| HB2330 | Intro
Sine Die | Environmental Justice Advisory Council established; consideration for environmental justice. Establishes the Environmental Justice Advisory Council (the Council), consisting of 19 members, to advise the Governor on environmental justice in the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1875 | Intro
Sine Die | Official emblems and designations; state soft drink. Designates Northern Neck Ginger Ale as the official soft drink of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1949 | Intro
Sine Die | Rainwater harvesting; water for human consumption. Requires the Board of Health to include in regulations governing rainwater harvesting systems a provision recognizing rainwater harvesting systems that produce water that meets minimum health and aes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2522 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses; combined annual mixed beverage special events and mixed beverage caterer's licenses; agritourism resorts. Allows "agritourism resorts," as defined in the bill, to obtain annua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1781 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle safety inspections; maximum charges. Increases from $12 to $15 the maximum amount a safety inspection station can charge for an inspection of a motorcycle and increases from $16 to $25 the maximum amount a safety inspection station can charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR616 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal dust blown from moving trains; report. Requests certain railroad companies to make available to the General Assembly, at least annually, information on actions likely to have an impact on coal dust blown from moving trains in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2010 | Intro
Sine Die | Using flame producing instrument or device with intent to intimidate; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, uses any flame producing torch or other flame producing instrument or device ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2334 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; enforcement; authority of investigators. Provides that any complaint alleging an act or omission of a regulant that is within the jurisdiction of any regulatory board under the Department of Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; FOIA Ombudsman; powers and duties; report. Requires the Attorney General to appoint a Virginia Freedom of Information Act Ombudsman (Ombudsman) to promote compliance by state agencies with the provisions of the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers of Real Estate Board; active duty military spouses; license reciprocity. Requires the Real Estate Board to issue a real estate license to any applicant whose spouse is the subject of a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2495 | Intro
Sine Die | Fall cankerworm; spraying prohibited during certain months. Prohibits localities from spraying pesticides intended to suppress an infestation of the fall cankerworm during the period between March 1 and August 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2697 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition. Shortens the period that a utility's customer who switches from an investor-owned electric utility to a licensed competing supplier is barred from returning as a customer of its utility from five years to 90 da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2812 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; disclosure of landlord and tenant remedies. Requires a landlord or managing agent to provide to each tenant, on or before the date that the rental agreement is to commence, a clear and conspicuous written...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2025 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources on an individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Bank franchise tax credit for student loan refinancing. Provides a credit against the bank franchise tax starting in taxable year 2019 in the amount of 20 percent of a bank's student loan refinancing expenses. The bill defines eligible expenses to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2567 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; free exercise of religion on campus. Provides that, except as otherwise permitted by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, no public institution of higher education shall p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2759 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; electronic peer-to-peer motor vehicle rental services; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles, in consultation with the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Taxation, to convene a work group to st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Persons on conditional release; tracking device; penalty. Provides that any person who was civilly committed as a sexually violent predator who alters, removes, or destroys any GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking device, or other similar device ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2667 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988; tolls; distance-based pricing program. Authorizes the operator of the Dulles Greenway to apply annually to the State Corporation Commission, during the period 2020 through 2029, for increases to tolls on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2712 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; certain students; eligibility for in-state tuition. Declares eligible for in-state tuition, regardless of domicile, any non-Virginia student enrolled at a public institution of higher education who (i) pays fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1831 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; enrolled students; disciplinary proceedings; due process. Establishes several requirements for formal and informal proceedings against any student enrolled at a public institution of higher education who is al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Financing Authority; Virginia Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Fund created. Creates the Virginia Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Fund (the Fund) to provide short-term direct loans to eligible small businesses adversely affect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2488 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Removes the requirement that a court suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2673 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; conformity; increase in standard deduction; refundable income tax credit for low-income taxpayers. Advances the Commonwealth's conformity with federal tax law to December 31, 2018, starting with taxable year 2019. The bill allows an indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2696 | Intro
