| 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) |
| HB1219 | Pass | Common Interest Community Board; Virginia Condominium Act; Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; common interest communities. Authorizes the Common Interest Community Board to terminate inactive condominium or time-share registrations. In addition, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| HB120 | Pass | Tappahannock-Essex County Airport Authority. Removes Tappahannock's name from the name of the airport authority and does away with the obligations of the Town of Tappahannock to fund the authority and to appoint certain members to it. The bill reduce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| 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) |
| HB375 | Pass | Control of firearms by localities; workplace rules. Provides that no locality shall adopt any workplace rule, other than for the purposes of a community services board or behavioral health authority, that prevents an employee of that locality from s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) |
| 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) |
| HB718 | Pass | Juveniles; trial as adults. Allows attorneys for the Commonwealth the discretion to have juveniles charged with repeat violations of certain drug offenses transferred to the circuit court for trial as an adult.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| 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) |
| HJR6 | Pass | General Assembly; 2013 Session prefiling schedule. Establishes a schedule for the prefiling period for the 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ6ER) |
| HB561 | Pass | Pittsylvania County; solid waste disposal fee. Adds Pittsylvania County to the list of counties authorized to levy a fee for the disposal of solid waste. After July 1, 2012, such fee may only be levied after a public hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| HJR5 | Pass | General Assembly; 2012 Session schedule. Establishes the schedule for the conduct of business coming before the 2012 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ5ER) |
| HB813 | 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 (CHAP0779) |
| HB417 | Pass | Elections; polling places; prohibited campaign area. Provides that the requirement to provide an area of 40 feet from the entrance to a polling place applies to the entrance to a polling place contained within a structure. Campaign activities may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| 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) |
| HB567 | Pass | Water and sewer services; deposit, lien. Authorizes (i) an owner of property who is the occupant or where a single meter serves multiple units or (ii) a lessee or tenant, provided he has written authorization from the owner, to establish water and se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| HB1271 | Pass | Sexually violent predators; civil commitment. Provides for determination by the Director of the Department of Corrections for referral of certain prisoners for assessment as sexually violent predators if they appear to meet the definition of sexually...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| 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) |
| HB1294 | Pass | Prohibition of certain local fees. Provides that localities shall not charge any fee to any church, synagogue, or other place of worship unless authorized by general law or special act of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| 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) |
| HB1160 | Pass | Unlawful detention of United States citizens. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth, political subdivision of the Commonwealth, employee of either acting in his official capacity, or member of the Virginia National Guard or Virginia Defense For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| 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) |
| HB271 | Pass | Substance Abuse Recovery Support Services Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the Substance Abuse Recovery Support Services Grant Program to provide grants to recovery support services providers in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| HB1092 | Pass | Physical education; regulations. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations governing physical education requirements in public schools. The Board shall promulgate the regulations to be effective beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| HB423 | Veto | Common Interest Community Board; duties. Requires the Common Interest Community Board to develop and publish best practices for declarations and develop a model declaration consistent with the best practices and the requirements of the Condominium Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: VOTE: OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO (36-Y 59-N) |
| 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) |
| HB85 | Pass | HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Requires the Commissioner of Highways to report annually to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Transportation Committees on those HOV facilities whose high traffic volume has resulte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| 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) |
| HB1263 | Pass | VDOT Integrated Directional Sign ("Logo Sign") Program. Provides for a broad-based evaluation of the "Logo Sign" Program by the Highway Commissioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799) |
| HB80 | Pass | Real property tax; assessment of wetlands. Requires the local assessing official to separately assess the fair market value of wetlands on real property, if requested by the property owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| HB79 | Pass | Virginia Disability Commission; powers and duties; work groups; sunset. Provides that the Virginia Disability Commission shall establish work groups to assist the Commission in carrying out its powers and duties. Such work groups shall include work g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| HB410 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; recovery of costs and interest. Provides that in cases in which the prevailing party is the association in an action against an owner for nonpayment of assessments in which the owner has failed to pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| 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) |
| HB74 | Pass | Mandatory report of suspected child abuse; time limit. Reduces the time limit for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect by mandated reporters from 72 hours to as soon as possible but not longer than 24 hours after having reason to suspect a repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| HB399 | Veto | Critical Congenital Cyanotic Heart Disease Screening Program. Directs the Department of Health to convene a work group to develop a plan for implementing a program for screening infants born in the Commonwealth for critical congenital cyanotic heart ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: House sustained Governor's veto |
| 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) |
| HR13 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House (HR13ER) |
| 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) |
| HB96 | Pass | Accreditation of schools; delayed implementation of certain statutes and regulations. Extends the delay of the implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based that were not already in ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| HB1107 | 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 (CHAP0787) |
| HB233 | Pass | Time-Share Act; resale revisions. Requires any reseller, defined in the bill, of a time-share in Virginia to be registered with the Common Interest Community Board and therefore subject to the regulatory authority of the Board. The bill requires time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| HB1110 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; dwelling units. Allows a plaintiff in an unlawful detainer action to submit copies of the lease under certain circumstances. The bill also (i) removes the four-residential-unit limitation on the exemption of an owner who perf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| HR14 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House (HR14ER) |
| HB767 | Pass | Virginia Department of Business Assistance; Small Business Jobs Grant Fund. Clarifies that the Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Program is a component of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program. The bill also (i) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| HB1116 | 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 (CHAP0789) |
