VA Legislation | 2013 | Regular Session

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB281	Intro 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]	2012-11-30 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
HB807	Engross Sine Die	Use of electronic tracking devices; penalty. Provides that any person who uses an electronic tracking device through intentionally deceptive means and without consent to track the location of another person is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. The bil... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB304	Intro Sine Die	Display of vehicle license plates. Provides for display of a single license plate on registered vehicles. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB312	Intro Sine Die	Four-for-Life; substantive review. Requires that a reallocation of moneys set aside from the Four-for-Life fees be made pursuant to legislation that has been reviewed by the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee and the Senate Committee on... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB313	Intro Sine Die	Surgical assistants and surgical technologists; licensure and certification by the Board of Medicine. Requires surgical assistants to be licensed and surgical technologists to be certified by the Board of Medicine. The bill also grandfathers in surgi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB320	Intro Sine Die	Prescribing Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substances. Requires any prescriber who prescribes to a patient a controlled substance included in Schedule II, III, or IV of the Drug Control Act to request and review information abou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB324	Intro Sine Die	Limitation on administrative actions relating to Firearms Act. Establishes legislative preemption of any administrative action taken by an administrative body that has the direct or indirect effect of governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ow... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB327	Intro Sine Die	Workers' Compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB331	Intro Sine Die	Law-enforcement officers retirement; early retirement. Requires that all employers electing to provide benefits equivalent to the State Police Officers' Retirement System for employees in hazardous duty positions consider employees eligible for full ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB333	Intro Sine Die	Mopeds. Prohibits the operation of mopeds on highways with posted speed limits in excess of 35 miles per hour. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB336	Intro Sine Die	Definitions of all-terrain and utility vehicles. Expands the definition of all-terrain vehicles to include six-wheeled vehicles and vehicles that can carry passengers and narrows the definition of all-terrain vehicles to exclude riding lawn mowers. T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB339	Intro Sine Die	Advertisements and advertising structures. Allows running animation on advertisements and advertising structures. The bill also allows scrolling animation on on-premises advertisements and advertising structures. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
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]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB342	Intro Sine Die	Dental laboratories; register with the Board of Dentistry. Requires any individual or business entity engaged in the manufacture or repair of dental prosthetic appliances to register with the Board of Dentistry. The bill also requires the Board to de... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
HB866	Engross Sine Die	Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB357	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; membership. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement benefits unde... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB358	Intro Sine Die	Infrared traffic light signal changers. Allows local governments by ordinance to permit use of infrared traffic light signal changers by firefighting vehicles in nonemergency situations. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB372	Intro Sine Die	State Board for Community Colleges; mental health services. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop standards and policies directing community colleges to adopt, incrementally and as resources become available, a mental health ser... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB376	Intro Sine Die	Unemployment compensation; shared work programs. Establishes a shared work program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB377	Intro Sine Die	Construction projects using public funds; iron, steel, and manufactured goods must be produced in the United States. Prohibits use of state funds for construction projects, including any construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public bu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB390	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile life sentences. Provides a mechanism for persons who are sentenced to life for a nonhomicide offense committed while a juvenile to petition the court for a modification of sentence. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB392	Intro Sine Die	Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18 and changes the areas of representation to the congressional districts. The bill also assigns the at-large members to speci... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB399	Intro Sine Die	Deaf and hearing-impaired children; special education. Requires local school divisions to ensure that Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of hearing-impaired children and address those needs as appro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB402	Intro Sine Die	Nutrient Offset Fund. Establishes as a priority for funding from the Nutrient Offset Fund those nutrient offsets that are produced from facilities that generate electrical or heat energy, steam, or hot water using animal waste as a fuel source. The i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
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]	2012-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB403	Intro Sine Die	Land preservation tax credit; working farmers. Increases the land preservation tax credit from 40 percent to 50 percent of the fair market value of the conveyance for working farmers, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2013. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB410	Intro Sine Die	Wetlands and streams; water protection permits; conditions for contribution to a Board-approved fund. Requires as a condition for contribution to a State Water Control Board-approved fund, in lieu of creating or restoring compensatory wetland or stre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB423	Intro Sine Die	Motor vehicle license plates. Provides that motor vehicles whose manufacturers do not provide, as original equipment, for a bracket or other device for displaying a license plate on the front of the vehicle will be required to display only single lic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Transportation Committee
HB1001	Intro Sine Die	Enforcement of immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police shall seek to enter into a memorandum of agreement with United States Department of Homeland Security,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB426	Intro Sine Die	Medicaid; appeals of agency determinations. Provides that all recommended or final case decisions in administrative hearings regarding Medicaid overpayments shall be made in accordance with the Administrative Process Act, shall be based on the whole... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB435	Intro Sine Die	Criminal history record information check; making false statements; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly makes a materially false statement on criminal history background check forms required for the purchase and transfer of firearms is g... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
HB40	Intro Sine Die	Standards for use of coastal primary sand dunes; exemption. Authorizes the Virginia Beach Wetlands Board to determine which structures or properties are in imminent danger from erosion or storm damage. If such structures or properties are found to b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB439	Intro Sine Die	Medical Fraud Control Unit; appointment of investigators. Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint unit investigators to investigate fraud, abuse, or neglect in the provision of care under the plan for medical assistance. Such investigators would b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB466	Intro Sine Die	Menhaden management. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations necessary to comply with Amendment 2 to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB477	Intro Sine Die	Dangerous wild animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to privately possess, sell, transfer, or breed dangerous wild animals. The bill would grandfather in the ownership of any existing lawful exotic animals; however, the owner of such animals is req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
SB483	Intro Sine Die	Asbestos workers; violations; penalties. Requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to maintain a registry of employee complaints alleging the existence or imminent threat of an asbestos NESHAP violation. The measure prohibits employers from dis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB496	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB505	Intro Sine Die	Combined heat and power facilities; incentives. Provides that combined heat and power facilities that meet the output and efficiency qualifications for the federal combined heat and power tax credit are eligible for a performance incentive of 200 bas... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB516	Intro Sine Die	Motor vehicle insurance; medical expense benefits; assignments. Invalidates assignments of medical expenses benefits provided under a motor vehicle liability insurance policy. Medical expense benefits due to a covered injured person may be paid direc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB518	Intro Sine Die	Mandated health insurance benefits; essential benefits package. Provides that health insurance plans will not be required, effective January 1, 2014, to provide coverage for state-mandated health benefits to the extent that the benefit is not an esse... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB547	Intro Sine Die	Assault and battery a felony when certain classes of people are victimized; penalty. Expands the class of people for whom, when they are victims of an assault or assault and battery, the offense is punished as a Class 6 felony. The expanded class wou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB553	Intro Sine Die	Local school divisions; unexpended state funds. Provides that local school divisions may elect to use any unexpended state funds to provide a one-time bonus to all teachers of up to three percent of the annual base salary. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB555	Intro Sine Die	Restoration of parental rights. Creates a procedure for restoring the parental rights to a child's parent whose rights as to that child had previously been terminated, provided certain conditions exist. The petition to restore a parent's rights may b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB567	Intro Sine Die	Low-income and student toll tax credit. Establishes a tax credit for students and low-income persons who have an E-ZPass or who pay tolls. The amount of the credit is capped at $1,000 per qualified taxpayer. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB582	Intro Sine Die	Net energy metering; stand-by charges. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether to approve a utility's proposed standby charge methodology, to find that (i) the methodology utilized by the supplier is generally accepted in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1112	Engross Sine Die	Human papillomavirus vaccination; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement for vaccination against human papillomavirus for female children. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB586	Intro Sine Die	Crimes by prisoners; penalties. Provides that a prisoner may be charged under the Code sections that apply to crimes by prisoners, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and possession of a firearm by a felon. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
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]	2012-11-30 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB601	Intro Sine Die	Public procurement; products manufactured in the United States. Requires public contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of a public building or public works to contain a provision that the iron,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
SB605	Intro Sine Die	Eligibility for in-state tuition; military personnel. Provides that, for current and former military personnel and their dependents, the intent to attend a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth is sufficient for the purpose of e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-11-30 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee