| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Rental inspection districts. Removes language that expressly rejects any construction of the rental inspection districts statute as an authorization for a locality-wide rental inspection district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
Senate: Continued to 2009 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding. Repeals certain abusive driver fees, increases the state motor fuels tax rate by $0.02 per gallon, and repeals the sales tax on charges for labor or services in automobile repairs. The bill further provides for a refund of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-23
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB1-Houck) (16-Y 0-N) |
| SJR5 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw Congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR10 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property tax exemption for certain veterans. Authorizes the General Assembly to exempt from taxation real property that is the principal residence of a veteran (or widow or widower of a veteran) if the ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | Dangerous weapons in government facilities. Provides that the governing body of any locality may, by ordinance, make it unlawful for any person to possess a dangerous weapon upon the property, including buildings and grounds thereof, of any facility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Jail construction reimbursement. Provides that the Commonwealth will reimburse any county or city up to one-half of the capital costs of a jail construction or renovation project that will increase the capacity by at least 150 beds. Certain shared ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SJR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution). Authorizes the General Assembly by general law to classify separately real estate devoted to historical uses and to permit localities to provide tax relief for such real estate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Public funds; payment for membership to professional associations in certain instances prohibited. Provides that no public funds may be used to pay for the membership of any employee in a professional association as a condition of employment unless ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB595 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional jails. Extends the deadline for consideration of construction, enlargement, or renovation of certain local or regional jail facilities as that deadline applies to the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SJR59 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw Congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the five-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR60 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); assessment of property for tax purposes. Provides that tax assessments made by any county, city, or town of real property used by its owners solely for single family residential purposes may, by ordinance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property exempt from taxation. Directs the General Assembly to enact legislation that will permit localities to provide for a partial exemption from, or deferral of, local real property taxes on a taxpaye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR88 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking of private property for public uses. Establishes limitations on takings of private property. Except for property taken for public service companies or railroads, property may not be taken if the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR91 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxpayer information; access. Allows local officials to provide direct access, including direct computer access, to taxpayer information for use by fire, rescue, or police personnel for official actions in the line of duty. In order to provide dire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act. Provides that each political subdivision may adopt, after a public hearing, an ordinance requiring the delivery of all or any portion of the refuse generated or collected within such political subdivision to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms; libraries. Provides that localities may adopt an ordinance that prohibits firearms, ammunition, or components or combinations thereof in libraries that are owned or operated by the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms; outdoor theaters, cabarets, carnivals, and fairs. Provides that localities may adopt an ordinance that prohibits firearms, ammunition, or components or combinations thereof at outdoor theaters, cabarets, carnivals, and fairs at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-22
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Notarial certificates. Removes the requirement that the notarial certificate wording shall appear on the same page as the signature being notarized. This bill has been incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB118-Edwards) (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB572 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility Transfers Act; telephone companies. Eliminates the requirement that the State Corporation Commission approve the acquisition or disposal of the assets or of control of a telephone company. The measure will not apply to transactions for which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | Notarial certificates. Removes the requirement that the notarial certificate wording shall appear on the same page as the signature being notarized. This bill has been incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB118-Edwards) (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Eminent domain; offer of repurchase to former owner. Makes the "offer to the former owner to repurchase" under eminent domain apply to any interest acquired by the condemnor. Currently, it applies only to fee simple interests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act. Makes several changes in the process and procedures afforded to officers under the procedural guarantee act, including right to counsel, notice of allegations, and a prohibition against a complainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB76-Cuccinelli) (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting turkeys. Authorizes localities to prohibit the hunting of turkeys with a rifle. The penalty for violation of the local ordinance is a Class 4 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Invasive plants; labeling. Provides that the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in consultation with the Virginia Invasive Species Plant Council, shall adopt regulations requiring nurseries to label all invasive species of plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Crab pots; unauthorized taking of crabs. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor to take crabs from a crab pot unless authorized by the licensed and identified owner. The punishment for a Class 3 misdemeanor is a fine of not more than $500.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility Transfers Act. Provides that a person shall not acquire or dispose of control of a public utility, or all of its assets, or a telephone company, in whole or in part, without prior approval of the State Corporation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales of equines by dealers; penalty. Regulates the sales of horses for showing or racing by dealers when the value of the horse is over $10,000. Bills of sale will be required, along with written acknowledgements, to include permission and compensat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Storage of hazardous materials. Permits localities to prohibit the initiation of storage of hazardous materials in floodplains five stream miles upstream of an intake for a public water supply. However, the provisions of this bill shall not apply to:...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Fiduciaries; naming represented person or fiduciary as the party to an action. Allows either the fiduciary, or the person being represented by the fiduciary, to be named as the party to the action without prejudicing the underlying action. This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB498 | Intro
Sine Die | Gas chambers. Prohibits the use of gas chambers for euthanizing companion animals. This is emergency legislation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting on Sunday. Allows a person to hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignment of judgment; docketing. Requires that an assignment of a judgment shall be noted upon the judgment docket. Such a notation is currently discretionary. If no notation is made, the judgment shall be considered satisfied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory retirement for judges. Increases the mandatory retirement age for judges from age 70 to age 75. This bill has been incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-21
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB19-Edwards) (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Powers of CTC. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner (CTC) to enter into contracts with Reston for grounds keeping, mowing, and litter removal on highways within Reston.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonemergency medical transportation. Creates a new DMV permit for nonemergency medical transportation providers exclusively in the business of providing services to recipients of Medicaid and FAMIS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Replacing "mentally retarded" with "intellectually disabled." Replaces the term "mentally retarded" with the term "intellectually disabled" and replaces the term "mental retardation" with the term "intellectual disability" throughout the Code of Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health (SB620-Ticer) (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Education; computation of composite index. Modifies the current Standards of Quality funding formula and calculation of composite index of local ability to pay to incorporate within the real estate indicator of local wealth the land-use taxation val...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health by voice vote |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Application for driver's license; social security number. Allows issuance of a driver's license to an applicant who fails to provide a social security number on the application if such failure is due to a bona fide religious objection to providing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees imposed on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1 of the Code of Virginia, which provided for imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill further provides for refunds of any fees paid, with interest. This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees imposed on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1 of the Code of Virginia, which provided for imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill further provides for refunds of any fees paid, with interest. This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody order; renewal. Allows a single, four-hour extension of an emergency custody order upon a finding by a magistrate that good cause exists for such an extension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Community services board; attend all hearings. Requires that an employee of the community services board that prepared the preadmission screening report attend the involuntary commitment hearing. The bill provides that where in person attendance is n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; criteria. Changes the criteria for emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, and involuntary commitment so that a person may be taken into emergency custody, placed under temporary detention, or involuntarily commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Political candidate contribution tax credit. Increases the maximum amount of the annual tax credit for contributions to state and local candidates for office from $25 to $50 for individuals and from $50 to $100 for joint filers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | State Office of Accountability. Establishes the State Office of Accountability to be headed by a State Inspector General to investigate complaints alleging fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, or mistreatment of citizens of the Commonwealth by a localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Impoundment of motor vehicle for driving without an operator's license. Provides that any adult who is convicted of two offenses of driving without an operator's license shall suffer a 30-day impoundment of his motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Indigent defendants; right to ex parte hearing for appointment of experts in capital cases. Provides that an indigent defendant who has been charged with a capital offense may move for the appointment of experts to assist in the preparation of his d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB369-Watkins) (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Real Estate Board; extension of deadline for compliance with education and continuing education requirements. Extends the deadline for compliance with education and continuing education requirements for licensees of the Real Estate Board on active m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
