| HB1684 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter registration by mail; identification requirements. Revises the current requirement for first-time voters who register by mail. The bill replaces the requirement to vote in person with a requirement to show a form of voter identificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1813 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of handguns in legislative buildings. Prohibits the possession of a firearm in the Capitol and the General Assembly Building. The bill also allows a person who is lawfully carrying a handgun to check the handgun with the Capitol Police whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2322 | Intro
Sine Die | Speeding; reckless driving. Raises the threshold for per se reckless driving for speeding from 80 miles per hour to 90 miles per hour, though the threshold of 20 miles per hour or more in excess of the applicable speed limit remains unchanged. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1397 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocations to certain homeowners' associations; highway maintenance and maintenance replacement. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board annually to set aside from all funds available for highway maintenance and construction $50 million to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1414 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; contributions from entities; disclosure of controlling individuals. Adds a requirement for campaign committees, political committees, and out-of-state political committees to report the name and address of any controlling individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1685 | Intro
Sine Die | Agricultural net energy metering. Creates a category of eligible customer-generators under the net energy metering program for operators of agricultural net metering facilities. An agricultural net energy metering facility may be served by multiple m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1823 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offenses prohibiting residing in proximity to children; penalty. Prohibits an adult convicted of certain sex offenses from living within 500 feet of a playground, recreation center, athletic field or facility, or public pool. A violation is a Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1415 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance disclosure reports; reviews. Provides a procedure for review of campaign finance reports for candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General and for candidates in a random sample of General Assembly districts. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1687 | Intro
Sine Die | State property; leases to private entities by public institutions of higher education. Provides that public institutions of higher education may enter into agreements with university-related foundations, private individuals, firms, corporations, or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB1879 | Intro
Sine Die | Designation of school zones in unincorporated planned residential communities. Provides for the designation and enforcement of school zones within unincorporated planned residential communities with the costs borne entirely by the communities in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1417 | Intro
Sine Die | Engaging in abusive conduct or actions; penalty. Provides that a person who, in the presence or hearing of another, engages in abusive conduct or actions under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace is guilty of a Class ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1880 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of trusts established for disabled individuals. Establishes an individual income tax deduction not to exceed $2,000 for the fair market value of contributions made during the taxable year to certain supplemental needs trusts established for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1849 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal street gangs. Provides that notwithstanding the inclusion of the word "street," a criminal street gang includes any entity that meets the criteria for a criminal street gang no matter where the gang is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1689 | Intro
Sine Die | Pound net licenses. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from issuing any additional pound net licenses to persons who want to set pound nets in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Current license holders c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1882 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting by localities. Authorizes the use of best value contracting by localities as an alternative to competitive bidding. The bill defines best value contracting as a procurement process where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1403 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax. Eliminates Virginia's corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on or after July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2232 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal property tax; valuation of motor vehicles. Requires that valuation of motor vehicles be at the lowest price in the NADA pricing guide. If a motor vehicle's model and year are not listed in such pricing guide, the individual vehicle may be va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2235 | Intro
Sine Die | Disease prevention and control; Lyme disease. Adds both confirmed and suspected cases of Lyme disease to the list of diseases required to be reported to the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB2239 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase or lease of computer equipment or enabling software by data centers. There is no longer a requirement for the crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1890 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Length of the school term; exception to 180 teaching day or 990 teaching hour requirement. Provides that when severe weather conditions or other emergency situations have resulted in the closing of a school or the schools in a school division for six...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB1203 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary elections; costs. Provides that the political party shall pay the costs of the primary. The bill provides that the party must post bond in advance of the primary to cover those costs. Currently the costs of the primary are paid by the localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1409 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offender registry. Requires registration when a person 18 years of age or older is convicted of engaging in consensual sexual intercourse with a child 15 years of age or older. Registration will also be required for someone convicted of the feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1892 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding and administration. Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a motor fuels sales tax rate of four percent, phased in over four years, for highway maintenance, (ii) increasing the state sales tax in Norther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1867 | Intro
Sine Die | Definition of gang-free zones. Provides that any person who violates §18.2-46.2 (criminal street gang predicate acts) at any designated school bus stop, or upon the property, including buildings and grounds, of any publicly owned or operated pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1424 | Intro
Sine Die | Wireless telecommunications devices in motor vehicles. Extends prohibition on the use of wireless telecommunications devices in motor vehicles to talking on such device only when the device is configured for hands-free operation and is being used in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1881 | Intro
Sine Die | Composite index of local ability to pay. Provides that a locality whose composite index exceeds 0.6750 must be considered as having an index of 0.6750 for purposes of distributing all payments based on the composite index.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit against insurance license tax for investments in Virginia small business investment companies. Creates a credit against the state insurance license tax for certain insurance companies that invest in a Virginia small business investment compan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2343 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a handgun while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person carrying a handgun in a public place while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and prohibits a person from obtaining a concea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1895 | Intro
Sine Die | Document verification for employment of illegal immigrants; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to falsely represent that an alien worker has documentation indicating that he is legally eligible for employment. The measure amends the existing pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1883 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes against incapacitated or elder adults; penalty. Provides that any person who commits an offense set forth in Chapter 4 (crimes against the person), Chapter 5 (crimes against property), or Chapter 6 (crimes involving fraud) of Title 18.2, knowi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1413 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; discovery. Provides that staff of the State Corporation Commission shall be treated as a party for purposes of the Commission's rules governing discovery and hearing preparation procedures. The measure applies to matters...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI Personal Responsibility Initiative Fund; created. Creates the DUI Personal Responsibility Initiative Fund which is funded by an additional fee of $25 on convictions for DUI and related crimes. The Fund shall be administered by the Virginia Alcoh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1701 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sales tax exemption; gold and silver bullion. Establishes a retail sales tax exemption for sales of (i) nongraded United States gold or silver bullion coins or (ii) gold or silver bullion bars or ingots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | School health services. Mandates that each school board employ nurses or contract with local health departments for nursing services in order to have a ratio of one nurse per 1,000 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB1415 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacturing, selling, giving, possessing with intent to manufacture methamphetamine; penalties. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with intent to manufactu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1902 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; alternative dispute resolution. Provides that contractual claims submitted under §2.2-4363 related to a construction contract entered into by or on behalf of the Virginia Community College System for which the Sy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Exceeding speed limit; reckless driving. Removes driving in excess of 80 mph regardless of the applicable speed limit as an instance of reckless driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1703 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; mandated recycling at government stores. Mandates the recycling of discarded packaging materials at government ABC stores.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans. Provides that an electric utility's integrated resource plan should take into consideration environmental impacts, externalities, and price stability. Externalities are defined as including the costs, be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Early Childhood Investment Fund. Establishes the Virginia Early Childhood Investment Fund for the purpose of financing cost-effective early childhood development and educational programs throughout the Commonwealth. The Fund will be adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2353 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard. Requires each investor-owned electric utility and distribution cooperative to participate in a renewable energy portfolio standard program commencing with calendar year 2013. Under the program, each utility is req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1417 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; retail privatization. Provides for the full implementation of retail privatization of distilled spirits by January 1, 2013. Under the provisions of the bill the ABC Board is to develop a plan for the discontinuation of gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB2355 | Intro
Sine Die | Transient Occupancy Tax; Brunswick County. Adds Brunswick County to those localities authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent, with any excess over two percent to be spent solely on tourism. Under current law, any cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2356 | Intro
Sine Die | Stalking; enhanced penalties. Provides that any person who commits a second or subsequent offense of stalking within five years of a conviction of a prior offense is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, the Class 6 felony applies for a third or sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2334 | Intro
Sine Die | Fish and Wildlife Commission established; report. Establishes the eight-member Fish and Wildlife Commission to review matters relating to freshwater and tidal fisheries and wildlife that have been referred to it by the legislative committees having j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1913 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden fishing prohibited. Prohibits the taking or catching of menhaden with purse nets in the Rappahannock River and its tributaries. Currently, such fishing is prohibited in the Rappahannock above and west of the R.O. Norris, Jr., Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1915 | Intro
Sine Die | Local grievance procedure. Provides that the circuit court, rather than the chief administrative officer, shall make the determination as to whether relief granted by a panel or hearing officer is consistent with written policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1914 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Employment Commission; E-Verify program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to use the E-Verify program for each individual the Virginia Employment Commission refers to an employer to perform work within the Commonwealth. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
