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HB1008Engross

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Postrelease incarceration for violations of postrelease supervision. Clarifies that when a sentence is imposed upon conviction of a felony that includes an active term of incarceration and the court does not order a suspended term of confinement of a...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB757Engross

Sine Die
Sex offenders in emergency shelters; notification registration. Provides that a registered sex offender who enters an emergency shelter designated by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and operated in response to a declared state o...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1469Engross

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...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB661Engross

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First offense assault and battery against a family or household member; enhanced penalty. Provides that the deferral and dismissal of a first offense of assault and battery against a family or household member will be treated as a prior conviction fo...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB889Engross

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Tethering of dogs; local ordinance. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to adopt an ordinance restricting the tethering of a dog outdoors. The ordinance may limit the maximum number of hours or the weather conditions during which the dog ma...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass in House
HB1324Engross

Sine Die
Joint subcommittee of House and Senate Committees on Privileges and Elections to review gubernatorial appointments; membership. Provides for the Speaker of the House of Delegates to appoint the five delegates on the joint subcommittee of the House an...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB196Engross

Sine Die
Extensions of hearings to review findings by local departments of social services related to child abuse or neglect. Provides that a person who appeals a determination by a local department of social services related to child abuse or neglect to a he...
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2018-03-10
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
HB764Engross

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Consortium Comprehensive Cancer Center Advisory Board established. Establishes as an independent advisory board in state government a 13-member Consortium Comprehensive Cancer Center Advisory Board, consisting of the President of Virginia Commonwealt...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass in House
HB571Engross

Sine Die
Unlawful consumption, purchase, or possession of alcohol. Clarifies that it is an affirmative defense to a charge of unlawful consumption, purchase, or possession of any alcoholic beverage if the defendant shows that such consumption, purchase, or po...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1504Engross

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Virtual Virginia; enrollment. Requires enrollment in the Virtual Virginia online learning program during the school year to be open, on a space-available basis, to each public high school student in the Commonwealth and each high school student in th...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1405Engross

Sine Die
State Board of Elections; membership; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections (Board) from three members to six members and increases the terms of Board members from four years to six years. ...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1201Engross

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Health benefit plans offered by foreign health insurers. Authorizes any foreign health insurer to sell individual or group health benefit plans in the Commonwealth if it is approved to sell such plans in the foreign health insurer's domiciliary state...
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2018-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB366Engross

Sine Die
Restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Provides a mechanism for reporting to the Department of State Police when a circuit court restores a felon's right to possess, transport, and carry a firearm, ammunition for a firearm, or a stun...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1262Engross

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Department of General Services; disposition of surplus motor vehicles. Provides that the Department of General Services shall permit surplus motor vehicles to be donated prior to public sale or auction to Virginia community college educational founda...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB771Engross

Sine Die
Potomac Aquifer recharge monitoring; advisory board; Potomac Aquifer recharge monitoring; advisory board; laboratory established; SWIFT Project. Creates an advisory board and a laboratory to monitor the effects of the Sustainable Water Infrastructure...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1540Engross

Sine Die
Commission on Civic Education; sunset; membership. Extends the sunset provision of the Commission on Civic Education from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2020. The bill also increases the Commission's membership from 15 to 19 by adding one member of the Hou...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB769Engross

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Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB181Engross

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Distracted driving; handheld communications device. Provides that any person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway while using a handheld personal communications device where such use substantially diverts the driver's attention from the operatio...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB712Engross

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Naming highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities. Removes the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (the Board) to name any highway, bridge, interchange, or other transportation facility forming a part of the s...
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2018-03-10
To Senate Transportation Committee
HB1516Engross

Sine Die
Prostitution-related crimes; minors; penalties. Increases to a Class 6 felony from a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalties for the following crimes if a minor is involved: (i) keeping, residing in, or visiting a bawdy place; (ii) aiding prostitution; and...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB424Engross

Sine Die
Animal shelters; vaccinations; administration of biological products. Authorizes the operator or custodian of a public animal shelter to vaccinate animals that are confined in such shelter to prevent the risk of communicable diseases. The bill also p...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB685Engross

Sine Die
Cybersecurity Student Loan Repayment Grant Program established; report. Establishes the Cybersecurity Student Loan Repayment Grant Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (the Council), whereby renewable gran...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1336Engross

Sine Die
Spoliation of evidence; jury instruction. Provides that if a party has possession, custody, or control of evidence, as specified in the bill, that such party knows or reasonably should know may be material to pending or probable litigation, and such ...
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2018-03-10
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB934Engross

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Medical and mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent. Establishes a process for the sheriff or administrator in charge of a local or regional correctional facility to petition a court to authorize medical or mental health trea...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1580Engross

Sine Die
Violation of protective order or stalking; third or subsequent offense; penalty. Expands the offenses for which a conviction of a third or subsequent offense, when the offense is committed within 20 years of the first conviction and when either the i...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1086Engross

Sine Die
Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads; membership. Adds three legislative members, two from the House of Delegates and one from the Senate, to the Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads. The bill provides that nonlegislativ...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass in House
HB337Engross

Sine Die
Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform; membership. Removes the Speaker of the House of Delegates as a permanent member of the Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform and increases the number of Delegates ...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1440Engross

