| SB764 | Pass | Address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence; program expanded; penalty. Expands the address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence program currently implemented in the County of Arlington to the Counties of Albemarle, Augusta,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| HB1463 | Pass | Group homes. Removes Henry County from a provision related to the zoning classification of group homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| SB510 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; student lending policies; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to develop policies and procedures for disclosing certain information to students on student lending practices. This information shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| HB1211 | 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 (CHAP0597) |
| SB266 | Pass | Special license plates; Purple Heart recipients. Eliminates the one-time $10 surcharge for issuance of Purple Heart special license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| HB965 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; stalking. Amends the definition of victim under the Fund to allow people who have been stalked to be eligible to collect from the Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB462 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; regulation of locksmiths. Sets up a regulatory scheme for the regulation of locksmiths by the Criminal Justice Services Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB791 | Pass | Incentive zoning; definition. Redefines the term “incentive zoning” for the purposes of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 as the use of bonuses in the form of increased project density or other benefits to a developer in return for the developer providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| HB466 | Pass | Restraining certain violations. Allows a zoning administrator or locality to record locality to record a memorandum of lis pendens for certain zoning ordinance violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| HB1496 | 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 might...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| SB31 | Pass | Bonds; institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the issuance of 9(c) bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $350,565,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at certain institutions of higher learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB475 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; mental health and rehabilitative services. Requires that the Department of Veterans Services, the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services and the Department of Rehabilitative Servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| SB292 | Pass | Elections; pilot programs to audit optical scan tabulators. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to provide for pilot programs to audit optical scan tabulators in localities that choose to participate with respect to an election in which the margi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565) |
| HB1508 | Pass | Extended service contracts. Revises the definition of an extended service contract to mean a contract or agreement for a specific duration, in return for a segregated charge by the purchaser, to perform the repair or replacement of any consumer prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| HB999 | Pass | Bond for abandoned or cruelly treated animals. Allows the court to order the owner of any animal held by a humane investigator or animal control officer for more than 30 days to post a bond with the locality for the amount of the cost of boarding th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB1258 | Pass | Expungement of juvenile records. Requires that when a clerk destroys records pursuant to a juvenile record expungement, he shall destroy all records, including electronic records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| SB307 | Pass | Database breach notification. Requires an individual or entity that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information to disclose any breach of the security of the system following discovery or notification of the breach to the O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| HB1014 | Pass | HOV lanes; clean special fuel vehicles. Extends until July 1, 2009, the "sunset" provision allowing vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates to use HOV lanes regardless of the number of their passengers. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| SB319 | Pass | Commonwealth Technology Research Fund; sensor sciences. Adds sensor sciences to the list of fields eligible to receive awards from the Commonwealth Technology Research Fund. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| SB321 | Pass | Environmental impact of renewable energy electric generating facilities. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to consult with other state agencies that have expertise in natural resource management when considering the cumulative impact o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| HB251 | Pass | Adult Fatality Review Team. Establishes the Adult Fatality Review Team to review suspicious deaths of any incapacitated adult aged 18 or older and any adult aged 60 or older (i) who was the subject of an adult protective services investigation, (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| HB3 | Pass | Screened Family Day Home Provider List. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish and maintain, on a website created by the Department, the Screened Family Day Home Provider List. This bill provides that the List shall include the name...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| SB586 | Pass | Gas and Oil Act; notification of interested parties. Requires the Board to publish hearing agendas on permits for gas or oil operations in local newspapers at least 10 days prior to the hearing. Currently, the Board provides this public notice at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| SB344 | Pass | Emergency Medical Services Plan; Stroke Triage Plan. Requires the Board of Health to develop and maintain as a component of the Emergency Medical Services Plan a statewide prehospital and interhospital Stroke Triage Plan designed to promote rapid ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| HB1043 | Pass | Polygraphs; victims of sex offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer, attorney for the Commonwealth, or other government official shall ask or require a victim of certain sex offenses to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth-tell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| HB789 | Pass | Campaign finance disclosure; filings by political action committees. Requires any political action committee that files its statement of organization on or after October 1 and before the November election day in any odd-numbered year (i) to file a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB1557 | Pass | Mopeds. Provides that a person who operates a moped in excess