| HB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy conservation and efficiency goal. Establishes a statewide goal of reducing the consumption of electric energy within the Commonwealth, through energy conservation and efficiency actions taken by government, electric utilities, and retail custo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex offender registry; registration and reregistration. Makes procedural changes to some of the registration and reregistration requirements set forth in the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act. Where current law requires registration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB704 | 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 |
| HB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard. Requires each investor-owned electric utility and distribution cooperative to participate in a renewable energy portfolio standard program commencing with calendar year 2013. Under the program, each utility is req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB907 | Intro
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 10 and 33 in Clarke County in order to eliminate a split of a new precinct. District 10 will have a deviation of 1.1 percent f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems. Provides that the owner of an alternative onsite sewage system installed prior to January 1, 2010, with flows of less than 1,000 gallons per day serving a church or an individual single-family dwelling occupied by such owner sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HJR133 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; operation and performance of the Commonwealth's system of child protective services; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the operation and performance of the Commonwealth's system of child protective ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Bills referring to taxes. Prohibits the introduction of any bill that refers to a tax by any word other than "tax."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; hurricane preparedness products and energy-efficient or water-efficient products. Merges the sales and use tax holiday for energy-efficient or water-efficient products with the sales and use tax holiday for hurricane prep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Isolated state waters. Asserts that isolated bodies of water that are not fed by or replenished by perennial streams are to be considered nonnavigable waterways and, as such, are not subject to regulation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the U....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Incandescent light bulb manufacturing. Establishes a procedure by which a manufacturer of incandescent light bulbs (ILBs) in Virginia may obtain a license from the State Corporation Commission. Licensed manufacturers are required to distribute their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Notaries; conflict of interests; election petitions. Prohibits a notary employed by a candidate campaign committee or referendum committee from performing any notarial act on any petition that names the candidate or the referendum. A violation of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB955 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccine; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement that children receive the human papillomavirus vaccine for school attendance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; assistance to voters. Makes it unlawful for anyone to assist more than two persons in the casting of in-person or absentee ballots in one election. This prohibition does not apply to general or assistant registrars, electoral board members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Juveniles imprisoned for felony offense eligible for parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of imprisonment upon conviction of a felony offense who was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offense is eligible for parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; policy of the Commonwealth. Adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the safeguards for all individuals in the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination. The bill defines sexual orientation and gender identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1259 | Intro
Sine Die | State Compensation Board. Abolishes the State Compensation Board and assigns its duties pertaining to constitutional officers as follows: (i) for sheriffs, to the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services, (ii) for attorneys for the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain juveniles imprisoned for life eligible for parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment upon conviction of a felony offense, other than an offense set forth in Article 1 (§ 18.2-30 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Public employment; nondiscrimination. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, political affiliation, age, marital status, disability, sex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial fishing piers; regulation of net fishing in the vicinity. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to raise the minimum distance permitted for net fishing in the vicinity of a commercial fishing pier from 300 yards to as much as 1,000 ya...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB989 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting on Sunday. Removes the prohibition against hunting on Sunday between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and sunset.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; solicitation of absentee ballot applications or ballots. Makes it unlawful for anyone to solicit, in person, absentee ballot applications or ballots from individuals in any hospital, nursing home, or assisted living facility. The prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Shared child custody. Establishes a presumption in child custody cases that an award of joint legal custody, with physical custody, to the extent feasible, shared equally between the parties, is in the best interests of the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR121 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating Horse Month in Virginia. Designates the month of May, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Horse Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Assessment for courthouse and courtroom security. Increases from $10 to $15 the maximum sum that may be assessed as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court in which the defendant is convicted of a violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | Sport shooting range. Provides that no local ordinance shall subject a sport shooting range to any regulation or land use requirement more stringent than those in effect at the time the sport shooting range was approved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Debt collection practices; penalty. Prohibits debt collectors from engaging in certain types of conduct when attempting to collect personal, family, and household debts, and requires debt collectors to comply with certain requirements when contacting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold amount. Increases from $200 to $500 the threshold amount of money or the value of the goods or chattel that the defendant must take before the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The same threshold is increased f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement when a nolle prosequi is taken. Provides that when a nolle prosequi is taken, the court shall order the police records and the court records relating to the charge expunged without further action by the person charged, two years from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1084 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification requirements; photo ID; provisional ballots. Requires photo ID at the polls. The bill eliminates the provision that allows a voter to sign a sworn statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be in lieu of showing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | Receivership of derelict and blighted buildings. Authorizes a locality to serve as a receiver, appointed by the circuit court, to repair blighted and derelict buildings. Buildings must previously have been determined to be blighted under current spot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB226 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' Compensation Commission; terms of deputy commissioners. Prohibits any deputy commissioner of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission from serving a term longer than five years unless he is reappointed by the General Assembly. Deputy co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1257 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HJR101 | Intro
Sine Die | Meetings between the United States Senate members of the Virginia Congressional Delegation and members of the Virginia General Assembly. Invites the United States Senate members of the Virginia Congressional Delegation to address the Virginia General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; alternative accreditation and student growth measures. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations establishing standards for accreditation based on student growth measures as an alternative to student outcome measures. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Competitive Government Act. Requires the Governor to require any commercial activity performed by an agency or institution of the Commonwealth to be procured from the private sector, except where there is neither a reduction in cost nor other measur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18 and changes the areas of representation to the congressional districts. The bill also assigns the at-large members to speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR129 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; requesting the Attorney General to explore a challenge to the constitutionality of federal TMDL regulations; report. Requests the Attorney General of Virginia to explore a challenge to the constitutionality of certain Total Maximum Daily ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy; community net metering and renewable energy certificates. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a program of community net metering, which will allow a group of residential, commercial, industrial, and other custome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR102 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment that provides limits on terms of service in the Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Writ of actual innocence for juveniles adjudicated delinquent. Provides that a juvenile adjudicated delinquent of an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult may petition the Supreme Court to issue a writ of actual innocence on the ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preferences by localities, public institutions of higher education, and regional public bodies. Allows a locality to give a procurement preference for goods, services, and construction produced in the locality or by p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal notices. Allows localities to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio or television rather than a newspaper of general circulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is engaged in the u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, and public hearings, etc.; alternatives. Gives localities alternatives to publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality for legal ads and other notices of pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1066 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; double voting. Makes it unlawful to notify a voter that his absentee ballot has been rejected until the polls have closed on the election day and prohibits the counting of any provisional ballot cast by a voter at a precinct if an ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB921 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting on Sundays. Allows any person who has obtained a hunting license to hunt any wild bird or wild animal on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR127 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Crime Commission; determining best use of resources for helping released nonviolent offenders; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the creation of a rating mechanism to determine which nonviolent felony offenders would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB983 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuels tax rate. Converts the rate of taxation on motor fuels from cents per gallon to a percentage rate. The bill provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall calculate the percentage rate in an amount that will most...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
