| HB1736 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility rates; added returns. Eliminates provisions of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act that authorize investor-owned electric utilities to earn added basis points and other performance incentives that would increase the utility'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2127 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; deduction for certain volunteer services. Allows a deduction of $1,500 when determining Virginia taxable income for professional services provided by mental health professionals and educators who volunteer with inmate programs in the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2470 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; carbon dioxide. Prohibits the State 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 pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1561 | Intro
Sine Die | Appeal of zoning administrator decisions. Provides that the zoning administrator shall give notice to the governing body of the issuance of any written order, requirement, decision, or determination regarding the permissibility of a specific use or d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; acquisition of voting equipment by localities. Permits localities to acquire direct recording electronic (DRE) machines by deleting the provision enacted in 2007 and later amended that generally prohibited the acquisition of such machines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Duration of temporary voter registration. Deletes provision that temporary voter registration for a voter who moves overseas for employment and his spouse and dependents residing with him is permitted only as long as the voter, his spouse, or depende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1563 | Intro
Sine Die | Failure to comply with order or decree for support; good conduct credits. Allows a person sentenced to jail for nonsupport and who is assigned to a work release program or to perform public service work to earn good conduct credit at the rate of one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Lien of keeper of garage; storage charges. Provides that if the lienor does not retrieve the vehicle within seven business days after being notified by certified mail, the keeper of garage may charge the lienor with all applicable storage charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1740 | Intro
Sine Die | Designation of special safety corridors for vehicles transporting explosives or inflammable gas or liquid. Allows the governing body of any county or city to designate any portion of the primary or secondary road system as a special safety corridor i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1046 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that a person retired under the Law-Enforcement Officers' Retirement System, the State Police Officers' Retirement System, or the Virginia Law Officers' Retiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2476 | Intro
Sine Die | Estate tax reinstated. Reinstates the estate tax for persons dying on or after July 1, 2011. No estate tax will be imposed on a gross estate (i) whose value is less than $3 million or (ii) if the majority of the assets of the estate is an interest in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB2144 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; health insurance credits for certain employees. Increases the monthly health insurance credits for retired constitutional officers, employees of constitutional officers, general registrars, employees of general registrars,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1566 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of House and Senate voting records. Provides that, beginning with the 2012 Regular Session of the General Assembly, the Legislative Support Commission, through the Division of Legislative Automated Systems, from information and data provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Rules Committee |
| SB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | HOT lane construction contracts. Requires that HOT lane construction contracts contain requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using the facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB1567 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; exemptions from licensure. Provides that no ABC license is required for the keeping and consumption by any bona fide member and guest thereof of any lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages in a private smoking lounge that (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1745 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; purchase of additional prior service credit by school division superintendents. Provides that the reduction in the number of years of certain prior creditable service purchased by a school division superintendent that occu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2484 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; apportionment of state and local share. Directs the General Assembly, in apportioning the state and local share for the costs of meeting the Standards of Quality, beginning July 1, 2011, to implement a formula that determines e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1748 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; antibullying measures. Adds specificity to the codes of student conduct required of local school divisions in terms of how incidents of bullying, harassment, and intimidation are handled. The bill requires teacher training in this ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignment of general fund balance remaining at year-end. Changes current law for the assignment of any year-end general fund surplus to provide that the surplus shall be used (i) first, for the Revenue Stabilization Fund deposit, and (ii) then, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2152 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; purchase of prior service credit by certain retirees. Permits a retiree to purchase one additional year of prior service credit as a law-enforcement officer with a locality that does not have a retirement plan administered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1749 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistricting process. Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans; spells out standards for developing plans including population equality, compactness, maintenance of cores of existing distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2154 | 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 e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB2488 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Carol Arwood Rivers. Allows Carol Arwood Rivers to buy Virginia Retirement System service credit for her years of service at Lonesome Pine Regional Library, which she was not allowed to buy although she was eligible to purchase such service w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1574 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory self-identification. Provides that any person, when he is lawfully detained by a law-enforcement officer under circumstances that reasonably indicate that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, and is reque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2489 | Intro
