| HB1538 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; abortion services prohibited. Prohibits school divisions and their employees from providing abortion services. The bill also prohibits any provider of abortion services from providing information or course materials related to human s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Continued to 2009 in Education by voice vote |
| SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Searchable budget database website. Requires the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget to maintain a searchable budget database website that would allow persons to search and aggregate information for individual or specific appropriation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Committee substitute printed 082404216-S1 |
| SB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of state toll facilities. Requires the purchaser of a state toll facility that is a non-Commonwealth public or private entity to agree in writing to conduct all business of the newly acquired toll facility in open meetings under the provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Continued to 2009 in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of marijuana charges. Provides that anyone who has had a charge of possession of marijuana discharged and dismissed in accordance with the provisions of § 18.2-251, more than 10 years prior to his petition for expungement, may file a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (5-Y 6-N) |
| HB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality. Amends legislation passed during the 2007 Session of the General Assembly to consolidate the existing three citizen boards—the State Air Pollution Control Board, the State Water Control Board, and the Waste Man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverages; underage possession. Changes the penalty for possession of alcoholic beverages by a person under age 21 to a Class 2 misdemeanor (confinement in jail for not more than six months and a fine of not more than $1000, either or both...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality. Repeals legislation passed during the 2007 Session of the General Assembly to consolidate the existing three citizen boards—the State Air Pollution Control Board, the State Water Control Board, and the Waste Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; Standard 2. Increases the requirement for state-supported instructional positions for students identified as having limited English proficiency from 17 full-time equivalent positions for each 1,000 students to 30 full-time equi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB437-Miller, J.H.) by voice vote |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Traffic lights; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for running a red light, if running the red light is the sole and proximate cause of the death of another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB566 | Intro
Sine Die | Literary Fund; distributions. Raises the maximum limit for any loan from the Literary Fund from $7.5 million to $14 million. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB923-Rust) by voice vote |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemption for certain publicly owned museum records. Exempts from FOIA records of a publicly owned museum that can be used to identify an individual who donates or loans one or more items of personal property to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to FOIA Council pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L) |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Training of persons conducting independent examinations. Requires the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to develop and implement a program for the training of persons conducting independent examinations and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB246-Howell) (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education. Requires instruction on the use of Food and Drug Administration approved methods of contraception to be added to the family life education curriculum in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (17-Y 22-N) |
| HB878 | Intro
Sine Die | Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to allocate 65 percent of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; permitted fees and charges. Allows local school boards to withhold a student's report card or diploma because of nonpayment of a fee or charge related to loss or damage of a textbook.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Continued to 2009 in Education by voice vote |
| HB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Death certificates; local health departments. Requires that death certificates be made available, upon request, at any local health department in the Commonwealth, regardless of the place of death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Water Protection Permit. Requires the State Water Control Board, prior to issuing a Virginia Water Protection Permit, to consider the permitted project as part local or regional water supply plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB133 | Engross
Sine Die | Taxes and license fees imposed by counties, cities, and towns; vehicle registration. Allows the Commissioner to consider any parking citation, not just those issued only to residents of such county, city, or town, when refusing to issue or renew any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Engrossment refused by House |
| SB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors. Provides that the written evaluation required in a certified home inspection include evaluation of the efficiency of the home’s heating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Continued to 2009 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; authority of citizen boards. Provides that the Air Pollution Control Board and the State Water Control Board may delegate their authority to make permitting decisions to the Director of the Department of Environm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Minority Business Enterprises; powers; certification of sheltered workshops. Requires the Director of the Department of Minority Business Enterprise to establish a certification program for sheltered workshops. The bill further requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Continued to 2009 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's license and registration; failure to carry. Imposes a fine of between $50 and $250 for failing to carry a driver's license and vehicle registration card. The current fine is $10. The existing provision that the summons will be dismissed i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB1440 | Intro
Sine Die | Kidney disease screening for public school students. Directs each school board to provide parent educational information or, within time periods specified in Board of Education regulations, to implement a program of regular screening for kidney dise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| HB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Composite index formula for basic state aid to public schools. Requires division superintendents to include the number of students enrolled in the public schools of the school division for whom English is a second language in estimating the amount of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB507 | Intro
Sine Die | Punishment for underage drinking and driving; penalty. Provides that "zero tolerance" (0.02% blood alcohol concentration) underage drinking and driving is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. Currently, the punishment is loss of license for six mont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB771 | Intro
Sine Die | Extradition. Clarifies that a sheriff or police chief of a locality may hire a private entity to perform extraditions on behalf of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal appeals. Provides that in order to appeal a circuit court conviction of a traffic infraction or a crime the defense counsel or the trial judge must certify that there is a legitimate issue for appeal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-06
