VA Committee | House Courts of Justice | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1542 | Courts; online case management system; removal of defendant's name. Allows circuit court judge to order a clerk to remove or obscure the name of a criminal defendant from the online case management system upon a showing by the Commonwealth of a legit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2267 | Proceeds of criminal activity; freeze of assets. Authorizes the attorney for the Commonwealth to petition the circuit court to freeze an account or safe deposit box owned or held by a person charged with a crime. The court shall enter an order freezi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1550 | Expansion of gang-free zones. Adds school bus stops to the list of places denoted "gang-free zones." Criminal gang activity that occurs in gang-free zones receives additional punishment. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1551 | Discovery rule; statute of limitations. Provides that the period of limitations for filing a cause of action for injury resulting from implanted medical devices, toxic exposure, and prescribed or over-the-counter medications accrues from the time the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1552 | Punitive damages cap. Increases the punitive damages cap from $350,000 to $675,000 to reflect the effect of inflation since the cap was first established. The bill also provides that the cap will be adjusted annually in an amount equal to the annual ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2247 | Assault and battery against a police officer, etc.; penalty. Changes the conditions for applying an aggravated penalty for assault or assault and battery against law-enforcement officers and certain other officials. Under current law, the penalty app... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1560 | Ultrasound prior to abortion. Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1338 | Appointment of judge by circuit court. Restricts the circuit courts from appointing to judicial office any person either house of the General Assembly failed to elect. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1567 | Driving on a suspended or revoked license and causing the death of another person; penalty. Provides that any person who drives a motor vehicle in a reckless manner knowing his driver's license is suspended or revoked and causes an accident that resu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1676 | Service of process; timing. Provides that in order to be timely, service of process must be made within six months from the commencement of the action. Currently, service of process is timely if made within 12 months. The bill also provides that no n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1786 | Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Provides that localities may charge a person convicted of a violation of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting him to jail or other holding facility but may charge no more than ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1429 | Zoning; attorney fees. Provides that a court may award reasonable attorney fees, expenses, and court costs to any person, group, or entity that prevails in a zoning action brought against it or that successfully challenges the validity of a zoning or... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1431 | Penalty for conspiracy to commit murder. Increases the penalty for conspiracy to commit murder to a felony punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for a term not less than five years nor more than 40 years. This puts the punishment... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1436 | Mechanics' lien notice. Provides that any person intending to perfect a mechanics' lien against a one-family or two-family residential dwelling unit must send the mechanics' lien agent designated on the building permit or, if no agent is designated o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2336 | Foreclosure; use of false records, documents, or statements. Provides that any person who knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false or fraudulent record, document, or statement in support of any foreclosure shall be liable to the in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1316 | Sex-selective abortions; penalty. Provides that a person who performs an abortion with knowledge that the abortion is sought solely and exclusively on account of the sex of the unborn child is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill also requires that t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1415 | Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, by a person in his dwelling against an intruder in the dwelling who has committed an overt act against him or another person who ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1434 | Wrongful death and personal injury actions; future wages presumption. Creates a rebuttable presumption in actions for the personal injury or wrongful death that a person who, at the time of the injury or death, was an infant or was at least 18 years ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1634 | Impersonating a law-enforcement officer while committing additional acts. Provides that any person who impersonates a law-enforcement officer (i) while committing or attempting to commit rape, forcible sodomy, object sexual penetration, aggravated se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1411 | Hoax explosive devices; imitation weapons of terrorism; increased penalties. Increases the penalty for constructing, using, placing, or sending a hoax explosive device from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony. The bill also increases from a Class 6 to a Cl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1355 | Petitions for writs of actual innocence. Provides that petitions for writs of actual innocence in the case of either biological or nonbiological evidence may be brought for any felony and upon any plea. The bill also provides that, for both writs, th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2006 | Subordinate mortgages. Provides that a subordinate mortgage retains its subordinate status upon the refinancing of the primary mortgage if the principal amount secured by the refinance mortgage does not exceed the greater of the outstanding principal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1835 | Firefighters; emergency medical technicians; cap on damages. Imposes a $250,000 cap on damages that may be recovered against firefighters and emergency medical technicians in a civil action arising out of the provision of fire-fighting and emergency ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2234 | Expungement for misdemeanors deferred and dismissed. Provides that expungement of a criminal record is available to a petitioner whose misdemeanor charges are dismissed without adjudication of guilt following a deferral of proceedings and satisfactio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1822 | Unstamped cigarettes; sale, purchase, possession, etc.; penalties. Increases the penalties for the sale, purchase, transport, receipt, or possession of unstamped cigarettes, including heightened penalties for a second or subsequent offense. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1874 | Medical malpractice; statute of limitations. Amends the discovery rule, which triggers the running of the statute of limitations in medical malpractice cases involving the diagnosis of a malignant tumor or cancer. The bill provides that for a claim t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1364 | Compensation of experts in criminal cases. Provides that counsel for the defendant may request a waiver on the maximum limitation of compensation for a psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other expert appointed by the court to render professional... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1365 | Appointment of mental health experts in criminal cases not involving insanity defense or competency to stand trial. Provides that in a felony criminal case for an alleged crime other than capital murder, the attorney for the Commonwealth or the defen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1487 | Civil action for violation of Computer Crimes Act; limitations period. Provides that a civil action for injuries sustained by reason of a violation of the Virginia Computer Crimes Act must be filed within five years after the last act in the course o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1897 | Search of electronic device without warrant prohibited. Provides that no officer of the law or any other person shall search any cellular telephone, tablet computer, portable computer, desktop computer, or other electronic device containing or design... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1492 | Vacation of criminal conviction for fraud upon the court. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of the Code or any rule of court to the contrary, upon hearing of a motion by a person convicted of a felony or adjudicated delinquent of a felony o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1903 | Cellular phone used as tracking device. Provides that a cellular phone is a tracking device when it is used to track the movement of a person, and that such use requires a warrant issued by a judicial officer. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2329 | Death of joint petitioner prior to entry of final order of adoption. Provides that in cases in which married persons, or persons who were previously married who are permitted to adopt a child, have jointly petitioned to adopt a child and one of the p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1367 | Littering; cigarettes, civil penalty. Includes cigarettes specifically in the category of things deemed litter for purposes of criminal punishment for improper disposal of trash. The bill also provides that in lieu of the imposition of the Class 1 mi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB1114 | Prior sex offenses against children admissible in evidence. Provides that in a criminal case in which the defendant is accused of an offense of child sexual abuse, evidence of the defendant's conviction of another offense or offenses of child sexual ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB757 | No-contest clauses; exceptions. Allows the beneficiary of a will or trust to institute an action to seek interpretation or enforcement of a provision of a will or trust without triggering the penalties of a no-contest clause. This bill does not elimi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB809 | Juvenile offenders; sentences. Provides that the punishment is a Class 2 felony (20 years to life) for persons convicted of a crime committed when a juvenile for which the only available punishment is a life sentence. This bill is in response to Mill... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1273 | Forced prostitution; expungement. Provides for expungement of a prostitution charge and vacation of a prostitution conviction when the person was abducted for the purpose of prostitution in violation of § 18.2-48. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB840 | Vacation of criminal conviction for fraud upon the court. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of the Code or any rule of court to the contrary, a person convicted of a felony or a juvenile found delinquent of an offense that would be a felony... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB734 | Foreclosure; use of false records, documents, or statements. Provides that any person who knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false or fraudulent record, document, or statement in support of any foreclosure shall be liable to the in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB875 | Provisional driver's license holders. Changes from a secondary offense to a primary offense use of a cell phone by a provisional driver's license holder. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB740 | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB864 | Possession or transportation of firearms; protective orders; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for the physical possession of a firearm while in the residence of the alleged victim or the transport of a firearm by a person who has been served wi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1252 | Policies on concussions in student-athletes. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property to establish policies and procedures based on either the local school division's guidelines or the Board of Education... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | HB1653 | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration verification. Provides that the Department of Corrections or other supervisory personnel may cause to be physically verified the registration information on the Sex Offender and Crimes Aga... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
