| VA | HB2053 | Enroll | School boards; staffing ratios; guidance counselors. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires school boards to employ school counselors in accordance with the following ratios: in elementary schools, one hour per day ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, May 3, 2019 |
| VA | HB2263 | Pass | Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Procedural Guarantee Act; breach of procedures. Provides that any evidence gathered through the conduct of an interrogation that violates the provisions of the Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| VA | HB2762 | Pass | Firefighting foam management. Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2021, the use for training purposes or for testing, with some exceptions, of a class B firefighting foam that contains intentionally added PFAS chemicals, as defined in the bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838) |
| VA | HJR676 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle of a veteran who is disabled. Permits the General Assembly to authorize the governing body of any county, city, or town to exempt from taxation one motor vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| VA | HB2292 | Pass | Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs. Provides that any determination by the State Corporation Commission that an energy efficiency program is not in the public interest shall include with its final order the work product and analysis condu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| VA | HB2047 | Pass | Oyster-planting grounds; municipal dredging projects; compensation. Extends the duration of an exception, for municipal dredging, to the right of a person to lease oyster-planting grounds, and establishes a procedure for determining compensation to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| VA | HB2792 | Pass | Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish a pilot program that affords the opportunity for any locality to participate in net energy metering if it is a retail customer of a certain type ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| VA | HB2396 | Pass | Breach of personal information notification; passport and military identification numbers. Requires an individual or entity that owns or licenses computerized data that includes the first name or first initial and last name in combination with or lin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| VA | HB1642 | Pass | Department of Corrections; restrictive housing; data collection and reporting; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics of pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| VA | HB2020 | Pass | Virginia Community College System; certain registered apprenticeships; uniform instruction. Requires the Virginia Community College System, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop and deliver uniform, related instruction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| VA | HB1804 | 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] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| VA | HB2178 | Pass | Virginia voter registration system; security plans and procedures; remedying security risks. Directs the State Board of Elections to promulgate regulations and standards necessary to ensure the security and integrity of the Virginia voter registratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| VA | HB1822 | Pass | Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund; grant for wastewater conveyance facility; estimates of future funding requests; Stormwater Local Assistance Fund. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| VA | HB2350 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; tuition and fees; foster care youth. Provides that any associate degree-granting public institution of higher education other than a comprehensive community college and each baccalaureate public institution of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| VA | HB2403 | Pass | Impacts to wetlands; permit requirements for compensation. Requires the State Water Control Board to evaluate Virginia Water Protection Permits mitigation options for impacts to wetlands on a case-by-case basis with consideration for which option is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| VA | HB1660 | Pass | Landlord and tenant; renter's insurance; disclaimer. Provides that if a rental agreement does not require the tenant to obtain renter's insurance, the landlord must provide a written notice to the tenant, prior to the execution of the rental agreemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| VA | HB2005 | Pass | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); eligibility. Makes eligible for TANF any person who is between the ages of 18 and 19 years old and a full-time student in a secondary school or in the equivalent level of career and technical education....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| VA | HB2293 | Pass | Electric utilities; stakeholder process for energy efficiency programs. Requires the independent monitor chosen to facilitate the energy efficiency stakeholder process established for the purpose of providing input and feedback on the development of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| VA | HB2229 | Pass | Affordable housing; waiver of fees. Provides that a locality may by ordinance provide for the waiver of building permit fees and other local fees associated with the construction, renovation, or rehabilitation of housing by a private-sector entity th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| VA | HB1649 | Pass | Local boundary agreements. Allows all localities, in adopting a voluntary boundary agreement, to attach to their petitions to the circuit court a Geographic Information System (GIS) map depicting the boundary change. Under current law, such use of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| VA | HB1753 | Pass | School buildings; electronic room partitions. Prohibits school employees from opening or closing an electronic room partition in any school