| HB655 | Pass | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; House and Senate Ethics Advisory Panels. Opens ethics inquiries to the public after a preliminary investigation. During the preliminary investigation, the Panel will require that (i) the facts stated in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0876) |
| HB281 | Pass | Animal cruelty; penalty. Increases the penalty for a second or subsequent violation of the animal care laws regarding an owner's failure to provide adequate food, adequate water, adequate shelter, and adequate veterinary care from a Class 4 to a Clas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0875) |
| HB1010 | Pass | Illegal gambling; definitions; free spin devices. Amends the definition of "illegal gambling" to make it clear that the making, placing or receipt of any bet or wager of money or other thing of value shall include the purchase of a product,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0877) |
| HB30 | Pass | 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] | 2010-05-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0874) |
| SB406 | Pass | Salvage vehicles; maintenance and contents of records; reports. Clarifies items that must be contained in the records that licensees maintain on receipt of any vehicles and allows the governing body of any locality to require that the records be repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873) |
| HB29 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 781, 2009 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0872) |
| SB478 | Pass | Tobacco products tax; moist snuff. Changes the tax on moist snuff from 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price to $0.18 per ounce. The bill also would provide that loose leaf tobacco would be subject to the Commonwealth's tobacco products tax on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| HB582 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia; expansion and promotion of agricultural opportunities. Provides the Center for Rural Virginia with the additional authority to facilitate the development of incentives and to provide a forum for competing interests to allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) |
| HB1039 | Pass | Notification of breach of medical information. Requires notification to residents of the Commonwealth if their unredacted or unencrypted medical information or health insurance information is the subject of a database breach. The notification require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852) |
| SB193 | Pass | Medicaid provider agreements; authority to terminate. Allows the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to refuse to enter into or renew, or elect to terminate an existing provider agreement or contract for any of the reasons the U...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| SB509 | Pass | Charter; Town of Vinton. Amends the charter for the town of Vinton by requiring the town to follow the general law regarding filling council vacancies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| HB1389 | Pass | College Partnership Laboratory Schools. Allows for the establishment of college partnership laboratory schools by any public institution of higher education that operates an approved teacher education program. Such schools shall be public schools est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0871) |
| SB715 | Pass | Teacher training; civics education. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to require (i) all education preparation programs for teachers in history and social sciences, elementary education K-6, and middle education 6-8 to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| HB1372 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership; Executive Director; change of title. Changes the title of the Executive Director of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to the Chief Executive Officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0869) |
| SB726 | Pass | Ballast Water Control Report. Changes name from Hampton Roads Maritime Association to Virginia Maritime Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| HB651 | Pass | Use of commissioners in eminent domain cases. Reinstates the option of the landowner to choose between commissioners and juries to hear an eminent domain case. The option to choose commissioners was eliminated by Chapter 586 of the 2006 Acts of Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| HB1378 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; pilot program for the use of biometric data. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to design and develop a plan for a pilot program for the use of biometric data to identify medical assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0870) |
| SB241 | Pass | Open Education Curriculum Board; established. Establishes the Open Education Curriculum Board. The purpose of the Board is to designate qualifying entities as Open Education Consortiums and set the standards for submission of education materials and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| HB967 | Pass | Assisted living facility and group home; no more than 8 aged, infirmed, etc., persons shall reside. Expands certain provisions that currently apply to the Counties of Arlington and York statewide. The existing provisions declare that zoning ordinance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847) |
| HB1100 | Pass | Stormwater management facilities; liability. Provides that a common interest community shall enjoy limited liability protection relating to a stormwater management facility located on property owned by that community if: (i) the common interest commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0853) |
| HB1102 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; authority of board of directors; parking. Provides that to the extent the declaration gives the board of directors the authority to adopt rules and regulations relating to the parking of motor vehicles by lot owners,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0854) |
| HB201 | Pass | Funeral services; handling of human remains. Provides that, upon taking custody of a dead human body, a funeral service establishment shall maintain the body in a manner that provides complete coverage and is resistant to leakage or spillage. If the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| SB246 | Pass | Noise ordinance; authorizes governing body to adopt civil penalties. Authorizes the governing body of a locality to adopt civil penalties for violations of noise ordinances. Civil fines will not exceed $250 for the first offense and $500 for each sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| SB248 | Pass | Indigent defendants; right to ex parte hearing for appointment of experts in capital cases. Provides that an indigent defendant who has been charged with a capital offense may move in circuit court for the appointment of experts to assist in the pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| HB688 | 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] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| HB233 | Pass | Assessments for affordable housing units. Provides that assessments for certain affordable housing units be done according to the income approach, based on the property's current use and restrictions. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| SB265 | Pass | Hospice and home health care; licensure. Amends hospice licensure standards to allow inspections of facilities that are exempt from licensure to the extent necessary to ensure public health and safety, and allows the Commissioner of Health to cause a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HB1161 | Pass | Jailer-issued identification for prisoners. Allows sheriffs, jail superintendents and jail administrators to issue a special identification card to prisoners who do not possess valid ID at release. All costs shall be paid by the prisoner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0856) |
