| HB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; adjusted for inflation. Adjusts Virginia's individual income tax brackets, standard deduction, and personal exemption amounts annually beginning with the 2016 taxable year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB838 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of professions, occupations, and trades; criminal history. Provides that questions related to an applicant's criminal history on any application for licensure, certification, registration, or authority shall be limited to those crimes that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Voluntary listing of certain family day homes. Provides for the voluntary inclusion of certain family day homes that provide care for fewer than five children on a list of family day homes maintained by the Department of Social Services (the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1019 | Intro
Sine Die | Educational improvement scholarships tax credit program; Educational improvement scholarships tax credit program; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Modifies the educational improvement scholarships tax credit program by including as eligible scholarship ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Public safety answering points; deployment of text-to-9-1-1. Requires each public safety answering point (PSAP) by July 1, 2019, to be able to receive and process calls for emergency assistance sent via text message.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Electronic Communications Privacy Act; report. Prohibits a state or local government agency from taking certain actions relating to access to electronic communication information from a service provider, access to electronic device informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| SB488 | Engross
Sine Die | Pilot project for mixed beverage licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; alternative calculation for the 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio based on price paid by the licensee. Creates a two-year pilot project that directs participating mix...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer finance companies; motor vehicle title loans. Prohibits any consumer finance company from making loans secured by a non-purchase money security interest in a motor vehicle at any location where a motor vehicle title lender is authorized to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB839 | Intro
Sine Die | State Library Board; retention of surveillance videos. Requires the State Library Board to revise the retention schedule for surveillance videos, including visual or audiovisual recordings by license plate readers and body-worn camera systems utilize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB956 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices by certain towns. Provides that in any town within the Counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William, legal notices may be published on the locality's website instead of in a newspaper having general circulation in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority established. Establishes the Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority, to be governed by a 10-member board, for the purpose of developing and implementing a program by which each individual who incurred ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Withholding for individual income tax. Allows an employee to determine his taxes to be withheld for income tax purposes using anticipated itemized deductions in lieu of the standard deduction under the Code of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Reckless driving; right to appeal. Extends from 10 days to one year from the date of conviction the time during which a person who is convicted of a misdemeanor offense of reckless driving has a right to appeal such conviction if he was tried in his ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Child day programs; exemptions from licensure. Exempts from the child day program licensure requirements any martial arts program operated during the summer months if children under the age of five do not attend, the program operates between the hour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB669 | Engross
Sine Die | Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes. Provides that cities and towns that receive highway maintenance payments from the Commonwealth based on moving-lane miles of highway will not have such payments reduced if moving-lane miles of highway are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1241 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards for guardians ad litem appointed in custody and visitation cases; certification form; substitute judges in custody and visitation proceedings. The bill requires a guardian ad litem appointed in a custody or visitation case to submit to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HR141 | Intro
Sine Die | Christian Heritage. Recognizes the influence of Christian heritage in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Rules Committee |
| HB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal notices; advertisement by locality. Allows localities with a population of 50,000 or greater to meet certain legal notice requirements by advertising on local radio or television stations or publishing on the locality's website instead of publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving; penalty. Expands the prohibition on manually entering multiple letters or text in a handheld communications device while operating a motor vehicle to also prohibit the manual selection of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1035 | Intro
Sine Die | Elderly care savings trust accounts established; administered by the Virginia College Savings Plan. Establishes Elderly care savings trust accounts established; administered by the Virginia College Savings Plan. Establishes elderly care savings trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; unlawful conversion of political contributions to personal use; penalty. Prohibits any person from converting any moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property that has been contributed to a candidate, a ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation of ground water. Directs the State Water Control Board to establish a voluntary ground water conservation incentive program. The program is designed to provide incentives to those ground water permittees who agree to adopt measures that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Energy Storage Consortium. Establishes the Virginia Energy Storage Consortium as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth for the purpose of positioning the Commonwealth as a leader in research, development, commercialization, manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Void provisions of contracts for sale or lease of consumer goods or services. Prohibits a contract for sale or lease of consumer goods or services from containing a provision requiring a consumer to waive his