| SB754 | Pass | Emblems of the Commonwealth; Freedom Flag. Designates the Freedom Flag, designed by a Virginian, as the official flag of remembrance of September 11, 2001.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| SB815 | Pass | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. Postpones the scheduled expiration of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB1521 | Pass | Reformulated gasoline program; exemption; portion of Hopewell. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to seek an exemption from the federal reformulated gasoline program for conventional gasoline sold in that portion of the City of Hopewell ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| SB485 | Pass | Certain property deemed exempt from taxation. Deems certain property owned by the Norfolk Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America to have been exempt from taxation pursuant to the 1902 Constitution of Virginia. The current Constitution provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB565 | Pass | DNA analysis upon conviction of certain misdemeanors. Adds misdemeanor violations of Â?§18.2-57 (assault and battery) and 18.2-119 (trespass) to the list of offenses for which an adult convicted of such offense must have a sample of his blo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| SB750 | Pass | Charter; City of Richmond; equal educational opportunities; school infrastructure. Requires the mayor of the City of Richmond to present to the city council not later than January 1, 2019, a fully funded plan to modernize the city's K-12 educational ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB234 | Pass | Health insurance; synchronization of medications. Requires any health plan providing prescription drug coverage to permit and apply a prorated daily cost-sharing rate to prescriptions that are dispensed by a network pharmacy for a partial supply if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| SB716 | Pass | Department of State Police; recommend options to expedite the process of performing background checks; report. Requests that the Department of State Police (the Department) identify, analyze, and recommend options to expedite and improve the efficien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB532 | Pass | Industrial hemp research programs. Authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to undertake research through the establishment of (i) a higher education industrial hemp research program, to be managed by institutions of higher ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB1010 | Pass | Claims; Robert Davis. Provides relief in the amount of $582,313 to Robert Davis, who was incarcerated from 2004 until 2015 after entering an Alford Plea to charges of first-degree and second-degree murder. On December 15, 2016, Governor McAuliffe gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB320 | Pass | Reversion of property donated to the Virginia National Guard. Provides that property that is donated or otherwise conveyed to the Commonwealth, Department of Military Affairs, Virginia National Guard, Virginia Army or Air National Guard, or Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB1495 | Pass | Real property tax; boards of equalization. Provides that if a taxpayer applies to the commissioner of the revenue or other official performing the duties imposed on commissioners of the revenue for relief from a real property tax assessment prior to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| SB314 | Pass | Personal property tax; definition of agricultural products. Defines "agricultural products," for the purposes of the classification of tangible personal property for taxation, as any livestock, aquaculture, poultry, horticultural, floricultural, viti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| SB310 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; eligibility for services under waiver. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to make recommendations regarding changes that provide flexibility to an individual enrolled in a home and communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| HB986 | Pass | Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement. Requires local boards of social services, prior to placement of a child in any foster home or children's residential facility, to provide to the foster home or residential facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| HB1277 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; sharing and dissemination of data. Amends the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (?§2.2-3800 et seq.) to facilitate the sharing of data among agencies of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| HB1276 | Pass | Federal pilot programs; report. Requires the Department of Transportation to convene a work group to identify the implications of the Commonwealth's participation in a federal data collection pilot program or project involving six-axle tractor truck ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| SB994 | Pass | Restitution; probation. Establishes procedures to be used by courts to monitor the payment of restitution by defendants. The bill requires that a probation agency ordered to monitor the restitution payments of a defendant placed on supervised probati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| HB1003 | Pass | Health care data reporting; penalty for failure to report. Provides that any medical care facility that fails to report data on utilization of services for which a certificate of public need is required or data on charity care provided to satisfy the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| SB449 | Pass | Newborn screening; lysosomal storage disorders. Directs the Board of Health to amend regulations governing newborn screening to include screening for Pompe disease and mucopolysaccharidosis type 1 (MPS-1). This bill is identical to HB 1174.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| HB1157 | Pass | Substance-exposed infants; plan for services; report. Provides that the Department of Health (the Department) shall serve as the lead agency with responsibility for the development, coordination, and implementation of a plan for services for substanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| HB1560 | Pass | Hampton Roads area refuse collection and disposal system authority; board term. Provides that a board member of the Hampton Roads area refuse collection and disposal system authority appointed directly by a member locality shall not be subject to a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| SB809 | Pass | Eminent domain; calculation of lost profits. Amends, in the definitions of "lost profits" and "business profit" for the purposes of eminent domain, the period for which lost profits are calculated to a period not to exceed three years from the later ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| SB853 | Pass | Insurance agents; continuing education requirements. Revises the provisions applicable to the deadlines by which insurance agents are required to comply with continuing education requirements applicable to licensed insurance agents. The measure also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB920 | Pass | Adoption and foster care; barrier crimes; exception. Allows a child-placing agency to approve as an adoptive or foster parent an applicant convicted of any offense set forth in the definition of barrier crime in clause (iv) of ?