| HB111 | Engross
Sine Die | "Revenue-sharing" funds for highway systems in certain counties, cities, and towns. Provides that, from additional revenues made available by the General Assembly after January 1, 2008, and appropriated for the improvement, construction, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB881 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission orders. Authorizes final orders of the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) with respect to overpayments of unemployment benefits to be recorded, enforced and satisfied as orders or decrees of a circuit court upon cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| 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) |
| HB631 | Pass | Special license plates; sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates marking the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. In addition to the prescribed cost of state license plates, these plates w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| 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) |
| HB889 | Pass | Required driving hours for holders of learner's permits. Increases the minimum driving hours from 40 to 45 hours, at least 15 of which must be after sunset. The bill additionally requires, on a form supplied by DMV, certification of the hours driven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| 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) |
| HB137 | Pass | Textbook purchasing contracts. Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbook to include print and electronic media. The bill reorganizes the textbook pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB139 | Pass | Income tax; biodiesel and green diesel fuels producers income tax credit. Allows an income tax credit to biodiesel and green diesel fuels producers in Virginia who produce up to two million gallons of biodiesel or green diesel fuels a year. The amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| HB1420 | Pass | Department of Health declared state radiation agency. Establishes the Virginia Department of Health as the state radiation control agency. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| 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) |
| HB149 | Pass | Independent living services and independent living arrangements. Defines independent living arrangement as placement of a child at least 16 years of age who is in the custody of a local board or licensed child-placing agency and has been placed by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB408 | Pass | Foreclosure rescue; prohibition; penalties. Makes persons participating in or servicing foreclosure rescues for profit with the intent to defraud a consumer a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| 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) |
| HB1177 | Pass | Plats. Provides that once a plat for all or a portion of a multiphase development is recorded, the preliminary plat shall remain valid for a period of five years from the date of the latest recorded plat of subdivision for the property. Also, an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| HB1449 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management plans. Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education to develop, adopt, and keep current a written crisis and emergency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| HB1197 | Pass | Elections; voter registration; and electronic administration systems. Reduces the period of time that registration records must be closed before a general or primary election from 28 to 21 days beginning January 1, 2010. The bill also permits local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| HB946 | Pass | Adoption; period of validity of home study. Provides that any home study conducted for the purpose of parental placement or agency placement shall be valid for a period of 36 months from the date of completion of the study. However, the Board may, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| 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) |
| HB440 | Pass | Presumption of no bail for illegal aliens charged with certain crimes. Provides that a judicial officer shall presume, subject to rebuttal, that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the appearance of the person or the saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB1218 | Pass | Wireless telecommunications devices. Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies, or when the vehicle is lawfully parked and for the purposes of dispatching. Use of two-way radio dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| 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) |
| HB451 | Pass | Composition of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Increases the membership from 16 to 17 by adding a town representative who shall serve as a nonvoting member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB1478 | Pass | Pedestrian control signals. Requires pedestrians to obey signals exhibiting the words, numbers, or symbols meaning “Walk” or “Don’t Walk.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB456 | Pass | Charter; City of Martinsville. Provides that the City may establish a municipal trust. The principal of the trust shall be (i) all of the proceeds of the sale of any City asset owned by the City that generates between $10 million and $20 million, (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| 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) |
| HB720 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; definitions; payment of rent; landlord remedies. Adds, among other things, a definition of "application fee," caps the fee at $50, and provides that such fee is nonrefundable. The bill also defines "written notice" as notic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB724 | Pass | Elections; polling hours; and central absentee voter precincts. Permits the local electoral board, with the agreement of the general registrar, to delay the opening of the central absentee voter precinct from 6:00 a.m. for up to six hours or until no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| 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) |
| HB725 | Pass | Equine dental technicians. Provides that registration requirements for equine dental technicians shall not prevent (i) persons performing tasks related to the practice of equine dentistry under the direction and immediate supervision of a licensed v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| 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) |
| HB214 | Pass | Public entities; rights of persons with disabilities. Adds public entities, including schools, to the list of public places in which persons with disabilities are entitled to the same full and free rights as other persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| 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 |
| HB477 | Pass | Veterans Services Foundation. Establishes the Veterans Services Foundation as a body politic and corporate to provide funding for veterans services and programs in the Commonwealth. The bill also (i) clarifies the purpose of the Veterans Services Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| HB1547 | Engross
Sine Die | The 21st Century Capital Improvement Program. Creates the 21st Century Capital Improvement Program which is a dynamic program for the orderly and systematic programming and financing of capital projects throughout the Commonwealth that will be revis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
House: Failed to pass in House |
| 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 |
| HB151 | Engross
Sine Die | Name change; proof that the applicant is U.S. citizen. Requires that every application for a change of name contain proof that the applicant is a United States citizen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB795 | Engross
Sine Die | Bonds for Virginia facilities and other projects. Authorizes the issuance of bonds under the Virginia Public Building Authority in a principal amount not to exceed $1,103,600,000 , and under the Virginia College Building Authority with the principal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-13
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB709 | Engross
Sine Die | Mortgage lenders and brokers. Prohibits any mortgage lender or broker that is required to be licensed under the Mortgage Lender and Broker Act from making a mortgage loan to, or negotiating, placing or finding a mortgage loan for, a borrower if it i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| SB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Greenhouse gas emissions; mandatory reporting. Requires that the State Air Pollution Control Board adopt regulations requiring the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources. The regulations would apply only to those sources that e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
