| SB27 | Pass | Warranty registration cards. Prohibits a seller from conditioning the coverage or performance of a warranty, in connection with the sale of personal, family, or household goods, upon the purchaser's returning a warranty registration card, or from pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| HB367 | Pass | Checks; stop-payment; local ordinances. Provides that a locality may charge up to $35 if payment for revenue collection was refused because the drawer placed a stop-payment order on the check in bad faith. Currently, the law only allows for a fee if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| HB612 | Pass | Corporations; payment of annual registration fees. Requires that payments of annual registration fees assessed against a corporation be applied to the corporation's oldest unpaid annual registration fee assessment or penalty. The measure provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| HB368 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; Regional Criminal Justice Academy Training Fund. Allows a locality to add a surcharge on traffic summonses, misdemeanors and felonies to support its independent criminal justice academy if such academy was cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| HB211 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; definition of scholastic record. Includes in the definition of scholastic records, those records of an applicant for admission that are maintained by a public body that is an educational agency or institution or by a perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB672 | Pass | Virginia Infrastructure Project Loan Fund. Creates the Virginia Infrastructure Project Loan Fund. The Fund would be administered by the Virginia Resources Authority. Money in the Fund would be used exclusively for the financing of landfill gas energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| SB553 | Pass | Increase transit use strategies. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to make an annual report to the General Assembly on actions taken to promote transit use, etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB220 | Pass | Polling places; campaigning activities. Clarifies that the exemption allowing a voter to enter a polling place wearing a shirt, hat, or other apparel on which a candidate's name or a political slogan appears does not apply to candidates, representati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| HB386 | Pass | Deposits; limitations period. Removes the stated maturity date of a deposit as an event that triggers the start of the limitations period on actions to enforce the obligations of a financial institution to pay a deposit account or certificate of depo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| SB47 | Pass | Menhaden harvest cap. Continues the annual menhaden harvest quota of 109,020 metric tons for the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay until January 1, 2014, three years beyond the original sunset date. Fisheries receive a credit to be applied in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB387 | Pass | Telephone utilities; switched access rates. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a schedule for the elimination of the carrier common line element of intrastate carrier switched access charges. For incumbent local exchange carriers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| SB50 | Pass | Officers of election; training. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall require certification that officers of election have been trained consistent with the training standards set by the Board. Such certification shall be submitted by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| HB273 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the statutory special retirement benefits for deputy sheri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| SB52 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; exemptions; dogs trained for police work. Provides that locality may sell any dog specially trained for police work to the handler who was last in control of such dog, at a price deemed by the locality to be appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| SB376 | Pass | Coalbed methane gas; presumption regarding estate of owner of surface rights. Provides that a conveyance, reservation, or exception of coal shall not be deemed to include coalbed methane gas. The presumption does not affect (i) a coal operator's righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB426 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement. Prohibits a local public body from using another local public body's contract for construction where the cost of the project is in excess of $200,000 and the other local public body is more th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736) |
| HB1245 | Pass | Surplus property of local school boards. Authorizes elected local school boards to donate obsolete personal property to a Virginia nonprofit charitable organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| HB433 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; collection of social security numbers. Sets out the original date (January 1, 1975) when social security numbers were authorized to be collected/required by state and local agencies under fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| SB82 | Pass | Health professions; practice of podiatry; expert witness. Clarifies that the practice of podiatry includes the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure or alleviation of physical conditions, diseases, pain, or infirmities of the human foot and ankl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| HB803 | Pass | Income tax; corporate and individual; green jobs tax credit. Allows a $500 income tax credit for the creation of "green" jobs paying an annual salary in excess of $50,000 for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010 but before J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB942 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; charitable gaming; revocation of permits. Clarifies that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services may revoke, suspend, or deny a permit to conduct charitable gaming only after the proposed a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| HB1272 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; power and duties with respect to boxing, wrestling, and martial arts events. Clarifies the authority of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to impose monetary penalties an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| SB408 | Pass | Possession 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| SB622 | Pass | Dental plans; reimbursement for health care services. Prohibits a contract between a dental plan and a dentist or oral surgeon from establishing the fee or rate that the dentist or oral surgeon is required to accept for the provision of health care s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| SB623 | Pass | Income tax; corporate and individual; green jobs tax credit. Allows a $500 income tax credit for the creation of "green" jobs paying an annual salary in excess of $50,000 for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010 but before J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| SB414 | Pass | Competitive foods in public schools; report. Requires the Board