building except under certain limited circumstances. The bill requires any annual safety review or exercise fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| VA | HB2473 | Pass | Minimum wage; exemptions. Eliminates the exemptions to Virginia's minimum wage requirements for newsboys, shoe-shine boys, babysitters who work 10 hours or more per week, ushers, doormen, concession attendants, and cashiers in theaters. The measure c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| VA | HB1923 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; tenant's right to reasonable attorney fees. Provides that a tenant is entitled to reasonable attorney fees when a tenant successfully raises as a defense the landlord'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| VA | HB1934 | Pass | Electric vehicle charging stations; operation by certain state agencies. Authorizes the Department of General Services, Department of Motor Vehicles, and Department of Transportation to locate and operate a retail fee-based electric vehicle charging ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| VA | HB2681 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries; City of Hampton. Adds seven cemeteries in Hampton to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African Ameri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| VA | HB2217 | Pass | Department of Education; establishment of microcredential program. Permits the Department of Education to establish a microcredential program for the purpose of permitting any public elementary or secondary school teacher who holds a renewable or pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| VA | HB2400 | Pass | School boards; School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; web-based application. Requires each local school board that collects information to determine eligibility for participation in the School Breakfast Program or the National Sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| VA | HB2114 | Pass | Special license plates; members of the International Association of Fire Fighters. Changes the special license plates for members of the International Association of Fire Fighters from nonrevenue sharing to revenue sharing and provides for the moneys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) |
| VA | HB2395 | Fail | Hazardous Waste Site Inventory. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to compile by July 1, 2020, to update at least annually thereafter, and to post to its website a Hazardous Waste Site Inventory (the Inventory). The Inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-24
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HJR587 | Pass | Commending the American Legion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR651 | Pass | Commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ651ER) |
| VA | HJR963 | Pass | Commending Arlington Free Clinic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ963ER) |
| VA | HJR873 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ralph L. Axselle, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ873ER) |
| VA | HJR1101 | Pass | Commending the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1101ER) |
| VA | HJR1102 | Pass | Commending Tony Bentley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1102ER) |
| VA | HJR1058 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Alexis Wesolowsky Press.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1058ER) |
| VA | HJR1139 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lieutenant Bradford Turner Clark.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1139ER) |
| VA | HJR1113 | Pass | Commending the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1113ER) |
| VA | HJR1124 | Pass | Commending the Fairfax County Park Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1124ER) |
| VA | HJR1118 | Pass | Commending Edu-Futuro.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1118ER) |
| VA | HJR1138 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Captain Anthony Reid Adams, USCG, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1138ER) |
| VA | HR455 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joshua Wayne Bell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-23
Bill text as passed House (HR455ER) |
| VA | HJR593 | Pass | Kristallnacht. Remembers the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ593ER) |
| VA | HB1743 | Pass | Pharmacist; counseling for new prescriptions; disposal of medicine. Allows a pharmacist to include information regarding the proper disposal of medicine when giving counsel to a person who presents a new prescription for filling. This bill is identic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| VA | HJR662 | Pass | Study; JCHC; dispensing of drugs and devices pursuant to prescriptions, pharmacy collaborative practice agreements, standing orders and statewide protocols; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the dispensing of drugs and devi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ662ER) |
| VA | HJR655 | Pass | Acknowledging with profound regret the existence and acceptance of lynching within the Commonwealth. Expresses the sentiment of the General Assembly in acknowledging with profound regret the existence and acceptance of lynching within the Commonwealt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ655ER) |
| VA | HB1715 | Pass | Dams; wetland vegetation. Exempts wetland vegetation growing on certain regulated impounding structures from the requirement that all vegetation be removed from such dams. The bill exempts vegetation associated with a wetland mitigation bank or in-li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| VA | HJR1020 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Richard J. McCue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1020ER) |
| VA | HJR1095 | Pass | Commending Sharon Bulova.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ1095ER) |
| VA | HR397 | Pass | Commending Virginia Indians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Bill text as passed House (HR397ER) |
