| VA | HB1661 | Veto | Association health benefit plans established by associations of employers; health benefit plans for members of certain agricultural organizations. Authorizes a trust, as a benefits consortium, to sell health benefits plans to members of a sponsoring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2528 | Veto | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB2252 | Pass | Firearms ordinances; applicability to property located in multiple localities. Allows a landowner whose property, including multiple contiguous parcels, spans two or more localities to elect to have the firearms ordinances of the locality in which th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) |
| VA | HB2269 | Veto | 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] | 2019-04-03
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2611 | Veto | Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; prohibition on participation by Commonwealth. Prohibits the Governor or any state agency from adopting any regulation establishing a carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program or bringing about the participation by the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2746 | Pass | Central Criminal Records Exchange; background checks through Live Scan device. Requires the Department of State Police (the Department) to accept requests for background checks through the use of a Live Scan device certified by the Federal Bureau of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| VA | HB2786 | Pass | Coal combustion residuals impoundment; closure. Requires the owner or operator of any coal combustion residuals (CCR) unit, defined in the bill to include a coal ash pond or landfill, within the Chesapeake Bay watershed at Bremo Power Station, Chesap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| VA | HB2586 | Pass | Prostitution and sex trafficking; offenses involving a minor; penalties. Provides that any person who commits an act of aiding prostitution or illicit sexual intercourse or using a vehicle to promote prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse, when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| VA | HB2540 | Pass | Sales and use tax; reduced rate on essential personal hygiene products. Applies the reduced state sales and use tax rate of 1.5%, which under current law applies only to food purchased for human consumption, to essential personal hygiene products, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| VA | HB1733 | Pass | School boards; local law-enforcement agencies; memorandums of understanding. Requires (i) the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to develop a model memorandum of understanding and (ii) the school board in each school division in which the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| VA | HB2577 | Pass | Health insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in individuals of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| VA | HB2521 | Pass | Board of Social Services; regulations governing assisted living facilities; staffing during overnight hours. Directs the Board of Social Services to amend regulations governing staffing of assisted living facility units with residents who have seriou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| VA | HB1639 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; payment for certain services to hospice patients. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to implement a process for direct payment of nursing facility or ICF/MR services for hospice patients r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) |
| VA | HB1662 | Pass | Child restraint devices and safety belts; emergency and law-enforcement vehicles. Exempts the operators of emergency medical services agency vehicles, fire company vehicles, fire department vehicles, and law-enforcement agency vehicles during the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) |
| VA | HB1738 | Pass | School buildings; plans to be reviewed by an individual or entity experienced in crime prevention through environmental design. Requires the plans and specifications for new or remodeled public school building construction to be reviewed by an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| VA | HB1970 | Pass | Telemedicine services; coverage. Requires insurers, corporations, or health maintenance organizations to cover medically necessary remote patient monitoring services as part of their coverage of telemedicine services to the full extent that these ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) |
| VA | HB1735 | Fail | Commission on Student Behavioral Health created. Establishes the Commission on Student Behavioral Health as a legislative branch commission. The purpose of the Commission shall be to (i) assess the efficacy of developing and implementing a statewide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-24
Failed to pass in House |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1729 | Pass | School counselors; nomenclature; staff time. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school to spend at least 80 percent of his sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) |
| VA | HB1732 | Pass | School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training. Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| VA | HB1725 | Pass | Public school building security enhancements; compliance with Uniform Statewide Building Code and Statewide Fire Prevention Code. Requires each school board, in consultation with the local building official and the state or local fire marshal, to dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121) |
| VA | HJR594 | Pass | Safe Digging Month. Designates April, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as Safe Digging Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ594ER) |
| VA | HJR595 | Pass | 811 Day. Designates August 11, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as 811 Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ595ER) |
| VA | HJR971 | Pass | Celebrating the life of President George Herbert Walker Bush.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ971ER) |
| VA | HJR968 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Trooper Lucas B. Dowell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ968ER) |
| VA | HR351 | Pass | Commending Wayne Tinsley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House (HR351ER) |
| VA | HR373 | Pass | Commending the State of Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Bill text as passed House (HR373ER) |
| VA | HB2181 | Pass | Radford University; authority to establish Roanoke Division. Authorizes the Radford University Board of Visitors (the board) to establish the Radford University-Roanoke Division (the Division) through the acquisition of Jefferson College of Health Sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0060) |
| VA | HB2280 | Engross | 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) |
| VA | HB2529 | Pass | Income tax; conformity. Advances conformity of the Commonwealth's tax code with the federal tax code to December 31, 2018, effective starting in taxable year 2018. Starting in taxable year 2019, the bill deconforms from the provisions of the federal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017) |
| VA | HB2570 | Engross | 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) |
| VA | HJR748 | Pass | Commending Virginia State University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ748ER) |
| VA | HB1903 | Intro | Dissemination of criminal history record information; limitations. Limits the criminal history information that the Central Criminal Records Exchange, or the criminal justice agency in cases of offenses not required to be reported to the Exchange, ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HJR680 | Intro | Study; Department of Medical Assistance Services; provider service network capitation model for Medicaid; report. Requests the Department of Medical Assistance Services to study the costs and benefits of implementing a full provider service network c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB2532 | Intro | DMAS; state plan amendment; value-based purchasing agreements for covered drugs. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance pursuant to Title XIX of the Social Security Act to allow the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2531 | Intro | Health Insurance Premium Payment program; enrollment of eligible individuals. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to enroll in the Health Insurance Premium Payment program every person who is eligible for medical assistance service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2530 | Intro | Medicaid; cost-sharing. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to require individuals receiving medical assistance pursuant to the state plan for medical assistance whose household income is greater than 100 percent of the federal pov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2654 | Intro | Students who receive home instruction; documentation. Provides that, except as otherwise required by relevant law, no parent who provides home instruction for his child in lieu of school attendance shall be required to provide to the school board in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1680 | Intro | Certificate of public need. Makes changes to the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill (i) removes specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of lithotripsy, magne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | HJR692 | Intro | Equal Rights Amendment; new language. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to submit a new Equal Rights Amendment, with language that addresses the concerns over religious and privacy rights, to the states for ratification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR587 | Pass | Commending the American Legion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ587ER) |
| VA | HJR743 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Robert W. Goodlatte.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ743ER) |
