| HB946 | Pass | Political action committees; campaign finance filings. Requires any political action committee that files its statement of organization on or after August 15 and before the November election day in any odd-numbered year to file a campaign finance re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| HB552 | Pass | Mental health and developmental services; terminology. Replaces the terms "mental retardation" and "mental deficiency" with the term "intellectual disability" when referring to the diagnosis of, and with the term "developmental" when referring to ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB1117 | Pass | Annexation Moratorium Statute; continuation of the moratorium on annexation by cities. Provides that the temporary restrictions on granting city charters, filing annexation notices, and instituting annexation proceedings and county immunity proceedin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| HB1277 | Pass | Licensing of contractors by localities; civil penalty. Permits a locality by ordinance to establish a civil penalty that may be assessed when a person or business falsely represents to a customer or prospective customer that such person or business h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| HB910 | Pass | Cash proffers. Expands existing provisions that allow certain alternative uses of cash proffers to provide that such cash proffers may also be used for an alternative purpose if the functional purpose for which the cash payment was made no longer exi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| HB1139 | Pass | Reinsurance credits. Conforms Virginia's law regarding credits to insurers for reinsurance ceded to approved assuming insurers to the provisions of the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| HB385 | Pass | Industrial development authorities. Removes a prohibition that currently prevents industrial development authorities (also referred to as economic development authorities) from refinancing debt of organizations that are organized and operated for edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB961 | Pass | Shoplifting and employee theft; civil action. Provides that a civil action for shoplifting or employee theft may be initiated or maintained by a merchant even though a criminal action for the same conduct has been initiated; however, such civil actio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| SB519 | Pass | Consumer utility tax; natural gas. Exempts public utilities and electric cooperatives from the consumer utility tax on natural gas when the natural gas is used to generate electricity at a power station.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582) |
| SB197 | Pass | Representation by Attorney General. Allows the Attorney General to represent in civil matters a person appointed by a circuit court judge in a written order to run an existing corporation or company as the judge's representative in the execution of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
| SB193 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; exemption for cell phone numbers for EMS personnel and firefighters. Provides an exemption from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act for records of a fire/EMS company or fire/EMS department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| HB997 | Pass | Application for public assistance; information to applicant. Requires local departments of social services to provide each applicant for public assistance other than energy assistance with electronic or written and oral information regarding all rig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| HB368 | Pass | Neighborhood assistance tax credits; eligibility of certain mediators. Provides that mediators certified under guidelines of the Judicial Council of Virginia who provide mediation services, without charge, at the direction of an approved neighborhood...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB571 | Pass | Extension of measures to address housing crisis. Extends the sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals, the timing of cash proffer payments, and bonding requirements from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2017. The bill also expan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB1270 | Pass | Transfer of certain property in the City of Hampton. Provides that the Department of General Services, on behalf of the Department of Education and the Commonwealth of Virginia, with the approval of the Governor, is authorized to convey its interest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| SB424 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; fire company personnel of the Virginia National Guard. Includes under the coverage of the Line of Duty Act individuals employed as fire company personnel for the Virginia National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| SB599 | 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] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591) |
| SB532 | Pass | Bureau of Insurance; maintenance assessment. Revises the procedure for collecting the assessment on insurers for the expenses of maintaining the Bureau of Insurance. Provisions for the collection of estimated assessments on a quarterly basis are repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584) |
| HB269 | Pass | Certificate of public need; process for review and approval of psychiatric and substance abuse services. Eliminates the requirement that a Request for Applications be issued before the Commissioner of Health may accept and consider applications for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| HB732 | Pass | Transfer of development rights. Provides that a transfer of development rights ordinance may permit a sending property, subsequent to severance of development rights, to be used for parks and campgrounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| SB597 | Pass | Retail sales and use tax; presumption for registration for collection of the tax. Creates a legal presumption to require registration by a dealer for collection of retail sales and use taxes if any commonly controlled person maintains a distribution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590) |
| HB424 | Pass | School records; self-authentication. Provides that school records shall be admissible in any matter where such records are material and otherwise admissible, provided that they are authenticated as true and accurate copies by the custodian of the rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| HB752 | Pass | Strangulation; penalty. Provides that any person who, without consent, impedes the blood circulation or respiration of another person by knowingly, intentionally, and unlawfully applying pressure to the neck of such person resulting in the wounding o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| SB459 | Pass | Strangulation; penalty. Provides that any person who, without consent, impedes the blood circulation or respiration of another person by knowingly, intentionally, and unlawfully applying pressure to the neck of such person resulting in the wounding o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| HB1068 | Pass | Real property tax; commercial and industrial property in localities in Northern Virginia. Extends the sunset date from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2018, on the reduction in the tax rate for the special real property tax on commercial and industrial pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| SB116 | Pass | Court costs, fines, etc. Extends from 15 to 30 the number of days a person has to pay fines, costs, etc., before collection activity can begin or a driver's license can be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615) |
