| HB278 | Pass | Bonds in recognizances; how payable. Provides that bonds in recognizances in criminal or juvenile cases are payable to the county or city where the case is prosecuted, not the locality where the recognizance was taken.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB550 | Pass | Submission of agency reports; electronic format. Allows agency reports to be submitted in written or electronic format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB300 | Pass | Beehive Grant Program. Creates the Beehive Grant Fund and Beehive Grant Program for new beehives. The grant is $200 to registered beekeepers for each new hive purchased or materials or supplies purchased to construct a new hive. The bill limits the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| HB210 | Pass | Regulation of real estate appraisal management companies. Adds definitions of "appraisal services” and "appraiser" and provides exemptions from licensure for certain entities. The bill also (i) authorizes the Board, beginning July 1, 2014, to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| HB460 | Pass | Corporate income tax; single sales factor apportionment for income of manufacturers. Repeals the penalties that would have been assessed on any manufacturer that elected the single sales factor apportionment for income and that did not maintain certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB871 | Pass | Insurance agents; limited burial insurance authority. Eliminates the provision in the definition of a limited burial insurance authority that imposes a $10,000 limit on burial insurance society memberships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| HB1251 | Pass | Charter; Town of Cedar Bluff. Shifts the town's elections from May to November and extends the mayor's term from two to four years. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| HB38 | Pass | Absentee voting; duties of general registrar and electoral board. Broadens the type of certification of mailing permitted when sending absentee ballot materials to include certification of expedited mailing or delivery by commercial delivery provider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| HB286 | Pass | Previous garnishments; costs. Allows costs incurred by a judgment creditor in connection with a prior garnishment to be collected in a subsequent garnishment attempt that is based on the same judgment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB203 | Pass | Special assessments for local improvements; City of Hampton. Adds the City of Hampton to the lists of localities that may impose special assessments upon abutting property owners for improvements related to the initial paving of streets, flood preven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB32 | Pass | Charter; Town of Brodnax. Changes the town council quorum from five to four. The council consists of seven councilmen and a mayor. The mayor votes only in the case of a tie vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB197 | Pass | Town of Chincoteague; ordinance requiring the cutting of grass. Adds the Town of Chincoteague to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance for the cutting of grass and weeds on occupied property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| HB480 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); attendance by certain members in a closed meeting. Provides that a member of a public body shall be permitted to attend a closed meeting held by any of its committees or subcommittees, provided such member ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| HB481 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure forms. Removes the signature notarization requirement from the Statement of Economic Interests disclosure form filed by certain state and local officers and employees. In addition, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| HJR216 | Pass | X & Y Chromosomal Variation Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as X & Y Chromosomal Variation Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
House: Introduced bill reprinted 12102951D |
| HB13 | Pass | Elections; redistricting local districts; prison populations. Provides that the local governing body may exclude from its calculations in drawing local districts for decennial redistricting the population of certain adult correctional facilities. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| HB638 | Pass | Judicial authorization of treatment; advance directives. Provides that a court may authorize medical treatment for an incapacitated person when there is no available person with legal authority to make such decisions under (i) the advance directive o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB479 | Pass | Contraband and tax-paid cigarettes; penalties. Establishes legal limits and imposes criminal and civil penalties for possession with intent to distribute contraband tax-paid cigarettes by parties outside the legitimate distribution chain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| HB1188 | Pass | Human trafficking; information for public schools. Requires the Board of Education, with assistance from the Department of Social Services, to provide awareness and training materials for local school division staff on human trafficking, including st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| HB1202 | Pass | Fire insurance; coverage for costs of services by volunteer fire departments. Requires fire insurance policies to provide coverage, with limits not less than $250, for the cost charged by a volunteer fire department that is not fully funded by proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| HB963 | Pass | Solicitation of child pornography. Provides that any person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade another person to send, submit, transfer, or provide to him any child pornography in order to gain entry into a group, association,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| HB686 | Pass | Special license plates; veterans of Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to veterans of Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm and exempts those license plates from minimum pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| HB359 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; regulations; leasing of licensed premises by breweries. Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations prescribing the terms and conditions under which a licensed brewery may manufacture beer pursuant to an agreement with a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| HB1211 | Pass | Auxiliary grants; third-party payments. Provides that assisted living facilities and adult foster care homes may accept payments from third parties for certain goods and services provided to auxiliary grant recipients provided certain requirements ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB839 | Pass | Defective drywall; definition. Redefines the term "defective drywall" to mean drywall or similar building material composed of dried gypsum-based plaster that (i) contains elemental sulfur exceeding 10 parts per million as has been found in some dryw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| HB1152 | Pass | Threat assessment teams; criminal history and juvenile records. Authorizes threat assessment teams established by private nonprofit institutions of higher education to receive health and criminal history records of students for the purposes of assess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| HB1238 | Pass | Redirection of forfeited drug assets to construction of Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial. Provides that between July 1, 2012, and July 1, 2014, local agencies may direct cash funds and proceeds from forfeited drug assets to the Virginia Public Sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) |
