VA Legislation | 2008 | Regular Session | House | Bills | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB754	Engross Sine Die	Horse racing; local referendum; definition of town. Specifies that for the purposes of local referenda on pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing by a town with a population of 5,000 or more, population shall be calculated based upon the most recent po... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
HB250	Engross Sine Die	Managed Care Health Insurance Plans. Allows a new health maintenance organization to obtain its HMO license contingent upon the Department of Health's issuance of a certificate of quality assurance. Other revisions streamline and update procedures f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
HB111	Engross Sine Die	"Revenue-sharing" funds for highway systems in certain counties, cities, and towns. Provides that, from additional revenues made available by the General Assembly after January 1, 2008, and appropriated for the improvement, construction, o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
HB1547	Engross Sine Die	The 21st Century Capital Improvement Program. Creates the 21st Century Capital Improvement Program which is a dynamic program for the orderly and systematic programming and financing of capital projects throughout the Commonwealth that will be revis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-13 House: Failed to pass in House
HB151	Engross Sine Die	Name change; proof that the applicant is U.S. citizen. Requires that every application for a change of name contain proof that the applicant is a United States citizen. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-13 House: Failed to pass in House
HB147	Engross Sine Die	Statewide Transportation Plan. Requires VDOT to collect and report certain statistical information. This bill incorporates HB 977 (Shannon). [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-06 House: Stricken from House calendar
HB563	Engross Sine Die	Criminal Justice Services Board; membership. Increases the membership of the Criminal Justice Services Board from 29 to 30 by adding an individual who is a director of a criminal justice training academy, to be appointed by the Governor after conside... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-04 Senate: Left in General Laws and Technology
HB641	Engross Sine Die	Southern Virginia Higher Education Center. Exempts the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center from the provisions and requirements of the Virginia Personnel Act (§ 2.2-2900 et seq.). [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-04 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance
HB222	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; evidence. Allows all parties to a claim under the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act to confront and cross-examine witnesses, and provides that a party shall not b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-03 Senate: Left in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB224	Engross Sine Die	Driving while intoxicated; elimination of requirement that intoxicant be self-administered. Eliminates the requirement that a person be under the influence of a self-administered intoxicant or drug in order to be convicted of driving while intoxicate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-03 Senate: Left in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB1505	Engross Sine Die	Payday Loan Act; database. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by January 1, 2009, to certify and contract with one or more third parties to develop, implement, and maintain an Internet-accessible database, and requires payday lenders to quer... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-03 Senate: Passed by for the day in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB573	Engross Sine Die	Supervised visitation. States that any time supervised visitation is ordered, it shall be done in compliance with the following definition of supervised visitation: [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-03 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N)
HB891	Engross Sine Die	Discretionary arrest for third offense of driving on a suspended license. Provides that an officer may, at his discretion, arrest a person for driving on a suspended license if the person has been twice previously convicted thereof. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-03 Senate: Left in Courts of Justice
HB161	Engross Sine Die	Increased fines for traffic offenses. Imposes mandatory minimum fine of $2,250 for DUI offenses and mandatory minimum fines of $2,500 to $3,000 for vehicle-related felonies. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-03 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB953	Engross Sine Die	Abuse or neglect proceedings; videotaped statement. Allows a videotaped statement of an alleged victim to be admissible into evidence in a criminal proceeding for child abuse or neglect if the child is 12 years of age or younger at the time the state... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-03-03 Senate: Committee substitute printed 081577560-S1
HB1543	Engross Sine Die	Health records; surgical complications reporting. Requires physicians to report, in writing or by electronic means, each patient who comes under his professional care and requires medical treatment or suffers death that the physician has a reasonable... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 1-N)
HB267	Engross Sine Die	Involuntary commitment; indigent petitioner; right to counsel. States that, upon a finding that a petitioner is indigent, the court shall appoint the petitioner counsel. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N)
HB14	Engross Sine Die	Admission of illegal aliens to public institutions of higher education. Provides that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for admission to any public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. Thi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
HB1556	Engross Sine Die	Unborn child pain information. Requires doctors to offer to anesthetize a fetus prior to abortion and to include in informational materials a statement that a fetus at 20 gestational weeks has the physical structures necessary to feel pain and react... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
HB1315	Engross Sine Die	Informed consent: ultrasound required before performing abortion to determine gestation age. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion and determination of gestation age, every pregnant female shall be given the opportunity to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
HB312	Engross Sine Die	Crimes; unintentional cause of miscarriage or stillbirth. Makes it a Class 5 felony for a person who, while engaged in conduct so gross, wanton, and culpable so as to show a reckless disregard for the life or safety of others to injury another person... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to Crime Commission pursuant to Senate Rule 20 (L)
HB1126	Engross Sine Die	Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty. Provides that any person, including the pregnant female, who administers to or causes to be taken by a pregnant female any drug or other thing or uses means with intent to destroy her unborn child or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
HB118	Engross Sine Die	Higher education; academic freedom. Requires each public institution of higher education to annually report to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) the steps the institution is taking to ensure academic freedom and the free exc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB1400	Engross Sine Die	Disclosure of minor's drug test results. Provides that a parent, legal guardian or person standing in loco parentis may obtain the results of any drug test of a minor or a minor's health records, except when the minor's treating physician or the min... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
HB894	Engross Sine Die	Licensure of abortion clinics. Requires all abortion clinics, defined as any facility other than a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center in which 25 or more first trimester abortions are performed in any 12-month period, to be licensed and to comp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
HB938	Engross Sine Die	Commitment hearings; petitioner right to appeal. Gives the petitioner the right to appeal a decision by the judge or special justice not to involuntarily commit a respondent. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N)
