VA Legislation | 2008 | Regular Session

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB250	Intro Sine Die	Foster care; independent living services for persons between the ages of 18 and 21. Establishes that children who are in foster care when they reach 18 years of age shall receive independent living services from the appropriate local board of social... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-01 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
HB703	Intro Sine Die	Comprehensive Parole Reduction Act. Requires the Parole Board to adopt an analytical scale to assess risk and establishes a Parole Guidelines Review Panel. The bill also provides that, with some exceptions, once a person is considered eligible for p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-01 House: Stricken at request of Patron in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
HB974	Intro Sine Die	Protective orders; expiration; Virginia Criminal Information Network. Provides that when a protective order is issued, a court shall immediately enter and transfer information to the Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN) system. A copy of such... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-01 House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB753-Peace) by voice vote
HB976	Intro Sine Die	Single lot development; stormwater management. Provides that the developer of a single lot shall provide storm water management where substantial redevelopment of such lot is proposed. Substantial redevelopment" shall be deemed to occur when la... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-01 House: Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote
HB1488	Intro Sine Die	Use of polygraph on sex offense victims. Provides that no complaining witness of any alleged offense involving criminal sexual activity shall be requested to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition of proceeding with an investigation of the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-01 House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1043-Watts) by voice vote
HB467	Intro Sine Die	Elections; voting equipment; wireless communications at polling places. Provides an exception to the prohibition on wireless communications to or from voting devices at the polls on election day. The bill authorizes wireless communications after the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-01 House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (HB1476-Rust) by voice vote
SB27	Intro Sine Die	Social services; time limit on receipt of TANF. Allows the child of a VIEW participant to continue receiving TANF financial assistance beyond the initial 24-month period if (i) the VIEW-participating parent is no longer the child's legal guardian, (i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-01 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
SB47	Intro Sine Die	Advance directives; mental health. Allows for mental health advance directives, by following the same procedures as for medical advance directives. A mental health advance directive may set forth procedures or instructions with regard to mental heal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Subject matter referred to Commission on Mental Health Law Reform pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L)
HB243	Intro Sine Die	Informed consent for testing for human immunodeficiency virus. Removes the requirement for separate oral or written informed consent for testing for human immunodeficiency virus and adds the requirement that a medical care provider inform a patient ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions (HB1100-Sickles) by voice vote
SB64	Intro Sine Die	Community services boards; core services. Adds crisis stabilization, outpatient, respite, in-home, and residential and housing services to the list of core services required to be provided by community services boards. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Subject matter referred to Commission on Mental Health Law Reform pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L)
HB1546	Intro Sine Die	Town weight limit ordinance on certain roads. Provides that the governing body of any town that purchases town-owned and maintained weight scales for the purpose of enforcing weight limits may adopt ordinances for the assessment of liquidated damage... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote
HB786	Intro Sine Die	Local vehicle licenses; agreements with DMV. Provides that DMV will refuse registration or renewal of registration of a vehicle if any delinquent taxes are owed to any county, city, or town, not just the county, city, or town that has entered into a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB133-Ware, O.) by voice vote
HB1301	Intro Sine Die	Powers of CTB; bridge replacement and repair. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) to award contracts for the design-build procurement of bridge replacement and bridge repair projects. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Continued to 2009 in Transportation by voice vote
HB1314	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Employment Commission. Transfers responsibility for collection of employment taxes from the Virginia Employment Commission to the Department of Taxation. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote
HB813	Intro Sine Die	Independent living services. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible for independent living services from the Department of Social Services shall not become ineligible for services upon refusing services. This bill provides that a person wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions (HB1141-Fralin) by voice vote
HB1340	Intro Sine Die	Fire Programs Fund. Increases the rate of the assessment for the Fire Programs Fund from one to 1.5 percent of the total direct gross premium income for fire and related lines of insurance. This bill is incorporated into [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1225-Bowling) by voice vote
HB832	Intro Sine Die	Removal of trespassing vehicles by towing and recovery operators. Eliminates the requirement that towing and recovery operators obtain a second written authorization from the owner of the property from which the vehicle is towed. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (10-Y 11-N)
HB581	Intro Sine Die	Tow truck driver authorization documents. Exempts from the requirement that tow truck operators have tow truck authorization documents issued by the Board for Towing and Recovery Operators tow trucks that are (i) towing vehicles from origins in anot... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB1012-Hugo) by voice vote
HB1097	Intro Sine Die	Mortgage Lender and Broker Act. Requires mortgage lenders and brokers required to be licensed under the Mortgage Lender and Broker Act to make a reasonable and good faith determination based on verified and documented information that a borrower has... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote
SB147	Intro Sine Die	Sales and use tax; absorption and payment by seller. Permits any seller not to collect sales and use tax from the purchaser, and to absorb such tax himself. A dealer electing to absorb such taxes shall be liable for payment of such taxes to the Tax ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance by voice vote
SB406	Intro Sine Die	Prescription drug benefits; penalty for conviction of certain drug-related crimes. Provides that any individual convicted of manufacturing, selling, giving, or distributing a controlled substance or imitation controlled substance, or possessing a co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health by voice vote
SB407	Intro Sine Die	Local ordinances prohibiting use of certain highways by tractor-trailer combinations. Allows the governing body of any county, city, or town by ordinance to prohibit the use of any highway within its boundaries by tractor-trailer combinations when, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
HB342	Intro Sine Die	HOV lanes; use by vehicles bearing clean special fuel vehicle license plates. Extends the July 1, 2008, "sunset" on use of HOV lanes by vehicles bearing clean special fuel vehicle license plates, regardless of the number of their passenger... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB1014-Hugo) by voice vote
