| HB2352 | Pass | Real Estate Board; real estate licenses. Clarifies that the Real Estate Board (the Board) may establish criteria delineating the permitted activities of unlicensed individuals employed by, or affiliated as an independent contractor with, real estate ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB1807 | Pass | State share for basic aid; duration of certain agreements. Provides that certain cost-savings agreements between school divisions will remain in effect until terminated by the school divisions. Under current law, such agreements are valid for a perio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| HB2719 | Pass | Health insurance; small employers. Revises the definition of "small employer" for purposes of group health insurance policies to provide that an individual who performs any service for remuneration under a contract of hire for (i) a corporation in wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| HB1887 | Pass | Posting human trafficking hotline information. Requires the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority and the Virginia Employment Commission to post notice of the existence of a human trafficking hotline in government stores, except for governmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| HB2578 | Pass | Six-year plans for secondary state highways; public meeting. Limits the requirement that a governing body with a six-year plan for improving the secondary highway system advertise for and hold a public meeting regarding such plan to only those years ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| HB2457 | Pass | Practitioners of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or chiropractic; retiree license. Provides that the Board of Medicine may issue a retiree license to any doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or chiropractic who holds an active, unrestricted lice... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| HB1623 | Pass | Military families; relocation to the Commonwealth; student registration. Permits any student whose service member parent is relocated to the Commonwealth pursuant to orders received to register for courses and other academic programs and participate ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB2143 | Pass | Air bags; manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of counterfeit or nonfunctional air bag prohibited; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he knowingly manufactures, imports, sells, installs, or reinstalls a counterfeit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB2208 | Pass | Adoption by relative. Expands the applicability of adoption procedures for a child's close relatives to all of the child's adult relatives, including stepparents, stepbrothers or stepsisters, and all other adult relatives of the child by marriage or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB2800 | Pass | Commissioner of Highways; overweight trucks. Requires the Commissioner of Highways to report annually by December 1 to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Commonwealth Transportation Board regarding overweight trucks. The bill expires on Janu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB2019 | Pass | Residential real property; required disclosures; stormwater management facilities. Provides that the owner of residential real property under the Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act must include in the residential property disclosure stateme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB2625 | Pass | Recounts; rules of procedure; multiple simultaneous recounts. Requires a recount court to issue a written order setting out the rules of procedures fixed by it for the conduct of a recount prior to the commencement of such recount. The bill also dire... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| HB2293 | Pass | Electric utilities; stakeholder process for energy efficiency programs. Requires the independent monitor chosen to facilitate the energy efficiency stakeholder process established for the purpose of providing input and feedback on the development of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB1660 | Pass | Landlord and tenant; renter's insurance; disclaimer. Provides that if a rental agreement does not require the tenant to obtain renter's insurance, the landlord must provide a written notice to the tenant, prior to the execution of the rental agreemen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| HB2336 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; executive officers; salaries. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to report by September 1 of each year to the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Edu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB2229 | Pass | Affordable housing; waiver of fees. Provides that a locality may by ordinance provide for the waiver of building permit fees and other local fees associated with the construction, renovation, or rehabilitation of housing by a private-sector entity th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| HB1963 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority; definition of Area of Operation. Changes the definition of "Area of Operation" for purposes of the Fort Monroe Authority to mean land owned by the Commonwealth at Fort Monroe. The current definition refers to lands acquired fro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| HB2317 | Pass | Custody and visitation orders; exchange of child. Provides that in custody and visitation cases, at the request of either party, the court may order that the exchange of a child take place at an appropriate meeting place. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB2081 | Pass | Common Interest Community Board; association fees; Common Interest Community Management Information Fund. Eliminates annual assessments levied by the Common Interest Community Board. The bill allows for the collection of application, renewal, and ann... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| HB1979 | Pass | Assisted conception. Amends the assisted conception statute to provide gender-neutral terminology. The bill allows an unmarried individual to be an intended parent, paralleling the ability of an unmarried individual to adopt under the adoption statut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB2486 | Pass | Teacher licensure; reciprocity; alternate routes. Requires the Board of Education, in its regulations providing for licensure by reciprocity, to grant special consideration to individuals who have successfully completed a program offered by a provide... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB2037 | Pass | Teacher licensure; criteria; assessments. Requires the Board of Education to issue a license to an individual seeking initial licensure who has not completed the professional assessments prescribed by the Board, if such individual (i) holds a provisi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| HB1698 | Pass | Board of Zoning Appeals; written order; certified mail. Authorizes a locality to send a zoning administrator's appeal order using certified mail. Current law allows such an order to be sent only by registered mail. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB2569 | Pass | Regulation of child-care services and facilities in certain counties. Provides that if a zoning administrator in a locality that has, by ordinance, allowed a zoning administrator to use an administrative process to issue zoning permits for family day... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| HB2304 | Pass | Landlord and tenant; renter's insurance obtained by landlord on behalf of tenants; notice of waiver of subrogation provisions. Requires a landlord that has obtained renter's insurance coverage on behalf of his tenants to include, as part of the summa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| HB2038 | Pass | Extended service contracts; bonding requirement; remedies; civil penalty. Eliminates the requirement that extended service contract providers file and maintain a bond or letter of credit with the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Cons... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| HB1649 | Pass | Local boundary agreements. Allows all localities, in adopting a voluntary boundary agreement, to attach to their petitions to the circuit court a Geographic Information System (GIS) map depicting the boundary change. Under current law, such use of a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB2694 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; association meetings; notice by email. Allows members of property owners' associations to elect to receive notice of meetings of the association by email in lieu of the current requirement that such notice be sent by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| HB2225 | Pass | Financial institutions; reporting by financial institution staff; supporting information and records. Provides that any financial institution staff who suspects that an adult has been financially exploited may provide supporting information and recor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB1914 | Pass | Requirements for issuing prescriptions; exceptions for public health practitioners. Authorizes practitioners contracted by the Department of Health and practitioners employed or contracted by a local health department to prescribe antibiotic therapy ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| HB2169 | Pass | Physician assistants; licensure by endorsement. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a license by endorsement to an applicant for licensure as a physician assistant who (i) is the spouse of an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| HB2108 | Pass | Foster care agreements; rights of foster parent; dispute resolution. Directs the Department of Social Services to promulgate emergency regulations to ensure collaboration, communication, access, and transparency between the local boards and licensed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB2126 | Pass | Health insurance; step therapy protocols. Requires carriers issuing health benefit plans that develop step therapy protocols for a health benefit plan to ensure that those step therapy protocols are (i) developed and endorsed by a multidisciplinary p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB1640 | Pass | Health carriers; nurse practitioners. Requires health insurers and health services plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by licensed nurse practitioners to provide equal coverage for such services whe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| HB2012 | Pass | Industrial development authority; King William County. Provides that King William County may expand the board of its industrial development authority from seven to nine members. The bill contains technical amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| HB2186 | Pass | Travel insurance. Establishes procedures and requirements for travel protection plans and travel administrators. The measure establishes travel insurance as an inland marine line of insurance sold by property and casualty insurance agents. The measur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| HB2411 | Pass | Timber sales; theft; accounting; penalty. Provides that a person who buys and removes timber from a landowner's property is guilty of timber theft if he fails to pay the landowner by the date specified in their agreement or, if there is no written ag... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| HB2784 | Pass | Robert O. Norris Bridge and Statewide Special Structure Fund. Establishes the Robert O. Norris Bridge and Statewide Special Structure Fund to be used for the purpose of funding maintenance and replacement of large and unique structures. The bill also... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| HB1772 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; advisory opinions; evidence in civil proceeding. Provides that any officer, employee, or member of a public body alleged to have willfully and knowingly violated the Virginia Freedom of Information Ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| HB2354 | Pass | Revenue Stabilization Fund and Revenue Reserve Fund; maximum amounts. Provides that the combined funds in the Revenue Stabilization Fund and Revenue Reserve Fund shall not exceed 15 percent of average income and sales tax revenues for the past three ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| HB2438 | Pass | Juvenile correctional officers; training standards. Transfers the power and duty to establish compulsory minimum entry-level, in-service, and advanced training standards for juvenile correctional officers, as well as the time required for completion ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB1883 | Pass | Motor vehicle insurance policies; foster parents and foster children. Prohibits an insurer from refusing to issue or failing to renew a motor vehicle insurance policy solely because of the status of the applicant or policyholder, as applicable, as a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| HB2647 | Pass | Condominium Act; meetings of unit owners' associations; proxy voting. Provides that any proxy shall be void if not signed by or on behalf of the unit owner. The bill also provides that if the unit owner is more than one person, any such unit owner ma... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| HB2385 | Pass | Condominium Act and Property Owners' Association Act; delivery of condominium resale certificates and association disclosure packets; right of purchaser to cancel contract. Provides that a purchaser of a unit subject to the Condominium Act or a lot s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| HB1753 | Pass | School buildings; electronic room partitions. Prohibits school employees from opening or closing an electronic room partition in any school building except under certain limited circumstances. The bill requires any annual safety review or exercise fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| HB1614 | Pass | Local Stormwater Management Fund. Authorizes a locality by ordinance to create a local Stormwater Management Fund consisting of appropriated local moneys for the purpose of granting funds to an owner of private property or a common interest community... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| HB2247 | Pass | Board of Optometry; membership. Adds to the requirements for the five licensed optometrist members of the Board of Optometry that they be individuals who at the time of appointment (i) have met all requirements for practice as an optometrist and are ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| HB2655 | Pass | Eviction Diversion Pilot Program. Establishes the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program (the Program), consisting of specialized dockets within the existing structure of the general district courts for the cities of Danville, Hampton, Petersburg, and Rich... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| HB2008 | Pass | Department of Education; energy career cluster. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with representatives from pertinent industries such as renewable energy, natural gas, nuclear energy, coal, and oil, to establish an energy career c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| HB2205 | Pass | Family life education; consent. 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 law and meaning of consent. Under cur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |