| HB132 | Pass | Parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities; local ordinances. Provides that the governing body of any city, county, or town may, by ordinance, provide for a lesser fine if there is a placard within a vehicle utilizing a parking space r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| HB1414 | Pass | Revocation of concealed handgun permits; notification of the State Police. Requires the court that issued a person a concealed handgun permit to revoke the permit upon notification by the State Police that the person has been convicted of an offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| SB206 | Pass | State-owned communications towers; broadband service. Requires state agencies to lease or convey a license or other interest in a state-owned communication tower for which they are responsible to qualified providers of wireless broadband service in o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| HB398 | Pass | Certificate of public need; relocation of nursing home beds. Exempts from the definition of "project" any relocation of up to 10 beds or 10% of beds, whichever is less, (i) from one existing facility to another existing facility at the sam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB400 | Pass | Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment; minors incapable of making an informed decision. Provides that minors 14 years of age or older who are incapable of making an informed decision may be admitted to inpatient treatment upon the appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| HB144 | Pass | Overweight coal trucks. Provides that overweight coal truck permits are valid only for a distance of 85 miles within Virginia from the preparation plant, loading dock, or railroad.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| HB401 | Pass | Emergency custody; who may accept custody. Allows the law-enforcement agency transporting a person to a facility or location pursuant to an emergency custody order to transfer custody of the person to the facility or location if the facility or locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| HB1425 | Pass | No Child Left Behind; withdrawal. Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, unless reauthorization of the Elementary and Sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| HB402 | Pass | Involuntary commitment petition; minors; withdrawal. Provides that a petition for the involuntary commitment of a minor shall be served upon the minor and the minor's parents unless the petition has been withdrawn or dismissed. Current law only provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| SB216 | Pass | Involuntary mental health treatment; purchase of firearms; reporting to Central Criminal Records Exchange. Clarifies that orders for both involuntary inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment must be forwarded by the clerk of court to the Cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| HB1171 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited acts; grounds for suspension or revocation of license; exceptions. Removes the authority of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to revoke or suspend a license if an establishment has allowed noisy, lewd, or dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| HB662 | Pass | Confidentiality of taxpayer information. Includes as a confidential tax document any document that is required to be filed with the Department of Conservation and Recreation under the land preservation tax credit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB407 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemptions for certain fundraising strategies and donor records of public institutions of higher education. Exempts records maintained by a public institution of higher education in connection with fundraising acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| SB222 | Pass | Possession of firearms by persons who committed felonies while juveniles. Provides that despite the date of his conviction, a juvenile adjudicated delinquent of certain heinous felonies shall not, when he reaches the age of 29 years, be entitled to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| SB735 | Pass | Wills and decedents' estates; order in which debts of decedents to be paid. Increases from $2,000 to $3,500 the amount available from an estate to pay funeral expenses where there are insufficient assets for the satisfaction of all the demands again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| HB412 | Pass | Wills and decedents' estates; order in which debts of decedents to be paid. Increases from $2,000 to $3,500 the amount available from the estate to pay funeral expenses when there are insufficient assets for the satisfaction of all demands against th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| HB1181 | Pass | Appointment of special conservators of the peace. Makes it mandatory, rather than permissive, that a circuit court judge appoint a special conservator of the peace upon a showing by the sheriff, chief of police, or corporation authorized to do busin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| HB1439 | Pass | School employees; criminal acts. Requires the court clerks to notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction and division superintendent when a person known to be licensed by the Board of Education is convicted of a felony drug crime or certain felo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827) |
| HB1441 | Pass | Duties of the Division of Legislative Services. Adds to the duties of the Division of Legislative Services the responsibility for providing an annual report to the General Assembly regarding the status of all reports, actions, or data collection req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB1186 | Pass | Incompetent defendants; misdemeanors; dismissal of charges. Provides that if a defendant has been charged with a misdemeanor under Article 3 (§ 18.2-95 et seq.) of Chapter 5 of Title 18.2 (larceny and receiving stolen goods), Article 5 (§ 18.2-119 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| SB490 | Pass | No Child Left Behind; withdrawal. Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, unless reauthorization of the Elementary and Sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| HB677 | Pass | Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; public hearing prior to interim or comprehensive agreement. Provides that at least 30 days prior to entering into an interim or comprehensive agreement under the Public-Private Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| HB934 | Pass | No parole for jail inmates convicted of multiple misdemeanors. Eliminates parole for a jail inmate convicted of misdemeanors on or after July 1, 2008 and sentenced to serve a total active sentence of more than 12 months. Currently, jail inmates sente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| HB679 | Pass | Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance. Requires the general district court, upon a finding of liability, to order a violator of a zoning ordinance to abate or remedy the violation in compliance with the zoning ordinance within a period ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| SB493 | Pass | Foster and adoption workers; minimum training requirements. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish minimum training requirements and to provide educational programs for foster and adoption workers and their supervisors. Under the bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| SB749 | Pass | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission. Corrects the staff support for the Commission to require that technical assistance will be provided by the Department of General Services. In addition, this bill requires that, prior to entering into ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB754 | Pass | Public-Private Transportation Act; tolls on Interstate highways. Prohibits a private entity from imposing tolls or user fees under the Public-Private Transportation Act on any existing rural segment of Interstate Route 81 without the prior approval ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838) |
| HB172 | Pass | Civil procedure; disclosure of insurance liability limits. Allows an injured person, or his attorney, to request the disclosure of the liability limits of an insurance policy prior to filing a civil action for personal injuries resulting from a moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| HB430 | Pass | Administrative inspection warrants. Provides that a zoning ordinance may include provisions for the issuance of inspection warrants by a magistrate or court of competent jurisdiction. The zoning administrator or his agent may present sworn testimony...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| SB244 | Pass | Magistrates. Reforms the magistrate system by transferring appointment and supervisory responsibilities from the circuit court judges to the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, although the chief judges of the circuit courts in the region are t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB247 | Pass | Commitment of minors; appointment of counsel and guardians ad litem. Provides that a court shall appoint a guardian ad litem and counsel for a minor for involuntary commitment hearings and proceedings for the judicial approval of the admission for i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| HB1458 | 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 mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| SB248 | Pass | Additional fees in certain courts; use by Virginia State Bar. Increases the civil action filing fee in circuit and district court to $10. Currently, the fee is $5. The additional $5 would be deposited into the Legal Aid Services Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| SB760 | Pass | Veterans services in the Commonwealth. Requires the Department of Veterans Services to establish guidelines for the determination of eligibility for Virginia-domiciled veterans and their spouses, orphans, and dependents for participation in programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| HB1459 | Pass | Virginia Small Business Financing Act; preferred lenders. Authorizes the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority to delegate to certain banks decisioning and processing functions and responsibilities with respect to certain Authority-guaranteed l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| SB506 | 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 n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| HB949 | Pass | Slayer 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| HB1208 | Pass | Conveyance of subaqueous lands. Authorizes the Governor to sell and convey approximately 0.103 acre of previously filled subaqueous lands along the Elizabeth River in the City of Norfolk to Fort Norfolk LLC, in accordance with § 28.2-1200.1, which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| SB511 | Pass | Natural resources funding. Establishes the Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Fund. The Fund would be capitalized with appropriated funds and moneys from public and private sources. Beginning July 1, 2008, and for the next 10 years moneys in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB443 | Pass | Rights and duties of county chairman in Loudoun County. Lists various rights and duties of the board chairman in Loudoun County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| HB955 | 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] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB1 | Pass | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0656) |
| SB770 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax for the Historic Triangle area. Makes changes to the Williamsburg Area Destination Marketing Committee, which is responsible for administering the local transient occupancy tax for the Historic Triangle area. The bill also wou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839) |
| HB445 | Pass | Occupancy limits. Provides that no fines shall accrue against the owner or managing agent of a single-family residential dwelling unit for the violation of a zoning ordinance regulating occupancy limits during the pendency of any legal action commen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| HB1469 | Pass | Database breach notification. Requires an individual or entity that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information to disclose any breach of the security of the system following discovery or notification of the breach to the O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| HB190 | Pass | Provisions for subdivision of a lot for conveyance to a family member. Includes stepchildren within the definition of "immediate family" for purposes of family subdivision provisions. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| SB517 | Pass | Public body contracts; illegal alien employment. Requires that all public bodies provide in every written contract that the contractor does not, and shall not during the performance of the contract for goods and services in the Commonwealth, knowingl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| SB773 | Pass | Prosecution of identity theft; statute of limitations. Allows prosecutions for misdemeanor identity theft to be commenced within the same limits as computer crimes. Those limits are the earlier of (i) five years after the commission of the last ille...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| HB191 | Pass | EMS; temporary suspension of permits and certificates pending hearing. Authorizes the Health Commissioner to temporarily suspend any certificate or permit without notice, pending a hearing or informal fact-finding conference, where a substantial dan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB707 | Pass | Temporary custody orders; secure facility. Provides that a person who is subject to a temporary detention order shall remain in the custody of a law-enforcement officer until the person is either detained within a secure facility or custody has been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