| HB734 | Pass | Recordation tax. Requires that a deed or other document regarding conveyance of real property state on its first page the actual consideration for the conveyance before it can be admitted to record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| HB738 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; health and related insurance for state employees. Clarifies that the Department of Human Resource Management has exclusive authority to establish and enforce employer contribution rates for some state employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| SB286 | Pass | Sale of certain property in Newport News. Allows the City of Newport News to sell certain property of 2,501 square feet or less and not suitable for development for a nominal amount. The act expires on July 1, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| HB430 | Pass | Incentives for inter-local service delivery. Expands the scope of the Regional Cooperation Incentive Fund to foster inter-local service delivery consolidation or coordination where such consolidation or coordination will result in the more efficient ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB745 | Pass | Supreme Court of Virginia; judicial caseloads; weighted caseload system. Requires the Supreme Court to develop and implement a weighted caseload system to assess judicial caseloads throughout the Commonwealth, and using that system, requires the Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| HB1021 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); legislative sessions. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2012, election to approve or reject an amendment authorizing the General Assembly to delay the reconvened session for a period of up to on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| SB115 | Pass | Revision of Title 64.1. Creates proposed Title 64.2 (Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries) as a revision of existing Titles 26 (Fiduciaries Generally), 31 (Guardian and Ward), and 64.1 (Wills and Decedents' Estates), as well as portions of Titles 37.2 (Beh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| SB112 | 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] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| HB1059 | Pass | Appeals to the board of zoning appeals. Provides that a civil penalty shall not be assessed by the court during pendency of a 30-day appeal period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| SB556 | Pass | Pawnbrokers; holding period for purchases. Makes technical changes to the provisions addressing how long goods purchased by pawnbrokers must be retained before they can be sold by the pawnbroker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0586) |
| HB595 | Pass | Four-year plan for aging services; deadlines for plan submission. Changes the deadline for submission of a four-year plan for aging services from June 30, 2013, to October 1, 2015, and the deadline for submission of an update to the current plan from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| HB358 | Pass | City of Richmond tax amnesty program. Expands the scope of the City of Richmond’s tax amnesty program to include all local taxes and accrued interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB1287 | Pass | Definition of development. Replaces "property" with "tract of land" for purposes of this definition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554) |
| SB577 | Pass | Workers' Compensation Commission. Provides that a majority of the members of the Workers' Compensation Commission constitutes a quorum for purposes of exercising the judicial, legislative, and discretionary functions of the Commission, regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| SB436 | Pass | Sex crimes; penalties. Imposes a mandatory minimum life sentence for rape, forcible sodomy, or object sexual penetration of a child under the age of 13 when it is alleged in the indictment that the offender was 18 years of age or older at the time of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| HB349 | Pass | Virginia War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission. Extends the time that the Commission may be funded upon the approval of the Joint Rules Committee, and provides that if the Commission is not funded by a separate appropriation in the appropriation act fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| HB63 | Pass | Elections; provisional ballots; electoral board meetings. Provides that the meeting of the electoral board on the day or days following an election is open only to authorized party and candidate representatives, the persons who cast the provisional b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB603 | Pass | Open enrollment policies; local school divisions. Provides that local school divisions may have policies that provide for the open enrollment to any school of any student residing within the school division upon the request of a parent or guardian. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB1286 | Pass | Local capital projects; utility relocation. Provides that certain utility companies shall cooperate and coordinate in the relocation of certain utilities so as to avoid unnecessary delays in the construction of local capital projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| HB238 | Pass | Management of blue crabs. Limits the Marine Resources Commission's fisheries management authority in the Albemarle and Currituck watersheds to the recreational and commercial harvest of blue crab.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| SB67 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints. Removes the option for a locality to require that an applicant for a concealed handgun permit submit fingerprints as part of the application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| HB56 | Pass | Voter registration applications; protection of residence address information. Adds active and retired federal and Virginia justices and judges and attorneys employed by the United States Attorney General or Virginia Attorney General to the list of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB54 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $125,594,000 plus financing costs, pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia, for paying costs of acqui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| SB395 | Pass | Virginia Commission on the Centennial of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency. Amends the third enactment of Chapter 667 of the Acts of Assembly of 2010 to extend the Commission contingent upon the receipt of private funding by July 1, 2013. In the event the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