Sine Die
Schedule I and Schedule II drugs. Adds MT-45 (1-cyclohexyl-4-(1,2-diphenylethyl)piperazine) to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act and Dronabinol [(-)-delta-9-trans tetrahydrocannabinol] in an oral solution in a drug product approved for marketing by ...
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2018-03-10
Failed to pass
HB1558Engross

Sine Die
Electric utility regulation. Provides that, in lieu of the biennial review proceedings previously required, Dominion Energy Virginia (DEV) and Appalachian Power (APCo) will be subject to triennial reviews of their rates, terms, and conditions for gen...
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2018-03-09
Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N)
HB1041Engross

Sine Die
Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; lot owner rights. Provides lot owners the right to be informed of the count and outcome of a vote on any matter requiring a vote by a property owners' association's membership in proportion to the lot owner'...
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2018-03-07
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N)
HB885Engross

Sine Die
Onsite sewage systems; authority of the Board of Health. Clarifies that the Board of Health shall have supervision and control over the maintenance, inspection, and reuse of conventional onsite sewage systems as well as alternative onsite sewage syst...
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2018-03-07
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB1233Engross

Sine Die
Apprentice agreements; ratio of apprentices to journeymen. Prohibits the Apprenticeship Council from adopting standards for apprenticeship agreements governing the numeric ratio of journeymen to apprentices that require more than one journeyman for t...
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2018-03-06
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N)
HB122Engross

Sine Die
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; civil penalty. Adds a definition of "personal use" and prohibits the use of contributions, or conversions of items acquired using contributions, to a candidate or campaign committee for a strictly personal p...
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2018-03-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB741Engross

Sine Die
Virginia Division of Human Rights; informal determinations inadmissible in civil action. Provides that any informal determination made by the Virginia Division of Human Rights, prior to a public hearing held pursuant to §2.2-520, as a result of ...
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2018-03-05
Chair votes No
HB622Engross

Sine Die
Sex offenses prohibiting entry onto school property; penalty. Provides that an adult who has been convicted of any felony offense for which registration on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required where the victim of the offens...
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2018-03-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB525Engross

Sine Die
Carnal knowledge of pretrial or posttrial offender; bail bondsmen; penalty. Increases to a Class 6 felony from a Class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for an owner or employee of a bail bond company that posted bond for a person to carnally know such perso...
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2018-03-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1606Engross

Sine Die
Certificate of public need; psychiatric beds and services. Eliminates the requirement for a certificate of public need for certain projects involving mental hospitals or psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities established primarily for...
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2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB338Engross

Sine Die
Medicaid; work requirement; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to apply for a waiver to implement a work requirement for able-bodied adult recipients of medical assistance services. The bill requires the De...
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2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB611Engross

Sine Die
Certificate of public need; exception. Authorizes the State Health Commissioner (Commissioner) to accept and review applications and issue a certificate of public need for new neonatal care services in Planning District 5, provided that certain condi...
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2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB541Engross

Sine Die
Alternative treatment options for certain veterans; report. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to consider the efficacy of alternative treatments available for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder and rep...
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2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB1320Engross

Sine Die
Department of Education; division-level performance assessments; resource guide. Requires the Department of Education to develop and distribute to each local school division a resource guide on the local development and implementation of performance ...
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2018-03-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB670Engross

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Required local effort for basic aid; debt service on projects in certain school divisions. Permits any local school board that governs a school division (i) in which the locality is designated as fiscally at-risk or fiscally distressed by the Appalac...
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2018-02-28
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB246Engross

Sine Die
Virginia Code Commission; duties. Limits the duties of the Virginia Code Commission relating to the codification of laws enacted by the General Assembly to codifying only those laws for which the General Assembly has expressed its intent for such law...
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2018-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee
HB1210Engross

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Post-election audits. Defines "post-election audit" to mean a process conducted after an election to confirm the accurate reporting of the results of the election and directs the State Board of Elections to establish a work group tasked with developi...
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2018-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB747Engross

Sine Die
Sales tax exemption; veterinarians. Exempts veterinarians from sales and use tax on the purchase or prescription of drugs and medicines.
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2018-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1414Engross

Sine Die
Special license to hunt bear, deer, and turkey; fee. Directs the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to create a special license for hunting bear, deer, and turkey, to cost $23 for a resident age 16 or older and $150 for a nonresident age 16 or older....
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2018-02-27
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 9-N)
HB692Engross

Sine Die
Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; revenue sharing; composite index. Requires the Department of Taxation's calculation of true values as applied to the Commonwealth's composite index of local ability-to-pay to take into account an arrangeme...
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2018-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB427Engross

Sine Die
Filling vacancies in the United States Senate. Removes the language limiting the date at which a special election can be held to fill a vacancy occurring in the representation of the Commonwealth in the United States Senate. Currently, when such a va...
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2018-02-27
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 0-N)
HB362Engross

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Department of Criminal Justice Services; definition of "law-enforcement officer"; security division of the Virginia Lottery. Removes from the definition of law-enforcement officer, as it applies to an investigator who is a sworn member of the securit...
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2018-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1541Engross

Sine Die
Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. Creates a new limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. The bill sets out the privileges of this new license, including a requirement that at least 60 per...
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2018-02-27
Defeated by Senate (17-Y 22-N)
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