| HB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Support person for minor victim; presence in courtroom. Requires a court to permit an adult chosen by a minor victim in a criminal case to be present in the courtroom during any proceedings in addition to or in lieu of the minor's parent or guardian....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2704 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing income tax relief to Virginia taxpayers. Provides that, if the General Assembly does not enact legislation during the 2019 Session giving at least $100 million in Virginia income tax relief to Virginia taxpayers, any additional revenues gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2245 | Intro
Sine Die | Products containing tetrahydrocannabinol; permits to process and dispense cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil. Clarifies that products containing a concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol that is no greater than that allowed by federal law does not constitut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1703 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of aviation jet fuel; distribution of certain revenues to Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Imposes a tax at a rate of five cents per gallon on aviation jet fuel purchased or used by an airline licensed by the Federal Aviation Admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1872 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective helmets on motorcycles and autocycles; organ donor exemption. Exempts any operator of and passenger on a motorcycle or autocycle who is 21 years of age or older and a registered organ donor from the requirement to wear a protective helmet ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2271 | Intro
Sine Die | State agencies; work by employees of private entities on behalf of or upon the premises of public employers. Prohibits public employers from permitting any person employed by a private entity to perform professional services for such private entity u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2013 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; definition of confectionery. Defines "confectionery," as used in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, as sweet foods, including baked goods, candies, jams, jellies, puddings, ice creams, sorbets, and yogurts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Voluntary boundary agreement between Counties of Caroline and Essex; attachment of GIS map to petitions. Allows the Counties of Caroline and Essex, in adopting a voluntary boundary agreement, to attach to their petitions to the circuit court a Geogra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1761 | Intro
Sine Die | State correctional facilities; prohibition on procurement by public bodies of articles produced or manufactured and services provided by persons confined in state correctional facilities. Prohibits articles produced or manufactured and services provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1776 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition or regulation of tannerite. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of tannerite or a similar two-component explosive in or near residential areas. Any penalty for an offense pursuant to such an ordinance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2122 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; public works contracts; prevailing wage; penalty. Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency for public works to pay wages, salaries, benefits, and other remuneration at the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2502 | Intro
Sine Die | Landlord and tenant; maintenance standards. Landlord and tenant; maintenance standards. Requires landlords to fully comply with the minimum standards set forth in the International Property Maintenance Code in addition to any requirements of applicab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1758 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption by stepparent; background check. Removes, effective July 1, 2019, the ability of a prospective adoptive parent, who is a spouse of a birth parent or parent by adoption and who has filed a petition for adoption, to request the Department of S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1763 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2500 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard. Replaces the existing voluntary renewable energy portfolio standard program with a mandatory renewable portfolio standard program that requires each investor-owned electric utility to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections for members of a county board of supervisors or city council; ranked choice voting. Provides that elections of members of a county board of supervisors or a city council may be conducted by ranked choice voting, which the bill describes as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1760 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualified education loan servicers. Prohibits any Qualified education loan servicers. Prohibits any person from acting as a qualified education loan servicer except in accordance with provisions established by this bill. The bill requires a loan serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1863 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; informed written consent. Repeals the statutory requirements that a physician obtain a pregnant woman's informed written consent and perform fetal transabdominal ultrasound imaging before performing an abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1894 | Intro
Sine Die | Dog previously found dangerous; owner's failure to comply; disposition of dog. Directs a court to consider other options for disposition of a dangerous dog after its owner is found to have willfully failed to comply with certain requirements regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; special permit for the play of electronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards on certain premises. Creates a special permit that shall be granted to a qualified organization that has already received a general permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2418 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; management of condominiums; distribution of information by electoral candidates. Requires the executive organ of a condominium unit owners' association to establish a reasonable, effective, and free method, appropriate to the size an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2255 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration procedures for change of email address. Provides that any person required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry shall reregister in person with the local law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2312 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; definition of disaster; incidents involving cyber systems. Adds incidents involving cyber systems to the definition of disaster, as used in the Emergency Services and Disaster Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1757 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage; tipped employees; classification. Prohibits an employee who is prohibited by applicable federal or state law or regulation from soliciting tips from being classified as a tipped employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1782 | Intro
