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SB406PassSalvage vehicles; maintenance and contents of records; reports. Clarifies items that must be contained in the records that licensees maintain on receipt of any vehicles and allows the governing body of any locality to require that the records be repo...
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2010-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873)
SB478PassTobacco products tax; moist snuff. Changes the tax on moist snuff from 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price to $0.18 per ounce. The bill also would provide that loose leaf tobacco would be subject to the Commonwealth's tobacco products tax on...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804)
SB193PassMedicaid provider agreements; authority to terminate. Allows the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to refuse to enter into or renew, or elect to terminate an existing provider agreement or contract for any of the reasons the U...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785)
SB509PassCharter; Town of Vinton. Amends the charter for the town of Vinton by requiring the town to follow the general law regarding filling council vacancies.
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807)
SB715PassTeacher training; civics education. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to require (i) all education preparation programs for teachers in history and social sciences, elementary education K-6, and middle education 6-8 to include...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814)
SB726PassBallast Water Control Report. Changes name from Hampton Roads Maritime Association to Virginia Maritime Association.
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
SB241PassOpen Education Curriculum Board; established. Establishes the Open Education Curriculum Board. The purpose of the Board is to designate qualifying entities as Open Education Consortiums and set the standards for submission of education materials and ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787)
SB246PassNoise ordinance; authorizes governing body to adopt civil penalties. Authorizes the governing body of a locality to adopt civil penalties for violations of noise ordinances. Civil fines will not exceed $250 for the first offense and $500 for each sub...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)
SB248PassIndigent 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 in circuit court for the appointment of experts to assist in the pre...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789)
SB265PassHospice and home health care; licensure. Amends hospice licensure standards to allow inspections of facilities that are exempt from licensure to the extent necessary to ensure public health and safety, and allows the Commissioner of Health to cause a...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)
SB273PassAssessments for affordable housing units. Provides that assessments for certain affordable housing units be done according to the income approach, based on the property's current use and restrictions. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Hou...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791)
SB275PassAdvance medical directives. Clarifies authority of an advance directive in cases in which a person is subject to an emergency custody, temporary detention, involuntary admission, or mandatory outpatient treatment order; eliminates the requirement tha...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792)
SB282PassLandlord and Tenant; eviction procedure; acceptance of redemption tenders. Provides that when a tenant presents on or before the first return date on an action for unlawful detainer for the nonpayment of rent, a redemption tender in the amount of all...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)
SB736PassCollege Partnership Laboratory Schools. Allows for the establishment of college partnership laboratory schools by any public institution of higher education that operates an approved teacher education program. Such schools shall be public schools est...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816)
SB738PassEstablishment of virtual school programs. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the Board of Education to approve, criteria for approving and monitoring multi-division providers of online courses and virtual school program...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817)
SB295PassRevision of Title 6.1. Creates proposed Title 6.2 (Financial Institutions and Services) as a revision of existing Title 6.1 (Banking and Finance). Proposed Title 6.2 consists of 22 chapters divided into four subtitles: Subtitle I (General Provisions)...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794)
SB309PassVoter registration applications; retention of information on applicant's last previous residence. Provides that the general registrar for the locality where a voter currently resides shall retain the portion of the application that shows the applican...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795)
SB18PassSpecial license plates. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates (i) to supporters of the Virginia Kids Eat Free program, (ii) to supporters of the Professor Garfield Foundation, (iii) bearing the legend: TRUST WOMEN/RESPECT CHOICE, (iv) bea...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776)
SB68PassFirefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Procedural Guarantee Act; conduct of interrogations. Provides that firefighters or emergency medical technicians may have a witness of their choice present during an interrogation, as long as the intervi...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779)
SB338PassAssisted living facility; considered occupancy by single family if no more than 8 persons reside. Expands certain provisions that currently apply to the Counties of Arlington and York statewide. The existing provisions declare that zoning ordinances...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796)
SB428PassIncome taxes; recognition of income from capital gains. Grants an income tax deduction for any income taxed as a long-term capital gain for federal income tax purposes or any income taxed as investment services partnership interest income, on or afte...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802)
SB128PassAir Pollution Control Board; regulations under the Clean Air Interstate Rule. Retains the authority of the Air Pollution Control Board to provide for participation in the EPA-administered cap and trade system for NOx and SO2 to the fullest extent per...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783)
SB347PassCenter for Rural Virginia; expansion and promotion of agricultural opportunities. Provides the Center for Rural Virginia with the additional authority to facilitate the development of incentives and to provide a forum for competing interests to allow...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797)
SB130PassSales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase by certain entities of particular computer equipment by including enabling software, and clarifies what enabling h...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784)
SB555PassVirginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets and certain proprietary records disclose...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808)
SB201PassAuditor of Public Accounts. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to administer an operational and performance audit of transportation programs. The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission must issue a request for proposals...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786)
