| HB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families assistance shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; apportionment of state and local share. Directs the General Assembly, in apportioning the state and local share of the costs of meeting the Standards of Quality, beginning July 1, 2012, to implement a formula that determines eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax administration; awards for detection of tax underpayments. Creates a program for the payment of monetary rewards to individuals who provide information to the Tax Commissioner that leads to the successful collection of taxes that are owed by othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB482 | Intro
Sine Die | Circuit court clerks; technology fee. Replaces the $5 Technology Trust Fund Fee with a $4 Local Technology Trust Fund Fee and a $1 State Technology Trust Fund Fee. The $4 local fee will be deposited into the circuit court clerk's nonreverting fund t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB257 | 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] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery on a campus police officer. Adds campus police officers to the list of officers who, when victims of assault and battery, subject the perpetrator to enhanced punishment, a Class 6 felony instead of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB468 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school funding; LCI calculation. Requires the Department of Education to adjust its calculation of the composite index of local ability to pay for public education by (i) reducing the maximum LCI of 0.80 by 0.02 each year for a period of 10 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB976 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Social Services to annually review the amount of payments made to TANF recipients and index such payments to the Consumer Price Index. Directs the Department of Social Services to develop and implement a process for annually reviewing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Towing and Recovery Operators. Abolishes the Board of Towing and Recovery Operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Procurement of services by certain state agencies. Requires the Director of the Division of Purchases and Supply of the Department of General Services to require each state agency, except law-enforcement agencies, to procure nonprofessional services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Planning and Budget; submissions to the General Assembly. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget, in addition to providing copies of all agency budget estimates, to prepare an analysis of such estimates for the deliberative use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Broadens eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program by including students whose Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical Fraud Control Unit; appointment of investigators. Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint unit investigators to investigate fraud, abuse, or neglect in the provision of care under the plan for medical assistance. Such investigators would b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Cooperative Extension Service; local offices. Requires the Cooperative Extension Service shall maintain a local office with at least one employee in each county in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; investments related to Iran. Requires the Virginia Retirement System, under certain circumstances, to divest itself of investments in companies meeting certain criteria gauged to be related to support of the current regime...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance credit for retired school division employees. Provides that the health insurance credit currently being provided to retired teachers would also be provided to all retired employees of the local school division at the option of the lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Virtual schools; funding. Provides that local school boards with full-time virtual programs shall receive the proportionate share of direct aid for public education for full-time students based on the jurisdiction of residence of each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB447 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; administration. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations allowing all students to whom the Standards of Learning tests are administered to be permitted to retake the test if the student does not achieve a passing scor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Costs for certain transcripts paid by the court. Provides that in all felony cases in which a transcript of any related prior proceedings, including but not limited to a mistrial or preliminary hearing, is provided to the defendant, a transcript shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB644 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard residing in Virginia shall be eligible for in-state tuition at a public institution of higher education. This is broader than the curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB636 | 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] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR112 | Intro
Sine Die | Early childhood education. Recognizes the inestimable value of early childhood education to children and sets a goal of extending the availability of early childhood education so that the Virginia Preschool Initiative and Head Start together serve 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct Aid to Public Education. Amends future Direct Aid to Public Education Distribution by lowering the maximum Composite Index.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB596 | Intro
Sine Die | Presence of methamphetamine lab in same place as child, mentally incapacitated person, or physically helpless person; penalty. Provides that any adult who knowingly allows a child or a mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person to be presen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; general registrars. Permits a general registrar who (i) is involuntarily separated and (ii) has 20 or more years of creditable service to retire with an unreduced allowance upon attaining age 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB287 | 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] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding; Salem Highway Construction District. Provides for transportation funding in the Salem Highway Construction District by allocating revenue attributable to a portion of economic growth due to or facilitated by the Inland Port in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information check; making false statements; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly makes a materially false statement on criminal history background check forms required for the purchase and transfer of firearms is g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; identification to register to vote and to vote. Requires the following: (i) posting notice of legally required voting qualifications and penalties for violations in at least two languages at all polling places; (ii) proof of citizenship wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid eligibility; determination of assets. Provides that for the purpose of determining eligibility for medical assistance, the sale or transfer of real property at a price that is less than the assessed value of the property shall be considered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding. Dedicates to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund (i) one-third of the total revenue from the insurance license tax and (ii) the amount of current state sales and use tax revenue attributable to a 0.25 percent sales and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR146 | Intro
Sine Die | High capacity transit. Requests the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make high capacity transit a priority for funding by the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school divisions; unexpended state funds. Provides that local school divisions may elect to use any unexpended state funds to provide a one-time bonus to all teachers of up to three percent of the annual base salary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.5 percent tax rate under current law to an amount gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards for use of coastal primary sand dunes; exemption. Authorizes the Virginia Beach Wetlands Board to determine which structures or properties are in imminent danger from erosion or storm damage. If such structures or properties are found to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB915 | Intro
Sine Die | Habeas corpus; oral argument on the motion. Provides that in habeas corpus actions, oral argument on any motion shall be heard only at the request of the court. The court shall rule on the record whenever possible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; confidentiality of permittee information. Prohibits the clerk of the court from disclosing information contained on a concealed handgun permit application or on an order issuing a concealed handgun permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoration of civil rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of civil rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of sentence, including any term of probation or parole, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB15 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1046 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax exemption; elderly and disabled. Removes the requirement that "income" be restricted to that which is taxable under federal income tax laws, for purposes of a locality that elects to have income caps in determining eligibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of compression brakes within the Town of St. Paul. Authorizes the Town of St. Paul to regulate the use of compression brakes by operaters of motor vehicles within the Town boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested are entitled to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; board of directors; duty of care; enforcement of rules. Establishes a duty of care for officers and members of the board of directors. The bill also authorizes a board to increase the total charges that may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | Street maintenance payments. Provides for increased highway maintenance payments by the Commissioner of Highways to municipalities where traffic volumes exceed the statewide average by more than 20 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Adds the City of Petersburg as a member of the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB415 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of moving motor vehicle while distracted; penalties. Prohibits the operation of a moving motor vehicle while engaged in other activities, such as using a wireless telephone or other wireless telecommunications device without a hands-free ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Failure to report death of child by parent, guardian, etc.; penalty. Provides that any parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child or a person standing in loco parentis to a child who, with intent to conceal the death, fails to report the death o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy facilities; eligibility for incentives. Establishes a requirement that electricity generated from renewable sources be generated from a facility located in the Commonwealth, or a facility off the Commonwealth's coastline if it is an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Reporting boating accident. Requires the operator of a vessel, if he is involved in an accident, to immediately report the accident to law enforcement and to notify the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. An operator who fails to provide the app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