of 35 miles per hour will be deemed to be operating a motorcycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| SB603 | Pass | Charter; City of Williamsburg. Changes the definition of transient lodging to lodging for not more than 90 consecutive days, rather than 30 consecutive days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| HB1305 | Pass | Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program. Increases the annual assessment for physicians who participate in the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program from its current level of $5,300 to $5,600, which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| SB353 | Pass | Long-term care coverage for public employees. Transfers the administration of long-term care coverage programs for state employees, employees of local governments, local officers, and teachers from the Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| HB1313 | Pass | Unclaimed property; credit union accounts. Provides state-chartered credit unions with the same flexibility regarding inactive or dormant account fees and interest that federally-chartered credit unions may exercise under applicable federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| SB119 | Pass | Property transfer; Virginia Tech. Authorizes the board of visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, with the approval of the Governor, to convey 95 acres to the Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc. to allow the expansion of the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560) |
| HB1075 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; powers and duties of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board generally; prohibited acts by licensees; exceptions. Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations allowing an on-premises licensee to reduce the length of any suspen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| HB1332 | Pass | Air and Water Boards permit issuance process. Establishes a uniform permit issuance process for the Air Pollution Control Board (Air Board) and the State Water Control Board (Water Board). After issuing a public notice of a pending permit action, if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| SB636 | Pass | Higher education; high school records. Allows each public and private institution of higher education to request from its students complete student records, including any mental health records held by the originating school. These records shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| HB314 | Pass | Department of Taxation; qualifications of assessors and appraisers. Provides for the Department of Taxation to establish a certification program for all supervisors, assessors, and appraisers contracted to perform assessments or general reassessment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| SB130 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemptions for certain fundraising strategies and donor records of public institutions of higher education. Exempts records maintained by a public institution of higher education in connection with fundraising acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| SB133 | Pass | Personal Information Privacy Act; social security numbers. Prohibits the dissemination of another person's social security number, regardless of whether such number is obtained from a public or private record. Currently, the prohibition against disse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| HB320 | Pass | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; fees for inspection; exceptions. Provides that the State Fire Marshal may not charge any fee for permits issued for the inspection of any school. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| SB392 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; school textbooks. Extends the current sales and use tax exemption on sales of school textbooks to students attending nonprofit colleges and other institutions of learning to students attending for-profit institutions of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569) |
| HB841 | Pass | Establishment of the Capitol District. Defines the geographic seat of government of the Commonwealth as the "Capitol District." The definition is for administrative purposes only and does not restrict or augment (i) the responsibilities or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| HB1098 | Pass | Wet Settlement Act. Provides that a determination by a settlement agent that prerecordation conditions in a real estate purchase contract have been satisfied shall not control the rights and obligations of the parties under the contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| HB849 | Pass | Income tax; land preservation tax credits. Specifies when a taxpayer is deemed to give consent regarding certain tax information when a tax credit or other tax attribute has been transferred. The legislation also addresses the statute of limitations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB853 | Pass | Service dogs; training. Adds individuals and persons who are part of a three-unit service dog team and who are conducting continuing training of guide dogs, hearing dogs, or service dogs to the list of persons entitled to the right to be accompanied...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB344 | Pass | Computer Recovery and Recycling Act; penalties. Requires the manufacturer of more than 500 items of computer equipment to adopt and implement a recovery plan providing for the reasonably convenient collection, recycling, and reuse of computer equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| HB861 | Pass | Virginia Caregivers Grant Program application; allow physician assistant or nurse practitioner to certify. Allows that a licensed physician assistant or nurse practitioner may provide certification necessary for the Virginia Caregiver's Grant Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB93 | Pass | Supplementing compensation of public defenders. Permits counties or cities that have public defender offices to supplement, payable from their own funds, the compensation of the public defender or his deputies or employees in excess of the compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| HB869 | Pass | Delinquent local taxes; lists by Treasurer. Adds uncollected balances of personal property taxes on certain vehicles to the list of delinquent taxes maintained by the Treasurer that must be furnished to the local governing body on request, and for w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| HB360 | Pass | Nonpoint source reduction funding. Authorizes the Governor and General Assembly to provide additional funding in excess of the amount deposited in the Water Quality Improvement Fund from a budget surplus to fund nonpoint source pollution reduction a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB1386 | Pass | Service-disabled veteran-owned small business programs. Aligns Virginia's eligibility requirements for participation in the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program with federal eligibility requirements set by the U.S. Department of Vete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
