| SR11 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Senate: Left in Courts of Justice |
| SB61 | Pass | Department of Education; best practices database. Requires the Department of Education to develop a database of local school divisions' best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, including results of wellness-related fitness assessmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| SB576 | Pass | 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 i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| SB591 | Pass | Local tourism zones. Increases from 10 to 20 the number of years in which tax incentives may be provided in a local tourism zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| SB607 | Pass | Definitions; towing and recovery operator. Excludes a franchised motor vehicle dealer using a tow truck owned by a dealer when transporting a vehicle to or from a repair facility owned by the dealer when the dealer does not receive compensation from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| SB609 | Pass | Alien status of jail and correctional facility inmates. Requires an officer in charge of a jail or correctional facility to inquire of a person in his custody as to whether the person was born in or is a citizen of the United States and to make an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| SB98 | Pass | Longwood University; board of visitors. Increases the Longwood University board of visitors from 11 to 13 members and makes clarifying amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| SB617 | Pass | Apprentice hunting license. Authorizes the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue an apprentice hunting license. This license would be issued in lieu of the current state resident or nonresident basic hunting license. It is a one-time li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| SB376 | Pass | Local school divisions; annual budget. Requires local school divisions to publish their annual budget on the local school division website. If there is no local school division website, the budget must be available in hard copy. This bill has a del...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| SB378 | Pass | Reuse and reclamation of water. Authorizes the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board to adopt regulations that promote the reclamation and reuse of stormwater in order to protect state waters and the public health and to minimize the direct dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| SB380 | Pass | Incompetent defendants; misdemeanors; dismissal of charges. Provides that if a defendant has been charged with a misdemeanor under Article 3 (§ 18.2-95 et seq.) of Chapter 5 of Title 18.2 (larceny and receiving stolen goods), Article 5 (§ 18.2-119...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| SB381 | Pass | Mental health and substance abuse treatment providers; background checks. Allows community services boards and providers licensed by the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to hire as a direct care employee i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| SB382 | Pass | Sale of firearms to persons not lawfully present in the United States; penalty. Prohibits the sale or transfer of firearms to any person who is not a citizen of the United States and who is not lawfully present in the United States. A violation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| SB383 | Pass | Virginia Bicentennial of the American War of 1812 Commission. Establishes the Virginia Bicentennial of the American War of 1812 Commission to prepare for and commemorate the 200th anniversary of the war. The Commission is authorized to plan commemor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| SB640 | Pass | Family life education; mental health. Adds mental health education and awareness to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| SB389 | Pass | Virginia State University; Board of Visitors. Increases the VSU Board of Visitors from 11 to 15 members, establishes the term of office of the four additional members, and makes technical and clarifying amendments. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| SB390 | Pass | Fire and emergency medical departments and companies; director of fire and emergency medical services. Clarifies that a Director of Fire and Emergency Medical Services may serve the same function as a chief of a fire department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| SB393 | Pass | Variances; nonconforming uses. Provides that a zoning ordinance shall permit the owner of any residential or commercial building damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster or other act of God to repair, rebuild, or replace such building to eliminate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| SB158 | Pass | Wet settlement act; lender's disclosure of appraisal information. Requires any lender providing a loan secured by a first mortgage on real estate containing not more than four residential dwelling units to disclose on the settlement statement any fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| SB165 | Pass | Golf carts. Allows golf carts and utility vehicles to cross highways in the Town of Colonial Beach at intersections controlled by traffic lights if the posted speed limit on the highway is no more than 35 miles per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| SB174 | Pass | Classification of real property; energy-efficient buildings. Expands the definition of energy-efficient buildings that localities may treat as a separate class of property for tax rate purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| SB689 | Pass | Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program; eligible fuels. Expands the definition of biofuels to include neat biodiesel fuel, neat green diesel fuel, and neat ethanol fuel. Biodiesel fuel is redefined as a fuel composed of mono-alkyl esters of long...