| HB2372 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensed or voluntarily registered family day homes; storage of firearms. Requires that firearms, other weapons, and ammunition in a licensed or voluntarily registered family day home be stored in a locked closet, cabinet, or container during the fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2536 | Intro
Sine Die | Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Lottery Board; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Authorizes casino gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board (the Board). The bill specifies the licensing req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | Recounts; procedure for certain ballots. Requires recount officials to segregate all ballots for which there is a question regarding the ballot's validity prior to beginning the redetermination of the vote in another precinct. The bill provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2373 | 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 |
| HB2742 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious and charitable matters; charitable or civic organization contracts; report. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to submit an annual written report to the Governor and the General Assembly, by October 1 of each yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; codification of ordinances; affirmative defense. Requires each locality to codify all ordinances, in permanently bound or loose-leaf form or in an online format so as to be easily accessed by other governmental entities and the publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; statute of limitations on actions on construction contracts; statute of limitations on actions on performance bonds. Provides that no action may be brought by a public body on any construction contract, including cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; pre-kindergarten eligibility. Expands the Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits program by including, as eligible scholarship recipients, childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1809 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission to conduct annual proceedings to determine if Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power are making satisfactory efforts to meet object...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Safety Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of certain children who are victims of bullying, certain crimes, and certain other violent acts to apply to the school division in which the child resides for a one-year, renewable Child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1789 | Intro
Sine Die | Railroads; crew size; civil penalty. Requires a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of railroad freight in the Commonwealth to operate with a crew of at least two individuals, unless such movement involves hostler service or ut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety belt system use in motor vehicles. Requires all occupants of motor vehicles to utilize a safety belt system. Current law requires the use of safety belts only by (i) occupants under the age of 18, (ii) drivers, and (iii) passengers 18 years of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2363 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpayment of wages; discriminatory actions prohibited. Prohibits an employer from discharging or otherwise discriminating against an employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1683 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric cooperatives; rates. Authorizes any electric cooperative to (i) increase or decrease its rates without State Corporation Commission approval for any of its services, rather than only for distribution services, at any time if such adjustments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1999 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Emergency Management; responsibilities of Department of Emergency Management; responsibilities of political subdivisions; provision of emergency preparedness information to individuals with limited English proficiency, disabilities, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1684 | Intro
Sine Die | Waiver of extradition; bail. Requires a judge to revoke the bail of any person who waives extradition proceedings in writing and remand such person to custody to await transfer to the demanding state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Local departments of social services; bonuses. Allows local departments of social services to provide for the payment of monetary bonuses to their officers and employees upon the approval of the local board of social services. The bill provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1692 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical assistance; determination of income; personal needs allowance. Provides that, when determining the income of a recipient of medical assistance services who is receiving long-term care in a medical institution or intermediate care facility, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Motorized skateboards or foot-scooters; operation; local authority. Authorizes localities to prohibit or regulate the operation of companies providing motorized skateboards or foot-scooters for hire. The bill authorizes localities to regulate certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Landfills; waste disposal fee; Greenhouse Gas Fund. Requires any person owning or operating a permitted solid waste management facility to collect from each person disposing waste at such facility a fee of $1 for every 500 pounds of waste, or fractio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2658 | Intro
Sine Die | Stationary blinds in the public waters; minimum distance from shore. Provides that no stake or stationary waterfowl blind that is erected in the public waters be located less than 150 yards from a riparian owner's shoreline at the mean low water mark...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1647 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Prohibits any locality, its employees, or its appointed commissions from discriminating (i) in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines; (ii) in the permitting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | Guardianship; communication between incapacitated persons Guardianship; communication between incapacitated persons and others; notification of relatives. Prohibits a guardian of an incapacitated person from prohibiting or restricting such incapacita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2554 | Intro
Sine Die | Discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints; act of domestic terrorism enhancement. Provides that in addition to any increase in the midpoint of an initial recommended sentencing range already calculated for a defendant's criminal history, a defenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1886 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Compact on Washington Area Professional Football Team Franchise Facility Incentives. Establishes an interstate compact among the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia (the party states) that prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; erroneous benefits estimate; adjustment for certain members. Provides that certain members of the Virginia Retirement System who retire early, if such members relied on an erroneously high estimate of benefits in their dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; date of June primary election and May general 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 cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2187 | Intro
