| HB195 | Pass | Subdivision plats. Clarifies definitions related to subdivision plats and preliminary subdivision plats.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| HB708 | Pass | Temporary detention orders; admission as evidence. Clarifies that temporary detention orders and the records pertaining thereto are admissible as evidence because they are considered judicial records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| SB778 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844) |
| HB1222 | Pass | Charitable medical events; lack of notice. Amends criteria which a practitioner of the healing arts must meet in order to render free health care to an underserved population of Virginia, to require that the practitioner notify the Board of the date...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| SB268 | Pass | Affordable Dwelling Unit ordinance; permitting certain densities in the comprehensive plan. Authorizes the City of Charlottesville to provide in its comprehensive plan for the physical development within the city for densities of development ranging...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB782 | Pass | Business entities; employing illegal aliens. Provides that the authority of certain business entities, including foreign and domestic corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, and limited partnerships, to operate in the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB271 | Pass | Prescription medications; schools for students with disabilities. Allows a person in a licensed school for students with disabilities or a licensed private children’s residential facility to administer prescription medication to a student if the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB786 | Pass | Policies for responding to crimes involving sexual assault. Requires that the Department of State Police, local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments establish written policies and procedures regarding response to incidents involving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| SB276 | Pass | Psychiatric 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 trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| SB788 | Pass | Department of Social Services; petitions. Authorizes designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services to complete, sign, and file petitions and motions in Department cases relating to the establishment, modification, or enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| HB719 | Pass | Punishment for underage drinking and driving; penalty. Provides that "zero tolerance" (0.02% BAC) underage drinking and driving is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. Currently, the punishment is loss of license for six months and a fine o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB1489 | Pass | Foster care plan. Eliminates the requirement that a foster care plan for a child placed out of his home be filed by a public agency, other than a local board of social services, designated by a community policy and management team. Currently, such a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| SB536 | Pass | Elections; certification of voting equipment. Provides for additional testing of voting equipment in the certification process by individuals with expertise in election management and computer system security. The bill also permits decertification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| HB979 | Pass | Tuition Assistance Grants; eligibility. Provides that students attending the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine shall be eligible for the Tuition Assistance Grant Program. However, no student who enrolled at the college as a full-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| 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) |
| HB1241 | Pass | Credit card theft; venue. Provides that a prosecution for credit card theft may be had in any county or city where a credit card number is used, is attempted to be used, or is possessed with intent to commit credit card forgery or fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| 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) |
| HB1498 | Pass | Certificate of Public Need. Permits the Commissioner to issue a Request For Applications, and to accept applications for 120 new nursing home or nursing facility beds in Planning District 3. This bill also requires the Commissioner to consider, in is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| HB731 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; board of directors; membership. Adds the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System to the board of directors of the Authority to help better coordinate workforce development in Virginia....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| HB1243 | Pass | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill provides for the Comptroller to issue a refund to persons who have already paid all or part of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0657) |
| 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) |
| HB1500 | Pass | Aerospace Advisory Council; created. Reduces the membership of the Council from a total of 15 to 13 members, by reducing the number of nonlegislative members. Provides that the nonlegislative citizen members representing NASA Wallops Flight Facility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| 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) |
| HB1245 | Pass | Driver's licenses. Provides that any person who fails the behind-the-wheel or knowledge examinations for a driver's license administered by DMV three times shall not be permitted to take such examination a fourth time until he successfully completes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| 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) |
| HB649 | Veto | Collection of annual license and registration fees in certain localities; civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Prohibits licensed motor vehicle dealers from collecting any additional license and registration fees imposed by the Hampton Roads Trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-11
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB522 | Pass | Land use adjacent to certain jet bases. Includes interfacility traffic areas or any other area designated by the military as an area of special concern based on the potential for adverse affects on military operations as property that must be includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| HB781 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission. Creates the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission to encourage the economic development of Southwest Virginia through the expansion of cultural heritage ventures and initiatives related to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| 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) |
| HB1142 | Pass | Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority. Delays the reversion of title to real property from the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority to the Commonwealth, in the event that the Authority ceases to operate a project, until July 1, 2009. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB1578 | Pass | Refund of certain fees and taxes imposed by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Declares null and void, and refunds the fees and taxes imposed by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority that were ruled as unconstitutional by the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| 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) |
| HB1446 | Pass | Campaign finance disclosure reports; filing schedule for May elections. Provides for the filing by May election candidates of an additional campaign finance report on April 15 of the election year, complete for activity through March 31 of that year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| HB223 | Pass | Offenses prohibiting proximity to children; penalty. Provides that any adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2008, shall as part of his sentence be forever prohibited fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| HB1516 | 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 rural portion of I-81 without the prior approval of the General Assembly....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| 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) |
| HB1523 | Pass | Electric utility planning. Requires electric utilities to submit, by September 1, 2009, an integrated resource plan (IRP) that provides a forecast of its load obligations and a plan to meet those obligations by supply side and demand side resources ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| 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) |
| HB1024 | Pass | Military personnel; extension of deadlines. Extends driver's license renewal, license plate registration, local vehicle registration, individual property tax, and other state and local tax deadlines until 90 days after return from deployment for mil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| 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) |
| HB262 | Pass | Housing loans and grants in designated conservation or rehabilitation districts. Grants authority to localities to make loans or grants of local funds to certain individuals for the purpose of rehabilitating owner-occupied residences or assisting in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| 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) |
| HB780 | Pass | Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act. Reorganizes provisions of the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act regarding the winding up, cancellation, and reinstatement of limited partnerships. The revisions to the structure of the Act conform to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| HB527 | Pass | Retention of juvenile fingerprints; deferred disposition. Requires that fingerprints of a juvenile whose criminal charges are deferred and dismissed for an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult, be sent to and retained by the Centra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB1298 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB1044 | Pass | Sex Offender Registry. Makes it clear that persons convicted under certain Code sections that were amended by the 2007 General Assembly must register even though the sections have been rewritten. The bill requires the registration of any conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
