VA Legislation | 2010 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB182	Intro Sine Die	Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; eligibility. Changes GPA eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program from 3.0 to 2.5. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB515	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; Budget Bill(s). Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i) any nonstate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB518	Intro Sine Die	Safety belt enforcement. Allows for primary enforcement of safety belt requirements when violations are observed by law-enforcement officers at traffic safety checkpoints. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB226	Intro Sine Die	Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for a court-ordered extension of polling hours in emergency situations and situations that interfere with the ability of voters to travel to the polls. The bill provides that no extension s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB228	Intro Sine Die	Pedestrians crossing highways. Clarifies the duties of vehicles to stop to allow pedestrians to cross highways at marked crosswalks. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Transportation Committee
SB279	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Fund. Establishes the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Fund to pay the death and health insurance premium benefits to individuals covered by the Line of Duty Act (§9.1-400 et seq.) and the death benef... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB335	Intro Sine Die	State retirees' group life insurance. Permits a retiree to make an irrevocable beneficiary designation of a portion of his group life insurance to purchase or secure funeral services, and services related to interment, cremation, or other means of di... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB139	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older will be entitled to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB83	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB97	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; definitions; funding for the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund. Includes local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in the definition of "disabled employee." The bill also provides for funding th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB118	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; conflict of interest disclosure. Specifies that disclosure forms filed by members of the General Assembly shall be posted on the website of the clerk of the appropriate house for the five years that they are maintained as public rec... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee
SB121	Intro Sine Die	Effect on rate when assessment results in tax increase; public hearings. Reduces the minimum advance notice of the public hearing a locality must hold prior to increasing its real property tax when that locality's assessment of real property results ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB438	Intro Sine Die	Vital records; fees. Provides that the Board of Health shall prescribe a fee of twenty dollars for a certified copy of a vital record or for a search of the files or records and may assess a fee of nine dollars plus any costs associated with online i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB451	Intro Sine Die	Local government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in group life, accident, and health insurance programs offered to its officers and employees, and to employees of the locality's boards, commissions, agencies, and autho... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB161	Intro Sine Die	Divorce proceedings; service requirements and waiver of notice of further proceedings. Provides that, in divorce cases, when the defendant has been served with the complaint by personal or substituted service, and the defendant fails to answer, plead... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB367	Intro Sine Die	Workers' compensation; medical services. Limits the liability of an employer for certain costs of an employee's surgical procedures in connection with an award under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. If more than one covered surgical procedure ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L)
SB462	Intro Sine Die	Crime victims; immigration status. Provides that no law-enforcement officer or other agent of state or local government shall, when investigating a crime, inquire into the immigration status of any person who reports that he is the victim of the crim... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (10-Y 10-N)
SB682	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; recycling. Requires each local school board to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction any recycling policies voluntarily implemented or in place in any of its schools. The report shall include the types of items recycled, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 House: Continued to 2011 in Education by voice vote
SB249	Intro Sine Die	Animal care; transport; regulations. Requires the adoption of regulations that permit the non-commercial, intrastate transportation of animals by law-enforcement officers, animal control officers, and releasing agencies by vehicles that are not enclo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-03 House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
SB511	Intro Sine Die	Notification of settlement payment. Requires an insurer to provide notice to a judgment creditor or claimant upon the payment of at least $5,000 in settlement or satisfaction of a third-party liability claim to the attorney or representative of the j... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB238	Intro Sine Die	Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Services Act; CMRS resellers. Clarifies that CMRS resellers are required to collect the wireless E-911 surcharge on all sales by retailers of prepaid CMRS service. The measure defines CMRS resellers as providers of mo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB33	Intro Sine Die	Mobile camps for railroad employees. Establishes standards for rooms at terminals and headquarters, permanent assembly points, and mobile work camps provided by a railroad company for employees and contractors. Railroad companies are required to prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 14-N)
SB169	Intro Sine Die	Pawnbrokers; daily reports. Allows Spotsylvania County to enact an ordinance to require a pawnbroker to maintain and file a daily report electronically through the use of a disk, electronic transmission, or any other electronic means of reporting app... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Incorporated by General Laws (SB108-McDougle) by voice vote
SB725	Intro Sine Die	Sales and use tax; sales tax holiday for certain hurricane preparedness equipment. Adds portable pet carriers to the list of hurricane preparedness items that are exempt from the sales and use tax during the week of May 25 through May 31 each year. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-01 House: Passed by indefinitely in Finance by voice vote
SB343	Intro Sine Die	Fuels taxes; annually adjusted. Adjusts fuels taxes each year on April 1 by the percentage increase in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (sales volume weighted), Total Fleet (the CAFE) for the immediately preceding calendar year over the CAFE for ca... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-01 House: Continued to 2011 in Finance by voice vote
SB660	Intro Sine Die	Dealer registration for sales and use taxes; sufficient contact. Provides that a dealer is presumed to be soliciting or transacting business in Virginia by an independent contractor, agent, or other representative if the dealer enters into an agreeme... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-01 House: Tabled in Finance by voice vote