| HB971 | Pass | Barrier crimes. Adds the following crimes to various barrier crimes statutes: abduction, extortion, and felony violations of protective orders. People who have been convicted of or are the subject of pending charges of one of those crimes will not be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| HB852 | Pass | Student records; mental health. Clarifies that an institution of higher education may require that any accepted student provide a complete student record, including any mental health record, from not only his high school but also any other institutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| HB719 | Pass | Special hunting and fishing license for disabled veterans. Allows a veteran who is permanently disabled due to a service-connected disability to obtain at no cost a combined hunting and freshwater fishing lifetime license, or a separate hunting or fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| HB775 | Pass | Application for public assistance; accurate contact information. Requires local departments of social services to collect, to the extent required by federal law, accurate contact information, including the best available address and telephone number...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| HB764 | Pass | Division of Risk Management; risk management plans for public liability; indemnification agreements by public institutions of higher education. Provides that no Virginia public institution of higher education shall be authorized to enter into an inde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB756 | Pass | Public schools; Innovation Technical Advisory Committee. Authorizes the Department of Education to establish an Innovation Technical Advisory Group, comprised of individuals with experience in the establishment and operation of charter schools, colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| HB578 | Pass | Online courses; teacher licensure. Requires the Board of Education to develop licensure criteria for teachers who teach only online courses. The bill also provides that teachers who hold a Board-issued five-year renewable license may teach online cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| HB84 | Pass | Child custody; communication of decision. Provides that the judge's required communication of the basis for his decision regarding child custody or visitation, except in cases of a consent order for custody or visitation, shall set forth the judge's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| HB1042 | Pass | Expiration of driver's licenses; active duty military. Extends the grace period for driver's license expiration from 90 to 180 days after the return from service outside the United States of active duty military personnel, a member of the diplomatic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| HB1043 | Pass | Grace period for vehicle registration. Extends the allowance of a grace period for replacement of plates or decals and for vehicle registration to the spouse and dependent children accompanying a member of the armed services of the United States, a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB601 | Pass | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; board membership. Provides that in appointing Virginia members of the board of directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB263 | Pass | Correctional enterprises; exemption from mandatory purchase provisions. Provides that state departments, institutions, and agencies may be granted an exemption from mandatory procurement of articles produced or manufactured by persons confined in sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| HB265 | Pass | Board of Health Professions; meetings. Requires the Board of Health Professions to meet at least annually, rather than quarterly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| HB536 | Pass | Motor fuels tax. Removes the requirement that bulk users and retailers of undyed diesel fuel be licensed. The bill also gives the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles discretion to seize and lock or seal a tank or other storage receptacle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| HB1203 | Pass | Research and Technology Investment Advisory Committee. Provides that the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority shall administer the Research and Technology Investment Advisory Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
| HB275 | Pass | Virginia Board of Accountancy; confidentiality of certain information. Provides that tax returns, financial statements, and other financial information that is not generally available to the public through regulatory disclosure or otherwise, subdivis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB211 | Pass | Procurement; forward energy pricing. Authorizes, subject to available appropriation, any public body to use forward pricing mechanisms for budget risk reduction. Forward pricing mechanisms are contracts or financial instruments that obligate the publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359) |
| HB42 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; certain members of fire companies or departments. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Act to include members of any fire company or department providing fire protection services for facilities of the Virginia Natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| HB546 | Pass | Crimes by gangs. Includes within the definition of "predicate criminal act" the offenses of the taking or detaining of any person into a place for the purpose of prostitution and the receiving of money from earnings of any person engaged i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| HB324 | Pass | Tax-supported debt of the Commonwealth. Establishes the method of calculating the total principal amount of debt issued by any state agency, institution, board, or authority when the authority to issue the debt restricts the maximum principal amount ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| HB1212 | Pass | Storage of health records. Replaces obsolete terminology and cross-references related to storage of health records, currently referred to as medical records or patient records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB1146 | Pass | Charter; Town of Stephens City. Shifts the town's local elections from May to November. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| HB377 | Pass | Condominium Act; sale at auction. Provides that a disposition of a unit through a sale at auction, where the resale certificate was made available as part of the auction package for prospective purchasers prior to the auction, is exempt from certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
