| SB387 | 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] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476) |
| SB430 | Pass | Cemeteries. Clarifies the uses that shall be included in the approval of a cemetery without further zoning approval being required. The bill becomes effective January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| HB337 | Pass | Professions and occupations; unlawful procurement of certificate, license, or permit. Clarifies language prohibiting the use, disclosure, or release of questions and answers for examinations for certification or licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| HB978 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Shifts elections for city council from May to November. Council members shall have their four-year terms shortened by six months during the transition. The bill also provides that candidates shall be nominated only by p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| SB566 | Pass | Elections, administrative matters, and duties of the electoral board and general registrar. Provides for certain administrative efficiencies: permits general registrar to administer oath to voting equipment custodians; clarifies method to give notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| SB451 | Pass | Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; regulation of medical assistance. Makes several changes to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (VFATA) and the laws governing the Attorney General's duties with regard to the regulation of medical assistance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| HB350 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; disability benefits. Modifies the disability benefits provided to state employees by (i) no longer reducing such benefit by the amount of military disability benefits received and (ii) reflecting changes made in 2009 by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| HB806 | Pass | Overweight vehicle permits and fees. Provides a uniform method of assigning cost-based fees based on the amount that a vehicle is overweight. The bill also allocates payment of fees into specific funds. The bill has a delayed effective date of Januar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB352 | Pass | Emergency management plans; victims' rights. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund to be the lead coordinating agencies for individuals determined to be victims during critical event...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB1288 | Pass | Charter; Town of Boyce. Moves election years for members of the Common Council from even-numbered years to odd-numbered years and sets election dates according to town ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| SB560 | Pass | Sanitary districts; construction of dams; emergency. Authorizes the board of supervisors of a sanitary district to construct and maintain dams within the district. Current law does not address dams but permits such boards to construct and maintain wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| SB559 | Pass | Special use permits. Authorizes the State Forester to issue the special use permit for certain activities on state forest lands without the approval of the Board of Forestry. The bill expands the requirement for a permit for mountain biking to all bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| SB179 | Pass | Bond administration; reimbursement of administrative costs. Provides that if the owner or developer defaults on construction of certain public facilities, the locality shall be entitled to retain the allowance for administrative costs regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0468) |
| SB462 | Pass | Income tax; conformity with § 199 of the Internal Revenue Code. Allows the entire amount of the deduction allowed for domestic production activities pursuant to § 199 of the Internal Revenue Code to be deducted for Virginia income tax purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| SB347 | Pass | Contraband and tax-paid cigarettes; penalties. Establishes legal limits and imposes criminal and civil penalties for possession with intent to distribute contraband tax-paid cigarettes by parties outside the legitimate distribution chain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| HB1205 | Pass | Charter; Town of South Hill. Repeals provisions related to the town treasurer and makes other technical changes to accurately reflect current town practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| SB602 | Pass | Charter; Town of West Point. Shifts town elections from May to November and provides that vacancies on the town council shall be filled in accordance with state law. The bill also grants the mayor veto power over any action of the council; the curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HB900 | 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] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| HB371 | Pass | Agricultural and forestal districts. Adds James City County to the list of counties authorized to create agricultural and forestal districts of local significance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB965 | Pass | Campus police; MAAs with local law-enforcement agencies. Requires campus police to enter into mutual aid agreements with an adjacent local law-enforcement agency or the State Police for cooperation in providing assistance with the investigation of de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB1224 | Pass | Transfer of property by VDOT; emergency. Authorizes VDOT to convey certain real property located in Tazewell County controlled by the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| SB230 | Pass | Administration of local highway projects. Requires VDOT to provide for training and certification of local governments to enable them to administer locally performed highway maintenance and construction projects with minimal VDOT supervision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |
| HB847 | Pass | Charter; Town of Coeburn. Establishes the duties of officers appointed by the town council, including the town manager, the town clerk, and the town attorney; authorizes the town council to appoint other officers deemed necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB841 | Pass | Major business facility job tax credits and enterprise zone job creation grants. Allows a business creating permanent, full-time positions to be eligible for both the major business facility job tax credit and enterprise zone job creation grants. How...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| SB183 | Pass | Secure remote access fee. Exempts the Virginia Outdoors Foundation from having to pay the clerk of the circuit court a fee for remote access to land records. Currently, the Office of Attorney General, the Division of Debt Collection, the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| HB804 | Pass | Charter; Town of Purcellville. Distinguishes the authority of the town council to adopt all architectural design standards and review processes from the responsibility of the Board of Architectural Review to apply such duly adopted standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| HB387 | Pass | Fees collected by clerks; payment with dishonored check or credit card. Increases the fee for paying the clerk of court with a bad check or credit card from $20 to $50, which is the same penalty merchants may charge for the same.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| HB726 | 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] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB972 | Pass | Criteria for involuntary commitment. Provides that when a court is to make a decision as to whether it should involuntarily commit a person for 30 days when less restrictive alternatives are inappropriate, it shall consider, in addition to other rele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB313 | Pass | Life insurance and annuities agents; licensing examination. Requires the State Corporation Commission annually to review whether the pass rate for the licensing examination for life insurance and annuities agents is consistent with the 2011 National ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| HB1019 | Pass | Charter; City of Chesapeake. Expands the board of zoning appeals from five to seven members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB500 | Pass | DSS; policies and procedures to protect personal identifying information of children in foster care; report. Requires local departments of social services to conduct annual credit checks on children aged 16 years and older who are in foster care to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB296 | Pass | Charter; Town of Gordonsville. Reduces the size of the town council from seven to five members and makes clarifying amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| SB158 | Pass | Criminal procedure; admission to bail. Provides that a magistrate, clerk, or deputy clerk may not admit to bail a person who is charged with an offense giving rise to a rebuttable presumption against bail unless an attorney for the Commonwealth concu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| HB391 | Pass | Confidential juvenile records; sharing with state, local, and regional correctional facilities. Provides for the sharing of juvenile records with state and local correctional facilities when such facility has custody of or is providing supervision fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| HB98 | Pass | Athletic training; definition. Amends the definition of the practice of athletic training so that licensed physical therapists may no longer direct such practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| HB1104 | Pass | Secretary of Public Safety; Virginia Fire Services Board; State Board of Juvenile Justice; powers and duties. Consolidates, eliminates, or alters various powers and duties of the Virginia Fire Services Board and the State Board of Juvenile Justice re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| HB1061 | 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 stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0454) |
| HB87 | Pass | Projecting a laser at an aircraft; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally projects a point of light from a laser, laser gun sight, or any other device that simulates a laser at an aircraft is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| HB580 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority Act; declaration of policy. Removes the requirement for the consent of both the Governor and the General Assembly in cases where real property interests in the Area of Operation at Fort Monroe are sold. The bill retains, however...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| SB128 | 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] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| HB737 | Pass | Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council; membership. Adds to the Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council two citizen members representing Virginia public institutions of higher education that have modeling and simulation capabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440) |
| HB72 | Pass | Highway work zones. Requires highway work zones to be clearly marked with warning signs and attached flashing lights for projects covered by contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| HB757 | Pass | Town of Urbanna; liens for water charges. Adds the Town of Urbanna to the list of towns permitted to provide by ordinance that water and sewer charges and taxes incurred shall be a lien on the real estate served by the waterline or sewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| HB243 | Pass | Virginia Investment Partnership Act; definitions. Decreases from five to three years the legal presence requirement to be considered an existing Virginia manufacturer under the Virginia Investment Partnership Act. The bill contains a technical amendm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| HB1127 | Pass | Charter; Town of Virgilina. Moves the date of the elections for mayor and councilmen from May to November of each even-numbered year. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| SB557 | Pass | Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority; approval of loan applications. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Directors of the Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority ratify the approval or denial of loan applications by a delegated committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| HB840 | Pass | Charter; City of Portsmouth. Provides that the city council shall adopt a balanced budget. The bill also creates the position of city auditor to be appointed by the city council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444) |
| HB1076 | Pass | Special use permit for land filling activities. Provides that a locality may require a special use permit for the storage or disposal of certain nonagricultural materials not generated on the farm or agriculturally zoned property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| HB234 | Pass | Time-Share Act; advertising foreclosed time-share properties. Provides the option of a more streamlined advertisement of the time-shares being foreclosed by requiring publication of the time, place, and date of sale; identification of the time-share ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