of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Health, to promulgate and periodically update regulations setting nutritional guidelines for all competitive foods sold to students du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| HB505 | Pass | Concealed handguns; restaurants; penalty. Allows a person with a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun onto the premises of a restaurant or club and prohibits such person from consuming alcoholic beverages while on the premises. A per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| HB1306 | Pass | Jurors to provide photo identification. Provides that at the time of assembly for the purpose of juror selection, the clerk of court shall ensure that the identity of each member of the jury venire is verified as provided in this section. Prior to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| HB560 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; sickness and disability plan. Codifies provisions of the Appropriation Act making changes to the sickness and disability program that, among other things, create a one-year waiting period and a different benefit structure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| SB455 | Pass | Permit fees; veterans exemption. Exempts veterans from the handling fee charged by the Department of Business Assistance in connection with the establishment and operation of a small business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| HB561 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; optional life insurance. Modifies the optional life insurance plan by (i) deleting the specific maximum amount of coverage, and replacing it with language clarifying that the maximum amount is set by the Board of Trustees ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| HB562 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; retirement supplement ("COLA"). Clarifies that the allowance supplement that is indexed to inflation will not reduce the allowance when there is deflation, and corrects how COLA adjustments should be calculated f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| SB739 | Pass | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund. Expands the use of moneys in the Fund to include grants for the construction or build-out of privately owned buildings. The bill would also cap the aggregate amount of grants outstanding on or after July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| SB673 | Pass | School board salaries; Amherst County. Reduces the salary of the Amherst County School Board from $2,400 to $2,200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| SB493 | Pass | Records concerning electronic communication service or remote computing service. Clarifies that any provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service, including a foreign corporation that provides electronic communication servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| SB494 | Pass | Admissibility of records concerning electronic communication service or remote computing service. Provides that the provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service may verify the authenticity of the written reports or records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB686 | Pass | Uniform environmental covenants. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into environmental covenants with interest holders in real property that restrict the use of the real property. The covenants are intended to survive transfe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB499 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; employees of school boards. Provides that certain relatives of a school board member may be considered for employment under certain conditions in the school division if the relative had been emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| SB689 | Pass | Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy; dispute resolution proceedings. Requires the governing board of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy to establish a policy and internal guidelines for the approval of the pursuit of legal remedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB874 | Pass | Cigarette tax; when to affix tax stamps. Changes the time for affixing tax stamps to cigarette packs from one business day after receipt of unstamped cigarettes to prior to shipping to other wholesale dealers or retail outlets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB1040 | Pass | Limited liability companies. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to correct its records to eliminate the effects of clerical errors and filings made by a person without authority to act on behalf of a limited liability company. Similar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| SB189 | Pass | Space flight liability and immunity; sunset. Repeals the July 1, 2013, expiration date on the act establishing space flight liability and immunity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| SB706 | Pass | Health insurance; coverage for mental health and substance abuse services. Requires that group health insurance coverage issued to large employers provide mental health and substance use disorder benefits in parity with the medical and surgical bene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB218 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; Fairfax County limitations. Provides that any new transient occupancy tax or any increase in the rate of an existing transient occupancy tax in Fairfax County does not apply within the limits of any town located in Fairfax Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| SB219 | Pass | Safety belt use for persons under 18 years of age. Requires safety belt use by those under 18 years of age who are occupying the rear seats of motor vehicles. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| SB712 | Pass | Branch campus of George Mason University in the Republic of Korea. Authorizes the board of visitors of George Mason University to establish and operate a branch campus of the university in the Republic of Korea. This bill also authorizes the board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB713 | Pass | Coastal Energy Research Consortium. Adds George Mason University to the membership of the Coastal Energy Research Consortium and the President of George Mason University or his designee to the governing board of the Consortium. The measure also direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| SB723 | Pass | Campaign finance disclosure; special reports of large contributions by governing body members. Repeals the provision (§24.2-948) enacted in 2004 that required governing body members during non-election years to report campaign contributions of $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| SB589 | Pass | Punishment and options for person convicted of nonpayment of child support. Provides that a person convicted of DUI or any offense for which a restricted license may be issued under restrictions set forth in subsection E of §18.2-271.1 may be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB591 | Pass | Detention of juveniles in secure facility; possession of certain firearms by juveniles. Clarifies that a juvenile may be detained prior to final disposition in a secure facility if the juvenile is alleged to have violated §18.2-308.7 (possession...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