right to make a statement regarding the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1021 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid nonemergency transportation providers; background checks. Requires every provider with whom the Department of Medical Assistance Services enters into a contract for the provision of nonemergency transportation services to individuals eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Standard deduction; adjusted for inflation. Adjusts the individual income tax standard deduction annually beginning with the 2017 taxable year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), for all items, from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirements for use of Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirements for use of construction management. Restricts the use of construction management procurements by public bodies unless (i) the total project cost is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1133 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave pilot program. Establishes a pilot program under which employers with 50 or fewer employees may volunteer to participate. Participating employers agree to provide to full-time employees paid sick days, to be accrued at a rate of no le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Education; effect of local use value assessment of certain real estate on the Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Requests the Department of Education to (i) determine, for each of the 95 localities that have adopted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; conduct of bingo games. Increases from two to four the number of days per week on which bingo games may be conducted. The bill provides that this four-day limitation does not apply to any building or other premises owned by (i) a q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (the Act). The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Death penalty; severe mental illness. Provides that a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness, which is defined in the bill, at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty. The bill establishes procedures for det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Limited liability companies; series. Authorizes an operating agreement of a limited liability company (LLC) to establish or provide for the establishment of a designated series of members, managers, or interests having separate rights, powers, or dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; deduction for seniors. Modifies the income deduction for seniors by increasing the amount from $12,000 to $13,000 and indexing the income restrictions to inflation. The bill is effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of gas emission from certain landfills. Requires all active sanitary landfills that hold a Title V operating permit issued by the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board and are located within one-half mile of any residence or residentially zone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB897 | Engross
Sine Die | Revocation and suspension of registration of tow truck drivers. Provides that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall not revoke or suspend the registration of a tow truck driver convicted of a violent crime if such tow truck driver's civil rights hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1080 | Intro
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems. Clarifies that designs for treatment works from individuals licensed as professional engineers shall comply with horizontal setback requirements applicable to public and private drinking water sources, lakes and other impounded...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Practice of chiropractic; scope. Expands the scope of the practice of chiropractic to include performing the physical examinations required of applicants for a new commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit or a renewal of such licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals. Requires investor-owned electric utilities, cooperative electric utilities, and investor-owned natural gas distribution utilities to me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1193 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; probation and parole officers. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Line of Duty Act to include probation and parole officers whose death occurs as a direct or proximate result of the performance of their duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Local meals and food and beverage taxes; exemption. Provides that the exemption from local meals taxes for sales of meals for fundraising purposes by certain organizations applies when the revenues are used by an entity exempt from income tax pursuan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Fire Programs Fund. Increases the rate of the assessment for the Fire Programs Fund from one to 1.4 percent of the total direct gross premium income for fire and related lines of insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB401 | Engross
Sine Die | Crohn's disease, colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome; identification cards and information. Directs the Department of Health to develop a process for issuing identification cards to individuals diagnosed by a health care provider as having Crohn's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; conduct of instant bingo, network bingo, pull tabs, and seal cards. Removes the requirement that the playing of instant bingo, network bingo, pull tabs, and seal cards games only occur when regular bingo games are played. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB178 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity. Requires the General Assembly, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to recognize the concealed handgun permit of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB978 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, and public hearings, etc.; alternatives. Gives localities alternatives to publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality for legal ads and other notices of pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Community energy programs. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives to establish a community energy program with a community subscriber organization. Under a community energy program, community subscribers and community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; licensure of laser hair removal technicians. Requires individuals who practice laser hair removal to be licensed by the Board of Medicine. The bill defines "laser hair removal" and establishes the Advisory Board on Laser Hair Remov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Problem-Solving Courts; established. Establishes the Problem-Solving Court Act (the Act). The bill allows the establishment of problem-solving courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering judi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
