VA Legislation | 2019 | Regular Session | Bills | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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
SB1470	Engross Sine Die	Transportation revenues. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to evaluate the impact of increased fuel efficiency and increased use of hybrid and electric vehicles on transportation revenues, and to report to the General Assembly no later than Dec... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1535	Engross Sine Die	Uniform Statewide Building Code; outdoor advertising. Requires the owner of a sign located along an Interstate System highway that has a height that is greater than the distance from such sign to the shoulder edge of the pavement to have such sign pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-19 To House General Laws 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)
SB1479	Engross Sine Die	Regulation of development in karst. Authorizes any locality by ordinance as part of the application process for rezoning property from an agricultural use to a residential use to require (i) the submission of a geological and geophysical survey; (ii)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Counties, Cities and Towns (12-Y 9-N)
SB1699	Engross Sine Die	Subdivision and zoning; sidewalks. Authorizes a locality, through provisions in a subdivision ordinance or zoning ordinance, subject to certain terms and conditions included in the ordinance, to grant a developer of land the option of either (i) dedi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Counties, Cities and Towns (21-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)
SB1102	Engross Sine Die	Congressional and legislative district boundaries; alignment with boundaries of counties and cities; review of a voter's registration. Provides that, for purposes of congressional, Senate, and House of Delegates districts, if a boundary of such a dis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (17-Y 5-N)
SB1242	Engross Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage restaurant license; penalties. Allows mixed beverage restaurant licensees that specialize in the sale of high-end spirits to calculate, for purposes of the food-to-beverage ratio, gross receipts from the sal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws (8-Y 14-N)
SB1125	Engross Sine Die	Certificate of public need; definition of "medical care facility." Adds to the list of medical care facilities for which a certificate of public need is required any facility that has common ownership with an affiliated licensed hospital located with... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Failed to report (defeated) in Health, Welfare and Institutions (6-Y 15-N)
SB1117	Engross Sine Die	Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits for a claim for unins... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (19-Y 3-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)
SB1177	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Health Club Act; automated external defibrillator required in health clubs. Requires each health club location to have a working automated external defibrillator, which is defined in the bill. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-14 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 11-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)
SB1275	Engross Sine Die	Junior Reserve Officer Training programs; students receiving home instruction. Requires any school board that offers a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program to make the program available to any student who receives home instruction and resid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Failed to report (defeated) in Education (11-Y 11-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)
SB1236	Engross Sine Die	Public schools; equal access; education employee associations. Requires school boards to adopt and implement policies to ensure that employees have equal access to education employee associations. The bill requires (i) the Department of Education to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Failed to report (defeated) in Education (11-Y 11-N)
SB1561	Engross Sine Die	Department of Education; sixth grade science curriculum. Directs the Department of Education to coordinate with the Department of Environmental Quality to update the "Window into a Green Virginia" curriculum developed by the Departments for sixth gra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-13 Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-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)
SB1112	Engross Sine Die	Qualified education loan servicers. Prohibits any person from acting as a qualified education loan servicer except in accordance with provisions established by this bill. The bill requires a loan servicer to obtain a license from the State Corporatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-12 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 11-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)
SB1387	Engross Sine Die	Covenants not to compete; low-wage employees; civil penalty. Prohibits an employer from entering into, enforcing, or threatening to enforce a covenant not to compete between the employer and a low-wage employee. The employer is subject to a civil pen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-12 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-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)
SB1778	Engross Sine Die	Health regulatory boards; conversion therapy. Directs the Board of Counseling, the Board of Medicine, the Board of Nursing, the Board of Psychology, and the Board of Social Work to each promulgate regulations prohibiting the use of electroshock thera... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-06 To Senate Education and Health Committee
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)