the use of a slingbow to hunt deer and small game when a hunter is licensed to hunt with a bow and arrow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| HB2354 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Provides that school divisions located in Planning District 4, New River Valley, are not subject to the prohibition against hiring a school division emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| SB1005 | 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] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB1591 | Pass | Economic Development Access Program; bonded projects. Imposes a 48-month moratorium on the repayment of funds allocated to a locality for a bonded project pursuant to the Economic Development Access Program, provided that the conditions of the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| HB1650 | 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] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB1585 | Pass | Housing authorities; authorization by governing body of town. Provides that the governing body of a town, in addition to the governing body of a county or city as in current law, may authorize a housing authority to contract for the construction of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| HB1586 | Pass | Court-ordered custody and visitation arrangements; transmission of order to child's school. Provides that, in any custody or visitation case in which an order prohibiting a party from picking a child up from school is entered, the court shall order a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| SB1037 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures; local historic districts. Advises a prospective purchaser of residential property under the Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act, upon delivery of the residential property di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569) |
| SB1473 | Pass | Electric utilities; undergrounding distribution lines. Declares that the replacement of any subset of an investor-owned electric utility's existing overhead distribution tap lines that have, in the aggregate, an average of nine or more total unplanne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| SB1192 | Pass | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; powers of the Director; out-of-state applicants for certification as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. Requires, as a prerequisite for approval, that any out-of-state business apply...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| HB1796 | Pass | Oyster ground lease; certain dredging projects. Provides that certain oyster ground leaseholders in the Lynnhaven River are subject to the conduct of approved municipal dredging projects to restore existing navigation channels. The bill limits such p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| SB1374 | Pass | Board for Contractors; membership. Adds a professional engineer to the membership of the Board for Contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| HB2327 | Pass | DUI; implied consent; refusal of blood or breath tests. Eliminates the criminal penalties for refusing to submit to a blood test to determine the alcohol or drug content of a defendant's blood upon arrest for a DUI-related offense under the law on im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB1394 | Pass | Small agricultural generators. Establishes the parameters of a program under which small agricultural generators may sell the electricity generated from a small agricultural generating facility to its utility. Effective July 1, 2019, enrollment by el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| HB1992 | Pass | Lien priority. Inserts "real estate" in several places related to the priority of tax liens so that the operative language now reads "on a parity with liens for unpaid local real estate taxes." This bill is identical to SB 920.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| SB1363 | Pass | Secretary of Transportation to convene a task force to study the feasibility of establishing a statewide one-stop online portal for address changes; report. Requires the Secretary of Transportation or his designee to convene a task force to study the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| SB951 | Pass | School service providers; student access to collected personal information. Requires school service providers to provide, either directly to the student or his parent or through the school, access to an electronic copy of such student's personal info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| SB1429 | Pass | Charter; Town of Onley. Shifts the town's municipal elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| SB1332 | Pass | Official emblems and designations; "Song of the Mountains;" state television series. Designates "Song of the Mountains" as the state television series. This bill is identical to HB 1927.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| HB2209 | Pass | Emergency Department Care Coordination Program established. Establishes the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program in the Department of Health to provide a single, statewide technology solution that connects all hospital emergency departments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| HB2348 | Pass | Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote. Provides that the Virginia Historical Society shall plan and lead the commemoration of the centennial anniversary of women's right to vote in 2020. The bill creates a 12-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| SB1113 | Pass | Board for Contractors; optional bonding for Class A and B contractors. Allows applicants for Class A and Class B contractor licenses to demonstrate financial responsibility by posting a surety bond for both initial application for licensure and subse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| HB1477 | Pass | Cats and dogs; lifetime licenses. Authorizes the governing body of a county or city to provide for a lifetime dog or cat license. The bill removes the minimum annual tax for a dog or cat, sets the maximum tax for a lifetime license at $50, and limits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559) |
| SB990 | Pass | Electric energy consumption reduction goal; progress reports. Directs the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the staff of the State Corporation Commission, to report annually, commencing no later than December 15, 2018, on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| HB1450 | Pass | Pharmacy freedom of choice. Provides that if a pharmacy has provided notice through an intermediary of its agreement to accept reimbursements at rates applicable to preferred providers, the insurer or its intermediary may elect to respond directly to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