HB939	Engross Sine Die	Involuntary commitment; transfer to outpatient treatment. Provides that the person subject to an involuntary commitment order may petition the court to order that he be transferred to involuntary outpatient treatment or released and, upon considerati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N)
HB429	Engross Sine Die	Forced or coerced abortion prohibited; penalty. Provides that any person who forces or coerces a pregnant female of any age to have an abortion against her will is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, if such a violation is committed when the p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
HB1009	Engross Sine Die	Property taxes; assessments, bills, and deferral. Requires localities (i) to include the tax rate that will apply to reassessed real property in the notice to taxpayers regarding the reassessment, (ii) to attach to each property tax bill the tax ra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-27 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB1532	Engross Sine Die	COPN; nursing home beds. Authorizes the Commissioner of Health to accept applications and to issue certificates of public need for nursing home beds in Planning District 13, which would result in an increase of 30 percent in the number of licensed nu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-27 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB1318	Engross Sine Die	Excess funds in the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Establishes a mechanism to provide tax relief to Virginia taxpayers when the Auditor of Public Accounts determines the Revenue Stabilization Fund has reached its maximum size as provided in the Constitu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-27 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)
HB1514	Engross Sine Die	Corporate income tax; apportionment for manufacturers. Allows manufacturers to elect an apportionment formula of multiplying their income by the sales factor or using the formula prescribed for other businesses, whether the manufacturers have a sale... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (9-Y 7-N)
HB788	Engross Sine Die	Highway maintenance payments to counties. Allows counties that maintain their own secondary highways (Henrico and Arlington) and are more than 100 square miles in size to receive the same per-lane-mile maintenance payments provided for roads within ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 9-N)
HB544	Engross Sine Die	Composition of RMA Board. Revises the composition of the Board of Directors of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority (RMA). [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Local Government (9-Y 6-N)
HB57	Engross Sine Die	Sales and use tax exemption; computers and computer-related equipment. Adds computers and computer-related equipment with a sales price of $1,500 or less to the school supplies and clothing that are exempt from sales and use tax during a three-day p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Left in Finance
HB322	Engross Sine Die	Campaign finance; prohibited activities during regular sessions of the General Assembly. Prohibits any General Assembly member, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General, from attending any event held during a regular session that is sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 1-N)
HB1164	Engross Sine Die	Income tax; Public/Private Education Investment tax credit. Creates income tax credits for business entities and individual taxpayers who make contributions to eligible public school foundations and eligible scholarship foundations. For individual ta... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (3-Y 11-N)
HB1174	Engross Sine Die	Office of Immigrant Assistance; created. Establishes in the Department of Social Services an Office of Immigrant Assistance, to assist persons lawfully entering the United States and the Commonwealth for the purpose of becoming citizens. The Office... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to Commission on Immigration pursuant to Rule (L)
HB923	Engross Sine Die	Public schools; financing. Creates the Virginia School Construction Revolving Fund for financing elementary, secondary, or vocational education school projects. This bill incorporates [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (9-Y 7-N)
HB695	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; loss of retirement benefits for certain felonious convictions. Provides that a member of any of the retirement programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System forfeits his retirement benefits if it is determined t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-26 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (4-Y 10-N)
HB1520	Engross Sine Die	Failure to comply with sentencing order; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for willfully and knowingly failing to surrender to jail at the time ordered by the court. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-25 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N)
HB11	Engross Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); property exempt from taxation. Provides for a referendum at the November 2008 election on approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to property tax exemptions. The proposed amendment autho... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-25 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections
HB1568	Engross Sine Die	Transfer of juveniles to circuit court; appeal. Clarifies that when a decision to transfer a juvenile from a court not of record to a court of record is made, the court shall consider after-discovered evidence on the issue of transfer, that was not d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-25 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB1361	Engross Sine Die	Duties of Director of Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Requires the Director to report quarterly to the Secretary of Natural Resources on the expenses he has control over and to inform the Secretary as to the Department's progress in meeting ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-25 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N)
HB91	Engross Sine Die	Driving without a driver's license; penalties. Provides that any person charged with driving without a valid driver's license may be placed under arrest and shall have his fingerprints and photograph taken, provided the court for the jurisdiction has... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-25 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A)
HB433	Engross Sine Die	Forfeiture of motor vehicle for three or more offenses of driving without a valid operator's license. Provides that any vehicle driven in the commission of a third or subsequent offense of driving without a valid operator's license shall be subject ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-25 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
HB982	Engross Sine Die	Concealed handgun permits; access to permittee information. Protects from public disclosure permittee names and descriptive information held by the Department of State Police for purposes of entry into the Virginia Criminal Information Network. Howev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-25 Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
HB121	Engross Sine Die	Parental notification of minor's mental health treatment. Requires any employee or designee of any community services board or behavioral health authority, or any other state or local employee other than an employee of a local school board who provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-21 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 3-N)
HB896	Engross Sine Die	Preadmission physical examinations. Provides that prior to a student entering public preschool, kindergarten, or first grade for the first time, such student must furnish a comprehensive physical examination performed within the 12 months prior to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-21 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N)
HB188	Engross Sine Die	Human papillomavirus vaccine; effective date. Extends the effective date of the requirement for sixth grade girls to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine from October 1, 2008, to July 1, 2010. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2008-02-21 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)