HB 130 Limited liability companies; series.

Chief patron: Webert

Summary as introduced:
Limited liability companies; series. Authorizes an operating agreement of a limited liability company (LLC) to establish or provide for the establishment of a designated series of members, managers, or interests having separate rights, powers, or duties with respect to specified property or obligations of the LLC or profits and losses associated with specified property or obligations. The debts, liabilities, and obligations incurred, contracted for, and otherwise existing with respect to a series shall be enforceable only against the assets of that series and not against the assets of the LLC generally or any other series of the LLC. The measure requires a series with limited liability to be treated as a separate entity as set forth in the articles of organization and allows the series to conduct business and exercise the powers of an LLC. An operating agreement can provide for classes or groups of members or managers associated with a series having the rights, powers, and duties as provided in the agreement. The measure also specifies the requirements for foreign LLCs that have established a series to register to do business in the Commonwealth. The measure also specifies that the information that an LLC is required to provide in its articles of organization shall also be specified for each separate series of the LLC and that the information that a foreign LLC is required to provide in its application for registration as a foreign LLC shall also be specified for each separate series of the LLC.

12/17/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100229D
12/17/15 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/21/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB130)
02/02/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 219 Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio.

Chief patron: Taylor

Summary as introduced:
Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio. Reduces from 45 to 25 percent the requirement for mixed beverage restaurant licensees for the ratio of combined gross receipts from the sale of food consumed on the premises and nonalcoholic beverages served on the premises and the combined gross receipts from the sale of mixed beverages, food, and nonalcoholic beverages. The bill provides that gross receipts be calculated on the basis of the price that the licensee paid for the food, nonalcoholic beverages, or mixed beverages sold, rather than the price at which the licensee sells such items to consumers.

01/18/16 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3
01/21/16 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB219)
02/02/16 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 1-N)
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in General Laws
12/01/16 House: Left in General Laws

HB 253 License tax, local, and state contractor's license; certificate of workers' compensation compliance.

Chief patron: Minchew

Summary as introduced:
Local license tax and state contractor's license; certificate of workers' compensation compliance. Removes the requirement that contractors verify workers' compensation compliance before receiving a local license to do business and makes such requirement a condition of receiving a state contractor's license.

01/13/16 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB253)
01/18/16 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
02/04/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/09/16 House: Continued to 2017 in General Laws
12/01/16 House: Left in General Laws

HB 346 Consumer finance companies; motor vehicle title loans, prohibited practices.

Chief patron: Farrell

Summary as introduced:
Consumer finance companies; motor vehicle title loans. Prohibits any consumer finance company from making loans secured by a non-purchase money security interest in a motor vehicle at any location where a motor vehicle title lender is authorized to conduct business. Any loan contract made by a consumer finance company that violates this prohibition shall be unenforceable against the borrower. The measure also deletes an exception to the limits on the interest rate that may be charged when a consumer finance lender makes a motor vehicle title loan.

01/05/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102706D
01/05/16 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/19/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB346)
02/04/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 352 Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs.

Chief patron: Ware

Summary as introduced:
Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to determine that an energy efficiency program proposed by an electric utility is in the public interest if the net present value of the benefits exceeds the net present value of the costs as determined by not less than three of the following benefit cost tests: (i) the Total Resource Cost Test; (ii) the Utility Cost Test also referred to as the Program Administrator Test); (iii) the Participant Test; and (iv) the Ratepayer Impact Measure Test. The measure deletes the current requirement that the SCC analyze all four tests and deletes a provision prohibiting the SCC from rejecting an energy efficiency program solely on the basis of the results of a single test.

01/12/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB352)
01/19/16 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
02/09/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 575 Energy efficiency programs; total resource cost test.

Chief patron: Sullivan

Summary as introduced:
Energy efficiency programs; total resource cost test. Defines the "total resource cost test" as a test to determine if the benefit-cost ratio of a proposed energy efficiency program or measure is greater than one. The measure defines "benefit-cost ratio" as the ratio of the net present value of the total benefits of a program or measure, including savings and non-energy benefits, to the net present value of the total incremental costs of implementing that program or measure as calculated over the lifetime of the measures implemented thereunder. An energy efficiency program or measure that meets the total resource cost test is declared to be in the public interest. The measure provides that an energy efficiency program or measure that fails the total resource cost test shall be reviewed by the State Corporation Commission (SCC) under other tests for approving energy efficiency. The total resource cost test is one of the four tests used by the SCC in assessing electricity and natural gas utility energy efficiency programs.

01/15/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB575)
01/19/16 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
02/09/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 576 Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals established, report.

Chief patron: Sullivan

Summary as introduced:

Electric and natural gas utilities; energy efficiency goals. Requires investor-owned electric utilities, cooperative electric utilities, and investor-owned natural gas distribution utilities to meet incremental annual energy efficiency goals. Electric utilities are required to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures to achieve the goal of two percent savings by 2031 and thereafter, with interim goals that start at 0.25 percent for 2017-2018 and increase in biennial increments of 0.25 percent until 2031. Gas utilities are required to achieve the goal of one percent savings by 2031 and thereafter, with interim goals that start at 0.125 percent for 2017-2018 and increase in biennial increments of 0.125 percent until 2031. The utilities are required to submit energy efficiency plans with the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The SCC (i) shall order changes to a plan submitted by a utility that does not demonstrate that the utility will achieve incremental annual energy efficiency goals; (ii) shall require utilities to commence compliance efforts with the incremental annual energy efficiency goals during calendar year 2017, though it may adjust the goal for 2017 if appropriate to address a partial year of implementation; (iii) may design performance incentives that reward utilities for exceeding efficiency goals; (iv) shall require utilities to report annually to the SCC on their efforts and progress in meeting the incremental annual energy efficiency goals; and (v) shall submit reports regarding compliance with the requirements of the incremental annual energy efficiency goals every five years.

01/15/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB576)
01/19/16 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
02/09/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 666 Contracts; certain provisions for sale or lease of consumer goods or services declared void.

Chief patron: Pogge

Summary as introduced:
Void provisions of contracts for sale or lease of consumer goods or services. Prohibits a contract for sale or lease of consumer goods or services from containing a provision requiring a consumer to waive his right to make a statement regarding the good or service and provides that any such provision contained in such contract is void and unenforceable.

01/11/16 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/14/16 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
01/27/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/03/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Courts of Justice
12/01/16 House: Left in Courts of Justice

HB 835 Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of licensed art instruction studios.

Chief patron: Greason

Summary as passed House:

Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of licensed art instruction studios. Expands the privileges of an art instruction studio licensee to allow the consumption of lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages on its premises by any bona fide customer and provides that the licensee may allow any bona fide customer to host a private gathering or special event where such customer has obtained a banquet license or a mixed beverage special events license issued by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

02/17/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
02/17/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
02/18/16 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB835H1)
02/19/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Rehabilitation and Social Services

HB 881 Child day programs; exempts from licensure certain martial arts programs.

Chief patron: Hugo

Summary as introduced:
Child day programs; exemptions from licensure. Exempts from the child day program licensure requirements any martial arts program operated during the summer months if children under the age of five do not attend, the program operates between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and the program does not serve food or administer medicine to program participants unless it is necessary for the well-being of the child.

01/20/16 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
01/21/16 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB881)
02/04/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/09/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Health, Welfare and Institutions
12/01/16 House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions

HB 904 Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops.

Chief patron: Landes

Summary as passed House:

Alcoholic beverage control; limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. Creates a new limited mixed beverage license for retail cigar shops. The bill sets out the privileges of this new license, including that the licensee may serve wine, beer, or mixed beverages on the premises to any such bona fide customer; however, the licensee shall not give more than (i) two five-ounce glasses of wine, (ii) two 12-ounce glasses of beer, or (iii) two glasses mixed beverages provided that each glass of mixed beverages contains no more than two ounces of spirits, to any such customer, nor shall it sell or otherwise charge a fee to such customer for the wine, beer, or mixed beverages served or consumed. The privileges of this license shall be limited to the premises of the cigar shop regularly occupied and utilized as such. Such license shall be deemed a retail license for the purposes of this title.. The bill also  defines cigar shop and sets out the state and local license taxes for this license.

02/16/16 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (83-Y 12-N 1-A)
02/17/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
02/17/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
02/19/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 1-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Rehabilitation and Social Services

HB 908 Electrical transmission lines; SCC to consider impact on historic resources.

Chief patron: Minchew

Summary as introduced:
Electrical transmission lines; effect on historic resources. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC), prior to approving the construction of any electrical transmission lines of 138 kV or more, to determine that the corridor or route chosen for the line will avoid any adverse impact on the scenic assets, historic resources, and environment of the area concerned. If the SCC determines that no route or corridor exists that can avoid any such adverse impact, the SCC is directed to choose the corridor or route that minimizes such adverse impacts to the greatest extent reasonably practicable. Currently, the SCC is required to determine that such a line's corridor or route will reasonably minimize adverse impact on the scenic assets, historic districts, and environment of the area concerned.

01/19/16 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
01/19/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB908)
02/09/16 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 2-N)
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 1021 Medicaid nonemergency transportation providers; criminal history background checks.

Chief patron: Sickles

Summary as introduced:
Medicaid nonemergency transportation providers; background checks. Requires every provider with whom the Department of Medical Assistance Services enters into a contract for the provision of nonemergency transportation services to individuals eligible for medical assistance to conduct national fingerprint-based criminal history background checks for every applicant hired for employment at the time of hiring and annually thereafter and establishes crimes conviction of which shall constitute a barrier to employment.

01/13/16 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
01/20/16 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1021)
01/27/16 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1
02/02/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Health, Welfare and Institutions
12/01/16 House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions

HB 1285 Community energy programs; investor-owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives to establish.

Chief patron: Minchew

Summary as introduced:
Community energy programs. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives to establish a community energy program with a community subscriber organization. Under a community energy program, community subscribers and community subscriber organizations may participate in community net energy metering with mutually agreed community subscriber payment rates and community subscriber credit rates. A community subscriber (i) acquires a subscription that entitles him to a proportional interest in a renewable energy generation facility and (ii) receives a credit on his electric utility bill based on the community subscriber credit rate multiplied by his share of the facility's output.

01/26/16 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
01/28/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1285)
02/09/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 1286 Distributed and renewable generation of electric energy; net energy metering.

