| HB2 | Veto | Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to receive approval from the General Assembly for a state implementation plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Passed by for the day - Governor's veto sustained |
| HB389 | Veto | Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts. Permits the parents of certain students with disabilities to apply to their resident school division for a Parental Choice Education Savings Account, to consist of the student's Standards of Quality per pup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Passed by for the day - Governor's veto sustained |
| SB734 | Pass | Public charter schools. Makes several changes to the provisions for the establishment and operation of public charter schools, including making changes and providing greater specificity regarding (i) the applicability of various laws, regulations, po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB282 | Pass | Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund. Establishes the Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund for the purpose of creating a low-interest loan program to help residents and businesses that are subject to recurrent flooding. Moneys from the Fund may be used t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| HB8 | Veto | Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School (the Board) as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the full-time virtual school programs offered to student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Passed by for the day - Governor's veto sustained |
| HB9 | Veto | Voter registration; application; form and required information. Specifies in greater detail the information that applicants for voter registration are required to provide on the voter registration application form. The bill also requires the general ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 67 afirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB752 | Pass | Stalking; penalty. Provides that contacting or following or attempting to contact or follow the person at whom stalking conduct is directed after being given actual notice that the person does not want to be contacted or followed is prima facie evide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| SB574 | Pass | Officers of election; required training. Requires each officer of election to receive training before the first election in which he will be serving as an officer of election. Such requirement applies to each term for which he is appointed. Each offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| HB485 | Pass | Assault; family or household member. Provides that a first offense of simple assault against a family or household member may be subject to deferral and dismissal. Under current law, first offender status is only available to a person who commits ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| HB1228 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; boxing and wrestling events; sanctioning organizations. Enhances the conflict of interest provisions for sanctioning organizations required for approval by the Director of the Department of Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| HB481 | Veto | Compliance with detainers; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Prohibits the Director of the Department of Corrections, sheriff, or other official in charge of a facility from releasing an incarcerated alien for whom a lawful detainer order has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 67 afirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB97 | Pass | Interstate 95 corridor traffic congestion evaluation. Directs the Department of Transportation (the Department) to conduct an evaluation with the Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization of traffic congestion on the Interstate 95 corrid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| HB145 | Veto | Virginia Public Procurement Act; public works contracts; prevailing wage provisions. Prohibits state agencies from requiring bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors to pay, or require the payment of, wages, salaries, benefits, or other remu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Passed by for the day - Governor's veto sustained |
| HB18 | Veto | Employees; franchisees excluded. Clarifies that neither a franchisee nor any employee of the franchisee shall be deemed to be an employee of the franchisee's franchisor for any purpose to which the amended section of the Code of Virginia applies, not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Requires 67 afirmative votes to override Governor's veto |
| HB298 | Veto | Coal tax credits. Limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated or claimed for the coal employment and production incentive tax credit to $7.3 million in each fiscal year. An electricity generator must file an application with the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1030 | Pass | Officers of election; required training. Requires each officer of election to receive training before the first election in which he will be serving as an officer of election. Such requirement applies to each term for which he is appointed. Each offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| HB1017 | Pass | Education improvement scholarships tax credit; reporting and other requirements. Modifies the tax credit by (i) making the current required report based upon donations qualifying for the credit and scholarships awarded from such donations as of June ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| SB246 | Pass | Grants for science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) competition teams at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program administered by the Board of Education beginning in 2017 to establish STEM competition teams at qualified schools. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| SB240 | Pass | Virginia Tort Claims Act; filing of claim where agency alleged to be liable is the Department of Transportation; electronic filing. Provides that, where a claim against the Commonwealth alleges that the Department of Transportation is liable, notice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| HB653 | Pass | Consent to organ donation. Eliminates the requirement that a person indicate his willingness to make an anatomical gift every time he renews or replaces his license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| HB518 | Veto | Local school boards; public school choice. Requires, notwithstanding any agreement, waiver from the federal government, or provision of law to the contrary, the Board of Education, effective starting with the 2017-2018 school year, to select 12 schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Passed by for the day - Governor's veto sustained |
