| HB2085 | Intro
Sine Die | Transit funding. Raises the existing regional transportation fee, a grantor's tax, from $0.15 per $100 to $0.20 per $100 for localities in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority that are also members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2323 | Intro
Sine Die | Clerks; refusal to record certain liens or encumbrances. Provides that a clerk may refuse to record a lien or encumbrance filed by a person previously convicted of filing a false lien or encumbrance, provided that such lien or encumbrance to be recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2635 | Intro
Sine Die | Social media websites; regulation as public service corporations. Requires the State Corporation Commission to regulate as a public service corporation any social media website that is open to the public, that has more than 75 million subscribers, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR715 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); abortion; state funding prohibited. Prohibits taxes or other revenues of the Commonwealth from being used to pay for abortions, but provides that nothing in that provision shall prevent the use of such fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR585 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); joint election of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Provides for the joint election of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, by which the names of the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor appear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2581 | Intro
Sine Die | Maternal Mortality Review Team established; investigation. Directs the Department of Health to establish a Maternal Mortality Review Team to review all pregnancy-associated deaths and pregnancy-related deaths, as defined in the bill, occurring in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2780 | Intro
Sine Die | Science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) programs; grants. Creates a special fund known as the STEAM Education Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Election laws; time off to vote. Requires employers to give their employees sufficient time off to vote, which shall be either before the employees' shifts begin or after their shifts end, unless otherwise agreed to by the employer and employee. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2246 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher Education Advisory Committee; higher education funding. Requires the Higher Education Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee) to (i) develop a methodology by which to rate the performance of each public institution of higher education and (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2793 | Intro
Sine Die | Cybersecurity; care and disposal of customer records; Cybersecurity; care and disposal of customer records; security for connected devices. Requires any business to take all reasonable steps to dispose of, or arrange for the disposal of, customer rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2389 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Trust Fund; revenue deposits; recordation tax. Provides that 20% of annual recordation tax revenue in excess of $325 million shall be deposited into the Virginia Housing Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage; tipped employees. Increases the cash wage for tipped employees to $3.50 per hour in 2020, $4.75 in 2021, and $6 in 2022. The measure also eliminates the tip credit effective January 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited discrimination; sexual orientation and gender identity. Prohibits discrimination in employment, public accommodation, public contracting, apprenticeship programs, housing, banking, and insurance on the basis of sexual orientation or gender...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; transmission of caller identification information. Prohibits any person, with the intent to defraud, harass, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value, from making, placing, or initiating a call or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1799 | Intro
Sine Die | Interest on fines and costs in criminal cases and traffic infractions. Eliminates the accrual of interest on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction. The bill provides that any such fine or costs that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1806 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to work; union shops and agency shops. Repeals the provisions of the Code of Virginia that, among other things, prohibit any agreement or combination between an employer and a labor union or labor organization whereby (i) nonmembers of the unio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2276 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional rezoning proffers. Makes changes to conditional zoning provisions first enacted in 2016 by including a provision that may allow certain localities to opt out of the provisions in their entirety by, in part, establishing a stakeholder advi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2466 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Transportation to study State Route 28; report. Directs the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of implementing improvements to State Route 28 in Prince William County between the City of Manassas Park and Fairfax Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2587 | Intro
Sine Die | Confidentiality of tax information; local tax officers sharing information with local administrative officers. Authorizes a locality's commissioner of the revenue, treasurer, director of finance, or other similar local official who collects or admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1801 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional rezoning proffers. Makes extensive changes Conditional rezoning proffers. Makes extensive changes to conditional zoning provisions first enacted in 2016. Specific amendments include provisions stating that no locality shall "require&...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1805 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; VIRGINIA LOVES TEACHERS. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of teachers in the Commonwealth bearing the legend VIRGINIA LOVES TEACHERS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2120 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2022. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR656 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Resources Authority; transitioning Virginia's workforce from fossil fuel-based jobs to green energy; report. Requests the Virginia Resources Authority to study the process of transitioning Virginia's workforce from fossil fuel-based j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR670 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Secretary of Administration; State Board of Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots; pilot program; report. Requests the Secretary of Administration to oversee and develop a charter and directives for the State Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1765 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawn care service providers; limit on use of fertilizer; civil penalty. Authorizes a locality to, by ordinance, limit the amount and number of applications of fertilizer a lawn care service provider is permitted to apply in a given area in a 12-month...