| HB1939 | Pass | Regulations promulgated when mandated by statute; requirements. Requires agencies, for regulatory changes that are nondiscretionary and necessary to conform to a change in law, to file the updated regulations with the Registrar of Regulations within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| HB1948 | 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] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| HB1981 | Pass | Traffic lights. Allows motorcycle and moped drivers and bicycle riders, in certain situations, to proceed through intersections controlled by traffic lights showing steady red signals. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| HB2384 | Pass | Medicaid Works program; maximum allowable earnings. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to increase the maximum allowable gross earnings for individuals participating in the Medicaid Works program established pursuant to §190...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB1986 | Pass | Charter; Town of Weber City. Deletes outdated provisions of the town charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| SB960 | Pass | Children's hospitals; definition. Defines "children's hospital" as a hospital (i) whose inpatients are predominantly under 18 years of age and (ii) which is excluded from the Medicare prospective payment system pursuant to the Social Security Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB1968 | Pass | Physician assistants; when signature accepted. Provides that whenever any law or regulation requires a signature, certification, stamp, verification, affidavit, or endorsement by a physician, it shall be deemed to include a signature, certification, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| HB1972 | Pass | Golf carts and utility vehicles. Authorizes limited over-the-road operation of golf carts and utility vehicles by Department of Conservation and Recreation employees, provided the speed limit on the highway is no more than 35 mph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB1844 | Pass | Notice of zoning administrator actions. Provides that when an applicant requesting a determination or other action from the zoning administrator is not the owner of the subject property, written notice shall be given to the owner within 10 days of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| SB894 | Pass | Commonwealth Transportation Board's cooperation with persons maintaining marine museums. Repeals a Code of Virginia provision authorizing the CTB to cooperate with persons maintaining marine museums in a county in the Commonwealth adjoining a city lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| SB895 | Pass | Donation of capital stock of turnpike or ferry corporations. Repeals Code provision allowing any turnpike or ferry corporation to donate and transfer its entire capital stock to the Commonwealth Transportation Board or to political subdivisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| HB2031 | Pass | Charter; Town of Purcellville. Allows the town council to increase the size of the board of architectural review from five to seven members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| SB897 | Pass | Interstate 66 Economic Development Program. Repeals the Interstate 66 Economic Development Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB1910 | Pass | Cambridge Advanced (A/AS) 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 (A/AS) examinations. The bill also provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB2406 | Pass | Charter; Town of South Boston. Alters the method of filling vacancies on council and in the office of mayor so as to conform to state law. Other changes include updating Code references and allowing for incorporation of state law by reference.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB2407 | Pass | Charter; Town of Halifax. Changes the town's municipal elections to the date of the November general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB2409 | Pass | Lien for water and sewer charges. Adds the Town of Abingdon to the list of localities that may by ordinance provide that taxes or charges for water or sewer service shall be a lien on the real estate served by such waterline or sewer system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| HB2015 | Pass | Charter; Town of Bluefield. Updates the town's boundaries, provides for the selection of a vice-mayor, and lengthens the mayor's term from two to four years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB1940 | Pass | Restaurant regulations; exemption for certain nonprofit fund-raisers. Allows localities to adopt ordinances exempting nonprofit organizations selling food at fund-raisers from restaurant regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| HB2019 | Pass | Town and county treasurer reciprocal agreements. Allows the treasurer of any county and the treasurer of any town partially or totally within that county to enter into a reciprocal agreement granting each treasurer the authority to collect the other'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB2080 | Pass | Elections; voting equipment; DREs. Allows, for a limited period until June 30, 2012, the purchase of direct recording electronic machines from any source to meet legal mandates to provide accessible voting equipment. The bill provides for oversight o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| HB1960 | Pass | Tuition Assistance Grant Program. Amends the criteria for institutions of higher education to be eligible to receive tuition assistance on behalf of eligible students. For an institution not admitted to the program as of January 1, 2011, to be eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB2026 | Pass | Commercial vehicles; persons required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Prohibits persons for whom registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required from driving school buses and fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HB1973 | Pass | Efficiency of court clerks' offices. Provides that the person responsible for taking attendance when the potential jurors are assembled, and not the clerk, is responsible for verifying the identities of the jurors. The bill also allows clerks to tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| SB847 | Pass | Charter; City of Fairfax. Amends the charter for the City of Fairfax by changing the date of the first meeting of the newly elected City Council members from the first Tuesday of July following their election to the second Tuesday of July following t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| HB2423 | Pass | Transfer of custody of person suspected of drunk boating. Reinstates language allowing for transfer of custody of a person arrested for drunk boating. The language was removed, in Chapter 840 of the Acts of Assembly of 2010, from the statute providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| SB1275 | Pass | Sexually violent predators. Expands a procedure for rescission of a sexually violent predator's refusal to participate with a mental health examination to allow him to rescind a refusal to participate and provides that assessment hearings may be done...