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HB486PassAlcoholic beverage control; granting of certain mixed beverage licenses. Provides that, notwithstanding the requirement for a referendum for liquor by the drink, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may issue a mixed beverage license to establishment...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494)
SB35PassSentence reduction; substantial assistance to prosecution. Allows a convicted person's sentence to be reduced if such person provides substantial assistance, defined in the bill, in the furtherance of the investigation or prosecution of another perso...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493)
HB1475PassSewerage systems; state adoption of federal criteria. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) not to adopt certain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) freshwater ammonia water quality criteria (the Criteria) unless the Board includes...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510)
SB344PassSewerage systems; state adoption of federal criteria. Directs the State Water Control Board (the Board) not to adopt certain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) freshwater ammonia water quality criteria (the Criteria) unless the Board includes...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511)
SB772PassClaims; Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice. Provides for the relief of Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice, also known as the Norfolk Four, who were ...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503)
HB1530PassCareer and technical education; diplomas. Requires the Board of Education to make recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than November 1, 2018, re...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517)
SB407PassGovernment Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemption for the Division of Capitol Police. Exempts personal information systems maintained by the Division of Capitol Police that deal with investigations and intelligence gathering relat...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541)
HB128PassMotion or petition for rule to show cause for violation of court order. Provides that, in any civil action in a court of record, a party requesting a rule to show cause for a violation of a court order shall file a motion or petition, which may be on...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522)
HB762PassClaims; Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice. Provides for the relief of Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse Dick, Jr., Eric Cameron Wilson, and Derek Elliot Tice, also known as the Norfolk Four, who were ...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502)
HB991PassState and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosures; Virginia College Savings Plan. Adds the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan to the list of independent government entities whose members are required to file a disclosure state...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528)
HB129PassWorker retraining tax credit; manufacturing instruction for students. Modifies the worker retraining tax credit by allowing credit to manufacturers conducting a manufacturing orientation, instruction, and training program that is (i) provided to stud...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500)
HB1179PassAbandoned school revitalization zones. Allows localities to establish by ordinance one or more abandoned school revitalization zones for the purpose of providing incentives to private entities to purchase or develop real property or to assemble parce...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498)
HB1370PassRequirements for home instruction of children; education options. Clarifies that a parent who provides a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered as home instruction is required to provide his child with such program of study or curriculu...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)
HB166PassClerks of court. States that the clerk of an appellate court may request paper trial court records to be forwarded to such clerk. The bill adds the Bond Book to the list of books for which a microphotographic process may be used to accomplish the rec...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)
SB489PassCapitol Square Preservation Council. Changes the title of the chief officer of the Capitol Square Preservation Council from the Executive Director to the Chief Administrative Officer and authorizes the Council to enter into partnerships, joint ventur...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)
HB1388PassEnhanced Public Safety Telephone Services Act. Establishes requirements regarding the implementation of next generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) service. By July 1, 2023, the 9-1-1 Services Board (the Board) is required to develop and implement NG9-1-1 transi...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532)
SB153PassElections; form of ballot; order of independent candidates. Defines "time of filing for the office" for purposes of determining the order on the ballot of independent candidates as the time at which the candidate has filed his petition signature page...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537)
HB1151PassNonresident youth fishing license; exemption. Authorizes a nonresident under age 16 to fish without a fishing license when accompanied by a person possessing a valid license to fish in Virginia and allows such nonresident to fish for trout without a ...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507)
HB329PassHigh school graduation requirements; course load. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit students to exceed a full course load in order to participate in courses offered by an institution of hi...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512)
SB76PassTeacher licensure; approval of teacher education programs. Specifies that for the purpose of Board of Education regulations for the approval of teacher education programs, the term "education preparation program" includes four-year bachelor's degree ...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518)
HB1362PassDivision of Consolidated Laboratory Services; availability of testing services. Requires the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services, or any other laboratory with which the Department of Health has contracted, to provide screening tests for time...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531)
HB1479PassEquine liability; execution of waiver. Prohibits a liability action against an equine activity sponsor if a waiver has been knowingly executed by the participant, the parent or guardian of a minor participant, or the duly authorized representative, d...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)
SB101PassFamily life education curricula. Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of sexual harassment usin...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519)
HB589PassInstitutions of higher education; diplomas; proof of education; method. Provides that each public institution of higher education and private institution of higher education may provide any diploma or other proof of education to requesting individual...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515)
SB386PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; SWaM program; participation of service disabled veteran-owned businesses. Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to service disabled veteran-owned businesses shall be credited toward the small business, wome...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540)
HB214PassOverweight permits for hauling Virginia-grown farm produce; bridges and culverts. Provides that no five-axle-combination vehicle shall be issued an overweight permit for hauling Virginia-grown farm produce unless such vehicle has no less than 42 feet...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501)
HB1154PassVirginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; powers and duties; grants. Authorizes the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to apply for and accept grants and gifts to carry out its powers and duties.
