| SB1458 | Pass | Claims; Richard Hitt; Chares P. Jarrett. Provides relief to Richard Hitt and to Chares P. Jarrett for not receiving the Virginia Retirement System benefits that are based on Hazardous Duty service when they were led to believe that certain purchased ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB1982 | Pass | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for grants or loans from the fund. Reduces, among other things, the threshold for private investment and new job creation from $10 million and 100 new jobs to $5 million and at least 50 new jobs, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| SB945 | Pass | Elections; voter whose name is erroneously omitted from the pollbook. Modifies the requirement that the voter provide his social security number, if any, to require only the last four digits of the number. The voter also provides his full name, birth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB1995 | Pass | Child pornography. Provides that a defendant convicted of an offense relating to child pornography shall be ordered to pay mandatory restitution to the victim of the offense in an amount as determined by the court. The Commonwealth shall make reasona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| SB1246 | Pass | Presidential primary. Moves the presidential primary date from the second Tuesday in February to the first Tuesday in March. The bill retains the first Tuesday in March as the primary date before the May general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| HB1464 | Pass | Disposition of unclaimed bodies; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Provides that in the case of a person who has been committed to the custody of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and died prior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| HB2010 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation. Creates the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation to replace the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission, which will cease to exist on July 1, 2011. The bill sets out the membership a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| SB829 | Pass | Tenants' assertion; rent escrow. Incorporates sections from the Virginia Residential Landlord Act into the Virginia Landlord Tenant Law in situations where the tenant asserts that adverse conditions exist on the leased premises, including a fire haza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| SB896 | Pass | State and municipal turnpike projects. Repeals certain Code provisions relating to the establishment of turnpikes. The Commonwealth Transportation Board and the Virginia Department of Transportation have never used these sections to issue revenue bon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| SB984 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; Brunswick County; Washington County. Adds Brunswick County and Washington 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 sole...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB1255 | Pass | FOIA exemption; Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Exempts records of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| SB988 | Pass | Joint Commission on Health Care; sunset. Extends the sunset for the Joint Commission on Health Care from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| HB2004 | Pass | Bonds; public notice. Provides that the public notice issued prior to a public hearing held in conjunction with the issuance of bonds shall state the proposed use of the proceeds, and if there is more than one use, state the proposed uses for which m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB2057 | Pass | Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; regulation of fertilizer. Revises the laws governing the manufacture and application of fertilizer to: (i) incorporate by reference the guidelines adopted by the Association of American Plant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564) |
| SB1259 | Pass | Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; review of databases. Changes the requirement that data in the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center databases be reviewed every year to a requirement that it be reviewed every three years. Information that is determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| SB844 | Pass | Publication of information contained in local warrants. Authorizes local governments to publish aggregated information relating to warrants paid by the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| SB921 | Pass | Property conveyance. Authorizes the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to grant and convey a permanent easement and right-of-way across the bed of the Piankatank River and a permanent easement and right-of-way across the bed of the Narrows, includi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| SB1274 | Pass | Secure remote access to court records. Provides that restrictions on the secure remote access to court records do not apply to secure access by attorneys in good standing with the Virginia State Bar and their authorized agents and attorneys admitted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| HB2425 | Pass | Delinquent sewer and water fees and charges; notice. Requires that prior to recording a lien on an owner's property for a tenant's unpaid water or sewer fees, the water or sewer authority shall provide the owner with 30 days' written notification. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| HB2130 | Pass | Charter; City of Franklin. Establishes staggered terms for the city's appointed school board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| SB880 | Pass | Charter; City of Martinsville. Amends the charter of the City of Martinsville to change the date of the council member elections to the general election date in November. The measure also provides that three council members shall be elected on the No...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| SB1271 | Pass | Auditor of Public Accounts to review distribution of local retail sales and use tax. Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to review each year the collection and distribution of the retail sales and use tax, with a focus on the collection and distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| SB951 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; transfer of records. Clarifies that the Library of Virginia is the custodian of records transferred to it for permanent archiving pursuant to the duties imposed by the Virginia Public Records Act (§42.1-76 et seq.) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| SB954 | Pass | Juvenile work programs. Adds additional members to the committee that reviews agreements with a public or private entity for the operation of a work program for juveniles committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. In addition, the bill require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| HB2213 | Pass | Driver training standards for law-enforcement emergency calls and pursuits. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall establish training standards and publish a model policy for law-enforcement personnel assigned to vehicle pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| SB1290 | Pass | Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway. Designates I-664 and I-264 in the Hampton Roads Highway Construction District the "Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| SB1292 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; conduct not prohibited; consumption of lawfully acquired wine at certain licensed establishments. Provides that any restaurant licensed by the ABC Board may permit the consumption of lawfully acquired wine by bona fide cus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559) |
