VA Legislation | 2011 | Regular Session

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HB1819VetoDepartment of Professional and Occupational Regulation; registration of athlete agents; penalty. Creates a registration requirement for athlete agents administered by the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, sets o...
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2011-05-05
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
HB1500PassBudget Bill. Amending Chapter 874, 2010 Acts of Assembly.
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2011-05-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0890)
SB1195PassIllegal gambling; definitions. Amends the definition of "illegal gambling" to clarify that the purchase of a product, Internet access, or other thing (i.e., phone card, movie rental vouchers), which purchase credits the purchaser with free ...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0887)
SB1221PassLocal rezoning actions. Provides for more limited review by VDOT when a property being considered for rezoning has already been subject to a VDOT review in connection with development of a local comprehensive plan.
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0888)
HB1945PassRegulation of motor carriers by DMV; commercial driver's licenses. Revises statutes relating to motor carriers, including requiring DMV to simply notify localities of the issuance of overweight and oversize permits and eliminating the requirement for...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0881)
SB999PassLocal incentives for the design, development, or production of goods for national defense. Creates a separate classification of machinery and tools designed and used directly in manufacturing or processing materials, components, or equipment for nat...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0877)
SB843PassAboveground storage tanks. Requires the State Water Control Board to develop standards for facilities with aboveground storage tanks in the City of Fairfax having an aggregate capacity of one million gallons or greater, existing prior to January 29, ...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0884)
SB1281PassRegulation of motor carriers by DMV; commercial driver's licenses. Revises statutes relating to motor carriers, including requiring DMV to simply notify localities of the issuance of overweight and oversize permits and eliminating the requirement for...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0889)
HB2103PassAboveground storage tanks. Requires the State Water Control Board to develop standards for facilities with aboveground storage tanks in the City of Fairfax having an aggregate capacity of one million gallons or greater, existing prior to January 29, ...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0883)
HB2467PassHealth insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and treatment for...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0876)
SB964PassMarine Resources Commission; Virginia Institute of Marine Science; coastal resource management. Requires the Marine Resources Commission to establish and implement a general permit regulation that authorizes and encourages the use of living shoreline...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0885)
SB1062PassHealth insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and treatment for...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0878)
SB1026PassCare of agricultural animals by owner; penalty. Provides standards of care specifically for agricultural animals that ensure accommodation for customary farming activities. An owner of an agricultural animal is required to provide feed to prevent ma...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0886)
HB1584PassIllegal gambling; definitions. Amends the definition of "illegal gambling" to clarify that the purchase of a product, Internet access, or other thing (i.e., phone card, movie rental vouchers), which purchase credits the purchaser with free ...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0879)
HB1795PassVirginia Retirement System; employee who becomes member on or after July 1, 2010. Amends certain provisions of the Workforce Transition Act and retirement plans administered by the Virginia Retirement System to recognize the difference in benefits ac...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0880)
HB1822PassLocal incentives for the design, development, or production of goods for national defense. Creates a separate classification of machinery and tools designed and used directly in manufacturing or processing materials, components, or equipment for nat...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0875)
HB1958PassHealth insurance; market reforms. Conforms inconsistent and conflicting requirements of Virginia's health insurance laws to corresponding provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that became effective on September 23, 2010...
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2011-04-29
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0882)
HB2148PassTrademark infringement. Requires the court in any criminal proceeding involving trademark infringement, upon the request of the Commonwealth, to order that material infringing on a trademark in the possession or under the control of a defendant or la...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801)
HB1668PassCity of Richmond; funding for community revitalization activities. Allows the City of Richmond to establish an enhanced building rehabilitation process using a newly created community revitalization fund for derelict residential property to combat bl...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770)
HB1860PassFreedom of Information Act; proceedings for enforcement. Requires that the party against whom a FOIA petition is brought must receive a copy of the petition at least three working days prior to the filing of the petition. The bill contains technical ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783)
SB771PassRemedies; limitation on recovery in certain medical malpractice actions. Increases from $2 million to $2.05 million, on July 1, 2012, the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice. Thereafter, the cap is inc...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759)
HB1868PassAdult adopted person; access to identifying information. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to mail an adult adopted person's original certificate of birth to him upon order of the Commissioner of Social Services or order of a circuit cou...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784)
HB2173PassDrinking water community confidence reports; publication. Requires the Board of Health to include in its regulations governing waterworks, water supplies, and pure water a process whereby waterworks serving fewer than 10,000 people may seek and the ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804)
HB2316PassClean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Program created. Repeals the Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Incentive Grant Program effective July 1, 2013, and the Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program effective July 1, 2017, to create a program ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
SB1185PassSex offenses prohibiting entry onto school or other property; penalty. Expands the prohibition on entry onto school grounds by any adult convicted of a sexually violent offense to include any school bus as defined in §46.2-100 and any property, ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855)
