| HB2791 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Personnel Act; appointments, promotion, and tenure based upon merit and fitness. Clarifies that, except as otherwise provided by law, all appointments and promotions to and tenure in positions in the service of the Commonwealth shall be base...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N) |
| HB2310 | Engross
Sine Die | Local flood plain regulation. Authorizes any locality to regulate the activity on, or use or development of, a flood plain in a manner consistent with any state and federal flood plain management programs and requirements. The bill provides that its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| HB2666 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; training standards and model policies for law enforcement; persons experiencing behavioral health or substance abuse crises. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (13-Y 2-N) |
| HB1624 | Engross
Sine Die | Sanctions; other frivolous pleadings. Provides that a court may consider other similar, previously filed pleadings, motions, or other papers filed by a person in violation of the sanctions statute in determining sanctions on the case immediately befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB2682 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; deadline for returning absentee ballot. Provides that any absentee ballot that is returned to the general registrar after the closing of the polls on election day but before noon on the third day after the election and postmarked on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB1929 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign finance; disclosure of all out-of-state contributors. Requires all campaign finance reports to itemize each contributor who is not a resident of Virginia and disclose certain information regardless of the amount of the contribution. Current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB1630 | Engross
Sine Die | Substitute judges; powers and duties; entry of a final order. Provides that a substitute judge has the power to enter a final order in any case heard by the substitute judge for a period of 14 days after the date of a hearing of such case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB1718 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; fuel cost recovery. Requires an electric utility, as a condition of approval of any request by an electric utility for recovery through its fuel factor of costs incurred under a natural gas capacity contract not previously subject...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (10-Y 3-N) |
| HB2552 | Engross
Sine Die | Unmanned aircraft systems; delayed notice of search warrant when deployed. Provides that within 10 days after an unmanned aircraft system is used during the execution of a search warrant, a copy of the executed search warrant shall be served on the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB1798 | Engross
Sine Die | Relocation of call centers to a foreign country; notification requirements. Requires the director of each state agency to ensure that new state agency contracts for the performance by a contractor of state business-related call center and customer se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB2119 | Engross
Sine Die | School attendance officer; motion for a rule to show cause; child in need of supervision. Authorizes a school attendance officer or division superintendent or his designee acting as an attendance officer to complete, sign, and file with the clerk of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB2301 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. Creates a new limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops and sets out the privileges of this new license, including a requirement that at least 60 percent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB2355 | Engross
Sine Die | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code. Advances conformity of the Commonwealth's tax code with the federal tax code to December 31, 2018, including conformity to the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-08
Incorporated by Finance |
| HB1827 | Engross
Sine Die | Tethering animals; adequate space. Provides that a tether meets the requirement that an animal be given adequate space if the tether is four times the length of the animal or 15 feet long, whichever is greater, and does not cause injury or pain or we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (4-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| HB2574 | Engross
Sine Die | School Divisions of Innovation; performance-based assessments. Allows a local school board, when applying for its school division to be designated as a School Division of Innovation, to apply to the Board of Education (the Board) to replace certain S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| HB2201 | Engross
Sine Die | State Forester; confidentiality of certain records. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act certain records of the Department of Forestry (the Department). The records include trade secrets and fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB2136 | Engross
Sine Die | Evidence; accident reconstruction; criminal cases. Provides that in any criminal case, an accident reconstruction expert, when properly qualified, may testify as an expert witness in a court of law subject to the Rules of Supreme Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 10-N) |
| HB2594 | Engross
Sine Die | Traffic incident management vehicles. Adds traffic incident management vehicles, defined in the bill, when operated by persons who meet certain training requirements, to a list of vehicles exempt from certain traffic regulations when responding to an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 7-N) |
| HB2273 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices in certain motor vehicles while passing stopped school bus; penalty. Imposes a mandatory fine of $250 for using a handheld personal communications device for reading emails or texting while operating a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (8-Y 5-N) |
| HB2416 | Engross
Sine Die | Public charter schools; services; approval. Establishes yellow public charter schools as a category of public charter schools at which additional student services are provided, including health care, dental care, after-school support, and nutritional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
VOTE: DEFEATED (37-Y 62-N) |
| HB2364 | Engross
Sine Die | Agritourism; weddings. Amends the definition of "agritourism activity," for purposes of liability, as well as the statutory limit on the imposition of restrictions by local governments, to include service as a wedding venue for not more than 12 weddi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
VOTE: DEFEATED (37-Y 60-N 1-A) |
| HB2404 | Engross
Sine Die | Transient occupancy tax; Mathews County; Middlesex County. Adds Mathews County and Middlesex County to the list of counties that may impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate above two percent, but not to exceed five percent. The revenue attributabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
Requires 66 affirmative votes to pass |
| HB1908 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; Department of Education; sixth grade science curriculum. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Education to update the "Window into a Green Virginia" curriculum developed by the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
VOTE: DEFEATED (48-Y 48-N) |
| HB1778 | Engross
Sine Die | Transient occupancy tax; state parks. Permits localities to impose transient occupancy taxes on transient room rentals and travel campgrounds in state parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
VOTE: DEFEATED (19-Y 78-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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
