| SB1 | Pass | Voter identification requirements; provisional ballots. 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 identification. A voter without acceptable identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839) |
| SB629 | Veto | Sanitation districts; commission expenses. Provides that members of sanitation district commissions may be paid a reasonable per diem not to exceed $1,500 annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB217 | Veto | Public schools; residency of children in kinship care. Allows a child receiving kinship care from a close relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bill also allows local school divisions to require one le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB530 | Pass | Public hearings prior to certain VDOT projects. Requires the institution of higher education to hold at least one public hearing before VDOT undertakes any safety-related or congestion management-related highway project requested by any college, univ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848) |
| SB578 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority. Amends several provisions relating to the Virginia Port Authority and the conduct of its business. The bill (i) extends until 2017 the international trade facility tax credit, the barge and rail usage tax credit, and the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| SB22 | Pass | Real property tax; exemption for disabled veterans. Provides that the real property tax exemption for veterans whose disability rating occurs after January 1, 2011, begins on the date of the rating. The bill also clarifies that a locality is not liab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| SB398 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising; penalty. Requires all outdoor advertising of alcoholic beverages to be in compliance with ABC law, ABC Board regulations, and VDOT law and regulations concerning outdoor advertising. The bill also sets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| SB409 | Pass | Recordation tax. Eliminates the recordation tax exemption for certain deeds of trust securing a refinanced obligation and establishes a reduced tax for all refinancing deeds of trust or mortgages that is equal to a maximum of 18 cents ($0.18) per $10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820) |
| SB164 | Pass | Fraudulent and voluntary conveyances; power of court to set aside; sanctions. Authorizes the court to set aside a fraudulent or voluntary conveyance during an action brought by a creditor to execute on a judgment, either on the motion of the creditor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| SB627 | Veto | Solar panels in community associations. Clarifies a community association's authority to prohibit or restrict the installation of solar power devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB239 | Pass | Suspected child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporting; penalties. Adds individuals associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children and any person employed by a public or private instit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| SB676 | Pass | Recycling survey report. Requires solid waste planning units or localities with a population of greater than 90,000 to submit a recycling report annually and requires those units or localities with a population of 90,000 or less to submit the report ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834) |
| SB201 | Pass | Hospital discharge; follow-up care. Requires hospitals to educate patients, and in certain circumstances their families, about follow-up care, treatment, and services upon discharge. The bill also requires community services boards to provide informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| SB284 | Pass | Commercial space flight; funding and oversight. Reconstitutes the Board of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority by reducing the number of Board members from 13 to nine and providing for all current appointments to the Board to expire on Jul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| SB273 | Pass | 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 adds a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| SB497 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System employee contributions; local employees; school board employees. Requires that persons employed by local government or school board employers be required to pay the five percent employee contribution to the Virginia Retire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| SB498 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; hybrid defined contribution and defined benefit retirement program. Creates a new hybrid retirement program, administered by the Virginia Retirement System, that contains a defined contribution and a defined benefit compon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| SB614 | Pass | Local sales tax distribution; correction of erroneous payments. Requires the state to make adjustments in the next month's distribution of sales tax revenues to a locality after it is discovered that an error in payment was made. Current law allows t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| SB227 | Pass | Certain service districts; allocation of revenues. Allows a town located within a stormwater service district to retain any revenues collected by the service district within the town, so long as the town maintains its own MS4 permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| SB502 | Pass | Emissions inspections. Privatizes services now provided by the Department of Environmental Quality related to vehicle emissions inspections. The bill also updates authorized testing equipment and allows use of wireless systems and on-road emissions t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| SB195 | Pass | Local towing ordinances. Allows localities in Northern Virginia by ordinance to require towing companies that tow trespassing vehicles within 10 miles of the tow origin from one locality to another to submit to inspection of their facilities by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| SB607 | Pass | Entitlement to sales and use tax revenues; development of regional impact. Entitles the City of Bristol to retain certain sales and use taxes generated on the premises of a development of regional impact located in the City, to pay bonds issued for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) |
| SB603 | Pass | Nonpayment of jail fees; suspension of driver's licenses. Allows suspension of or refusal to renew the driver's license of persons who do not pay fees that local correctional facilities or regional jails are allowed to charge to defray the cost of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| SB541 | Pass | Auxiliary police forces; Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training requirements. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum training standards for all auxiliary police officers employed by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827) |
| SB171 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; certain local employees. Permits localities to exempt firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law-enforcement officers from the higher age and service requirements for normal and early retirement applicable to emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| SB531 | Pass | Northern Virginia Transportation District; long-range planning. Establishes responsibilities for various entities for long-range transportation planning for the Northern Virginia Transportation District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825) |
