VA Legislation | 2008 | Regular Session | Bills

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB698	Pass	Real estate tax exemption for the elderly and handicapped. Adds the cities of Newport News and Hampton, and the counties of Hanover and Powhatan to the list of localities that may provide real estate tax exemptions to elderly and handicapped persons ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298)
HB1212	Pass	VPA employee retirement plans. Encourages employees of the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) to save for retirement. The bill provides VPA the same legislative authority as VRS with regards to automatic enrollment into VPA's deferred compensation plan. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325)
HB1470	Pass	Home owner warranty breach; tolling of limitations period. States that when a homeowner sends notice to a vendor of a warranty violation, that the statute of limitations is tolled for six months. The provision will apply to warranty claims arising a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392)
HB1215	Pass	Charter; City of Emporia. Provides that the city council may set the membership of the Emporia Redevelopment and Housing Authority. The city council may appoint a council member as a commissioner of the Emporia Redevelopment and Housing Authority. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326)
HB1217	Pass	Charter; Town of Lawrenceville. Changes the office of town treasurer from an elected to an appointed position and makes other technical changes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0327)
HB1476	Pass	Elections; voting equipment; wireless communications at polling places. Provides exceptions to the prohibition on wireless communications to or from voting devices at the polls on election day. First, the prohibition will not apply to voting equipm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393)
HB453	Pass	School bus stop indicators. Provides that local school boards may install signs or other devices to indicate school bus stops. Installation of these signs or devices is subject to VDOT approval if installed on any state-maintained highway. Mainten... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291)
HB1477	Pass	Elections; town election polling places and processes. Provides an exception to location limitations on town polling places for November town elections to require use of county precincts, modifies the process for including town offices on November b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394)
HB1479	Pass	Real estate tax relief for the elderly and handicapped. Includes the income of nonrelatives living in the dwelling of the owner seeking tax relief, except for bona fide tenants and bona fide paid caregivers, in computing the maximum income limits to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334)
HB1480	Pass	Allowances to injured deputy sheriffs. Requires a locality to allow a deputy sheriff injured in the line of duty to use accrued vacation, compensatory, and sick leave to supplement his workers’ compensation allowance, so as to receive 100 percent ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335)
HB715	Pass	Resetting of bail, amending bail set upon arrest. Provides that when the court having jurisdiction of a bail proceeding believes the amount of bond or security set by a judicial officer at initial arrest to be inadequate or excessive, it may after no... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363)
HB1235	Pass	Elections; locking of equipment after election; and timing of special elections. Provides that the period of time that voting equipment must be locked and secured after an election will be until the deadline has passed to request a recount (generall... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385)
HB1236	Pass	The Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory training standards and publish a model policy for law-enforcement personnel regarding death notifications. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328)
HB1494	Pass	Congressional, Senate, and House of Delegates Districts. Makes technical adjustments between the First and Third Congressional Districts, First and Third Senatorial Districts, and Ninety-Third and Ninety-Sixth House of Delegates Districts to reflect ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395)
HB983	Pass	Charter; City of Radford. Updates appointment provisions with regard to the director of finance and the city attorney. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312)
HB1240	Pass	Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; access of tenant to cable, satellite and other television facilities. Authorizes a landlord of a manufactured housing community to enter into a service agreement with a television service provider to provide marketi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329)
HB216	Pass	Organ donor consent; law-enforcement officers. Eliminates the provision that, after identification of the next of kin of a decedent, the person, institution or agent of such person or institution having custody of the dead body shall attempt to obtai... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287)
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
SB644	Intro Sine Die	Pedestrians and drivers; responsibilities. Sets out the responsibilities of pedestrians and drivers at marked and unmarked crosswalks. [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
SB190	Intro Sine Die	Elections; lists of registered voters. Permits the State Board of Elections to furnish address lists of registered voters, but not names, at a reasonable cost to local school division superintendents solely for use in conducting the triennial census ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-10 House: Left in Privileges and Elections
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
SB560	Veto	Redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-07 Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
