| HB101 | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| HB791 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System. Makes technical changes to programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| SB160 | Pass | High Performance Buildings Act. Requires executive branch agencies and institutions entering the design phase for construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or renovating such a building where the cost of renovation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| SB159 | Pass | Manufacturing, etc., Schedule I and II drugs. Adds a mandatory minimum term of confinement of three years for a second or subsequent conviction of manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute a Schedule I or I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB663 | Pass | Elections; persons permitted to vote; identification requirements. Adds concealed handgun permits to the list of acceptable forms of identification to vote or when challenged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| SB135 | Pass | Virginia All-Payer Claims Database; creation. Establishes the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database system, in order to facilitate data-driven, evidence-based improvements in access, quality, and cost of health care and to improve the public health thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| HB1262 | Pass | Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals; onsite sewage system installers. Provides that regulations of the Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| HB76 | Pass | Teachers without continuing contract status. Shifts the date of effective contract renewal for those teachers without continuing contract status from April 15 to June 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| HB970 | Pass | Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse; public and private college employees. Adds any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education other than an attorney who is employed by a public or private institution of higher ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| HB1035 | 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 (CHAP0699) |
| SB73 | Pass | Real property tax; valuation of residential rental apartments. Requires that, in any appeal to a board of equalization concerning the fair market value of residential apartments in excess of four units, the board use the income approach to valuation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| SB471 | Veto | Physical education; regulations. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations governing physical education programs in public schools. The Board shall promulgate the regulations to be effective beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB306 | Pass | Cemeteries; abandoned interment rights; notice. Provides that when no address is known or reasonably ascertainable for a record owner of interment rights, a cemetery owner shall publish a notice of its intent to declare interment rights abandoned in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| HB57 | Pass | State Board of Elections and general registrars; duties with respect to voter registration. Provides that the State Board shall distribute the alphabetical lists of registered voters in each precinct to each county, city, and town at least 16, rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| SB658 | Pass | Local license tax ordinances for the severance of minerals. Requires certain localities that imposed local severance taxes for the 2008, 2009, 2010, or 2011 license year to amend their local ordinances to adopt or include certain local license tax un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| SB413 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; credits for investments. Allows any investor-owned electric utility that participates in the renewable energy portfolio standard program to meet up to 20 percent of an RPS Goal through certificates evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| HB639 | Pass | Higher education; publication of graduate employment rates. Requires public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education to publish data on the proportion of graduates with employment at 18 months and five years after the date of graduatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB53 | 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 (CHAP0682) |
| SB50 | Pass | Business entities; conversions, dissolutions, and procedures. Establishes a procedure by which a nonstock corporation may convert to a limited liability company. Other provisions of the bill update provisions of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act, Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB710 | Pass | Use of mine voids. Establishes the presumption that, unless specified by contract, the owner of the coal mineral estate retains the rights to extract any coal remaining in place and to use an underground void for any activity related to the removal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| HB1130 | 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] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB33 | Pass | Public procurement; agreements with labor organizations. Requires state agencies to ensure that neither the state agency nor any construction manager acting on behalf of the state agency shall, in its bid specifications, project agreements, or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| SB374 | Pass | Higher education; mental health and parental notification policies. Provides that any person licensed to diagnose and treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders who is treating a student may determine to withhold parental notification of a depe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB35 | Pass | Recovery of possession by landlord. Clarifies that an unlawful detainer action and the execution of a writ of possession is needed to evict a tenant from a residential rental unit. A provision in a rental agreement saying otherwise is unenforceable. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| HB189 | 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 (CHAP0690) |
