| HB996 | Intro
Sine Die | Presumption of no bail upon conviction of a violent felony. Provides that when a judicial officer considers bail, he shall presume, subject to rebuttal, that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the appearance of the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB371 | Intro
Sine Die | Local control of firearms; attorney fees. Requires a locality to pay attorney fees resulting from taking certain actions prohibited with regard to firearm control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-03-03
Senate: Left in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1577 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for extension of polling hours in emergency situations. This bill is identical to
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-29
House: Continued to 2009 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Enforcement of immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. States that it is the responsibility of the Governor to enter into a memorandum of agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Misdemeanor arrest or summons at discretion of law-enforcement officer. Gives a law-enforcement officer the choice of issuing a summons and releasing the person or arresting him for Class 1 and 2 misdemeanors. Under current law, the law-enforcement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemption for certain publicly owned museum records. Exempts from FOIA records of a publicly owned museum that can be used to identify an individual who donates or loans one or more items of personal property to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Senate: Subject matter referred by letter to FOIA Council pursuant to Senate Rules 20 (L) |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Establishes a compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents. The compact becom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Health reimbursement arrangements. Prohibits health insurers from canceling or refusing to issue an individual health insurance policy on grounds that the policyowner's employer funds the premium for the policy, if the funding is made through an emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-25
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1522 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Business Assistance; Virginia Economic Development Partnership. Abolishes the Department of Business Assistance and transfers its duties to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-20
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| HB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentencing proceeding by the jury after conviction. Provides that criminal sentencing by a jury may be done by a different jury if the original jury cannot agree on punishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Conduct punishable as disorderly conduct. Removes the proviso that conduct punishable elsewhere in the Code as criminal conduct may not also be punished as disorderly conduct. This bill responds to the decision in Battle v. Commonwealth, 50 Va. App. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| HB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms; public libraries; penalty. Prohibits the possession of a firearm at a state, regional, or local public library. Violation of this section would be a Class 1 misdemeanor. The provisions of this section would not apply to a law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax; taxability of certain transactions by government contractors. Codifies a provision in the current appropriations act that requires the true object test to apply to each separate work order, statement of work, and task order, rathe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; indexing rates, filing thresholds, personal exemptions, and standard deductions. Indexes to the rate of inflation the amount in the income tax brackets for tax rates, filing thresholds, personal exemptions, and standard deductions, for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; average final compensation retirement multiplier for teachers. Increases from 1.7 to 2.0 the average final compensation retirement multiplier for teachers with five or more years of creditable service earned as a teacher....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Definition of prostitution. Includes in the definition of prostitution any person who, for money or its equivalent, commits manipulation of the genitals of another by hand resulting in ejaculation, punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Harboring illegal alien; penalty. Provides that any person who as a part of a commercial enterprise (i) transports or moves or attempts to transport or move a known illegal alien into or within the Commonwealth or (ii) conceals or shields from detec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB993 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of Destination Imagination. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of Destination Imagination. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25, instead of the standard $10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB1249 | Intro
Sine Die | Unfair employment practices; discharging employees when unauthorized aliens are employed. States that it is an unfair employment practice for an employer to knowingly employ any unauthorized alien within the Commonwealth. An employee who is replaced ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Child restraints. Exempts children being transported in minibuses and certain vans from child restraint requirements provided that those who are transported in vans are using safety belts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB482 | Intro
Sine Die | Optional retirement plan; institutions of higher education. Provides that the annual contribution to optional retirement plans covering certain employees at institutions of higher education would not be less than the percentage contribution rate in e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; purchase of prior service credit. Permits a member of the Virginia Retirement System whose spouse was in active duty military service to purchase up to four years of prior service credit for the period of time that the me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1250 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal flotation devices required for children; civil penalty. Requires children 12 years of age or younger to wear a Type I, II, III, or Type V U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device on recreational vessels under 21 feet in length. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1506 | Intro
