VA Legislation | 2019 | Regular Session | House | Bills

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB2021	Pass	Virginia Investment Partnership Act; Virginia Investment Performance Grants; Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grants; reauthorization. Reauthorizes the Virginia Investment Performance Grant Program and the Virginia Economic Development Incenti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0032)
HB1731	Pass	Local treasurers; recordkeeping. Replaces the term "well-bound book" with "record" relating to local treasurers' required method of recordkeeping and clarifies that warrants include all forms of legal demand instruments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031)
HB2180	Pass	Semiconductor Manufacturing Grant Fund; creation. Creates the Semiconductor Manufacturing Grant Fund for the award of grants to a qualified semiconductor manufacturing company that makes a capital investment of at least $2.98 billion in a qualified l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034)
HB1767	Pass	Wrongful death beneficiaries; parents who received support or services from the deceased for necessaries. Adds parents who received support or services from the deceased for necessaries within 12 months prior to the decedent's death to the primary li... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047)
HB2358	Pass	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 for Tomorrow (SWIFT) Project being undertaken by the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054)
HB2362	Pass	Advanced Shipbuilding Production Facility Grants; grant availability dates. Advances the period during which grants shall be available under the Advanced Shipbuilding Production Facility Grant Program to fiscal years 2021 to 2025. Under current law, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036)
HB2361	Engross Sine Die	Stormwater management; land-disturbing activities; prior technical criteria. Provides that the statewide technical criteria for stormwater management that were adopted by the State Water Control Board during 2011 and became effective July 1, 2014, sh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
HB2030	Pass	Common interest communities; dissemination of annual budget; reserve for capital components. Requires common interest communities under the Condominium Act, the Property Owners' Association Act, and the Virginia Real Estate Cooperative Act (the Acts)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033)
HB1751	Pass	Forgery; venue. Provides that, in addition to the current forgery venue provisions, forgery may be prosecuted in any county or city where an issuer, acquirer, or account holder sustained a financial loss as a result of the offense. This bill is ident... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046)
HB2204	Engross Sine Die	Polling place procedures; full residence address of voter not announced. Removes the requirement that the officer of election audibly repeat the address of a voter offering to vote. The bill does not change the requirement for the officer of election... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB2465	Engross Sine Die	Photo-monitoring systems; requirements for localities. The bill requires that engineering safety analyses and monthly evaluations conducted by a locality related to traffic light signal photo-monitoring systems, commonly known as red-light cameras, b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 To Senate Local Government Committee
HB2602	Engross Sine Die	Consortium Comprehensive Cancer Center Advisory Board established. Establishes as an independent advisory board in state government an 11-member Consortium Comprehensive Cancer Center Advisory Board, consisting of the President of Virginia Commonweal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 To Senate Rules Committee
HB2181	Pass	Radford University; authority to establish Roanoke Division. Authorizes the Radford University Board of Visitors (the board) to establish the Radford University-Roanoke Division (the Division) through the acquisition of Jefferson College of Health Sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0060)
HB2347	Pass	Small Business Investment Grant Fund; recapture of awards. Provides that if an eligible investor is awarded a grant from the Small Business Investment Grant Fund and the small business in which the investment was made (i) relocates outside of the Com... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035)
HB1974	Pass	Motor vehicle rental tax; filing returns. Removes the requirement that the rentor of a motor vehicle file a monthly motor vehicle rental tax return with the Tax Commissioner even though the dealer is not liable to remit any tax for the period covered... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053)
HB1679	Pass	Taxation of all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road motorcycles. Clarifies the taxation of all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road motorcycles and provides that vehicles that qualify as farm equipment that is exempt from sales and use tax shall... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052)
HB1617	Engross Sine Die	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; civil penalty. Adds a definition of "personal use of campaign funds" and prohibits the use of contributions, or conversion of items acquired using contributions, to a candidate or campaign ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 To Senate Rules Committee
HB2642	Engross Sine Die	Cruelty to animals with intent to intimidate or threaten a household member; penalty. Makes any violation relating to cruelty to an animal a Class 6 felony when such violation is carried out with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass a family o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 5-N)
HB2368	Engross Sine Die	City of Virginia Beach; sports or entertainment project. Grants the City of Virginia Beach certain powers relating to construction of a sports or entertainment project and any related facilities. Among those powers is the authority to (i) issue bonds... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-18 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1947	Engross Sine Die	Threats to bomb or damage; false information as to danger; private or public elementary or secondary school; penalty. Provides that for any person who (i) makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, or in any man... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 4-N)
HB2280	Engross Sine Die	Child day programs; exemptions from licensure. Adds to the list of programs that are not considered child day programs and are not subject to licensure (i) programs of recreational activities offered by a local government, staffed by local government... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-18 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 9-N)
HB2113	Engross Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; veterans; withdrawal; tuition refund. Requires each public institution of higher education to provide a refund of the tuition and mandatory fees paid by any veteran student for any course from which he is forc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-18 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB1898	Pass	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant's right of redemption. Extends the amount of time that a tenant may have an unlawful detainer dismissed to two days before a writ of eviction is delivered to be executed if the tenant pays all amou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028)
HB2555	Pass	Local gas severance tax; sunset date. Extends the sunset date from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2022, for the local gas severance tax that is dedicated to (i) the local Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund, (ii) the Virginia Coalfield Economic Develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024)
