| SB1 | Pass | Relief for purchaser of property sold at treasurers' sales; Charles L. Kingrea. Provides relief to Charles L. Kingrea. In 1970 and 1971, Mr. Kingrea purchased real property in Floyd County pursuant to the treasurer's delinquent tax sale. Under law at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| HB356 | Pass | Campaign finance; political campaign advertisements. Requires that the State Board of Elections hold a public hearing when determining whether the chapter on political campaign advertisements has been violated and whether to assess a civil penalty. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| SB339 | Pass | Licensure of a facility; interviews with residents or participants. Provides that interviews with residents or participants of facilities or programs licensed or seeking licensure by the Department of Social Services shall be (i) scheduled in advance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| SB75 | Pass | Appeal of bail decision. Specifies the court to which a bail decision, bond amount, or term of recognizance should be appealed. The proper court is determined based on where the initial determination was made and the court in which the charge is pend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB357 | Pass | Jail farms; transportation of prisoners. Allows for a regional jail operated within Planning District Five (Roanoke Valley-Alleghany) to transport prisoners, upon their release, back to the locality where arrested or convicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| SB3 | Pass | Renewal of concealed handgun permits. Allows a person who previously has been issued a Virginia concealed handgun permit to submit an application to renew the permit via the United States mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| SB472 | Pass | Major business facility job tax credit. Amends the Major Business Facility Job Tax Credit. Current law provides a $1,000 tax credit for major business facilities that create at least 100 qualified full-time jobs. The legislation reduces the number of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB604 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. Adds the Lieutenant Governor and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade or their designees to the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| HB361 | Pass | Regional jails; disposition of fees for prisoners' keep. Allows regional jails to retain fees collected for prisoners' keep instead of crediting those fees to the locality that incarcerated the inmate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| HB1204 | Pass | Special conservators of the peace; authorized to use the seal of the Commonwealth. Upon a court order, grants special conservators of the peace to use the seal of the Commonwealth in a badge or other credential of office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| HB1206 | Pass | Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act. Provides a method by which a member locality of an authority created under such act may withdraw from the authority with approval from a majority of other members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| SB25 | Pass | Using transportation district trains without a valid ticket. Rewrites the code section that punishes unlawfully riding on a transportation district train. The bill punishes failure or refusal to pay the posted fare, or failure to properly validate a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| HB1211 | Pass | Aboveground liquid fertilizer storage tanks. Authorizes localities to adopt an ordinance that makes it unlawful for any person to construct, maintain, or use any aboveground liquid fertilizer storage tank (ALFST) having a capacity of 100,000 gallons ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| SB352 | Pass | Accreditation of schools; delayed implementation of certain statutes and regulations, etc. Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based that were not already ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB370 | Pass | Transient Occupancy Tax; Alleghany County. Adds Alleghany County to those localities authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent, with any excess over two percent to be spent solely on tourism. Under current law, any cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| SB31 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| HB371 | Pass | COPN exception; establishment of a psychiatric service. Provides that the Commissioner shall accept and review applications in any certificate of public need Batch Group G review cycle and may issue certificates of public need for the establishment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB137 | Pass | Lists of registered voters; disclosure to commissioners of the revenue and treasurers. Allows the State Board of Elections to furnish, for a reasonable fee, lists of registered voters to commissioners of the revenue and city or county treasurers for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| HB857 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; access to records of investigation. Provides that evidence and documents obtained by or created by, and the report of investigation prepared by, the Department of State Police in carrying out the provisions of the Line of Duty Act s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| HB374 | Pass | Cash proffers; acceptance by localities. Delays collection or acceptance of a cash proffer by a locality until the completion of the final inspection of the subject property and prior to the time of the issuance of any certificate of occupancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| SB35 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| HB862 | Pass | Punishment of a juvenile for possession, etc., of alcohol. Provides that a juvenile charged with possession, consumption, etc., of alcohol or public intoxication may be found delinquent of such a charge and punished, or have his case deferred and upo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569) |
| HB863 | Pass | Delinquent children; loss of driving privileges. Eliminates the authority of the court to give a restricted driver's permit, for travel to and from home and school when school-provided transportation is available, to a child who has lost his driving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| HB1219 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; powers and duties with respect to polygraph examiners. Clarifies the authority of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation with respect to the polygraph examiners regulatory pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