HB933	Veto	Redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree can be pun... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-07 Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
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
HB1503	Pass	Real property tax exemptions for the elderly and handicapped. Raises the maximum income eligibility restriction from $62,000 to $67,000 in the Cities of Charlottesville, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach and the C... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)
SB552	Pass	Fishing license; exemptions for persons assisting disabled persons. Exempts nondisabled persons from having to obtain a fishing license when assisting a disabled person to fish as long as the disabled person possesses a valid fishing license. There i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279)
HB1512	Pass	Health care sharing ministries. Declares that insurance laws do not apply to a health care sharing ministry. A health care sharing ministry that, through its publication to members, solicits funds for the payment of medical expenses of other members... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232)
SB303	Pass	Easement in state park. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to grant a 30-foot-wide easement across a portion of Lake Anna State Park in exchange for the extinguishment of an existing right-of-way easement across Lake Anne State... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271)
SB306	Pass	Commission on Civics Education. Extends the sunset provision applicable to the Commission from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2010. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0237)
HB1261	Pass	Individual income tax withholding. Repeals provisions that have never been implemented allowing additional withholding exemptions. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228)
HB238	Pass	Income tax exemption for launch services and payload. Grants an income tax exemption for income resulting from the sale of launch services to space flight participants or launch services intended to provide individuals the training or experience of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211)
SB570	Pass	HOT Lanes. Revises procedures for enforcement of High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes violations. This bill is identical to [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280)
HB504	Pass	Health insurance; exclusive provider policies or contracts. Authorizes insurers to offer individual or group exclusive provider policies or contracts, which are insurance policies or contracts that condition the payment of benefits on the use of pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215)
SB574	Pass	Council on Virginia’s Future. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2013, for the Council on Virginia’s Future. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240)
SB322	Pass	Renewable energy source. Defines municipal solid waste as a source of renewable energy under the Virginia Electric Utility Restructuring Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272)
HB772	Pass	Virginia Retirement System; exemption from liability for advisory committees. Extends the current exemption from liability to advisory committees appointed by the Virginia Retirement System Board of Trustees. The bill also deletes redundant provisio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245)
HB1037	Pass	Sale or conversion of nonprofit hospitals; public hearing. Requires that, no later than 40 days prior to any disposition of assets, a nonprofit entity shall convene a public meeting to set forth its expectations about how the health care needs of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253)
HB1294	Pass	Good Samaritan statute; where protection extends; what is considered compensation. Provides that immunity under the statute extends to those providing care at a location for screening or stabilization in addition to the scene of the accident and en ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229)
HB1042	Pass	Homestead deeds; previous filings. Adds to the homestead deed form the following questions: (i) how many homestead deeds has the householder filed previously, (ii) what was the amount of the exemption, and (iii) what jurisdiction were they in. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224)
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)
SB94	Pass	Official emblems and designations; covered bridge capital of the Commonwealth. Designates Patrick County as the Covered Bridge Capital of the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262)
SB352	Pass	Public Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; technology projects; gain sharing. Adds to the categories of “qualifying project” under the Public Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002 (PPEA) any service... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273)
HB31	Pass	Bonds; institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the issuance of 9(c) bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $350,565,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at certain institutions of higher learning. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)
HB549	Pass	Insurance; funding agreements. Provides that the assets of a separate account to which an insurer has allocated assets under a funding agreement shall not be chargeable with liabilities arising out of any other business that the insurer conducts. If... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216)
HB1576	Pass	Award of service handgun. Allows William A. Pruitt, retired Commissioner of the Virginia Marine Resources Authority, to purchase his service handgun. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)
HB298	Pass	Surplus lines insurance; "diligent effort" requirement. Eliminates the requirement that surplus lines brokers make a diligent effort to procure insurance, in a form and at a premium acceptable to the insured, from an insurer licensed in Vir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212)