| SB407 | Pass | Integration of agencies' programs. Integrates elements of the Erosion and Sediment Control Act, the Stormwater Management Act, and the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act so that these regulatory programs can be implemented in a consolidated and consist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| SB537 | Pass | Conduct of elections; observers. Requires observers to respect the area around voters and secrecy of the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0826) |
| SB595 | Pass | Railroad grade crossings. Provides that where vehicles are required to stop for trains at railroad grade crossings, they must stop for other self-propelled machinery or automobile type vehicles using the rails as well.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| SB80 | Pass | City of Virginia Beach; concurrent jurisdiction over adjoining waters. Extends the territorial limits of the City of Virginia Beach three miles into the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay waters for purposes of local public safety regulation authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809) |
| SB77 | Pass | Nutrient Trading Act; penalty. Directs the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board to adopt regulations governing the certification of certain nutrient credits. Referring to Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), the legislation sets ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| SB493 | Pass | Utility energy efficiency programs. Provides that an energy efficiency program proposed by an electric utility is in the public interest if among other factors, the net present value of the benefits exceeds the net present value of the costs as deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821) |
| SB656 | Pass | Public schools; possession and administration of epinephrine. Requires local school boards to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every school. The school nurse or a school board employee may administe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) |
| SB45 | Pass | Open Education Curriculum Board. Alters the function of the Open Education Curriculum Board from a policy board to an advisory board. In its new role, the Open Education Curriculum Board shall advise the Governor and the Board of Education on the cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| SB653 | Pass | Condemnation; public uses. Provides that lands may be condemned for certain specified uses, including the installation of electric utility lines or telephone lines, because those uses are inherently public uses when undertaken by a locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832) |
| SB679 | Pass | Elimination of certain state mandates on local entities. Eliminates several statewide mandates on local government and regional government entities.The bill does the following: (i) removes the requirement that surplus property be offered to political...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836) |
| SB678 | Pass | Governor's reorganization of executive branch of state government. Reorganizes the executive branch of state government as follows: Eliminates the Commonwealth Competition Council and transfers the responsibility of developing and maintaining the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| SB680 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit. The bill lowers the threshold, from 50 percent to 40 percent, for the percentage of low-income persons to whom a neighborhood assistance organization that submits a proposal to the State Board of Social Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| SB520 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance; public adjusters. Provides for State Corporation Commission licensing and regulation of public adjusters. Public adjusting means investigating, negotiating, adjusting, or providing advice to an insured in relation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| SJR3 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Revises the prohibition on the enactment by the General Assembly of laws whereby private property may be taken or damaged. An existing provision authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| SB94 | Pass | Rules of Evidence; adoption. Provides that the Rules of Evidence that have been prepared and adopted by the Supreme Court of Virginia and approved by the Virginia Code Commission shall take effect on July 1, 2012. A rule derived from an evidentiary p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB349 | Pass | Child-placing agency; conscience clause. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, no private child-placing agency shall be required to perform, assist, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any placement of a child for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| SB432 | Pass | Grantor trusts; settlor's creditors; payment of taxes. Prohibits creditors from compelling the trustee of a grantor trust to exercise his discretionary authority to pay income taxes on trust income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| SB437 | Pass | Eminent domain; lost profits and access. Provides definitions for the terms "lost profits" and "lost access" and how to determine the amount of just compensation, which includes lost profits and lost access resulting from the taking, that must be pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| SB440 | Pass | Public charter schools; funding, and service contracts. Provides that following a local school board decision to deny a public charter school application or to revoke or fail to renew a charter agreement, the local school board shall submit documenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| SB639 | Pass | Transportation construction, operation and maintenance, and funding. Provides for the construction, maintenance, and funding of transportation by (i) increasing transportation's share of year-end surpluses to 67 percent, and (ii) authorizing the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| SB458 | Pass | Policies addressing suicidal students. Removes repetitive language permitting universities to establish policies regarding students who are a danger to themselves or others; this section and another on violence prevention already permit such policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB131 | Pass | Tax credits; assistance to low-income families; scholarships for K through 12 students attending private schools. Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2013 for individuals, business entities, and corporations making monetary donations to no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB237 | Pass | Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Expands the Authority from 13 to 17 members and changes its composition. The bill also prohibits a member from serving after the expiration of the member's term or terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB251 | Pass | Court fees. Provides for the acceptance of debit cards in addition to credit cards and allows the clerk to outsource the processing of credit and debit card transactions. The bill also provides that the clerk may charge a convenience fee for processi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
