| 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 |
| SB40 | Pass | Scenic river. Designates portions of the North Mayo River and South Mayo River as components of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB228 | Pass | Fire-safe cigarettes; civil penalties. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of cigarettes within the Commonwealth, or to persons located in the Commonwealth, unless the cigarettes have been tested to determine that they meet a performa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| SB45 | Pass | Charter; City of Norfolk. Provides that employees, regardless of their positions, hired and permanently assigned to work for and under the supervision of the constitutional officers of the city or of the circuit court judges of the city on or after J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB1000 | Pass | Income tax refund checkoff for Community Foundations established by the Council on Foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Adds to the list of recipients of refund checkoffs community foundations established by the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| HB1003 | Pass | Nursing workforce information; publication on website. Requires that data related to the Commonwealth's nursing workforce, which is currently collected by the Board of Nursing, shall be published, in aggregate form and in a format that is accessible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) |
| HB748 | Pass | Innovative Technology Authority; board of directors. Removes the Secretaries of Education and Commerce and Trade, as well the Director of the State Council of Higher Education, from the board of directors of the Authority. The bill also makes a tech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| HB1260 | Pass | Blood donation by minors. Allows minors aged 16 or older to donate blood where such minors meet the donation requirements and have the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| HB1262 | Pass | Elections; absentee ballot applications. Permits an absentee ballot to be sent to the address where the absentee voter is temporarily confined due to an illness or disability. Current law allows the ballot to be sent to the absentee voter at any ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| HB239 | Pass | Classification of real property; energy-efficient buildings. Expands energy-efficient buildings that may be classified as a separate class of real property for tax purposes to include buildings that meet performance guidelines or standards under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| HB1521 | Pass | Embalmers and funeral directors; continuing education. Requires 10 hours of continuing education hours over a two-year period, rather than the current requirement of five hours per year. Also requires at least one hour per year covering compliance wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| HB245 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System group insurance program; exemption from process. Makes insurance benefits and the proceeds therefrom under any group insurance policy purchased by the Virginia Retirement System subject to administrative child support acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| HB502 | Pass | Certificate of public need; fostering competition. Provides that, when determining whether a public need for a project involving proposed health services or facilities has been demonstrated, the State Health Commissioner shall consider the extent to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) |
| HB505 | Pass | Interagency Civil Admissions Advisory Council. Removes the sunset of July 1, 2008, thereby making the Council permanent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| HB1018 | Pass | Definition of telecommuting. Defines telecommuting as a work arrangement in which supervisors direct or permit employees to perform their usual job duties away from their central workplace at least one day per week and in accordance with work agreem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| HB1530 | Pass | Relating to placement of siblings; visitation. Requires that all reasonable steps must be taken to place siblings together in the same foster home and requires that, where siblings are placed in separate foster homes, a plan shall be developed to enc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB1021 | Pass | State employee telecommuting goal. Establishes a goal for state agencies, except for the Department of State Police, to have 20 percent of their eligible workforce telecommuting by January 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB767 | Pass | Home instruction of children. Eliminates (i) the requirement that correspondence courses must be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in order to qualify as a suitable program for home instruction and (ii) the provision allowing pare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| HB1023 | Pass | Collection of debts owed the Commonwealth. Expands the reciprocal agreement with the federal government to include the offset of nontax payments owed to debtors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| HB1280 | Pass | Regulation of charitable gaming; Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Abolishes the Department of Charitable Gaming and places the regulation of charitable gaming under the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB769 | Pass | Literary Fund; memoranda of lien. Provides that upon request of a locality, any memoranda of lien deposited with the State Treasurer on behalf of the Literary Fund prior to July 1, 2007, shall be released.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| SB74 | Pass | Crimes Against Minors and Sex Offender Registry. Allows the State Police to provide the Statewide Automated Victim Notification (SAVIN) system with Registry data in an electronic format to the Compensation Board for verification of registrant status ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| HB7 | Pass | Charter; Town of Brodnax. Provides that town elections shall be held at the time of the November general election, extends terms of council members from 2 to 4 years and provides for staggered terms. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283) |
| HB1040 | Pass | Health records privacy; providing information after execution of search warrant, subpoena or court order. Clarifies that regardless of the manner by which health records relating to an individual are compelled to be disclosed pursuant to a subpoena,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| HB542 | Pass | Insurance agents; notice of appointment. Requires the insurer, rather than the State Corporation Commission, to notify an appointed agent of the status of his appointment. The notice shall be given within five business days of the insurer's receipt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| HB798 | Pass | Absentee ballot applications and procedures. Provides that voters covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act who reside or are stationed outside the continental borders of the United States may receive their blank absentee ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| HB800 | Pass | Implementation of election law changes with respect to special elections. Provides that a change in the election laws enacted at a regular session will not take effect for a special election when the writ for the special election has been issued bef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB1056 | 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] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| HB1312 | Pass | Workforce development; Governor's responsibilities. Provides that the strategic plan for workforce development shall be developed in coordination with the development of the comprehensive economic development policy required from the Governor during ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| HB33 | Pass | Marked sheriffs' office vehicles. Allows marked sheriffs' office vehicles to be painted solid colors other than brown or white.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284) |
| HB805 | Pass | Advance Health Care Directive Registry; creation. Requires the Department of Health to make available a secure online central registry for advance health care directives. The registry shall be accessible to health care providers licensed by the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| HB1061 | Pass | Zoning ordinances. Provides that a zoning ordinance may prescribe an appeal period of less than 30 days, but not less than 10 days, for a notice of violation involving maximum occupancy limitations of a residential dwelling unit. This bill incorpor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| HB806 | Pass | Reporting of infectious diseases; residential facilities. Adds persons in charge of residential or day programs, services, or facilities licensed by any agency of the Commonwealth to the list of nonphysicians who must report disease outbreaks. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| SB112 | Pass | Local salary supplements for district court employees. Removes the restriction on local salary supplements paid to local district court employees. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| HB1323 | Pass | Temporary detention orders (TDOs); treating physicians. Requires a magistrate to issue TDOs upon the recommendation of any responsible person, any treating physician or upon his own motion after an in-person evaluation by an employee or designee of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| HB44 | Pass | Manufactured Housing Board; grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of a license. Provides for the Manufactured Housing Board to deny, suspend, or revoke the license of a manufactured home broker, dealer, manufacturer, or salesperson that has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| SB375 | Pass | Charter; Town of Colonial Beach. Provides that the chief of police shall serve at the pleasure of the town council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| HB1077 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time Share Act; obligation for fees; limitation on actions; powers of Real Estate Board. Allows a developer, during the developer control period and at any time after the lapse of a purchaser's right of cancellation, and without...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| HB1078 | Pass | Vested rights and nonconforming uses. Makes several changes to the vested rights and nonconforming use provisions, including (i) that a locality shall use square footage and building code provisions in determining whether a nonconforming use has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB1079 | Pass | Board of Zoning appeals; variances. Provides that a structure permitted by a variance may not be expanded unless the expansion is within an area of the site or part of the structure for which no variance is required under the ordinance. Where the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| HB824 | Pass | Water quality information. Designates the Secretary of Natural Resources as the lead Secretary with the responsibility to coordinate technical assistance, information, and training so that consistent water quality data is provided to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| HB827 | Pass | State Lottery Department; powers of the Director and the Board. Authorizes the Director of the State Lottery Department to establish temporary bonus or incentive programs for payments to licensed sales agents that he determines will be cost effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| HB1086 | Pass | Appeals to boards of zoning appeals. Provides that a written notice of a zoning violation or a written order of the zoning administrator that includes such statement sent by registered or certified mail to, or posted at, the last known address of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB1342 | Pass | Lien for water and sewer charges. Adds the County of Isle of Wight to those localities that may provide that charges imposed for water or sewers shall be a lien on the real estate served by such waterline or sewer. Where residential rental real esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| HB575 | Pass | Board for Contractors; prohibited acts; penalties. Provides that any person who undertakes work without any valid Virginia contractor's license or certificate when a license or certificate is required shall also be guilty of a violation of the Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| HB831 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; confidentiality. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to share information with local law-enforcement authorities, provided the recipient agrees to maintain its confidential and privileged status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| HB833 | Pass | Company vehicles of automotive manufacturers. Provides for specialized registration and titling of company vehicles of automotive manufacturers having a headquarters in the commonwealth. Company vehicles are defined as vehicles used for sales or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| HB66 | Pass | Cord Blood Bank Initiative. Removes the language stating that the Cord Blood Bank will be for the treatment of Virginians, in order to make more federal funding opportunities available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| HB838 | Pass | Board for Criminal Justice Services; establishment of Executive Committee. Authorizes the Board for Criminal Justice Services to establish an Executive Committee comprising the Chairman and seven members of the Board to take actions on behalf of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
