| HB1387 | Intro
Sine Die | TANF; waiver of ineligibility period. Provides that the 24-month period of ineligibility shall not apply to a child who is removed from his parents' home as the result of a child protective services report or complaint as defined in regulations prom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
House: Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions (HB811-Ward) by voice vote |
| SB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Education; computation of composite index. Modifies the current Standards of Quality funding formula and calculation of composite index of local ability to pay to incorporate within the real estate indicator of local wealth the land-use taxation val...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health by voice vote |
| HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation for court-appointed attorneys. Provides coverage under workers' compensation laws for court-appointed attorneys who are injured by the indigent client while engaged in activities directly related to the representation of the cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging Secretary of Transportation to consider Portsmouth; personal rapid transit. Encourages the Secretary of Transportation, in conducting his study under
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Solar water heating system pay-as-you-save pilot program. Directs the State Corporation Commission to analyze, and if appropriate, to establish, a pilot program whereby residential customers who install a solar water heating system will be able to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
House: Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote |
| HB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Accident and sickness insurance; coverage for amino-acid-based formulas. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the expense of amino-acid-based formulas whose protein so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
House: Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote |
| HB1461 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting certain assisted living facilities from the requirement to have a license. Provides that an assisted living facility that has not been found to be in violation of licensing requirements during the most recent five-year period shall be exem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Application for driver's license; social security number. Allows issuance of a driver's license to an applicant who fails to provide a social security number on the application if such failure is due to a bona fide religious objection to providing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-17
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees imposed on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1 of the Code of Virginia, which provided for imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill further provides for refunds of any fees paid, with interest. This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees imposed on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1 of the Code of Virginia, which provided for imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill further provides for refunds of any fees paid, with interest. This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody order; renewal. Allows a single, four-hour extension of an emergency custody order upon a finding by a magistrate that good cause exists for such an extension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Community services board; attend all hearings. Requires that an employee of the community services board that prepared the preadmission screening report attend the involuntary commitment hearing. The bill provides that where in person attendance is n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; criteria. Changes the criteria for emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, and involuntary commitment so that a person may be taken into emergency custody, placed under temporary detention, or involuntarily commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial literacy education. Provides that local school boards must require the completion of 12 class hours of instruction in financial literacy as a condition for graduation from the public schools in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Passed by indefinitely in Education by voice vote |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Conservation and Recreation. Allows the Department to acquire abandoned railroad corridors for use as greenways, linear parks, or potential transportation corridors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HJR219 | Pass | Election of Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ219ER) |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Political candidate contribution tax credit. Increases the maximum amount of the annual tax credit for contributions to state and local candidates for office from $25 to $50 for individuals and from $50 to $100 for joint filers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | State Office of Accountability. Establishes the State Office of Accountability to be headed by a State Inspector General to investigate complaints alleging fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, or mistreatment of citizens of the Commonwealth by a localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Impoundment of motor vehicle for driving without an operator's license. Provides that any adult who is convicted of two offenses of driving without an operator's license shall suffer a 30-day impoundment of his motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Indigent defendants; right to ex parte hearing for appointment of experts in capital cases. Provides that an indigent defendant who has been charged with a capital offense may move for the appointment of experts to assist in the preparation of his d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB369-Watkins) (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Real Estate Board; extension of deadline for compliance with education and continuing education requirements. Extends the deadline for compliance with education and continuing education requirements for licensees of the Real Estate Board on active m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed weapons; box cutters; penalty. Adds box cutters to the list of weapons that are prohibited from being carried concealed and allows the court to exclude certain weapons from being prohibited if such item was carried for a legitimate occupat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Phosphorus prohibition; dishwashing detergents. Bans the use of phosphorus in detergents in for household dishwashing machines. Phosphorus is one of the primary sources of water pollution. The ban will take effect on January 1, 2010. This bill was i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (HB233-Cosgrove) by voice vote |
| SB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Capital murder of certain firefighters and emergency rescue personnel; penalty. Provides that the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of a fire marshal, firefighter, or member of an emergency rescue squad is punishable as capital murder, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of Commonwealth Preparedness and the Department of Criminal Justice Services; gang prevention. Directs the Office of Commonwealth Preparedness to work with localities and other state agencies in identifying links between terrorism and gang-re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Disqualification for appointment as special conservator of the peace. Provides that no person with a conviction for a criminal offense involving (a) moral turpitude, (b) assault and battery, (c) damage to real or personal property, (d) controlled sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Provision of care for former State Police dogs. Provides that from such funds as are appropriated, the Department of State Police would establish a program to make payments or reimbursements for the direct expenses for the provision of care to State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Phosphorus prohibition; dishwashing detergents. Bans the use of phosphorus in detergents for household dishwashing machines. Phosphorus is one of the primary sources of water pollution. The bill contains a delayed effective date of July 1, 2010. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (HB233-Cosgrove) by voice vote |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; use of noncombustible materials in the construction of certain structures. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to promulgate regulations establishing standards for requiring the use of noncombusti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to Housing Commission pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L) |
| SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; grading limitations. Provides that the Uniform Statewide Building Code shall not supersede counties’, municipalities’ and other political subdivisions’ grading regulations prescribing maximum slopes in the cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to Housing Commission pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L) |
| HR5 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Bill text as passed House (HR5ER) |
| HR6 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Bill text as passed House (HR6ER) |
| HR7 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Bill text as passed House (HR7ER) |
| HB167 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; reclassification. Provides that if a student obtains a reclassification of domiciliary status from an out-of state-student to an in-state student and such initial out-of-state classification is due to administrative error, the diff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Medical Services. Establishes the Department of Emergency Medical Services to replace the current Office of Emergency Medical Services and places the new Department under the Secretary of Public Safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | State Interoperability Executive Committee. Codifies the State Interoperability Executive Committee, which assists the Commonwealth Interoperability Coordinator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees imposed on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1 of the Code of Virginia, which provided for imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill further provides for refunds of any fees paid, with interest. This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees imposed on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1 of the Code of Virginia, which provided for imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill further provides for refunds of any fees paid, with interest. This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | Humane investigators. Restores the humane investigator program to its pre-2003 status. In 2003, the law was amended to limit (i) the number of humane investigators to those currently serving and (ii) the number of programs to those currently in oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB281 | Intro
Sine Die | Offender registration; local fee. Allows local law-enforcement agencies to charge a fee, not to exceed $24, for registration or reregistration of certain offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB980 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board for Community Colleges. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to establish guidelines for the placement of career coaches in public high schools in the Commonwealth and defines career coaches as a community college employee plac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-16
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1-Houck) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed service of their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-15
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property tax exemption for certain veterans. Authorizes the General Assembly to exempt from taxation real property that is the principal residence of a veteran (or widow or widower of a veteran) if the ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-15
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SR4 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-15
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate (SR4ER) |
| SR5 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-01-15
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate (SR5ER) |