SB1359PassInsurance premiums tax; retaliatory costs tax credit. Enhances the retaliatory tax credit for the insurance premiums tax by increasing the amount of the refund for certain taxpayers receiving the credit in 2000, beginning in taxable year 2011, from a...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0863)
HB2176PassStocking of game animals and fish. Requires that policies to acquire and introduce any new species of game birds, game animals, or fish on the lands are implemented only with the authorization and cooperation of affected local governments.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805)
HB2527PassTransportaion funding. Creates the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (Bank) as a new source for funding transportation projects. The Bank would be managed and administered by the Virginia Resources Authority and would be capitalized as reco...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830)
SB1191PassMotor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. Places limitations and conditions on the relationship between motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0856)
HB2324PassInvestment in research and technology in the Commonwealth. Amends the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) to allow for awards for a matching funds program and an eminent researcher program. The bill also expands upon the Innovation an...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816)
HB1686PassDistributed solar generation demonstration programs. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to exercise its existing authority to consider for approval petitions filed by a utility to own and operate distributed solar generation facilities an...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771)
HB1418PassSpecial license plates. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates (i) bearing the legend: "DONT TREAD ON ME," (ii) bearing the national motto: "In God We Trust," (iii) for members and supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Park...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760)
HB1691PassServicemembers and veterans services. Provides for the program established by the Department of Veterans Services to monitor and coordinate mental health and rehabilitative services support for Virginia veterans to cooperate with localities that may...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772)
HB1422PassHomestead exemptions. Adds one firearm, not to exceed $3,000 in value, to the list of items that every householder shall be entitled to hold exempt from creditor process. The bill also increases the maximum exemption for a motor vehicle from $2,000 t...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761)
HB1694PassDriver's license; suspension for failure to pay child support. Increases from $500 to $600 the minimum child support payment that a person must make pursuant to an agreement with the Department of Social Services in order to renew or reinstate the pe...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773)
HB2255PassDisclosure of health records; dispensing of controlled substances. Clarifies that nothing in the Health Records Privacy Act shall prohibit a health care provider who dispenses a controlled substance to a patient from disclosing information obtained ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)
HB1696PassMotor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. Places limitations and conditions on the relationship between motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. This bill is the same as
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774)
HB1699PassRestoration of firearms rights; hearings. Makes parallel the process for the request for and conduct of a hearing requested by a person to restore his right to possess or carry a firearm after being acquitted by reason of insanity, adjudicated legal...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775)
HB2285PassTourism zones; tax revenues for tourism projects. Entitles certain tourism projects to a percentage of the state and local sales tax revenues generated on the premises of the project, to be used towards debt service to bridge the gap between availabl...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814)
SB1414PassVirginia Liaison Office; Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; powers and duties. Changes the title of the Virginia Liaison Office to the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. The bill also reorganizes and clarifies the responsibilities of the Office ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0867)
HB1898PassAbduction; forced labor or services. Provides that abduction of any person for the purpose of prostitution or of a minor for the purpose of manufacturing child pornography is a Class 2 felony. The bill also provides that any person who receives any m...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785)
HB1903PassPrint-on-demand program; temporary transport license plates to dealers and vehicle owners. Provides that the Department of Motor Vehicles may develop and implement procedures and requirements necessary for the delivery of temporary transport license ...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786)
HB1911PassVideo-monitoring system; school bus violations. Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances to allow local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in order to detect drivers passing stopped school buses.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787)
HB1435PassAmerican Sign Language; recognition for completed coursework. Provides that if a local school board offers an elective course in American Sign Language, it must grant academic credit for course completion on the same basis as the successful completio...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762)
HB2361PassChild abduction. Makes it a duty of the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse to maintain close liaison with the National Crime Information Center and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the exchange of information on chil...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818)
HB1708PassPittsylvania County school board; staggered terms. Allows for staggered terms for the Pittsylvania County school board beginning with the November 2012 general election upon a majority vote of its members.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776)
SB799PassCity of Richmond; funding for community revitalization activities. Allows the City of Richmond to establish an enhanced building rehabilitation process using a newly created community revitalization fund for derelict residential property to combat bl...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833)
HB1763PassCharter; Town of Rich Creek. Shifts council elections from May to November; removes a salary cap for council members, referencing state law for the setting of salaries; and updates several out-of-date provisions of the town's charter.
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778)
SB1224PassTemporary Assistance for Needy Families. Provides that the Department of Social Services is designated as the state agency responsible for coordinating state efforts related to supporting public agencies and charitable and community groups seeking t...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0857)
HB2370PassMultiple-year licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue multiple-year hunting, fishing, or trapping licenses or permits. The costs of these types of licenses cannot exceed the costs of the permits or licenses if they were p...
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2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819)
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