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HB30PassBudget Bill. Provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2009, and the thirtieth day of June, 2010.
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2008-06-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0879)
HB499PassInvoluntary commitment; outpatient treatment; etc. Changes the criteria for emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, and involuntary commitment proceedings, including how that criteria is applied to prisoners and juveniles, so that a per...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0850)
HB766PassFraudulent academic credentials; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to operate a degree/diploma mill and to issue or manufacture a fraudulent academic credential or for a person to use one.
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0856)
HB516PassCommon Interest Communities. Establishes a Common Interest Community Board, creates a Common Interest Management Information Fund, and allows for a certification process for Common Interest Association managers. The bill adds several new definitions...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0851)
HB12PassPayday Loan Act. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by January 1, 2009, to certify and contract with one or more third parties to develop, implement, and maintain an Internet-accessible database, and requires payday lenders to query the data...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849)
HB1551PassVehicle overweight and overload permits; fee structure. Requires the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Motor Vehicles, to review the current fee structure applied to overload and overweight vehicles. From July 1, 2...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0864)
HB538PassCommercial dog breeding operations; penalty. Defines a commercial breeder as any person who, during any 12-month period, maintains 30 or more adult female dogs for the primary purpose of the sale of their offspring as companion animals. Commercial b...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852)
HB546PassMultiline telephone systems. Provides that an alternative method of providing call location information exists when a 9-1-1 call to a public safety answering point (PSAP) provides sufficient information to ensure that emergency responders are dispat...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0853)
HB819PassContinuing care retirement communities; medical assistance. Allows nursing facilities in continuing care retirement communities in Planning District 8 to participate in the Medical Assistance Program so long as (i) the nursing facility is no longer o...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0857)
HB1331PassRevision of Title 3.1; Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; commodity-related boards; protection of food supplies; domestic animals. Creates proposed Title 3.2 (Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food) as a revision of existing Title 3.1 (Agr...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0860)
HB1135PassExpression of religious viewpoints in the public schools. Provides that a student's voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint on an otherwise permissible subject must be not be discriminated against by local school divisions.
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0859)
HB1407PassSuspended license; unpaid fines. Authorizes the issuance for good cause shown and upon verification of employment of a six-month restricted permit to operate a motor vehicle during a period of suspension for unpaid fines and costs. This bill incorpo...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0861)
HJR619Engross

Sine Die
Adjournment Sine Die.
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2008-04-23
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
HB1442PassDUI ignition interlock limitations. Provides that a person who is required to have an ignition interlock may not operate a school bus or school vehicle. The bill has an effective date of October 1, 2008.
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0862)
HB931PassManufacturing, selling, giving, distributing of methamphetamine; penalty. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or dist...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0858)
HB709PassPurchase of firearms; consent form; mental health questions. Requires that a person seeking to purchase a firearm from a firearms dealer answer questions on the state background check consent form concerning whether the applicant has ever been acquit...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0854)
HB1487PassHome ownership protection. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to impose a fine not exceeding $2,500 upon a mortgage lender or mortgage broker that is required to be licensed under the Mortgage Lender and Broker Act for violating any other l...
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0863)
HB721PassApproval of plats, site plans, and plans of development in certain localities. Creates a more compact approval process for commercial property in localities with a population greater than 90,000.
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2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855)
HB990PassPyramid promotional schemes; penalty. Revises the definition of "pyramid promotional scheme," "compensation," and "consideration" and provides that in addition to the Class 1 misdemeanor for contriving, preparing, setting up, operating, advertising ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791)
HB995PassUnlawful filming of another; penalty. Provides that the third offense of unlawful filming of another is a Class 6 felony. Under current law unlawful filming is a felony only if it involves a nonconsenting person under the age of 18.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732)
HB1254PassJuvenile crime; reports. Provides that a juvenile intake officer must report to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the United States Department of Homeland Security a juvenile who has been detained in a secure facility based on an ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798)
HB1510PassGang-related criminal information. Requires the Department of State Police to include arrest statistics for certain gang-related crimes in the annual Crime in Virginia report. This bill incorporates
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746)
HB1007PassVirginia Fusion Intelligence Center; confidentiality; immunity. Provides that papers, records, documents, reports, materials, databases or other evidence or information relative to criminal intelligence or any terrorism investigation in the possessi...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792)
HB242PassStandards of Learning; physical fitness program. Requires local school boards to provide a physical fitness program with a goal of 150 minutes per week for all students.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661)
HB1526PassVirginia Career Readiness Certificate Program; creation; report. Creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certification Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to better prepare them for continued education ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679)
