| HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Cigarette and other tobacco products; tax rates. Increases the cigarette tax rate from 30 cents ($0.30) per pack to $1.45 per pack and increases the cigarette excise tax on roll-your-own tobacco from 10 percent to 50 percent. The bill also increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HJR116 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB986 | Intro
Sine Die | Synthetic cannabinoids; bath salts; penalties. Amends provisions added to the Code last year regarding the criminalization of synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals known as "bath salts" to add newly identified chemical combinations. The bill also adds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle title loans, payday loans, and open-end credit plans; interest rate. Caps the rate of interest that may be charged on motor vehicle title loans, payday loans, and open-end credit plans at 36 percent per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Virginia's Eastern Shore. Changes the special license plates promoting tourism on Virginia's Eastern Shore from nonrevenue sharing to revenue sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB662 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board for Community Colleges; mental health services. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop standards and policies directing community colleges to adopt, incrementally and as resources become available, a mental health ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; party identification on ballots; local elections. Extends to local elections the requirement that ballots identify the nominating political party for party candidates and identify independent candidates as such. Currently, this requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbying and finance disclosure; disclosure of gifts and contributions. Provides that lobbyists' annual disclosure forms will be filed by November 1 complete through August 31, rather than July 1 complete through April 30, and requires General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR88 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; food deserts; report. Requests the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to explore and recommend strategies to eliminate food deserts to make healthy and affordable food products available and accessible to low-income and poor citizens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB981 | Intro
Sine Die | Failure to report death of child or of a missing 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, (i) with intent to conceal the death, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for hiring certain individuals released from incarceration. Establishes beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers hiring individuals released from incarceration into new jobs paying an annual sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Revenue sharing funds for highways in certain localities. Provides that funds provided to localities are a grant and that the Department of Transportation shall not have administrative oversight on local projects. Requires localities to certify in wr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1206 | Intro
Sine Die | Requirements of preneed funeral contracts. Eliminates the requirement that, in cases in which a life insurance or annuity contract is used to fund the contract, the insurance or annuity contract must provide for adjustment of the face value of the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Statute of limitations; judgments of the Commonwealth. Exempts judgments in favor of the Commonwealth from the 20-year limitations period for enforcement of a judgment and the 10-year period for the enforcement of a lien of a judgment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR87 | Intro
Sine Die | Prostate cancer screening; report. Requests the State Health Commissioner to promote and emphasize prostate cancer screening as an effective tool in prostate cancer prevention. The State Health Commissioner shall submit a report of his progress in me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code insurance requirements for certain fireworks shows. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the Statewide Fire Prevention Code so that insurance coverage for permit holders for consumer firewor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | State Council of Higher Education; development of uniform lower division curriculum. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to develop a uniform lower division curriculum consisting of no more than 60 credit hours. The curriculum shall be un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective order; transfer of venue. Allows a general district court to transfer a case where a party is seeking a protective order to the appropriate juvenile and domestic relations district court or circuit court if either of the parties is a part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation police officers. Requires the Board to adopt regulations that prohibit a conservation police officer from hunting or fishing in those areas he is assigned to patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animals; euthanasia. Requires a city or county pound to maintain a registry of organizations willing to accept healthy, nonvicious animals scheduled to be euthanized and prohibits the pound from euthanizing such animals until it has given 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR90 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; minors; jurisdiction. Provides that a minor may petition for a protective order on his own behalf without the consent of a parent or guardian. The bill also provides that protective orders sought against individuals who are not fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; drug testing. Requires each applicant for unemployment benefits, as a condition of eligibility, to provide the Virginia Employment Commission with the results of a drug test that is negative for the use of a nonprescribed contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Following too closely. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR71 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission to Review the Effectiveness of Virginia's Tax Preferences; report. Establishes the Commission to oversee the evaluation of Virginia's tax preferences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; party identification on ballots; local elections. Gives candidates in local elections the option to be identified by party on the ballot. Currently, only federal, statewide, and General Assembly candidates who are nominated by a political ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB527 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Slave Commission. Establishes the Virginia Slave Commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of addressing contemporary political, economic, educational, and societal issues and public policies whose roots lie i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax on watercraft. Removes the $2,000 cap on the amount of tax imposed under the sales and use tax on watercraft.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed weapons; correctional officers. Allows a Department of Corrections correctional officer to carry a concealed handgun without a concealed handgun permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for local products and firms; applicability. Authorizes localities to apply a preference for bidders or offerors located in the locality of up to 10 percent, provided (i) for competitive sealed bidding the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Overweight permits for haulers of farm animal feed. Provides for issuance of overweight permits for operation of certain vehicles used for hauling farm animal feed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB821 | Intro
Sine Die | Wrongful foreclosure; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action for the owner of any residential real property against any person who wrongfully asserts that he is, or has the authority to act as, the holder of the obligation secured by a deed of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR314 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the work of the Fort Monroe Authority, Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park, Hampton City Council, Governor of Virginia, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and National Park Service for their work in establishing the Fort M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in public parks. Allows localities to ban smoking in designated public parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; proof of legal age required. Provides that any person selling alcoholic beverages to an individual who the seller knows or has reason to believe is less than 21 years of age shall require the individual to present a photo ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Check cashing fee information. Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Financial Information to conduct periodic surveys of banks, savings institutions, credit unions, and persons required to be registered as check cashers. The surveys a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; service charge. Eliminates the $5 statutory service charge fee for transactions carried out in DMV that could be carried out by mail, online, or over the telephone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR231 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; permissive contract provisions for localities; resident employment. Authorizes any locality to include in its contracts a provision requiring the contractor to ensure that a specified percentage, not to exceed 20 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage modification; application; limitations on foreclosure. Provides that if a borrower has submitted an application to modify the terms of a loan securing a debt on any residential real property that serves as the primary residence of the borro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefits Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Authority is charged with establishing and operating health benefit exchanges for qualified individuals and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed handguns; penalties. Provides that any person who may lawfully possess a firearm in Virginia may carry it hidden from common observation. The bill retains the procedures to obtain a permit that authorizes a person to carry a concea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; impact of unlawful aliens; report. Requires public schools to determine whether each student enrolling in public school was born outside the jurisdiction of the United States or is the child of an alien not lawfully present in the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of moving motor vehicles while distracted; penalty. Prohibits the operator of a moving motor vehicle from being engaged in activities that are unnecessary to and that actually impair the operation of a motor vehicle. Certain exemptions appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug Treatment Courts. Provides that drug treatment courts shall be established in the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Goochland, Montgomery, Russell, Smyth, and Washington, and that a drug treatment court shall be established in the County of Wise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchase of methamphetamine precursors; acceptable identification. Provides that the documents allowed under the federal Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 to establish identity for the purpose of purchasing methamphetamine precursors are al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Extends until July 1, 2013, the sunset on use of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes by vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates, regardless of the number of occupants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Planning district commissions. Provides that the functional areas warranting regional cooperation for planning district commission purposes shall be limited to (i) solid waste, water supply, and other environmental management and (ii) transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
