| HB576 | Pass | Medical records; disclosure; safe harbor. Provides that, upon request, any health care provider or other provider rendering services to persons subject to emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, or involuntary commitment proceedings sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| HB1089 | Pass | Toxic substances; reporting. Removes the requirement that the Board of Health report to the General Assembly and the Governor on toxic substances biennially.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| HB582 | Pass | Psychiatric inpatient treatment of minors; timing of petition and hearing. Increases from 72 hours to 96 hours the length of time (i) to hold a hearing for the involuntary commitment of a minor or the emergency admission of a minor for inpatient tre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| HB583 | Pass | Emergency custody orders; extension of time. Allows the magistrate to extend the time of emergency custody orders for one two-hour period if good cause exists to grant the extension. Good cause for an extension includes the need for additional time t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| HB1106 | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| HB1362 | Pass | Misuse of public assets. 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 unrelated to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| HB1363 | 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 registered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| HB854 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; authority of local public bodies. Allows any local governing body, school board, or any authority, board, bureau, commission, district, or agency of local government to meet by electronic communicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| HB1367 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemption for local government investment pool. Adds a FOIA exemption for the records maintained by the Department of the Treasury or participants in the Local Government Investment Pool, to the extent such records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| HB354 | Pass | Textbook purchasing contracts. Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill (i) expands the definition of textbook to include print and electronic media; (ii) reorganizes the textbook pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| HB1125 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority; Craney Island Marine Terminal expansion. Authorizes the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to grant easements and rights-of-way across and in the beds of Hampton Roads Harbor (Lower James River), including a portion of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| HB1128 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy; continuing education. Allows the Board of Pharmacy to require two of the currently required 15 hours of continuing education to be in a specific subject area and exempts this requirement from the Administrative Process Act. Also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| HB877 | Pass | Community Development Authority; City of Richmond. Provides that the board of any such authority shall consist of seven members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB366 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; testing for controlled substances. Disqualifies an individual from receiving unemployment compensation benefits if he is discharged from employment as a result of a confirmed positive test for a nonprescribed controlled su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| HB622 | Pass | Sex offenses prohibiting residing in proximity to children; penalty. Prohibits an adult convicted of certain sex offenses from living within 500 feet of a public park that is owned and operated by a county, city or town, shares a boundary line with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1390 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; operational authority. Provides operational authority for public institutions of higher education in the areas of information technology, procurement, and capital outlay pursuant to the Restructuring Act of 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| HB879 | Pass | Affordable dwelling unit ordinances. Provides that a locality establishing an affordable housing dwelling unit program in any ordinance may establish a requirement that the prices for resales and rerentals be controlled by the local housing authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HB1391 | Pass | Virginia Bicentennial of the American War of 1812 Commission. Establishes the Virginia Bicentennial of the American War of 1812 Commission to prepare for and commemorate the 200th anniversary of the war. Composed of 12 members, the Commission is au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| HB113 | 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 (CHAP0773) |
| HB1140 | Pass | Virginia Highway Corporation Act; authority of SCC. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC), in setting tolls under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 during the period January 1, 2013, through January 1, 2020, to approve requests t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841) |
| HB1397 | Pass | Duties of real estate brokers and salespersons; required disclosures. Eliminates the requirement that required disclosures concerning the physical condition of the property made by real estate licensees be conspicuous and printed either in bold lett...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| HB1144 | Pass | Involuntary commitment hearings; factors to consider. Allows the magistrate, when considering whether to issue an emergency custody order or a temporary detention order, to consider: (i) the recommendations of any treating or examining physician lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| HB633 | Pass | Personal Information Privacy Act; social security numbers. Prohibits the dissemination of another person's social security number, regardless of whether such number is obtained from a public or private record. Currently, the prohibition against disse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820) |
| HB634 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (GDCDPA); personal information; definition; collection of same; penalty for violation; jurisdiction of district courts. Provides that no agency shall require an individual to furnish or disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840) |
