| SB658 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zones) in the state. Requires the Department of General Services and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to develop procurement regulations for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB158 | Engross
Sine Die | Mental health courts. Provides that any district court or circuit court may establish a mental health court, which is a separate court docket within the existing calendar of a district or circuit court offering judicial monitoring of the treatment an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB469 | Engross
Sine Die | P-16 Education Council. Makes the Governor's P-16 Education Council a permanent advisory council within the executive branch.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB166 | Engross
Sine Die | Community College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Community College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to community college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds paid shall not exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB173 | Engross
Sine Die | Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB174 | Engross
Sine Die | Retail sales and use tax exemptions. Beginning July 1, 2012, exempts from the retail sales and use tax solar photovoltaic systems, solar thermal systems, and wind-powered electrical generators purchased for installation in or on residential real prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB679 | Engross
Sine Die | Restorative justice programs. Establishes a restorative justice program for offenders and victims. Provisions address participation, court involvement, confidentiality, and immunity from civil liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB683 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting procedures. Deletes the requirement that domestic absentee voters must provide detailed information concerning their legal residence in Virginia in their sworn statement on the envelope in which they return their marked abs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB495 | Engross
Sine Die | DUI; prior offenses. Provides a definition of "substantially similar" for the purpose of determining when an out-of-state DUI conviction can be used to enhance punishment for a current Virginia DUI offense. Out-of-state laws that criminalize driving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB1394 | Engross
Sine Die | Appointment of counsel; imposition of penalty of incarceration in certain misdemeanor cases. Provides that if a criminal charge against an accused is a misdemeanor or in a class of misdemeanors the penalty for which may be incarceration, a penalty of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-12
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 4-N) |
| HB1057 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; qualifications of candidates. Directs the State Board of Elections or the general registrar, as appropriate, to evaluate whether a person meets the residency requirements to qualify as a candidate and entitle him to have his name printed o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections |
| SB624 | Engross
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; voter lists. Rewrites the provisions stating who may obtain the lists of registered voters and lists of persons who voted in elections. Adds nonprofit organizations that promote voter participation and registration to the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-10
House: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections |
| HB1041 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Workforce Council. Replaces the Secretary of Education with the Secretary of Technology on the Virginia Workforce Council and reduces the number of gubernatorial citizen appointees from 15 to 14. The measure also provides that the Chancellor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB18 | Engross
Sine Die | Commerce; certain made goods and services. Provides that all goods manufactured or made in Virginia and all services performed in Virginia, when such goods or services are held, maintained, or retained in Virginia, shall not be subject to the authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR100 | Engross
Sine Die | Encouraging the Board of Education to support the establishment of additional mathematics, science, and technology Governor's Schools in the Commonwealth. Encourages the Board of Education to support the establishment of additional mathematics, scien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1350 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act. Shortens the potential duration of the period during which the requirements of the Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act are in effect from 30 days after the occurrence of a disaster or a renewa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (6-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| HB108 | Engross
Sine Die | Disposition of firearms. Provides that no locality may participate in any program in which individuals are given a thing of value in exchange for surrendering a firearm to the locality unless the governing body of the locality has enacted an ordinanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR125 | Engross
Sine Die | State sovereignty; Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Urges Congress to honor state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and claims sovereignty for the Commonwealth under the Tenth Amendment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB965 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs; powers and duties relating to consumer protection laws. Transfers investigative and consumer complaint and dispute resolution functions for certain consumer protection l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB171 | Engross
Sine Die | Firearms in locked vehicles; immunity from liability. Provides that no person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business owner may prohibit a person who lawfully possesses a firearm from storing that firearm in a locked motor vehicle. The bill pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB236 | Engross
Sine Die | Shooting firearms in certain areas. Makes a locality no longer able to prohibit hunting generally within a half-mile radius of a subdivision, but a locality would still be able to prohibit hunting within a subdivision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB241 | Engross
Sine Die | Retired judges under temporary recall. Requires that the General Assembly approve retired judges for service under temporary recall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB331 | Engross
Sine Die | Public charter schools; approval of applications. Allows the Board of Education to submit recommendations to local school boards as to the approval or disapproval of charter school applications, and requires local school boards to provide, in writing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB15 | Engross
Sine Die | Custody in state and local correctional facilities of those accused or convicted of federal terrorism. Provides that no person who is accused or convicted of terrorism in violation of federal law, as terrorism is defined in 18 U.S.C. §2331, shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB333 | Engross
Sine Die | Naming highways, etc. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board to name a highway, bridge, transportation facility, or interchange for a living person, group, or business entity if (i) the cost of construction of the bridge, highway, transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HJR53 | Engross
Sine Die | Honor and Remember Flag. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to designate the Honor and Remember Flag as a national emblem of the service and sacrifice by the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have given their lives...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB728 | Engross
