| SB793 | Pass | Administration of oath of office. Allows a person elected or appointed to an office in the Commonwealth that requires an oath of office to make such oath before any notary public, if such person is a member of the United States Armed Forces and is on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| SB26 | Pass | RICO; dogfighting. Adds organized dogfighting as a qualifying offense under the Virginia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB283 | Pass | Elderly and permanently and totally disabled real estate tax relief. 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 handicapp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| SB799 | Pass | Move-over law. Provides that a motor vehicle approaching a stationary emergency vehicle displaying emergency lights must move to a lane not adjacent to the emergency vehicle regardless of whether the emergency vehicle is in a travel lane.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| SB545 | Pass | Master Settlement Agreement; regulation of cigarette manufacturers. Makes several changes to enhance the regulation of cigarette manufacturers and stamping agents and enforcement provisions. Changes include (i) establishing a bonding requirement for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| SB290 | Pass | Advance Health Care Directive Registry; creation. Requires the Department of Health to create and maintain a secure online central registry for advance health care directives. The bill specifies that when sufficient funds are available, the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| SB35 | Pass | Elections; recount procedures. Requires hard copy optical scan ballots to be rerun through appropriately programmed tabulators in recount proceedings. Present law provides that the tabulator printout will be sufficient unless it is unclear or the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB291 | Pass | Company vehicles of automotive manufacturers. Provides for specialized registration and titling of company vehicles of automotive manufacturers. These vehicles would also be subject to the merchants' capital tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| SB613 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Medical School; Board of Visitors terms. Allows officers of the Board of Visitors to serve up to three additional one-year terms. Contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| SB653 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission. Creates the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission in the executive branch of state government to encourage the economic development of Southwest Virginia through the expansion of cultural her...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| SB718 | Pass | Renewable energy and energy conservation. Requires investor-owned electric utilities to report annually on their efforts to conserve energy. The measure also requires the Virginia Energy Plan to be updated by July 1, 2010, and every four years ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB56 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority financing. Authorizes the Virginia Resources Authority to finance the construction of local government buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| SB580 | Pass | Virginia War Memorial Foundation. Replaces the Secretary of Administration with the Secretary of Public Safety and the Commissioner of Veterans Services as ex officio members of the board of trustees of the Virginia War Memorial Foundation. Under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB73 | Pass | Special license plates; sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates marking the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. In addition to the prescribed cost of state license plates, these plates w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB593 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); meeting exemption; tourism and economic development. Allows the discussion or consideration of confidential proprietary records provided by a private business to certain state, local, or regional industrial or econo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| SB92 | Pass | Charter; City of Martinsville. Provides that the City may establish a municipal trust. The principal of the trust shall be (i) all of the proceeds of the sale of any City asset owned by the City that generates between $10 million and $20 million, (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB606 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Cooperative Act; assessments for certain cooperatives. Authorizes a real estate cooperative, where permanent residency is generally restricted to individuals age 55 and over and the primary purpose of the cooperative is to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| SB99 | Pass | "Revenue-sharing" funds for highway systems in certain counties, cities, and towns. Provides that, from additional revenues made available by the General Assembly after January 1, 2008, and appropriated for the improvement, construction, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| SB356 | Pass | Textbook purchasing contracts. Permits local school boards to enter into contracts or issue purchase orders with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| SB358 | Pass | Management agreement with Virginia Commonwealth University. Provides a management agreement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University pursuant to the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| SB616 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Cooperative Act; amendment of declaration. Provides that the declaration may be amended by two-thirds vote to extend the time limit within which special declarant rights imposed by the declaration may be exercised. Currently suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB362 | Pass | Carbon monoxide detectors. Prohibits removal or tampering by a tenant of a carbon monoxide detector installed by a landlord. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| SB635 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; alcohol content in prepared foods. Prohibits licensees from keeping any alcoholic beverage other than in the bottle or container in which it was purchased by him except (i) for a frozen alcoholic beverage and (ii) in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB648 | Pass | Used motor oil, other fluids for automotive maintenance, and oil filters; statewide recycling program. Strengthens and broadens the current recycling program for used motor oil and used oil filters to include all automotive maintenance fluids and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| SB651 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB405 | Pass | Controlled substances; nonresident pharmacies; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to manufacture, sell, give, distribute or possess with intent to manufacture, sell, give or distribute a Schedule VI controlled substance or imita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| SB415 | Pass | Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act. Provides that in Buchanan County a constitutional officer who has previously served on the board of the industrial development authority may serve as a director of the authority, provided the governing bod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| SB422 | Pass | Special license plates; supporters of the Appalachian Trail. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of the Appalachian Trail. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25, instead of the standard $10 for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| SB681 | Pass | Board for Contractors; water well systems providers. Provides that a licensed plumber may perform normal maintenance and repair on large-diameter bored or hand-dug water table wells without a certification as a water well system provider provided th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| SB691 | Pass | Towing. Allows tow trucks to use crossovers on controlled-access highways when providing a public safety towing and recovery service under the direction of a law-enforcement agency. Additionally, the bill repeals the provision that allows insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| SB704 | Pass | Gifts and donations by localities to certain nonprofit foundations. Provides that a locality may make gifts and donations to nonprofit foundations established to support the locality's public parks, libraries, and law enforcement. For the purposes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| SB706 | Pass | Hampton Roads Sanitation District. Redefines the term “sewage disposal system.” The bill also provides that all construction contracts, except in cases of emergency, that the District’s Commission may let for construction, or materials in conn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| SB198 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores. Allows certain holders of a distiller's license, appointed as agents of the ABC Board, to also sell alcoholic beverages produced on the licensed premises. Currently, the alcoholic beverages ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| SB466 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| SB467 | Pass | VPA employee retirement benefits. Enables the Virginia Port Authority to establish a trust to help offset its OPEB (other postemployment benefits) liability. The changes mirror changes made to VRS during the 2007 Session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB726 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; records and meetings of Innovative Technology Authority. Exempts from public disclosure certain proprietary records submitted to the Innovative Technology Authority as part of a grant application. The bill also allows me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| SB734 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| SB740 | Pass | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. Establishes an authority for Southwest Virginia to create a multi-purpose regional recreational area similar to, and potentially adjoining, such areas in West Virginia and Kentucky. The recreational area migh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| SB741 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; staff augmentation services. Provides for the Department of Human Resource Management to work jointly with the Department of General Services and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to develop expedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| SB235 | Pass | Innovative Technology Authority; powers of board of directors. Authorizes the Board of the Authority to designate the President and staff of the Center for Innovative Technology to carry out the day-to-day operations and activities of the Authority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| SB236 | 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 techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| SB237 | Pass | Donations by localities. Allows localities to make donations to any nonprofit association or organization furnishing services to beautify and maintain communities and/or to prevent neighborhood deterioration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| SB750 | Pass | Special license plates; National D-Day Memorial Foundation; fees. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue revenue-sharing license plates to supporters of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| SB242 | Pass | Financing of energy conservation projects. Authorizes the Virginia Resources Authority to finance energy conservation and energy efficiency projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| SB499 | Pass | Sheriffs; permitting work on public or private property by inmates. Allows jail inmates to perform work on private property utilized by a nonprofit organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB764 | Pass | Address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence; program expanded; penalty. Expands the address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence program currently implemented in the County of Arlington to the Counties of Albemarle, Augusta,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| SB510 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; student lending policies; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to develop policies and procedures for disclosing certain information to students on student lending practices. This information shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB266 | Pass | Special license plates; Purple Heart recipients. Eliminates the one-time $10 surcharge for issuance of Purple Heart special license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| SB791 | Pass | Incentive zoning; definition. Redefines the term “incentive zoning” for the purposes of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 as the use of bonuses in the form of increased project density or other benefits to a developer in return for the developer providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB31 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