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| SB700 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credits. Changes the Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credit program by allowing individuals to receive tax credits for donations of marketable securities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| SB189 | Pass | Highway construction by state or local employees. Increases the maximum cost of a project that may be undertaken using state or local employees to $600,000; and provides that the Board may enter into a written agreement with a locality for the buildi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| SB701 | Pass | Department of Aging; coordination of long-term care services. Adds to the membership of the local long-term care coordination committee organizations providing housing and transportation services, and other appropriate organizations providing long-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| SB191 | Pass | Local vehicle licenses. Allows localities to exempt from local vehicle license fees vehicles owned by members and former members of authorized police volunteer citizen support units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| SB200 | Pass | Reentry planning. Requires the Department of Corrections to develop and implement a comprehensive reentry plan for each person committed to the supervision of the Department, as soon as practicable, considering the prisoner's anticipated release dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| SB463 | Pass | Reporting of infectious diseases; residential facilities. Adds persons in charge of residential or day programs, services, or facilities licensed by any agency of the Commonwealth to the list of nonphysicians who must report disease outbreaks. This b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| SB215 | Pass | Charter; Town of Narrows. Makes several technical amendments to bring the charter in conformance with general law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| SB478 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interest Act; acceptance of awards. Allows an employee of local government to receive an award or payment in honor of meritorious or exceptional service. Currently, only such awards or payments to teachers or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| SB495 | Pass | Board of Medicine; information to be made public. Exempts anyone holding an inactive, temporary, limited, or volunteer license to practice medicine from the requirement to make certain information available to the Board of Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| SJR208 | Engross
Sine Die | Election of a member of the State Corporation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB241 | Pass | School employees; criminal acts. Requires the court clerks to notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction when a person known to be licensed by the Board of Education is convicted of a felony drug crime or certain felony sex crimes involving a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| SB249 | Pass | Foster care; independent living services for children 14 and older. Requires that every foster care plan for a child 14 years of age or older include an independent living services plan. The bill defines the terms “independent living arrangement”...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| SB776 | Pass | Concealed weapons; attorney for the Commonwealth may carry without a permit. Authorizes an attorney for the Commonwealth or an assistant attorney for the Commonwealth to carry a concealed handgun without obtaining a permit wherever such attorney may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| SB272 | Pass | Inspection of food establishments; exception for private homes. Exempts certain types of commercial food preparation in private homes from inspections by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The exception will apply to candies, jams,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| SB785 | Pass | Health insurance; coverage for bone marrow transplants. Repeals the provision that has required health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to offer and make available coverage for the treatment of breast ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB538 | Pass | Higher education; first warning and emergency notification system required. Mandates that by January 1, 2009, each public institution of higher education establish a comprehensive, prompt, and reliable first warning and emergency notification system ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| SB794 | Pass | Clarksville-Boydton Airport Commission. Authorizes the Commission to issue bonds; however, the bonds of the Commission shall not be a debt of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, other than the Commission. The Commission is authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| SB284 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles special agents; criminal enforcement authority. Provides full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles full authority to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth. The bill also adds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Revenues for the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority. Establishes certain state taxes and fees with the revenues therefrom to be used by the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority for transportation purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Senate: Left in Finance |
| SB288 | Pass | Local choice health insurance program; centers for independent living. Makes officers and employees of state-funded centers for independent living eligible to participate in the "local choice" health insurance program established by the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | State lottery revenues. Requires that net lottery revenues be transferred on a biweekly basis to the Lottery Proceeds Fund for payment to counties, cities, and towns, and the school divisions thereof, by check issued by the State Treasurer. Moneys i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Senate: Left in Finance |
| SR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending Senate Rule 18(c).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Left in Rules |
| SR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating Persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Left in Courts of Justice |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| SR18 | Intro
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Left in Courts of Justice |
| SB652 | Engross
Sine Die | In-state tuition; eligibility of certain individuals. Allows any person to be eligible for in-state tuition who (i) resided with his parent while attending high school in Virginia, (ii) graduated from a public or private high school or received a GE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB729 | Engross
Sine Die | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; revenues of the Authority. Authorizes the Authority to impose a 0.50 percent retail sales and use tax in the counties and cities embraced by the Authority with the revenues therefrom dedicated to the Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR225 | Engross
Sine Die | Vietnam Anti-Trafficking Day. Designates September 2, in 2008 and in each succeeding year, as Vietnam Anti-Trafficking Day in Virginia to coincide with the international commemoration of the day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
House: Left in Rules |