Sine Die | Gas or oil drilling units; escrowed proceeds; Coalfield Region Elderly Assistance Fund; Coalfield Region Tourism Fund. Provides that proceeds of certain gas or oil wells, escrowed because the owner's identity and location remain unknown, shall be pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Inquiry and report of immigration status; persons charged with or convicted of certain crimes; certain victims or witnesses of crimes. Removes provisions requiring (i) jail officers to ascertain the citizenship of any inmate taken into custody at a j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1793 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; lock-down drills; notice to parents. Requires every public school to provide the parents of enrolled students with at least 24 hours' notice before the school conducts any lock-down drill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate 81 Corridor Transportation Commission; funding. Creates the Interstate 81 Corridor Transportation Commission, embracing the localities located in Planning Districts 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. The Commission would be responsible for allocating any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual and corporate income tax credit; employers of National Guard members and self-employed National Guard members. Provides for taxable years 2019 through 2023 a nonrefundable tax credit against individual and corporate income taxes for (i) wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1880 | Intro
Sine Die | State environmental boards; appointment of members. Changes the composition of the Air Pollution Control Board, the Waste Management Board, and the State Water Control Board from appointment exclusively by the Governor to the following: two members a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit; solar energy equipment. Creates a nonrefundable tax credit for the purchase and installation of solar energy equipment in certain nonresidential areas for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2019, but before January 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2288 | Intro
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] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2801 | Intro
Sine Die | Remote sales and use tax collection and sufficient activity Remote sales and use tax collection and sufficient activity by remote sellers and marketplace facilitators as to require registration for sales and use tax collection. Directs the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1879 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management facilities; private residential lots; disclosure. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations requiring any local stormwater management authority that requires a residential landowner to maintain a stormwater mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1996 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards and criteria for congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria by which congressional and state legislative districts are to be drawn, including equal population, compactness and contiguity, racial and ethnic fairness, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; menstrual supplies; Dignity Act. Exempts menstrual supplies, specifically pads, tampons, and menstrual cups, from sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2259 | Intro
Sine Die | Model exit questionnaire for teachers; statewide implementation. Requires each local school board to (i) administer the model exit questionnaire for teachers developed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to each teacher who ceases to be emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2221 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; former members of the Virginia General Assembly. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for former members of the Virginia General Assembly bearing the legend FORMER VIRGINIA STATE LEGISLATOR.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1665 | Intro
Sine Die | Court-established community service programs; community service work in lieu of payment of fine or costs. Requires courts to provide an option to any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1685 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; enrolled students; disorderly conduct. Provides that no enrolled public school student who disrupts the operation of the school at which he is enrolled or any activity conducted or sponsored by the school at which he is enrolled on sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1748 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; employer to notify employee of intent. Requires an employer whose employee has filed a claim under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to advise the employee whether the employer intends to accept or deny the claim or is una...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1860 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; nonpayment of rent; written notice of termination; time period. Changes from five to 14 days the period within which a tenant is required to pay rent after written notice of termination of the rental agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1888 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitations period; sexual abuse. Eliminates the civil statute of limitations period for injury resulting from sexual abuse occurring during the infancy or incapacity of the abused person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2051 | Intro
Sine Die | Cemeteries; development; local ordinance. Provides that local subdivision ordinances may include certain requirements to govern the private development of land containing an existing cemetery. The bill also authorizes localities to adopt ordinances r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2412 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of electronic tracking devices; consent of fleet vehicle operator. Requires the owner of fleet vehicles to obtain consent of the vehicle operator before installing or placing an electronic device on the fleet vehicle to track it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Health instruction; mental health. Directs the Board of Education to review and update the health Standards of Learning for students in all grades to include mental health. Legislation passed in 2018 required such review and update for students in gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1628 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; eligibility of persons age 65 or older. Entitles a person who will be age 65 or older on the day of an election to vote by absentee ballot in that election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
