| SB216 | Pass | Fair Housing Board certification program. Provides that the Fair Housing Board shall promulgate regulations regarding educational materials concerning the Fair Housing Law, and persons in the business of selling or renting dwelling units without a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| HB918 | Pass | Exception to confidentiality of juvenile records; fugitives and escapees. Allows for the release of identifying information of a juvenile who is charged with or convicted of any misdemeanor or felony and is a fugitive from justice or an escapee. Curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| HB111 | 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 (CHAP0398) |
| SB55 | 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 N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| SB308 | Pass | Retention of absentee ballot applications. Provides that the general registrar may retain all absentee ballot applications until the electoral board has ascertained the results of the election, and has determined the validity of and counted all provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| HB754 | Pass | Prepaid wireless E-911 charges; collection by retailers. Establishes the rate and procedures for the collection and remittance of prepaid wireless E-911 charges by dealers of prepaid wireless service in the Commonwealth. The bill would establish a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| HB922 | Pass | Charter; Town of Scottsville. Updates the town boundaries and adds Fluvanna County courts as having jurisdiction within the town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| HB1244 | Pass | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; authority to award grants. Permits the Governor to exceed the caps for any individual qualifying projects of regional or statewide interest. The bill also authorizes the Virginia Economic Development Partnersh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| HB283 | Pass | Electronic filing of civil actions. Provides that the general district courts shall accept case data in an electronic format for any civil action filed. The use of the electronic transfer shall be at the option of the plaintiff or the plaintiff's at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB315 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority Act. Establishes the Fort Monroe Authority as a public body corporate and as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to be governed by a 11-member Board of Trustees. As a result of decisions made by the federal Base Realignm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| HB428 | Pass | Bills required to be introduced by first day of a session. Repeals the provisions requiring the following types of bills to be filed no later than the first day of a legislative session: charter, claims, optional county form of government, correction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| SB594 | Pass | Charter; City of Richmond. Amends the city's charter to clarify that the Council has the authority to appoint legislative, oversight and constituent relations employees and that the Chief Administrative Officer has the authority to supervise only adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| HB1249 | Pass | Virginia Health Spa Act. Clarifies provisions of the Virginia Health Spa Act by instituting consistent usage of the term "facility" for the location where health spa services are offered, and the term "health spa" for the person s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| SB63 | Pass | Involuntary commitment, certification, and mandatory outpatient treatment orders; appeals. Reduces from 30 to 10 days the length of time for a person to appeal to circuit court an order for involuntarily commitment, mandatory outpatient treatment, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB385 | Pass | Admissibility in evidence of non-existence of an official record. Provides that at a hearing or trial an affidavit signed by a government official who is competent to testify, deemed to have custody of an official record, or signed by his designee, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| HB430 | Pass | Real property tax assessment. Provides (i) that the fair market value of certain affordable housing be determined using the income approach, based on the property's current use and restrictions; (ii) additional requirements for real property appraise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| SB596 | Pass | Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects; issuance of license; emeritus designation. Establishes an emeritus designation for licensees of the Board for Architects, Professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| HB930 | Pass | Extension of protective orders. Allows a petitioner who has obtained a protective order under §16.1-279.1 (cases of family abuse) or §19.2-152.10 (stalking) to obtain an extension of such order for a period of no more than two years if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| HB931 | Pass | Protective orders; coordination with other states. Requires the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, on an annual basis, to consult with the appropriate judicial authorities of adjacent states, and allows the Executive Secretary to consult with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| HB1252 | Pass | Electronic communication service providers; obtaining records. Authorizes the disclosure of the records of providers of electronic communication service or remote computing service if the court orders disclosure for an investigation of a missing chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| HB434 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; exemption for credit card and bank account data. Exempts from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act those portions of records that contain account numbers or routing information for any cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| HB933 | Pass | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disposition of cases. Provides that if the Senate or House Ethics Advisory Panel refers a case to the member's respective house based on the conclusion that the member has violated §30-108 (failing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB934 | Pass | Capital murder; auxiliary law-enforcement officers; penalty. Adds auxiliary police officers and auxiliary deputy sheriffs to the capital murder statute so that the death sentence can be imposed for their murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| HB677 | Pass | Specialized Biotechnology Research Performance Grant Program; established. Establishes the Specialized Biotechnology Research Performance Grant Program for nonprofit entities engaged in research, development, and production related to molecular diag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| HB436 | Pass | Donations by localities; energy efficiency. Provides that a locality may make gifts and donations to any nonprofit organization that is engaged in providing energy efficiency services or promoting energy efficiency within or without the boundaries of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| SB394 | Pass | Offshore energy resources. States that