VA Legislation | 2010 | Regular Session | Senate | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB513	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast horse racing; allocations. Authorizes wagering on historical horse racing. The bill also allocates the proceeds from such racing with forty-two percent of the proceeds distributed to the Commonwealth Transportati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee
SB707	Engross Sine Die	Autism Advisory Council. Creates the Autism Advisory Council as an advisory council in the legislative branch of state government to promote coordination of services and resources among agencies involved in the delivery of services to Virginians with... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee
SB708	Engross Sine Die	Water Quality Improvement Fund; nutrient offsets. Creates the Nutrient Offset Fund as a subfund of the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund to be administered by the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality for the purchase of nutrient... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB735	Engross Sine Die	In-state tuition; National Guard. Provides in-state tuition for any person who met the requirements for in-state tuition prior to being called to active duty in the National Guard of another state, following completion of active duty service if durin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB217	Engross Sine Die	Local boat and watercraft registration fees. Permits a locality, beginning January 1, 2011, to impose by ordinance a registration fee on recreational boats or watercraft. The registration fee may not be imposed any more frequently than every three ye... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
SB464	Engross Sine Die	Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and for treatment... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
SB221	Engross Sine Die	Covenants regarding natural drying devices. Provides that effective July 1, 2010, no community association shall prohibit an owner from installing or using a natural drying device on that owner's property. The bill provides that a community associati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee
SB580	Engross Sine Die	School property; airsoft guns; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person under the age of 18 to possess on school property a weapon designed to expel a projectile at a speed of more than 250 feet per second by action of compress... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB224	Engross Sine Die	Notification of breach of medical information. Requires notification to residents of the Commonwealth if their unredacted or unencrypted medical information or insurance information is the subject of a database breach. The notification required by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB718	Engross Sine Die	Private capital lending for local governments and public institutions of higher education. Allows a local government or public institution of higher education to enter into certain conduit lending agreements to finance certain capital projects. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB227	Engross Sine Die	Irrigation systems; state-owned buildings and private property. Requires the Division of Engineering and Buildings, in every state-owned building or facility designed, constructed, or substantially altered after July 1, 2010, that includes as part of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB585	Engross Sine Die	Appointment of counsel for juveniles in correctional facilities. Provides that the judge of a juvenile and domestic relations district court in a jurisdiction where a state juvenile correctional facility is located shall, on motion of the attorney fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB586	Engross Sine Die	Crimes by juveniles; notice given to schools. Amends section that requires a juvenile intake officer to report to the superintendent of the school division where the juvenile attends school if a petition is filed alleging that a juvenile has committe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB531	Engross Sine Die	Fees for attorneys for the Commonwealth in criminal cases. Increases from $15 to $40 the fee that an attorney for the Commonwealth may receive for a felony case, and from $5 to $15 the fee that an attorney for the Commonwealth may receive for a misde... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB234	Engross Sine Die	Hazardous waste permit fees. Authorizes the Virginia Waste Management Board to collect fees from any person operating or proposing to operate a hazardous waste facility, or transporting hazardous waste. The fees collected would be in an amount that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB239	Engross Sine Die	Unemployment benefits; eligibility criteria and impact of legislation. Provides that certain individuals who have exhausted eligibility for unemployment benefits and who are enrolled in approved training programs are eligible for up to 26 weeks of ad... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
SJR26	Engross Sine Die	Study; effects of the economic recession on public schools and families in Virginia. Directs the Virginia Commission on Youth to study the effects of the economic recession on public schools and families in Virginia. In conducting its study, the Comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee
SB722	Engross Sine Die	Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Expands the recipients of the health insurance credits currently going to retired teachers to all retired employees of local school divisions at the option of the local school division a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB260	Engross Sine Die	Mental health and substance abuse providers; background checks. Allows private providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to hire as a direct care employee in adult substance abuse or mental health treatment ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB261	Engross Sine Die	Weights and measures fee. Imposes a fee of one-tenth of one cent on fuels subject to Virginia's fuels taxes with the proceeds to be used solely to test petroleum dispensing pumps. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB302	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration application; required information. Provides that the failure of an applicant to register to vote to provide the information required on the application form shall constitute a material error or omission and cause the applicant not ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR94	Engross Sine Die	Study; replacement of the state motor fuel tax; report. Requests the Virginia Transportation Research Council to study the desirability and feasibility of replacing the state motor fuel tax with a mileage-based fee predicated on vehicle-miles travele... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee
SB66	Engross Sine Die	Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or st... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee
SB77	Engross Sine Die	Opening of the school year; good cause. Removes the restriction that a Board of Education waiver from the post-Labor Day school opening requirement based on a school division's dependence on another school division's instructional program shall only ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Education Committee
SB29	Engross Sine Die	Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 781, 2009 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB30	Engross Sine Die	Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2011, and the thirtieth day of June, 2012. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB545	Engross Sine Die	Conformity with Internal Revenue Code. Advances the date as of which Virginia's system of taxation conforms with the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) from December 31, 2008, to December 31, 2009, and adds two new exceptions: the deferral of certain income... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB140	Engross Sine Die	Virginia ports; change in ownership. Prohibits the Commonwealth, the Virginia Port Authority, any governmental entity, and any other person from selling any harbor, seaport, marine terminal, or other port facility, or inland intermodal facility owned... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee
SB558	Engross Sine Die	Coal mine license fee. Increases the coal mine license fee from $180 to $450. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB559	Engross Sine Die	Mineral mining; license fees. Increases the license fee for a mineral mine license from $180 to $450 and the license fee for any person engaged in mining sand or gravel on an area of five acres or less from $48 to $120. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB560	Engross Sine Die	Gas and oil wells. Establishes a $50 annual permit renewal fee for wells producing gas and oil. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB206	Engross Sine Die	Judicial retirement; mandatory retirement. Adjusts the mandatory retirement age under judicial retirement to age 73. Currently, judges are required to retire at age 70. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council and incorporates [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB566	Engross Sine Die	Passing bicycles, etc. Increases from two to three feet the minimum distance of separation which other vehicles must allow when passing bicycles, etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Transportation Committee
SB213	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that a person retired under the Law-Enforcement Officers' Retirement System, the State Police Officers' Retirement System, or the Virginia Law Officers' Retiremen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB316	Engross Sine Die	Telecommunications relay service; funding. Defines "end-user equipment" as any communications device that enables or assists a person with a disability to communicate through the public-switched telephone network or internet protocol-enable... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee
SB329	Engross Sine Die	Court fees. Increases the court fees in both district and circuit court from (i) $27 to $75 in a district court civil action and (ii) the current scale of $60-$160 to $500-$1,000 in civil actions in circuit court. The fee increases under this bill in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB92	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the supplemental allowance currently paid to members upon retirement until age 65 would instead be paid until Social Security Retirement Age. This will only become effective upon an appropriatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB93	Engross Sine Die	Personal flotation devices required for children; civil penalty. Requires children 12 years of age or younger to wear a Type I, II, III, or V U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device (life jackets) on recreational vessels. This requirement... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB616	Engross Sine Die	Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance pilot project. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a three-year rental assistance pilot project and to report its findings and recommendations to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee
SB109	Engross Sine Die	Green Public Buildings Act. Requires executive branch agencies and institutions entering the design phase for construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or renovating such a building where the cost of renovation exce... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB124	Engross Sine Die	Electronic summons system; fees. Allows cities and counties to assess a fee not to exceed $3 as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case to be used solely for an electronic summons system. The bill also allows counties and cities operating ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB126	Engross Sine Die	Waiver of payment of interest on fines and costs; incarcerated defendant. Provides for the purging of interest on fines and costs in criminal and traffic cases for an incarcerated defendant when such fines and costs have accrued on cases other than t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB143	Engross Sine Die	Income tax; Renewable Energy Job Creation tax credit. Provides for a grant to be paid from newly created Green Jobs Grant Program Fund to corporations for each "Renewable Energy Job" created and filled. The amount of the grant for each such... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB144	Engross Sine Die	Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall implement a system to accept absentee ballot applications electronically. Currently, an applicant may request and receive, but... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB651	Engross Sine Die	Courts not of record; jurisdiction of small claims court. Increases from $5,000 to $10,000 the ceiling of the jurisdictional amount of a small claims court. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB658	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zones) in the state. Requires the Department of General Services and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to develop procurement regulations for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB158	Engross Sine Die	Mental health courts. Provides that any district court or circuit court may establish a mental health court, which is a separate court docket within the existing calendar of a district or circuit court offering judicial monitoring of the treatment an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB469	Engross Sine Die	P-16 Education Council. Makes the Governor's P-16 Education Council a permanent advisory council within the executive branch. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee
SB166	Engross Sine Die	Community College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Community College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to community college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds paid shall not exce... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB173	Engross Sine Die	Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee