| SJR113 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Elmon T. Gray.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Tramadol added to list of Schedule IV controlled substances. Adds tramadol, an opiate painkiller, to the list of Schedule IV controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure; use of false records, documents, or statements. Provides that any person who knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false or fraudulent record, document, or statement in support of any foreclosure shall be liable to the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center; King College. Adds King College to the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees and allows graduate degree instructional programs in education to be provided with King College at the Cen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Provisional driver's license holders. Changes from a secondary offense to a primary offense use of a cell phone by a provisional driver's license holder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Text messaging and emailing while driving; penalty. Allows police officers to issue citations to violators who text message or email while operating a moving motor vehicle. Currently, police officers must have cause to stop or arrest a driver for som...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SJR233 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending Rule 16 of House Joint Resolution No. 5, relating to the first conference on revenue bills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Following too closely. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; fiscal impact analysis of employer contribution rates. Requires the Board of the Virginia Retirement System to conduct a fiscal impact analysis whenever the appropriation for employer contribution rates included in the bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential primary; uncommitted option. Allows a voter in a presidential primary to vote "uncommitted" where such vote indicates that the voter has no preference among the candidates on the ballot and does not want to commit delegates to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Elmon Taylor Gray, former member of the Senate of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2017. The bill would require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. This is a recommendation of the Judicial Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR130 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. This joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia State Bar admission for full-time law school professors. Allows a full-time law professor to be admitted as an active member of the Virginia State Bar without examination provided that (i) he has been engaged in the full-time practice of law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Air pollution; outdoor wood-burning heaters. Requires the Air Pollution Control Board to develop a model ordinance for localities that could be used, at the discretion of the locality, to regulate air pollution emissions resulting from the use of out...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1299 | Intro
Sine Die | Immediate sanction program created. Creates a specialized probation program available to offenders who are on probation pursuant to a suspended sentence and have not been convicted of a violent felony. The program provides for immediate arrest of a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Enforcement of immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police shall seek to enter into a memorandum of agreement with United States Department of Homeland Security,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice |
| SB465 | Intro
Sine Die | Appointment, compensation, and offices of general registrars. Provides that all general registrars shall serve on a full-time basis. The bill takes effect on enactment of an appropriation to effectuate its purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-05
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; appointment of executive director. Provides that the Governor and not the Authority board of directors shall appoint the executive director of the Authority. The bill further provides that the exec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-05
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 3-N) |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious freedom. Memorializes the Secretary of State of the United States of America to support those suffering religious persecution and discrimination in countries that do not recognize religious freedom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-05
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalty for DUI manslaughter. Provides that the punishment for DUI manslaughter is to include a one-year mandatory term of confinement and raises the mandatory minimum term for aggravated DUI manslaughter from one to five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Opening of the school year in certain school divisions. Authorizes the school boards of the City of Martinsville, Henry County, and Pittsylvania County school divisions to set the opening of the school year so that the first day students are require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding for certain abortions. Repeals the section authorizing the Board of Health to fund abortions for women who meet the financial eligibility criteria of the State Plan for Medical Assistance in cases in which a physician certifies that he believ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; gold, silver, and platinum bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, or platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000. The bill has a sunset date of June 30, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 2-N) |
| SB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; women-owned and minority-owned businesses; remedial measures. Provides that the Governor shall require state agencies to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law when a per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB1193 | Intro
Sine Die | Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities. Requires local public bodies to post required procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website and makes newspaper publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 4-N) |
| SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; long-term care insurance credit. Increases the amount of the credit an individual may claim for long-term care insurance premiums from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premiums paid. The bill would be effective for taxable ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition; purchases from net metering sellers. Authorizes individual retail customers who are eligible customer-generators under Virginia's net energy metering program to purchase electricity provided 100 percent from re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemptions for nonprofit entities; veterans organizations. Adds veterans organizations to those nonprofit entities that can qualify for sales and use tax exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Asset forfeiture. Provides that forfeited drug assets are to be distributed in accordance with Article VIII, Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia. The bill also provides that the seizing agency may request that forfeited drug assets be destroyed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to develop a plan to address needs of Virginians with disabilities. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group composed of various stakeholders to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Incorporated by Rules |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; military and overseas voters. Directs the State Board of Elections to provide instructions and procedures for the submission of ballots from military and overseas voters by fax or other electronic means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB139 | Intro
Sine Die | County precincts; separate precinct for certain towns. Requires a county to establish a separate county precinct for any town entirely surrounded by a combination of a United States armed forces base and water.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Reston. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for Reston bearing the word: "RESTON!" and the legend: "LIVE WORK PLAY."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Death records. Reduces the amount of time that must pass before death records may become public information from 50 years to 25 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosure of records related to marriages, divorces, and annulments. Reduces the period of time that must pass before records related to marriages and divorces may become public information from 50 years to 25 years and provides that annulments may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25 instead of the standard $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of NASCAR. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of NASCAR. Revenues derived from sale of these plates will be shared with Richmond International Raceway CARES once a minimu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; PEACE BEGINS AT HOME. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend PEACE BEGINS AT HOME to support the programs of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance for the preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for an interpreter for a non-English-speaking defendant shall be borne by the defendant if he is convicted of the criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Obscenity. Modifies the educational, artistic, and theatrical exemption to obscenity laws by providing that certain crimes (child pornography and use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children) are not subject to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Public procurement; products manufactured in the United States. Requires public contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of a public building or public works to contain a provision that the iron,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-21
Senate: Rereferred to Transportation |
| HB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation; bonds for specific project. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue bonds in the principal amount of $550 million to finance the cost of adding an additional lane on both the northbound and southbound lanes of Inters...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccine; Commonwealth liable. Provides that the Commonwealth shall assume liability for any injury resulting from administration of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB318 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; general registrars. Permits a general registrar who (i) is involuntarily separated and (ii) has 20 or more years of creditable service to retire with an unreduced allowance upon attaining age 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the U.S. Route 58 Corridor Completion Fund. Dedicates $50 million annually from the general fund to the U.S. Route 58 Trust Fund beginning July 1, 2013, until such time as Route 58 is completed to its intersection with Interstate 77 in Ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | State Inspector General. Includes any full-time sworn investigator of the Office of the State Inspector General in the definition of law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
