| 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) |
| HB1388 | Pass | Retail sales and use tax; exemption for certain computer equipment. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for computer equipment used in data centers that (i) are located in a Virginia locality having an unemployment rate above 4.9 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| SB690 | Pass | Disbursements from Water Quality Improvement Fund. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to reimburse localities for the costs of nutrient removal upgrades at publicly owned treatment works on a monthly basis so long as there is written ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| HB112 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; early retirement provisions for certain local government officials. Adds all county administrators to the list of local government officials that currently includes some county administrators and other local government of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| SJR151 | Pass | Commending the National Fruit Product Company, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ151ER) |
| SB696 | Pass | Charitable gaming; conduct of raffles. Allows each stub or other detachable section of each ticket won through some other authorized charitable game conducted by the same organization holding the raffle to be included in the raffle drawing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| SJR152 | Pass | Commending Steven R. Staples.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ152ER) |
| SJR153 | Pass | Celebrating the life of E. Joseph West.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ153ER) |
| SJR154 | Pass | Celebrating the lives of Ross A. Alameddine, Christopher James Bishop, Brian Roy Bluhm, Ryan Christopher Clark, Austin Michelle Cloyd, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Kevin P. Granata, Matthew Gregory Gwaltney, Caitlin Millar Hammaren, Jeremy Michael Herbstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ154ER) |
| SJR155 | Pass | Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Order Sons of Italy in America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ155ER) |
| SJR156 | Pass | Commending the All Saints Choir of Men and Boys on the occasion of its 110th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ156ER) |
| SJR157 | Pass | Commending the Graves family.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ157ER) |
| HB632 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority; broadband services. Clarifies that the Virginia Resources Authority may be used as a funding mechanism for all projects involving the provision of broadband services, and not just those utilizing wireless broadband tech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| SJR158 | Pass | Commending Virginia Citizens for Water Quality, community watershed organizations, and Roundtables of major river basins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ158ER) |
| SJR159 | Pass | Commending Joseph Viar, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ159ER) |
| SJR160 | Pass | Confirming Governor's appointments; agency heads and certain persons. Confirms appointments made by Governor Kaine during the 2008 Session of agency heads and other persons and communicated to the General Assembly January 31, 2008.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ160ER) |
| SJR161 | Pass | Celebrating the life of George W. Quarles Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ161ER) |
| SJR162 | Pass | Commending Dr. David T. Clark and the Loudoun Archaeological Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ162ER) |
| SJR163 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Norma Bornarth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ163ER) |
| SJR164 | Pass | Commending the Town of Leesburg on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ164ER) |
| SB197 | Pass | The brain injury registry; the Department of Rehabilitative Services. Eliminates the requirement that hospitals report brain injuries to the brain injury registry maintained by the Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS), but requires the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| SJR165 | Pass | Commending Jane Garrant Roane.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ165ER) |
| SJR166 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Eve Douglas Prime Fout.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ166ER) |
| SJR167 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Claude Baker Smalts, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ167ER) |
| SJR168 | Pass | Commending Lucy Swart Beauchamp.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ168ER) |
| SJR169 | Pass | Celebrating the life of G. Bill Backus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ169ER) |
| SJR170 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Peter Eustis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ170ER) |
| HB1413 | Pass | Public utilities; competitive bidding. Requires public utilities that are subject to annual review provisions of Title 56 to use competitive bidding in purchasing and construction practices. Currently, only utilities subject to the biennial review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| SJR171 | Pass | Battle of Craney Island Day. Designates June 22, 2008, as the Battle of Craney Island Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ171ER) |
| HB903 | Pass | Magistrates. Reforms the magistrate system by transferring appointment and supervisory responsibilities from the circuit court judges to the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, although the chief judges of the circuit courts in the region are t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| SJR173 | Pass | Commending Mary Kostel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ173ER) |
| HB1160 | Pass | Employment of children; school bus drivers. Clarifies that persons under age 18 are not permitted to drive school buses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| SJR175 | Pass | Commending the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-17
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ175ER) |
