| HB334 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion; informed consent. Requires information on the effects abortion may have on future pregnancies to be included in the information required for informed consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1275 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia High-Speed Rail Commission. Establishes the Virginia High-Speed Rail Commission to promote and augment the state's competitive stance for matters related to high-speed passenger rail service in Virginia. The Commission is to study, assess, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB652 | Engross
Sine Die | Eminent domain; just compensation; restricted access. Provides that any restriction, change, or loss of access to or from property taken under the power of eminent domain shall be considered as an element in assessing the damages to the residue for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (10-Y 3-N) |
| HB681 | Engross
Sine Die | Discretion of law-enforcement officer to arrest or issue summons for a jailable offense. Gives a law-enforcement officer discretion to arrest or to issue a summons to a person in his custody for having committed a Class 1 or 2 misdemeanor. Currently,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Civil immunity for local government officers, etc.; notarial acts. Provides that an officer, employee, or volunteer of a local government who is a commissioned notary public and is required to perform notarial acts for actions of the locality, withou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB854 | Engross
Sine Die | Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, against an intruder in his dwelling who has committed an overt act against him, without civil liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1347 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax and BPOL tax exemptions; aviation companies. Provides a sales and use tax exemption and an optional business, professional, and occupational license tax exemption for aviation companies that facilitate and support the U.S. Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 3-N) |
| HB1158 | Engross
Sine Die | Regional VDOT construction accounts. Provides for the establishment of regional accounts, one for each highway construction district, whereby new transportation revenues not previously in existence generated on and after July 1, 2010 shall be deposit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-02
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB766 | Engross
Sine Die | Legal notices by localities. Provides that in any instance in which a locality is required to publish a notice in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality, and the locality in good faith attempts to have such notice published, a failu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-02
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 10-N) |
| HB960 | Engross
Sine Die | Local housing fund. Provides that any locality may establish by resolution a housing fund, the purpose of which will be to assist for-profit or nonprofit housing developers or organizations to develop or preserve affordable housing for low and modera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-02
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to the Virginia Housing Commission pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB993 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving under the influence; persons under age 21. Provides that it is unlawful for any person under the age of 21 to operate any motor vehicle when the person's blood alcohol content is 0.02 percent or more. Currently such conduct is unlawful only i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB529 | Engross
Sine Die | Electronic notary public; evidence of identity; requirements. Allows, in the case of an electronic notarization, for satisfactory evidence of the identity of a signer to be based on (i) video and audio conference technology that permits the notary to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB1334 | Engross
Sine Die | Littering; cigarette butts. Prohibits disposal of cigarettes or any portion thereof on public property. Any person convicted of violation shall be subject to a civil penalty of $75. However, in lieu of appearing in court, the violator may mail or per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| HJR124 | Engross
Sine Die | Directing the Joint Commission on Health Care to study access to medical care in rural Southwest Virginia; report. In conducting the study, the Joint Commission on Health Care shall examine (i) the feasibility and effectiveness of a pilot program nar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-26
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Rules by voice vote |
| HB392 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicles damaged by water. Increases threshold for reporting water damage from $1,000 to $5,000. The bill further provides that if such vehicles are damaged to the extent that they meet the definition of salvage vehicle, they shall be titled as such.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-25
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to the Division of Motor Vehicles pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB76 | Engross
Sine Die | Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to allocate 65 percent of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-25
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB599 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; Public/Private Education Investment Tax Credit. Creates income tax credits for business entities and individual taxpayers who make contributions to eligible public school foundations and eligible scholarship foundations. For individual ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB641 | Engross
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; requests for records. Provides that FOIA requests may be made by any citizen of the United States and not just citizens of the Commonwealth and extends the same privilege to representatives of newpapers and magazines. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; proceedings for enforcement. Clarifies that before a FOIA petition is filed, the party against whom the writ is brought must receive a copy of the petition within a reasonable time prior to the petitioner filing the petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB1013 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Infrastructure in Urban Development Areas Loan Fund. Creates the Virginia Infrastructure in Urban Development Areas Loan Fund. The Fund would be administered by the Virginia Resources Authority. Money in the Fund would be used exclusively fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Domestic relations; self-incrimination; adverse inference. Provides that in actions filed on or after July 1, 2010, for spousal support, custody, or visitation under Title 16.1 or for divorce or separate maintenance filed under Title 20, the court ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB613 | Engross
Sine Die | Personal property tax; machinery and tools. Classifies new investments in machinery and tools for manufacturing, processing and reprocessing, mining, and radio or television broadcasting made after July 1, 2010, as intangible personal property and no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
House: VOTE: --- DEFEATED #2 (48-Y 50-N) |
| HB498 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification requirements; provisional ballots. Eliminates the provision that allows a voter to sign a sworn statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be in lieu of showing identification. Requires a photo ID an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1321 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; localities' regulation of open burning. Clarifies the potential conflict currently found in the law of the Commonwealth by granting localities the authority to enforce the Fire Prevention Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
House: VOTE: --- DEFEATED (36-Y 62-N) |
| HB674 | Engross
Sine Die | Radar detectors; allow use. Repeals prohibition on use of radar detectors in motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-11
House: VOTE: --- DEFEATED (38-Y 61-N) |