| HB377 | Pass | Equitable distribution; monetary award; enforcement. Clarifies that a monetary award made in a divorce case may be enforceable in the same manner as any other money judgment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| SB360 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| SB196 | Pass | Notification of school nonattendance. Clarifies that, in addition to the attendance officer, school personnel, and volunteers, the school principal or his designee is responsible for notifying parents concerning students' nonattendance at school. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| HB866 | Pass | Mutual aid agreements. Includes private police forces of institutions of higher learning in existing provisions that allow for mutual aid agreements for the joint use of police forces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| HB1221 | Pass | Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund. Provides that loans may be made from the Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund, at the State Water Control Board's discretion, to a local government for construction of facilities or structures or impleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| SB361 | Pass | Religious holidays; attendance records. Requires local school boards to develop policies ensuring that any student's absence because of the observance of a religious holiday be recorded as excused on the student's attendance record and that a student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| SB554 | Pass | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; authority to award grants. Provides that the guidelines for the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund may require an affected locality or localities to provide matching funds, which may be cash or in-kind, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| SB362 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); limit on taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Provides for a referendum at the November 2010 election on the approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to the limit on the si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| HB678 | Pass | Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (IEIA) and the Commonwealth Research and Commercialization Fund (CRCF). Updates obsolete references to the predecessors of the IEIA and the CRCF.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB41 | Pass | Restricted permit; driving to church. Adds driving to and from a place of religious worship one day per week at a specified time and place to the list of purposes for which a court may issue a restricted permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB1225 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| SB42 | Pass | Purchase of service handguns. Allows a law-enforcement officer who retires at or after age 70 with at least 10 years of service to purchase his service handgun for $1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB872 | Pass | Virginia Credit Services Businesses Act. Authorizes a credit services business to receive payments from a consumer in advance of complete and full performance of the services that the business agreed to perform for or on behalf of the consumer if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| HB222 | Pass | Secondary highway system design standards. Provides that for urban and urban development areas in jurisdictions using the urban county executive form of government, the Virginia Department of Transportation shall work in conjunction with the jurisdic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB1227 | Pass | Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program. Provides that scholarships awarded through the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program may be used to cover the costs of professional degree programs and mandatory fees. This bill also clarifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| SB46 | Pass | Special education program for children with disabilities; recovery of attorney fees. Authorizes a court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs (i) to a prevailing party, who is the parent of a child with a disability, in a civil action he is all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| SB209 | Pass | International Baccalaureate; course credit. Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies regarding the granting of credit for International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement courses. The govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB740 | Pass | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of salary. Requires a member of the General Assembly to disclose in his annual disclosure of personal interests any salary and wages in excess of $10,000 paid to him or his immediate family for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB388 | Pass | Virginia Register Act; filing of agency regulations; use of electronic signatures. Provides that final regulations filed with the Virginia Registrar must be accompanied by a statement or certification, either in original or electronic form, that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| SB49 | Pass | Authorized representatives at polling places; use of wireless communication devices. Provides that authorized representatives of political parties or candidates that are permitted to observe activities at polling places shall be a qualified voter in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| SB371 | Pass | Improvements to Route 711. Provides that Buchanan County may enter into an agreement with Pike County, Kentucky, to improve Route 711.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB389 | Pass | Virginia Offshore Wind Project Development Authority. Creates the Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority to facilitate and support the development of the offshore wind industry and wind-powered electric energy facilities located off the coast o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB1235 | Pass | Absentee ballots; various deadlines related to ballot preparation and receipt; write-in absentee ballots. Requires that ballots be prepared and available for absentee voting not later than 45 days before any election rather than 45 days before the No...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| SB373 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| HB916 | Pass | Commercial driver's license; disqualification. Provides that the Commissioner shall disqualify for a period of five years any person convicted of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, where the death occurred as a direct result of the operation of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| HB83 | Pass | Pawnbrokers; daily reports. Authorizes any local governing body to enact an ordinance requiring a pawnbroker to maintain and file a daily report electronically through the use of a disk, electronic transmission, or any other electronic means of repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
