| SB504 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery of attorney for the Commonwealth; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony with a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months to commit an assault or assault and battery against an attorney for the Commonwealth with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
House: Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB766 | Engross
Sine Die | Demolition of historic structures and areas; civil penalty. Authorizes a civil penalty for the demolition of a building or structure designated as an historic area, cemetery or grave without the approval of the architectural review board or the gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
House: Continued to 2009 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB768 | Engross
Sine Die | Conditional zoning; impact fees. Replaces the current cash proffer system with a system of impact fees. This bill was continued to the 2009 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
House: Committee substitute printed 082076348-H1 |
| SB282 | Engross
Sine Die | Newport News Economic Development Authority. Provides that the authority shall have the power, with the approval of the Newport News governing body or its designee, to form corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, trusts, or any other legal entity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
House: Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Master Settlement Agreement; criminal enforcement activities; penalty. Makes several changes to enhance criminal enforcement activities. The bill provides that any tobacco product manufacturer, stamping agent, or importer of cigarettes, or any offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
House: Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB1543 | Engross
Sine Die | Health records; surgical complications reporting. Requires physicians to report, in writing or by electronic means, each patient who comes under his professional care and requires medical treatment or suffers death that the physician has a reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 1-N) |
| HB267 | Engross
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; indigent petitioner; right to counsel. States that, upon a finding that a petitioner is indigent, the court shall appoint the petitioner counsel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Admission of illegal aliens to public institutions of higher education. Provides that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for admission to any public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1556 | Engross
Sine Die | Unborn child pain information. Requires doctors to offer to anesthetize a fetus prior to abortion and to include in informational materials a statement that a fetus at 20 gestational weeks has the physical structures necessary to feel pain and react...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB1315 | Engross
Sine Die | Informed consent: ultrasound required before performing abortion to determine gestation age. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion and determination of gestation age, every pregnant female shall be given the opportunity to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB312 | Engross
Sine Die | Crimes; unintentional cause of miscarriage or stillbirth. Makes it a Class 5 felony for a person who, while engaged in conduct so gross, wanton, and culpable so as to show a reckless disregard for the life or safety of others to injury another person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to Crime Commission pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L) |
| HB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty. Provides that any person, including the pregnant female, who administers to or causes to be taken by a pregnant female any drug or other thing or uses means with intent to destroy her unborn child or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB692 | Engross
Sine Die | Insurance agents; limited burial insurance authorities. Expands the definition of a limited burial insurance authority to include the authority of a person who is licensed to engage in the practice of funeral service, preneed funeral planning, funer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
House: Continued to 2009 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB118 | Engross
Sine Die | Higher education; academic freedom. Requires each public institution of higher education to annually report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) the steps the institution is taking to ensure academic freedom and the free exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1400 | Engross
Sine Die | Disclosure of minor's drug test results. Provides that a parent, legal guardian or person standing in loco parentis may obtain the results of any drug test of a minor or a minor's health records, except when the minor's treating physician or the min...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Licensure of abortion clinics. Requires all abortion clinics, defined as any facility other than a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center in which 25 or more first trimester abortions are performed in any 12-month period, to be licensed and to comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB938 | Engross
Sine Die | Commitment hearings; petitioner right to appeal. Gives the petitioner the right to appeal a decision by the judge or special justice not to involuntarily commit a respondent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB939 | Engross
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; transfer to outpatient treatment. Provides that the person subject to an involuntary commitment order may petition the court to order that he be transferred to involuntary outpatient treatment or released and, upon considerati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB429 | Engross
Sine Die | Forced or coerced abortion prohibited; penalty. Provides that any person who forces or coerces a pregnant female of any age to have an abortion against her will is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, if such a violation is committed when the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB1009 | Engross
Sine Die | Property taxes; assessments, bills, and deferral. Requires localities (i) to include the tax rate that will apply to reassessed real property in the notice to taxpayers regarding the reassessment, (ii) to attach to each property tax bill the tax ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB1532 | Engross
Sine Die | COPN; nursing home beds. Authorizes the Commissioner of Health to accept applications and to issue certificates of public need for nursing home beds in Planning District 13, which would result in an increase of 30 percent in the number of licensed nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB1318 | Engross
Sine Die | Excess funds in the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Establishes a mechanism to provide tax relief to Virginia taxpayers when the Auditor of Public Accounts determines the Revenue Stabilization Fund has reached its maximum size as provided in the Constitu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB178 | Engross
Sine Die | Number of circuit court judges. Adds an additional circuit court judge to each of the following circuits: 10th (Appomattox, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Prince Edward); 14th (Henrico); 15th (Fredericksburg, Car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB179 | Engross
Sine Die | Number of district court judges. Increases by one the number of general district court judges in the following districts: 2nd (Virginia Beach); 11th (Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Amelia, Powhatan); 15th (Fredericksburg, Caroline, Essex, Hanover,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB708 | Engross
Sine Die | Urban archery season. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to allow Sunday hunting with a bow and arrow or crossbow during urban archery season. The bill allows urban localities to authorize Sunday hunting during the urban archery seas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB743 | Engross
