| SB1033 | Pass | Notification requirement; breach of payroll data. Requires employers and payroll service providers to notify the Office of the Attorney General without unreasonable delay after discovery of a breach of computerized employee payroll data that compromi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB1968 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; administration of Small Business Investment Grant Fund. Makes changes to the Small Business Investment Grant Fund to make it easier for investor applicants to qualify for grants and provide more benefits f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| HB1609 | Pass | Nurse practitioner as expert witness; scope of activities. References the specific Code section outlining the scope of a nurse practitioner's activities in the context of the current provision that authorizes a nurse practitioner to testify as an exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| SB1530 | Pass | Policy of the Commonwealth regarding the employment of individuals with disabilities; responsibilities of state agencies; report. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to promote and increase the employment of individuals with disabiliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| HB1811 | Pass | Initial hearings on a summons for unlawful detainer; amendments of amount requested on summons for unlawful detainer; immediate issuance of writs of possession in certain case judgments; written notice of satisfaction rendered in a court not of recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| SB1169 | Pass | Minimum city population required to enforce certain ordinance violations. Decreases from 90,000 to 40,000 the minimum population of cities whose parking, stopping, and standing ordinances may provide that summonses and tickets for violations of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| SB1320 | Pass | Admissions tax; Washington County. Authorizes Washington County to impose a tax on admissions to a multi-sports complex and entertainment venue that (i) is located on land that contains at least 250 acres and (ii) is in business on or before June 30,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| SB1431 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; economic impact analysis; opportunity for comment by affected businesses or other entities. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to revise and reissue its economic impact analysis within the time limits set forth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| SB1527 | Pass | Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program; grants. Makes several changes to the Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program, including adding requirements that (i) each student eligible for the Program receive a grant from the institution's appropriations fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| SB1100 | Pass | New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Program; reporting. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include in its annual report on the New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Program information on the wages of students who have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| HB2274 | Pass | Condominium Act; resale by purchaser; designation of authorized representative. Provides that unless expressly authorized by the Condominium Act or the condominium instruments or as otherwise provided by law, no unit owners' association may require t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| HB1610 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule I. Adds certain chemical substances to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances to Schedule I in an expedited regulatory process. A substance added via this process is removed fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB2300 | Pass | Department of Health; frequency of inspections. Provides that in cases in which inspections of emergency medical services agencies and vehicles, hospitals, hospices, home care organizations, restaurants, summer camps, campgrounds, and hotels are requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| SB1021 | Pass | Failure to obey highway sign; driver stopped on highway shoulder to sleep or rest; prepayable offense. Provides that a violation of a highway sign where a driver has parked or stopped his vehicle on the shoulder of the highway in order to sleep or re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB2397 | Pass | Candidate petitions; signature requirements for candidates in certain towns. Requires petitions for candidates for the governing body or elected school board of towns to contain a minimum of (i) 125 signatures of qualified voters in towns with more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| SB1538 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; SWaM program; participation of employment services organizations. Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to employment services organizations shall be credited toward the small business, women-owned, and min...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| SB950 | Pass | Nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles. Eliminates the requirement that nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles have incurred damage that exceeds 90 percent of their cash value prior to such damage to meet the definition of nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| HB2243 | Pass | Line of Duty Act. Clarifies provisions of the Line of Duty Act, including clarifying that suspension or reinstatement of health insurance benefits begins and ends at the beginning of a health insurance plan year rather than in the middle of a plan ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB2137 | Pass | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional transportation plan. Requires the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (the Authority) to annually publish on its website any land use or transportation elements of a locality's comprehensive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| HB2425 | Pass | Policy of the Commonwealth regarding the employment of individuals with disabilities; responsibilities of state agencies; report. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to promote and increase the employment of individuals with disabiliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| HB2255 | Pass | State junior bear hunting license; fee. Creates a junior bear hunting license, separate from the combined big game hunting and junior hunting licenses, for any resident under the age of 16. The fee for such license is $5.50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| HB2302 | Pass | Board of Veterans Services; membership; duties. Removes requirements regarding specific areas of expertise for members appointed to the Board of Veterans Services (the Board) by the Governor. The bill also (i) extends the number of consecutive terms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| HB2469 | Pass | Zoning; delinquent charges. Provides that the local treasurer may give authorization in an instance where a land use applicant is required to first provide satisfactory evidence that various taxes or charges have been paid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| HB1508 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; critical incident reports; licensed programs. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to provide a written report setting forth the known facts of serious i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| HB1996 | Pass | Incompetent defendants; psychiatric treatment. Requires that a defendant who is found incompetent to stand trial for a crime and who is ordered to receive treatment to restore his competency at an inpatient hospital be transferred to and accepted by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| SB1122 | Pass | Applicants for public assistance; contact information. Requires local departments of social services to collect from every applicant for public assistance alternative contact information, such as the applicant's email address and cell phone number, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| HB2249 | Pass | Prior authorization of bonds to fund certain revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher learning; Virginia State University. Expands the scope of a revenue-producing capital project at Virginia State University funded by a prior bon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB1098 | Pass | Public schools; standards for accreditation. Requires that the regulations establishing standards for accreditation adopted by the Board of Education ensure that the accreditation process is transparent and based on objective measurements and that an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| SB1274 | Pass | Local license taxes; exemption for certain defense production businesses. Clarifies that the exemption for wholesale manufacturers from local license taxes includes a manufacturer that is also a defense production business selling manufacturing, rebu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| SB1159 | Pass | Public schools; career and technical education credential. Provides that the career and technical education credential, when required for high school graduation, adult education, or an alternative education plan, may be satisfied with the successful ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| SB804 | Pass | Retail sales and use tax; media-related exemptions. Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2022, the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for printing purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so long as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| HB1799 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy to deschedule or reschedule controlled substances. Authorizes the Board of Pharmacy (Board) to designate, deschedule, or reschedule as a controlled substance any substance 30 days after publication in the Federal Register of a final...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| SB886 | Pass | Gas severance tax. Extends the sunset date from January 1, 2018, to January 1, 2020, for the local gas severance tax that is dedicated to (i) the local Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund, (ii) the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Fund, and (ii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB2113 | Pass | Notification requirement; breach of payroll data. Requires employers and payroll service providers to notify the Office of the Attorney General without unreasonable delay after discovery of a breach of computerized employee payroll data that compromi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| SB869 | Pass | Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; sunset. Extends the sunset date of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2020, and makes a technical correction to the reporting requirement of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| SB880 | Pass | Genetic counselors; licensing; grandfather clause. Extends the deadline from July 1, 2016, to December 31, 2018, or to within 90 days of the effective date of the relevant regulations promulgated by the Board, whichever is later, by which individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| HB2111 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; charges for copies. Clarifies that the State Corporation Commission (Commission) may absorb some or all of the convenience fees paid by users of a Commission online filing system. The measure also grants the Commission t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| HB2219 | Pass | Real property tax; deferral; Stafford County. Allows Stafford County, by ordinance, to restrict the deferral of real property taxes authorized under current law to a taxpayer's sole dwelling whose tax levy for 2016 exceeded the tax levy for 2015 by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| SB1328 | Pass | Enterprise zone grants and tax credits; qualified real property improvement expenditures. Provides that an expenditure for an improvement to real property may qualify for a grant or tax credit regardless of whether it is capitalized or deducted as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB2154 | Pass | Running bamboo; cutting by localities; ordinance prohibiting spread; designation of certain plants as noxious weeds; civil penalties. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance requiring proper upkeep of running bamboo and prohibiting the spread o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB1662 | 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] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| SB894 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; critical incident reports; licensed programs. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to provide a written report setting forth the known facts of serious i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| HB1471 | Pass | Reinsurance credits. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to adopt regulations specifying additional requirements relating to or setting forth the valuation of assets or reserve credits, the amount and forms of security supporting certain rein...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB2108 | Pass | Virginia Wireless Services Authority Act; rates and charges. Provides that a wireless services authority may fix rates, fees, and charges for services provided, or facilities owned, operated, or maintained by the authority, for which the authority ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| HB2067 | Pass | Decertification of law-enforcement officers; notification. Requires persons obligated to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board when a law-enforcement officer or jail officer has committed an act or been convicted of a crime that requires decerti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB2462 | Pass | Inpatient psychiatric hospital admission; defendant found incompetent. Removes the prohibition on inpatient psychiatric hospital admission for defendants who have already been ordered to receive treatment to restore their competency to stand trial. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| HB2364 | Pass | Public officers; automatic suspension upon conviction of felony. Provides that any officer who is convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or the United States shall be automatically suspended upon such conviction, regardless of any appeals,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| SB1487 | Pass | Public officers; automatic suspension upon conviction of felony. Provides that any officer who is convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or the United States shall be automatically suspended upon such conviction, regardless of any appeals,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| SB906 | Pass | Introduction of snakehead fish; penalty. Prohibits the introduction of snakehead fish from any location into state waters. Current law only prohibits the introduction of snakehead fish from outside the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| HB2066 | Pass | Criminal history record information; National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact of 1998. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact of 1998. The Compact allows member states to exchange criminal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
