VA Legislation | 2010 | Regular Session

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HB822Intro

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Petitions for child support, custody, or visitation. Clarifies that issues of support, custody, and visitation for a child may be included in a single petition in juvenile and domestic relations district court, and that such issues may be included in...
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2010-01-22
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
HJR65PassCommending Lillie Cox Branch.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ65ER)
HJR66PassCommending INC.spire, the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce business incubator program, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ66ER)
HJR71PassCelebrating the life of William E. Obenchain, Jr.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ71ER)
HJR72PassCelebrating the life of Wilbur Ira Reid, Sr.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ72ER)
HJR73PassCelebrating the life of Jessie Lee Lewis.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ73ER)
HJR75PassCelebrating the life of Jeter Guy Lawson.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ75ER)
HJR76PassCelebrating the life of Kenneth Fox Arnold.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ76ER)
HJR77PassCommending the Wallops Flight Facility on the occasion of its 65th anniversary.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ77ER)
HJR78PassCommending John H. Campbell.
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2010-01-22
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ78ER)
SB200Intro

Sine Die
Rumble strips. Provides that rumble strips shall be installed on highways in the Commonwealth having speed limits of at least 55 MPH.
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2010-01-21
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Transportation (14-Y 0-N)
SB519Intro

Sine Die
Vehicle license plates. Provides for the issuance of only one license plate for all registered vehicles.
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2010-01-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (13-Y 2-N)
HB198Intro

Sine Die
Pharmacy contracts; audits. Establishes requirements for audit procedures with respect to contracts between a health insurance carrier and its pharmacy benefits administrator, or between a carrier and a participating pharmacy provider or its contract...
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2010-01-21
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB980Intro

Sine Die
HOV lanes; clean special fuel vehicles. Extends until July 1, 2011, the sunset provision allowing vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates to use HOV lanes regardless of the number of passengers. This bill was incorporated into
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2010-01-21
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB214-Greason) by voice vote
HB325Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Respite Care Registry. Directs the Department for the Aging to establish and maintain the Respite Care Registry to make information about adult day services providers, community respite care organizations, and other providers of respite care...
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2010-01-21
House: Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions (HB464-Herring) by voice vote
HB462Intro

Sine Die
Aftermarket exhaust system components. Prohibits sale of aftermarket exhaust components that, when used, would result in violation of exhaust system noise limits.
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2010-01-21
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote
HB298Intro

Sine Die
Removal of motor vehicles; outstanding parking violations. Adds Prince William County to the list of localities that may provide by ordinance that any motor vehicle with three or more parking violations parked on private property may be removed or im...
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2010-01-21
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB692-Miller, J.H.) by voice vote
HB1155Intro

Sine Die
Income tax surtax to fund car tax relief. Imposes a state individual income tax surtax to provide a new source of revenue for localities to encourage them to essentially remove the tangible personal property tax on vehicles that currently qualify und...
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2010-01-21
House: VOTE: --- ENGROSSMENT (0-Y 97-N 1-A)
HB320Intro

Sine Die
HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Extends until July 1, 2011, the sunset on use of HOV lanes by clean special fuel vehicles, regardless of the number of occupants. This bill was incorporated into
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2010-01-21
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB214-Greason) by voice vote
SB24Intro

Sine Die
Critical teacher shortage areas. Extends from 2010 to 2012 the current sunset on the requirements that (i) division superintendents identify and report critical shortages to the school board, upon request (§22.1-70.3), and (ii) local school boar...
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2010-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB226Intro

Sine Die
Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive TANF assistance shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of possession of a controlled substance p...
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2010-01-21
House: Continued to 2011 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB954Intro

Sine Die
Uniform Statewide Building Code; rental inspections; penalty. Increases the penalty for the willful failure of an owner of a dwelling unit, who is using the dwelling unit for residential rental purposes, to provide written notification of the residen...
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2010-01-21
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote
HB464Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Respite Care Registry. Directs the Department for the Aging to establish and maintain the Respite Care Registry to make information about adult day services providers, community respite care organizations, and other providers of respite care...
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2010-01-21
House: Continued to 2011 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB492Intro

Sine Die
Removal of motor vehicles; outstanding parking violations. Adds Prince William County to the list of localities that may provide by ordinance that any motor vehicle with three or more parking violations parked on private property may be removed or im...
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2010-01-21
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB692-Miller, J.H.) by voice vote
SB434Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; authority. Authorizes the rector and board of visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, with the approval of the Governor first obtained, to lease real estate to which the Un...
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2010-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB180Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; lease of certain property. Authorizes Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to lease certain real property in its possession or control for student housing provided that (i) the leas...
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2010-01-21
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB136Intro

