| SB737 | Pass | Public charter schools; review and reconsideration. Requires the public charter school applicant to submit its proposed charter application to the Board of Education for review, comment, and a determination as to whether the application meets approva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| SB297 | Pass | Veterans Services Fund. Provides that moneys in the Veterans Services Fund shall be administered by the Veterans Services Foundation to provide funding for veterans services and programs in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| SB341 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit; tax credit percentage. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, when preparing its annual report, to consult with the Department of Taxation and the Department of Forestry and Department of Agriculture and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| SB23 | Pass | Aerospace Advisory Council. Removes the sunset on the Aerospace Advisory Council and adds five nonlegislative citizen members to the Council. In addition to advising the Governor, the Council shall advise the Joint Commission on Technology and Scienc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| SB538 | Pass | Training centers; physician coverage. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to require the presence of a licensed physician at all times in any state training center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| SB552 | Pass | HOV lanes. Extends the "sunset" on use of HOV lanes by clean special fuel vehicles, regardless of the number of their occupants, until July 1, 2011. This bill also provides for the issuance of special license plates to clean special fuel ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| SB370 | Pass | Local boards of social services; county board form of government. Allows appointment of either three or five members to a local board of social services in a county operating under the county board form of government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| SB306 | Pass | Information provided to political parties and candidates. Provides that, upon request and at a reasonable charge not to exceed the actual cost incurred, a political party or candidate is entitled to receive a copy of (i) the list of officers of elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| SB313 | Pass | Absentee voters; central absentee voting precinct. Provides that a voter, who has applied for but did not receive or has lost an absentee ballot or who returns an unused or accidently spoiled absentee ballot, shall be allowed to vote on election day ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| SB381 | Pass | Communications sales and use tax; Tazewell County. Provides that Tazewell County's share of communications sales and use tax revenue be equal to the distributions it would have received if the Auditor of Public Accounts had certified that the County ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| SB593 | Pass | Elections; voting equipment; acquisition of DREs. Allows localities to acquire direct recording electronic machines (DREs) for the purpose of providing one voting system at each polling place equipped for individuals with disabilities. The local elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| SB384 | Pass | Attorney-client privilege; work product protection; limitations on waivers. Provides that when the disclosure of a communication or information covered by attorney-client privilege or work product protection made in a proceeding or to any public body...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| SB597 | Pass | Workers' compensation insurance; proof of coverage. Authorizes workers' compensation insurance carriers to file proof of coverage within 30 days of an insurance policy's inception. The filing shall be made electronically in the form prescribed by, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| SB440 | Pass | Credit unions and banks; mergers and consolidations. Establishes a procedure by which a state credit union may convert to a state mutual savings institution. Conversion requires approval of two-thirds of the eligible and voting members of the credit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
| SB87 | Pass | Hospitalization of inmates in local correctional facilities. Repeals provisions dealing with determining (i) a defendant's competency to be sentenced after he has been convicted of a crime and (ii) whether an inmate who is in the custody of a local c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| SB395 | Pass | Stormwater management regulations; effective date. Delays the regulation that establishes local program criteria and delegation procedures and the water quality and water quantity criteria. The regulation, however, shall be adopted within 280 days af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| SB457 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Real Estate Board. Establishes a voluntary compliance program within the Real Estate Board to allow certain real estate brokers to bring practices, policies and procedures into compliance with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) |
| SB404 | Pass | HOV lanes; clean special fuel vehicles; government use. Removes requirement that the Commissioner provide written regulations before the Department of Motor Vehicles may issue government-use license plates for clean special fuel vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| SB409 | Pass | Duties of the clerk of the circuit court. Allows the court to order the immediate destruction, donation, or return of evidence where a defendant is found not guilty, and allows the clerk to do the same for cases concluded prior to July 1, 2005, witho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| SB619 | Pass | Individual income tax; Virginia Military Family Relief Fund payments. Provides that it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth to allow individuals who receive payments from the Virginia Military Family Relief Fund to subtract them from their federa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| SB105 | Pass | Mechanics' and materialmen's liens. Removes the definitional requirement that one must give consent in writing in order to be a "mechanics' lien agent." The bill also authorizes any person entitled to claim a lien to notify the mechanics' l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| SB413 | Pass | Triennial census of school population; sales and use tax distribution. Eliminates the requirement that every three years a census of all school-age persons residing within each school division take place. Also eliminates all related requirements rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| SB423 | Pass | Liability of certain health care practitioners. Provides that no health care practitioner who renders at any site health care services, voluntarily and without compensation, to a patient of a clinic for the indigent and uninsured that is organized f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| SB427 | Pass | Disclosure of insurance policy limits; wrongful death action. Allows the personal representative of the estate of a decedent who died as a result of a motor vehicle accident, or his attorney, to request the disclosure of the liability limits of an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| SB645 | Pass | Undergrounding of electric transmission lines. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission from approving an agreement between a local governing body and an electric utility for the underground installation of an electric transmission line of at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| SB439 | Pass | Home service contract providers. Exempts any home service contract provider that has a net worth in excess of $100 million from the provisions of Article 2 of Chapter 26 of Title 38.2 of the Virginia Code, which provides for the licensure regulation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| SB148 | Pass | Community Integration Advisory Commission. Extends the sunset for the Community Integration Advisory Commission from July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2014. The bill also changes the responsibility for staff support from the Virginia Board for People with Dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| SB154 | Pass | Increasing various costs, fees, penalties, etc. Increases the amounts of various costs, potential attorney fee awards, potential damages, jurisdictional amounts, and other dollar-based provisions in the Virginia Code to account for the effect of infl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| SB465 | Pass | Group life insurance coverage. Allows coverage under a group life insurance policy to be extended to insure any person in whom the insured group member has an insurable interest, as may mutually be agreed upon by the insurer and the group policyholde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| SB490 | Pass | Bail terms set by court on a capias to be honored by magistrate. Provides that a magistrate who is to set the terms of bail of a person arrested and brought before him on a capias shall do so in accordance with the order of the court that issued the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| SB527 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. Expands the definition of "franchised motor vehicle dealer" to include used car dealerships operating under the trademark of a manufacturer. The bill also defines the relevant market area applicable to dealers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| SB60 | Pass | Copying of absentee ballot applications. Provides that applications for absentee ballots may be inspected but not copied. Currently the applications may be inspected and copied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| SB483 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; third party shipment of wine and beer. Creates a fulfillment warehouse license, which authorizes an agricultural cooperative association with a place of business in the Commonwealth and under the direction and control of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| SB692 | Pass | Fee in lieu of probate tax. Imposes a fee in the amount of $25 for the recordation of a list of heirs of a decedent who died intestate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| SB194 | Pass | Health professions; certain consumer-directed services. Clarifies that nothing in Title 54.1 shall prevent any person from performing state or federally funded health care tasks directed by a consumer, which are typically self-performed, for an indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
| SB528 | Pass | Prisons; Treatment and control of prisoners. Requires a licensed psychiatrist or licensed clinical psychologist who is experienced in the diagnosis, treatment, and risk assessment of sex offenders to oversee sex offender treatment programs in the Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) |
| SB233 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit. Reduces from $100,000 to $50,000 the amount of the land preservation tax credit that may be claimed for taxable year 2011. Any taxpayer affected by the credit reduction would be allowed an additional taxable year in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| SB532 | Pass | Prohibition on wearing a mask; public emergency exception. Adds to the existing exemptions in the section making it a Class 6 felony for a person over the age of 16 to wear a mask in public or on private property without the owner's written consent a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| SB237 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; wine liter tax. Requires the portion of the wine liter tax collected from the sale of wine produced by farm wineries to be deposited in the Virginia Wine Promotion Fund for use by the Wine Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| SB264 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit; fee for transfer of credits. Changes the fee for the sale or distribution of land preservation tax credits to two percent of the value of the donated interest. Currently, the fee is two percent of the value of the donate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| SB276 | Pass | Dam safety. Requires that the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board's Impounding Structure Regulations not require any dam in existence or under construction prior to July 1, 2010, that is classified as a high hazard, or is subsequently reclassi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| SB277 | Pass | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); applications. Allows TANF applicants to retain pre-existing support they may have received on their own behalf or on behalf of any other family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| SB289 | Pass | Infant lifetime hunting and fishing licenses. Establishes lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents who are younger than two years of age. The cost for infant lifetime licenses for hunting and fishing is $125 each for resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| SB349 | Pass | Reemployment rights of members of Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force, or naval militia. Extends the period in which a member of the Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force, or naval militia is required to apply for re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| SB354 | Pass | Limited English proficient students; assessment. Provides that local school divisions may administer a locally developed or selected limited English proficiency assessment mandated for students pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, so lon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| SB355 | Pass | Local taxation of short-term rental property. Classifies short-term rental property as a separate classification of merchants' capital, and would authorize the governing body of any locality to tax short-term rental property under the merchants' capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| SB372 | Pass | Maintenance of roadways by Buchanan County. Authorizes the Buchanan County Board of Supervisors to maintain roadways within the right-of-way of railroads, subject to an agreement with the railroad.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| SB51 | Pass | Absentee voting; poll watchers. Authorizes any person to vote absentee who has been designated by a political party or candidate to be a representative of that party or candidate inside a polling place on the day of the election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| SB598 | Pass | Regulation of private and out-of-state institutions of higher education; exemptions. Clarifies that the definition of "vocational" shall not include instructional programs intended solely for recreation, enjoyment, personal interest, or as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| SB328 | Pass | EMS providers; vaccinations. Allows emergency medical services providers to administer vaccines to adults and minors pursuant to a protocol approved by the Board of Nursing. This bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