| SB1447 | Pass | Tax revenues generated by commercial spaceflight; Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority. Transfers to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority the portion of corporate income tax collected from corporations attributable to the sale of comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| SB1448 | Pass | Cambridge Advanced Exams; course credit. Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to implement policies regarding the granting of credit for Cambridge Advanced Exams. The bill also clarifies that students should be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB971 | Pass | Property transfer; Virginia Commonwealth University: City of Richmond. Authorizes the board of visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University to convey certain real property to the City of Richmond. Under the bill, the property must be used for the off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| SB1296 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record and meeting exemption for certain commissions. Allows any commission created by executive order to study and make recommendations concerning the prevention of closure and realignment of federal security ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| SB1297 | Pass | State Law Library; responsibility for placement of certain law books. Removes the requirement for the Division of Purchases and Supply to ensure the placement of certain law books for the State Law Library.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| SB1301 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; exemptions for certain transactions. Resolves the conflict between two sections of the Virginia Public Procurement Act relating to the amount ($50,000) for local construction contracts involving state aid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| SB1455 | Pass | Virginia Amusement Device Act; amusement device or structure. Excludes snow tubing parks and rides, ski terrain parks, ski slopes and ski trails from the definition of amusement device or structure under the Virginia Amusement Device Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| SB983 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; common interest communities; powers of certain regulatory boards and programs. Extends the expiration deadline for provisional common interest community manager licenses from June 30, 2011, to J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| SB1308 | Pass | Alcoholic Beverage Control; referendum on mixed beverage sales in counties. Provides for the residents of towns with a population of more than 1,000 to vote on the referendum for the sale of mixed beverages within the county in which those towns are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560) |
| SB1309 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority. Modifies provisions regarding the Virginia Resources Authority to conform to the Public Finance Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| SB1315 | Pass | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund. Provides that the contract between the political subdivision and the business beneficiary regarding a grant awarded under the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund must include consideration of layoffs when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| SB1323 | Pass | Common interest communities; payment of resale disclosure packet fees. Decreases from 90 to 45 days, where settlement does not occur, the time when a seller of a condominium unit or lot will be responsible for the payment of all allowable fees relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| SB860 | Pass | Real property tax; classification of certain historical buildings. Creates a separate class of property for real property tax rate purposes, consisting of buildings that are on the Virginia Landmarks Register that are maintained in proper condition, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| HB2093 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited conduct by constitutional officers. Prohibits a constitutional officer, during the one year after the termination of his public service, from acting in a representative capacity on beh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB1334 | Pass | Military laws of Virginia. Makes several amendments to the military laws of the Commonwealth. Many of the changes are technical, such as updating references to the Virginia State Guard and Virginia State Defense Force to the Virginia Defense Force a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| SB1336 | Pass | Aerospace Advisory Council; membership. Provides that the President and CEO of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership or his designee shall be one of seven ex officio members of the Aerospace Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| SB1337 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; Commercial Space Flight Authority. Creates an exemption from the mandatory disclosure requirements of FOIA for (i) records relating to rate structures or charges for using the facilities of the Commercial Space Flight Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| SB1339 | Pass | Urban development areas; population projections. Allows population projections to be based on official government projections required for federal transportation planning purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| SB1352 | Pass | Private capital lending for local governments. Allows a local government to enter into certain conduit lending agreements to finance certain capital projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| SB1354 | Pass | Cutting of weeds and grass. Adds the County of James City to the list of localities that may order the cutting of grass and weeds on certain occupied property. The existing portion of the statute that includes all localities applies to vacant propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| SB893 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation. Creates the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation to replace the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission, which will cease to exist on July 1, 2011. The bill sets out the membership a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| SB1049 | Pass | Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence. Provides that any employer with more than an average of 50 employees for the previous 12 months entering into a contract in excess of $50,000 with any agency of the Commonwealth to perform work ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| HB2150 | Pass | Court fees; fixed misdemeanor and fixed felony fees. Amends the fees collected by courts for felony and misdemeanor convictions to reflect 2010 amendments to §15.2-1627.3 by Chapter 874 increasing fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565) |
