| VA | HB5106 | Engross | Landlord and tenant, noncompliance with rental agreement; prohibition on reporting negative credit information arising from the COVID-19 pandemic; penalty; emergency. Provides that a landlord shall not take any adverse action against a tenant or appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-18
Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (8-Y 3-N 3-A) |
| VA | HB5090 | Engross | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, to the types of law-enforcement and criminal records required to be released in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-18
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB5047 | Engross | Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; manufacturers and distributors. Prohibits any manufacturer or distributor from selling necessary goods or services at an unconscionable price during a declared state of emergency. Under current law, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (13-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB5045 | Engross | Carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; local or state law-enforcement officer; penalty. Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5112 | Engross | Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid; duty to report wrongdoing by another law-enforcement officer; penalty. Requires any law-enforcement officer on duty who witnesses another person suffering from a serious bodily injury or a life-threatening...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB5055 | Engross | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Requires a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body that may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5029 | Engross | Law-enforcement officer; failure to intervene in an unlawful use of force; penalties. Requires that any law-enforcement officer who witnesses another law-enforcement officer, in the performance of his official duties, engaging or attempting to engage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HR592 | Intro | Commending the Philippine Cultural Center of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-09
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 20200007D |
| VA | HR594 | Intro | Celebrating the life of Diane Elaine Harris Marsh, DDS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-09
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 20201140D |
| VA | HB5052 | Engross | Legal holidays; Juneteenth. Recognizes the nineteenth day of June of each year, also known as Juneteenth, as a legal holiday in the Commonwealth to commemorate the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, the last of the former Confederate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HR589 | Intro | Celebrating the life of Kenneth Elliot Linden Millington.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-02
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 20201072D |
| VA | HR588 | Intro | Celebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-02
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 20201071D |
| VA | HB5064 | Engross | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units, or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwellin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HR532 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Captain Michael Francis Ott, Jr., USN, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR5011 | Intro | Women's Suffrage Month. Designates August, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Women's Suffrage Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-24
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB22 | Pass | Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; loan and grant program. Continues the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund as the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund, providing that the Fund shall include all sums that are deposited from revenue gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1199) |
| VA | HB582 | Pass | Labor and employment; collective bargaining; employees of counties, cities, and towns. Permits counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances authorizing them to (i) recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1209) |
| VA | HB201 | Pass | Elections; voter registration; extended time for persons to register in person. Provides any person who is qualified to vote is entitled to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election at the office of the general registrar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1153) |
| VA | HB827 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; reasonable accommodation for the known limitations of persons related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Requires em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1138) |
| VA | HB1257 | Pass | Drinking water supplies; maximum contaminant levels. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations establishing maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in public drinking water systems for (i) perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonate, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1097) |
| VA | HB561 | Pass | Statewide prioritization process; primary evacuation routes. Requires the Office of Intermodal Planning to include in the results of screening candidate projects in the Six-Year Improvement Program whether such projects are located on a primary evacu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0971) |
| VA | HB1547 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; eligibility for in-state tuition. Provides that any student is eligible for in-state tuition who (i) attended high school for at least two years in the Commonwealth and either (a) graduated on or after July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| VA | HB1642 | Pass | Coal ash ponds; well monitoring program; well testing. Requires each utility, defined in the bill as the owner or operator of a coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to commission an independent well water test on behalf of the owner of any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| VA | HB838 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; Real Estate Board; disclosure statement. Requires the residential property disclosure statement form developed by the Real Estate Board and maintained on its website to include a statement signed by the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| VA | HB1569 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures for buyer to beware; impounding structures or dams. Directs the Real Estate Board to include in the residential property disclosure statement provided on its website a disclosure rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| VA | HB55 | Pass | Worker cooperatives. Establishes worker cooperatives as a category of cooperative associations. A worker cooperative is a stock corporation that has elected to be governed by provisions established by this measure, which include (i) conducting its bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| VA | HB687 | Pass | Doulas; certification; registry. Provides that no person shall use or assume the title "state-certified doula," as defined in the bill, unless such person is a community-based doula who has received training and education as a doula from an entity ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| VA | HB654 | Pass | Financing clean energy projects. Authorizes the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to sponsor a statewide clean energy financing program. The Department shall engage a private entity through a competitive selection process to develop and admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| VA | HB1641 | Pass | Coal ash ponds; private wells and public water supply wells; resident notification. Requires a utility, defined in the bill as the owner or operator of a coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to complete a survey of all private wells and pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| VA | HB1268 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject a personal property tax exemption for a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| VA | HB916 | Pass | Department of Education; Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Education Practices Advisory Committee; report. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems appropriate to a Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| VA | HB1102 | Pass | Hampton Roads Regional Arena Authority created; financing of a Hampton Roads arena and facility. Creates the Hampton Roads Regional Arena Authority and grants it certain powers relating to construction of an arena and facility. Among those powers is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | HB859 | Pass | Stormwater management facilities; private residential lots; disclosure. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations requiring the owner of residential property on which is located a privately owned stormwater management facility servin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| VA | HB1663 | Fail | Prohibited discrimination; public accommodations, employment, credit, and housing: causes of action; sexual orientation and gender identity. Creates explicit causes of action for unlawful discrimination in public accommodations and employment in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB797 | Pass | Local school boards; lead testing; report; parental notification. Requires each local school board's plan to test and remediate certain potable water sources to be consistent with guidance published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| VA | HB839 | Pass | Taxes on wills and administrations; exemption for victims of the Virginia Beach mass shooting. Establishes an exemption from probate tax for a person killed or injured in the 2019 Virginia Beach mass shooting. The bill provides that if, prior to its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| VA | HB1342 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures for buyer to beware; lead pipe; defective drywall. Adds to the disclosure statement required to be furnished to the buyer by the owner of residential real property that the buyer bewa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200) |
| VA | HJR439 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ439ER) |
| VA | HJR440 | Pass | Commending the Wes Strong Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ440ER) |
| VA | HJR438 | Pass | Commending Rachel Thompson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ438ER) |
| VA | HJR451 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Ernest George Minns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ451ER) |
| VA | HB464 | Pass | Charter; City of Virginia Beach. Provides that a Virginia Beach city council member from one of the residence districts who decides to run for an at-large seat on the council shall tender his resignation as a council member not less than 10 days prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127) |
| VA | HB696 | Pass | Local human rights ordinances; sexual orientation and gender identity. Provides that localities may prohibit discrimination in housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, and education on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| VA | HJR334 | Pass | Commending the Honorable Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ334ER) |
| VA | HJR108 | Pass | Year of the Eye Exam. Designates 2020 as the Year of the Eye Exam in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ108ER) |
| VA | HJR102 | Pass | Study; continuing the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Study; continuing the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding; report. Continues the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding for two additional years, through the 2021 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ102ER) |
| VA | HJR10 | Pass | Gun Violence Awareness Day. Designates June 1, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ10ER) |