Chief patron: Minchew

Summary as introduced:

Distributed and renewable generation of electric energy; net energy metering and third party purchase agreements. Exempts generators that are not organized as a public service company and that provide electric energy from renewable energy to retail customers under certain power purchase agreements from being defined as a public utility or a supplier. The measure authorizes retail customers to purchase electric energy from such generators provided that the renewable energy electricity generation source is located on property owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the retail customer or any affiliated person. The net energy metering programs are amended to remove the one percent cap relative to total utility sales for net metered facilities. The State Corporation Commission is directed to establish separate net energy metering programs for eligible multi-meter customer-generators, who are customers that own or operate, or contracts with another person to own or operate, or both, a renewable energy generating facility that uses as its sole energy source solar power, wind power, or aerobic or anaerobic digester gas, does not have an aggregate generation capacity of more than one megawatt, and is used primarily to provide energy to metered accounts of the customer. The measure amends the Commonwealth's energy policy by adding the goals of encouraging private sector distributed renewable energy, increasing security of the electricity grid by supporting distributed renewable energy projects, and augmenting the exercise of private property rights by landowners desiring to generate their own energy from renewable energy sources on their lands.

01/26/16 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Subcommittee on Energy
01/27/16 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1286)
02/09/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 1314 Grapevine Grant Fund and Program; created.

Chief patron: Hugo

Summary as introduced:
Grapevine Grant Fund and Program. Creates the Grapevine Grant Fund and Program to fund grants to independent cideries, farm wineries, orchards, and vineyards that purchase materials for vines or fruit trees in order to establish or expand vineyards or orchards.

01/21/16 House: Presented and ordered printed 16104295D
01/21/16 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
02/10/16 House: Committee substitute printed to Web only 16105440D-H1
02/10/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
12/01/16 House: Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

HB 1347 Wireless communications; infrastructure established.

Chief patron: Heretick

Summary as introduced:

Wireless communications infrastructure. Prohibits a locality from charging an application fee, consulting fee, or other fee associated with the submission, review, processing and approval of an application to construct a new wireless support structure, for the substantial modification of a wireless support structure, or for collocation of a wireless facility or replacement of a wireless facility on an existing structure or utility pole that is not required for similar types of commercial development within the locality’s jurisdiction. The measure permits a locality to charge fees for the costs directly incurred by it relating to the granting or processing of an application. Such fees are capped at the lesser of the amount charged by the locality for a building permit for any other type of commercial development or land use development, or $500 for a collocation application, small cell facility or distributed antenna system or $1,000 for a new wireless support structure or for a substantial modification of a wireless support structure. Localities are prohibited from (i) requiring an applicant to submit information about, or evaluate an applicant's business decisions with respect to its designed service, customer demand for service, or quality of its service to or from a particular area or site, or information that concerns the specific need for the wireless support structure; (ii) evaluating an application based on the availability of other potential locations for the placement of wireless support structures or wireless facilities; (iii) dictating the type of wireless facilities, infrastructure or technology to be used by the applicant; and (iv) requiring the removal of existing wireless support structures or wireless facilities, as a condition for approval of an application. The measure grants to any domestic or foreign telecommunications provider or broadband provider to construct, maintain, and operate conduit, poles, cable, switches and related appurtenances and facilities along, across, upon and under any public highway or rights-of-way in the Commonwealth. Localities are barred from (a) imposing certain environmental testing, sampling, or monitoring requirements or (b) instituting any moratorium on the permitting, construction or issuance of approvals of new wireless support structures, substantial modifications of wireless support structures, or collocations.

01/21/16 House: Presented and ordered printed 16104657D
01/21/16 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/29/16 House: Impact statement from DHCD (HB1347)
02/11/16 House: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor
12/01/16 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 1412 Weight limits; increases maximum gross weight of a motor vehicle eligible for an overload permit.

Chief patron: Cole

Summary as introduced:
Extensions of weight limits. Allows the owner of a motor vehicle with a gross weight of up to 90,000 pounds to obtain a permit to authorize the operation of such vehicle, provided that the vehicle can bridge the weight without any axle or group overweight allowance.

10/07/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100412D
10/07/16 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
01/11/17 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1412)
01/13/17 House: Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1
02/07/17 House: Left in Transportation

HB 1422 Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, etc.

Chief patron: Ware

Summary as passed House:

Virginia Consumer Protection Act; storm-related repairs. Provides that it is a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for a supplier to engage in fraudulent or improper or dishonest conduct while engaged in a transaction that was initiated (i) during a declared state of emergency or (ii) to repair damage resulting from the event that prompted the declaration of a state of emergency, regardless of whether the supplier is a licensed contractor. This bill is identical to SB 839.

02/13/17 House: Signed by Speaker
02/13/17 Senate: Signed by President
02/14/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
02/14/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
02/17/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 11 (effective 7/1/17)

HB 1438 Natural gas companies; right of entry.

Chief patron: Head

Summary as introduced:
Natural gas companies; right of entry. Requires that a natural gas company's notice to the owner of property of the company's intent to enter upon the property set forth the "specific" date of the intended entry. Currently, a company's notice of intent to enter is required to set forth the date of the intended entry.

11/22/16 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/06/17 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1438)
01/12/17 House: Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #2
01/24/17 House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket
01/26/17 House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor

HB 1442 Open-end credit plans; caps amount of loan origination fee.

Chief patron: Farrell

Summary as introduced:
Open-end credit plans; loan origination fee. Caps the amount of the origination fee that may be charged under an open-end credit plan to five percent of the initial maximum amount that may be borrowed under the credit plan.

11/29/16 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/05/17 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1442)
01/20/17 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Sub-Consumer Lending
01/26/17 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table
02/08/17 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 1443 Consumer finance lending; application to Internet loans.

Chief patron: Farrell

Summary as introduced:
Consumer finance lending; Internet loans. Provides that the provisions of Chapter 15 (Consumer Finance Companies) of Title 6.2 apply to persons making consumer loans over the Internet to Virginia residents or any individual in Virginia, whether or not the person making the loan maintains a physical presence in the Commonwealth.

11/29/16 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/11/17 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1443)
01/20/17 House: Assigned C & L sub: Special Sub-Consumer Lending
01/26/17 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table
02/08/17 House: Left in Commerce and Labor

HB 1445 Wages and salaries; eliminates payment by prepaid cards, etc., without employee's consent.

Chief patron: Ward

Summary as introduced:
Payment of wages and salaries; prepaid cards. Eliminates the ability of an employer to pay wages and salaries to an employee by credit to a prepaid debit card or card account without the employee's consent. Under current law, an employer may pay wages and salaries to an employee by credit to a prepaid debit card or card account without the employee's consent if the employee does not designate an account at a financial institution to which payment may be sent by automated fund transfer. This measure allows payment of wages to be made by credit to a prepaid debit card or card account if the employee affirmatively consents and the employer discloses any applicable fees.

11/30/16 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/11/17 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1445)
01/12/17 House: Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1
01/19/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
01/24/17 House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor

HB 1450 Health insurer/health maintenance organization; response to notice from pharmacy's intermediary.

Chief patron: Ware

Summary as passed House:

Pharmacy freedom of choice. Provides that if a pharmacy has provided notice through an intermediary of its agreement to accept reimbursements at rates applicable to preferred providers, the insurer or its intermediary may elect to respond directly to the pharmacy instead of the intermediary. The measure does not require a carrier to contract with a pharmacy's intermediary and does not prohibit an insurer or its intermediary from contracting with or disclosing confidential information to a pharmacy's intermediary.

02/20/17 House: Enrolled
02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1450ER)
02/20/17 House: Impact statement from VDH (HB1450ER)
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017

HB 1471 Reinsurance credits.

Chief patron: Ware

Summary as introduced:
Reinsurance credits. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to adopt regulations specifying additional requirements relating to or setting forth the valuation of assets or reserve credits, the amount and forms of security supporting certain reinsurance arrangements, and the circumstances pursuant to which credit will be reduced or eliminated. The measure adopts revisions to the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The revisions adjust the reinsurance collateral requirements for certified reinsurers.

02/16/17 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
02/20/17 House: Enrolled
02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1471ER)
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017

HB 1500 Budget Bill.

Chief patron: Jones

Summary as introduced:
Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 780, 2016 Acts of Assembly.

02/15/17 House: House acceded to request
02/15/17 House: Conferees appointed by House
02/15/17 House: Delegates: Jones, Cox, Landes, O'Bannon, Greason, Torian
02/15/17 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
02/15/17 Senate: Senators: Norment, Hanger, Saslaw, Howell, Newman, Ruff, Wagner

HB 1526 Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage annual live entertainment venue license, etc.

Chief patron: Albo

Summary as passed House:

Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage annual live entertainment venue license. Creates the mixed beverage annual live entertainment license to allow any person operating a live entertainment venue to sell, on the dates of performances and one hour prior to any such performance and one hour after the conclusion of any performance, but no later than 2:00 a.m. alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption in areas upon the licensed premises approved by the Board. The bill stipulates that the live entertainment venue (i) must be owned by the licensee or be occupied under a bona fide long-term lease or concession agreement, the original term of which was more than five years, and (ii) must have monthly gross receipts from the sale of food cooked, or prepared, and consumed on the premises and nonalcoholic beverages served on the premises of at least $4,000. The bill defines a live entertainment venue as an establishment devoted exclusively to the bona fide live performance of the performing arts, which establishment is open to the public no more than four days in any calendar week and where (i) at least 75 percent of the ticket sales for any performance at such venue is required to be purchased at least 12 hours in advance of the performance and (ii) the ticket price for the performance is based on the fair market value of the performance.. The bill contains technical amendments.

02/01/17 House: Read third time and passed House (89-Y 8-N)
02/01/17 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (89-Y 8-N)
02/02/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
02/02/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
02/17/17 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (6-Y 8-N)

HB 1527 Corporations; reinstatement.

Chief patron: Albo

Summary as introduced:

Corporations; reinstatement. Eliminates the requirement that an application for reinstatement of a nonstock corporation be made within five years after the date the corporation ceased to exist.

12/26/16 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
01/17/17 House: Referred from General Laws
01/17/17 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/18/17 House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1527)
01/26/17 House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor

HB 1530 Dept of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of certain businesses; appeals.

Chief patron: Peace

Summary as introduced:
Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations; appeals. Removes the exemption from the Administrative Process Act (the Act) currently granted to regulations adopted by the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to implement certification programs for small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations. The bill requires that such regulations provide a right to appeal the denial of an initial certification or the revocation of an existing certification as provided in Article 3 (§ 2.2-4018 et seq.) of the Act.

02/21/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
02/21/17 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
02/21/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
02/21/17 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
02/22/17 House: Placed on Calendar

HB 1542 Home service contract providers; shifts responsibility for regulating to Commissioner of the DACS.