| HB29 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 665 of the 2015 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB1068 | Pass | Advanced Shipbuilding Production Facility Grant Program. Establishes a grant program for capital or lease cost of a new facility related to the production of a class of nuclear warships for the United States Navy not previously built in Virginia. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| HB1213 | Pass | Minors; education records; evidence. Provides that in any proceeding where a juvenile is alleged to have committed a delinquent act that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult on school property, property solely being used for a school-relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1255 | Pass | BVU Authority; Board powers, officers; broadband; FOIA. Reduces from nine to seven the number of directors on the Board of Directors (the Board) of the BVU Authority (the Authority) and alters the methods of their appointment and their powers and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| SB407 | Pass | Onsite sewage systems; civil penalties. Provides that any locality that has a record of the location of conventional onsite sewage systems and alternative discharging systems and that meets certain other criteria may adopt an ordinance establishing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB61 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $40,987,000 plus financing costs for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| HB700 | Pass | Claims; Michael Kenneth McAlister. Provides relief in the amount of $1,268,694 to Michael Kenneth McAlister, who was incarcerated from 1986 until 2015 after being convicted of crimes of attempted rape and abduction with intent to defile. Another susp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| HB206 | Pass | Transfer of certain firearms; identification requirement. Allows Virginia residents to purchase a firearm by presenting only one photo-identification form issued by a governmental agency of the Commonwealth or by the U.S. Department of Defense that d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB220 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public access to resumes and other information related to gubernatorial appointees. Provides that the personnel, working papers, and correspondence record exemption shall not be construed to authorize the withhold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| SB329 | Pass | BVU Authority; Board powers, officers; broadband; FOIA. Reduces from nine to seven the number of directors on the Board of Directors (the Board) of the BVU Authority (the Authority) and alters the methods of their appointment and their powers and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| HB1063 | Pass | Bonds for institutions of higher education. Authorizes issuance of bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $40,987,000 plus financing costs for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| SB57 | Pass | Number of district court judges. Increases from seven to eight the number of juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the 19th Judicial District (Fairfax, Fairfax County) and increases from three to four the number of general district...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| SB626 | Veto | Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB766 | Veto | Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1189 | Pass | Operation of a child welfare agency without a license; child abuse and neglect; penalty. Provides that operating or engaging in the conduct of a child welfare agency without first obtaining a license when it is known that such license is required or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| HB605 | Pass | Restitution; revocation of probation or suspended sentence. Provides that a court may conduct a hearing to revoke a person's probation or suspended sentence within three years after the expiration of the period of probation or suspension if the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| HB879 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; farm winery and limited brewery licenses; land zoned agricultural. Clarifies that, for farm wineries and limited breweries, "land zoned agricultural" means land zoned as (i) an agricultural district or classification or (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB625 | Pass | Transfers to the Port Opportunity Fund; evaluation and report. Provides that when the Virginia Port Authority's revenues exceed its costs by at least 5%, the Authority will transfer to the Port Opportunity Fund up to 5% of the revenues, not to exceed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| HB454 | Pass | Motor vehicles equipped with television and video. Provides that motor vehicles may be equipped with visual displays of moving images if the equipment is factory-installed and has an interlock device that disables the equipment when the motor vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| SB478 | Pass | Eminent domain; reimbursement of costs. Provides that costs and fees may be awarded in compensation actions initiated by public service companies, public service corporations, railroads that have been delegated the power of eminent domain, or governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| SB237 | Pass | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; condemnation of common area; valuation. Provides that, for the purposes of condemnation, the value of a portion of a common area of a property owners' association shall be based on the common area's highest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| HB168 | Pass | Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons; rebutting presumption. Provides that a locality that has authorized by ordinance the installation and operation of a video-monitoring system on school buses for recording violations of unlawfully pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| SB645 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exempt records concerning critical infrastructure information. Defines the term "critical infrastructure information" for purposes of FOIA. The bill also provides that any public body receiving a request fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| SB417 | Pass | Department of Social Services; unauthorized practice of law. Allows designated nonattorney employees of a local department of social services to (i) initiate a case on behalf of the local department by appearing before an intake officer and (ii) comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| HB775 | Pass | Fantasy Contests Act; registration required; conditions of registration; civil penalty. Creates the Fantasy Contests Act (the Act), which applies to fantasy contests with an entry fee offered in Virginia. The bill defines "fantasy contest" as any onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| SB64 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; certain data centers. Extends the sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for certain data centers from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2035, and eliminates the sunset date of June 30, 2020, for provisions of the exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| HB98 | Pass | Special license plates for immediate family members of persons who have died in military service to their country. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to immediate family members of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB939 | Pass | State Police; guidelines for approval of auxiliary lighting on motorcycles. Directs the Superintendent of State Police to establish guidelines by January 1, 2017, that set forth a procedure for the submission and approval of auxiliary lights for moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| SB336 | Pass | Board of Education; high school graduation requirements. Removes existing provisions related to standard and advanced studies diplomas and standard and verified units of credit and requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
