VA Legislation | 2008 | Regular Session

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SR6PassNominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
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2008-01-15
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate (SR6ER)
SB82Intro

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Elections; form of ballot. Provides that any candidate for a constitutional office who is nominated by a political party shall be identified on the ballot by the name of his party. Current law provides for party identification on the ballot of candi...
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2008-01-15
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB530Intro

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Freestanding birth centers; licensing. Requires freestanding birth centers to be licensed and regulated by the Department of Health.
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2008-01-15
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB39Intro

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Text messaging while driving. Prohibits operation of a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped on the highways in the Commonwealth while using any wireless telecommunications dev...
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2008-01-15
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote
HB48Intro

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Motorcycles; driving two abreast in a single lane. Allows two motorcycles to travel abreast in a single lane.
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2008-01-15
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (9-Y 9-N)
HB73Intro

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Naming highways, etc. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board to name a highway, bridge, or interchange for a living person, group, or business entity if the cost of construction of the bridge, highway, or interchange is paid by the person, gro...
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2008-01-15
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (14-Y 6-N)
HB83Intro

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Mandated coverage for habilitative services for children. Requires insurance companies to provide coverage for habilitative services for children.
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2008-01-15
House: Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote
HB89Intro

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Immunizations; human papillomavirus. Removes requirement that girls receive the human papillomavirus vaccine.
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2008-01-15
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB609Intro

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Text messaging while driving. Prohibits operation of a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped on the highways in the Commonwealth while using any wireless telecommunications dev...
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2008-01-15
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote
HB106Intro

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Utility Transfers Act; telephone companies. Eliminates the requirement that the State Corporation Commission approve the acquisition or disposal of the assets or of control of a telephone company. The measure will not apply to transactions for which...
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2008-01-15
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB110Intro

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Truck weights; combinations of vehicles. Treats straight trucks the same as pickup trucks when determining the maximum allowable weight of vehicle combinations. This change does not involve tractor-semitrailer or tractor-semitrailer-trailer combinat...
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2008-01-15
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote
HB129Intro

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Medical professions; what constitutes practice. Adds "physician" to list of words that, when used in connection with a person's name, creates a presumption of intent to practice healing arts. This bill adds the requirement that no person o...
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2008-01-15
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB404Intro

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Private well construction; exemptions. Exempts any tract of land consisting of less than five acres from the prohibition on constructing a private well within 50 feet of the property line with an adjacent property used for agricultural operation.
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2008-01-15
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
SR1PassRules of the Senate. Establishes the Rules of the Senate, incorporating substantive and technical changes relating to the committees, practices, and parliamentary procedures of the Senate.
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2008-01-14
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate (SR1ER)
SR2PassOperating Resolution.
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2008-01-14
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate (SR2ER)
HB399Intro

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Dialysis patient care technician. Adds the administration of erythropoeitic agents such as Epoetin alfa, Vitamin D, iron, to the list of direct care activities a dialysis patient care technician may undertake.
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2008-01-14
House: Stricken from House calendar
HJR199Intro

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Commending the Monticello High School football team.
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2008-01-11
House: Stricken from House calendar
HB22Intro

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Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus; required to be reported. Adds methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to the list of diseases required to be reported to the Department of Health.
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2008-01-10
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB286Intro

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Notice to recipients; earned income tax credit. Requires the Department of Social Services to provide notice of the earned income tax credit to all applicants for or recipients of assistance.
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2008-01-10
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Health, Welfare and Institutions (10-Y 12-N)
SB11Intro

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Rail Enhancement Fund. Allows the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, with the approval of the Rail Advisory Board, to waive the requirement that projects funded by the Fund include a minimum of 30 percent cash or in-kind m...
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2008-01-10
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
HJR97Intro

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Commending Juanita Blick Evans-Fells. Commends Juanita Blick Evans-Fells on her outstanding achievement as the first African-American female television news reporter in Petersburg and for her faithful and generous spirit of service to the people of t...
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2008-01-09
House: Stricken from House calendar
HJR152Engross

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Notifying the Governor of Organization.
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2008-01-09
Senate: Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
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