| 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) |
| SB49 | Pass | Apportionment of corporate income tax; retail companies. Requires retail companies to use a formula for apportioning taxable income to the Commonwealth based on multiplying their income by the sales factor. The provisions of the bill would be effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| HB41 | Pass | Personal property tax; situs of certain motor vehicles. Provides that when a motor vehicle is normally garaged in a location different from the domicile of the owner of the vehicle due to its use by a student attending an institution of higher educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB314 | 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] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| HB496 | Pass | Discharge from state hospital or training center; return to place of residence. Provides that community services boards shall, as part of the discharge planning process for each individual released from a state hospital or training center, inform the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| SB652 | Pass | Attachments by cable television systems and telecommunications service providers to poles of electric cooperatives. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to determine just and reasonable rates, and certain terms and conditions of service, for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| HB1243 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middletown. Shifts town elections from May to November and makes technical amendments. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB1128 | Pass | Delinquent real property taxes. Modifies procedures governing delinquent real property taxes by (i) requiring the attorney for a locality who handles delinquent real property taxes to request the commissioner of the revenue to correct land records th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| HB1200 | Pass | Human trafficking hotline; posted notices. Provides that any employer who operates a business that provides entertainment commonly called stripteasing or topless entertaining or entertainment that has employees who are not clad above or below the wai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB568 | 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] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| SB322 | Pass | Insurance requirements for motor carriers. Provides that the existing exemption of motor carriers from the laws in Chapter 21 of Title 46.2 for the transportation of property (i) between any point in Virginia and any point outside Virginia and (ii) b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB444 | Pass | Historic rehabilitation tax credit. Provides that any gain or income under federal law relating to the allocation or application of a historic rehabilitation tax credit would not be gain or income for Virginia tax purposes. The bill's provisions are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| HB964 | Pass | Displaying a grooming video or materials to a minor; penalty. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who displays child pornography or a grooming video or materials to a child under 13 years of age is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB300 | Pass | Protective orders; juveniles; venue. Makes various changes to the provisions governing protective orders issued by a juvenile and domestic relations district court, including (i) clarifying that only violations related to trespass, criminal offenses,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| SB593 | Pass | Virginia Route 16; Back of the Dragon. Designates Virginia Route 16 between Frog Level in Tazewell County and the Town of Marion in Smyth County the "Back of the Dragon."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| HB1218 | Pass | Stream mitigation banks. Combines the Tennessee River Basin and the Big Sandy River Basin into one river watershed for the purpose of establishing and operating a stream mitigation bank within the watershed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| HB1158 | Pass | Virginia Water Protection Permit. Requires the State Water Control Board to give consideration to any relevant information contained in the state water supply plan when determining whether to issue a Virginia Water Protection Permit. There is a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB489 | Pass | Secondary school graduation requirements; diplomas. Directs the Board of Education to modify the credits necessary for a student to earn a standard or an advanced studies diploma. The advanced studies diploma shall be the recommended diploma for stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| HB1182 | Pass | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; uses. Allows the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund to provide grants for scientific research performed at one of the Commonwealth's National Cancer Institute-designate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB576 | Pass | Workers' compensation; uninsured employer's fund financing tax. Extends until July 1, 2015, the existing 0.5 percent maximum tax rate that may be assessed on uninsured or self-insured employers. The maximum rate is scheduled to revert to 0.25 percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB919 | Pass | Personal property tax; distraint and sale of personal property for delinquent taxes. Provides that a locality is not required to obtain a certificate of title when motor vehicles are distrained for sale to satisfy delinquent taxes. The bill clarifies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| HB975 | Pass | Public service corporations and companies; governmental utility corporation. Clarifies that (i) property may be taken by eminent domain by a public corporation for sanitary sewer, water and stormwater facilities, or transportation facilities and (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| HB1298 | 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] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| SB609 | Pass | Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; sunset date. Extends from January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2107, the sunset date for the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| SB515 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; managers of licensed retail establishments. Provides that the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may suspend or revoke any license granted if the licensee has been convicted for a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324a(...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| HB969 | Pass | Sexual assault response teams; addition of campus police. Requires each attorney for the Commonwealth to invite any chiefs of campus police of institutions of higher education located within the jurisdiction to the annual SART meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB517 | Pass | Nursing education programs; due process. Requires the Board of Nursing to comply with certain due process procedures in cases in which the Board places a nursing education program on conditional approval with terms and conditions that include a restr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| SB536 | Pass | Absentee voting; unused, lost, and defaced ballots. Requires persons who appear at their polling place or the central absentee voter precinct on election day and who had returned an unused or spoiled absentee ballot prior to election day to cast a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| HB1293 | Pass | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; local inspection fee. Provides that in the City of Chesapeake no fee charged for the inspection of any place of religious worship designated as Assembly Group A-3 under the Fire Prevention Code shall exceed $50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| HB766 | Pass | Development Fund. Creates the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund. The bill establishes an economic development grant and loan program targeted specifically at agricultural and forestry operations. Grants and loans will be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| SB450 | Pass | Health insurance; parity of coverage for oral chemotherapy medications. Provides that each health insurer, health care subscription plan, and health maintenance organization whose policies, contracts, or plans include coverage for intravenously admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| SB448 | Pass | Suspected child abuse; substance exposed infants; reporting by physicians. Increases the period of time from seven days to six weeks during which a health care provider, not exclusively the attending physician as in current law, may make a finding t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| HB239 | Pass | Fumigation by Department of Forestry. Asserts that the Department of Forestry's preferred method of treatment of its forest tree nurseries is methyl bromide gas fumigation in pre-seeding land preparation under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
