| SB320 | Pass | Covenants restricting solar energy collection devices. Provides that a community association shall not prohibit an owner from installing or using any solar energy collection on the owner's property; but such association may establish reasonable rest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0881) |
| SB596 | Pass | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. Continues the Commission on Electric Utility Restructuring as the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation and extends its scheduled expiration from July 1, 2008, until July 1, 2010. The Electric Utility Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0883) |
| SB464 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Energy and Environment. Establishes the Virginia Commission on Energy and Environment as a legislative study commission to review and recommend steps to implement the Virginia Energy Plan. The Commission is charged, among other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0882) |
| SB772 | Pass | Bail. Allows the court as a condition of bond to bar a person who holds an elected constitutional office and who is accused of a felony arising from the performance of his duties from physically returning to his constitutional office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0884) |
| SB7 | Pass | Elections; absentee voting. Extends to persons with any disability or illness, rather than only a "physical" disability or illness, the ability to obtain an absentee ballot and provides a definition for "person with a disability"...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0880) |
| SB301 | Pass | Common Interest Community Board. 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 definiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0871) |
| SB562 | Pass | Manufacturing, 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0874) |
| SB314 | Pass | Veterans Services Foundation. Establishes the Veterans Services Foundation as a body politic and corporate for the purposes of carrying out its statutory powers and duties. The bill also (i) adds the Chair of the Joint Leadership Council and eight c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0872) |
| SB62 | Pass | Voter registration procedures; applications and receipts. Provides that the state form for the application to register to vote shall contain a receipt that will be given to the applicant by any person receiving the application. The receipt states the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0865) |
| SB584 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited acts by licensees; exceptions. Allows a mixed beverage licensee to make sangria. The bill defines sangria and provides that a mixed beverage licensee is not prohibited from pre-mixing containers of sangria to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0875) |
| SB588 | Pass | Payday 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0876) |
| SB590 | Pass | Sex offenders; registration; penalty. Makes various amendments addressing the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry including which crimes require what level of registration and the length of registration (15 years prior to petition, 25 yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0877) |
| SB116 | Pass | DMV service charges. Imposes, in addition to any other fee imposed and collected by DMV, a service charge of $5 for any registration renewal carried out in any of its customer service centers, if the transaction is one that can be conducted by mail,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0866) |
| SB145 | Pass | Natural gas utilities; recovery of capital costs. Establishes a mechanism for a natural gas utility that places a strategic natural gas facility into service on or after July 1, 2008, to recover the entire prudently incurred costs of the facility fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0867) |
| SB171 | Pass | Adoption by former stepparents. Allows former step-parents to adopt the child they were a stepparent to, if they stood in loco parentis to the child, as if they were still the stepparent of the child. Also allows parents who adopted a child in a for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868) |
| SB472 | Pass | Licensure of group homes and residential facilities for children. Eliminates the interdepartmental regulation of children's residential facilities and group homes, and provides that the Departments of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873) |
| SB226 | Pass | Purchase 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0869) |
| SB246 | Pass | Involuntary 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0870) |
| SB797 | Pass | High-risk mortgage lenders or servicers; 10 days' notice; 30 days' forbearance. Requires high-risk mortgage lenders or servicers to provide written notice of the intention to send a notice to accelerate the loan balance 10 business days prior to sen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0878) |
| SB549 | Pass | Multijurisdictional grand juries. Adds crimes related to identity theft and credit card fraud to the matters that a multijurisdictional grand jury may investigate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| SB297 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; mental health and rehabilitative services. Requires that the Department of Veterans Services, the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services and the Department of Rehabilitative Servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| SB559 | Pass | Local composite index; number of students. Increases from 350 to 1,100 the maximum number of students allowed for a school division to qualify to have its state share of aid adjusted, based on a cost-sharing agreement with a neighboring school divis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| SB563 | Pass | Cases held under advisement; time limit. Provides that whenever a judge of a circuit court holds a civil case under advisement for more than 90 days after final submission of the case, the court shall report, in writing, to the parties or their couns...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| SB54 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Provides that the city attorney shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the city council rather than serving a four-year term. Also, the city's zoning powers are amended to include provisions related to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB566 | Pass | Withdrawal of appeals from district courts; civil proceedings. Establishes procedures for parties who appeal decisions from district courts in civil actions to withdraw such appeals. Currently there are only procedures for the withdrawal of appeals ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| SB313 | Pass | Child support; exemption; parents who are imprisoned for life. Clarifies that only parents who are imprisoned for life with no chance of parole are exempted from paying the presumptive minimum child support obligation of $65 per month. Currently, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| SB315 | Pass | Office of the Children's Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to provide ombudsman services, including investigation of complaints, advocacy, and the provision of information for children, parents, and citizens involved with chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| SB577 | Pass | Trademarks and service marks; penalties. Expands the scope of laws protecting trademarks and service marks to include such marks registered with the federal government and makes it unlawful to reproduce, counterfeit, or colorably imitate a registere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| SB328 | Pass | Divorce; service by indigents. Provides that in a suit for annulment, divorce, or affirmance of a marriage, if a plaintiff is indigent and the defendant is not a resident of the Commonwealth or cannot be located, the order stating the object of the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| SB330 | Pass | Admissibility of mental health care records in custody and visitation cases. Repeals the current law that provides that in any case in which custody or visitation of a child is at issue, the mental health records concerning a parent shall be privile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809) |
| SB336 | Pass | Temporary detention orders; encryption of medical records not required. Provides that a health care provider or designee of a local community services board or behavioral health authority shall not be required to encrypt any email containing informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| SB592 | Pass | Animal protection and fighting; penalty. Provides that engaging in the fighting of any animals is a Class 1 misdemeanor, while dog fighting remains a Class 6 felony. Possession of any materials intended to enhance the ability of animals to fight, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| SB600 | Pass | Special license plates. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB345 | Pass | Conditional release; voluntary admission to a state hospital. Clarifies that voluntary admission to a state hospital shall not solely constitute grounds for revocation of a person's conditional release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| SB350 | Pass | Misuse of public assets; penalty. Provides that any full-time officer, agent, or employee of the Commonwealth, or political subdivision who, without lawful authorization, uses or permits the use of public assets for private or personal purposes unre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| SB95 | Pass | Pyramid 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, setti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842) |
| SB610 | Pass | Compensation of court-appointed counsel; juvenile offenders. Provides that court-appointed counsel who are appointed to defend a juvenile in district court for an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult may request a waiver on the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| SB611 | Pass | Detention Center Incarceration Program. Allows a probation and parole officer to place a nonreoffending defendant who scores incarceration on the probation violation guidelines and voluntarily agrees to participate, with the Department of Correction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| SB618 | Pass | Petit larceny; substance abuse. Provides that a person who is convicted for the second time of petit larceny must undergo substance abuse screening as part of the sentence if the sentence includes probation supervision by a community-based probation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| SB620 | Pass | Replacing "mentally retarded" with "intellectual disability." Replaces the terms "mentally retarded" and "mental retardation" with the term "intellectual disability" throughout the Code of Virginia. This bill contains a reenactment clause. This bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832) |
| SB621 | Pass | Notaries Public. Clarifies provisions relating to the adoption of electronic notarization and transitioning to the required seal application on notarized documents. The bill also clarifies the validity of documents notarized within and without the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| SB622 | Pass | Circuit Court clerks; electronic filing and recording; digital reproduction; recordation of judgments; secure remote access; deed cover sheets; fees collected by clerks. Clarifies a number of issues for circuit court clerks including (i) the use of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) |
| SB623 | Pass | Presumption of no bail for illegal aliens charged with certain crimes. Provides that a judicial officer shall presume, subject to rebuttal, that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the appearance of the person or the saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834) |
| SB368 | Pass | Disregarding signal to stop; death of law-enforcement officer; penalties. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer pursues a person who has disregarded a law-enforcement officer's signal to stop his motor vehicle and drives in willful and wanton d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| SB113 | Pass | Driving without a license; penalty. Provides that a court may suspend the driving privileges of a person convicted of driving without a license for a period not to exceed 90 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| SB114 | Pass | Sex Offender Registry. Makes it clear that persons convicted under certain Code sections that were amended by the 2007 General Assembly must register even though the sections have been rewritten. The bill requires the registration of any conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| SB118 | Pass | Notarial certificates. Provides that the requirement that the notarial certificate wording appear on the same page as the signature being notarized does not apply if the notarial certificate includes the name of each person whose signature is being n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| SB633 | Pass | Prisoners; Department of Corrections and Division of Child Support Enforcement to identify child support due. Requires the Department of Corrections, working in cooperation with the Division of Child Support Enforcement, to identify, at least annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| SB634 | Pass | Supplementing compensation of public defenders. Permits counties or cities that have public defender offices to supplement, payable from their own funds, the compensation of the public defender or his deputies or employees in excess of the compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| SB123 | Pass | Destruction of criminal exhibits. Provides that the trial court may not order the destruction or donation of exhibits used in evidence in felony cases without prior notice to the counsel for the parties and until expiration one year after all appeals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