Sine Die | Reckless driving; violation of right-of-way. Provides that a person shall be guilty of reckless driving who commits the traffic infraction of violation of right-of-way when the violation results in the death of another person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Retirement; teachers and administrative faculty of institutions of higher education. Provides that teachers and administrative faculty of institutions of higher education who are covered under an optional retirement plan (in lieu of the Virginia Ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired members working at public colleges and universities. Permits certain retired members to work as an administrative or teaching faculty employee at a public college or university and continue receiving his retiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; average final compensation retirement multiplier for teachers. Increases from 1.7 to 2.0 the average final compensation retirement multiplier for teachers with 10 or more years of creditable service earned as a teacher. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Underaged drinking; deferred disposition; mitigation. Provides that an underaged drinker who summons law enforcement or medical assistance on behalf of another is eligible for deferred disposition of his case. The bill also provides that a person who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Carbon monoxide detectors in certain buildings. Provides that any locality may, by ordinance, require that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in the following structures or buildings: (i) any building containing one or more dwelling units, (ii) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures; mold. Clarifies that the term "condition of the real property or any improvements thereon" shall include any visible evidence of the presence of mold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in restaurants. Prohibits smoking in restaurants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB742 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporations; business office of registered agent. Authorizes the business office of an individual registered agent of a corporation to be at a post office box at any post office in the Commonwealth. Such business office is not required to be ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; definition of disabled person. Amends the definition of disabled person, for purposes of the Line of Duty Act, to include permanently disabled local employees who were injured in the line of duty on or after January 1, 1990. The Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; qualified adoption expenses tax credit. Provides a tax credit for individuals with qualified adoption expenses, in an amount up to $4,000, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Venue; transfer of jurisdiction of a juvenile. Provides that a child released to a legal residence in a court services unit jurisdiction other than the committing jurisdiction shall be the responsibility of the court services unit in the jurisdictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Notice of an escheat land sale. Requires that the escheator notify adjacent land owners of escheated land of an escheat land sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB744 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; energy-efficient equipment deduction. Provides an income tax deduction for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008, to individuals who purchase energy-efficient equipment used for heating, cooling, and providing electricity to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Protection of IRAs from civil judgment; $750,000. Provides that an individual's interest in an IRA, up to $750,000, is exempt from creditor process including civil judgments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Power of magistrates to issue felony arrest warrants. Provides that no magistrate may issue an arrest warrant upon the basis of a citizen complaint, for a felony offense, without prior authorization from the attorney for the Commonwealth or from a la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Restitution for cost of response to bomb threat; penalty for bomb threat. Creates a mechanism for recovery of the costs incurred by emergency responders responding to a bomb threat, either by a court order at sentencing or a separate civil action. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding; motor fuels tax and abusive driver fees. Repeals certain abusive driver fees and increases the motor fuels tax rate by $0.015 per gallon from $0.175 to $0.19. The bill further provides for a refund of any abusive driver fees ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB746 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms; child day center. Prohibits the possession of a firearm at a child day center. Violation of this section would be a Class 1 misdemeanor. The provisions of this section would not apply to a law-enforcement officer or security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB1002 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; notice of increased assessments. Provides that the written notice to the unit owners of an additional assessment levied by the board of a condominium association shall be sent no more than 30 days from the date of the meeting wherei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Elements of indecent exposure. Provides that any person who (i) intentionally makes an obscene display or exposure of his person, or the private parts thereof, in (a) any public place, or (b) any place where others may see him, intending to be seen ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees imposed on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1 of the Code of Virginia, which provided for imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers. The bill further provides for refunds of any fees paid, with interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Identification cards, licenses, and driver's licenses. Requires that these documents be made of a material and in a form designed to prevent duplication, alteration, and counterfeiting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective order information sent to VCIN. Requires that, when a court exercises its discretion and transfers information surrounding a protective order to VCIN, the information shall be complete and accurate and as required by the State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Project Lead the Way Launch Program. Provides matching state funding to a local school division that launches the Project Lead the Way Program in a division high school. Awards from the fund must be matched on at least a dollar-for-dollar basis by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Punishment of the offense of impersonating a police officer; penalty. Raises the punishment for the offense of impersonating a police officer from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB1519 | Intro
Sine Die | Juveniles; ages 11 through 13; released to detention home. Provides that a juvenile between the ages of 11 and 13 who would ordinarily be punished for certain offenses in a correctional facility, may be released to a detention home or other juvenile ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
