| HB1747 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration activities by third parties. Requires individuals and groups conducting voter registration drives, when obtaining 25 or more voter registration applications from the State Board of Elections or local offices, to regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1751 | Engross
Sine Die | Crimes; assault and battery. Includes an employee or other individual who provides control, care, or treatment of sexually violent predators committed to the custody of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services within the enhance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| SB1374 | Engross
Sine Die | Schools that have been denied accreditation and fail to make progress toward accreditation; turnaround specialist. Requires local school boards, when a school has been denied accreditation and has failed to make satisfactory progress toward full accr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB724 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested are entitled to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1252 | Engross
Sine Die | Policies on concussions in student-athletes. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property to establish policies and procedures based on either the local school division's guidelines or the Board of Education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR266 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides that a person convicted of a nonviolent felony who has completed service of his sentence and paid in full any restitution, fines, costs, and fees assessed against him...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB971 | Engross
Sine Die | Lyme disease; disclosure of information to patients. Requires physicians to provide to each patient for whom a test for the presence of Lyme disease is ordered a written notice about Lyme disease, about testing for Lyme disease, and about the need fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB830 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting and procedures; secure return of voted military-overseas ballots. Directs the State Board of Elections to provide instructions and procedures so that uniformed-service voters can return voted military-overseas ballots secur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1294 | Engross
Sine Die | Senate districts; technical adjustment. Reassigns the Fairways Precinct in the City of Chesapeake from District 5 to District 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB1336 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credit for employees who telework. Creates a $250 income tax credit for employees who telework a minimum of 20 hours per week during at least 45 weeks of the taxable year. The employee would apply for tax credit to the Department of Taxation. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| SJR327 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); statewide school division for schools denied accreditation. Authorizes the General Assembly to establish a statewide school division to supervise and administer schools that have been denied accreditation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB2235 | Engross
Sine Die | Use, display, or discharge of firearm in committing felony. Increases (exclusively mandatory minimum) penalties for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies from three to four years for a first offense and from five to si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR910 | Engross
Sine Die | Richmond Ballet; Leap Week. Designates the third full week in March, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia, Leap Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB739 | Engross
Sine Die | Voting devices; number required. Provides that there shall be at least one voting device for each 500 registered voters in a precinct. The current requirement is for one device for each 750 registered voters. The bill has a delayed effective date of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | University of Virginia Board of Visitors; quorum. Changes the number of board members that constitutes a quorum from five members to a majority of members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB259 | Engross
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in House of Delegates Districts 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 59, 60, 64, 67, 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2229 | Engross
Sine Die | Detention and removal of a citizen from the Commonwealth by the federal government. Provides that the Secretary of Public Safety shall request from the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, when an agency of the federal government detains any citizen pursu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1653 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration verification. Provides that the Department of Corrections or other supervisory personnel may cause to be physically verified the registration information on the Sex Offender and Crimes Aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2096 | Engross
Sine Die | Opportunity Educational Institution established. Creates the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board. The bill requires any school that has been denied accreditation and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| HJR909 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Rejected by Senate (15-Y 24-N) |
| HR220 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| HB2295 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; duties of the Assistant to the Governor. Provides for the Assistant to the Governor for Intergovernmental Affairs to convene at least annually a meeting of the Virginia Congressional Delegation and a delegation re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
Chair votes No |
| HB1725 | Engross
Sine Die | Delivery of completed absentee ballot applications by third parties. Provides that no person, with certain exceptions, shall offer to mail or deliver 25 or more completed absentee ballot applications on behalf of voters for any election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR590 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of a metallic-based monetary unit; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study whether the Commonwealth should adopt a metallic-based monetary unit to serve as a contingency currency for the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
Rejected by Senate |
| HJR693 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); statewide school division for schools denied accreditation. Authorizes the General Assembly to establish a statewide school division to supervise and administer schools that have been denied accreditation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB786 | Engross
Sine Die | Lost or stolen firearms; duty of law enforcement. Provides that whenever a person reports the theft or loss of a firearm to law enforcement, the law-enforcement agency must enter, to the extent such information is known by the officer or department, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB701 | Engross
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1095 | Engross
Sine Die | Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $179 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wastewater treatment facilities to comply...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB996 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporary detention orders; duration. Increases the maximum duration that a person may be detained pursuant to a temporary detention order from 48 to 72 hours. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2014, and is contingent upon an approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB791 | Engross
Sine Die | Performance review of state agencies. Requires the Office of the State Inspector General to develop and implement an audit work plan using existing funding and in coordination with other pertinent agencies, as appropriate, to schedule executive branc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB757 | Engross
Sine Die | No-contest clauses; exceptions. Allows the beneficiary of a will or trust to institute an action to seek interpretation or enforcement of a provision of a will or trust without triggering the penalties of a no-contest clause. This bill does not elimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1151 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Student Achievement Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Student Achievement Fund that shall be used solely for the purposes of awarding grants on a competitive basis to any local school division or other qualified entity to fund stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB1162 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning tests. Directs the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to provide the same criteria for eligibility for an expedited retake of any Standards of Learning test to each student regardless of grade level or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB809 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile offenders; sentences. Provides that the punishment is a Class 2 felony (20 years to life) for persons convicted of a crime committed when a juvenile for which the only available punishment is a life sentence. This bill is in response to Mill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB719 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1230 | Engross
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation program. Establishes a short-time compensation program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals are computed based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB831 | Engross
Sine Die | Gold-Certified Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Gold-Certified Veteran Employment Grant Fund and Gold-Certified Veteran Employment Grant Program. Businesses who obtain the gold level of certification in the Department of Veteran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1267 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; licensure of tree care service providers; penalties. Requires the licensure of tree care service providers by the Board for Contractors as of January 1, 2014. The Board sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB835 | Engross
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families assistance shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1273 | Engross
Sine Die | Forced prostitution; expungement. Provides for expungement of a prostitution charge and vacation of a prostitution conviction when the person was abducted for the purpose of prostitution in violation of § 18.2-48.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB838 | Engross
Sine Die | State employees not participating in Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; purchase of state service. Provides members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System and the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System who commenced employment or we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacation of criminal conviction for fraud upon the court. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of the Code or any rule of court to the contrary, a person convicted of a felony or a juvenile found delinquent of an offense that would be a felony...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1280 | Engross
Sine Die | Fox and coyote enclosures; penalty. Makes it unlawful for any person to (i) stage or participate in any competition where a fox or coyote is pursued by dogs in an enclosure or (ii) award or accept any prize, money, or compensation resulting from part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1290 | Engross
Sine Die | Higher education; tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty. Authorizes public institutions of higher education to grant full or partial tuition waivers to dependent students of faculty members employed by the institution, to be paid for out o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB952 | Engross
Sine Die | Child support arrearage reduction program. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a statewide child support arrearage reduction program whereby the total amount of an arrearage owed to the Department for the payment of public assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1161 | Engross
Sine Die | General Assembly; consideration of the conference committee report on the biennial budget or general appropriation act. Provides that no legislative action shall be taken on the conference committee report on the biennial budget until the conference ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB862 | Engross
Sine Die | Foster care; independent living services. Extends from 60 days to 180 days the period after discontinuation of independent living services during which a person in foster care who has not yet reached the age of 21 may request restoration of independe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1170 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; resident employment and apprenticeship participation; required contract provisions. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract of more than $100,000 that involves the performance of work within the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1188 | Engross
Sine Die | Career Pathways System Advisory Council; established. Establishes the Career Pathways System Advisory Council. The purpose of the Council is to ensure the coordination and collaboration of career and technical education, adult education, and workforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Education Committee |
