| HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Traffic control preemption devices. Allows local governments that control the highways within their boundaries the ability to control the use of traffic control signal preemption devices used to change traffic light signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); aid for nonpublic higher education; religious or theological education for military chaplains. Allows the General Assembly to provide for loans to, and grants to or on behalf of, students attending nonprof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices; exceptions; penalty. Prohibits the use of handheld personal communications devices while operating a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; policies without abortion coverage. Requires any health insurer that offers, sells, or issues a health insurance policy in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for abortion services to also offer for sale in the Commonwealth a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Student driver education; instruction on organ donation. Requires that the existing organ and tissue donor awareness component included as part of the driver education curriculum be at least 30 minutes in duration and include a discussion of the opt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; prohibited discrimination; sexual orientation. Prohibits discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation. The bill defines "sexual orientation" as a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization shall be denied the right ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB836 | Intro
Sine Die | Restraint of certain prisoners. Prohibits a state, regional, local, or juvenile correctional facility from using restraints on any prisoner who is pregnant during labor, transport to a medical facility, delivery, or postpartum recovery unless the war...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB942 | Intro
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems. Provides that a locality shall not require the owner of an alternative onsite sewage system to enter into a performance agreement with the locality or otherwise require the owner of an alternative onsite sewage system to post w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Enforcement of federal immigration law by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth, political subdivision of the Commonwealth or locality, or an employee of any of them acting in his official capaci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving. Prohibits the use of handheld personal communications devices for any purpose other than to make or receive phone calls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Bigamy; penalty. Provides that a person who, while already married, purports to marry another or cohabits with another under the appearance of being married is guilty of bigamy, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Electoral college. Provides that the Commonwealth's votes in the electoral college shall be allocated by the popular vote statewide and in each congressional district. The candidates for President and Vice President who win the popular statewide vote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR172 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study the horse racing industry in the Commonwealth; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to study the horse racing industry in the Commonwealth and report its findings by November 30, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; attorney fees. Provides that a court may award reasonable attorney fees, expenses, and court costs to any person, group, or entity that prevails in a zoning action brought against it or that successfully challenges the validity of a zoning or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1227 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential primaries. Prohibits a political party from requiring a loyalty oath or pledge to support the party's candidate as a condition to participate in the party's presidential primary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1005 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpublic school students; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home instructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; local license tax business classifications and tax rates; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to study the local license tax business classifications and tax rates. The Department is to complete its work by November 30, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses. Requires that driver's licenses show the street address of the licensee's principal residence in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Historic district notices. Eliminates the requirement that the Department of Historic Resources publish a notice of a public hearing on the designation or nomination of a historic district in a newspaper once a week for two successive weeks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR171 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; reduce Medicaid costs using telemedicine; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study reducing Medicaid costs by using telemedicine. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) examine the current use of telemedicine in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Machinery and equipment recyclable materials tax credit. Provides that beginning January 1, 2012, machinery and equipment used in a manufacturing facility or plant unit that produces methane gas for sale through anaerobic digestion would be eligible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Trust Fund Authority. Creates the Virginia Housing Trust Fund Authority to administer the Virginia Housing Trust Fund also created by the bill to assist in increasing the capacity of community housing organizations and encourage pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding and administration; Virginia Pump Toll ("FareShare"). Imposes the Virginia Pump Toll ("FareShare"), in the amount of (i) $0.50 on each use of a retail motor fuels pump and an additional $0.50 when purchasing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; taxation of local government property that is physically located in a different county, city, or town; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the local fiscal i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides, for contracts not expected to exceed $5 million, a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR147 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; expedited partner therapy; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study options and develop recommendations for implementing expedited partner therapy in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Estate tax reinstated. Reinstates the estate tax for persons dying on or after July 1, 2012. No estate tax will be imposed on a gross estate if the majority of the assets of the estate is an interest in a closely held business or a working farm. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB797 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a handgun while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person carrying a handgun in a public place while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and prohibits a person from obtaining a conceal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation impact fees. Provides that if a specific development or subdivision received final site plan or subdivision approval prior to the effective date of the locality's impact fee ordinance, the amount of the impact fee to be imposed may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug treatment court. Authorizes a drug treatment court in the County of Montgomery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB979 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; adoption and enforcement of rules. Authorizes the board of directors or its agents to enter onto a lot subject to the declaration as may be reasonably necessary to remedy the failure of the lot owner to com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1094 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal jurisdiction; long-arm statute; acknowledging parentage. Expands Virginia's long-arm statute to provide for personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state person who, while in the Commonwealth, has acknowledged parentage of a child. This bill is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban development areas. Increases population thresholds for determining applicability of urban development area (UDA) requirements from 130,000 persons to 200,000 persons. The bill also specifies that UDAs need only accommodate the projected growth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunset provisions on certain tax bills. Prohibits any committee of the General Assembly from reporting any bill that establishes, increases, or expands a state or local tax exemption, credit, deduction, or any other reduction in tax liability, unless...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Private security services businesses; exceptions. Provides an exception from licensure requirements for private security services businesses from other states that are duly licensed in those states and that contract for a specific investigation with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR141 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; unfunded federal mandates; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the impact of unfunded federal mandates in the Commonwealth. The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission shall report its findin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB281 | Intro
Sine Die | Shoplifting and employee theft; civil action. Provides that a civil action for shoplifting or employee theft may be initiated or maintained by a merchant even though a criminal action for the same conduct has been initiated. A merchant may not recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole; eligibility for certain inmates otherwise ineligible. Provides that in the case of a person who is ineligible for parole for a combination of three or more offenses involving murder, rape, or robbery, the Parole Board shall consider a petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Garnishment. Provides that the garnishee shall pay any money or other property held on behalf of a judgment debtor directly to the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's attorney instead of to the court, which is current practice. The judgment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR51 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; options for accepting military training and experience as satisfying requirements for licensure, certification, or registration as a health care provider; report. Requests the Department of Health Professions to study options for accepting mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR52 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; reforming Virginia's state and local tax structure; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study reforming Virginia's tax structure, including the feasibility of adopting a flat tax or a fair tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. Voters registered prior to Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | Appointment of guardian; concurrent commitment hearing. Provides that, upon the request of a person who petitions for the appointment of a guardian for an incapacitated adult, the court may hold a hearing for the involuntary commitment of such adult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR140 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; revenue impact to Virginia of legalizing the sale of marijuana under conditions and restrictions; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the potential revenue impact on the Commonwealth of legalizing the sale and use of marijuana, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban development areas. Makes incorporation of urban development areas optional rather than mandatory. Any locality that has previously adopted urban development areas may, and upon voter petition shall, reconsider such action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB779 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; undocumented persons. Establishes that an undocumented person who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for in-state tuition unless he meets all of the following criteria: (i) he has resided with his paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of concealed handguns; faculty members at public institutions of higher education. Allows full-time faculty members of public institutions of higher education who possess a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB778 | Intro
Sine Die | Tolls; Interstate Highway System. Prohibits tolling on Interstate 95 without the approval of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding and administration. Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a motor fuels sales tax rate of five percent, phased in over five years, for highway maintenance; (ii) increasing the state sales tax in Norther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