SB678	Intro Sine Die	Income tax credits; electric energy facility producing electricity primarily from agricultural livestock waste nutrients. Establishes individual and corporate income tax credits for energy property under §48 (a) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-01 House: Continued to 2011 in Appropriations by voice vote
SB229	Intro Sine Die	Safety belt use. Extends requirement for safety belt use to all occupants of a motor vehicle, not just those in the front seat. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-26 House: Incorporated by Militia, Police and Public Safety (SB219-Howell) by voice vote
SB230	Intro Sine Die	Provisional driver's license holders. Makes cell phone use while driving by a provisional driver's license holder a primary offense. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-26 House: Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
SB9	Intro Sine Die	Safety belts. Makes nonuse of safety belts a primary offense. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-26 House: Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
SB113	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); tax exemptions. Provides for a referendum at the November 2, 2010, election to approve or reject an amendment allowing the General Assembly to authorize legislation that permits localities to exempt or par... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-26 House: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
SB177	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile court docket; family assault. Requires cases of assault and battery against a family or household member to be advanced on the docket and heard within 30 days of arrest or service of a summons or as soon thereafter as practicable. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-26 House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
SB323	Intro Sine Die	Secretary of Education; name change. Changes the name of the Secretary of Education to the Secretary of Education and Workforce Development. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-24 House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote
SB447	Intro Sine Die	Shellfish sanitation; inspections; fees; penalty. Requires any person who operates an establishment for the processing of crabmeat or shellfish to have a permit from the State Health Commissioner. Permit fees shall be paid into a fund that supports t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-24 House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
SB225	Intro Sine Die	Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence. Requires all public contractors and their subcontractors to register and participate in a federal Electronic Work Verification Program or similar electronic verification of work authorization pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-17 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB548	Intro Sine Die	Customer access to restrooms; civil penalty. Requires a retail establishment that has a toilet facility for its employees to allow a customer to use that facility during normal business hours if the following conditions are met: (1) the customer requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-17 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB36	Intro Sine Die	Property insurance; repairing damages. Requires fire or miscellaneous property insurance policies on residential property to provide that the duty to repair, rebuild, or replace damaged portions of the property includes the obligation to restore the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-17 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB424	Intro Sine Die	Motor vehicle equity loans; penalties. Establishes requirements for motor vehicle equity loans, which are nonpurchase-money closed-end loans secured by an interest in a motor vehicle. Interest may not exceed a monthly rate of three percent. The maxim... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-17 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB691	Intro Sine Die	Department of Minority Business Enterprise; small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses; enhancement or remedial measures. Requires state contracts awarded pursuant to enhancement or remedial measures implemented to enhance participation by sma... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB542	Intro Sine Die	Tax dealer discounts. Eliminates the dealer discounts for the retail sales and use tax, communications sales and use tax, state cigarette tax, E-911 tax, tobacco products tax, tire recycling fee, fuels tax, and motor vehicle fuel sales tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB505	Intro Sine Die	Political parties to determine method of nominating candidates. Provides that only political parties may determine the method by which it nominates candidates for office and eliminates exceptions that allowed incumbents in certain cases to determine ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB705	Intro Sine Die	New and increased taxes for funding the Standards of Quality. Provides additional revenues to be appropriated for funding the Standards of Quality by (i) establishing an additional individual income tax of three percent in taxable years 2011, 2012, a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 10-N)
SB514	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; compensation during regular session extension. Specifies that members of the General Assembly receive neither per diem allowance nor mileage reimbursement if the session is extended past the date scheduled for adjournment sine die. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Rules Committee
SB714	Intro Sine Die	Estate tax reinstated. Reinstates the federal credit amount so that the Commonwealth will receive payments from those estates of persons dying on or after July 1, 2010. No estate tax would be imposed on estates valued at $5 million or less, working f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB223	Intro Sine Die	Fuels taxes; percentage of wholesale cost. Replaces the current fuels tax on gasoline, gasohol, and diesel fuel with a tax that is a percentage of the wholesale price of a gallon of self-serve unleaded regular gasoline. The percentage shall be establ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB717	Intro Sine Die	Regional VDOT construction accounts. Provides for the establishment of regional accounts to be used by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for allocation of funds for specific transportation projects within the region wherein the revenue is generat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB525	Intro Sine Die	Cooperative Marketing Fund of the Virginia Tourism Authority; dedication of soft drink excise tax and litter tax revenues. Dedicates the revenues from the Commonwealth's soft drink excise tax and litter tax to the Cooperative Marketing Fund administe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB231	Intro Sine Die	Charter; County of Chesterfield. Amends the county charter to authorize the county administrator to obtain the same information that the commissioner of revenue obtains from the state tax department and that the commissioner of revenue provides to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB534	Intro Sine Die	Administration of higher education. Restructures the system of higher education by abolishing the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Chancellor and Board for the Virginia Community College System and transferring certain of their ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB263	Intro Sine Die	Nurse practitioners; licensure. Moves responsibility for licensure and regulation of nurse practitioners from the Boards of Medicine and Nursing jointly to the Board of Nursing. Also, creates the Advisory Board on Nurse Practitioners and removes cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-02-16 To Senate Education and Health Committee