| SB195 | Pass | Physical therapy; advertising. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to advertise or promote services as "physical therapy" or "physiotherapy" unless such services are provided by a licensed physical therapist or physi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| SB516 | Pass | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. Extends the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation until July 1, 2012. Under current law, the Commission would expire on July 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| HB141 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit. Provides that only those nonprofit organizations that hold a conservation easement acquired pursuant to the Virginia Conservation Easement Act are ineligible to receive land preservation tax credits for donations of qual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) |
| SB529 | Pass | Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; screening. Provides that a licensed mental health professional certified by the Board of Psychology as a sex offender treatment provider may perform a screening for an initial determination of whether a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| SB183 | Pass | Malicious injury; search and rescue personnel. Adds search and rescue personnel who are members of an organization that has a memorandum of understanding with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management to the definition of search and rescue pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| HB650 | Pass | Funeral services; disputes between next of kin. Provides a judicial process for determining who makes the decision for the arrangements for a decedent's funeral or the disposition of his remains when there is a dispute between the next of kin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| SB243 | Pass | Fishing license exemption. Exempts active duty military personnel who are residents and on leave from having to obtain a basic fishing license so long as they can show proof that they are on leave. Such an exemption does not extend to such persons to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| HB979 | Pass | Destruction of exhibits. Relieves the clerk of notifying a defendant of the destruction or donation of certain exhibits used at trial: drugs, weapons, or exhibits deemed contraband. The defendant's attorney still receives notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB204 | Pass | Unauthorized addition of telecommunications services. Prohibits a telephone service provider or billing agent from willfully adding products, goods, or services not authorized by any customer, and from charging or attempting to collect charges from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| HB1121 | Pass | Juvenile records; gang information; exceptions to confidentiality. Places an affirmative duty on the Department of Juvenile Justice to provide information to law enforcement that may aid in initiating or furthering an investigation of a criminal stre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| HB350 | Pass | Distribution of handbills, etc., and sale of merchandise or services on highways. Makes the power to regulate and prohibit distribution of handbills, etc., and solicitation of contributions, and sale of merchandise on highways or public roadways and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB726 | Pass | Assessment of existing mandated health insurance benefits. Requires the Special Advisory Commission on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits to review mandated health insurance benefits to assess their social and financial impact and their medical effic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| HB729 | Pass | Mandatory outpatient treatment following inpatient treatment. Allows a court to enter an order for mandatory outpatient treatment following involuntary inpatient treatment, which orders a person to involuntary inpatient treatment and authorizes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| SB286 | Pass | State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; membership. Adds a second parent representative to the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| 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) |
| HB765 | Pass | Communications sales and use tax; distribution formula for Accomack and Northampton Counties. Provides that Accomack County and Northampton County receive monthly distributions of the communications sales and use tax equal to the distributions they w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| HB116 | Pass | Pharmacy benefits; freedom of choice. Authorizes accident and sickness insurers proposing to issue preferred provider policies or contracts, health maintenance organizations, corporations providing preferred provider subscription contracts, and healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| HB318 | Pass | Manufacturing facility. Expands the current definition, for bonding purposes, of manufacturing facility to include (i) any facility which is used in the creation or production of intangible property as described in §197(d)(1)(C)(iii) of the Inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| HB319 | Pass | Funeral services; prerequisites for cremation. Removes the 24-hour waiting period as a possible prerequisite for cremation, and replaces it with a form of identification other than visual identification by next of kin, to be determined by the Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB355 | Pass | State tax expenditure report. Requires the Department of Taxation to issue an annual report to the General Assembly and to post on its website a summary of information of taxpayers claiming corporate income tax relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| 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) |
| HB190 | Pass | Motor vehicle buyer's order. Revises the kinds of notice that dealers are required to provide customers in transactions that involve dealer-arranged financing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359) |
| HB215 | Pass | Campaign telephone calls; caller identification. Prohibits any candidate, candidate campaign committee, person, corporation, or political committee making campaign telephone calls to intentionally modify caller identification information in order to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| 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) |
| HB382 | Pass | Funeral services. Provides that when a person dies while on active military duty and has designated an individual to make arrangements for his funeral and disposition of his remains on a U.S. Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data, the design...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| HB682 | Pass | Gang-free zones; penalties. Expands current "gang-free school zones" to the broader "gang-free zones" and includes any publicly owned or operated community center or recreational center. Engaging in criminal street gang activity i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| 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) |
| HB750 | Pass | Post-adoption contact and communication agreements. Provides that in any case of adoption, adoptive parents may enter into post-adoption contact and communication agreements, and that the court may consider the appropriateness of any post-adoption co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| HB278 | Pass | Funeral services; disposition of remains. Requires a funeral services provider to refrigerate or, with the express permission from the next of kin, embalm human remains within 48 hours of the receipt of such remains. The bill also provides that a per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| HB921 | Pass | Department of Social Services; retention of records. Requires local departments of social services to keep all records from cases involving child sexual abuse involving injuries or conditions that result in or were likely to have resulted in serious ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| HB149 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); property tax exemptions. Provides for a referendum at the November 2, 2010, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to provide a real property tax exemption for the princi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| 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) |
| HB337 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middleburg. Updates the town boundaries, clarifies powers of appointed council members, conforms meeting frequency requirements and quorum requirements with general law, and deletes provisions related to the town sergeant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| HB849 | Pass | Off-road recreational vehicles. Authorizes localities embraced by the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to allow over-the-road operation of "off-road recreational vehicles" within their boundaries. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| 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) |
| HB939 | Pass | Insurance agents; continuing education program. Requires that the guidelines governing appeals of actions by the insurance continuing education board allow any person aggrieved by an action of the board or program administrator to appeal a decision t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| HB442 | Pass | Electric utilities; renewable energy. Authorizes an electric utility customer to continue purchasing renewable energy pursuant to the terms of a power purchase agreement that was in effect on the date there is filed with the State Corporation Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| HB943 | Pass | Small Business Jobs Grant Fund. Establishes the Small Business Jobs Grant Program and Fund to be administered by the Department of Business Assistance (DBA). The purpose of the Fund is to provide grants to small businesses that create at least five n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| 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) |