| HB10 | Pass | Individual health insurance coverage; requirement to obtain. Provides that a resident of the Commonwealth shall not be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual insurance coverage except as required by a court or the Department of Social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| SB273 | Pass | Assessments for affordable housing units. Provides that assessments for certain affordable housing units be done according to the income approach, based on the property's current use and restrictions. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB1133 | Pass | Adoption; explanation of legal effects. Clarifies the requirement that a local board or child-placing agency provide information about the adoption process, its legal effects, and the alternatives to adoption to the birth mother and, if reasonably av...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855) |
| SB275 | Pass | Advance medical directives. Clarifies authority of an advance directive in cases in which a person is subject to an emergency custody, temporary detention, involuntary admission, or mandatory outpatient treatment order; eliminates the requirement tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| HB248 | Pass | Psychiatric treatment of minors. Revises the Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act in order to create a stand alone juvenile commitment act that will be titled the Psychiatric Treatment of Minors Act and to eliminate various cross references ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| HB725 | Pass | Polysomnographic technologist; license required. Provides that no person shall practice as a polysomnographic technologist or assume the title "licensed polysomnographic technologist," "polysomnographic technologist," or "lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838) |
| HB42 | Pass | Transportation programs; performance audit by Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC). Requires JLARC to administer a performance audit of the Commonwealth's transportation programs. JLARC shall issue an RFP to initiate the procurement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| SB282 | Pass | Landlord and Tenant; eviction procedure; acceptance of redemption tenders. Provides that when a tenant presents on or before the first return date on an action for unlawful detainer for the nonpayment of rent, a redemption tender in the amount of all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| HB46 | Pass | Virginia Disaster Response Fund; hazardous materials in dwellings. Creates the Virginia Defective Drywall Correction and Restoration Assistance Fund to promote the correction and restoration of residential property affected by the environmental probl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820) |
| HB51 | Pass | Comprehensive plan amendments. Grants authority to a governing body to prepare an amendment to the comprehensive plan rather than directing the planning commission to do so. If a planning commission fails to make a recommendation on a proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821) |
| SB736 | Pass | College Partnership Laboratory Schools. Allows for the establishment of college partnership laboratory schools by any public institution of higher education that operates an approved teacher education program. Such schools shall be public schools est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| SB738 | Pass | Establishment of virtual school programs. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the Board of Education to approve, criteria for approving and monitoring multi-division providers of online courses and virtual school program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| SB295 | Pass | Revision of Title 6.1. Creates proposed Title 6.2 (Financial Institutions and Services) as a revision of existing Title 6.1 (Banking and Finance). Proposed Title 6.2 consists of 22 chapters divided into four subtitles: Subtitle I (General Provisions)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| HB999 | Pass | Local property tax; separate classification for certified renewable energy manufacturing equipment, facilities, devices. Adds tangible personal property and improvements to real property designed and used primarily for manufacturing a product from re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| HB302 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase by certain entities of particular computer equipment by including enabling software, and clarifies what enabling h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| HB485 | Pass | Financial and management review of all state agencies. Directs the Governor to initiate on July 1, 2010, an operational and programmatic performance review of (i) the agencies under the Secretary of Health and Human Resources and the Secretary of Pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| SB309 | Pass | Voter registration applications; retention of information on applicant's last previous residence. Provides that the general registrar for the locality where a voter currently resides shall retain the portion of the application that shows the applican...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| HB770 | Pass | Arrest without warrant; DUI arrests. Allows an arrest to be made for misdemeanor offenses of DUI, boating while intoxicated or violation of an order prohibiting the operation of a watercraft, whether or not the offense occurred in the officer's prese...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840) |
| HB1185 | Pass | Coal mine safety. Makes several changes to the Coal Mine Safety Act. Surface foremen must take, at minimum, a 24-hour course of instruction in advanced first aid taught by a certified advanced first aid instructor and pass an examination approved by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0857) |
| SB18 | Pass | Special license plates. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates (i) to supporters of the Virginia Kids Eat Free program, (ii) to supporters of the Professor Garfield Foundation, (iii) bearing the legend: TRUST WOMEN/RESPECT CHOICE, (iv) bea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| SB68 | Pass | Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Procedural Guarantee Act; conduct of interrogations. Provides that firefighters or emergency medical technicians may have a witness of their choice present during an interrogation, as long as the intervi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| HB128 | Pass | Special fishing license. Authorizes the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue free fishing licenses to disabled, active duty military personnel who are receiving inpatient or outpatient medical treatment from a hospital in Virginia, an adj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
