| SB370 | Pass | Comprehensive highway access management standards; implementation. Requires that the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner promulgate comprehensive highway access management standards in phases. Those standards relating to principal arterial roa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| HB1330 | Pass | Economic development grants; aerospace engine manufacturing. Establishes three grant programs relating to aerospace engine manufacturing. Grants would be paid to manufacturers of aerospace engines who (i) make a capital investment of at least $500 mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| SB131 | 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] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) |
| SB643 | Pass | Foster care; Code of Ethics agreement. Requires the 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) |
| HB830 | Pass | Affidavit as evidence of sex offender's failure to register; custodian of records. Provides that a person accused of failing to register or reregister as a sex offender may call, in any hearing or trial where an affidavit from the State Police statin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0218) |
| SB136 | Pass | Wireless telecommunications devices. Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies, or when the vehicle is lawfully parked and for the purposes of dispatching. Use of two-way radio dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| SB141 | Pass | Discharge planning; release from state hospitals. Clarifies that a discharge plan prepared by the community services board for persons discharged from a state hospital or training facility shall identify the services that the person discharged will ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| HB336 | Pass | Insurance market analyses; confidentiality. Establishes that (i) market analyses concerning insurance companies and obtained from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, (ii) all market analyses generated by the State Corporation Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| SB151 | Pass | Practice of dental assistants. Requires the Board of Dentistry to regulate the practice of dental assistants. This bill provides that a person who is employed to assist a licensed dentist or dental hygienist by performing duties not otherwise restri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| SB413 | Pass | National pollutant discharge elimination system permits; mining operations. Provides for permit fees to be submitted from applicants that discharge waters from mining operations. Applicants will pay $300 per discharge outfall point. In addition, appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0275) |
| SB160 | Pass | Distribution of handbills, etc., in highway rights-of-way. Allows Arlington and Henrico Counties and the Town of Vienna to regulate distribution of handbills, etc., in all highway rights-of-way within their boundaries. Present law restricts this pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235) |
| HB1115 | Pass | Payment for forest protection. Increases the annual amount a locality pays to the State Forester to provide forest fire protection, detection, prevention, and suppression. Beginning July 1, 2008, the amount localities will pay for such services will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| HB1116 | Pass | Environmental impact reports. Requires an environmental impact report be done for any major state construction project that will cost $500,000 or more. The current threshold amount requiring such a report is $100,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225) |
| HB1372 | Pass | Inspection of honey houses; repeal. Repeals the duplicative authority of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to regulate the sanitary conditions in places where honey is stored and manufactured under the beekeeping laws, because such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| HB349 | Pass | Insurance licensing; certificates of authority. Eliminates the requirement that a foreign or domestic business entity first obtain a certificate of authority, including a certificate of registration, certificate of organization, certificate of limit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0213) |
| HB96 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; Indian tribes. Provides that unemployment compensation benefits based on service in the employ of an Indian tribe are payable to the same extent as benefits payable to other employees covered by the Virginia Unemployment C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| HB1121 | Pass | Weights and measures; certified service technicians. Clarifies that it is permissible to possess for commercial purposes a weight or measure that has been placed into service by a duly certified service technician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| SB423 | Pass | Air and Water Boards permit issuance process. Establishes a uniform permit issuance process for the Air Pollution Control Board (Air Board) and the State Water Control Board (Water Board). After issuing a public notice of a pending permit action, if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0276) |
| 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) |
| HB1133 | Pass | Enforcement of deed of trust or mortgage. Reduces the time in which one may enforce a deed of trust or mortgage from 20 years to 10 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| SB693 | Pass | Physician assistants; supervision. Requires a written practice supervision agreement between the supervising physician and the assistant, detailing activities delegated to the assistant. Also allows treatment to be included in the plan, including th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281) |
| HB882 | Pass | Administrative orders; collection of interest. Provides that administrative orders will be able to provide for interest and fix the period at which the interest commences on any principal sum awarded. The bill would, in the interest context, treat a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| HB116 | Pass | Foreign title insurance companies; unearned premium reserves. Authorizes foreign title insurance companies to establish and maintain unearned premium reserves on title insurance policies issued on Virginia properties pursuant to the reserving laws o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| HB1150 | Pass | Oil or gas wells; cemeteries. Requires the applicant for a permit for a gathering pipeline, oil or gas well, or coal bed methane well to identify in the permit application any cemetery, as identified on a U.S.G.S. topographic map or located by routin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| HB902 | Pass | Registration procedures under the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Act. Specifies that the vehicle information currently required to be filed with the registration as a sex offender is motor vehicle, watercraft and aircraft information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| SB209 | Pass | Professional corporations and professional limited liability companies. Authorizes persons or professional business entities that are duly licensed or authorized to render the professional service under the laws of the Commonwealth or the jurisdicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| SB210 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); certain audit records of the Virginia Department of Transportation. Creates an exemption from FOIA for trade secrets and financial records, including balance sheets and financial statements, that are not generally ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| HB397 | Pass | Health maintenance organizations; deductibles. Removes limitations on the deductibles or co-payments, or both, that a health maintenance organization may require enrollees to pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0214) |
