| SB1195 | Pass | Illegal gambling; definitions. Amends the definition of "illegal gambling" to clarify that the purchase of a product, Internet access, or other thing (i.e., phone card, movie rental vouchers), which purchase credits the purchaser with free ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0887) |
| SB1221 | Pass | Local rezoning actions. Provides for more limited review by VDOT when a property being considered for rezoning has already been subject to a VDOT review in connection with development of a local comprehensive plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0888) |
| SB999 | Pass | Local incentives for the design, development, or production of goods for national defense. Creates a separate classification of machinery and tools designed and used directly in manufacturing or processing materials, components, or equipment for nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0877) |
| SB843 | Pass | Aboveground storage tanks. Requires the State Water Control Board to develop standards for facilities with aboveground storage tanks in the City of Fairfax having an aggregate capacity of one million gallons or greater, existing prior to January 29, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0884) |
| SB1281 | Pass | Regulation of motor carriers by DMV; commercial driver's licenses. Revises statutes relating to motor carriers, including requiring DMV to simply notify localities of the issuance of overweight and oversize permits and eliminating the requirement for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0889) |
| SB964 | Pass | Marine Resources Commission; Virginia Institute of Marine Science; coastal resource management. Requires the Marine Resources Commission to establish and implement a general permit regulation that authorizes and encourages the use of living shoreline...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0885) |
| SB1062 | Pass | 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 treatment for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0878) |
| SB1026 | Pass | Care of agricultural animals by owner; penalty. Provides standards of care specifically for agricultural animals that ensure accommodation for customary farming activities. An owner of an agricultural animal is required to provide feed to prevent ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0886) |
| SB771 | Pass | Remedies; limitation on recovery in certain medical malpractice actions. Increases from $2 million to $2.05 million, on July 1, 2012, the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice. Thereafter, the cap is inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| SB1185 | Pass | Sex offenses prohibiting entry onto school or other property; penalty. Expands the prohibition on entry onto school grounds by any adult convicted of a sexually violent offense to include any school bus as defined in §46.2-100 and any property, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855) |
| SB1359 | Pass | Insurance premiums tax; retaliatory costs tax credit. Enhances the retaliatory tax credit for the insurance premiums tax by increasing the amount of the refund for certain taxpayers receiving the credit in 2000, beginning in taxable year 2011, from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0863) |
| SB1191 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. Places limitations and conditions on the relationship between motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0856) |
| SB1414 | Pass | Virginia Liaison Office; Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; powers and duties. Changes the title of the Virginia Liaison Office to the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. The bill also reorganizes and clarifies the responsibilities of the Office ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0867) |
| SB799 | Pass | City of Richmond; funding for community revitalization activities. Allows the City of Richmond to establish an enhanced building rehabilitation process using a newly created community revitalization fund for derelict residential property to combat bl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) |
| SB1224 | Pass | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Provides that the Department of Social Services is designated as the state agency responsible for coordinating state efforts related to supporting public agencies and charitable and community groups seeking t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0857) |
| SB966 | Veto | Public schools; physical education requirement. Requires at least 150 minutes of physical education per week on average during the regular school year for grades K through eight, with a similar goal for high school students. This requirement would go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB827 | Pass | Electronic notaries. Allows, in the case of an electronic notarization, a notary to notarize a document when the signer is not in the notary's presence if satisfactory evidence of the identity is established. Furthermore, the bill allows satisfactory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834) |
| SB987 | Pass | Real property tax; exemption for disabled veterans. Codifies the constitutional amendment adopted by voters in November 2010 that provides for a property tax exemption for veterans who have a 100 percent, service-related disability. The constitutiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840) |
| SB839 | Pass | Homestead exemptions. Adds one firearm, not to exceed $3,000 in value, to the list of items that every householder shall be entitled to hold exempt from creditor process. The bill also increases the maximum exemption for a motor vehicle from $2,000 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| SB1024 | Pass | Drinking water community confidence reports; publication. Requires the Department of Health to include in its regulations governing waterworks, water supplies, and pure water a process whereby waterworks serving fewer than 10,000 people may seek and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843) |
| SB1263 | Pass | Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security. Establishes the Office of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security with responsibility to the Governor for veterans services and homeland preparedness and security. The state entitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0858) |
| SB1029 | Pass | Disclosure of health records; dispensing of controlled substances. Clarifies that nothing in the Health Records Privacy Act shall prohibit a health care provider who dispenses a controlled substance to a patient from disclosing information obtained ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844) |
| SB1265 | Pass | Board for Professional Soil Scientists and Wetland Professionals; licensed professional soil scientists. Requires professional soil scientists to be licensed by the Board for Professional Soil Scientists and Wetland Professionals effective July 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0859) |
| SB1069 | Pass | Virginia Code Commission. Changes appointment authority for the two circuit court member representatives to the Code Commission from the Governor to the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Senate Committee on Rules and adds the Governor or his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848) |
| SB925 | Pass | Bond; GPS tracking. Allows GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking for persons on secured bond or as a condition of probation or suspended sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| SB1279 | Pass | Eligibility for in-state tuition charges. Ensures that the established Virginia domicile of a spouse of an active duty United States military service member, and therefore in-state tuition eligibility, must not be affected by the establishment and ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0860) |