Sine Die | Environmental Justice Advisory Council established. Establishes the Environmental Justice Advisory Council, consisting of 13 members, to advise the Governor on environmental justice in the Commonwealth through equitable development, implementation, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1976 | Intro
Sine Die | State Police; reporting hate crimes. Includes within the definition of "hate crime" a criminal act committed against a person because of sexual orientation or gender identification and requires the reporting of the commission of such crime to the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2177 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; formula and enteral nutrition products. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations whose policy, contract, or plan includes coverage for medicines to classify medically necessary f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2277 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's license suspensions for certain non-driving related offenses. Removes the existing provisions that allow a person's driver's license to be suspended (i) when he is convicted of or placed on deferred disposition for a drug offense and (ii) fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2675 | Intro
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] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2125 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; alternative pathway to the advanced studies diploma. Directs the Board of Education to establish a pathway to the advanced studies high school diploma that requires advanced coursework in career and technical education in lieu of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2428 | Intro
Sine Die | Preliminary protective orders; hearing by two-way electronic video and audio communication. Gives discretion to a court to allow a petitioner granted a preliminary protective order to appear by two-way electronic video and audio communication for a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR608 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2579 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of State Police; reporting hate crimes. Includes within the definition of "hate crime" a criminal act committed against a person because of gender, disability, or sexual orientation and requires the reporting of the commission of such crim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR650 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2537 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; notice before terminating service. Directs that the requirement that electric utilities give customers 10 days' notice by mail prior to terminating service applies regardless of whether reasonable cause exists to believe the custo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1869 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering; schools. Directs Appalachian Power Company to conduct a pilot program, not exceeding 10 megawatts in the aggregate, under which any public school in the Commonwealth that generates more electricity from a wind-powered or solar-po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for prosthetic devices, including myoelectric, b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; local law-enforcement agencies; memorandums of understanding. Requires the school board in each school division in which the local law-enforcement agency employs school resource officers to enter into a memorandum of understanding with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2671 | Intro
Sine Die | Real estate settlements; kickbacks and other payments; remedies; penalties. Relocates within Title 55 the existing provision that prohibits persons from paying or receiving a kickback, rebate, commission, thing of value, or other payment pursuant to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR259 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Department of Transportation; feasibility of eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Charlottesville; report. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of an eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (10-Y 1-N) |
| HJR628 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; threat of phishing attacks; report. Directs the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council (FOIA Council) to study the threat of phishing attacks on citizens and public employees whose co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals. Requires investor-owned electric utilities, cooperative electric utilities, and investor-owned natural gas distribution utilities to me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2501 | Intro
Sine Die | Greenhouse gas emissions; inventory. Directs the Division of Energy of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, as part of the 10-year Virginia Energy Plan required by current law, to inventory greenhouse gas emissions and provide information on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1834 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of binary explosives; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to combine the components of a binary explosive, defined in the bill, to create an explosive material and ignite more than five pounds of such explosive material at a sin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR640 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of voters; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies. The present Constitution prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR679 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Retirement System; part-time public school teachers; report. Requests the Virginia Retirement System to study the impact of permitting part-time public school teachers to participate in a retirement plan administered by the Virginia R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2654 | Intro
Sine Die | Students who receive home instruction; documentation. Provides that, except as otherwise required by relevant law, no parent who provides home instruction for his child in lieu of school attendance shall be required to provide to the school board in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1900 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Care Provider Credentials Data Solution Fund; blockchain technology. Establishes the Health Care Provider Credentials Data Solution Fund for the purpose of soliciting proofs of concept to establish or improve a system for the storage and acces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition of sale, transfer, etc., of certain firearms magazines and firearms; penalties. Prohibits any person from importing, selling, bartering, or transferring a firearms magazine designed to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. A violation i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2121 | Intro
Sine Die | Bail; data collection and reporting standards; report. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to (i) collect data relating to bail determinations for any person who is held in custody pending trial or hearing for an offense, civil or cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
