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HB51PassComprehensive plan amendments. Grants authority to a governing body to prepare an amendment to the comprehensive plan rather than directing the planning commission to do so. If a planning commission fails to make a recommendation on a proposed amend...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821)
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)
HB999PassLocal property tax; separate classification for certified renewable energy manufacturing equipment, facilities, devices. Adds tangible personal property and improvements to real property designed and used primarily for manufacturing a product from re...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849)
HB302PassSales 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 (CHAP0826)
HB485PassFinancial and management review of all state agencies. Directs the Governor to initiate on July 1, 2010, an operational and programmatic performance review of (i) the agencies under the Secretary of Health and Human Resources and the Secretary of Pub...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828)
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)
HB770PassArrest without warrant; DUI arrests. Allows an arrest to be made for misdemeanor offenses of DUI, boating while intoxicated or violation of an order prohibiting the operation of a watercraft, whether or not the offense occurred in the officer's prese...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840)
HB1185PassCoal 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 (CHAP0857)
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)
HB128PassSpecial fishing license. Authorizes the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue free fishing licenses to disabled, active duty military personnel who are receiving inpatient or outpatient medical treatment from a hospital in Virginia, an adj...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822)
HB1198PassSex offenders; registration requirements. Provides that prior to entering judgment of conviction of an offense for which registration is required if the victim of the offense was a minor, physically helpless, or mentally incapacitated, the court shal...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0858)
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)
HB1217PassFirearm safety education program. Allows local school boards to offer firearm safety education programs in the elementary grades. To assist local school boards opting to provide such instruction, the Board of Education must establish a standardized ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0859)
HB376PassService by publication. Validates orders of publication processed by a clerk prior to July 1, 2010, for service in certain actions.
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827)
HB676PassAerospace 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...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836)
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)
HB1226PassWars recognized on Veterans Day and in local monuments and memorials. Adds the Global War on Terrororism, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom to the wars that are recognized on Veterans Day and Memorial Day. The bill also adds the...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0860)
HB895PassCharter; Town of Windsor. Repeals the existing charter and provides a new charter containing powers typically granted to towns.
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842)
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)
HB912PassSex offender registry; residence. Provides that if a person required to register as a sex offender does not have a legal residence, the person must designate a location that can be located with reasonable specificity where he resides or habitually lo...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843)
HB913PassVictims of crime may visit perpetrator in prison facility. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall promulgate a policy to assist a person who was the victim of a crime committed by an offender incarcerated in any state correctional facility...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844)
HB1233PassState 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 (CHAP0861)
HB746PassToll payments; penalty. Provides that the operator of any toll facility or the locality within which such toll facility is located may install and operate or cause to be installed and operated a video-monitoring system in conjunction with an automati...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839)
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)
HB927PassImmediate sanction probation. Allows the establishment of up to two immediate sanction probation programs in the Commonwealth with a two-year sunset. The bill provides that as a condition of suspension of sentence pursuant to §19.2-303, a defend...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845)
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)
HB885PassPossession of concealed weapons in vehicles. Creates a new exemption to the general prohibition against carrying concealed weapons by allowing a person who may lawfully possess a firearm to carry a handgun in a private motor vehicle or vessel if the ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841)
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)
HB1255PassBail bondsman to receive criminal history information. Provides that if a judicial officer sets a secured bond and the person engages the services of a licensed bail bondsman, the magistrate executing recognizance for the accused shall, upon request ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0862)
HB1256PassResignation of law-enforcement officers; carrying concealed weapon. Provides that certain law-enforcement officers who are eligible for retirement with at least 20 years of service and who resign from their position in good standing to accept a posit...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0863)
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)
HB1257PassPurchase of service handguns; resignation in good standing. Provides that certain law-enforcement officers who are eligible for retirement with at least 20 years of service and who resign from their position in good standing to take another position ...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0864)
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)
HB1295PassDulles Access Highway. Provides for the enforcement through the use of a photo-monitoring system or automatic identification system on the Dulles Access Highway. This bill is the same as
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0865)
HB1298PassSales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment used in large data centers. Lowers the new job threshold to receive the sales and use tax exemption from 50 new employees to 25 for a data center located in either a locality with an unemploymen...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0866)
HB547PassMortgage lenders and mortgage brokers; Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry. Requires all mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers whose employees are required to be licensed as mortgage loan originators to register with the Nationwide Mort...
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2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831)
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