| HB854 | Pass | Study; Department of Housing and Community Development and Virginia Housing and Development Authority; ways to incentivize the development of affordable housing in the Commonwealth of Virginia; report. Requests the Department of Housing and Community...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| HB664 | Pass | Exposure to a decedent's body fluids; testing. Provides that, in cases in which any law-enforcement officer, salaried or volunteer firefighter, or salaried or volunteer emergency medical services provider is directly exposed to body fluids of a decea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| HB1253 | Pass | Virginia Defense Force; maximum age for recruitment. Permits the Adjutant General of Virginia to recruit members to the Virginia Defense Force who are between the ages of 65 and 75. Under current law, the Adjutant General is only permitted to retain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| HB1300 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; statute of limitations on performance bonds; statute of limitations on construction contracts and architectural and engineering contracts. Provides that an action against the surety on a performance bond shall be brou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB6 | Pass | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; source of funds. Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of funds to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill creates an exemption for an owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB1534 | Pass | Collection of town taxes by county. Authorizes the board of supervisors of any county that has adopted the urban county executive form of government to enter into agreements with towns located partially or wholly within such county for the collection...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB1096 | Pass | Injuries to churches or church property; dead animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to maliciously place a dead animal within any church or on church property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| HB1082 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; definition of disaster; incidents involving cyber systems. Defines "cyber incident" for purposes of the Emergency Services and Disaster Law as an event occurring on or conducted through a computer network that act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB1315 | Pass | 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] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| HB1313 | Pass | Chief Resilience Officer. Directs the Governor to designate a Chief Resilience Officer to serve as the primary coordinator of resilience and adaptation initiatives in Virginia and as the primary point of contact regarding issues related to resilience...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| HB198 | Pass | Recounts; special election to be held in the case of a tie vote. 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, there shall be a special election to dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB511 | Pass | Electric vehicle charging stations; operation by state agencies. Authorizes any agency of state government to locate and operate a retail fee-based electric vehicle charging station on property the agency controls. The bill exempts state agencies fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| HB214 | Pass | Candidate petitions; residency of petition circulators; signed statement required for nonresident circulators. Removes the requirement that a person circulating a petition of qualified voters be a legal resident of the Commonwealth. The bill requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| HB1330 | Pass | Possession, distribution, production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; venue. Provides that venue for a prosecution of child pornography possession, distribution, or production may lie in the jurisdiction where the alleged of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB907 | Pass | Department of Health; sickle cell anemia; adult and pediatric comprehensive sickle cell clinic network. Specifies that children be included in the voluntary program established by the Commissioner of Health, in cooperation with local health directors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| HB783 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB832 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; registration of athlete agents; penalty; civil penalty. Creates a registration requirement for athlete agents administered by the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| HB1720 | Pass | Charter; Town of Abingdon. Updates the Town of Abingdon's boundary description, repeals outdated provisions, and makes various technical amendments to charter terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| HB860 | Pass | Professional use by practitioners; administration of albuterol inhalers or nebulized albuterol. Provides that, pursuant to an order or standing protocol issued by the prescriber within the course of his professional practice, any school nurse, school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| HB988 | Pass | Compensating victims of crime; persons eligible for award; grandchildren. Includes grandchildren of the victim of a crime, who are alive at the time of the commission of the crime, in the list of persons eligible for compensation as a result of the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB1523 | Pass | Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Fund. Creates the Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Fund and provides that any funds that are appropriated to the Department of Historic Resources but not used for the maintenance of g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| HB731 | Pass | Zoning; City of Hampton; alcoholic beverage control licensees. Grants the City of Hampton authority to impose a condition upon any special exception or use permit relating to retail alcoholic beverage control licensees which provides that such specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| HB104 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; non-academic student codes of conduct. Requires each public institution of higher education, with the exception of the Virginia Military Institute, to adopt non-academic student codes of conduct. The bill mand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| HB1000 | Pass | Prescription drugs; expedited partner therapy; labels. Eliminates the requirement that a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship exist with a contact patient for a practitioner to prescribe expedited partner therapy consistent with the recommenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| HB999 | Pass | School board policies; epinephrine; accessibility. Requires each school board's policies on the possession and administration of epinephrine in every school in the local school division to require that at least one school nurse, employee of the schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| HB764 | Pass | Domesticated animal premises; liability for transmission of domesticated animal pathogen. Provides that no owner or operator of a domesticated animal premises, defined in the bill, shall be liable for damages arising from a claim by a person visiting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB665 | Pass | Electrical transmission lines; effect on historic resources. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC), prior to approving the construction of any electrical transmission lines of 138 kilovolts or more, to determine that the corridor or route c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB1041 | Pass | Board of Health; certificate of birth; change of sex. Requires the State Registrar to issue a new certificate of birth to show a change of sex upon request of the person and, if a certified copy of a court order changing the person's name is submitte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| HB135 | Pass | Veterans' benefits. Provides that if any person advertises, arranges, offers, or enters into any assignment of right to receive veterans' pension or retirement benefits, such action constitutes a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| HB904 | Pass | Child abuse and neglect reporting; public sports programs. Adds to the list of mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse and neglect athletic coaches, directors, and other persons 18 years of age or older that are employed by or volunteering with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| HB706 | Pass | Offshore oil and gas drilling; prohibition on leases; policy. Prohibits the granting of a lease, easement, or permit on the beds of the coastal waters of the Commonwealth that would allow any infrastructure for conveying to shore oil or gas produced ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB502 | Pass | Litter tax; penalty. Adds $100 to the existing penalty for litter tax delinquency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| HB748 | Pass | Research and development tax credits; sunset; aggregate caps. Extends the sunset date for both the research and development expenses tax credit and the major research and development expenses tax credit from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2025. Begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB74 | Pass | School boards; mental health awareness training. Requires each school board to (i) adopt and implement policies that require each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the school board, employed on a full-time basis, to complete a me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| HB646 | Pass | Pipeline construction permit; amount of civil penalty for violation. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to include civil penalties of up to $50,000 per violation, not to exceed $500,000 per order, in any order for a violation of a permit relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| HB343 | Pass | Donation by locality of in-kind resources to certain volunteer or nonprofit organizations. Expands the scope of permitted in-kind donations by a locality to include the provision of in-kind resources for contract management services for capital proje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB120 | Pass | Virginia Beach Sports or Entertainment Project; extend expiration date of tax incentive; modify financing structure. Provides that the City of Virginia Beach's entitlement to state sales and use tax revenue attributable to a sports or entertainment p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| HB885 | Pass | Reckless driving; exceeding speed limit. Raises the threshold for per se reckless driving for speeding from driving in excess of 80 miles per hour to driving in excess of 85 miles per hour. The threshold for per se reckless driving for speeding for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| HB997 | Pass | Child care providers; fingerprint-based criminal background checks; sunset and contingency expiration. Repeals the sunset and contingency expiration of the requirement that the following individuals undergo fingerprint-based national criminal history...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB368 | Pass | Public schools; enrollment; certain children placed in foster care. Specifies that several provisions of law relating to the public school enrollment of children placed in foster care apply to any pupil who was in foster care when he reached age 18 b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB720 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; notice on restrictions on display of political signs. Requires the association disclosure packet to contain a statement of any restrictions on the size, place, duration, and manner of placement or display of politica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| HB1174 | Pass | Professional use by practitioners; administration of inhaled asthma medication. Provides that, pursuant to an order or standing protocol issued by the prescriber within the course of his professional practice, any school nurse, school board employee,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| HB1162 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; environmental justice. Provides that one of the purposes of the Department of Environmental Quality is to further environmental justice, as defined in the bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| HB564 | Pass | Charter; Town of Cheriton. Amends the town's charter to reflect the town's shift of municipal elections from May to November.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| HB520 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; tree planting as land cover type, best management practice; stakeholder advisory group. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to convene a stakeholder advisory group for the purpose of studying the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| HB743 | Pass | Private student loan providers; certain disclosures. Requires any provider of private education loans to disclose to any student attending an institution of higher education in the Commonwealth, prior to issuing a qualified education loan to such stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB1348 | Pass | Overweight permits; forest products. Clarifies that the definition of forest products for the purpose of qualifying for an overweight permit for hauling forest products includes wood pellets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB456 | Pass | 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] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB38 | Pass | Tanning facilities; use by persons under age 18. Prohibits a tanning facility from allowing individuals under age 18 to use a tanning device at such facility other than a spray tanning device that does not emit ultraviolet light. The bill includes an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB103 | Pass | Certain institutions of higher education; transcript notations; expungement. Requires each institution of higher education that is required by law to include a prominent notation on the academic transcript of each student who has been suspended for, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