HB347	Intro Sine Die	Powers of CTC. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner (CTC) to enter into contracts with Reston for grounds keeping, mowing, and litter removal on highways within Reston. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote
HB352	Intro Sine Die	Motor carrier liability insurance. Requires operators of buses with a capacity of no more than 40 passengers that provide sightseeing and transportation services primarily for tourists to have $1,500,000 in liability insurance. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote
SB434	Intro Sine Die	In-state tuition and educational benefits for unlawful aliens. Provides that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residency within Virginia for any postsecondary educational benefit including,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
SB698	Intro Sine Die	Motorcycle helmets. Provides for a $25 civil penalty for the conviction of a motorcyclist who fails to wear a helmet. At present, a violation is a traffic infraction and punishable by a fine of up to $250. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (14-Y 25-N)
HB630	Intro Sine Die	VDOT regulations; placement of customer service drop cables. Requires VDOT, by regulation, to allow providers of communications services to place and maintain lateral customer service drop facilities necessary to provide communications services to in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote
SB702	Intro Sine Die	Influenza vaccinations; information. Requires the Department of Health to publish, on its website, information on influenza disease and the benefits of influenza vaccination for children under the age of 60 months. Also requires the Department to wor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Left in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB1402	Intro Sine Die	Examination of applicants for driver's licenses. Requires that whenever an examination of an applicant for a driver's license requires the use of foreign language interpreter, such interpreter be chosen by DMV, and the cost of interpreter's services... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote
SB449	Intro Sine Die	PPTA; competitive bidding. Requires that all facets of any project having an aggregate value in excess of $1 billion undertaken pursuant to the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA) will be subject to all the laws of the Commonwealth requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
HB636	Intro Sine Die	Electronic delivery of insurance notices. Authorizes property, casualty, life, and certain other types of insurers to electronically transmit notices to insureds if the insured consents. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Continued to 2009 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB722	Intro Sine Die	Immunizations; human papillomavirus. Removes requirement that girls receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N)
SB745	Intro Sine Die	Legal presence verification; public schools and higher education. Requires all public schools to verify each child's legal presence, and, if appropriate, to develop a plan to assist the child in attaining legal presence, or to take other appropriate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N)
HB937	Intro Sine Die	Disclosure of medical information; outpatient treatment noncompliance. Clarifies that health care providers who are treating a person under an outpatient treatment order may disclose information, including heath records of the patient, to determine ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB948	Intro Sine Die	Legal fees and expenses for community services board employees. Allows an employee of a community services board who is arrested, indicted or otherwise prosecuted on any charge arising out of any act committed in the discharge of his official duties... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB1223	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Employment Commission; regional offices. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to maintain at least one regional office in each planning district in Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB781	Intro Sine Die	Institutions of higher education; enrollment of aliens. Provides that any alien must present legal documentation of residence or educational status to be eligible for initial enrollment in any public institution of higher education in Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 1-N)
SB526	Intro Sine Die	Vehicle safety inspections. Requires vehicle safety inspections every 24 months instead of every 12 months and increases the maximum allowable fee for most vehicles from $16 to $20. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
HB1225	Intro Sine Die	Fire Programs Fund. Increases the rate of the assessment for the Fire Programs Fund from one to 1.5 percent of the total direct gross premium income for fire and related lines of insurance. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-31 House: Continued to 2009 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB548	Intro Sine Die	Presumption against bail. Provides a presumption against bail for a person charged with failure to appear. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N)
SB551	Intro Sine Die	Recordation taxes; basis. Changes the basis on which recordation taxes are calculated on the transfer of real estate to the stated consideration for the real estate. Under current law the basis is the consideration for the real estate or the value ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
SB305	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance credit for retired local officers. Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired constitutional officers, employees of constitutional officers, general registrars, employees of general registrars, and local social servic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
SB564	Intro Sine Die	Appeal bonds; support cases. Provides that a party may elect to appeal only the portions of a juvenile and domestic relations district court judgment (i) establishing or modifying support, or (ii) convicting him or holding him in contempt for failur... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 4-N)
HB1263	Intro Sine Die	Truancy and school dropout prevention. Provides that local school boards must implement school dropout prevention programs and services that include an emphasis on truancy prevention. The bill amends relevant Code sections pertaining to compliance w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 House: Continued to 2009 in Education by voice vote
SB316	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; open-enrollment period. Opens the enrollment into the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program between October 1, 2008, and January 1, 2009, for eligible employees not currently participating in the program.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to JLARC pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L)
HB1533	Intro Sine Die	Television recycling programs; manufacturer fees; disposal ban. Bans the disposal of covered televisions and component parts as solid waste effective January 1, 2009. The bill requires manufacturers of televisions covered by the act to pay a $5,000 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 House: Continued to 2009 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
HB510	Intro Sine Die	State medical assistance plan; DMAS to contract with DMHMRSAS for mental health services. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to contract with the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 House: Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote
HB514	Intro Sine Die	Fossil fuel combustion products permit. Requires any applicant seeking approval for the use of fossil fuel combustion products as structural fill to (i) publish a notice of his intent to apply for approval for the project from the Department of Envi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 House: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
SB331	Intro Sine Die	Admissibility of mental health care records in custody and visitation cases. Repeals the current law, which provides that in any case in which custody or visitation of a child is at issue, the mental health records concerning a parent shall be privi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-01-30 Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB330-Quayle) (13-Y 0-N)