Sine Die | State employees' group life insurance. Permits a retiree to make an irrevocable beneficiary designation of his group life insurance to purchase or secure funeral services, and services related to interment, cremation, or other means of disposition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB263 | Engross
Sine Die | Retrieving hunting dogs. Requires the revocation of the hunting license for the current and the next hunting seasons and allows the forfeiture of the firearm or bow and arrow of any person who is convicted of carrying such weapons and hunting on ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB1514 | Engross
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; apportionment for manufacturers. Allows manufacturers to elect an apportionment formula of multiplying their income by the sales factor or using the formula prescribed for other businesses, whether the manufacturers have a sale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (9-Y 7-N) |
| SB51 | Engross
Sine Die | Extension of health insurance coverage funded by localities. Provides that the governing body of any locality that self-funds a health insurance program for its officers and employees may extend coverage under such program to any other class of perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 14-N) |
| HB788 | Engross
Sine Die | Highway maintenance payments to counties. Allows counties that maintain their own secondary highways (Henrico and Arlington) and are more than 100 square miles in size to receive the same per-lane-mile maintenance payments provided for roads within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 9-N) |
| HB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Composition of RMA Board. Revises the composition of the Board of Directors of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority (RMA).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Local Government (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB57 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; computers and computer-related equipment. Adds computers and computer-related equipment with a sales price of $1,500 or less to the school supplies and clothing that are exempt from sales and use tax during a three-day p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Left in Finance |
| HB322 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited activities during regular sessions of the General Assembly. Prohibits any General Assembly member, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General, from attending any event held during a regular session that is sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB1164 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; Public/Private Education Investment tax credit. Creates income tax credits for business entities and individual taxpayers who make contributions to eligible public school foundations and eligible scholarship foundations. For individual ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (3-Y 11-N) |
| HB1174 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of Immigrant Assistance; created. Establishes in the Department of Social Services an Office of Immigrant Assistance, to assist persons lawfully entering the United States and the Commonwealth for the purpose of becoming citizens. The Office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to Commission on Immigration pursuant to Rule (L) |
| HB923 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; financing. Creates the Virginia School Construction Revolving Fund for financing elementary, secondary, or vocational education school projects. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (9-Y 7-N) |
| HB695 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; loss of retirement benefits for certain felonious convictions. Provides that a member of any of the retirement programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System forfeits his retirement benefits if it is determined t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-26
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 10-N) |
| HB1520 | Engross
Sine Die | Failure to comply with sentencing order; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for willfully and knowingly failing to surrender to jail at the time ordered by the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB11 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); property exempt from taxation. Provides for a referendum at the November 2008 election on approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to property tax exemptions. The proposed amendment autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections |
| HB1568 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfer of juveniles to circuit court; appeal. Clarifies that when a decision to transfer a juvenile from a court not of record to a court of record is made, the court shall consider after-discovered evidence on the issue of transfer, that was not d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR4 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property exempt from taxation. Authorizes the General Assembly to enact legislation that will allow localities by ordinance to exempt from real property taxes, or defer real property taxes on, up to 20 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections |
| HB1361 | Engross
Sine Die | Duties of Director of Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Requires the Director to report quarterly to the Secretary of Natural Resources on the expenses he has control over and to inform the Secretary as to the Department's progress in meeting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB91 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving without a driver's license; penalties. Provides that any person charged with driving without a valid driver's license may be placed under arrest and shall have his fingerprints and photograph taken, provided the court for the jurisdiction has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| HB433 | Engross
Sine Die | Forfeiture of motor vehicle for three or more offenses of driving without a valid operator's license. Provides that any vehicle driven in the commission of a third or subsequent offense of driving without a valid operator's license shall be subject ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB982 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; access to permittee information. Protects from public disclosure permittee names and descriptive information held by the Department of State Police for purposes of entry into the Virginia Criminal Information Network. Howev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB543 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; nonprofit schools. Exempts any non-profit school that is accredited by an entity approved by the Department of Education and any school licensed by the Department of Education as a school for students with disabilities f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
House: Continued to 2009 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB404 | Engross
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of VIEW applicants and participants. Requires local departments of social services to conduct a screening of all applicants and participants of VIEW. This bill provides that where a screening indicates probabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-21
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB121 | Engross
Sine Die | Parental notification of minor's mental health treatment. Requires any employee or designee of any community services board or behavioral health authority, or any other state or local employee other than an employee of a local school board who provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 3-N) |
| HB896 | Engross
Sine Die | Preadmission physical examinations. Provides that prior to a student entering public preschool, kindergarten, or first grade for the first time, such student must furnish a comprehensive physical examination performed within the 12 months prior to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB188 | Engross
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccine; effective date. Extends the effective date of the requirement for sixth grade girls to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine from October 1, 2008, to July 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