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Ground water management; human consumption. Defines "human consumption" of ground water as drinking, food preparation, dishwashing, bathing, showering, hand washing, teeth brushing, and maintaining oral hygiene.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR658 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); enactment of laws; casino gambling. Provides that no bill permitting, authorizing, or establishing gaming involving house-banked gambling, player-banked gambling that simulates house-banked gambling, slot ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2371 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuana possession; penalty. Eliminates criminal penalties for possession of marijuana for persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill also decriminalizes marijuana possession for persons under 21 years of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2401 | Intro
Sine Die | Public service corporations; statements of government influence spending. Requires each public service corporation to file with the State Corporation Commission an annual statement of government influence spending that discloses each expenditure made...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2590 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal testing facilities; adoption of dogs and cats. Requires that prior to euthanasia, any animal testing facility that no longer has use for a dog or cat in its possession that does not pose a health or safety risk to the public offer, for a reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2626 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia National Guard; state active duty pay. Requires that all members of the Virginia National Guard who are called into state active duty be paid an amount not less than that prescribed for a member with the rank of E-6 who has over 18 years of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1745 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2353 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; natural gas automobile mechanics and technicians; removal of certification requirement. Removes the certification requirement for, and associated regulatory authority over, the occupation of nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1750 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' Compensation; coverage for certain employees. Ends the exclusion from coverage under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act for a person who suffers an injury if there is jurisdiction under either the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing stopped school bus; certain local ordinances. Provides that a local ordinance prohibiting passing a stopped school bus adopted by a county applies to infractions that occur in a town located within the county for which the county provides the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2369 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; establishment of right to reproductive choice. Establishes that (i) every individual has a fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception or sterilization and (ii) every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2714 | Intro
Sine Die | Landlord-tenant law; applicability; occupancy in a hotel or motel exempt. Provides that occupancy of a hotel or motel is not considered a residential tenancy under landlord-tenant law. Removes hotel and motel occupancy from provisions requiring certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1670 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable housing; City of Richmond. Adds the City of Richmond to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2115 | Intro
Sine Die | State Medical Facilities Plan; revisions. Requires the State Medical Facilities Plan task force to review the State Medical Facilities Plan and update or validate existing criteria in the State Medical Facilities Plan at least once every two years. C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2366 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; implementation of certification programs for small businesses; definition of small business; report. Changes the definition of small business, beginning July 1, 2019, to mean a business that (i) is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; authorize localities to opt out of group insurance program. Authorizes a locality that participates in the Virginia Retirement System to opt out of the group insurance program and instead establish, either by self-funding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1791 | Intro
Sine Die | Guidance counselors; nomenclature. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1847 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on Wellness and Opportunity; report. Establishes the Commission on Wellness and Opportunity to (i) establish the mission and vision of what wellness means for Virginia by (a) examining various dimensions of wellness, including but not limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial sex trafficking, prostitution, etc.; penalties. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalties for the following crimes if a minor is not involved: (i) human trafficking; (ii) receiving money or other valuable thing for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2370 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession and consumption of marijuana; penalty. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $250. Current law imposes a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense, and sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery against a family or household member; enhanced penalty. Reduces from two prior convictions to one prior conviction the required number of prior convictions of assault and battery against a family or household member before the Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2233 | Intro
Sine Die | Interior lights; operator requirements. Requires the operator of a motor vehicle, autocycle, road roller, road machinery, or tractor truck equipped with an interior light or lights and used on a highway to ensure that such lights are in good working ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR668 | Intro
Sine Die | Amendment convention; free and fair elections; limiting corporate personhood. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution to ensure free a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession or transportation of firearms following convictions for certain misdemeanor crimes; restoration of rights; penalty. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of assault and battery when the person intentionally selects the person against w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
