| SB652 | Engross
Sine Die | In-state tuition; eligibility of certain individuals. Allows any person to be eligible for in-state tuition who (i) resided with his parent while attending high school in Virginia, (ii) graduated from a public or private high school or received a GE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB729 | Engross
Sine Die | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; revenues of the Authority. Authorizes the Authority to impose a 0.50 percent retail sales and use tax in the counties and cities embraced by the Authority with the revenues therefrom dedicated to the Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB795 | Engross
Sine Die | Bonds for Virginia facilities and other projects. Authorizes the issuance of bonds under the Virginia Public Building Authority in a principal amount not to exceed $1,103,600,000 , and under the Virginia College Building Authority with the principal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB709 | Engross
Sine Die | Mortgage lenders and brokers. Prohibits any mortgage lender or broker that is required to be licensed under the Mortgage Lender and Broker Act from making a mortgage loan to, or negotiating, placing or finding a mortgage loan for, a borrower if it i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| SB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Greenhouse gas emissions; mandatory reporting. Requires that the State Air Pollution Control Board adopt regulations requiring the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources. The regulations would apply only to those sources that e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| SB500 | Engross
Sine Die | Infectious disease presumption; emergency declaration by Governor. Authorizes the Governor to declare that a communicable, contagious or infectious disease, is a disease that is covered by the existing infectious disease presumption for firefighters...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| SB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Notice to employees; earned income tax credit. Requires employers to post any notice that may be provided by the Department of Social Services informing all employees that they may be eligible for the earned income tax credit. Establishes a fine for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| SB38 | Engross
Sine Die | Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-10
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| SB69 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-10
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| SB371 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Rail Plan. Requires that the Commonwealth Transportation Board develop a Statewide Rail Plan, which shall set forth an inventory of rail needs based upon established goals, objectives, and priorities including promotion of increased passen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-10
House: Left in Transportation |
| SB186 | Engross
Sine Die | VDOT statistical information. Requires VDOT to collect and report certain statistical information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-10
House: Left in Transportation |
| SB728 | Engross
Sine Die | Collection of annual license and registration fees in certain localities. Prohibits licensed motor vehicle dealers from collecting any additional license and registration fees imposed by the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority and/or the Northern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-10
House: Left in Transportation |
| SB496 | Engross
Sine Die | Real property tax exemptions and deferrals for certain residential or farm property. Authorizes local governing bodies to exempt, partially exempt, or defer the taxation of parcels of real property not to exceed 20 percent of the value of the parcel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-10
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| SB796 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for a court-ordered extension of polling hours in emergency situations and situations that interfere with the ability of voters to travel to the polls. The bill provides that no extension...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-07
House: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers; penalty. Adds the regulation of secondhand dealers to current statutes regulating pawnbrokers. The bill also (i) requires secondhand dealers to prepare a daily report of goods and items sold to them, (ii) requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
House: VOTE: --- DEFEATED (24-Y 73-N) |
| SB686 | Engross
Sine Die | Duty to file lists of tenants, renters, or members with commissioner of revenue. Adds the owners and operators of storage facilities to the list of entities that are required to provide the name and address of renters or tenants to the local commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
House: VOTE: --- DEFEATED (20-Y 79-N) |
| SB233 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Transportation Plan. Requires that the Statewide Transportation Plan include quantifiable measures and achievable goals for carbon dioxide gas emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
House: Continued to 2009 in Transportation |
| SB441 | Engross
Sine Die | Crime victims; immigration status. Provides that no law-enforcement officer or other agent of state or local government shall inquire into the immigration status of any person who reports that he is the victim of a crime or is the parent or guardian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-05
House: VOTE: --- RECONSIDER DEFEATED (45-Y 53-N) |
| SB296 | Engross
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF and food stamps; drug-related felonies. Provides exemption to receive TANF benefits for persons who have been convicted of a felony drug offense pursuant to § 18.2-250 and comply with criminal court orders and treatment programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions |
| SB41 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; definitions; funding for Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund. Includes local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in the definition of %93disabled employee.%94 The bill also provides for a $1.50 fee to be c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB298 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Smoke Free Air Act; smoking in public places; civil penalties. Moves the law restricting smoking in buildings and other enclosed areas from the title relating to local government (15.2) to the title relating to health (32.1) and prohibits s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in General Laws |
| SB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Planning time for school teachers. Requires school boards to ensure that all school teachers are provided an average of 30 minutes a day of planning time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB49 | Engross
Sine Die | Matters to be considered in drawing and applying zoning ordinances and districts. Provides that zoning ordinances and districts shall be drawn and applied with reasonable consideration for the conservation of environmental resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Counties, Cities and Towns |
| SB50 | Engross
Sine Die | Purpose of zoning ordinances. Provides that zoning ordinances shall be designed to give reasonable consideration to conserving natural and environmental resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Counties, Cities and Towns |
| SB309 | Engross