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB2163 | Pass | Abandoned motor vehicle; definition. Removes from the definition of "abandoned motor vehicle" a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that (i) has remained unclaimed in a garage for more than 10 days or (ii) has remained unclaimed in a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HB2013 | Pass | Community services boards; drug formulary. Requires the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish and maintain a committee composed of representatives of the Department of Medical Assistance Services, state facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| HB2139 | Pass | Charter; City of Williamsburg. Amends the charter for the City of Williamsburg so that vacancies in the city council are filled pursuant to Virginia Code. Vacancies may first be appointed by the remaining council members if a vacancy in the council o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| HB2179 | Pass | Local choice health insurance pool; inclusion of employees of area agencies on aging. Includes employees of area agencies on aging in the local choice health insurance pool.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB2025 | Pass | Noise abatement practices and technologies. Provides that first consideration should be given to the use of noise reducing design and low noise pavement materials for highway projects that require mitigation of traffic noise. The bill also clarifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| SB1439 | Pass | Tuition Assistance Grant Program. Amends the criteria for institutions of higher education to be eligible to receive tuition assistance on behalf of eligible students. For an institution not admitted to the program as of January 1, 2011, to be eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| HB2035 | Pass | Medicaid fraud; restitution. Requires the court to order restitution to be made to the Department of Medical Assistance Services for any loss caused by a felony conviction of making a false statement or representation in applications for payment unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB2363 | Pass | Criminal procedure; multijurisdiction grand jury. Includes a violation of §18.2-178 (obtaining money or signature, etc., by false pretense) involving insurance fraud within the functions of a multijurisdiction grand jury to investigate any condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB2063 | Pass | Protective orders; availability; penalty. Renames "protective orders for stalking" as "protective orders" and expands the class of persons that is eligible to obtain a protective order by enlarging the types of conduct that permi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| HB2368 | Pass | Supplemental environmental projects. Authorizes the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board, the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, and courts to provide for the undertaking of supplemental environmental projects through o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| SB1004 | Pass | Transportation agency efficiencies and cost recoveries. Exempts the Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) from paying any fee for remote access to land records; provides for VDOT to recommend ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| SB1007 | Pass | Permit fees for solid waste facilities. Establishes the same fee structure for sanitary landfills, noncaptive industrial landfills, and construction and demolition debris landfills. All of these types of facilities will be required to pay an annual f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB1009 | Pass | Mortgage lenders, mortgage brokers, and mortgage loan originators. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission (SCC) from issuing provisional licenses to mortgage loan originators on or after July 1, 2011, and repeals the provision that authorized the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| HB2089 | Pass | Service of notice of emergency protective orders. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may effect service of an emergency protective order by personally serving the person subject to the order with a notification of the issuance of the order, whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| SB1013 | Pass | Special license plates; Purple Heart recipients; fees. Eliminates the fee for issuance or renewal of Purple Heart license plates, provided that only one set of plates can be issued free for any one applicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB1713 | Pass | Criminal procedure; presumption against admission to bail. Adds to the list of crimes charged for which there is a presumption against admission to bail, subject to rebuttal, obstruction of justice where a person threatens bodily harm or force to kno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB2095 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; loss of benefits for certain felony convictions. Provides that a member of any of the retirement programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System forfeits his retirement benefits if it is determined that he has been...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB2449 | Pass | Fee for analysis of computer of criminal defendant. Provides that a criminal defendant may be assessed costs in an amount equivalent to the actual cost for each computer analysis, not to exceed $100, performed by a law-enforcement or other investigat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| SB866 | Pass | VIEW work requirement; exemption. Provides that a parent or caretaker-relative of a child under 12 months of age who personally provides care for the child may be exempt from mandatory participation in VIEW for up to 12 months. Months during which a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| HB1723 | Pass | Virginia Marine Resources Commission; subaqueous beds; permit requirements. Increases the value of projects eligible for an expedited administrative permit review before the Commissioner from $50,000 to $500,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| SB1340 | Pass | Elections; voting equipment; DREs. Allows, for a limited period until June 30, 2012, the purchase of direct recording electronic machines from any source to meet legal mandates to provide accessible voting equipment. The bill provides for oversight o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| SB886 | Pass | Elections; clarifications related to absentee voting and identification required for certain first-time voters. Provides that certain voter registrations remain valid until the next November general election or federal general election, whichever is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB1737 | Pass | Regulation of stormwater management systems. Clarifies statutory language and makes technical changes regarding a locality's authority to regulate stormwater management systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
