| HJR617 | Pass | Rotary Day in Virginia. Designates June 1, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Rotary Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Introduced bill reprinted 13103582D |
| HB2279 | Pass | Placement of children. Eliminates language providing that regulations of the Board of Social Services shall not prohibit placement of a nonresident child in a children's residential facility in the Commonwealth by a custodial parent who assumes full ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| HB2344 | Pass | School safety; threat assessment teams and oversight committees. Requires local school boards to establish policies and procedures for the establishment of threat assessment teams. The bill requires the division superintendent to establish for each s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB1342 | Pass | Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Provides that the governing board of each public four-year institution of higher education may establish written memoranda of understanding with its local community services board or behavioral...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| SB1227 | Pass | Tax credits for donations to nonprofits providing assistance to low-income families. Makes several changes to the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit and Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits programs including (i) allowing tax credits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| SB1013 | Pass | Landlord and tenant laws; application to certain occupants of hotel, motel, extended stay facilities, and similar lodging. Provides that an occupant in a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, vacation residential facility, boardinghouse, or similar t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| HB1397 | Pass | Scenic river designation. Designates a 15-mile segment of the Dan River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| HB2103 | Pass | Parole Board; parole review and denial. Requires the Parole Board to ensure that each person eligible for parole receives a timely and thorough review of his suitability for release on parole, including a review of any relevant post-sentencing inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB853 | Pass | Assault and battery of magistrate; penalty. Elevates the punishment for committing an assault and battery against a magistrate who is engaged in the performance of his public duties from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony, with a six-month man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| HB1337 | Pass | Elections; polling place procedures; voter identification requirements. Removes several items from the list of acceptable identification documents that a voter must present when voting at the polls on election day: a copy of a current utility bill, b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| HB2138 | Pass | Health Insurance Reform Commission created. Establishes the Health Insurance Reform Commission as a legislative commission. The duties of the Commission include monitoring the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; determi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| HB1344 | Pass | Special education; children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Permits local school divisions to ensure that individualized education program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| HB1629 | Pass | Eel pots. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue an annual permit to use eel pots in the waters of Back Bay and the North Landing River and their tributaries. The annual permit fee to catch eels for commercial purposes is $50 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB2065 | Pass | Correctional centers; adult and juvenile; penalties. For selected offenses, imposes the same penalties for offenses committed by persons confined in a juvenile correctional center as currently exist for adult prisoners. Persons who deliver certain it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| SB707 | Pass | Health care providers; submitting health insurance claims. Requires any in-network provider that provides health care services to a covered patient to submit its claim to the health insurer for the health care services in accordance with the terms of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| HB1858 | Pass | Career and technical occupational experiences for secondary school students; model waiver form. Requires the Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2014, a model waiver form for use by any entity providing a career and technical occupational exper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| HB1927 | Pass | Emergency medical services personnel; penalty for assault and battery. Adds emergency medical services personnel members who are employed by or volunteers of an emergency medical services agency and engaged in the performance of their public duties t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| SB1123 | Pass | State Shakespeare Festival designated. Designates the Virginia Shakespeare Festival held in Williamsburg as the official Shakespeare festival of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| HB1617 | Pass | Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| HB2203 | Pass | Fee for solid waste disposal; exemption. Provides that Pittsylvania County may impose a fee for solid waste disposal in part to purchase or subsidize the purchase of equipment used for the collection of solid waste. The bill also provides that in Pit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| SB1074 | Pass | Higher education; student organizations. Permits, to the extent allowed by law, religious or political student organizations at public institutions of higher education to determine that only persons committed to the organization's mission may conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB1750 | Pass | Participation in interscholastic programs; students residing on a military or naval reservation. Requires any student who resides on a military or naval reservation with military-owned housing located wholly or partly within the geographical boundari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB1769 | Pass | Health insurance; plan management and rate review. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to perform plan management functions for participation in the federal health benefit exchange established by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| SB958 | Pass | Voter registration; final day of registration and mail registration application. Provides that the principal office of the registrar shall close for registration purposes at 5:00 p.m. on the final day for registration before an election. The same dea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| HB1532 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; certain local employees. Makes technical changes necessary to carry out the purpose of Chapter 811 of the 2012 Acts of Assembly, permitting localities to exempt firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law-enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| SB1164 | Pass | Action for expenses for infant's injury; statute of limitations. Provides that any action by a parent or guardian of an infant for the expenses of curing or attempting to cure the infant from the result of a personal injury or loss of services of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| SB1185 | Pass | Teacher performance; Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative created. Establishes the Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative and Fund, which provide that local school divisions may submit proposals to the Board of Education to receive grants that ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| HB2345 | Pass | Virginia Center for School Safety; duties. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety, in conjunction with the Department of State Police, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, and the Department of Education, to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| SB799 | Pass | Real property tax; special valuation for land preservation. Permits Goochland County to adopt certain variations in administering the special valuation of real property for land preservation for real property in service districts created after July 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| SB1207 | Pass | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| SB1077 | Pass | Registered voters; citizenship; SAVE Program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to apply to participate in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program) operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB1999 | Pass | Public schools; individual school performance grading system. Requires the Board of Education, by July 31, 2013, to approve student growth indicators for use in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers. The bill also defines "stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| SB974 | Pass | Nursing homes; electronic monitoring by patients. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations governing the implementation of voluntary electronic monitoring in the rooms of residents of nursing homes, which shall include existing policies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB1110 | Pass | Oyster inspection tax. Authorizes the Potomac River Fisheries Commission to impose an oyster inspection tax not to exceed $2 per bushel. Currently, under the Potomac River Compact, the Commission can impose an inspection tax that cannot exceed the hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| HB2042 | Pass | DMV; customer service. Modifies requirements for (i) release by DMV of vehicle title information, (ii) automated electronic payments to the DMV, (iii) temporary motorcycle operator licenses, and (iv) deactivation, extension, and reactivation of vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| SB959 | Pass | Crossing highways. Allows local governing bodies to adopt ordinances requiring users of shared-use paths to stop before crossing highways at marked crosswalks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB1089 | Pass | Health insurance program for local government employees and other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth. Removes the authority of centers for independent living and area agencies on aging to join the Local Choice Plan for their employees because...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| HB2130 | Pass | Nursing homes; electronic monitoring by patients. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations governing the implementation of voluntary electronic monitoring in the rooms of residents of nursing homes, which shall include existing policies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| HB1601 | Pass | Commission on Civics Education; sunset extended. Extends the sunset date for the Commission on Civics Education to July 1, 2016. The bill also repeals the provision that made the existence of the Commission contingent on continued funding in a gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| SB1178 | Pass | Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Reward Fund; amount of reward; duties of the State Inspector General. Reduces the minimum recovery required for an award from the Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Reward Fund from $10,000 to $5,000 and expands the purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| SB1241 | Pass | Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency. Advances the conformity with the federal tax code from December 31, 2011, to January 2, 2013, and restores conformity with the federal earned income tax credit. The bill contains an eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| HB2338 | Pass | Erroneously admitted evidence; appeal. Provides that when a criminal conviction is appealed based on a claim that the evidence to convict was insufficient because the trial court improperly admitted evidence, the reviewing court shall consider all ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| SB1049 | Pass | Candidate petitions; qualifications to have candidate's name appear on the ballot. Provides that the signatures of qualified voters who have been assigned inactive status shall be deemed valid for purposes of candidate petitions. The bill also requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| SB1263 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; meeting by electronic communication means by certain committees, subcommittees, etc., of state public bodies; personal matters. Authorizes an advisory public body, defined as any state public body classified as ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB1264 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; access to criminal and other records held by public bodies engaged in criminal law-enforcement activities. Reorganizes § 2.2-3706 of the Freedom of Information Act relating to access to criminal records and other reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| SB922 | Pass | Health insurance; plan management and rate review. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to perform plan management functions for participation in the federal health benefit exchange established by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| HB1642 | Pass | Rights of parents. Provides that a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent's child. The bill further provides that the provisions of the bill codify the opinion of the Supreme Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB908 | Pass | Rights of parents. Provides that a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent's child. The bill further provides that the provisions of the bill codify the opinion of the Supreme Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| HB1876 | Pass | Sterilization operations for persons capable of informed consent. Eliminates the requirement for a 30-day waiting period prior to a sterilization operation for persons who are over the age of 18 and capable of giving informed consent who have not pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| SB1035 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; collection of overpayments. Provides that any person who has received an overpayment of unemployment benefits under a federal program or a program of any other state is liable to the Virginia Employment Commission for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
