| HB2177 | Pass | Certificate of public need. Amends the definition of "project" for which a certificate of public need is required to include capital expenditures of $15 million or more by or on behalf of a medical care facility other than a general hospital. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB1435 | Pass | Eminent domain; lost profits and just compensation. Requires that any and all liability for lost profits claimed in an action for compensation pursuant to a taking under eminent domain be set forth specifically in the award for just compensation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| SB1204 | Pass | Sale of secondhand building materials; exemptions. Exempts the donation of certain secondhand material from requirements otherwise applicable to transactions involving such materials, when the materials are donated by their owner or the owner's contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| HB1472 | Pass | State song. Designates "Our Great Virginia," lyrics by Mike Greenly and arranged by Jim Papoulis, as the official traditional state song and "Sweet Virginia Breeze," by Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett, as the official popular state song. The bill c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| SB1085 | Pass | Enforcement of liens; property value. Increases from $10,000 to $12,500 the maximum value of property that may be sold for cash at auction to satisfy a lien on a motor vehicle without petitioning for a court order for the sale of such property. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| HB2229 | Pass | Small estates; checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments. Provides that if the successor to a decedent receives certain small assets in the form of checks, drafts, or other negotiable instruments that are payable to the decedent's estate, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB1750 | Pass | Expanded access to investigational drugs, biological products, and devices. Provides that a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make such drug, product, or device available to a person who has a terminal conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB2204 | Pass | Line of Duty Act. Revises the Line of Duty Act (the Act) by codifying revisions to the Act in the appropriation act, transferring overall administration of the Act to the Virginia Retirement System (VRS), transferring administration of health insuran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB1784 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority; capital projects. Restricts expenditures by the Virginia Port Authority on capital projects, except certain specified projects, to those located on real property that is owned, leased, or operated by the Virginia Port Authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| HB1353 | Pass | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (Robby's Rule). Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry (the Registry) that would include informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| SB1190 | Pass | Motor vehicle liability insurance; underinsured motorist claims; settlement procedures; subrogation. Establishes a procedure by which an injured person or personal representative may settle a claim with a liability insurer or insurers and the liabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| HB2385 | Pass | Possession, etc., of wireless telecommunications device by prisoner; penalty. Provides that a person who provides or causes to be provided a wireless telecommunications device to a prisoner or person committed to a juvenile correctional center, or a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| HB2048 | Pass | Payment of funds into circuit court. Provides that where judgment is taken in the circuit court, upon motion of a party for good cause shown, the court may enter an order directing the clerk to hold certain funds. The bill further provides that where...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB2276 | Pass | Standard diploma; career and technical education credential; exemption. Permits a student to receive satisfactory competency-based instruction to satisfy the standard diploma requirements in lieu of achieving a career and technical education credenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| HB1451 | Pass | Landlord and tenant laws. Provides that in cases of a change in use, the 120-day termination notice shall not be waived, except in the case of a tenancy from month to month, which may be terminated by the landlord by giving the tenant 30 days' writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| SB1316 | Pass | Circuit court clerks; electronic records, fees, etc. Makes various changes to the operations of circuit court clerks, including (i) allowing any agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth to submit records in electronic form; (ii) providing that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| HB1849 | Pass | Variances. Changes the standard by which a board of zoning appeals shall grant an application for a variance by eliminating or altering several of the requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| SB1127 | Pass | Tangible personal property; miscellaneous and incidental property. Declares miscellaneous and incidental property employed in a trade or business with an original cost of less than $250 as a separate classification of tangible personal property. A lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| HB1616 | Pass | Career and technical education; alignment with national certification requirements. Requires each sequence of courses constituting a career and technical education program to be aligned with national certification requirements, if any, unless such pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| HB2369 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; order of appointment. Provides that a judge may revoke an order of appointment for a special conservator of the peace for good cause shown and after the special conservator of the peace has been given notice and an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB1715 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; students exhibiting suicidal tendencies or behavior; notification of student health or counseling center. Requires each public institution of higher education's policies that advise students, faculty, and sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| SB1269 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; tasting events held by distiller licensee or manufacturer of distilled spirits. Allows a licensed distiller who is an agent of the ABC Board to provide samples of beer, wine, or cider manufactured on the licensed premises ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB1433 | Pass | General registrars; reassigning duties of the electoral board. Reassigns duties of the electoral board related to absentee voting and campaign finance to the general registrars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| HB1460 | Pass | Campaign finance reports; filing schedule. Ends the pre-election reporting period for certain campaign finance reports 12 days before the election and begins the special large contribution reporting period 11 days before the election. This change eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| SB1383 | Pass | Home instruction; religious exemption; information privacy. Prohibits a division superintendent or local school board from disclosing to the Department of Education or any other person or entity outside of the local school division information provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB1924 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee established. Establishes the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee (the Committee) to assist the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in developing, revising, and im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| SB794 | Pass | Testimony of certain judicial personnel. Clarifies that certain persons who have the power to issue warrants are competent to testify in a criminal proceeding in which the defendant is charged with perjury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB1062 | Pass | Election administration; presidential elections; officers of election and ballot scanner machines. Requires any precinct having more than 4,000 registered voters to have not less than five officers of election serving at a presidential election and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| SB770 | Pass | Workers' compensation; exclusivity of remedy. Provides that if the Workers' Compensation Commission or a court on appeal from the Commission makes a finding in an unappealed order based on an evidentiary hearing or a factual stipulation of the partie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| HB1747 | Pass | Health insurance; mental health parity. Conforms certain requirements regarding coverage for mental health and substance use disorders to provisions of the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (the Act). The measure requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| HB2303 | Pass | Sexually violent predators; notice of hearings; conditional release plan. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in preparing a conditional release plan for a sexually violent predator, to notify the attorney for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB1648 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, and platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000. The provisions of the bill expire January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| SB1114 | Pass | Temporary detention for testing, observation, and treatment of person who is the subject of an emergency custody order. Provides that a court or magistrate may issue an order for temporary detention for medical testing, observation, and treatment for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| HB1819 | Pass | Motor vehicle liability insurance; underinsured motorist claims; settlement procedures; subrogation. Establishes a procedure by which an injured person or personal representative may settle a claim with a liability insurer or insurers and the liabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| SB732 | Pass | Expanded access to investigational drugs, biological products, and devices. Provides that a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make such drug, product, or device available to a person who has a terminal conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB2314 | Pass | Bail bondsmen and bail enforcement agents; arrest for felony offense; reporting. Requires a bail bondsman to report any felony arrest to the Department of Criminal Justice Services within 10 calendar days of the arrest. The bill provides that a licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| SB1450 | Pass | Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act; adoption. Codifies the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act (the Act), which dictates the circumstances under which a provider of an electronic communications service or remote computing service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| SB1290 | Pass | Venue in criminal cases. Provides that if it cannot readily be determined where a crime was committed in the Commonwealth, venue for the prosecution of the crime may be had in any county or city (i) in which the defendant resides, (ii) in which the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| HB1798 | Pass | Qualification of fiduciary without security; issuance of certificates of qualification; payments. Sets out the requirements for the certificates of qualification issued by the court or clerk where the amount does not exceed $25,000. The bill also set...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| HB2320 | Pass | Cooperative online degree program plan. Requires the Secretary of Education and the Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with each two-year or four-year, public or private, nonprofit institution of higher ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| SB928 | Pass | Virginia Administrative Process Act; default by nonappearing party. Establishes a mechanism to more efficiently dispose of contested matters under the Virginia Administrative Process Act where the defendant in an administrative proceeding fails to ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB927 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; disqualification; presiding officers and hearing officers. Establishes a process for the disqualification of presiding officers and hearing officers in situations where such officers cannot accord a fair and impartial hear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB2228 | Pass | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration verification. Provides that the Department of Corrections (the Department) or other supervisory personnel may cause to be physically verified by the State Police the registration informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB2372 | Pass | Medical assistance; asset verification; financial institutions may provide records. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to establish an electronic financial record matching program for the purpose of verifying the assets of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| HB1878 | Pass | Stock corporations and nonstick corporations; procedures. Compiles multiple revisions to the Virginia Stock Corporation Act and the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act, including provisions (i) authorizing corporate bylaws to include a requirement that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| SB919 | Pass | Administrative subpoenas; electronic communication services nondisclosure of subpoena. Authorizes the Attorney General, as attorneys for the Commonwealth are currently authorized, to issue administrative subpoenas to obtain certain records and other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| HB2355 | Pass | Real-time location data; search warrant. Provides that a search warrant for real-time location data shall be issued if the judge or magistrate issuing the warrant is satisfied that probable cause has been established that the real-time location data ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| HB2059 | Pass | Limited partnerships; admission or withdrawal of partners. Provides that a person may be admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner and may receive a partnership interest in it without making, or being required to make, a contribution to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| HB1594 | Pass | Outdoor advertising. Allows county governing bodies to take over from the Commissioner of Highways the regulation of authorized outdoor advertising or notices that are on public park or school property owned by the county and are not visible from int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| HB1319 | Pass | Special license plates; CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of curing childhood cancer bearing the legend CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER. This bill may be known as "The Mathias Bill." The bill contains an em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