Sine Die | Court-established community service programs; community service work in lieu of payment of fine or costs. Requires courts to provide an option to any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia income tax; emergency. Advances conformity of Virginia income tax; emergency. Advances conformity of the Commonwealth's tax code with the federal tax code to December 31, 2018, starting with taxable year 2018. The bill increases, starting wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; information relating to pledges and donations. Requires public institutions of higher education, when accepting a donation, gift, or similar financial support that is conditioned upon the acceptance of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB1098 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definitions; small business. Redefines "small business" for the purposes of programs for the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and the Virginia Public Procurement Act to mean a bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | School-based health centers joint task force; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources and the Secretary of Education to establish a school-based health centers joint task force that is tasked with (i) assessing the current landsca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2193 | Intro
Sine Die | Throwing or depositing certain substances on the highway; grass. Adds grass to the list of substances a person shall not throw or deposit or cause to be deposited upon any highway so as to create a hazard to the traveling public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2715 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Taxation; responsibility for the collection and satisfaction of all fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties and restitution. Transfers responsibility for the collection and satisfaction of all fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and rest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2729 | Intro
Sine Die | Service dogs; training age. Reduces the age of a service dog in training from 6 months to 4 months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB2156 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; definition of "day spa." Removes the requirement that in order to qualify as a day spa for ABC purposes, a commercial establishment must offer to the public both licensed massage therapy and licensed barbering or cosmetolo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2422 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the United States Constitution gives the states ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1727 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Lottery; personal identifying information of prize winners; Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Provides that a lottery prize winner may request the Virginia Lottery to withhold from public disclosure his name and other personal iden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2235 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; issuance upon convictions for certain felonies; penalty. Authorizes a court to issue a protective order upon convicting a defendant for a felony offense of (i) violating a protective order, (ii) homicide, (iii) kidnapping, (iv) ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2582 | Intro
Sine Die | Violation of provisions of protective orders; entering the lands, buildings, or premises owned or leased by protected party prohibited; penalties. Provides that any person subject to a protective order who enters any land, buildings, or premises, whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1825 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of persons 18 years of age or older but under 21 years of age in a sexually oriented business prohibited; penalty. Makes it a Class 4 misdemeanor for any person to employ a person 18 years of age or older but under 21 years of age in, or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2135 | Intro
Sine Die | Notaries; qualifications; conviction of a felony. Provides that a person who has been convicted of a Class 5 or Class 6 felony and who has successfully fulfilled all conditions of sentencing of such felony may be eligible to be commissioned as a nota...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2307 | Intro
Sine Die | Killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Requires a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of six months for any person who maliciously kills or injures an animal owned, used, or trained by a law-enforcement agency, regional jail, or the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2734 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; school resource officers; school administrators; training. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services (Department) to establish compulsory minimum training standards for law-enforcement officers servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press. Declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public elementary or secondary school or public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; itemization. Allows an individual taxpayer to itemize for state income tax purposes regardless of whether he itemizes on his federal return. Current law requires a taxpayer to claim the standard deduction on his state return if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | Official emblems and designations; state pollinator; European honey bee. Designates the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) as the official state pollinator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Motorcycles; driving on shoulder of highway. Allows motorcycles to drive on the right shoulder of limited access highways when (i) traffic on such highway is stopped or traveling at a speed of not more than 10 miles per hour, (ii) the driver of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2437 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic toll collection device monthly statements; fees. Prohibits the Department of Transportation from charging monthly fees in connection with online monthly account statements for electronic toll collection devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1687 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpayment of wages; private action. Provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages to recover the amount of wages due plus interest at eight percent annually from the date the wages were due. If th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from 11 to 12 the maximum number of authorized general district court judgeships in the nineteenth judicial district. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1821 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; debarment for nonpayment of unemployment taxes. Prohibits state agencies from contracting for goods and services from a source that is required to collect unemployment taxes but fails or refuses to do so. The measure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2455 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia National Guard; education grants. Increases from two to three the minimum number of years of remaining obligation that members of the Virginia National Guard are required to have to be eligible for the Virginia National Guard education grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
