| 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 The bill reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated c...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) |
| HB543 | Pass | Natural gas utilities; alternative ratemaking plan. Authorizes any natural gas utility to file a conservation and ratemaking efficiency plan that includes (i) a normalization component that removes the effect of weather from the determination of con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| 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) |
| HB1320 | Pass | Road easements; maintenance and improvements. Provides that any property owner, along a road that serves as the primary means of ingress and egress to more than one property, may maintain, repair, or improve the road without the express permission o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| 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) |
| HB1335 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| 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) |
| HB324 | Pass | Division of Debt Collection; oversees Commonwealth's accounts receivables. Requires the Division to oversee the Commonwealth's accounts receivable program pursuant to the Virginia Debt Collection Act (§ 2.2-4800 et seq.) and to enforce policies and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| HB580 | Pass | Mold conditions involving landlords and tenants. Provides for mold remediation and the process for notice from tenant to landlord regarding mold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| 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) |
| HB1100 | Pass | Informed consent for testing for human immunodeficiency virus. Provides that, prior to performing any test to determine infection with HIV, a medical care provider shall inform the patient that the test is planned, provide information about the test...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| 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) |
| HB1107 | Pass | Fines for overcrowding in residential dwellings. Increases the maximum fines for repeat violations of ordinances regulating the number of unrelated persons in single-family residential dwellings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| 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) |
| HB350 | Pass | Powers of zoning administrator. Expands certain authority related to enforcement of occupancy limits in residential dwelling units to all zoning administrators, rather than just those in Planning District 8. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| 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) |
| HB1123 | Pass | Property tax; public service corporations, and electric suppliers. Provides that the additional real property tax authorized to be imposed on commercial property by the localities in the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority shall not be imposed on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| 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) |
| HB1124 | 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 (CHAP0594) |
| HB1384 | Pass | Grand juries. Provides that persons selected as members of grand juries, special grand juries, and multijurisdictional grand juries shall be impartial and that members of special grand juries and multijurisdictional grand juries shall possess indiffe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| 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) |
| HB1395 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| HB885 | Pass | Bus idling; local ordinances. Allows all counties, cities, and towns to adopt ordinances limiting bus engine idling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| HB119 | Pass | Soil and Water Conservation Districts. Requires the Attorney General to represent Soil and Water Conservation Districts in any suits or actions brought by the districts or district directors, upon request of such districts or directors. Currently, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| 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) |
| HB1178 | Pass | False signatures; penalty. Provides that any person who maliciously affixes a facsimile or likeness of the signature of another person to any writing without the permission of that person and with the intent to create the false impression that the w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| HB1179 | Pass | Criminal procedure; admission to bail. Adds a presumption, subject to rebuttal, against admitting to bail any person who is arrested for felony assault and battery against a family or household member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB926 | 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] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| 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) |
| HB159 | Pass | Stolen property; criminal investigation. Provides that if a person buys or receives any goods used in the course of a criminal investigation by law enforcement that the person believes are stolen, he is deemed guilty of larceny of the goods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
| 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) |
| HB680 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credit. Moves the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit program from Title 63.2 [Welfare (Social Services)] to Title 58.1 (Taxation) and provides a cross-reference to the tax credit program in Title 63.2 (§ 63.2-2002...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| HB936 | Pass | Local composite index; number of students. Increases from 350 to 1,100 the maximum number of students allowed for a school division to qualify to have its state share of aid adjusted, based on a cost-sharing agreement with a neighboring school divis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| 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) |