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Board for Contractors; applications for licensure. Provides that as part of the application for licensure as a contractor, whether the application is for a Class A, B, or C license, each applicant shall submit a statement, on a form provided by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB926-Byron) by voice vote |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification requirements; absentee voting eligibility and procedures. Revises the list of items that a voter may show to prove identification at the polls. The bill adds to the list several items now allowed to prove the identity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB1511 | Intro
Sine Die | Changeable electronic variable message signs. Imposes a moratorium on the erection or conversion of advertisements and advertising structures into changeable electronic variable message signs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Continued to 2009 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB1515 | Intro
Sine Die | Public-Private Transportation Act; tolls on Interstate 81. Provides that a private entity may not impose tolls under the Public-Private Transportation Act on passenger cars, pickup or panel trucks, and motorcycles if the qualified transportation faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB1516-Gilbert) by voice vote |
| HB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Housing; spot blight abatement; derelict structures. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to impose on the record owner of a derelict structure, an annual fee not to exceed three percent of the most recently assessed value of the derelict structure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote |
| HB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal procedure; admission to bail. Adds a presumption, subject to rebuttal, against admitting to bail any alien who is charged with any felony and who is in the United States illegally, as verified by the Law Enforcement Support Center of the Bur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB440-Rust) by voice vote |
| HB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday lending charges. Establishes a maximum annual interest rate for payday loans of 36 percent. In addition, the measure requires each prospective borrower to acknowledge in writing that he has received and read a copy of the most recent version ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB12-Oder) by voice vote |
| HB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal procedure, admission to bail; persons not lawfully present in the United States; presumption. Adds a presumption, subject to rebuttal, against admitting to bail any person who is charged with a crime and not lawfully present in the United S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB440-Rust) by voice vote |
| HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicles; regulation of parking of certain vehicles in certain counties. Authorizes the governing body of certain counties (and any town located therein) by ordinance to regulate or prohibit the parking of any commercial vehicle on any public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB1028 | Intro
Sine Die | Posting of school zone speed limits. Requires that signs posting school zone speed limits be located not less than 1,000 feet from the school entrance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB1540 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver training schools; regulation by DMV. Transfers to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) responsibility for driver training programs established for the public school system by the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Local revenue-sharing highway projects. Eliminates the three-tier aspect of the revenue-sharing program, allows localities to contribute up to 90 percent of their share in the form of proffers, and provides that 90 percent of project funding will be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB111-Scott, E.T.) by voice vote |
| HB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Bridge and safety funding prioritization by CTB. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) to make the replacement and/or repair of bridges in the Commonwealth that are of the same or substantially similar design to the Interstate Route 35...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Continued to 2009 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Presumption of no bail for illegal aliens charged with certain crimes. Provides that a judicial officer shall presume, subject to rebuttal, that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the appearance of the person or the saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB440-Rust) by voice vote |
| HB1296 | Intro
Sine Die | Board for Towing and Recovery Operators. Postpones until July 1, 2010, the effective date of any regulations promulgated by the Board. The bill also postpones until July 1, 2010, the requirement that tow truck operators have tow truck driver author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Continued to 2009 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of state toll facilities. Requires prior approval by local referendum of any contract or agreement that would transfer control of a state toll facility to any non-Commonwealth public or private entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB1558 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence. Requires all public contractors and their subcontractors to register and participate in a federal Electronic Work Verification Program or similar electronic verification of work authorization pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Continued to 2009 in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1064 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Services; mental health program. Requires the Commissioner of Veterans Services to develop, in cooperation with the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services and the Department of Rehabilitative Services, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB475-Cox) by voice vote |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax and sales and use tax; credit and exemption for certain telecommunications service providers. Creates an income tax credit and sales and use tax exemption for wireless and broadband equipment purchased by telecommunications providers for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal procedure; admission to bail. Adds a presumption, subject to rebuttal, against admitting to bail any alien charged with a criminal offense who is in the United States illegally as verified by the Law Enforcement Support Center of the Bureau ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB440-Rust) by voice vote |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Failure to provide adequate crowd control. Expands existing authority to bring a civil action against a person who negligently fails to provide adequate security or crowd control at events that draw large crowds to include the Town of Blacksburg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to Crime Commission pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L) |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity for enforcement of immigration laws. Provides immunity to agencies and employees of the Commonwealth and political subdivisions for the authorized enforcement of immigration laws. This bill was continued to the 2009 Regular Session of the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
House: Continued to 2009 in Rules by voice vote |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Rail Transportation Development Authority. Establishes the Rail Transportation Development Authority. The Authority is to be responsible for identifying needed construction, reconstruction, improvements, or repairs to railroads and their facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-05
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
