| HB117 | Engross
Sine Die | Local taxes; interest on refunds and delinquent taxes. Authorizes localities not to pay interest on the refund of local taxes when the refund is due to errors made by the taxpayer. This bill has technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| HB1124 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| HB958 | Engross
Sine Die | Arresting officer to ascertain citizenship of arrestee. Supplements the existing law that requires sheriffs to make a query into legal presence when a person is "taken into custody" at a jail. This bill expands such inquiries by requiring inquiries o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| HB624 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offender registry; juvenile registration. Requires registration on the sex offender registry for juveniles who were over the age of 13 at the time of the offense who were adjudicated delinquent on or after July 1, 2005, of rape, forcible sodomy, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| HB1301 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2013, and the thirtieth day of June, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-09
Senate: Continued to a 2012 Special Session of the General Assembly (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 890, 2011 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-09
Senate: Continued to a 2012 Special Session of the General Assembly (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB576 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; teacher contract and evaluation policies. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and retained. Teachers, assistant principals, and principals who have not achieved continuing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health |
| HB259 | Engross
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in House of Delegates Districts 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 59, 60, 64, 67, 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections |
| HB418 | Engross
Sine Die | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; assessments; imposition of late fees. Authorizes condominium and property owners' associations, except to the extent the declaration provides otherwise, to impose a late fee of not more than $15 or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Senate: Defeated by Senate (11-Y 26-N 1-A) |
| HB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, by a person in his dwelling against an intruder in the dwelling who has committed an overt act against him or another person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice |
| HB8 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting of vessel accident; penalty. Requires any passenger 18 years of age or older who is a passenger in a vessel that is involved in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury or death and in which the operator has (i) failed to stop and ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB750 | Engross
Sine Die | Inherent authority to defer and dismiss a criminal case. Provides that no court shall have the authority, upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or after a plea of not guilty, when the facts found by the court would justify a finding of guilt, to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N) |
| HB477 | Engross
Sine Die | Highway maintenance funds. Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall consider achievin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N) |
| HB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Solid waste management plan; optional. Removes the mandate that a governing body develop and implement a regional or local solid waste management plan, making such plans optional. The bill includes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB947 | Engross
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] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1063 | Engross
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] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | BPOL tax; maximum fee and tax rates established. Prohibits a locality from increasing its local license (BPOL) fees or taxes above the rates of its BPOL fees and taxes imposed for the 2011 license year. The prohibition on increasing BPOL fees and tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 2-N) |
| HB30 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2013, and the thirtieth day of June, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| HB29 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 890, 2011 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| HB483 | Engross
Sine Die | Real property tax; collection of certain taxes. Provides that the current authority to increase the assessment of real property taxes for three preceding tax years by increasing the amount of the valuation of the property applies only to errors relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1131 | Engross
Sine Die | Costs of elections. Requires cities and towns to pay the costs incurred by the State Board of Elections in administering local May elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits. Increases the number of circuit court judges in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit from eight to nine, and decreases the number of such judges in the Seventeeth Judicial Circui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (12-Y 1-N) |
| HB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; defined benefit plan. Modifies several provisions of the defined benefit retirement plan. Beginning January 1, 2013, the bill changes the calculation of average final compensation to cover a period of 60 months rather than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Incorporated by Finance |
| HB807 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of electronic tracking devices; penalty. Provides that any person who uses an electronic tracking device through intentionally deceptive means and without consent to track the location of another person is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1265 | Engross
Sine Die | Mechanics' lien notice. Provides that any person intending to perfect a mechanics' lien against a one- or two-family residential dwelling unit must send the mechanics' lien agent designated on the building permit or, if no agent is designated, the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers; records required to be maintained; digital images. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers to take a digital image of (i) the form of identification used by the person involved in the transaction, which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Correcting errors in deeds; affidavit. Allows, in the event that a recorded deed or other instrument contains an obvious description error, the recordation of a corrective affidavit by an attorney, settlement agent, or title insurance company involve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB1112 | Engross
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccination; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement for vaccination against human papillomavirus for female children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health |
| HB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Rights of unborn children. Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and Constitution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health |
| HB218 | Engross
Sine Die | Deaf and hard of hearing children; special education. Requires local school divisions to ensure that Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing children and address those needs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB389 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| HB262 | Engross
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board; membership. Changes the reference to "standard metropolitan statistical areas" to "metropolitan planning areas with populations greater than 200,000."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 6-N) |
| HB1060 | Engross
Sine Die | Arresting officer to ascertain citizenship of arrestee. Supplements the existing law that requires sheriffs to make a query into legal presence when a person is "taken into custody" at a jail. This bill expands such inquiries by requiring that an arr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB18 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfer of certain income tax revenue generated by space flight entities to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority. Clarifies that the revenue transferred to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority attributable to the sale of commerci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Incorporated by Finance |
| HB59 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; persons entitled to place on ballot; compliance with campaign finance disclosure provisions. Provides that a candidate will not be entitled to have his name printed on the ballot unless he has filed all required campaign finance reports an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-21
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB55 | Engross
Sine Die | Primary dates; presidential primary. Provides that all primaries for offices to be filled at the November election in presidential election years shall be held on the date of the presidential primary. With respect to candidates for election in Novemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-21
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections and ballots. Allows write-in votes in primary elections when the duly constituted political party authorities have authorized write-in votes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-21
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Abatement of criminal conviction; effect of death of convicted person while case on appeal. Provides that a criminal conviction shall not abate if a convicted criminal defendant dies at any time following his conviction in circuit court, and if his d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB966 | Engross
Sine Die | Child custody; guardian ad litem. Provides that a court shall not appoint a guardian ad litem for a child or a child's parent or guardian in any case in which the child is alleged to have committed a delinquent act unless there is a conflict of inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB283 | Engross
Sine Die | Divorce; temporary orders; life insurance. Provides that a party in a suit for divorce, annulment, separate maintenance, or child custody or visitation may be ordered to maintain any existing life insurance policy on the life of either spouse or des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Child support arrearages; publication of names. Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement of the Department of Social Services to publish a list of parents who are delinquent in the payment of child support in order to facilitate locating s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-17
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB470 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; advertising "Happy Hour." Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations to allow a retail on-premises licensee to post on a website or social media site maintained or administered by the licensee or his agent information abo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-17
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB27 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal residential energy efficiency standards. Exempts any residential building from the application of federal legislation relating to residential energy efficiency standards if such building complies with the Statewide Uniform Building Code. Exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Immunity for persons acting in defense of property. Provides civil immunity for an occupant of a dwelling who uses any degree of physical force while engaged in the defense of his dwelling when (i) the other person has unlawfully entered the dwellin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB864 | Engross
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts and three more will be at-large appointees. The three ex officio members rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB463 | Engross
Sine Die | Legal custody of juveniles in custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that commitment of a child by a court to the Department of Juvenile Justice is a transfer of legal custody if, at the time of commitment, the child is in foster c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB512 | Engross
Sine Die | Intangible personal property tax; machinery and tools. Classifies as intangible personal property, and therefore subject solely to state taxation, machinery and tools purchased on or after July 1, 2012, that have not been in service for more than thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
House: VOTE: DEFEATED (35-Y 65-N) |
| HB461 | Engross
Sine Die | Local taxes; interest and penalties. Provides that the rate of interest set by localities that is charged on delinquent local taxes, and paid on refunds of local taxes, for the first year shall not exceed the "Underpayment Rate" established...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
House: VOTE: DEFEATED (17-Y 80-N) |
| HB252 | Engross
Sine Die | Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Changes the composition of the Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Requires 4/5 affirmative votes for passage of voting members |
