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SB132PassGovernment 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843)
HB576PassMedical 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782)
HB1089PassToxic substances; reporting. Removes the requirement that the Board of Health report to the General Assembly and the Governor on toxic substances biennially.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671)
SB135PassApplying fertilizer to nonagricultural property. Requires the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt regulations that certify the competence of the contractor-applicators and licensees who apply any regulated product to nonagricultural p...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686)
HB582PassPsychiatric 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783)
HB583PassEmergency 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784)
SB142PassInvoluntary commitment hearings; recordings. Requires that each hearing be recorded separately, so that no more than one hearing is recorded per tape or other recording.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806)
SB150PassWilderness Road: Virginia's Heritage Migration Route. Designates U.S. Route 11 from Winchester to Bristol, connecting with the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail in Scott County and continuing west on U.S. Routes 58 and 23, ending at Cumberland Gap Natio...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687)
SB662PassVirginia War Memorial. Requires the State Comptroller to advance a loan of $5.97 million for the state share of the construction of an educational wing for the Virginia War Memorial and the expansion of the Shrine of Memory for to include Virginians...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709)
HB1106PassCircuit 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 ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823)
HB1362PassMisuse 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 ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738)
HB1363PassTrademarks 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800)
SB153PassVDOT maintenance; community service program. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to establish a program whereby nonviolent misdemeanants who have a suspended sentence or who are on probation will mow rights-of-way or perform other l...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688)
HB854PassFreedom 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789)
SB668PassRetail sales and use tax; exemption for certain computer equipment. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for computer equipment used in data centers that (i) are located in a Virginia locality having an unemployment rate above 4.9 ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764)
HB1367PassFreedom 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739)
SB669PassAlcoholic beverage control; application for licenses; criminal history checks. Permits ABC agents to check the national criminal database when conducting background checks on prospective licensees. The bill also increases the fee that an applicant f...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765)
SB673PassAllowances 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 co...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766)
SB164PassPolygraphs; victims of sex offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer, attorney for the Commonwealth, or other government official shall ask or require a victim of certain sex offenses to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth-tell...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748)
SB679PassRecovery of fire fighting costs by localities. Allows a locality to collect the costs for fighting or extinguishing a fire if the fire was set intentionally and the person who set the fire failed to attempt to prevent the fire from escaping. Furthe...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835)
HB354PassTextbook 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663)
SB680PassService-disabled veteran-owned small business programs. Aligns Virginia's eligibility requirements for participation in the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program with federal eligibility requirements set by the U.S. Department of Vete...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767)
HB1125PassVirginia 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 ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734)
SB683PassVirginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments; sunset. Removes the sunset on the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. This bill incorporates
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710)
SB173PassDomestic violence; retention of records. Provides that records in cases involving misdemeanor convictions for (i) assault and battery against a family or household member, or (ii) violating a protective order shall be retained for 20 years. A third ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749)
HB1128PassBoard 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 ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672)
HB877PassCommunity Development Authority; City of Richmond. Provides that the board of any such authority shall consist of seven members.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730)
HB366PassUnemployment 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719)
HB622PassSex 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726)
HB1390PassPublic 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824)
HB879PassAffordable 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)
HB1391PassVirginia 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740)
SB439PassTesting of certain defendants for HIV or hepatitis B or C viruses. States when in the criminal process the victim of a sexual assault may request and when the court may order a defendant to submit to tests for human immunodeficiency virus and hepatit...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756)
HB113PassDisregarding 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773)
HB1140PassVirginia 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841)
SB442PassPublic 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 20...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829)
HB1397PassDuties 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741)
SB699PassComputation of time; when statute of limitations ends on Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. Clarifies that when the last day for bringing an action falls on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day or part of a day on which the clerk's office is c...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816)
SB188PassVirginia Military Parents Equal Protection Act; creation. Allows a court to enter a temporary order modifying custody or visitation based on a parent's deployment. Upon the motion of the deploying parent returning from deployment, the court shall ho...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750)
HB1144PassInvoluntary 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)
HB633PassPersonal 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820)
HB634PassGovernment 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840)
SB450PassSlayer 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830)
SB451PassDiversion Center Incarceration Program. Allows a defendant who has not committed a new criminal offense, who may be subject to having his probation revoked, and who scores incarceration on the probation violation guidelines and voluntarily agrees to ...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757)
SB707PassBoard of Towing and Recovery Operators. Provides that in even-numbered years, the chairman of the Board of Towing and Recovery Operators will be a licensed Class A operator and the vice-chairman a licensed Class B operator, and in odd-numbered years...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836)
SB710PassConservation 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711)
SB199PassRegulation 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.
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)
HB1410PassCampaign 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825)
HB131PassChild 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...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714)
SB714PassPetroleum products franchises; rights of dealers upon sale of franchise. Provides that when any franchise between a dealer and a refiner located in Planning District 8 is sold or assigned to a third party, the acquiring third party is required to co...
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2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837)
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