VA Legislation | 2011 | Regular Session | Senate | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SJR363	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-27 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB1371	Engross Sine Die	Capital outlay plan. Sets forth a six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-27 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB1366	Engross Sine Die	Health benefits exchange; intent to develop. States that it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Commonwealth create and operate its own health benefits exchange or exchanges that meet the relevant requirements of the federal Affordable Car... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-23 Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar (22-Y 18-N)
SB1341	Engross Sine Die	Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; regulation of locksmiths. Transfers the regulation of locksmiths and locksmith services from the Department of Criminal Justice Services to the State Board for Contractors... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB1347	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast horse racing; allocations. Authorizes wagering on historical horse racing. The bill also allocates the proceeds from such racing with forty-two percent of the proceeds distributed to the Commonwealth Transportati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB1386	Engross Sine Die	State lottery; instant ticket game to benefit veterans. Creates an instant ticket lottery game to benefit veterans, to be available beginning January 1, 2012. Proceeds from the sale of the tickets shall be used by the Department of Veterans Services ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB781	Engross 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]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB806	Engross Sine Die	Expert witnesses; literature designations. Provides that if any party, during the direct examination of his own expert witness, intends to rely on statements in treatises, periodicals, or pamphlets previously designated by an opposing party, copies ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1429	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Racing Commission; net pool wagering; retainage. Changes the name of the Executive Secretary of the Commission to the Executive Director. The bill, among other things, also (i) increases the number of permissible satellite facilities (OTBs) ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB1233	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; membership. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation Officers would accrue retirement benefits unde... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB819	Engross Sine Die	Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to two-year college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds paid shall not exceed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB821	Engross Sine Die	Office of the Children's Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to provide ombudsman services, including investigation of complaints, advocacy, and information for children, parents, and citizens involved with child-serving agencie... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB831	Engross Sine Die	Issuance of civil investigative demands under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Provides that the Attorney General may not issue a civil investigative demand to a Virginia public institution of higher education when the claim relates to a mat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB981	Engross Sine Die	Renewable energy sources production tax credit. Establishes, beginning January 1, 2012 and ending July 1, 2016, a $1-per-megawatt-hour income tax credit for each megawatt-hour of electricity or megawatt-hour equivalent in thermal energy that an ener... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Finance Committee
SB832	Engross Sine Die	Green Public Buildings Act. Requires executive branch agencies and institutions entering the design phase for construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or renovating such a building where the cost of renovation exc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB898	Engross Sine Die	Photo-monitoring systems. Repeals the requirement that localities submit the list of intersections approved for installation of photo-monitoring systems to the Virginia Department of Transportation for final approval if the locality has a population ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB837	Engross Sine Die	Foreclosure; use of false records, documents, or statements. Provides that any person who knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false or fraudulent record, document, or statement in support of any foreclosure upon property under this ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB845	Engross Sine Die	Legislative speech or debate of local elected officials. Provides that an elected member of a local governing body shall not be compelled by law to be questioned on any speech or debate engaged in by the elected member during the exercise of his legi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 House: No action taken by Courts of Justice by voice vote
SB846	Engross Sine Die	Lien for water and sewer charges and taxes imposed by localities. Expands the authority localities have to impose liens against real estate served by the locality's waterline or sewer for unpaid taxes and charges. This legislation grants localities t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB1086	Engross Sine Die	Motor vehicle sales and use tax; exemptions. Exempts from the motor vehicle sales and use tax certain four-wheel plug-in electric vehicles rated at 8,500 pounds unloaded gross vehicle weight or less and having a maximum speed capability of at least 5... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB972	Engross Sine Die	Retail sales and transient occupancy 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Finance Committee
SB1451	Engross Sine Die	Licensure of behavioral health services; posting of information. Provides that the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall make certain information about behavioral health services providers licensed by the Department, includ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB978	Engross Sine Die	FAMIS Plan eligibility. Changes the eligibility for the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan from children in families with an income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level to those with an income at or below 225 percent of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SJR284	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed service of their sentences... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1303	Engross Sine Die	Air pollution; outdoor wood-burning heaters. Requires the Air Pollution Control Board to develop a model ordinance for localities that could be used, in the discretion of the locality, to regulate air pollution emissions resulting from the use of out... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 House: VOTE: DEFEATED (19-Y 77-N)