it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth to support oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production 50 miles or more off Virginia's coast, taking into account the impact on affected localities, ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| SB606 | Pass | Motor vehicle title loans; penalties. Establishes requirements for motor vehicle title loans, which are nonpurchase money term loans secured by an interest in a motor vehicle. Under this measure, interest shall not exceed 22 percent per month on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB941 | Pass | Charitable gaming; regulations of the Charitable Gaming Board; electronic pull tabs. Clarifies that regulations of the Charitable Gaming Board defining electronic and mechanical equipment used in the conduct of charitable gaming shall not include (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| HB1263 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| HB944 | Pass | Governor's reports of revenue estimates and collections and economic activity forecasts. Codifies provisions in the Appropriation Act requiring the Governor to provide monthly reports on revenue collections and quarterly assessments of the Commonweal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| HB1265 | Pass | Professional corporations; board of directors. Includes certified interior designers in the types of professional organizations managed by a board of directors. The bill allows nonlicensed employee-directors to serve on the board of directors of a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| SB467 | Pass | Protective orders; coordination with other states. Requires the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, on an annual basis, to consult with the appropriate judicial authorities of adjacent states, and allows the Executive Secretary to consult with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| SB468 | Pass | Extension of protective orders. Allows a petitioner who has obtained a protective order under §16.1-279.1 (cases of family abuse) or §19.2-152.10 (stalking) to obtain an extension of such order for a period of two years. There is no limit o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| SB614 | Pass | Civil War Site Preservation Fund established. Establishes the Civil War Site Preservation Fund for the purpose of awarding grants to private nonprofit organizations to preserve endangered Virginia Civil War historic sites. The grants would be awarde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB448 | Pass | Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. Updates and expands the scope of the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. The Association provides a system for the protection of policy owners, annu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| SB486 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| HB450 | Pass | Appointments to fill vacancies in local offices. Provides that persons appointed to serve the remainder of a term due to vacancy in a local office shall exercise all powers of the elected office. The bill also affirms that votes cast prior to July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| HB950 | Pass | Charitable gaming; regulations of the Charitable Gaming Board; prohibited acts. Limits the number of bingo games per session to no more than 50; requires the Charitable Gaming Board to adopt regulations prescribing (i) the condition by which nonmembe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| SB101 | Pass | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission. Provides that the Division of Legislative Services shall provide legal and research services to the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission with technical assistance being provided by the staffs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB953 | Pass | Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV, and Schedule V drugs. Adds tapentadol to Schedule II; boldione, desoxymethyltestosterone (madol), and 19-no4-4,9(10)-androstadienedione (estra-4,9(10)-diene-3,17-dione) to Schedule III; fospropofol to Schedule ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| SB621 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; Virginia Defense Force; exemptions. Clarifies that the Virginia Defense Force is exempt from the Administrative Process Act. Currently the Act exempts customary military, naval or police functions but does not specify mili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| HB407 | Pass | Landlord and tenant laws; landlord and tenant obligations. Clarifies that the judgment rate of interest includes any and all amounts covered by the judgment. The bill, among other things, also (i) requires the executive secretary of the Supreme Court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| HB408 | Pass | Real Estate Appraiser Board; regulation of appraisal management companies. Provides for the regulation of real estate appraisal management companies by the Real Estate Appraiser Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB831 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; foreign business entities. Requires all public bodies to include in every written contract a provision that the contractor must be authorized to transact business in Virginia as a domestic or foreign business entity a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| SB107 | Pass | Restricted learner's permit. Provides that a restricted learner's permit may be issued to a person who is at least 25 years of age who has been granted restricted driving privileges by a court. Such permit shall be subject to all of the restrictions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| HB411 | Pass | Shaken baby syndrome; distribution of information. Requires the Department of Social Services to make information about shaken baby syndrome, its effects, and resources for help and support for caretakers available in a printable format, and informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| SB628 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licensees; flavored distilled spirits. Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to adopt regulations prescribing the terms and conditions under which mixed beverage licensees may infuse, store, and sell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| HB1285 | Pass | Certificate of public need; public notice. Clarifies the role of the Department of Health regarding public hearings, including public notification of a public hearing, for applications for certificates of public need in cases in which a regional heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| HB837 | Pass | Department of Taxation; limiting contact with taxpayers via email. Requires the Tax Commissioner to devise a method by which a taxpayer will only receive bulletins, publications, or other information provided by the Department electronically upon req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB420 | Pass | Urban development areas. Sets certain densities in urban development areas according to the population of the locality that designated the urban development area. The bill also requires that, to the extent possible, certain federal funding and state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