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508)
HB508PassLocal regulation of solar facilities. Provides that a property owner may install a solar facility on the roof of a dwelling or other building to serve the electricity or thermal needs of that dwelling or building, provided that such installation is i...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495)
SB124PassState and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Allows any school district to invoke the current exemption from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school district employee wh...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520)
HB438PassElementary and secondary schools; sexual misconduct. Requires the Department of Education and local school boards to adopt policies to implement the provisions of federal law that prohibit any local school board or any individual who is an employee, ...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513)
HB847PassCapitol Square Preservation Council. Changes the title of the chief officer of the Capitol Square Preservation Council from the Executive Director to the Chief Administrative Officer and authorizes the Council to enter into partnerships, joint ventur...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)
HB992PassState and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure statements; multiple positions. Provides that only one disclosure statement per calendar year is required under the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act for an individua...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529)
HB993PassSales tax revenue allocation; increase amount allocated to discretionary spending for airports. Requires the Aviation Board, during the second six months of each fiscal year, to allocate certain funds from the Commonwealth Airport Fund to all eligibl...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506)
HB1178PassMotor vehicle dealers; injunctive relief for failure to obtain a license. Provides that (i) the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board (the Board) or (ii) any licensed motor vehicle dealer who sustains injury or damage to his business or property may seek injunc...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509)
HB528PassDepartment of Juvenile Justice; placement of certain individuals in independent living arrangement. Permits the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to place in an independent living arrangement an individual who is between the ages of 16 and 21 and ...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497)
SB379PassOffice of the general registrar; open five days a week. Provides that the office of the general registrar in all counties and cities is to be open a minimum of five days a week. Under current law, counties with a population of less than 10,000 and ci...
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2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539)
HB995PassTracking wounded bear, deer, or turkey. Allows a licensed hunter to use tracking dogs to find a wounded or dead bear, deer, or turkey. The bill authorizes the hunter to have a weapon in his possession and to use it to humanely kill the tracked animal...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447)
SB51PassIncome withholding orders. Repeals the requirement, enacted in 1993, that an employer request that each new employee disclose whether the employee has an income withholding order. This requirement has been superseded in practice by requirements that ...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)
HB592PassLand bank entities; acquisition of property. Makes a technical change by correcting from an authority to a land bank entity the entity to which a locality may grant or convey real property.
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401)
HB398PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; bid, performance, and payment bonds; waiver by localities; sunset. Adds a sunset date of July 1, 2021, to the provisions (i) authorizing a locality, where the bid, performance, and payment bond requirements are waived...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462)
HB358PassGround water management; subdivisions; technical evaluation. Requires the developer of a subdivision located in a designated ground water management area for which the developer obtains plat approval on or after July 1, 2018, to apply for a technical...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427)
HB614PassPractice of social work. Provides that the Board of Social Work may license baccalaureate social workers, master's social workers, and clinical social workers, as those terms are defined, and may register persons proposing to obtain supervised post-d...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451)
HB489PassRegistration and licensing of vehicles; payment of local taxes and fees. Provides that in localities in which the treasurer or director of finance has entered into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the Commiss...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431)
HB1349PassTrespass towing. Exempts Planning District 16 (George Washington) from any requirement by a towing advisory board for written authorization, in addition to a written contract, in the event that a vehicle is being removed from private property. The bi...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411)
HB1412PassMental health awareness training; firefighters and emergency medical services personnel. Requires fire departments and emergency medical services agencies to develop curricula for mental health awareness training for their personnel. The bill provide...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456)
HB84PassInstruction in American Sign Language; academic credit; foreign language requirements. Requires any local school board that does not offer any elective course in American Sign Language to (i) grant academic credit for successful completion of an Amer...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481)
HB453PassAirport boards and authorities; funding transparency. Requires any (i) airport board or authority created by a locality or group of localities and (ii) public use privately owned airport that receives funding from the Department of Aviation or Virgin...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430)
HB97PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement; single or term contracts for professional services. Increases the maximum permissible aggregate or sum of all phases of single or term contracts for professional services that may be procured w...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461)
SB315PassHearing aid specialists; exemptions for the sale of hearing aids. Allows licensed audiologists who have earned a doctoral degree in audiology to obtain a license to engage in the practice of fitting or dealing in hearing aids without the prerequisite...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458)
HB1600PassStudent discipline; long-term suspension. Reduces the maximum length of a long-term suspension from 364 calendar days to 45 school days. The bill permits a long-term suspension to extend beyond a 45-school-day period, not to exceed 364 calendar days,...
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2018-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491)
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