| HB768 | Pass | Department of Business Assistance; Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Codifies the Virginia Jobs Investment Program administered by the Department of Business Assistance. The Program comprises the following component programs: (i) the Virginia New Job...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| HR15 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House (HR15ER) |
| HB658 | Pass | State and Local Conflict of Interests Act; definition of personal interest in a transaction. Clarifies that there is no personal interest in a transaction where an officer or employee of a local governing body is appointed by the local governing body...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| HB1280 | Pass | Psychiatric hospital admissions; local inmates. Amends the criteria for psychiatric inpatient admission for inmates at local correctional facilities to add mentally ill inmates for whom there exists a substantial likelihood that they will suffer seri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| HB926 | Pass | Circuit court clerks; remote access to land records; fees collected by clerks; debit cards. 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....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) |
| HB1034 | Pass | Withdrawal from certain interstate agreement; Southern Growth Policies Agreement. Withdraws the Commonwealth from the Southern Growth Policies Agreement. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| HB1137 | Pass | Designation of historic districts. Provides that before any locality designates by ordinance any building, structure, district, object, or site as part of a local historic district, the owners of such property proposed for designation shall be given ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HR16 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House (HR16ER) |
| HB471 | 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 (CHAP0760) |
| HB933 | Pass | Real property tax; exemption for disabled veterans. Provides that the real property tax exemption for disabled veterans for property acquired after January 1, 2011, begins on the date of acquisition and that the previous owner of the property is enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| HB777 | Pass | Joint Subcommittee to Evaluate Tax Preferences. Establishes the Joint Subcommittee to Evaluate Tax Preferences. The joint subcommittee is charged with overseeing the evaluation of Virginia's tax preferences. The joint subcommittee would consist of 14...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| HB609 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; duties of regulatory boards. Requires a regulant of a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to furnish, upon the request of a person to whom the regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| 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) |
| HR17 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected a member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House (HR17ER) |
| HB599 | 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 (CHAP0768) |
| HB543 | Pass | Licensed massage therapists. Requires that massage therapists be licensed, rather than certified, by the Board of Nursing; includes "bodywork" in the definition of "massage therapy"; and identifies activities that do not constitute massage therapy an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| 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) |
| HB796 | Pass | State Board of Health; guidelines for cleanup of residential property used as clandestine drug lab. Provides for the State Board of Health to establish guidelines for the cleanup of residential property formerly used as a clandestine methamphetamine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| HB878 | Veto | License taxes on certain motor vehicles. Allows localities to impose a license tax, not to exceed $250 annually, upon resident owners of motor vehicles that do not display license plates issued by the Commonwealth and that are not exempted from the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| HR18 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the State Corporation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House (HR18ER) |
| HB206 | Pass | Real Estate Board; duties of real estate brokers and salespersons. Requires the Real Estate Board to establish procedures for carrying over continuing education credits by real estate licensees. The bill also (i) authorizes the Board to regulate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| HB1151 | Pass | Petition requirements for candidates for statewide offices. Provides that the petition requirement for statewide office candidates of 400 signatures from each congressional district may be met on the basis of the existing congressional districts if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB34 | Pass | Advertising within highway limits. Allows the Commissioner of Highways to enter into agreements with any local governing body authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental entities to act as agents of the Commissioner regardi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| HB1291 | 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 (CHAP0803) |
| 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) |
| HB573 | Pass | Flags flown at half staff. Provides that whenever a member of the United States armed forces, Virginia National Guard, Virginia Defense Force, a police officer, a firefighter, or an emergency medical services provider who is a resident of Virginia is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| HB736 | Veto | Primary schedule in 2012. Moves the June 12, 2012, primary date to August 7, 2012, in response to the 2012 redistricting process and adjusts various deadlines for filings and election preparations to accommodate the new primary date. The bill also au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB625 | Pass | Transportation planning; comprehensive plan. Provides that when a locality in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) submits a proposed comprehensive plan or amendment to the Department of Transportation for review, the Department will determine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| 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) |
| HB1065 | 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 (CHAP0785) |
| 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) |
| HJR184 | Pass | Williamsburg Session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ184ER) |
| HB302 | Pass | Exemption from environmental laboratory certification program. Exempts laboratories from the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services' environmental certification program when the laboratories are using the protocols established by the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| HJR138 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); legislative sessions. Provides that the General Assembly may agree to delay the reconvened session for a period of up to one week. The Constitution now provides that the reconvened session be held on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| 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) |
| HJR3 | 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 (CHAP0736) |
| 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) |
| HB872 | 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 (CHAP0734) |
| HB183 | Pass | Medical assistance; coverage for certain children and pregnant women. Provides that the Board of Medical Assistance Services shall include a provision in the state plan for medical assistance services for medical assistance for otherwise eligible pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB180 | Pass | Commonwealth Health Research Board; staffing. Provides that employees of the Commonwealth Health Research Board, which provides financial support for health research funded through assets distributed to the Commonwealth as a policyholder pursuant to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| 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) |
| HB5 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2012, election to approve or reject an amendment that revises the prohibition on the enactment by the Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| 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) |
| HB330 | Pass | Virginia Transplant Council. Authorizes the Virginia Transplant Council to hire its own employees and pay them with moneys from the Virginia Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund. The bill eliminates language designating the Board of Health as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB1237 | Pass | Mandatory reporting of child abuse; penalty. Adds individuals who are 18 years of age or older and who are associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children to the list of individuals req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB1173 | 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 documentat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| 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) |