Chief patron: Kilgore

Summary as passed:

Home service contract providers. Shifts responsibility for regulating home service contract providers from the State Corporation Commission to the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The measure provides that home service contracts are not contracts of insurance and are not subject to regulation under the Commonwealth's insurance laws. Home service contracts are agreements to perform the service repair, replacement, or maintenance, or indemnification therefor, with regard to components, parts, appliances, or systems of a residential home property. Providers of such contracts are required to register with the Commissioner, which registration shall not require filing of forms or rate information. Providers are required to maintain a funded reserve account for their obligations under the contracts that is not less than 40 percent of gross consideration received, less claims paid, on the sale of the home service contract for all in-force home service contracts sold in the Commonwealth. Providers are also required to file a bond with the Commissioner. In lieu of the requirements for a reserve account and bond, a provider may demonstrate financial responsibility by filing a copy of a liability insurance policy that covers 100 percent of the provider's home service contract liabilities. The measure includes provisions addressing the adoption of regulations, investigations, production of records, and penalties for violations that are similar to the existing provisions applicable to extended service contract providers. Providers with a net worth in excess of $100 million are exempt from the provisions of the measure. Certain maintenance and service agreements are exempted. The measure includes a minimum tax provision that requires such entities to pay income tax at a level that provides the same revenue as is currently paid in gross premium tax. The minimum tax is in lieu of all other state and local license fees or license taxes on providers and home service contracts. The measure has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2018.

02/16/17 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
02/20/17 House: Placed on Calendar
02/20/17 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105419D-S1 (93-Y 1-N)
02/20/17 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (93-Y 1-N)
02/21/17 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1542S1)

HB 1556 Real Estate Appraiser Board; exemptions from licensure.

Chief patron: Ware

Summary as passed House:

Real Estate Appraiser Board; exemptions from licensure. Allows a licensed residential real estate appraiser, certified residential real estate appraiser, or certified general real estate appraiser to provide an evaluation of real estate or real property in connection with a certain real estate-related financial transactions.

02/20/17 House: Enrolled
02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1556ER)
02/20/17 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1556ER)
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017

HB 1625 Mobile food units; licenses.

Chief patron: Robinson

Summary as passed:

Mobile food units; licenses. Directs the Department of Health to issue a license in the form of a sticker to a restaurant that is a mobile food unit that meets the requirements for licensure and requires the licensee to prominently display the license on the mobile food unit.

02/17/17 House: Impact statement from VDH (HB1625ER)
02/17/17 House: Signed by Speaker
02/20/17 Senate: Signed by President
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017

HB 1626 License tax on peddlers and itinerant merchants; adhesive license display.

Chief patron: Robinson

Summary as introduced:
License tax on peddlers and itinerant merchants; adhesive license display. Provides that any locality requiring an itinerant merchant to display its license at its temporary place of business shall provide to the itinerant merchant an adhesive label that satisfies such requirement.

02/13/17 Senate: Signed by President
02/14/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
02/14/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
02/14/17 House: Impact statement from TAX (HB1626ER)
02/17/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (effective 7/1/17)

HB 1629 Business advertising material; expands definition.

Chief patron: Fowler

Summary as introduced:

Business advertising material; private security services businesses. Expands the definition of business advertising material as it relates to private security services businesses to include any electronic medium, including the Internet, social media, and digital advertising.

02/13/17 House: Signed by Speaker
02/13/17 Senate: Signed by President
02/14/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
02/14/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
02/20/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 85 (effective 7/1/17)

HB 1671 Natural gas utilities; qualified projects, investments in eligible infrastructure.

Chief patron: Morefield

Summary as passed House:

Qualified projects of natural gas utilities. Exempts any natural gas utility serving fewer than 2,000 residential customers and fewer than 350 commercial and industrial customers in the year in which the utility makes an investment for qualifying projects from the provision that limits the amount of investment that a natural gas utility may make in qualifying projects to one percent of its net plant investment that was used in establishing base rates in its most recent rate case. The measure applies only to projects located in the coalfield region of Virginia. The existing exemption to the one percent cap was enacted in 2013 and applies to any natural gas utility serving fewer than 1,000 residential customers and fewer than 250 commercial and industrial customers in such year. Legislation enacted in 2012 established a mechanism for natural gas utilities to recover the eligible infrastructure development costs of a qualifying project through future rates. A qualifying project is an economic development project for which, among other things, the utility has received a binding commitment from the developer or occupant of the proposed project regarding capacity or a financial guaranty from the developer or state or local government in the amount of at least 50 percent of the estimated investment to be made in the proposed project. This bill is identical to SB 1289.

02/16/17 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
02/20/17 House: Enrolled
02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1671ER)
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017

HB 1761 Regulation of taxicabs.

Chief patron: Anderson

Summary as passed:

Regulation of taxicabs. Provides that the governing body of any county, city, or town that regulates taxicabs may authorize any taxicab to operate software-based devices that utilize GPS or other measurement data in the calculation of time-and-distance fares, notwithstanding the requirements for the specifications and tolerances for measuring and weighing devices. The bill repeals the requirement that all taxicabs display roof signs and specific markings. The bill contains an emergency clause.

EMERGENCY

02/17/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1761ER)
02/17/17 House: Signed by Speaker
02/20/17 Senate: Signed by President
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017

HB 1858 Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; certification of certain businesses.

Chief patron: Lopez

Summary as passed House:

Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to adopt regulations that mandate certification without any additional paperwork of any small, women-owned, and minority-owned business that has obtained certification under any federal small, women-owned, and minority-owned business certification program.

02/20/17 House: Enrolled
02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1858ER)
02/20/17 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1858ER)
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017

HB 1920 Property transportation network companies; required to provide motor vehicle liability coverage.