HB2705	Pass	Historic rehabilitation tax credit. Provides that the $5 million per year limit on the amount of historic rehabilitation tax credit that may be claimed by each taxpayer, which currently expires on January 1, 2019, shall apply to all future taxable ye... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025)
HB1950	Pass	Retail sales and use tax exemption; nonprofits; limited liability companies. Provides that, for purposes of the retail sales and use tax exemption for nonprofit organizations, the exemption is available to a single member limited liability company wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020)
HB1655	Pass	Real property tax exemption for disabled veterans; surviving spouses; ability to move to a different residence. Enacts as statutory law an amendment to subdivision (a) of Section 6-A of Article X of the Constitution of Virginia that was adopted by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015)
HB2065	Pass	Telework expenses tax credit; expiration. Advances expiration of the telework expenses tax credit to January 1, 2019. Under current law, the tax credit will expire on January 1, 2022. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)
HB2365	Pass	Special assessment for land preservation; optional limit on annual increase in assessed value. Authorizes localities that require use value assessment and taxation to provide by ordinance that the annual increase in the assessed value of eligible pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022)
HB1937	Pass	Real property tax; exemptions for elderly and handicapped; computation of income limitation. Provides that, if a locality has established a real estate tax exemption for the elderly and handicapped and enacted an income limitation related to the exem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016)
HB2529	Pass	Income tax; conformity. Advances conformity of the Commonwealth's tax code with the federal tax code to December 31, 2018, effective starting in taxable year 2018. Starting in taxable year 2019, the bill deconforms from the provisions of the federal ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017)
HB1681	Pass	Income tax credits; housing choice vouchers; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include census tracts in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropoli... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019)
HB2526	Pass	Income tax; definition of resident estate or trust. For income tax purposes, changes the definition of "resident estate or trust" to no longer include an estate or trust which is being administered in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 12... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023)
HB2073	Pass	Alcoholic beverage control; happy hour advertising. Expands the ability of retail on-premises licensees to advertise happy hours by allowing them to advertise the prices of featured alcoholic beverages and to use creative marketing techniques, provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029)
HB1615	Engross Sine Die	Elections; date of June primary election. Changes the date of the primary election held in June from the second Tuesday in June to the third Tuesday in June. The bill also changes candidate filing deadlines to reflect the change of date. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Defeated by Senate (11-Y 28-N)
HB1998	Pass	Exposure to bodily fluids; infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses; expedited testing. Requires a general district court to hold a hearing within 48 hours of a petition being filed seeking to compel collection of a blo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027)
HB2222	Engross Sine Die	Local school boards; display of advertising material on school buses. Permits local school boards to display (i) commercial advertising material on the sides of school buses between the rear wheels and the rear of the bus, provided that no such mater... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
HB2687	Engross Sine Die	Special license for hunting elk. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries (the Board) to create a special license for hunting elk. Such license shall be required in addition to general hunting licenses. The bill authorizes the Board to estab... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (14-Y 0-N)
HB2570	Engross Sine Die	Family life education programs; student participation. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school student from participating in any family life education program without the prior written consent of his parent. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
HB1752	Engross Sine Die	Election day; school holiday. Prohibits local school boards from requiring students to attend school on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
HB2591	Engross Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; students; determination of domicile. Prohibits any student at a public institution of higher education from being deemed ineligible to establish domicile and receive in-state tuition charges solely on the basi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
HB2321	Engross Sine Die	Gaming Study Commission. Creates the Gaming Study Commission to analyze the Commonwealth's existing gaming industry and proposals to expand gaming in Virginia, which include the following: (i) commercial casino gaming, (ii) in-person and online sport... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Rules (14-Y 0-N)
HB2623	Engross Sine Die	Board of Education; school counseling services; model policies. Requires the Board of Education to develop a model policy for the provision of counseling services in public schools that includes provisions for parental consent, written parental notif... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB1643	Engross Sine Die	Teacher licensure; alternate routes. Requires the Board of Education to develop guidelines that establish a process to permit a school board or any organization sponsored by a school board to petition the Board for approval of an alternate route to l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Incorporated by Education and Health
HB2223	Engross Sine Die	Pharmacies; delivery of prescription drugs; pharmacy benefits managers. Requires health every carrier, as applicable, to administer its health benefit plans in a manner consistent with, or include in contracts for pharmacy benefits management, criter... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (11-Y 4-N)
HB1909	Pass	Habeas corpus. Reorganizes, updates outdated language, and removes unused provisions in several writ of habeas corpus statutes. The bill clarifies certain procedural issues such as service, venue, amendments for failure to name a proper party respond... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008)
HB1940	Pass	Child Pornography Registry; contents of Registry; criminal investigations; report. Requires copies of all known or suspected child pornography found during the course of a criminal investigation of child pornography offenses to be included in the Chi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003)
HB1964	Pass	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; meeting exemption for the Fort Monroe Authority. Creates an exemption from the open meeting requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for discussion or consideration by the Board of Trustees of the F... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004)
HB1953	Pass	Appeals from founded complaints of child abuse or neglect; concurrent criminal investigations. Provides that whenever an appeal of a finding by a local department of social services is made and a criminal investigation is also commenced against the a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)
HB2417	Engross Sine Die	Emergency protective order; required conditions; petition to dissolve or modify. Requires any emergency protective order to prohibit (i) the respondent from committing acts of family abuse or criminal offenses that result in injury to person or prope... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (12-Y 3-N)