| HB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Precious metals dealers; daily reports. Requires every dealer to prepare a daily report containing certain information and to file such report by noon of the following day with the chief of police or other law-enforcement officer of the county, city ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1683 | Intro
Sine Die | Following too closely; passing other vehicles. Adds bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds to the list of vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2083 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription requirements; treatment of sexually transmitted disease. Allows a Department of Health practitioner to prescribe antibiotic therapy to the sexual partner of a patient diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease without the physical exa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB2440 | Intro
Sine Die | Forced prostitution; expungement. Provides that there shall exist an affirmative defense to the crime of prostitution when the person arrested or charged was induced to engage in prostitution through the use of force, intimidation, or deception by an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2084 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Housing and Community Development; rapid re-housing pilot project. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a three-year rapid re-housing pilot project and to report its findings and recommendations to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2442 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting on Sundays. Allows a person to hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; MRSA presumption. Adds methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to the list of infectious diseases that, if contracted by certain public employees with a documented occupational exposure to blood or body fluids, are p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting deer with bow and arrow or crossbow on Sundays. Allows persons to hunt deer with a bow and arrow or crossbow on private lands in the Northern Virginia Planning District on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2444 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioners of the revenue; authorized to examine books and records for sales tax purposes. Authorizes local commissioners of the revenue to examine books and records of dealers and transportation companies. The commissioner of the revenue would b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1533 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole; eligibility for certain inmates otherwise ineligible. Provides that in the case of a person who is ineligible for parole for a combination of three or more offenses involving murder, rape, or robbery, the Parole Board shall consider a petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | CCRE juvenile information dissemination. Provides that, for purposes of a determination as provided in §§18.2-308.2 and 18.2-308.2:2 (records checks for possession and purchase, respectively) of eligibility to possess or purchase a firearm, juv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1324 | 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 Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Local defined contribution retirement plan. Permits any locality or school board to establish a defined contribution retirement plan in lieu of any other retirement plan for employees hired after such plan is established.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2092 | Intro
Sine Die | Death sentence; execution dates. Removes some of the circumstances in which circuit courts are required to set execution dates before state and federal review of an inmate's death sentence is complete. The federal Antiterrorism and Effective Death Pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy incentives. Creates incentives for the development of renewable energy facilities in the Commonwealth. The incentives include (i) clarifying the definition of renewable energy to include wood waste materials; (ii) establishing a pref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1537 | Intro
Sine Die | Opening of the school year in certain school divisions. Authorizes the school boards of the City of Danville, the City of Martinsville, Henry County, and Pittsylvania County school divisions to set the opening of the school year so that the first da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification requirements; provisional ballots. Eliminates the provision that allows a voter to sign a sworn statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be in lieu of showing identification and provides instead for the voter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Causing the death of another while engaging in a vehicle race; penalty. Raises the penalty for causing the death of another person while engaging in a vehicle race to a mandatory minimum 20 years. The current penalty is a term of confinement of not l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1539 | Intro
Sine Die | Tolls on Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Greenway. Requires advance approval of any tolls for use of the Dulles Toll Road or Dulles Greenway by every local governing body of every county, city, and town through which the facility passes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects; required insurance for certain licensees. Provides that the Board shall, by regulation, require each architect or professional engine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2451 | 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 House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Tort Claims Act; localities. Includes counties, cities, and towns under the provisions of the Virginia Tort Claims Act and thereby statutorily abolishes sovereign immunity for such localities up to the maximum limits of the statutory cap on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1720 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; teacher licensure; paraprofessional training. Requires the Board of Education to include in its regulations governing licensure a requirement that by September 1, 2014, every person seeking initial licensure or renewal of a licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB867 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; consideration of certain documents related to the Budget. Provides that no legislative action may be taken on (i) committee amendments to the budget, (ii) any conference committee report on the budget, or (iii) any Governor's recom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical Fraud Control Unit; appointment of investigators. Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint investigators to the Medical Fraud Control Unit. Such investigators would be considered law-enforcement officers, and would be sworn to enforce the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1542 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; renewable energy property and energy audit tax credits. Grants an income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, to individuals for renewable energy property and residential energy audits as follows: Solar pane...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1022 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; creditable compensation of teachers. Provides that the creditable compensation of teachers for retirement purposes under the Virginia Retirement System shall include all compensation payable to teachers by their public sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2101 | Intro