Chief patron: Kilgore

Summary as introduced:
Property transportation network companies. Requires property transportation network companies to provide motor vehicle liability coverage in the same amounts as are currently required for transportation network companies. The bill exempts passenger cars, motorcycles, autocycles, mopeds, and vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less from the motor carrier provisions of Chapter 21 (Regulation of Property Carriers) except for insurance requirements.

01/10/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103394D
01/10/17 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
01/26/17 House: Assigned Transportation sub: Special Subcommittee
01/31/17 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table
02/07/17 House: Left in Transportation

HB 1984 Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act; establishment of protected series.

Chief patron: Webert

Summary as introduced:
Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act. Provides for the creation by a limited liability company (LLC) of one or more protected series. The measure provides that each protected series may have different ownership, management structures, assets, and liabilities. Each protected series may function in a manner analogous to a separate legal entity within the LLC that established the protected series, which is referred to as the series LLC. The measure provides a process through which debts and obligations of one protected series are neither the debts nor obligations of any other protected series nor of the series LLC. Under the measure, a separate public filing is required to establish each protected series of a series LLC. The measure specifies rules for disregarding the internal liability shields that protect the assets of one protected series from the creditors of another. The measure provides that assets not properly associated with a protected series may be subject to the claims of creditors even if the internal shields among series remain intact. The measure is based on the December 8, 2016, draft of the uniform Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act prepared by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The measure has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2018.

01/26/17 House: Referred from Commerce and Labor
01/26/17 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/31/17 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
02/01/17 House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket
02/07/17 House: Left in Courts of Justice

HB 2113 Breach of payroll data; notification requirement.

Chief patron: Keam

Summary as passed House:

Notification requirement; breach of payroll data. Requires employers and payroll service providers to notify the Office of the Attorney General after discovery of a compromise in confidentiality related to payroll information. Upon receipt of notice from an employer or payroll service provider, the Office of the Attorney General would notify the Department of Taxation. HB 2113 and SB 1033 are identical.

02/20/17 House: Enrolled
02/20/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2113ER)
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
02/22/17 House: Impact statement from TAX (HB2113ER)

HB 2190 Wage or salary history; inquiries prohibited, civil penalty.

Chief patron: Boysko

Summary as introduced:
Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) requiring as a condition of employment that a prospective employee provide or disclose the prospective employee's wage or salary history or (ii) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee from the prospective employee's current or former employers. Violations are subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $100 per violation.

01/11/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101529D
01/11/17 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/25/17 House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2190)
01/31/17 House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor

HB 2193 Personal property tax; business property.

Chief patron: Rush

Summary as introduced:

Personal property tax; business property. Requires localities to permit taxpayers to provide an aggregate estimate of the total cost of all personal property used in a business that has an original cost of less than $500, in lieu of a specific, itemized list. Under current law, localities are permitted to allow taxpayers to provide such estimate of aggregate cost for property whose original cost is less than $250.

02/14/17 House: Signed by Speaker
02/15/17 Senate: Signed by President
02/15/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
02/15/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
02/21/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 116 (effective 7/1/17)

HB 2230 Stock corporations; shareholders' meetings.

Chief patron: Cline

Summary as introduced:
Stock corporations; shareholders' meetings. Authorizes the board of directors of a stock corporation to determine that any meeting of shareholders not be held at any place and instead be held by means of remote communication, if the articles of incorporation or bylaws do not require the meeting to be held at a place. The measure also limits the provision that currently authorizes the holders of at least 20 percent of the votes entitled to be cast on an issue to call a special meeting of shareholders of a corporation that has 35 or fewer shareholders by requiring that the corporation not be a public corporation.

02/17/17 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
02/20/17 Senate: Read third time
02/20/17 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
02/20/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
02/20/17 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)

HJ 705 Encouraging localities to develop a more uniform and streamlined permitting process.

Chief patron: Yancey

Summary as introduced:
Encouraging localities to develop a more uniform and streamlined permitting process. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that localities be encouraged to develop a more uniform and streamlined permitting process. Such an effort would benefit from having the Virginia Association of Counties and the Virginia Municipal League take the lead in developing a model application and permitting process while utilizing the best practices from localities throughout the Commonwealth.

01/11/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101686D
01/11/17 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
01/31/17 House: Tabled in Rules (15-Y 0-N)

SB 3 Building Revitalization Grant Fund; created, report.

Chief patron: Stanley

Summary as introduced:
Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of at least $1 million in revitalizing or retrofitting an existing building in the Commonwealth to serve as a new place of business. This bill is a recommendation of the Housing Commission.

11/22/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100383D
11/22/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
01/18/16 Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB3)
01/18/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in General Laws and Technology

SB 119 Small Business; changes in definition, regulation by U.S. Small Business Administration.

Chief patron: Petersen

Summary as introduced:
Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definition of small business. Changes the definition of small business to require the business, together with affiliates, to meet the small business size standards established by the regulations of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Currently, a small business is required to have 250 or fewer employees or average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years.

12/28/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100873D
12/28/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
02/08/16 Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB119)
02/15/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in General Laws and Technology

SB 373 Alcoholic beverage control; food sale requirements for businesses.

Chief patron: Ebbin

Summary as passed Senate:

Alcoholic beverage control; food sale requirements. Provides that a business may be considered a restaurant for purposes of mixed beverage licenses if it regularly sells foods, rather than meals, prepared on the premises. The bill also provides that in calculating the gross receipts from the sale of food for purposes of the food-to-beverage ratio, mixed beverage restaurant licensees, mixed beverage caterer's licensees, mixed beverage limited caterer's licensees, and limited mixed beverage restaurant licensees shall include the gross receipts from the sale of nonalcoholic beverages.