HB1271PassFreedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemption for local franchises. Broadens the current FOIA exemption to apply to any type of franchise and protects trade secrets and confidential proprietary information from both bidders for the franchise and the ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736)
HB760PassReplacing "mentally retarded" with "intellectual disability." Replaces the terms "mentally retarded" and "mental retardation" with the term "intellectual disability" throughout the Code of Virginia. ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821)
HB1528PassSouthwest Virginia Health Facilities Authority. Makes changes to the membership of the board of directors of such authority.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803)
HB1529PassBrown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee. Clarifies that the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee may reduce the scholarship award to any student to ensure that, when the award is added to other financial assistanc...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680)
HB768PassFreedom of Information Act (FOIA); active investigations; teacher licensing. Adds a FOIA exemption for investigator notes, and other correspondence and information with respect to an active investigation conducted by or for the Board of Education re...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668)
HB1542PassLocal salary supplements for district court employees. Removes the restriction on local salary supplements paid to local district court employees. This bill is identical to
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804)
HB520PassFreedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemptions for the Virginia Military Advisory Council, the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority, and local military organizations. Adds a FOIA exemption for records of the Virginia Military Advisory Counc...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721)
HB777PassCommission on Civics Education. Extends the sunset provision applicable to the Commission from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2010. This bill is identical to
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669)
HB523PassVehicle safety inspection; members of the armed services. Provides that any vehicle safety inspection approval sticker issued for any vehicle that is principally garaged outside the Commonwealth while its registered owner is a person in the armed se...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722)
HB524PassEligibility for in-state tuition; certain military personnel. Provides that in determining the domiciliary intent of retired military personnel residing in the Commonwealth at the time of their retirement, or the domiciliary intent of their dependent...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723)
HB525PassAdditional vehicle registration fees in certain localities. Exempts from the additional registration fees vehicles being registered in a jurisdiction subject to either the Northern Virginia Transportation or the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848)
HB526PassPeninsula Ports Authority of Virginia. Creates a procedure for the dissolution of the Peninsula Ports Authority of Virginia.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724)
HB1302PassIncident management. Redefines the "scene of any accident" for the purposes of arrest without a warrant. The revised definition includes a reasonable location where a vehicle or person involved in an accident has been moved at the direction of a la...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737)
HB285PassConsent revocation period for parental placement adoptions. Provides that consent to an adoption may be revoked by a birth parent for up to seven days after it is executed and that the seven day revocation period may be waived in writing at the time ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662)
HB29PassBudget Bill. Amending Chapter 847 of the 2007 Acts of Assembly, which appropriated the public revenues and provided a portion of such revenues for the two years ending, respectively, on the thirtieth day of June, 2007, and the thirtieth day of June,...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847)
HB34PassSex offenses; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person 18 years of age or older to, with lascivious intent, kiss a child under the age of 13 on the mouth while knowingly and intentionally penetrating the mouth of such child ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772)
HB547PassUnemployment compensation; minimum earnings; maximum weekly benefit. Increases the wages an employee must have earned in the two highest earnings quarters of his base period in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits from $2,700 to $3,000 for...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725)
HB1317PassConveyance of subaqueous lands. Provides that a landowner may obtain a declaration from the Marine Resources Commission as to whether certain property is considered state-owned bottomlands and authorizes the Governor to sell and convey any interest ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675)
HB1319PassUnderground transmission lines; pilot program. Establishes a pilot program for the placement of four new transmission lines of 230 kilovolts or less to be placed underground, either in whole or in part. The bill establishes criteria for the State Cor...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799)
HB559PassECO, TDO, involuntary commitment; criteria. Changes the criteria for emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, involuntary commitment, and outpatient treatment, including how that criteria is applied to prisoners and juveniles, so that a ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779)
HB815PassMental health treatment; report to CCRE; restoration of rights to possess firearms. Codifies Executive Order 50, requiring information regarding involuntary admission to a facility or for mandatory outpatient treatment be forwarded to the Central Cr...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)
HB560PassCommitment hearing; independent examiner or community services board member attending. Requires the independent examiner and the community services board employee or designee who prepared the prescreening report, or if the hearing occurs in a differe...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780)
HB1329PassState-owned communications towers; broadband service. Requires state agencies to lease or convey a license or other interest in a state-owned communication tower for which they are responsible to qualified providers of wireless broadband service in o...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676)
HB567PassSex offenses prohibiting entry onto school property; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of a sexually violent offense, as defined in § 9.1-902, shall be prohibited from entering and being present upon any property he knows or has re...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781)
HB1084PassApproval of certain proffered conditions. Provides that in any instance in which a locality has accepted proffered conditions that include pedestrian improvements, and the Virginia Department of Transportation has reviewed and not objected to the pro...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733)
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