Sine Die | Suspended license; unpaid fines. Authorizes the issuance of a restricted permit to operate a motor vehicle during a period of suspension for unpaid fines and costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB317 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; Certified EarthCraft House tax credit. Provides a one-time income tax credit in the amount of $500 for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2008, to taxpayers who purchase and reside in a newly constructed home that meets the E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Finance |
| SB578 | Engross
Sine Die | VirginiaShare Health Insurance Program. Establishes the VirginiaShare Health Insurance Program, to provide health insurance premium assistance to allow eligible low-income working individuals to purchase health insurance coverage through a certified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB329 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; definitions; funding for Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund. Includes local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in the definition of “disabled employee.” The bill also provides for a $1.50 fee to be c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB597 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast horse racing; allocations. Authorizes wagering on historical horse racing and allocates the proceeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Finance |
| SB87 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; investments related to Sudan. Requires the Virginia Retirement System, under certain circumstances, to divest itself of investments in companies meeting certain criteria gauged to be related to the genocide in the Darfur ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB347 | Engross
Sine Die | Smoking ban in restaurants; local option. Provides that any locality within Planning District 23 may adopt an ordinance regulating smoking in restaurants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in General Laws |
| SB107 | Engross
Sine Die | State Law Library; authorized users. Authorizes members of the General Assembly to designate one person to perform legal research in the State Law Library.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB367 | Engross
Sine Die | VRS; retirement credits for special forest wardens. Provides retirement credits to special forest wardens of the Department of Forestry who participate directly in extinguishing forest fires. Such persons would receive eight hours of retirement cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Waiving interest during period of incarceration. Authorizes the circuit court, for good cause shown and upon motion of the defendant, to waive interest on unpaid fines and costs imposed by a judgment of that court that accrued during any period that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| SB124 | Engross
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; eliminating trans fats. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop guidelines, based on the FDA’s standards for trans fats, with the goal of eliminating foods containing trans fatty acids fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB125 | Engross
Sine Die | Community College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Community College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to community college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds may be paid on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB126 | Engross
Sine Die | Partial tuition waiver; children of university and college faculty. Establishes the Dependent Children of University and College Faculty Tuition Grant Program, to provide a tuition grant equal to 50% of the charge for tuition for the children of cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB148 | Engross
Sine Die | Two-Year College Transfer Grant. Clarifies that (i) grants are made to institutions on behalf of students, not to students directly, (ii) students entering college during summer 2007 term are eligible, (iii) 3.0 grade point average is required only ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB671 | Engross
Sine Die | Clustering of single-family dwellings; Surry County. Extends the effective date of legislation from the 2006 Session requiring Surry County to provide for the clustering of single-family dwellings and the preservation of open space developments from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Counties, Cities and Towns |
| SB418 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Virginia Real Estate Board; waiver of broker education requirements. Requires the Virginia Real Estate Board to waive the broker education requirement for any applicant for a broker’s license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in General Laws |
| SB682 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of State Police; variable housing allowance. Provides a housing allowance for full-time, sworn State Police officers, based upon pay grade and geographical location, from funds that are appropriated for such purpose. The rates of the varia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB184 | Engross
Sine Die | Advertisement of plans; descriptive summary. Provides that no person who received actual written notice pursuant to certain zoning ordinance amendments may challenge the validity of the plan or ordinance, or amendment thereof, due to the insufficienc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Counties, Cities and Towns |
| SB447 | Engross
Sine Die | Green Building Act; Department of General Services; capital outlay projects; standards applicable to certain buildings. Requires all major facility projects of state agencies to be designed to meet the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council’...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in General Laws |
| SB721 | Engross
Sine Die | Competitive foods in public schools; report. Requires the Board, in cooperation with the Department of Health, to promulgate and periodically update regulations setting nutritional guidelines for all competitive foods sold during the school day. Als...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Passed by in Education with letter by voice vote |
| SB221 | Engross
Sine Die | Felony reckless driving; penalty. Provides that a person convicted of reckless driving who willfully operates his motor vehicle in a manner demonstrating a malicious disregard for the likelihood of death or serious bodily harm to another, causing per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB747 | Engross
Sine Die | Special Commission on State Police Staffing. Establishes the Special Commission on the State Police Staffing to advise the Governor and the General Assembly on the adequate staffing level for the Department of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Rules |
| SB501 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; penalty. Moves the regulation of smoking in restaurants from Title 15.2 to a new chapter in Title 32.1. This bill prohibits smoking in all indoor restaurants and bar and lounge areas in the Commonwealth. Requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in General Laws |
| SB774 | Engross
Sine Die | Notice of change in property value assessments. Provides that, in Campbell County, notice of change in assessment other than one in which the change arises solely from the construction or addition of new improvements to the real estate need only inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Finance |
| SB775 | Engross
Sine Die | Drug Treatment Court Act. Authorizes a drug treatment court for the County of Franklin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB522 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery; ABC agent, penalty. Adds special agents of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, officers of the Virginia Marine Police and full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
House: Left in Appropriations |