02/03/16 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
02/17/16 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3
02/23/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
03/01/16 House: Continued to 2017 in General Laws
12/01/16 House: Left in General Laws

SB 406 Consumer finance companies; open-end credit plans, sharing location with motor vehicle title lender.

Chief patron: Saslaw

Summary as introduced:
Consumer finance companies; open-end credit plans; sharing location with motor vehicle title lender. Prohibits any consumer finance company or person extending credit under an open-end credit plan from making loans at any location where a motor vehicle title lender is authorized to conduct business. The measure also prohibits a motor vehicle title lender from authorizing or permitting a consumer finance company or open-end credit plan lender to conduct business at any location where the motor vehicle title lender is authorized to conduct business. Any loan contract made by a consumer finance company or open-end credit plan lender from a title lender's place of business shall be unenforceable against the borrower. The measure does not prohibit the collection of any outstanding consumer finance loan or extension of credit made prior to the measure's effective date.

01/12/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101601D
01/12/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/19/16 Senate: Impact statement from SCC (SB406)
01/25/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Commerce and Labor

SB 483 Occupational safety and health; employer's liability for violation by contractor.

Chief patron: DeSteph

Summary as introduced:
Occupational safety and health; employer's liability for violation by contractor. Prohibits the Commissioner of Labor and Industry from issuing a citation or assessing a civil penalty against an employer for a violation of occupational safety and health law if the violation is imputed to the employer vicariously as the result of the failure of the employer's contractor or subcontractor to obtain a contractor's license or maintain a copy of the contractor's license on site. The exemption from liability applies only if the employer did not have actual knowledge of the failure.

01/12/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101189D
01/12/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/21/16 Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB483)
02/15/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Commerce and Labor

SB 488 Mixed beverage restaurant licensees; food-to-beverage ratio.

Chief patron: DeSteph

Summary as passed Senate:

Pilot project for mixed beverage licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; alternative calculation for the 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio based on price paid by the licensee. Creates a two-year pilot project that directs participating mixed beverage restaurant licensees to calculate the required food-to-beverage ratio (i) on the basis of the price such licensee paid for the food, nonalcoholic beverages, and mixed beverages sold and (ii) on the basis of the price such licensee sold such food, nonalcoholic beverages, and mixed beverages to patrons. The bill provides that participating licensees shall be deemed to be in compliance with law if they meet the required food-to-beverage ratio based on either of the above calculations. The bill also requires participating licensees to serve food during any period of time mixed beverages are served and allows the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to summarily suspend the license of participants for 24 hours for violation of this requirement.

02/15/16 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
02/17/16 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3
02/23/16 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2017
03/01/16 House: Continued to 2017 in General Laws
12/01/16 House: Left in General Laws

SB 489 Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio.

Chief patron: DeSteph

Summary as introduced:
Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio. Provides that a mixed beverage restaurant licensee meets the required food-beverage ratio if its gross receipts from the sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages amount to at least (i) $5,000 per month or (ii) 25 percent of the gross receipts from the sale of mixed beverages and food. The bill also provides that mixed beverage caterer and limited mixed beverage caterer licensees meet the required food-beverage ratio if their gross receipts from the sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages amount to at least 25 percent of their gross receipts from the sale of mixed beverages and food. Under current law, mixed beverage restaurant, mixed beverage caterer, and limited mixed beverage caterer licensees' gross receipts from the sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages must amount to at least 45 percent of their gross receipts from the sale of mixed beverages and food. The bill also requires such licensees to serve food during any period of time mixed beverages are served and allows the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to summarily suspend a license for a maximum of 24 hours for failure to comply with this provision.

01/12/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101509D
01/12/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
01/12/16 Senate: Introduced bill reprinted 16101509D
02/12/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Rehabilitation and Social Services

SB 530 Cable franchises; service availability in certain areas.

Chief patron: Stuart

Summary as introduced:
Cable franchises. Provides that local ordinances to adopt a cable franchise shall require that a cable operator make service available in areas where the average occupied residential household density is not less than 20 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the physical address of the nearest dwelling or building at which service from the provider is available. The current statute requires a standard of not less than 30 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the nearest technically feasible point on the cable operator's active cable system.

01/13/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103805D
01/13/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
02/09/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Local Government (13-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Local Government

SB 591 Taxicab services; regulation by localities, background checks.

Chief patron: Obenshain

Summary as introduced:
Regulation of taxicab services by localities; background checks. Requires localities to adopt ordinances requiring that a criminal history background check be performed before an individual is authorized as a driver and at least once every two years thereafter. The background check shall require individuals to submit fingerprints and personal identifying information to be provided directly to the Central Criminal Records Exchange, which shall forward the results of the state and national records search to the local government or chief law-enforcement officer of the locality.

01/13/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102430D
01/13/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
01/27/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Transportation (13-Y 0-N)
02/01/16 Senate: Impact statement from DHCD (SB591)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Transportation

SB 779 Electric utility regulation; net energy metering.

