| HB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Child custody and visitation; person with a legitimate interest. Provides that a person with a legitimate interest who may petition for custody or visitation of a child that is not his or her own must be a grandparent, stepparent, former stepparent, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, created in new Article 9.1 of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2, prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reas... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | Impaired health care providers. Amends definition of "impairment." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; composition of Board of Directors; powers. Equalizes board representation among the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, and Henrico County. The bill also requires that certain actions of the Authority related to co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Small business job creation tax credit. Creates an individual and corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for small businesses creating new full-time jobs in the Commonwealth. The credit would equal $1,000 for each new job created. A s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| HB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; military retirement pay subtraction. Establishes an individual income tax subtraction for annual retirement compensation received for service as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Virginia National Guard. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| HB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax credit; disabled military veterans. Establishes an individual income tax credit beginning with the 2012 taxable year for veterans with a military service-connected disability. The credit would be computed by multiplying the vete... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| HB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| HB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Devocalization of cats and dogs; penalty. Requires veterinarians to keep records of devocalization procedures and provides that any person, including a licensed veterinarian, who performs a surgical devocalization on a cat or dog when such procedure ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Discharge or transfer of nursing home patients; notice to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Provides that in cases in which a nursing home patient is involuntarily transferred or discharged from a nursing home, a copy of the written notice of such... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone services for incarcerated persons. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to exercise jurisdiction over rates and charges of telecommunication services that enable correctional inmates to originate calls at pay telephones or other tele... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; final disposition of surplus funds by General Assembly members. Requires any member of the General Assembly who leaves office for any reason to file his final campaign finance report and disburse all surplus funds within six months ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR173 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; merging Eastern Virginia Medical School with Old Dominion University; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study merging Eastern Virginia Medical School with Old Dominion University. In conducting its study, t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Rules Committee |
| HB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; PEACE BEGINS AT HOME. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend PEACE BEGINS AT HOME to support the programs of the Domestic Violence Action Alliance for the prevention of sexual and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Transportation Committee |
| HB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Authority to prohibit land application of sewage sludge. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to prohibit the land application of sewage sludge within its boundaries; makes clarifying amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB191 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for small businesses hiring graduates of Virginia's colleges. Creates, beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for certain small businesses creating new full-time jobs that are filled by persons holding ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| HB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; volunteer service requirement; study; report. Provides that eligibility for unemployment benefits is contingent upon the claimant's performance of at least 24 hours per week of volunteer service with a nonprofit charitable orga... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for contracting with small or minority-owned, veteran-owned, or women-owned businesses. Establishes a corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2013, for federal contractors with at least 250 full-time employees that subcontract wit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| HB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; suspension of license for local tax delinquency. Provides that upon receipt by the ABC Board of a notice certified by the treasurer, commissioner of the revenue, or finance director of any locality that a licensee of the A... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House General Laws Committee |
| HB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Gas pipeline safety; information disclosures. Prohibits employees and members of the State Corporation Commission from disclosing to any person any investigative notes and other correspondence and information furnished in confidence by a public servi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information checks upon handgun purchases; protective order registry; dissemination of information. Provides that certain criminal history record information and protective order registry information shall be made available t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax. Eliminates Virginia's corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2013. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| HB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Health Care Compact established. Creates the Interstate Health Care Compact to (i) secure the right of the member states to regulate health care in their respective states pursuant to the compact and to suspend the operation of any confli... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Rules Committee |
| HB267 | 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] | 2012-11-29 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB6 | Engross
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides a bid match preference for Virginia business in procurements up to $100,000. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House General Laws Committee |
| HB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Designation of a person authorized to kill deer or bear damaging property. Permits a landowner or lessee whose property may be damaged by deer or bear to request that another person or persons be designated to kill such animals upon any written autho... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure of dietitians. Requires the Board of Medicine to promulgate regulations for the licensure of dietitians in the Commonwealth; provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to practice as or hold himself out to be a dietitian or to use in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Compulsory public education; student suspension or expulsion from school. Requires the superintendent of each school division to ensure that any student who has been suspended or expelled from school continues to receive an education. The Constitutio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Education Committee |
| HB366 | Intro
Sine Die | Student discipline; suspension and expulsion. Prohibits instances of only disorderly or disruptive behavior offenses or technology offenses as providing sufficient cause for a long-term suspension or expulsion. Currently, a student may be suspended o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Education Committee |
| HB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Invasive plants. Instructs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt regulations for the control of invasive plants. The bill classifies invasive plants as belonging to one of two tiers, depending upon whether the plant is widely dissem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Radiology benefits managers. Requires that any decision by a radiology benefits manager to deny a treating physician's order or recommendation for a diagnostic radiology test be made by a physician. An authorization to perform a diagnostic radiology ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District. Creates the Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District to provide a means of financing an extension of commuter rail service from Fairfax County into Prince William County. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Transportation Committee |
| SB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Grand larceny; first offender. Allows the court to defer disposition for a person charged with larceny who has not previously been convicted of or charged with a felony, an offense related to larceny, embezzlement, fraud, or any crime of moral turpit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB426 | Intro
Sine Die | Planning districts; strategic plans. Requires all planning districts to prepare regional strategic plans for the guidance of the district. Currently, planning districts in which regional planning is conducted by multistate councils of government are ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; military and overseas voters. Directs the State Board of Elections to provide instructions and procedures for the submission of ballots from military and overseas voters by fax or other electronic means. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law-enf... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone bills; blocking third-party charges. Prohibits a billing carrier from including in a customer's bill charges for products, goods, or services submitted by a service agent or service provider after the customer has requested the billing carr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB90 | Engross
Sine Die | Definition of private investigator; out-of-state private security services. Allows a private security services business licensed by another state to contract with a private security services business licensed by the Commonwealth to act as a private ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House General Laws Committee |
| HB450 | 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] | 2012-11-29 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Riparian forest tax credit; refund. Makes the existing tax credit for riparian forest buffer protection for waterways refundable. Currently, the tax credit may be carried forward for five taxable years, but is not refundable. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Reston. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for Reston bearing the word: "RESTON!" and the legend: "LIVE WORK PLAY." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Transportation Committee |
| HB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Algebra readiness assessment. Requires the Board of Education to develop or approve a model assessment of algebra readiness for students to take prior to enrolling in non-remedial algebra. Beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year, every student sh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Education Committee |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemptions for nonprofit entities; veterans organizations. Adds veterans organizations to those nonprofit entities that can qualify for sales and use tax exemption. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29 To House Finance Committee |
| SJR44 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); maximum lawful rate of interest. Caps the maximum lawful rate of interest on any contract for the loan or forbearance of any money, if the money is for use primarily for personal, family, or household purp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-26 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 2-N) |
| HB55 | Engross
Sine Die | Primary dates; presidential primary. Provides that all primaries for offices to be filled at the November election in presidential election years shall be held on the date of the presidential primary. With respect to candidates for election in Novemb... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-26 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 0-N) |