| SB211 | Pass | Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program. Increases the annual assessment for physicians who participate in the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program from its current level of $5,300 to $5,600, which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| HB914 | Pass | Nonrenewal of liability, fire, and motor vehicle insurance policies. Establishes exceptions to prohibitions on the refusal to renew certain liability, fire, and motor vehicle insurance policies. Such renewal provisions will not apply to an insurer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| SB473 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority; parks and recreation. Authorizes the Virginia Resources Authority to finance park and recreation projects. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0238) |
| HB147 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Transportation Plan. Requires VDOT to collect and report certain statistical information. This bill incorporates HB 977 (Shannon).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
House: Stricken from House calendar |
| SB219 | Pass | Roanoke Higher Education Authority. Removes Virginia Intermont College from the Board of Trustees that governs the Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
| HB925 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; employment stabilization. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to provide Virginia State Job Service services, as described in Title 60.2, according to the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49f), as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0222) |
| SB483 | Pass | Comprehensive Services Act; data collection performance standards. Requires the State Executive Council to (i) oversee the development and implementation of uniform data collection standards, utilizing a secure electronic client-specific database for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277) |
| SB228 | Pass | Mandatory child abuse reporters; EMS personnel. Adds emergency medical services personnel certified by the Board of Health to the list of mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect and requires emergency medical services personnel to report child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| HB1443 | Pass | Streamlined permitting process for alternative and renewable energy facilities. Requires the Air Pollution Control Board to develop procedures for the expedited review of applications for the construction of a qualified energy generator. The expedit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| 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 |
| HB163 | Pass | Real estate tax exemption or deferral; elderly and handicapped. Permits localities to grant a real estate tax exemption or deferral to elderly and handicapped persons based upon projected income and financial worth for the current year under certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0208) |
| SB746 | Pass | Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia. Allows the Museum to lease structures on state property, with consent of the Governor, and allows the Museum to accept donations gathered by the American Frontier Culture Foundation on its behalf.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242) |
| HB678 | Pass | Income tax; filing of tax returns. Requires large income tax return preparers to file returns electronically unless the return includes attachments or schedules that cannot be accepted through electronic means. Currently, large income tax preparers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| SB748 | Pass | Alternative fuels; net emissions increase. Provides that no permit modifications, trial burns, or other demonstrations are required if the owner of an industrial burner chooses to replace residual oil with processed animal fat, processed fish oil, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) |
| HB1453 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax. Allows all 34 counties listed in the statute to impose up to a five percent transient occupancy tax with any excess over two percent to be designated and spent solely for tourism and travel, marketing of tourism, or initiat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| SB756 | Pass | Virginia Career Readiness Certificate Program; creation; report. Creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certificate Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to better prepare them for continued education a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| HB431 | Pass | Title insurance agents; pre-licensing education course. Requires applicants for a resident title insurance agent license to have completed, within the year preceding application and examination, at least 16 hours of instruction through a classroom or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| HB1457 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority financing. Authorizes the Virginia Resources Authority to finance the construction of local government buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| SB252 | 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] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| SB254 | Pass | Easement in state park. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to grant a 20-foot wide easement across a portion of the Staunton River State Park in exchange for the extinguishment of an existing right-of-way easement across Staunt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| SB513 | Pass | Nonpoint source reduction funding. Authorizes the Governor and General Assembly to provide additional funding in excess of the amount deposited in the Water Quality Improvement Fund from a budget surplus to fund nonpoint source pollution reduction a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278) |
| HB956 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; PERK reimbursements. Allows the Fund to directly reimburse a health care provider for the costs of performing the physical evidence recovery kit (PERK) examinations used in cases of sexual assault. The defendant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
