VA Legislation | 2010 | Regular Session | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB182	Intro Sine Die	Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; eligibility. Changes GPA eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program from 3.0 to 2.5. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB515	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; Budget Bill(s). Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i) any nonstate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB518	Intro Sine Die	Safety belt enforcement. Allows for primary enforcement of safety belt requirements when violations are observed by law-enforcement officers at traffic safety checkpoints. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB226	Intro Sine Die	Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for a court-ordered extension of polling hours in emergency situations and situations that interfere with the ability of voters to travel to the polls. The bill provides that no extension s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB228	Intro Sine Die	Pedestrians crossing highways. Clarifies the duties of vehicles to stop to allow pedestrians to cross highways at marked crosswalks. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Transportation Committee
HB1395	Intro Sine Die	Agreements under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 and the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002. Authorizes state agencies and state authorities, upon the approval of the Governor, to enter into agreements wi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee
SB279	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Fund. Establishes the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Fund to pay the death and health insurance premium benefits to individuals covered by the Line of Duty Act (§9.1-400 et seq.) and the death benef... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB335	Intro Sine Die	State retirees' group life insurance. Permits a retiree to make an irrevocable beneficiary designation of a portion of his group life insurance to purchase or secure funeral services, and services related to interment, cremation, or other means of di... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB139	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older will be entitled to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB83	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB97	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; definitions; funding for the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund. Includes local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in the definition of "disabled employee." The bill also provides for funding th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB118	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; conflict of interest disclosure. Specifies that disclosure forms filed by members of the General Assembly shall be posted on the website of the clerk of the appropriate house for the five years that they are maintained as public rec... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee
HB1391	Intro Sine Die	Investor-owned electric utilities; ratemaking. Establishes a process to be used by the State Corporation Commission in conducting biennial reviews of the rates, terms, and conditions of service of investor-owned electric utilities that, as of July 1,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
SB121	Intro Sine Die	Effect on rate when assessment results in tax increase; public hearings. Reduces the minimum advance notice of the public hearing a locality must hold prior to increasing its real property tax when that locality's assessment of real property results ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB438	Intro Sine Die	Vital records; fees. Provides that the Board of Health shall prescribe a fee of twenty dollars for a certified copy of a vital record or for a search of the files or records and may assess a fee of nine dollars plus any costs associated with online i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee
SB451	Intro Sine Die	Local government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in group life, accident, and health insurance programs offered to its officers and employees, and to employees of the locality's boards, commissions, agencies, and autho... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB161	Intro Sine Die	Divorce proceedings; service requirements and waiver of notice of further proceedings. Provides that, in divorce cases, when the defendant has been served with the complaint by personal or substituted service, and the defendant fails to answer, plead... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB1042	Intro Sine Die	Informed consent includes ultrasound to determine gestation age. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion, to determine gestation age, every pregnant female shall undergo ultrasound imaging and be given an opportunity to view ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB133	Intro Sine Die	Personal property tax relief; qualifying vehicles. Removes the 7,500 pound weight limitation, so that all trucks used for nonbusiness purposes, except tractor trucks, are eligible to be considered for personal property tax relief. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB26	Intro Sine Die	Application for concealed handgun permit; documentation and information provided by applicant. Clarifies that the clerk of court accepting a concealed handgun permit application shall not require the applicant to provide any documentation or informat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB1070	Intro Sine Die	Carrying of concealed handguns in emergency shelters. Provides that a person who has a valid concealed handgun permit may not be barred from carrying a concealed handgun in any place or facility designated or used by the Governor, any political subdi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB1354	Intro Sine Die	Uninsured motorist insurance coverage. Provides that a nonresident motor vehicle that is insured under a motor vehicle liability insurance policy issued in another state with coverage limits that are less than those required for Virginia-registered m... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
HB970	Intro Sine Die	Designation of annual surplus to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases from two-thirds to 75 percent the amount of the general fund surplus designated to the Transportation Trust Fund within the Comptroller's annual report following the close of e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB664	Intro Sine Die	Commissioner of accounts; prohibiting General Assembly members from serving. Prohibits any attorney who is a member of the General Assembly or any attorney who is an employee or member of the same law firm or corporate law department as the General A... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB242	Intro Sine Die	Judicial vacancies. Removes the requirement that the Committee on District Courts and the Supreme Court certify vacancies in the judiciary prior to the legislature filling those vacancies. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N)
HB490	Intro Sine Die	Development of plan for the issuance of a lifetime concealed handgun permit. Directs the Department of State Police, in cooperation with the Secretary of Public Safety, to develop a plan to allow for the State Police to issue lifetime concealed handg... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB1196	Intro Sine Die	Executive secretary as administrator of circuit court system. Allows the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to employ staff from state funds specifically appropriated to him for that purpose. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
HB870	Intro Sine Die	Concealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints. Removes the option for a locality to require that an applicant for a concealed handgun permit submit fingerprints as part of the application. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB367	Intro Sine Die	Workers' compensation; medical services. Limits the liability of an employer for certain costs of an employee's surgical procedures in connection with an award under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. If more than one covered surgical procedure ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L)
HB502	Intro Sine Die	Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
SB462	Intro Sine Die	Crime victims; immigration status. Provides that no law-enforcement officer or other agent of state or local government shall, when investigating a crime, inquire into the immigration status of any person who reports that he is the victim of the crim... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (10-Y 10-N)
HB629	Intro Sine Die	Successor corporations; asbestos-related liability. Limits the cumulative successor asbestos-related liabilities of a corporation to the fair market value of the total gross assets of the transferor determined as of the effective date and time of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N)
HB634	Intro Sine Die	Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects; exceptions from licensure. Provides an exemption from licensure for certain conduct related to the design of alternative onsite sewag... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
HB699	Intro Sine Die	Uniform Commercial Code; sales; consequential damages. Prohibits the inclusion in a sales agreement of a provision that would limit or exclude, as consequential damages, the buyer's ability to recover the costs of repairing or completing work necessi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
HB79	Intro Sine Die	Concealed handgun permits; access to applications and permittee information. Prohibits a clerk of court from providing public access to concealed handgun permit applications and information regarding identifiable permittees without the written consen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB682	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; recycling. Requires each local school board to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction any recycling policies voluntarily implemented or in place in any of its schools. The report shall include the types of items recycled, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 House: Continued to 2011 in Education by voice vote
HB1338	Intro Sine Die	Interpreters for non-English-speaking persons; court costs. Provides that the costs of an interpreter for non-English speaking persons will be assessed as court costs if the defendant is found guilty. Under current law the court has discretion in ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N)
HB393	Intro Sine Die	Abortion clinics; licensure and regulation. Requires all abortion clinics, defined as any facility other than a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center in which 25 or more first trimester abortions are performed in any 12-month period, to be license... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-04 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (4-Y 11-N)
HB1176	Intro Sine Die	Vehicles of the Commonwealth; license plates. Adds the Cumberland Plateau Regional Housing Authority to vehicles that shall use state license plates. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-04 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (11-Y 2-N)
SB249	Intro Sine Die	Animal care; transport; regulations. Requires the adoption of regulations that permit the non-commercial, intrastate transportation of animals by law-enforcement officers, animal control officers, and releasing agencies by vehicles that are not enclo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-03 House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
HB864	Intro Sine Die	Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Requires a separate detailed accounting for representation expenses for each criminal charge and requires the judge to review the allocation of fees among the charges when counsel represents an indigent defend... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-03 Senate: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
SB511	Intro Sine Die	Notification of settlement payment. Requires an insurer to provide notice to a judgment creditor or claimant upon the payment of at least $5,000 in settlement or satisfaction of a third-party liability claim to the attorney or representative of the j... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB114	Intro Sine Die	Campaign contributions; stored value cards; prohibition. Provides that campaign contributions made through a stored value card may never be accepted. The bill defines the term "stored value card." The bill also adds a provision applicable t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 8-N)
SB238	Intro Sine Die	Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Services Act; CMRS resellers. Clarifies that CMRS resellers are required to collect the wireless E-911 surcharge on all sales by retailers of prepaid CMRS service. The measure defines CMRS resellers as providers of mo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB1060	Intro Sine Die	Elected school boards; staggered elections. Provides that any locality in Planning District 8 may establish a system of staggered elections for the school board regardless of whether the terms of the local governing body are staggered. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
HB1122	Intro Sine Die	Corporate income tax; apportionment of income for manufacturers. Removes language that requires any manufacturer who uses the single sales factor apportionment formula and does not reach certain employee hiring goals during the first three years afte... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 7-N)
SB33	Intro Sine Die	Mobile camps for railroad employees. Establishes standards for rooms at terminals and headquarters, permanent assembly points, and mobile work camps provided by a railroad company for employees and contractors. Railroad companies are required to prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 14-N)
HB527	Intro Sine Die	State Board of Elections; Director of Elections. Increases the size of the State Board from three to five members. Provides for the position of Director of Elections to be hired by the State Board with the concurrence of at least four of its members,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N)
SB169	Intro Sine Die	Pawnbrokers; daily reports. Allows Spotsylvania County to enact an ordinance to require a pawnbroker to maintain and file a daily report electronically through the use of a disk, electronic transmission, or any other electronic means of reporting app... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-02 House: Incorporated by General Laws (SB108-McDougle) by voice vote
SB725	Intro Sine Die	Sales and use tax; sales tax holiday for certain hurricane preparedness equipment. Adds portable pet carriers to the list of hurricane preparedness items that are exempt from the sales and use tax during the week of May 25 through May 31 each year. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2010-03-01 House: Passed by indefinitely in Finance by voice vote