| HB1410 | Pass | Campaign finance disclosure; campaign advertisement disclosure requirements; publication of paid political advertisements. Reduces from $500 to $200 or more the amount of independent expenditures that a person may make with respect to an election fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| HB131 | Pass | Child restraints; penalties. Provides escalating penalties for repeat violators of the child restraint law. First time offenders will still be subject to the current civil penalty of $50, but those convicted of second or subsequent violations on di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| HB132 | Pass | Parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities; local ordinances. Provides that the governing body of any city, county, or town may, by ordinance, provide for a lesser fine if there is a placard within a vehicle utilizing a parking space r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| HB1414 | Pass | Revocation of concealed handgun permits; notification of the State Police. Requires the court that issued a person a concealed handgun permit to revoke the permit upon notification by the State Police that the person has been convicted of an offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| HB398 | Pass | Certificate of public need; relocation of nursing home beds. Exempts from the definition of "project" any relocation of up to 10 beds or 10% of beds, whichever is less, (i) from one existing facility to another existing facility at the sam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB400 | Pass | Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment; minors incapable of making an informed decision. Provides that minors 14 years of age or older who are incapable of making an informed decision may be admitted to inpatient treatment upon the appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| HB144 | Pass | Overweight coal trucks. Provides that overweight coal truck permits are valid only for a distance of 85 miles within Virginia from the preparation plant, loading dock, or railroad.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| HB401 | Pass | Emergency custody; who may accept custody. Allows the law-enforcement agency transporting a person to a facility or location pursuant to an emergency custody order to transfer custody of the person to the facility or location if the facility or locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| HB1425 | Pass | No Child Left Behind; withdrawal. Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, unless reauthorization of the Elementary and Sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| HB402 | Pass | Involuntary commitment petition; minors; withdrawal. Provides that a petition for the involuntary commitment of a minor shall be served upon the minor and the minor's parents unless the petition has been withdrawn or dismissed. Current law only provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| HB1171 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited acts; grounds for suspension or revocation of license; exceptions. Removes the authority of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to revoke or suspend a license if an establishment has allowed noisy, lewd, or dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| HB662 | Pass | Confidentiality of taxpayer information. Includes as a confidential tax document any document that is required to be filed with the Department of Conservation and Recreation under the land preservation tax credit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB407 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemptions for certain fundraising strategies and donor records of public institutions of higher education. Exempts records maintained by a public institution of higher education in connection with fundraising acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB412 | Pass | Wills and decedents' estates; order in which debts of decedents to be paid. Increases from $2,000 to $3,500 the amount available from the estate to pay funeral expenses when there are insufficient assets for the satisfaction of all demands against th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| HB1181 | Pass | Appointment of special conservators of the peace. Makes it mandatory, rather than permissive, that a circuit court judge appoint a special conservator of the peace upon a showing by the sheriff, chief of police, or corporation authorized to do busin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| HB1439 | Pass | School employees; criminal acts. Requires the court clerks to notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction and division superintendent when a person known to be licensed by the Board of Education is convicted of a felony drug crime or certain felo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827) |
| HB1441 | Pass | Duties of the Division of Legislative Services. Adds to the duties of the Division of Legislative Services the responsibility for providing an annual report to the General Assembly regarding the status of all reports, actions, or data collection req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB1186 | Pass | Incompetent defendants; misdemeanors; dismissal of charges. Provides that if a defendant has been charged with a misdemeanor under Article 3 (§ 18.2-95 et seq.) of Chapter 5 of Title 18.2 (larceny and receiving stolen goods), Article 5 (§ 18.2-119 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| HB677 | Pass | Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; public hearing prior to interim or comprehensive agreement. Provides that at least 30 days prior to entering into an interim or comprehensive agreement under the Public-Private Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| HB934 | Pass | No parole for jail inmates convicted of multiple misdemeanors. Eliminates parole for a jail inmate convicted of misdemeanors on or after July 1, 2008 and sentenced to serve a total active sentence of more than 12 months. Currently, jail inmates sente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| HB679 | Pass | Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance. Requires the general district court, upon a finding of liability, to order a violator of a zoning ordinance to abate or remedy the violation in compliance with the zoning ordinance within a period ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB172 | Pass | Civil procedure; disclosure of insurance liability limits. Allows an injured person, or his attorney, to request the disclosure of the liability limits of an insurance policy prior to filing a civil action for personal injuries resulting from a moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| HB430 | Pass | Administrative inspection warrants. Provides that a zoning ordinance may include provisions for the issuance of inspection warrants by a magistrate or court of competent jurisdiction. The zoning administrator or his agent may present sworn testimony...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| HB1458 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; records and meetings of Innovative Technology Authority. Exempts from public disclosure certain proprietary records submitted to the Innovative Technology Authority as part of a grant application. The bill also allows mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| HB1459 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Act; preferred lenders. Authorizes the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority to delegate to certain banks decisioning and processing functions and responsibilities with respect to certain Authority-guaranteed l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| HB949 | Pass | Slayer statute. Amends the definition of "slayer" to include a person who is convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The bill also amends the definition of "slayer" to include a person who is acquitted of murder or voluntary manslaug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