Sine Die
Scenic river. Designates a portion of the Blackwater River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
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2010-01-20
House: Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (HB951-Jones) by voice vote
SB581Intro

Sine Die
State Law Library; access; database. Requires the Supreme Court to require and oversee the State Law Library's creation of the Commonwealth Law Library Database (the database). The database shall include a list of resources contained in the law libra...
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2010-01-20
Senate: Continued to 2011 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
HB890Intro

Sine Die
Scenic river. Designates a portion of the Blackwater River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
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2010-01-20
House: Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (HB951-Jones) by voice vote
HB1110Intro

Sine Die
Unauthorized account access; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who accesses a password-protected database, file, or online account of another without authority and creates, deletes, or alters any data or information in the databas...
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2010-01-20
House: Stricken from docket by Science and Technology by voice vote
HB716Intro

Sine Die
Intellectual property created by state employees. Adds new reporting requirements for agencies that seek patent protection or seek to license or transfer any interest in intellectual property developed by state employees. The bill also makes several ...
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2010-01-20
House: Passed by in Science and Technology with letter by voice vote
HB43Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; authority. Authorizes the rector and board of visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, with the approval of the Governor first obtained, to lease real estate to which the Un...
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2010-01-20
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote
SB331Intro

Sine Die
Petition 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 served on the attorney for t...
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2010-01-20
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB670Intro

Sine Die
Electronic tracking devices in motor vehicles. Provides that any person who, with the intent to electronically track the location of a motor vehicle, knowingly installs or places an electronic tracking device, or causes an electronic tracking device ...
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2010-01-20
House: Passed by in Science and Technology with letter by voice vote
HB225Intro

Sine Die
Standards of Quality; apportionment of state and local share. Directs the General Assembly, in apportioning the state and local share of the costs of meeting the Standards of Quality, beginning July 1, 2010, to implement a formula that determines eac...
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2010-01-20
House: Passed by in Education with letter by voice vote
SB397Intro

Sine Die
Misdemeanor fines. Provides that the maximum fine for a misdemeanor is raised each July 1, starting July 1, 2011, by an amount approximately equal to the annual rate of inflation for the previous calendar year.
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2010-01-20
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB996Intro

Sine Die
Secretary of Education; name change. Changes the name of the Secretary of Education to the Secretary of Education and Workforce Development.
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2010-01-20
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote
HB74Intro

Sine Die
Boating safety education course. Exempts persons from having to take a boating safety course, if they have in the past possessed a valid operator's license issued by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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2010-01-20
House: Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
HB575Intro

Sine Die
Per pupil amount of basic aid reduction; flexibility for local school divisions. Provides that during the 2010-2012 biennium, any local school division experiencing a five percent or greater reduction in the state share of the per pupil amount of bas...
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2010-01-20
House: Incorporated by Education (HB111-Lohr) by voice vote
HB578Intro

Sine Die
Trapping of rabbits. Clarifies that a person can use a box trap to trap a rabbit and transport it for release or restocking purposes onto another property within Virginia.
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2010-01-20
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
SJR27Intro

Sine Die
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking of private property for public uses. Limits the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of public use and specifies that, with the exception of property taken for public service corporations, pu...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SJR62Intro

Sine Die
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed service of their sentences...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SJR69Intro

Sine Die
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property taxes; relief for certain businesses. Allows the General Assembly to authorize localities to exempt in whole or in part from property taxes (i) the property of a business that is new to the Common...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SB304Intro

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Voter registration exchange; pilot program. Directs the State Board of Elections to conduct a pilot program with at least three other states by July 1, 2011, to determine the number of duplicate registrations and to report in September 2011, to the C...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 1-N)
SJR92Intro

Sine Die
Constitutional Amendment (first resolution); conference committee report for general appropriation bills. Provides that if no conference committee report for the general appropriation bill is agreed to by April 1 in an odd-numbered year or by May 1 i...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SJR95Intro

Sine Die
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property exempt from taxation. Amends the Constitution of Virginia to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to exempt or partially exempt from taxation forest harvesting and silvicultural acti...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SJR100Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SB359Intro

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State Board of Elections; fees for paper filings. Imposes an annual $25 fee for filing a campaign finance statement of organization with the State Board of Elections. Requires Board to adopt regulation providing exemption for indigence.
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2010-01-19
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 9-N)
SB307Intro

Sine Die
Absentee voting; signature; identification. Provides that individuals who vote absentee shall be requested to submit with the absentee ballot (i) a copy of a current and valid photo identification; or (ii) a copy of a current utility bill, bank state...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SJR15Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); electoral boards and general registrars. Permits the General Assembly to provide by law that two or more counties and cities may share one electoral board and general registrar if a majority of the voters ...
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2010-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
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