| HB839 | Pass | State Interoperability Executive Committee. Codifies the State Interoperability Executive Committee, which assists the Commonwealth Interoperability Coordinator. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| HB1099 | Pass | Voter registration lists; access to date of birth information. Provides that the day and month of birth of a registered voter shall not be shown on the pollbook or any registration list or absentee voter records available to the public. Only the yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| HB1355 | Pass | Sewage treatment plants. Provides that whenever the governing body of a locality or a combination of governing bodies of two or more localities is expanding or upgrading a sewage treatment plant, the facility shall be expanded or upgraded so that it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| HB845 | Pass | Charter; City of Winchester. Rewrites language related to the city's budget. The new language complies with general law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| SB663 | Pass | Local fees for companion animals. Removes the cap that localities may charge for the burial or cremation of animals and authorizes localities to charge increased fees for the repeated impoundment of the same animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| HB850 | Pass | Foster care; Code of Ethics agreement. Requires Board of Social Services to approve, in foster care policy, the language of the written agreement to be entered into by local boards and licensed child-placing agencies. This bill also provides that suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB1114 | Pass | Real Estate Board; real estate firm licenses. Provides that no business entity shall be granted a firm license unless every managing member of a limited liability company or officer of a corporation who actively participates in the firm brokerage bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
| HB605 | Pass | Nonprofessional corporations; practice of medicine. Clarifies that an entity that employs or contracts with an individual licensed by a health regulatory board may (i) practice or engage in the practice of a profession or occupation for which the ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| HB97 | Pass | Advanced technical diploma. Clarifies the diplomas available to students who complete both the requirements for an advanced studies diploma and a concentration in career and technical education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| HB357 | Pass | Special rate districts. Adds Fauquier County to those localities that may request an electric utility that proposes to construct an overhead electric transmission line of 150 kilovolts or more, any portion of which would be located in such locality,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| HB870 | Pass | Division name change. Changes the name of the Department of Mine, Minerals and Energy's Division of Mineral Resources to the Division of Geology and Mineral Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| SB428 | 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] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| HB359 | Pass | Reporting designated campaign contributions. Requires political committees, out-of-state political committees, and federal political action committees to provide a candidate's campaign committee with information regarding the contributor of any desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| HB1127 | Pass | Campaign finance disclosure; required special reports for certain large contributions. Provides a technical correction to two sections requiring special reports for certain large contributions by adding a cross-reference to the section that covers t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| HB873 | Pass | Concealed handgun permits; proof of competency with a handgun. Provides that once an applicant for a concealed handgun permit presents proof of competency such demonstrated competency will never expire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| HB1129 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy; expiration of licenses. Removes the requirement that certain licenses expire on January 1 annually, and instead allows the Board to set an annual expiration date by regulation. Contains emergency regulation clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| HB875 | Pass | Soliciting of contributions, distribution of materials, etc., in highway right-of-way. Grants the City of Richmond the same powers granted to Albemarle, Arlington, Greene, and Henrico Counties and the Town of Vienna to regulate soliciting contributi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB626 | Pass | Investment of Public Funds Act; legal investment of certain funds; volunteer fire and rescue squad pension programs. Removes from the Investment of Public Funds Act those funds contributed by a locality to a retirement program for the benefit of a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| HB627 | Pass | PPTA. Requires, for projects undertaken under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA) that have an estimated construction cost in excess of $50 million, the responsible private entity to pay the costs for an independent audit of any and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| HB883 | Pass | Affordable Dwelling Unit ordinance; permitting certain densities in the comprehensive plan. Authorizes the City of Charlottesville to provide in its comprehensive plan for the physical development within the city for densities of development ranging...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311) |
| HB637 | Pass | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; applicability to town elections. Authorizes the governing body of any town with a population of less than 25,000, by ordinance, to provide that the provisions of the Act shall apply to elections in the town f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359) |
| HB1149 | Pass | Trail activity; immunity. Allows localities to establish a system of trails for ATVs and motorcycles and provides immunity for the locality in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, for damages resulting from injuries from the use of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| HB388 | Pass | Conveyance of easements by state agencies. Clarifies the process for conveying easements by state agencies. Such conveyances must be deemed to be in the public interest and subject to guidelines adopted by the Department of General Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| HB900 | Pass | Department of General Services; Division of Engineering and Buildings; use of value engineering. Requires the submission of a value engineering report to the Division of Engineering and Buildings. Under the bill each item included in the value engin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| HB134 | Pass | Department of Charitable Gaming; prohibited practices acts; bingo prize money. Allows qualified organizations to sell bingo cards and the sheets used for bingo jackpot games with other bingo games. The bill provides, however that bingo jackpot card...