Chief patron: Stuart

Summary as introduced:

Electric utility regulation; net energy metering. Authorizes any eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator to enter into a contract to sell any net metering eligible energy exceeding the eligible customer-generator's or eligible agricultural customer-generator's own energy demand for any monthly period to any other retail customer within the same service territory of the incumbent utility. The measure increases the maximum size of the aggregate generating facility that qualifies for (i) the agricultural net energy metering program from 500 kilowatts to two megawatts, (ii) the net metering program for residential eligible customer-generators from 20 kilowatts to 50 kilowatts, and (iii) the net metering program for nonresidential eligible customer-generators from one megawatt to two megawatts. The measure replaces the existing provision that allows an eligible agricultural customer-generator to be served by multiple meters that are located at separate but contiguous sites with a provision that allows such a customer-generator to be served by multiple meters that are located on one parcel or on multiple adjacent parcels. The measure repeals the provision that caps the size of a generation facility of an eligible customer-generator at his expected annual energy consumption. The measure also (a) replaces the existing provision that provides that an eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator will be paid for excess electricity at the rate that is provided for such purchases in a net metering standard contract or tariff approved by the State Corporation Commission with a requirement that they will be paid at a rate equal to the customer-generator's approved customer rate schedule plus all applicable riders and (b) repeals the provision that limits the net energy metering programs to one percent of each electric distribution company's adjusted Virginia peak-load forecast for the previous year.

02/11/16 Senate: Impact statement from SCC (SB779)
02/15/16 Senate: Committee substitute printed to Web only 16105574D-S1
02/15/16 Senate: Incorporates SB148
02/15/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
12/02/16 Senate: Left in Commerce and Labor

SB 814 Foreign business entities; services of summons for witness or subpoena duces tecum.

Chief patron: Surovell

Summary as introduced:
Services of summons for witness or subpoena duces tecum on foreign business entities. Allows the court to enforce compliance with a summons for witness or a subpoena duces tecum served on the registered agent of a foreign business entity registered with the State Corporation Commission to transact business in the Commonwealth, regardless of whether the foreign business entity is a party to the underlying case. This bill is in response to the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Yelp, Inc. v. Hadeed Carpet Cleaning, Inc., Record No. 140242, 770 S.E.2d 440 (2015) and is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.

11/02/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100731D
11/02/16 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/16/17 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 8-N)

SB 816 Grand larceny & certain property crimes; increases threshold amount of money taken, etc., to $1,000.

Chief patron: Surovell

Summary as passed Senate:

Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. This bill incorporates SB923.

01/31/17 House: Read first time
01/31/17 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
02/08/17 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
02/15/17 House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely
02/21/17 House: Left in Courts of Justice

SB 1033 Breach of payroll data; notification requirement.

Chief patron: Howell

Summary as passed:

Notification requirement; breach of payroll data. Requires employers to notify the Office of the Attorney General after discovery of a breach of payroll information and provide the employer's name and federal employer identification number, regardless of whether the breach triggers other database breach notification requirements. The Office of the Attorney General shall notify the Department of Taxation of the breach. SB 1033 and HB 2113 are identical.

02/20/17 Senate: Enrolled
02/20/17 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1033ER)
02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
02/22/17 Senate: Impact statement from TAX (SB1033ER)

SB 1076 My Virginia Plan Program; retirement plans for employees of private employers.

Chief patron: Ruff

Summary as introduced:
My Virginia Plan Program; retirement plans for employees of private employers. Directs the Department of the Treasury (the Department) to create the My Virginia Plan Program (the Program) to enable private employers to connect with financial services firms that offer retirement plans. The bill provides that participation in a plan offered through the Program is voluntary for employers and their employees. The bill requires the Department to review and approve financial services firms to offer retirement plans through the Program and create a website for employers to obtain information on how to participate. The bill provides that the Department ensure that the Program provides a range of investment options to meet the needs of investors with various levels of risk tolerance and various ages.

The bill requires that in order to participate in the Program a financial services firm must register with the State Corporation Commission, meet the requirements of all federal laws required to offer retirement plans, and offer at least two product options, including a target date fund and a balanced fund. The bill authorizes the Department to charge fees to participating financial services firms to recoup start-up and ongoing costs. The bill prohibits financial services firms from charging any administrative fees to employers.

01/06/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103413D
01/06/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
01/20/17 Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1076)
01/23/17 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)

SB 1090 Computer trespass; computer invasion of privacy; penalty; civil relief.

Chief patron: Sturtevant

Summary as introduced:
Computer trespass; computer invasion of privacy; penalty; civil relief. Makes it a Class 5 felony for a person to maliciously install or cause to be installed a computer program that takes control of or restricts access to another computer or computer network, or data therein, and demand money or anything else of value to remove the computer program; restore control of or access to the computer or computer network, or data therein; or remediate the impact of the computer program. The bill adds medical information to the list of information that if obtained without authority constitutes computer invasion of privacy. The bill expands the private right of action for a person or property that is injured by a computer trespass.

01/12/17 Senate: Impact statement from VCSC (SB1090)
01/16/17 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
01/16/17 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
01/24/17 Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1090)
01/31/17 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)

SB 1192 Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; powers of the Director.

Chief patron: Reeves

Summary as passed Senate:

Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; powers of the Director; out-of-state applicants for certification as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. Requires, as a prerequisite for approval, that any out-of-state business applying with the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity for certification in Virginia as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business possess the equivalent certification in the business's state of origin. The bill exempts an out-of-state business located in a state that does not have a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business certification program.

02/16/17 House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
02/20/17 House: Read second time
02/21/17 House: Read third time
02/21/17 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
02/21/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)

Counts: HB: 43 HJ: 1 SB: 16