| VA | HB1357 | Engross | Sale of wildlife mounts permitted. Exempts from the prohibition against selling wild animals any Virginia resident selling a wildlife or fish mount that was taken legally and that underwent the taxidermy process legally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Recommitted to Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| VA | HB967 | Enroll | Professions and occupations; expediting the issuance of credentials to spouses of military service members. Provides for the expedited issuance of credentials to the spouses of military service members who are (i) ordered to federal active duty under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 3, 2020 |
| VA | HJR244 | Engross | Commending the Ryan Bartel Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HJR233 | Engross | Commending Robert Eugene Foster, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HB1244 | Enroll | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Act (the Act), "telephone solicitation call" includes any text message sent to any wireless telephone with a Virginia area code, or to a wirel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1244ER) |
| VA | HB590 | Engross | Tax credit for participating landlords; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for the housing choice voucher tax credit to include Virginia census tracts in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statisti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 44-N) |
| VA | HB314 | Enroll | Historical African American cemeteries; Loudoun County. Adds Mt. Zion Old School Baptist Church Cemetery in Loudoun County, with 33 eligible graves, to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020 |
| VA | HB446 | Enroll | Department of General Services; disposition of surplus materials; donation of surplus computers; United States military. Requires the Department of General Services to permit surplus computers and related equipment to be donated to organizations in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020 |
| VA | HB516 | Enroll | Public schools; diploma requirements; dual enrollment and work-based learning options. Requires the Board of Education to include in its graduation requirements the options for students to complete a dual enrollment course or high-quality work-based ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020 |
| VA | HB165 | Enroll | Teledentistry. Defines "teledentistry," establishes requirements for the practice of teledentistry and the taking of dental scans for use in teledentistry by dental scan technicians, and clarifies requirements related to the use of digital work order...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020 |
| VA | HB1271 | Engross | Conveyance of right-of-way usage to certain nonpublic service companies. Allows a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to obtain a land use permit from the Department of Transportation to use rights-of-way to operate a wholesale open-access fiber ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N 2-A) |
| VA | HJR253 | Engross | Commending Gerald R. Rubin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1522 | Engross | Forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of crimes; finding of guilt required. Requires that any action for the forfeiture of property used in connection with the commission of a crime be stayed until the person whose property is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB742 | Engross | Local regulation of unmanned aerial systems. Authorizes a political subdivision, by ordinance or regulation, to regulate the takeoff or landing of unmanned aerial systems on property owned by the political subdivision in accordance with the rules and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB378 | Engross | Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency; repeal sunset. Repeals the sunset on the program established in 2017 that allows the Commissioner of Health to establish and operate local or regional comprehensive harm reduction progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB316 | Engross | Refunds of local taxes; authority of treasurer. Increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the maximum amount at which the governing body of a locality may authorize its treasurer to approve and issue a refund of taxes paid as a result of an erroneous tax asses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR206 | Engross | Commending JK Moving Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR220 | Engross | Commending the Loudoun County Office of Emergency Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR226 | Engross | Commending the Loudoun Literacy Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR34 | Intro | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); Constitutional amendment (second resolution); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission, a 16-member Commission tasked with establishing districts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1196 | Engross | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Removes the requirement that a court suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR4 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Alan Arnold Diamonstein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | HB43 | Engross | Provisional voting; persons voting in split precincts. Provides that any voter who is assigned to a precinct that is split between two or more election districts and who believes he was given a ballot for the district of which he is not a qualified v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB634 | Engross | School Divisions of Innovation; local assessments. Allows a local school board, when applying for its school division to be designated as a School Division of Innovation, to apply to the Board of Education to replace the Virginia Studies and Civics a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB642 | Intro | Transportation funding; statewide prioritization process. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board, when administering SMART SCALE, to ensure that projects are evaluated for district grant program funds and high-priority funds separately, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HJR195 | Engross | Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Robert Russa Moton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB1132 | Engross | Electric utility regulation; initial triennial review. Establishes requirements for the first scheduled triennial review proceeding for Virginia Electric and Power Company that is scheduled to be conducted in 2021. The measure directs that such initi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HJR3 | Intro | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); reapportionment; technical adjustments permitted. Gives the General Assembly the authority to make technical adjustments to legislative electoral district boundaries following the enactment of any decenni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB14 | Intro | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); reapportionment; technical adjustments permitted. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject an amendment that would allow the General Assembly to make technical adjus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB636 | Intro | Provision of county services to town residents. Requires a county to provide the same and equal services to residents of incorporated towns within the county as are provided to other residents of the county. However, if the local governing body of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB631 | Intro | Income tax deduction; tolls paid on Virginia roads. Establishes an income tax deduction starting in taxable year 2020 for tolls paid for travel on Virginia roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB626 | Intro | Prescribing of opioids; required patient disclosures. Requires prescribers to discuss with a patient or the patient's parent or guardian prior to prescribing an opioid information regarding the prescribed opioid, including the risks of addiction and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB683 | Intro | 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] | 2020-02-11
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB685 | Intro | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for contractors using automatic billing verification software. Requires that, for any bid on a contract (i) in excess of $500,000 and (ii) requiring work to be performed using a computer, all state agencies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB678 | Intro | Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of certain children to apply to the school division in which the child resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings Account that consists of an amount ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB679 | Intro | 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 |
| VA | HB677 | Intro | 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 |
| VA | HB680 | Intro | 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 |
| VA | HB772 | Intro | Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988; Department of Transportation authority. Transfers enforcement and oversight authority of the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 from the State Corporation Commission to the Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HJR69 | Intro | Study; Virginia State Police; air emergency medical services; report. Requests the Virginia State Police study the availability and affordability of air emergency medical services within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB768 | Intro | 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 |
| VA | HB770 | Intro | Goat grazing on stream buffers. Authorizes a locality that procures and utilizes goats for the temporary grazing of stream buffers to remain in compliance with a resource management plan for pasture land. Such compliance qualifies the locality for ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB766 | Intro | Virginia taxable income; subtractions; volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services personnel. Provides a state income tax subtraction of $20 per hour, up to a maximum of 300 hours per taxable year, for bona fide volunteers who per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB978 | Intro | Improper driving. Provides that a person is guilty of improper driving if he drives without (i) giving his full time and attention to the operation of the vehicle or (ii) keeping the vehicle under proper control at all times. Current law allows a cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1212 | Intro | Compliance with terms and conditions of personal motor vehicle insurance policy; age of party seeking liability coverage. Provides that any party, regardless of the age of such party, seeking liability coverage under a personal motor vehicle insuranc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB979 | Intro | Utility easements; pole attachments. Declares that a Utility easements; pole attachments. Declares that a prescriptive easement, including the right to use such easement for both electric and communications services, exists in an area unserved by bro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB1227 | Intro | Local regulation of unmanned aerial systems. Authorizes a political subdivision to adopt time, place, or manner regulations regarding the takeoff or landing of unmanned aerial systems on property owned by the political subdivision, provided such regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | HB1389 | Intro | Use of transportation funds in the Commonwealth. Requires affirmative authorization by the General Assembly in an appropriation act for any funds in the Commonwealth, including local and regional funds and toll revenues, to be used for a transportati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1367 | Intro | Public institutions of higher education; in-state tuition; volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Declares eligible for in-state tuition charges regardless of domicile any individual who volunteers as a firefighter or an eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1393 | Intro | Nutrient credit trading; adjacent hydrologic unit code. Removes authority for a Virginia Stormwater Management Program or Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program to allow compliance with stormwater nonpoint nutrient runoff water quality cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