| SB209 | 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] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| SB283 | Pass | Illegal voting and registrations; write-in absentee ballots. Clarifies that the prohibition against voting more than once in one election does not apply to military and overseas voters entitled to vote a federal write-in absentee ballot who may send ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| SB646 | Pass | Life and accident and sickness insurance benefits. Provides that the benefits provided under a policy of life insurance or accident and sickness insurance may include additional benefits incidental to a loss in the event of death, dismemberment, or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| SB632 | Pass | Wireless E-911 Fund; distribution of funds. Requires CMRS providers to submit requests for payment from the Wireless E-911 Fund no later than four months after the end of the fiscal year in which the costs were incurred. If the Fund is not sufficient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| SB684 | Pass | Entitlement to sales and use tax revenues; City of Winchester and the City of Lynchburg. Adds the City of Winchester and the City of Lynchburg to the list of localities that are entitled to sales and use tax revenues generated at certain public facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| SB344 | Pass | Small business investment grant program. Creates the small business investment grant fund and program that would provide a grant equal to 10 percent of a qualified investment in a small business for an eligible investor. Grants would be paid from suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB153 | Pass | Workers' Compensation; exclusion of certain employees. Excludes a person who suffers an injury on or after July 1, 2012, from coverage under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act if there is jurisdiction under either the Longshore and Harbor Workers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| HB1118 | Pass | Elections; persons eligible to obtain lists of persons voting at primaries and elections. Allows access to the lists for all political purposes by members of the public and nonprofit organizations as well as by candidates, elected officials, and poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| SB628 | Pass | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; limitation on certain contracts and leases by declarant. Limits any management contract or employment contract that is entered into during the period of declarant control to five years. The bill also provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
| HB1007 | Pass | Voter registration; Department of Motor Vehicles. Provides for cooperation between the Department of Motor Vehicles and the State Board of Elections in the prompt transmittal of voter registration applications and change of address information from D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| SB685 | Pass | Criminal procedure; GPS tracking device. Provides the authority and the protocol for a law-enforcement officer to apply for a search warrant to permit the use of a GPS tracking device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| SB611 | Pass | Signature for prefiled legislation. Allows for an electronic signature to be substituted for a handwritten signature on prefiled legislation as may be approved by each house in accordance with its rules and procedures. The legislation is set to sunse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| HB792 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; deferred compensation plan for local employees. Permits localities that choose to allow employees to participate in a deferred compensation plan to require new employees to join the plan on an opt-out basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB1233 | Pass | Local license tax ordinances for the severance of minerals. Requires certain localities that imposed local severance taxes for the 2008, 2009, 2010, or 2011 license year to amend their local ordinances to adopt or include certain local license tax un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB1113 | Pass | Land exchange. Establishes a procedure that authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to exchange parcels of land it owns for interest in property owned by a private company near Biscuit Run in Charlottesville.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| HB739 | Pass | Virginia College Savings Plan Oversight Act. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to oversee and evaluate the Virginia College Savings Plan on a continuing basis. The bill requires JLARC and the Virginia College Savings P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| SB662 | Pass | Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals; onsite sewage system installers. Provides that regulations of the Board of Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| HB81 | Pass | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that prior use of any property shall not be considered in determining its current use for land use valuation purposes. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| HB703 | Pass | Higher education; policies related to student nonpayment. Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education to refrain from referring a student account to collections until required to do so by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| SB655 | Pass | Compensation for wrongful incarceration. Eliminates 20-year maximum for calculating compensation for wrongful incarceration and allows those wrongfully incarcerated to be compensated for each year of incarceration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| HB60 | Pass | Illegal voting and registrations; write-in absentee ballots. Clarifies that the prohibition against voting more than once in one election does not apply to military and overseas voters entitled to vote a federal write-in absentee ballot who may send ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| HB585 | Pass | Small business investment grant program. Creates the small business investment grant fund and program that would provide a grant equal to 10 percent of a qualified investment in a small business for an eligible investor. Grants would be paid from suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| SB657 | Pass | Riding transportation district train with fraudulent ticket; penalty. Provides a $750 minimum fine for the second conviction within one year of a prior offense of using a fraudulent or counterfeit ticket. Under current law this Class 2 misdemeanor ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| HB216 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase or lease of computer equipment or enabling software by data centers by extending it to tenants of the centers, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB897 | Pass | Virginia Child Protection Accountability System. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to report information about sentences imposed in cases involving certain criminal violations and requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