SB561PassCoal mine safety. Makes several changes to the Coal Mine Safety Act. Surface foremen must take, at minimum, a 24-hour course of instruction in advanced first aid taught by a certified advanced first aid instructor and pass an examination approved by ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809)
SB379PassSouthwest Regional Recreation Authority; civil penalties. Grants localities within the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority the authority to allocate civil penalties to the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. This legislation also clarifies t...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798)
SB382PassJury panel; disclosure to counsel. Changes from 48 hours to three full business days the time period when a copy of the jury panel shall be made available to all counsel of record in the case. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of Boyd-Gra...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799)
SB64PassRegulation of signage in highway rights of way. Allows county employees and volunteers who are acting as agents of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to remove and confiscate signs from the public right-of-way. If a sign is confiscated by a...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777)
SB65PassPsychiatric treatment of minors. Revises the Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act in order to create a stand alone juvenile commitment act that will be titled the Psychiatric Treatment of Minors Act and to eliminate various cross references ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778)
SB387PassCertificates of analysis in criminal cases. Amends legislation enacted during the August 2009 Special Session in response to the United States Supreme Court decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. ___ (June 25, 2009) to state that if the...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800)
SB602PassHuman infant; independent and separate existence. Provides that for the purposes of homicide, the fact that the umbilical cord has not been cut or that the placenta remains attached shall not be considered in determining whether a human infant has ac...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810)
SB88PassCriminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Requires health care providers who provide services under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund to negotiate with the Virginia Worker's Compensation Commission, which administers the Fund, to establish agreement...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780)
SB89PassPetition to restore right to possess, etc., firearm; notice to attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that if a person files a petition to restore his right to possess or carry a firearm, a copy of the petition shall be mailed or delivered to the a...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781)
SB613PassState active military duty; health care coverage; insurance. Allows a member of the Virginia National Guard called to state active duty by the Governor to continue his health care coverage, life insurance, or long-term care insurance, at the member's...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811)
SB100PassVirginia Stock Corporation Act. Conforms provisions of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act to revisions to the Model Business Corporation Act prepared by the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, and makes several clarifying revisions....
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782)
SB410PassState aging services; blueprint for livable communities and long-term services and supports for older Virginians and people with disabilities. Provides for the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to coordinate the development of a blueprint for l...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801)
SB654PassElectronic reforms; State Board of Elections. Makes several amendments to Title 24.2 (Elections) that authorize the State Board of Elections to utilize various electronic systems. The bill provides that the State Board shall provide only electronic ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)
SB459PassGovernment Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; workforce and education program evaluation and policy analysis. Provides for certain agencies to share encrypted (de-identified) data to create one-time restricted-use data sets in order to ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803)
SB667PassDulles Access Highway. Provides for the enforcement through the use of a photo-monitoring system or automatic identification system on the Dulles Access Highway.
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813)
SB491PassSale of used building fixtures; penalty. Requires dealers in secondhand building fixtures to retain records of identifying information about the seller or purchaser of such materials. The seller of an article is required to provide documentation to t...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805)
SB496PassCharter; Town of Chatham. Amends the charter for the Town of Chatham to change council member and mayoral elections from May to November. Further changes are made to the appointment procedure and qualification of the town manager. This legislation co...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806)
SJR81PassConstitutional amendment (second resolution); limit on taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Increases the permissible size of the Fund by 50 percent; i.e., from 10 percent to 15 percent of the Commonwealth's average annual tax reven...
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2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 774 (effective 7/1/10)
SJR97PassConstitutional amendment (second resolution); property exempt from taxation. Amends the Constitution of Virginia to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to establish their own income or financial worth limitations for purposes of granti...
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2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 775 (effective 7/1/10)
SJR13PassConstitutional amendment (second resolution); property tax exemption for certain veterans. Directs 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 veter...
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2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 773 (effective 7/1/10)
SB184PassMEI Project Approval Commission; work of the Commission. Expands the scope of incentive packages to be reviewed by the MEI Project Approval Commission by eliminating the limitation that the Commission may only review incentive packages for MEI projec...
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2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716)
SB502PassVirginia Recreational Facilities Authority. Delays the reversion of title to real property from the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority to the Commonwealth, in the event that the Authority ceases to operate, until July 1, 2011. The bill provid...
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2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731)
SB506PassPolitical contributions; prohibition during procurement process. Provides that neither the Governor, his political action committee, nor any pertinent Secretaries shall knowingly solicit or accept a contribution, gift, or other item with a value gre...
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2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732)
SB220PassElectronic filing of cases in circuit courts. Establishes electronic filing of cases in circuit courts by providing for acceptance of electronic images as original documents for filing and recording, and for the attachment of electronic seals or stam...
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2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717)
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