| SB1485 | Pass | Investment in research and technology in the Commonwealth. Amends the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) to allow for awards for a matching funds program and an eminent researcher program. The bill also expands upon the Innovation an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0874) |
| SB1446 | Pass | Transportation funding. Creates the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (Bank) as a new source for funding transportation projects. The Bank would be managed and administered by the Virginia Resources Authority and would be capitalized as rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868) |
| SB975 | Pass | Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund. Requires the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to provide the option to make voluntary contributions to the Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund, which is established by this measure. Moneys in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839) |
| SB1459 | Pass | Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011. Establishes the Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011 for the purpose of fueling strong economic growth in the Commonwealth and preparing Virginians for the top job opportunities in the k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0869) |
| SB1462 | Pass | VDOT regulations; transportation planning; subdivision streets. Requires VDOT to review and revise certain of its regulations applicable to transportation planning and subdivision streets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0870) |
| SB1310 | Pass | Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy; Coal Mine Safety Act; penalty. Updates the Coal Mine Safety Act to reflect current federal law and industry standards. The changes include expanded safety and emergency response plans; circuitry, voltage, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0862) |
| SB854 | Pass | Sales of secondhand building materials. Authorizes the chief of police or sheriff to refuse to issue a permit to allow a person to engage in the business of trading in secondhand building materials if the applicant has been convicted of a felony or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836) |
| SB1477 | Pass | Office of the State Inspector General. Establishes the Office of the State Inspector General to be headed by a State Inspector General to investigate complaints alleging fraud, waste, abuse, or corruption by a state agency or nonstate agency or the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0871) |
| SB1017 | Pass | Stoking of game animals and fish. Requires that policies to acquire and introduce any new species of game birds, game animals, or fish on the lands are implemented only with the authorization and cooperation of affected local governments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841) |
| SB1021 | Pass | Virginia Water Protection Permits; multiagency review. Requires natural resources agencies other than the Department of Environmental Quality eligible to provide comments on the issuance of Virginia Water Protection Permits shall do so within 45 day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842) |
| SB1360 | Pass | Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Program created. Repeals the Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Incentive Grant Program effective July 1, 2013, and the Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program effective July 1, 2017, to create a program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0864) |
| SB946 | Pass | Video-monitoring system; school bus violations. Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances to allow local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in order to detect drivers passing stopped school buses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838) |
| SB1057 | Pass | Reports by executive branch entities to the General Assembly. Authorizes state entities required to submit a report to multiple legislative branch entities to develop a consolidated report containing all required information. Such report shall be (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| SB1375 | Pass | Board for Contractors; regulation of building analysts. Provides for the licensure of residential building energy analysts by the Board for Contractors. The bill defines residential building energy analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0865) |
| SB1063 | Pass | Servicemembers and veterans courts. Provides for the program established by the Department of Veterans Services to monitor and coordinate mental health and rehabilitative services support for Virginia veterans to cooperate with localities that may es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847) |
| SB1059 | Pass | Master Settlement Agreement; regulation of cigarette manufacturers. Permits a tobacco manufacturer to request removal from the Virginia Tobacco Directory under certain circumstances, such as the cessation of business operations, without penalty. Res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| SB1384 | Pass | Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency. Advances the conformity with the federal tax code from January 22, 2010, to December 31, 2010, and restores conformity to the qualified motor vehicle tax deduction. The bill also contai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0866) |
| SB1483 | Pass | Limitation of state and local government authority; certain charitable organizations. Places limits on the authority of state and local government entities over charitable organizations that are nonstock corporations granted tax-exempt status under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873) |
| SB1116 | Pass | Laboratory results; authority to receive directly. Allows a laboratory, with authorization from patient, to provide a copy of the report of the results directly to the insurance carrier, health maintenance organization, or self-insured plan that prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| SB1119 | Veto | Department of Environmental Quality; permit compliance; civil penalty procedures. Increases the limit of a civil penalty issued by a special order of the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality from $10,000 to $10,000 for an initial viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB1124 | Pass | Administration of gross premium tax on insurance companies. Transfers the administration of the gross premiums on certain insurance companies from the State Corporation Commission to the Department of Taxation. Surplus lines brokers that fail to file...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0850) |
| SB1481 | Pass | Corporate income tax; Virginia port volume increase tax credit. Provides an income tax credit to taxpayers engaged in manufacturing goods or the distribution of manufactured goods that use Virginia port facilities and increase their port cargo volume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0872) |
| SB1130 | Pass | Taxation. Removes obsolete language from various sections of Title 58.1. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0851) |
| SB1141 | Pass | Child abduction. Makes it a duty of the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse to maintain close liaison with the National Crime Information Center and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the exchange of information on chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852) |