SB1464	Engross Sine Die	Medicaid; legal permanent residents. Requires the state plan to include a provision for payment of medical assistance services delivered to permanent residents who have been legally present in the United States for the federally required five-year wa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB997	Engross Sine Die	Street construction. Allows localities to retain full performance guarantees until streets in a new development are accepted by the state agency, local government department or agency, or other public authority that is responsible for maintaining and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB1470	Engross Sine Die	Sexually violent predators; civil commitment. Provides that the Crime Commission, with input from Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Attorney General's Office shall examine, as possible components of conditional releas... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1028	Engross Sine Die	Drug Treatment Courts. Provides for the establishment of drug treatment courts in Buchanan, Dickenson, Goochland, Montgomery, and Russell Counties, and for the establishment of a drug treatment court in the County of Wise that will serve the Counties... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1030	Engross Sine Die	Elections; costs of primaries. Provides that the state will reimburse the localities for the costs of statewide and federal primary elections held after January 1, 2013, as funded by the general appropriation act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1353	Engross Sine Die	General Assembly; general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1357	Engross Sine Die	Pilot program for Veterans Services Officer. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program with a Virginia locality for a Veterans Services Officers to enhance efforts to provide services to veterans ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1363	Engross Sine Die	Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program. Increases the amount of the grant from $1,000 to $1,500, federal Expected Family Contribution threshold from $8,000 to $12,000, and requires the students who receive the grant to maintain the continued enrollm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1051	Engross Sine Die	Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for a court-ordered extension of polling hours in emergency situations and situations that interfere with the ability of voters to travel to the polls. The bill provides that no extension s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1383	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as law-enforcement officers of certain towns. Provides that a person retired under the Local Enforcement Officers' Retirement System, the State Police Officers' Retirement System, or the Virginia Law Officer... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1395	Engross Sine Die	Firearms; alcohol; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person who is under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs to carry a loaded firearm on or about his person in a public place and that a person found guilty is ineligibl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB1401	Engross Sine Die	Unemployment benefits; eligibility criteria. Provides that certain individuals who have exhausted eligibility for unemployment benefits and who are enrolled in approved training programs are eligible for up to 26 weeks of additional benefits. The mea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
SB1172	Engross Sine Die	Training standards for law-enforcement using tracking devices during pursuits. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish a model policy for law-enforcement personnel for use of an electronic or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1180	Engross Sine Die	Pretrial deposition of a witness in a criminal trial. Creates a mechanism for the taking of a pretrial deposition of a witness in a criminal trial who has been shown to the satisfaction of the court to be likely to be unavailable for trial because o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1155	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the supplemental allowance currently paid to members upon retirement until age 65 would instead be paid until Social Security Retirement Age. The provisions of the bill are made conditional upon... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1167	Engross Sine Die	Crashes on HOT lanes under construction on the Capital Beltway. Requires that when there is a vehicle crash on HOT lanes under construction on any portion of Interstate 95, 395, or 495 and the vehicles involved in the crash can be moved and there are... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1319	Engross Sine Die	Insurance companies; investments in derivative transactions; exercising qualified financial contracts upon insolvency or delinquency. Establishes conditions under which domestic insurers may engage in transactions involving derivative instruments, in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Commerce and Labor Committee
SJR320	Engross Sine Die	Study; establishing a joint subcommittee to study the academic achievement of Virginia school children compared with that of students internationally; report. Directs the Commission on Youth to study how Virginia school children compare academically... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 To House Rules Committee
SJR328	Engross Sine Die	Study; replacement of the state motor fuel tax; report. Requests the Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research to study the desirability and feasibility of replacing the state motor fuel tax with alternatives including a mileage-base... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 To House Rules Committee
SJR350	Engross Sine Die	Joint Subcommittee to Study Strategies and Models for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment; report. Continues the Joint Subcommittee to Study Strategies and Models for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment for one additional year, through 201... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 To House Rules Committee
SJR354	Engross Sine Die	Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study state employee compensation; report. Provides for the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the salary structure and pay of state employees compared with similarly situat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 To House Rules Committee
SB851	Engross Sine Die	Temporary injunctions. Provides that, in assessing whether to award a temporary injunction, a court shall review the following factors: (i) the likelihood of irreparable harm to the party seeking the temporary injunction if the temporary injunction i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (9-Y 12-N)
SB1460	Engross Sine Die	Workforce skills enhancement training program for unemployed workers. Establishes a program whereby unemployed workers may continue to receive unemployment compensation benefits while participating in workforce skills enhancement training from a pote... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 House: Passed by in Appropriations with letter by voice vote
SJR315	Engross Sine Die	Study; E-ZPass; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the policies and procedures of other states participating in the E-ZPass program. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 To House Rules Committee
SJR341	Engross Sine Die	Study; Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Directing the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay. In conducting the study, the Joint Legislati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 To House Rules Committee