Sine Die | Landlord enforcement of tenant violations; localities with four-year institutions of higher learning. Affords localities located where there are four-year institutions of higher learning the option of adopting an ordinance to hold landlords responsi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2455 | Intro
Sine Die | Municipal utility services; notice of adverse judgment. Provides that when a court decision is entered against a locality holding that the locality has overcharged for utility services it provides, the locality must give notice of the decision to all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1543 | Intro
Sine Die | Opening of the school year. Provides that the Board of Education may waive the requirement that local school boards must set the calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school must be after Labor Day for any reason deemed reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2456 | 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 House General Laws Committee |
| HB1544 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Increases the percentage of Transportation Trust Fund revenues flowing into the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund from 14.7 to 19 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1545 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking; prohibition on the grounds of public elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools. Expands the prohibition on smoking in the interior of public elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools to include the grounds of such schools. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2104 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirement age for certain employees. Exempts people who are hired after July 1, 2010, as firefighters, emergency medical technicians, or law-enforcement officers from the higher retirement age and service requirements fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1546 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices in motor vehicles; penalty. Makes texting while driving a primary offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Expansion of gang-free zones. Adds school bus stops and publicly owned parks, libraries and hospitals to the list of places denoted "gang-free zones." Criminal gang activity that occurs in gang-free zones receives additional punishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older will be entitled to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; unexpended funds. Allows local school divisions to keep any unexpended funds from the Commonwealth or local sources for use the next year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
Senate: Defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N) |
| HB2460 | Intro
Sine Die | Political contributions; prohibitions during procurement process. Includes the mayor or chief executive officer of a locality, school superintendent, and any member of a local governing body, planning commission or school board in the current prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1345 | Intro
Sine Die | Division of Legislative Services; legislative staff support of commissions. Provides that the Division of Legislative Services may provide staff support only to commissions created by the General Assembly, or by either the Senate of Virginia or the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor; elimination of motor fuel supplied by a foreign country in all state-owned or leased vehicles. Requires the Governor to develop a plan to eliminate the use of motor fuels supplied by a foreign country in all state-owned or leased vehicles....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1549 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchase of Virginia-grown food products by state agencies and institutions and local school divisions. Provides for the Department of General Services to establish procurement procedures to facilitate the purchase of Virginia-grown food products by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Extends until July 1, 2012, the sunset on use of HOV lanes by clean special fuel vehicles, regardless of the number of occupants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB1732 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; recognition of out-of-state permits. Allows any person who is at least 21 years of age with a valid concealed handgun or concealed weapons permit issued by another state to carry a concealed handgun within the Commonwealth,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Pharmacy freedom of choice. Conforms elements of Virginia's pharmacy freedom of choice law to North Carolina's pharmacy of choice law. The measure prohibits a health benefit plan from (i) prohibiting or limiting any resident who is eligible for reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2122 | 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 if new jobs are created by not only the data c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2466 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Biased-Based Profiling and Traffic Statistics Reporting Act. Requires state and local police officers to record certain data regarding motor vehicle stops, and report this information to the Department of State Police. The Department of Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; compensation during regular session extension. Specifies that members of the General Assembly receive neither per diem allowance nor mileage reimbursement if the session is extended past the date scheduled for adjournment sine die.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB2124 | Intro
Sine Die | Restaurants; licensure fee. Provides that the State Board of Health shall establish in its regulations licensure fees for restaurants, which shall be based on the size of the restaurant and the amount of the restaurant's annual gross receipts from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