Sine Die | Conditions of release without bond. Provides that no person arrested for a felony who has previously been convicted of a felony, or who is presently on bond for an unrelated arrest in any jurisdiction, or who is on probation or parole, may be release...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB49 | Engross
Sine Die | Purchase of handguns; repeal one-gun-a-month limitation. Repeals the prohibition against purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB735 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; recovery of penalties for violation. Provides that in a civil action for fair housing violations, no fair housing organization or civil rights organization may recover any damages or costs or seek any other relief against a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB52 | Engross
Sine Die | Failure to carry concealed handgun permit. Provides that failure to produce, upon demand of a law-enforcement officer, a concealed handgun permit and a government-issued photo identification while carrying a concealed handgun is punishable by a $25 c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB53 | Engross
Sine Die | Unlawful use of human tracking devices. Provides that it is unlawful for an insurer to require his insured as a condition of obtaining insurance or remaining insured, or for an employer to require his employee as a condition of employment, to have an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1050 | Engross
Sine Die | Individual income tax; long-term care insurance tax credit. Doubles the amount of the credit an individual can take for long-term care insurance from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premium paid for such insurance, for taxable years beg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR193 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress; Parental Rights Amendment. Urges Congress to pass the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and submit it to the states for ratification. By this resolution, the Virginia General Assembly also affirms the Pare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1224 | Engross
Sine Die | Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit. Makes localities' health clinics providing free medical services by volunteer health practitioners eligible to receive tax credits that can be transferred to professionals donating their services to the program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1197 | Engross
Sine Die | DUI ignition interlock limitations. Provides that a person who is convicted of DUI is required to have an ignition interlock on the first offense as a condition of a restricted license. Currently, the requirement for an interlock is imposed only upon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1207 | Engross
Sine Die | Computer trespass; penalty. Expands the crime of computer trespass to include the use of video and image capture software or hardware (screenshots) in addition to keystroke loggers. The provision does not apply to certain Internet, software, and hard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB617 | Engross
Sine Die | House and Senate Ethics Advisory Panels; proceedings. Provides that once the House or Senate Ethics Advisory Panel has initiated an investigation into the conduct of a legislator, it must complete its inquiry, report its findings, and dispose of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB69 | Engross
Sine Die | Firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition manufactured and retained in Virginia. Declares that firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition that are manufactured commercially or privately in Virginia, and that remain within the borders of Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB914 | Engross
Sine Die | Barking dog ordinances; mediation. Provides that in any ordinance that regulates barking dogs, a locality may include provisions that require parties to use mediation or arbitration as an initial step in resolving a dispute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Payments to cities and towns for maintenance of certain highways. Reduces unrestricted right-of-way widths from 50 to 40 feet and hard-surface widths from 30 to 22 feet before payment can be made by the Commissioner to any city or town for maintenanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB446 | Engross
Sine Die | Workers' Compensation; exclusion of certain employees. Excludes a person from coverage under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act if his injury, disability, or death is covered by or eligible for benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB945 | Engross
Sine Die | Disability services boards. Eliminates the requirement that localities establish local disability services boards and makes establishment of local disability services boards optional for localities. The bill amends the list of activities that a local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Defeated by Senate (14-Y 26-N) |
| HB1273 | Engross
Sine Die | Restrictions on Governor's outside employment and activities. Prohibits the Governor from (i) performing any work or activity for remuneration other than his official duties as Governor, and (ii) holding an official leadership position in a national ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB460 | Engross
Sine Die | Uninsured motorist insurance coverage. Provides that a nonresident motor vehicle that is insured under a motor vehicle liability insurance policy issued in another state with coverage limits that are less than those required for Virginia-registered m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1023 | Engross
Sine Die | Telecommuting; employees of agencies within the legislative branch of state government. Requires the head of each agency within the legislative branch of state government to adopt a telecommuting and alternative work schedule policy for eligible empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1326 | Engross
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; medical services. Provides that a health care provider rendering medical services outside Virginia to an injured worker whose claim and injuries have been accepted as compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB570 | Engross
Sine Die | Real property tax assessments; appeals. Changes the burden of proof from the taxpayer to the assessor when a taxpayer appeals the assessment of real property to a board of equalization or to a circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 5-N) |
| HJR88 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress to propse an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for a balanced budget requirement. Expresses the General Assembly's support for a balanced budget amendment and urges Congress to submit such an amendment to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB778 | Engross
Sine Die | Publication of House and Senate voting records. Provides that, beginning with the 2011 Regular Session of the General Assembly, the Legislative Support Commission, through the Division of Legislative Automated Systems, from information and data provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-05
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Rules (14-Y 2-N) |
| HB1053 | Engross
Sine Die | Staffing for certain legislative study commissions. Provides that staffing support for the Virginia State Crime Commission, the Joint Commission on Health Care, the Virginia Commission on Youth, and the Virginia Housing Commission will be provided by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-05
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules (14-Y 1-N) |