Sine Die | Sheriffs' offices vehicles; advertising. Allows a sheriff to approve the display of advertisements on sheriff's office vehicles, so long as the advertisements are related to law enforcement and cover no more than 25 percent of the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1576 | Intro
Sine Die | Definition of and punishment for bullying. Defines "bullying" to mean recklessly or intentionally endangering the health or safety of a student by exposing the student repeatedly and over time to physical aggression or intimidation, whether through d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1577 | Intro
Sine Die | Duties of lien and secured creditors. Changes from 90 to 60 the number of days by which a secured creditor is required to submit for recording a satisfaction of a security instrument after the creditor receives full payment or performance of the secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2493 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats against public officials. Provides that any person who (i) threatens to kill or injure another person or to commit violence or injury against that person or his property, or to unlawfully trespass upon his property and (ii) knows or has reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1755 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; policy of the Commonwealth. Adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the safeguards for all individuals in the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination. The bill defines sexual orientation and gender identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1579 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offender registry; penalties. Requires registrants to disclose all real property owned in the Commonwealth, including property that they own jointly or through a corporation or partnership. Access to the real property information must be availabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2500 | Intro
Sine Die | Omnibus Citizen Bill of Rights. Creates the Citizen Bill of Rights designed to secure rights guaranteed to citizens of the Commonwealth by the Constitution of Virginia and achieves this goal by (i) providing a trial de novo for appeals from state ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1581 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of historically underutilized business zones (HUB zones). Requires the Department of General Services and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to develop procurement regulations for the utilizati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuing education for prescribers; substance abuse, addiction, and related pain management and prescribing practices. Requires the Board of Dentistry, Board of Medicine, and Board of Optometry to require continuing education on the topics of subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1385 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignment of year-end surplus. Changes the priority for assigning any year-end surplus by requiring that 10 percent of the general fund balance remaining after funds are set aside for required deposits to the Revenue Stabilization Fund, the Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2174 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonemergency medical transport. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to issue a request for, receive, and consider proposals for the coordination and provision of nonemergency medical transport services in Planning Districts I and I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1762 | Intro
Sine Die | Inclusion of substance in controlled substances Schedule I. Adds 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT), a hallucinogenic substance found in psychoactive toads and plants, to the list of controlled substances in Schedule I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1764 | Intro
Sine Die | Mopeds. Requires moped riders and passengers to wear helmets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug Treatment Courts. Provides for the establishment of Drug Treatment Courts in Dickenson, Russell, and Wise Counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Employer's recordkeeping duties; liability for unpaid wages. Requires employers to maintain and preserve payroll and other records for their employees, including his rate of pay, hours worked, and wages paid each pay period. If an employer fails to k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1766 | Intro
Sine Die | Presence of meth lab in same place as child, mentally incapacitated person, or physically helpless person. Provides that any adult who knowingly allows a child or a mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person to be present in the same dwelli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2517 | Intro
Sine Die | Basis for the preparation of the Budget Bill. Requires the Budget Bill for the 2012-2014 biennium and future Budget Bills to be prepared and formulated utilizing zero-based budgeting principles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2192 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid; coverage for certain pregnant women. Provides that the Board of Medical Assistance Services shall include a provision in the State Plan for Medical Assistance Services for medical assistance for pregnant women lawfully residing in the Unite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1594 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Adds attorneys for the Commonwealth and their assistants as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2196 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Transparency Act. Establishes a searchable database website that would allow persons to search and aggregate information including but not limited to (i) individual or specific appropriations or budget items, (ii) state agency spending and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2199 | Intro
Sine Die | Journalists as witnesses. Prohibits a body with the authority to issue a subpoena or other compulsory process from compelling a journalist to testify regarding or to produce or disclose in an official proceeding any confidential or nonconfidential in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1596 | 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 House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1405 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic Beverage Control; gifts by licensees. Allows retail licensees and their employees to give gifts of alcohol to their patrons, limited to one alcoholic beverage per patron within a 24-hour period and limited to one bottle of wine per group of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB1597 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchases of secondhand metal articles. Expands the requirements imposed on purchasers of secondhand steel, copper, copper wire, aluminum, aluminum wire, brass, brass bearings or fittings, electric light or gas fixtures, locks or other builders hardw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1598 | 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 an owner from installing or using any solar energy collection device ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1600 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms; libraries. Provides that a locality may adopt an ordinance that prohibits firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof in libraries owned or operated by the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