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| HB140 | Pass | Local governing bodies and local school boards. Requires local governing bodies and local school boards to annually publish their approved budgets online. If there is no local government website or local school board website, the budgets must be avai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| HB1422 | Pass | Cemeteries; access to cemeteries and graves located on private property; injunctive relief. Allows the court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a petitioner who was wrongly denied access to a cemetery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB655 | Pass | Dangerous dogs; judicial discretion. Provides a court with the authority not to declare a dog to be a dangerous dog for good cause, based on the evidence before it if the dog is not dangerous or a threat to the community. Currently, a court is requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| HB1167 | Pass | Administrative Process Act (APA); public participation guidelines. Requires, on or before July 1, 2008, the Department of Planning and Budget, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to (i) develop model public participation guideli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) |
| SB727 | Pass | Charter; City of Fredericksburg. Provides that the City of Fredericksburg may lease as lessee all or a portion of the lands, buildings, and improvements utilized for courthouses, including suitable space and facilities to accommodate the various cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| HB1172 | Pass | Charter; Town of Pound. Eliminates the residency requirement for the town clerk and town treasurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| HB663 | Pass | Powers of zoning administrator. Expands certain authority related to enforcement of occupancy limits in residential dwelling units to all zoning administrators, rather than just those in Planning District 8. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297) |
| HB1437 | Pass | Conservation of trees during the land development process for air quality improvement in certain localities. Provides that certain localities may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the development process. The bill also provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| SB227 | Pass | HIV/Hepatitis testing; consent for minors. Clarifies the procedure for obtaining consent for testing for HIV or hepatitis B or C viruses of a minor when the person exposed is a health care provider, law enforcement officer, or school board employee. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| SB230 | Pass | Provisions for subdivision of a lot for conveyance to a family member. Includes stepchildren within the definition of "immediate family" for purposes of family subdivision provisions. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| SB742 | Pass | Moratorium on city annexation and county immunity notices and proceedings. Provides that the moratorium on annexation proceedings does not end following the expiration of the 2006-2008 or the 2008-2010 biennium if, for the 2008-2010 biennium, actual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| HB1185 | Pass | Elections; cancellation of voter registration on basis of non-citizenship. Provides that the general registrar shall mail notice to voters who are reported not to be citizens by the Department of Motor Vehicles and that such voters will have 14 days...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| HB674 | Pass | Five-year plan for aging; report. Requires the Department for the Aging to develop and maintain a four-year plan for aging services. The bill requires the Department to consult with various state and local agencies and details a list of factors to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| SB232 | Pass | Landlord and managing agent immunity for mold claims. Provides that landlords and managing agents are not liable for civil damages in an action for exposure to mold arising from the condition within the interior of a dwelling unit brought by a tenant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| HB1447 | Pass | Department for the Aging; coordination of local long-term care services. Adds representatives of housing, transportation, and other appropriate local organizations that provide long-term care services to the membership of local long-term care coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| HB682 | Pass | Detention Center Incarceration Program. Allows a probation and parole officer to place a non re-offending defendant who scores incarceration on the probation violation guidelines and voluntarily agrees to participate, with the Department of Correcti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| HB1196 | Pass | Charter; City of Bristol. Formalizes an agreement between the city and the TVA regarding electric rates. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| HB432 | Pass | Arts and cultural districts. Adds the City of Manassas to those localities authorized to create an arts and cultural district for the purpose of increasing awareness and support for the arts and culture in the locality. Localities may provide incent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| HB944 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of professional services for certain transportation projects. Increases the monetary limits for architectural and professional engineering contracts associated with projects that any locality and certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| HB177 | Pass | Charter; Town of Appomattox. Clarifies the duties of the town manager and the town mayor. The bill also makes a technical change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| HB1203 | Pass | Mental health and substance abuse treatment providers; background checks. Allows community services boards and providers licensed by the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to hire as a direct care employee in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| SB505 | Pass | Charter; Town of Bowling Green. Amends the charter by: (i) providing for staggered four-year terms of office for the mayor and town council members; (ii) removing the salary cap for mayor and members of council; (iii) providing that the town council...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| HB1205 | Pass | Diversion Center Incarceration Program. Allows a probation and parole officer to place a non re-offending defendant who scores incarceration on the probation violation guidelines and voluntarily agrees to participate, with the Department of Correcti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| HB1206 | Pass | VPA police. Allows a Virginia Port Authority (VPA) police officer to provide enhanced supply chain security beyond the locality where VPA property is located. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| HB952 | Pass | Time period for notice of insanity plea. Provides that notice of a criminal defendant's insanity plea must be given to the Commonwealth at least 60 days (currently at least 21 days) prior to trial, or at most 60 days following indictment when the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
