| HB964 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; restoration of rights of persons convicted of violent felonies. Provides that a person who has been convicted of an act of violence or a violent felony may not petition for a restoration order that unconditionally authorizes possessing, tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial hemp grower; public notice; buffer zone; odor mitigation. Requires any applicant for registration as a grower of industrial hemp to state either that the growing premises are more than 100 yards from any residential area or that the applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory outpatient treatment; rescission of order. Clarifies the types of evidence that may be considered by a court in determining whether continued mandatory outpatient treatment is warranted; clarifies the criteria that a court is required to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearm-free zones designated by the Commonwealth or a locality; waiver of sovereign immunity. Provides that (i) if the Commonwealth designates any property owned by it or (ii) if any locality designates such locality or any part of such locality as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1716 | Intro
Sine Die | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; net interest deduction. Conforms the taxation system in Virginia with relevant provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowances for jurors; unclaimed funds; retention by the court for jury operations or expenses. Exempts funds held by the court for payment to a juror from the provisions of the Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act and provides that such fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Real and personal property tax exemptions. Repeals the property tax exemptions for all nonprofit entities that were granted by the General Assembly by designation, effective July 1, 2025. Any locality may grant property tax exemptions to any such org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act and Virginia Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act and Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; required disclosures; impounding structures, dams, flood hazard areas, and stormwater management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Clinical psychologists; telepsychology; out of state. Allows clinical psychologists to provide services by telepsychology to established patients who are out of state at the time services are provided. The bill establishes the criteria that must be m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders in cases of family abuse; definition of family abuse; identity theft. Includes acts of identity theft committed against a person's family or household member in the definition of "family abuse" for purposes of the issuance of protec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties; human trafficking training. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services, under the direction of the Criminal Justice Services Board, to develop an online course to train hotel propri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Contempt of court; penalty. Increases from 10 days to 30 days the maximum term of imprisonment for a charge of contempt of court but limits the term of imprisonment to 30 days, including in cases where the court empanels a jury to ascertain the punis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery; animal control officers; penalty. Adds animal control officers and deputy animal control officers to the list of professions against whom committing an assault or an assault and battery is subject to an enhanced penalty. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospitals; notice and consent; out-of-network providers. Requires every hospital to notify patients when any service associated with a nonemergency procedure, test, or service to be provided by the hospital will be provided by an out-of-network provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; member occupations. Specifies occupations for the eight members of the Marine Resources Commission other than the Commissioner. The bill provides that of the eight members, two shall be commercial fishermen, two shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a resident concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program established. Establishes the Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; review of occupational regulations. Creates a procedure by which a person may petition an agency to review whether an existing occupational regulation is necessary for the protection or preservation of the health, safety, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistricting; population data; reallocation of prison populations. Provides for the preparation of adjusted population data for redistricting and reapportionment purposes to reflect the reallocation of persons incarcerated in state and local correct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1600 | Intro
Sine Die | Leave for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Requires private employers to allow volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services providers to take leaves of absence from their employment at times when the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB700 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory outpatient treatment; consent. Eliminates the patient consent requirement for minors age 14 or older and adults before mandatory outpatient treatment may be ordered but there is no change in the requirement that a minor's parents must agree...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of undetectable firearms; penalty. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Bear damaging crops; kill permit. Requires the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to authorize the killing of bear when they are found to be responsible for damaging crops, including during a harvest. The bill prohibits the Direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol; removal of Robert E. Lee statue from National Statuary Hall Collection. Creates the Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol to provide for the removal of the Rober...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Rules Committee |
| HB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deduction; primary and secondary school tuition or home instruction expenses. Provides an income tax deduction beginning in taxable year 2020 for education expenses incurred by the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18. Qualify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB754 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Brownfield and Coal Mine Renewable Energy Grant Fund and Program; handbook. Establishes the Virginia Brownfield Renewable Energy and Coal Mine Grant Fund and Program. The fund and program shall be administered by the Department of Mines, Min...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional real property tax on commercial and industrial property in certain localities. Authorizes counties and cities in Planning District 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 to impose an additional real estate tax on commercial and industrial property at a rate of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1241 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax modifications for certain companies in economically distressed localities. Adds the City of Portsmouth to the list of economically distressed localities in which a company may invest to become eligible for certain income tax modifications....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Lane filtering; motorcycles. Authorizes the operator of a two-wheeled motorcycle to pass another vehicle that is stopped or traveling at no more than 10 miles per hour in the same lane, provided that there are at least two lanes of travel in each dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1447 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying loaded firearms in public while under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs to carry a loaded firearm on or about his pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Subdivision ordinance; energy efficiency and renewable energy provisions. Authorizes a local governing body to include in its subdivision ordinance provisions for establishing minimum standards of energy efficiency and establishing and maintaining ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1219 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Taxation; period of limitations; amended returns; refunds. Increases the period within which a taxpayer may file an amended return with the Department of Taxation from three years to seven years from the last day prescribed by law for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1471 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms ordinances; property in multiple localities; affirmative defense. Provides that a hunter on private property that is owned by a particular landowner and spans two or more localities with differing firearms ordinances shall have an affirmativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentencing proceeding by the jury after conviction; recommendation of leniency. Provides that a jury may, in ascertaining the punishment for a person convicted of a felony or Class 1 misdemeanor, recommend that the sentence imposed be suspended in wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Reverse tolling on Interstate 66; toll revenue on Interstate 66 and Interstate 395. Requires the Department of Transportation, upon completion of the Interstate 66 widening project, to activate reverse tolling on Interstate 66. The bill requires all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; training requirement for barbers and cosmetologists. Prohibits the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology from requiring completion of more than 1,000 hours of training in the field for which an appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Earned paid sick time. Requires public and private employers with six or more employees to provide those employees with earned paid sick time. The measure provides for an employee to earn at least one hour of paid sick leave benefit for every 30 hour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; School Construction Fund and Program. Establishes the School Construction Fund as a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury and requires the Department of Education to establish the School Construction Program for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB508 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal care; cruelty; dangerous dogs. Extensively reorganizes, clarifies, and makes substantive changes to provisions related to dangerous dogs. Substantive changes include (i) a requirement that a law-enforcement officer or animal control officer wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1282 | Intro
Sine Die | License to hunt, trap, or fish; exemption for member of federally recognized tribe. Exempts any member of a federally recognized Indian tribe who resides in Virginia from the requirement to obtain a license to hunt, trap, or fish. Current law exempts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1629 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional transportation sector emissions programs; participation by Commonwealth. Prohibits the Governor or any state agency from adopting any regulation establishing or bringing about the participation by the Commonwealth in the Transportation and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| HB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund; grant program. Changes the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund (the Fund) from a lending program to a grant program. The bill directs the Fund to grant money to localities to enable them to offer cost-sharing progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia National Guard member benefits; health savings accounts. Provides that a member of the Virginia National Guard may elect to receive, in lieu of any tuition assistance grants, a matching contribution from the state to a health savings account...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB953 | Intro
Sine Die | Science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) programs; grants. Establishes the STEAM Education Fund for the purpose of awarding grants in amounts not to exceed $50,000 annually to any public elementary or secondary school in the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; financial literacy objectives; mathematics Standards of Learning; report. Requires the Department of Education to determine and report to the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2020, the feasibility of incorporating t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB680 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; information technology project services contracts; behind schedule; verification of work. Requires that all state agencies include in every written contract for information technology project services contracts provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1668 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden; total landings. Adjusts the annual total allowable landings for menhaden downward from 168,937.75 metric tons to 168,213.16 metric tons and provides that any portion of the coast-wide total allowable catch that is relinquished by a state th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Standard deduction from Virginia taxable income; increasing. Increases the standard deduction for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2026, by 1.8 percent to $4,581 for single individuals and $9,162 for married...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation of court-appointed counsel; waivers. Allows court-appointed counsel for parents in child welfare cases to submit a waiver application for additional compensation of $120 in district court and $158 for cases appealed to the circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1396 | Intro
Sine Die | Interior lights; operator requirements. Requires the operator of a motor vehicle, autocycle, road roller, road machinery, or tractor truck equipped with an interior light or lights and used on a highway to ensure that such lights are in good working ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Transportation Committee |
