VA Legislation | 2019 | Regular Session | House | Bills

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB1897	Intro Sine Die	Equine activity liability; carriage rides. Incorporates, for the purposes of determining equine activity liability, the act of riding in or driving a carriage or other equine-drawn vehicle into the definition of "equine activity" and adds a person wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-16 Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
HB1785	Intro Sine Die	Food establishment inspections; exemptions. Exempts from inspections by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services private homes where the resident processes and prepares any yogurt that has an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower or baked... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-16 Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (5-Y 17-N)
HB1633	Intro Sine Die	Designating the Lieutenant Bradford T. Clark Memorial Bridge. Designates the State Route 627 bridge in Hanover County over Interstate 295 the "Lieutenant Bradford T. Clark Memorial Bridge." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-15 Stricken from docket by Transportation (22-Y 0-N)
HB1669	Intro Sine Die	Local disposable paper and plastic bag tax. Authorizes any locality to impose a tax of five cents per bag on disposable paper bags or disposable plastic bags provided to consumers by certain retailers, with certain bags being exempt from the tax. Rev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-14 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (12-Y 10-N)
HB1424	Engross Sine Die	Recounts; number permitted; tie votes. Provides that if, after a recount of an election, the recount court finds that each party to the recount has received an equal number of votes, it shall direct a determination by lot, but that no right to a reco... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB777	Intro Sine Die	Emergency air medical transportation; informed decision. Requires emergency medical services personnel, prior to initiating contact with an emergency air medical transportation provider for air transport of a patient, to obtain written consent from t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
HB246	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Rules Committee
HB1557	Intro Sine Die	Intangible personal property; personal property used in manufacturing. Clarifies that personal property used directly in manufacturing in the locality in which the tax is assessed is classified as intangible personal property. Current law does not re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Finance Committee
HB1137	Intro Sine Die	Commuter Rail Operating and Capital Fund. Establishes the Commuter Rail Operating and Capital Fund to be used by the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, with the approval of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, on projects... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Transportation Committee
HB1210	Engross Sine Die	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB1606	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB786	Engross Sine Die	Local taxes; appeal to court. Provides that on an appeal to court for relief from local taxes, the taxpayer shall not be required to show that the assessment is a result of manifest error or disregard of controlling evidence. The bill contains techni... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB541	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB372	Engross Sine Die	School calendar; opening day of the school year. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB277	Engross Sine Die	Guardians ad litem for children; report requirements; certification form. Requires guardians ad litem appointed to represent a child in a matter to conduct an investigation in compliance with certain standards. The bill further requires the guardian ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB896	Intro Sine Die	Motor vehicle dealer; definition. Clarifies that in order to be classified as a motor vehicle dealer a person must (i) buy, offer to sell or sell, display or permit the display for sale of, exchange, or negotiate on behalf of others the sale, purchas... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Transportation Committee
HB1325	Engross Sine Die	Provisional voting; persons voting in split precincts. Provides that any voter who is assigned to a precinct that is split between two or more election districts and who believes he was given a ballot for the district of which he is not a qualified v... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB787	Engross Sine Die	Real property taxes; appeals to boards of equalization. Provides that on appeal of a real property assessment to a board of equalization, the taxpayer shall not be required to show that the assessment is a result of manifest error or disregard of con... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB885	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB960	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; marketing plan and report. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority (Authority) to include in its marketing plan information as to participation in trade shows and internati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Appropriations Committee
HB998	Engross Sine Die	Temporary delegation of parental or legal custodial powers; child-placing agency. Allows a parent or legal custodian of a minor to delegate to another person by a properly executed power of attorney any powers regarding care, custody, or property of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB747	Engross Sine Die	Sales tax exemption; veterinarians. Exempts veterinarians from sales and use tax on the purchase or prescription of drugs and medicines. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1252	Engross Sine Die	Renewable energy power purchase agreements; pilot programs. Requires Kentucky Utilities (KU) to establish a pilot program for certain third party power purchase agreements. The measure provides that participation in the service territories of KU and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB525	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB670	Engross Sine Die	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB1033	Engross Sine Die	Deemed consent to testing of bodily fluids. Allows a magistrate or a general district court to issue an order requiring a person to provide a blood specimen for testing for human immunodeficiency virus or the hepatitis B or C virus when exposure to b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB676	Engross Sine Die	Children who are deaf or hard of hearing; services; advisory subcommittee. Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that each child who is deaf or hard of hearing is (i) as linguistically ready for kindergarten as his peers who are not deaf or hard o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB1320	Engross 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB1584	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; balance billing for ancillary services. Prohibits an out-of-network health care provider from charging a covered person who is insured through a health benefit plan an amount for ancillary services that is greater than the allowed a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
HB611	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB218	Intro Sine Die	Special license plates; ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for members and supporters of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation bearing the legend ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Transportation Committee
HB692	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB330	Engross Sine Die	Public elementary and secondary school students; topical sunscreen. Permits any public elementary or secondary school student to possess and use unscented topical sunscreen in its original packaging on a school bus, on school property, or at a school... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB659	Intro Sine Die	Distance learning reciprocity agreements; out-of-state providers. Prohibits an out-of-state degree-granting postsecondary school from providing distance learning from a location outside of the Commonwealth to Virginia students unless such postseconda... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Education Committee
HB809	Engross Sine Die	Local school boards; display of commercial advertising material on school buses. Permits local school boards to display commercial advertising material on the sides of school buses between the rear wheels and the rear of the bus, provided that no suc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB874	Intro Sine Die	Certificates of public need. Creates a three-phase process to sunset certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with the requirement for a certificate of public need eliminated (i) for the est... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
HB76	Intro Sine Die	Political campaign advertisements; disclosure requirements; advertisements placed or promoted for a fee on an online platform. Subjects any message that is placed or promoted for a fee on an online platform to the same disclosure requirements to whic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
HB295	Engross Sine Die	Turns in certain residential areas in certain counties; resident stickers. Allows counties that operate under the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) by ordinance to develop a program to issue permits to residents of a designat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Local Government Committee
HB966	Intro Sine Die	Taxation in the Commonwealth; income tax, sales tax, and credit for certain local taxes. Provides, for taxable years 2018 through 2022, a refundable credit against individual and corporate income taxes for a business's aggregate tax liability under t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To House Finance Committee
HB1435	Engross Sine Die	Initiation of a civil action; clerk of a general district court. Requires a general district court clerk to file, process, and issue for service of process any pleading initiating a civil action in the general district court within 14 days of receipt... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB338	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB362	Engross Sine Die	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB622	Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee