| SB452 | Engross
Sine Die | Taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals are computed based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases in which a hotel or similar establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Restrictive covenants regarding solar energy collection devices. Invalidates any new or existing restrictive covenant adopted by a community association that prohibits or restricts the installation or use of any solar energy collection device. Commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB905 | Intro
Sine Die | Automatic dialing-announcing devices. Prohibits the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device in connection with making a call to any subscriber who has registered with the Virginia Do Not Call Registry. The bill requires the State Corporation Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax deduction for organ donation. Increases the deduction from Virginia adjusted gross income for organ donation from $5,000 to $25,000 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB925 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB958 | Intro
Sine Die | Check cashers; customer identification; penalty. Requires persons conducting business as check cashers to make copies of the item cashed and a valid identification document of the customer for every transaction. Records for each transaction are requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB971 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding and administration. Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a transportation infrastructure users fee on motor fuels sold by a distributor to a retail dealer at the rate of one percent, to be used for hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB995 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of certain firearms; required identification. Allows a prospective purchaser to present a current or retired military identification card or a concealed handgun permit in order to establish citizenship or lawful admission for permanent resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Administration; telecommuting and alternative work schedules for state employees; effectiveness. Provides that the Secretary of Administration, in cooperation with the Secretary of Technology, shall measure the effectiveness of the compr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| HB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Loitering in public places. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit congregating or loitering in, upon or around any public place for the purposes of solicitation for work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1056 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal control officers. Clarifies the duties and responsibilities of animal control officers, who shall be sworn law-enforcement officers with jurisdiction over animal control and protection laws. All sheriffs, police officers, conservation police o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspected adult abuse; mandatory reporting. Requires any person employed in the emergency department of any private or state-operated hospital to report to Adult Protective Services when an adult is treated for serious bodily injury and the adult is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1094 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; mandated benefits for colorectal cancer screening. Prohibits a health insurance policy from requiring a separate copayment, coinsurance, or deductible for any diagnostic or surgical procedure performed in conjunction with and at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1097 | Intro
Sine Die | Local health directors. Provides that the Commissioner of Health may appoint a non-physician qualified by experience in the fields of public health and management to serve as local health director for a locality that has entered into a contract with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Second Chance Act. Directs the Secretaries of Public Safety and Health and Human Resources to study and make recommendations related to implementation of the Second Chance Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Humane investigators. Allows the appointment of new humane investigators. Currently, existing humane investigators may be reappointed, but the program is no longer open to new participants. The administrative entity that oversees animal control will ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | State employee telecommuting and alternative work schedule goals. Increases the target for eligible state employee participation in telecommuting and alternative work schedules to 40 percent in each respective program by January 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Bottomlands rents and royalties. Removes the authority of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to charge a rent or royalty as a term or condition of a permit for use of state-owned bottomlands. The only royalty that may be assessed is the one est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | Carisoprodol; add to Schedule IV. Adds carisoprodol to Schedule IV of the Drug Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Tramadol; add to Schedule IV. Adds tramadol to Schedule IV of the Drug Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescribing Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substances. Requires any prescriber who prescribes a controlled substance included in Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV of the Drug Control Act to request and review informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. Grants the board of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority the power to establish a ranger police division and appoint rangers who may exercise the powers and duties conferred by law upon local police off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Information on energy conservation. Requires investor-owned electric utilities and natural gas distribution companies to provide information to customers to support and encourage conservation actions. The bill requires the State Corporation Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle registration and driver's license application contents. The Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide a method by which an applicant conducting registration and license applications using electronic means may make a voluntary contribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | Recreational gill net license. Establishes a new recreational gear license for owners of piers who want to affix a staked gill net to their pier. The gill net cannot exceed 300 feet. The cost of the license is $25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Impact assessment for energy mandates. Requires standing committees of the General Assembly to request that the State Corporation Commission or the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission prepare an assessment of the economic impact, on custome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to members and supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. The annual surcharge for thes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Appomattox State Scenic River. Increases the length of the portion of the Appomattox River that has been designated as a scenic river from 6.2 to 19.2 miles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1312 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of the James River Park System. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of the James River Park System. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25, instead of the stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1316 | Intro
Sine Die | Corrections; residential community programs. Directs the Department of Corrections, where appropriate and when resources are available, to give nonviolent prisoners who have not been convicted of specific offenses or sentenced to one or more life ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1319 | Intro
Sine Die | Air pollution emissions. Defers to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) the enforcement of any carbon dioxide standards or cap and trade provisions that are included in the federal Clean Air Act. The bill requires the Governor, in consult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1323 | Intro
Sine Die | Hampton Roads; tolls. Provides for tolls at the Monitor Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1340 | Intro
Sine Die | Land application of sewage sludge. Authorizes those localities located in karst regions to prohibit the land application of sewage sludge within their boundaries. Karst terrain is characterized by springs, caves, sinkholes, and a unique hydrogeology ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credits; electric energy facility producing electricity primarily from agricultural livestock waste nutrients. Establishes individual and corporate income tax credits for energy property under §48 (a) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1342 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Provides that an investor-owned electric utility will receive quintuple credit toward meeting the goals of the renewable energy portfolio standard program for energy from poultry litter or other animal was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; carbon dioxide. Prohibits the Air Pollution Control Board and the Department of Environmental Quality from taking any action to restrict the emission of carbon dioxide. Any federal law or regulation that purports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-03
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1361 | Intro
Sine Die | Computer and digital forensic services; exempt from regulation as a private security service business. Exempts from regulation as a private security service business any individual engaged in (i) computer or digital forensic services or in the acquis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1384 | Intro
Sine Die | State insurance license tax credit. Provides a tax credit against the state license tax liability on certain insurance companies for investments in Virginia small business investment companies. The tax credit will be administered by the Tax Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB15 | Engross
Sine Die | Custody in state and local correctional facilities of those accused or convicted of federal terrorism. Provides that no person who is accused or convicted of terrorism in violation of federal law, as terrorism is defined in 18 U.S.C. §2331, shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Business, professional, and occupational license (BPOL) tax; limits on rates and imposition. Prohibits any locality from (i) imposing the BPOL tax if the locality did not impose it as of January 1, 2010, and (ii) increasing the BPOL tax rates after J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB59 | Intro
Sine Die | General registrar; qualifications. Allows an electoral board to appoint a general registrar who is a qualified voter of a county or city adjoining jurisdiction for which he is appointed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Termination of parental rights; original jurisdiction; circuit court. Provides that the circuit courts shall have original and general jurisdiction over all cases involving the termination of residual parental rights and eliminates the juvenile and d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; ballot security. Prohibits any person from reproducing or copying a ballot that has been cast in an election, except in response to a court order explicitly requiring otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | Private institutions of higher education; credit enhancement. Allows the Virginia College Building Authority to issue or acquire credit enhancements to secure payment of bonds issued by the Authority. Credit enhancements include, without limitation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB122 | Engross
Sine Die | Conflicts of interests; "revolving door" prohibitions. Expands the period during which a former legislator or certain former state and local government officers and employees may not lobby from one to two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; GPS devices. Authorizes a judicial officer to require that a protective order respondent be subject to GPS monitoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Conduct of police lineups. Establishes a uniform procedure to be used in all lineups by all law-enforcement agencies intended to ensure maximum accuracy of the procedure. The bill requires that the person who administers the lineup be a person who is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB216 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery against a family or household member; protective order; penalty. Provides that a person who commits an assault and battery against a person who is protected by the provisions of a protective order is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Adverse possession; abolition. Abolishes adverse possession as a cause of action or a defense if arising on or after July 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
