| VA | HB5146 | Engross | Automatic expungement of criminal records. Establishes a process for the automatic expungement of criminal records for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, acquittals, and for offenses that have been nolle prossed or otherwise dismissed. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB5051 | Engross | Decertification of law-enforcement officer. Requires any sheriff, chief of police, or agency administrator to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board in writing within 48 hours of becoming aware that any certified law-enforcement or jail officer c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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
[Hearing: Sep 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HR553 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Daniel X. Sze.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB10 | Pass | Qualified education loan servicers. Prohibits any person from acting as a qualified education loan servicer except in accordance with provisions established by this bill. The bill requires a loan servicer to obtain a license from the State Corporatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1198) |
| VA | HB421 | Pass | Control of firearms by localities. Authorizes any locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such locality for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1205) |
| VA | HB340 | Pass | Emergency laws; civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to closure of the federal government or declaration of Emergency by the Governor. Provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1202) |
| VA | HB789 | Pass | Consumer lending. Replaces references to payday loans with the term "short-term loans." The measure caps the interest and fees that may be charged under a short-term loan at an annual rate of 36 percent, plus a maintenance fee; increases the maximum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1215) |
| 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 | HB1211 | Pass | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources or been claimed as a dependent on an individual tax return fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1227) |
| VA | HB785 | Pass | Local tax authority. Modifies or eliminates several restrictions that apply to taxes imposed by counties, and establishes a new restriction on cigarette taxes imposed by any locality. The bill authorizes most counties to impose an admissions tax, not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1214) |
| VA | HB220 | Pass | Absentee voting; postage prepaid on return envelope. Requires the envelope provided to an absentee voter for the return of the absentee ballot to include prepaid postage. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2021...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1155) |
| VA | HB56 | Pass | Minimum wage; tipped employees; classification. Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as a tipped employee if the individual is prohibited by applicable federal or state law or regulation from soliciting tips.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1145) |
| 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 | HB572 | Pass | Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1188) |
| VA | HB259 | Pass | Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report. Provides that in cases where a defendant is likely to remain incompetent for the foreseeable future due to an ongoing and irreversible medical condition and prior medical or educational records a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1121) |
| VA | HB792 | Pass | Appeals of right in general district court; appeals of final orders or judgements entered in the same action or related action. Provides that there shall be an appeal of right to a court of record from any order entered or judgment rendered in a gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1048) |
| 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 | HB1269 | Pass | Veterans Services Foundation. Provides that the board of trustees of the Veterans Services Foundation may be assisted in the administration of the Foundation by volunteers and staff members employed by the Executive Director. The bill also (i) adds a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1128) |
| VA | HB623 | Pass | Gender-neutral terms; prohibitions on same-sex marriage and civil unions removed from Code; certain gender-specific crimes; penalty. Replaces the terms "husband" and "wife," as well as related terms, with gender-neutral terms throughout the Code to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0900) |
| VA | HB337 | Pass | Nonpayment of wages; discriminatory actions prohibited. Prohibits an employer from discharging or otherwise discriminating against an employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0950) |
| VA | HB1222 | Pass | Notaries; satisfactory evidence of identity; persons in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Allows expired state issued driver's licenses or state issued identification cards and expired passports to be used as a means of identification for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0902) |
| VA | HB1522 | Pass | 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] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1000) |
| VA | HB1196 | Pass | Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that 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 costs be suspended....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0964) |
| VA | HB1428 | Pass | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0916) |
| VA | HB123 | Pass | Nonpayment of wages; cause of action; penalties. Provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages to recover the amount of wages due plus interest at eight percent annually from the date the wages wer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868) |
| VA | HB66 | Pass | Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $50 per 30-day supply that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale in or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0881) |
| VA | HB1548 | Pass | Common interest communities; Virginia Condominium Act; termination of condominium; respective interests of unit owners. Provides that the respective interests of condominium unit owners upon the termination of a condominium shall be as set forth in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| VA | HB826 | Pass | State plan for medical assistance; perinatal birth workers. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group to (i) evaluate the potential costs and benefits, including potential reductions in maternal and infant mortalit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841) |
| 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 | HB113 | Pass | Protected information; newspersons engaged in journalism. Provides that no newsperson engaged in journalism shall be compelled by the Commonwealth or a locality in any criminal proceeding to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| VA | HB819 | Pass | Real estate settlements; kickbacks and other payments; remedies; civil penalties. Relocates from Chapter 9 (Real Estate Settlements) to Chapter 10 (Real Estate Settlement Agents) within Title 55.1 the existing provision that prohibits persons from pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| VA | HB420 | Pass | Department of Emergency Management; review of emergency services and disaster preparedness plans. Directs the Department of Emergency Management (the Department) to review its emergency services and disaster preparedness programs to determine if chan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| 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 | HB849 | Pass | Political campaign advertisements; applicability of disclosure requirements to advertisements placed or promoted for a fee on an online platform; identification and certification requirements. Subjects any message that is placed or promoted for a fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| VA | HB1041 | Pass | Board of Health; certificate of birth; change of sex. Requires the State Registrar to issue a new certificate of birth to show a change of sex upon request of the person and, if a certified copy of a court order changing the person's name is submitte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| VA | HB160 | Pass | Special license plate bearing the legend STOP GUN VIOLENCE; revenue-sharing provisions. Provides that the special license plate bearing the legend STOP GUN VIOLENCE will remain nonrevenue-sharing. Current law provides that such special license plate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| VA | HB590 | Pass | 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] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| VA | HB790 | Pass | Homestead exemption; bankruptcy exemptions. Makes various changes to homestead exemptions, including providing that the official schedule of property claimed exempt filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court in a bankruptcy proceeding constitutes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| VA | HJR398 | Engross | Commending Stephen Rau.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR397 | Engross | Commending Brian Benson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR399 | Engross | Commending Daniel Zakula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR401 | Engross | Commending Gary Fuller.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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 | HB186 | Pass | Election day page program; central absentee voter precinct. Removes the prohibition against an election day page program being conducted in a central absentee voter precinct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| VA | HB336 | Pass | Nonpayment of wages; investigations. Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| VA | HR201 | Engross | Commending Rick Judd.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR205 | Engross | Commending Gary Fuller.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR202 | Engross | Commending Brian Benson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