§19.2-392.02 who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| SB470 | Pass | Raising and processing of rabbits for sale; exemption from certain inspections. Prohibits the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services from requiring that commercially slaughtered or processed rabbits that are offered for sale or service be slaught...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| SB556 | Pass | General registrars; residency requirement; exemption for certain counties and cities. Exempts counties and cities with a population of 25,000 or less from the requirement that a person appointed to serve as a general registrar must be a qualified vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB129 | Pass | Subdivision ordinance; pro rata share of certain road improvements. Adds the Cities of Chesapeake and Portsmouth to those localities that may require payment by a subdivider or developer of land of a pro rata share of the cost of reasonable and neces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| SB163 | Pass | Historical African American cemeteries and graves; Loudoun County; Belmont. Adds the African-American Burial Ground for the Enslaved at Belmont in Loudoun County, which cemetery contains 44 eligible graves, to the list of those cemeteries for which q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| SB725 | Pass | Posting human trafficking hotline information. Requires local departments of health, the Department of Transportation, each rest area in the Commonwealth, and certain health care facilities to post notice of the existence of a human trafficking hotli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| SB932 | Pass | Old Dominion University; board of visitors. Provides that the rector, vice-rector, and secretary of the board of visitors of Old Dominion University shall assume their duties on July 1 of the year they are elected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| HB1285 | Pass | Transportation project selection in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia); public meeting. Requires the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, the Virginia Railway Express, and the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| HB397 | Pass | Absentee voting; certain information not required when completing application in person. Provides that a person completing an application for an absentee ballot in person is not required to provide the last four digits of his social security number o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| SB406 | Pass | Disposal of unclaimed personal property in possession of the Division of Capitol Police. Provides that in addition to its existing authority to destroy unclaimed firearms and other weapons, the Division of Capitol Police may lawfully dispose of other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| HB1460 | Pass | Land preservation tax credits; transfer to a designated beneficiary. Provides that a person who has unused land preservation tax credits may provide that such credits be transferred to a designated beneficiary upon his death, so long as such person w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560) |
| SB474 | Pass | Elections; status of officers of election. Provides that localities may retain officers of election as independent contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| HB188 | Pass | Sentence reduction; substantial assistance to prosecution. Allows a convicted person's sentence to be reduced if such person provides substantial assistance, defined in the bill, in the furtherance of the investigation or prosecution of another perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| HB871 | Pass | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that (i) land devoted to agricultural use includes land devoted to the sale of products made from plants and animals located on the property, (ii) land devoted to horticultural use includes land devoted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| SB448 | Pass | Abandoned school revitalization zones. Allows localities to establish by ordinance one or more abandoned school revitalization zones for the purpose of providing incentives to private entities to purchase or develop real property or to assemble parce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| HB1023 | Pass | Issuance of foreign subpoenas; clerk of court. Provides that no foreign subpoena issued in the Commonwealth pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (?§8.01-412.8 et seq.) may be issued by any person other than the applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| SB513 | Pass | Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Services Act. Establishes requirements regarding the implementation of next generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) service. By July 1, 2023, the 9-1-1 Services Board (the Board) is required to develop and implement NG9-1-1 transi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| SB150 | Pass | Elections; ascertainment of results by the electoral board; write-in votes. Changes one of the criteria for determining when an electoral board is required to ascertain the total votes for each write-in candidate for an office from when less than fiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| HB530 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation. Provides for the Speaker of the House of Delegates to make appointments of members of the House of Delegates to serve on intergovernmental boards, committees, and commissions. Currently, appointme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| HB901 | Pass | Department of Transportation to develop and submit for approval an expedited land use permit process; rights-of-way. Report. Directs the Department of Transportation (Department) to develop and submit for approval to the Federal Highway Administratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| SB605 | Pass | Elementary and secondary schools; sexual misconduct. Requires the Department of Education and local school boards to adopt policies to implement the provisions of federal law that prohibit any local school board or any individual who is an employee, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| SB126 | Pass | Driver education programs; parent/student driver education component. Permits any school division outside Planning District 8, at the discretion of the local school board, to administer a parent/student driver education component as part of the drive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| SB264 | Pass | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; campaign committees; electronic filing requirement. Requires candidates for the General Assembly and candidates for local and constitutional office in localities with a population of more than 70,000 to file t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| HB482 | Pass | Witness testimony accompanied by certified facility dogs. Provides that in any criminal proceeding the attorney for the Commonwealth or the defendant may request and the court may enter an order authorizing the use of a certified facility dog to aid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| SB429 | Pass | Local regulation of solar facilities. Provides that a property owner may install a solar facility on the roof of a dwelling or other building to serve the electricity or thermal needs of that dwelling or building, provided that such installation is i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| SB36 | Pass | Weekend jail time. Allows courts, for good cause and absent objection by the Commonwealth, to impose nonconsecutive or weekend jail time for defendants convicted of a misdemeanor, a traffic offense, any offense under Chapter 5 (?§20-61 et seq.) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
