VA Legislation | 2012 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HJR124	Engross Sine Die	Governor; Virginia's Public Safety Memorial. Requests the Governor to include in the Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial the names of state and local probation and parole officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-24 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote
SB290	Engross Sine Die	Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Removes the petition requirement for the Parole Board to consider a geriatric release, and requires the Parole Board to report to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services n... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-24 House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
SB389	Engross Sine Die	Pneumatic gun ordinances. Allows localities to enact an ordinance to prohibit the possession of pneumatic guns on school property, at a school function held on property open to the public, and on school buses. The bill further provides that an ordina... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-24 House: Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
HJR148	Engross Sine Die	Encourage the Government of Turkey to grant certain rights to the Ecumenical Patriarch. Encourages the Government of Turkey to grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition, ecclesiastical succession, and the right to train cle... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-24 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote
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
SB619	Engross Sine Die	Commonwealth Tolling Assistance Program. Establishes a program that would allow certain low-income students to receive an electronic tolling transponder without paying a deposit. To be eligible, the student must attend a public institution of higher ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-23 House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote
SB524	Engross Sine Die	Certificate of public need. Requires the Commissioner of Health to accept applications for and authorizes the Commissioner to issue certificates of public need to establish a psychiatric service and for the addition of psychiatric inpatient beds. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-23 House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
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)
SB90	Engross Sine Die	Definition of private investigator; out-of-state private security services. Allows a private security services business licensed by another state to contract with a private security services business licensed by the Commonwealth to act as a private ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-23 House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
SB30	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]	2012-02-23 Senate: Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage
SB29	Engross Sine Die	Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 890, 2011 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-23 Senate: Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage
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
SJR93	Engross Sine Die	Study; solitary confinement; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the use of solitary confinement by the Department of Corrections. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-21 House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote
SJR64	Engross Sine Die	Study; Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to study offender classification; report. Requests the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to study rating nonviolent felony offenses to aid certain classes of offenders in obtaining gainful employme... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-21 House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote
SJR50	Engross Sine Die	Study; untreated dental disease; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the fiscal impact to the Commonwealth of Virginia that results from untreated dental disease. In conducting its study, the Joint Commission on Health Care s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-21 House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote
SJR49	Engross Sine Die	Study; Virginia Housing Commission; continuing care retirement communities; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study continuing care retirement communities, including the fiduciary responsibility of the community to protect residents ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-21 House: Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote
SB442	Engross Sine Die	Design and inspection of onsite sewage systems. Establishes minimum required inspection frequencies for alternative onsite systems. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-21 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Health, Welfare and Institutions (10-Y 12-N)
SB65	Engross Sine Die	Nursing homes; notice of liability insurance coverage. Requires nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities to inform patients and residents about liability insurance available to pay claims of the patient or resident. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-21 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Health, Welfare and Institutions (5-Y 17-N)
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)
SB185	Engross Sine Die	Third grade SOLs; math and English only. Requires the Board of Education to require only math and English Standards of Learning assessments for third graders. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-21 House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote
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)
SB554	Engross Sine Die	Possession or transportation of firearms; certain emergency protective orders; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for the physical possession of a firearm while in the residence of the alleged victim or the transport of a firearm by a person subj... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-17 House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
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)
SB429	Engross Sine Die	Criminal history record checks for firearms; required forms. Provides that only certain information about the purchaser may be required on the State Police form to be completed when purchasing a firearm. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-17 House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
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)
SB455	Engross Sine Die	Congressional districts. Redraws the boundaries of the 11 congressional districts. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-15 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
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)
SB631	Engross Sine Die	Motor fuels tax; indexed. Requires that the motor fuels tax rate be indexed each year to the percentage change in the U.S. Department of Labor's Producer Price Index for Other Nonresidential Construction from January 1 through December 31 of the year... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-14 Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 0-N)
SB3	Engross Sine Die	Dulles Metrorail Project. Prohibits use of state funds for Phase II of the Dulles Metrorail Project if the Project is subject to a project labor agreement, the policies and bylaws of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority do not permit public... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-14 Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N 1-A)
SB438	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, including the replacement of continuing contract status with annual contract sta... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-14 Senate: Defeated by Senate (18-Y 20-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)
SB26	Engross Sine Die	Authority of conservation police officers. Clarifies that conservation police officers may not stop a person for the purpose of determining compliance with the laws, rules, and regulations of the Commonwealth or its localities without reasonable susp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-14 Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (15-Y 25-N)
SB404	Engross Sine Die	Riparian forest tax credit; refund. Makes the existing tax credit for riparian forest buffer protection for waterways refundable. Currently, the tax credit may be carried forward for five taxable years, but is not refundable. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-13 Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N)
SB669	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration records. Requires general registrar to compare list of registered voters for his locality to the State Board of Elections comprehensive list of convicted felons, to cancel the registration of any registered voter shown to be a felo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-13 Senate: Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N)
SJR97	Engross Sine Die	Confirming Governor's appointments of certain persons. Confirms appointments to various positions made by Governor McDonnell and communicated to the General Assembly October 3, 2011. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-10 Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
SB62	Engross Sine Die	Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. Voters registered prior to Janu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Defeated by Senate (16-Y 24-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)
SB56	Engross Sine Die	Elections; party identification on ballots; local elections. Extends to local elections the requirement that ballots identify the nominating political party for party candidates and identify independent candidates as such. Currently, this requirement... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-01 Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (14-Y 25-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