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HB1951PassVirginia Public Procurement Act; bid, performance, and payment bonds. Raises the minimum contract amount required for bid, performance, or payment bonds from $100,000 to $500,000 for nontransportation-related construction projects. The bill provides ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789)
HB1459PassRemedies; 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758)
SB966VetoPublic 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...
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2011-04-06
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
SB827PassElectronic 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834)
HB2011PassMotor Vehicle Dealer Board. Allows the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to designate someone to serve in his place on the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. The bill also requires motor vehicle dealers, T&M vehicle dealers, trailer deal...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791)
HB1848PassEligibility for in-state tuition charges. Ensures that the established Virginia domicile of a spouse of an active duty military service member, and therefore in-state tuition eligibility, must not be affected by the establishment and maintenance of a...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782)
SB987PassReal 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840)
SB839PassHomestead 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835)
HB2072PassCharter; City of Hopewell. Amends the charter to change election day for city council members from May to November, beginning in November 2012, and to extend the terms of the council's president and vice-president from June 30, 2012, to December 31, ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797)
HB2018PassCemetery Board; exemptions; resale of interment right. Establishes requirements for the resale of interment rights in a cemetery located in the state. Any resale conducted in compliance with the requirements set out by the bill shall be exempt from ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792)
SB1024PassDrinking 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843)
HB2413PassAll-terrain vehicles in Tazewell County. Allows over-the-road operation of ATVs at certain locations in Tazewell County, subject to the approval of the County Board of Supervisors.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822)
SB1263PassSecretary 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0858)
SB1029PassDisclosure 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 ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844)
SB1265PassBoard 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0859)
SB1069PassVirginia 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848)
HB1487PassVenue for criminal sexual assault coupled with a violent felony. Provides that venue for the trial of a person charged with committing or attempting to commit (i) a crime against nature, the crime of taking indecent liberties with a child, or a crimi...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763)
SB925PassBond; GPS tracking. Allows GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking for persons on secured bond or as a condition of probation or suspended sentence.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837)
HB2001PassQuiet pavement technology. Requires VDOT to expedite the development of quiet pavement technology.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)
SB1279PassEligibility 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0860)
HB2022PassOverweight vehicle fees. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles, in consultation with the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and the Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority, shall develop a comprehensive, t...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)
HB2434PassHealth benefits exchange; intent to develop. States that it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Commonwealth create and operate its own health benefits exchange or exchanges that meet the relevant requirements of the federal Affordable Car...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823)
SB1485PassInvestment 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0874)
HB2037PassSocial work; title protection. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person not licensed by the Board of Social Work to use the title "Social Worker" in writing or in advertising in connection with his practice unless he simultaneously...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794)
SB1446PassTransportation 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868)
HB2251PassElections; pollbooks. Provides that when the electronic pollbooks fail to operate and no alternative voter list or pollbook is available, the officers of election shall maintain a written list of the persons voting and provide provisional ballots to ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810)
HB1508PassElections; local electoral boards; certain prohibitions. Prohibits a member of a local electoral board from being the spouse or other relative of a candidate for or holder of an office filled in whole or in part by voters in the jurisdiction of the e...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764)
HB2335PassInsurance 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817)
SB975PassVoluntary 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839)
HB2385PassIncome tax; barge and rail usage tax credit. Grants an income tax credit for the usage of barge and rail to move cargo containers throughout the Commonwealth rather than trucks or other motor vehicles on the Commonwealth's highways. The amount of th...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820)
HB2387PassPowers and duties of the Criminal Justice Services Board and the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Repeals the requirements for the Department of Criminal Justice Services to (i) establish a Crime Prevention Center, (ii) adopt regulations for ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821)
SB1459PassVirginia 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0869)
HB2066PassSex 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, ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796)
SB1462PassVDOT regulations; transportation planning; subdivision streets. Requires VDOT to review and revise certain of its regulations applicable to transportation planning and subdivision streets.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0870)
SB1310PassDepartment 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0862)
HB2076PassOffice 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 ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798)
SB854PassSales 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 ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836)
SB1477PassOffice 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0871)
SB1017PassStoking 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.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841)
HB1540PassDuties of the Division of Legislative Services. Clarifies that the annual report of the Division of Legislative Services to the General Assembly and the Governor will be submitted for the most recently completed calendar year as soon as practicable ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765)
SB1021PassVirginia 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842)
HB2457PassAbandoned and salvage vehicles; licensees; penalty. Removes from the definition of "abandoned motor vehicle" a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that (i) has remained unclaimed in a garage for more than 10 days or (ii) has remained unc...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824)
HB2106PassBond; GPS tracking. Allows GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking for persons on secured bond or as a condition of probation or suspended sentence.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799)
HB2462PassCertain misdemeanor offenses by minors. Provides that in the case of a misdemeanor violation of §18.2-250.1 (possession of marijuana) and §18.2-266.1 (underage drinking and driving) a petition need not be filed if the juvenile is released t...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825)
HB1734PassBoard 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777)
SB1360PassClean 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 ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0864)
HB2471PassDepartment 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...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826)
HB1738VetoReporting of water withdrawals; penalty. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to impose a civil penalty, not to exceed $1,000, upon any person who fails to register and report certain water withdrawal information. Any person who withdraws more th...
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2011-04-06
House: 67 affirmative votes required to override veto
SB946PassVideo-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.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838)
HB2145PassTax documents admissible in court. Specifies that tax bulletins, guidelines, and other published tax documents are admissible in court. There are technical amendments, also.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800)
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