| HB764 | Intro
Sine Die | Citizenship of persons in correctional facilities; inquiry to U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Requires the officer in charge of a correctional facility to inquire through the Law Enforcement Support Center of the U.S. Bureau of I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB820-Albo) by voice vote |
| HB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Freezing access to credit reports; penalty. Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| HB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Verification of citizen status. Requires that a jailer shall reasonably attempt to verify the citizen status of certain persons who have been arrested and who are confined in jail. The jailer is required to report any person determined to be in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB820-Albo) by voice vote |
| HB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit report security freeze; penalties. Authorizes an individual to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| HB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Freezing access to credit reports. Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; additional creditable service for special forest wardens. Provides additional creditable service for the following duties performed by special forest wardens in the scope of employment: (i) fighting forest fires; (ii) pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB367-Watkins) (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB1307 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit freeze; fee exemption for military personnel. Prohibits any credit reporting agency that permits consumers to freeze access to their credit reports from charging a fee for establishing, temporarily lifting, or removing a security freeze to any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistricting process. Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans; spells out standards for developing plans including population equality, compactness, maintenance of cores of existing distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB38-Deeds) (11-Y 0-N) |
| HB35 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes on credit reports; penalty. Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report or any info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| HB804 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Real Estate Settlement Protection Act; interest on escrow accounts. Allows a settlement agent who is not an attorney to retain a portion of the interest received on funds deposited in connection with any escrow, settlement, or closing if (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote |
| SB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment criteria; outpatient treatment. Changes the criteria for determining when outpatient treatment may be ordered for a person whose involuntary commitment is sought. The new criteria would be that the person has a mental illness ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Subject matter referred to Commission on Mental Health Law Reform pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L) |
| SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; average final compensation retirement multiplier. Allows members of the Virginia Retirement System to make member contributions for purposes of increasing the average final compensation retirement multiplier from 1.7 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Educational institutions; selective service registration required. Provides that anyone failing to register for the Selective Service shall not be eligible for admittance to any state public institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member temporary Commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB38-Deeds) (11-Y 0-N) |
| HB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Fire-safe cigarettes; civil penalties. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of cigarettes unless the cigarettes have been tested to determine that they meet a performance standard for fire safety. The test predicts the likelihood that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB228-Cosgrove) by voice vote |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation of trees during the land development process for air quality improvement in certain localities. Provides that certain localities may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the development process. The bill also provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB564 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; fees for inspection; exceptions. Provides that the State Fire Marshal may not charge any fee for permits issued for inspection of any school, public or private. The bill contains a sunset provision of July 1, 2010. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB320-Cox) by voice vote |
| HB1339 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes on credit reports; penalty. Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report or any info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB69-Howell) (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Retirement benefits; certain deputy sheriffs retired under disability retirement. Makes legislation passed by the 2007 Session of the General Assembly that increased retirement benefits for certain sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, public safety officers, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit reports; freezing access. Authorizes an individual to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; local ordinances. Allows localities by ordinance to regulate or prohibit the sale, for off-premises consumption, of single units of alcoholic beverages from their original multi-unit packaging by the manufacturer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; alcohol content in prepared foods. Prohibits the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board from prohibiting an on-premises restaurant licensee from using alcoholic beverages that the licensee otherwise is authorized to purchase an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB1075-Suit) by voice vote |
| HB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Freezing access to credit reports. Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| HB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Eminent domain; highway construction. Clarifies that the power of eminent domain exercised by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner for highway construction includes construction of sidewalks and lighting therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Continued to 2009 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB1130 | Intro
Sine Die | VDOT logo signs. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to allow businesses that cater to recreational vehicle users and participate in the Integrated Directional Sign Program to identify themselves through use of distinctive symbols or imag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB368 | Intro
Sine Die | Alien status of jail and correctional facility inmates. Requires a jail officer to inquire of a person in his custody as to whether the person is a citizen of the United States and to communicate the results of the inquiry, including a result specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB820-Albo) by voice vote |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation of trees during the development process for air quality improvement in localities. Provides that localities may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the development process. The bill also provides that the tree conservati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Local Government (SB710-Ticer) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB123 | 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. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB14-Peace) by voice vote |
| HB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Security freezes on credit reports; penalty. Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report or any info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| SB457 | 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 land-di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Coordination of health insurance benefits. Prohibits an insurer issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, a corporation prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Continued to 2009 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Short-term real property rental businesses; taxation. Clarifies that the short-term rental of dwellings to transients for less than 30 consecutive days is subject to state and local retail sales and use taxes and local license and transient occupanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for alternatives to surgery. Requires health insurers, corporations providing accident and sickness subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations whose policies, contracts or plans cover surgical treatment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB491 | Intro
Sine Die | VRS; retirement credits for special forest wardens. Provides retirement credits to special forest wardens of the Department of Forestry who participate directly in extinguishing forest fires. Such persons would receive eight hours of retirement credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB367-Watkins) (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Birth certificate required for admission to public institutions of higher education; report. Provides that each public institution in Virginia must require first-time entering freshmen, upon admission, to submit a certified copy of their birth certi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB14-Peace) by voice vote |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Six appointments to the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB38-Deeds) (11-Y 0-N) |
| HB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit reports; military personnel and their spouses. Authorizes Virginia domiciled members of the armed services and their spouses to freeze access to their credit reports. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reportin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron) by voice vote |
| HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Small business health insurance pools; advisor. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to create the position of Small Business Health Insurance Advisor to assist small businesses in forming health insurance pools, as authorized by sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB807-Englin) by voice vote |
| HB1462 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; accident prevention courses. Repeals the requirement that motor vehicle accident reduction classes provide actual classroom instruction. Insurers are required to provide premium reductions to persons age 55 and over who comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Correctional facilities; enforcement of federal civil immigration laws. Requires the officer in charge of a correctional facility to ensure that at least one officer on duty at the facility is authorized to enforce federal civil immigration laws, pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB820-Albo) by voice vote |
| HB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Alien status of jail and correctional facility inmates. Requires a jail officer to inquire of a person in his custody as to whether the person is a citizen of the United States and to communicate the results of the inquiry, including a result specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Incorporated by Rules (HB820-Albo) by voice vote |
| HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Authority to receive laboratory results directly. Creates an exception to the requirement that laboratories release records of results directly to patients for cases in which a treating physician or clinical psychologist determines that release to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VALORS). Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of VALORS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB69-Howell) (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB10 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax exemptions and deferrals for certain residential or farm property. Authorizes local governing bodies to exempt, partially exempt, or defer the taxation of real property of up to 20 percent of the fair market value of real property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 0-N) |
| HB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial drivers; DUI testing after accident. Provides that commercial drivers who are involved in an accident required to be reported are to be treated as though there is a reasonable suspicion that they were driving under the influence of drugs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; paper and machine ballots; write-in votes. Provides that write-in votes will be counted only if the last name of the write-in candidate is spelled correctly as determined by the chief officer of election at the polling place. Ballots with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Property taxes; assessments, bills, and deferral. Requires localities (i) to include the tax rate that will apply to reassessed real property in the notice to taxpayers regarding the reassessment, (ii) to attach to each property tax bill the tax rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial drivers; drug and alcohol tests. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a program whereby commercial drivers must take random and unannounced drug and alcohol tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-29
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
