| SB132 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (GDCDPA); personal information; definition; collection of same; penalty for violation; jurisdiction of district courts. Provides that no agency shall require an individual to furnish or disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843) |
| SB135 | Pass | Applying fertilizer to nonagricultural property. Requires the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt regulations that certify the competence of the contractor-applicators and licensees who apply any regulated product to nonagricultural p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| SB142 | Pass | Involuntary commitment hearings; recordings. Requires that each hearing be recorded separately, so that no more than one hearing is recorded per tape or other recording.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| SB150 | Pass | Wilderness Road: Virginia's Heritage Migration Route. Designates U.S. Route 11 from Winchester to Bristol, connecting with the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail in Scott County and continuing west on U.S. Routes 58 and 23, ending at Cumberland Gap Natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| SB662 | Pass | Virginia War Memorial. Requires the State Comptroller to advance a loan of $5.97 million for the state share of the construction of an educational wing for the Virginia War Memorial and the expansion of the Shrine of Memory for to include Virginians...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| SB153 | Pass | VDOT maintenance; community service program. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to establish a program whereby nonviolent misdemeanants who have a suspended sentence or who are on probation will mow rights-of-way or perform other l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| SB668 | Pass | Retail sales and use tax; exemption for certain computer equipment. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for computer equipment used in data centers that (i) are located in a Virginia locality having an unemployment rate above 4.9 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| SB669 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; application for licenses; criminal history checks. Permits ABC agents to check the national criminal database when conducting background checks on prospective licensees. The bill also increases the fee that an applicant f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| SB673 | Pass | Allowances to injured deputy sheriffs. Requires a locality to allow a deputy sheriff injured in the line of duty to use accrued vacation, compensatory, and sick leave to supplement his workers' compensation allowance, so as to receive 100 percent co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| SB164 | Pass | Polygraphs; victims of sex offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer, attorney for the Commonwealth, or other government official shall ask or require a victim of certain sex offenses to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth-tell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| SB679 | Pass | Recovery of fire fighting costs by localities. Allows a locality to collect the costs for fighting or extinguishing a fire if the fire was set intentionally and the person who set the fire failed to attempt to prevent the fire from escaping. Furthe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| SB680 | Pass | Service-disabled veteran-owned small business programs. Aligns Virginia's eligibility requirements for participation in the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program with federal eligibility requirements set by the U.S. Department of Vete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| SB683 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments; sunset. Removes the sunset on the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB173 | Pass | Domestic violence; retention of records. Provides that records in cases involving misdemeanor convictions for (i) assault and battery against a family or household member, or (ii) violating a protective order shall be retained for 20 years. A third ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| SB439 | Pass | Testing of certain defendants for HIV or hepatitis B or C viruses. States when in the criminal process the victim of a sexual assault may request and when the court may order a defendant to submit to tests for human immunodeficiency virus and hepatit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| SB442 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; operational authority. Provides operational authority for public institutions of higher education in the areas of information technology, procurement, and capital outlay pursuant to the Restructuring Act of 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| SB699 | Pass | Computation of time; when statute of limitations ends on Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. Clarifies that when the last day for bringing an action falls on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day or part of a day on which the clerk's office is c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| SB188 | Pass | Virginia Military Parents Equal Protection Act; creation. Allows a court to enter a temporary order modifying custody or visitation based on a parent's deployment. Upon the motion of the deploying parent returning from deployment, the court shall ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| SB450 | Pass | Slayer statute. Amends the definition of "slayer" to include a person who is convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The bill also amends the definition of "slayer" to include a person who is acquitted of murder or voluntary manslaug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) |
| SB451 | Pass | Diversion Center Incarceration Program. Allows a defendant who has not committed a new criminal offense, who may be subject to having his probation revoked, and who scores incarceration on the probation violation guidelines and voluntarily agrees to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) |
| SB707 | Pass | Board of Towing and Recovery Operators. Provides that in even-numbered years, the chairman of the Board of Towing and Recovery Operators will be a licensed Class A operator and the vice-chairman a licensed Class B operator, and in odd-numbered years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836) |
| SB710 | Pass | Conservation of trees during the land development process for air quality improvement in certain localities. Provides that certain localities may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the development process. The bill also provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB199 | Pass | Regulation of charitable gaming; Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Abolishes the Department of Charitable Gaming and places the regulation of charitable gaming under the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| SB714 | Pass | Petroleum products franchises; rights of dealers upon sale of franchise. Provides that when any franchise between a dealer and a refiner located in Planning District 8 is sold or assigned to a third party, the acquiring third party is required to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| SB206 | Pass | State-owned communications towers; broadband service. Requires state agencies to lease or convey a license or other interest in a state-owned communication tower for which they are responsible to qualified providers of wireless broadband service in o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| SB216 | Pass | Involuntary mental health treatment; purchase of firearms; reporting to Central Criminal Records Exchange. Clarifies that orders for both involuntary inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment must be forwarded by the clerk of court to the Cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0751) |
| SB222 | Pass | Possession of firearms by persons who committed felonies while juveniles. Provides that despite the date of his conviction, a juvenile adjudicated delinquent of certain heinous felonies shall not, when he reaches the age of 29 years, be entitled to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| SB735 | Pass | Wills and decedents' estates; order in which debts of decedents to be paid. Increases from $2,000 to $3,500 the amount available from an estate to pay funeral expenses where there are insufficient assets for the satisfaction of all the demands again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| SB490 | Pass | No Child Left Behind; withdrawal. Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, unless reauthorization of the Elementary and Sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| SB493 | Pass | Foster and adoption workers; minimum training requirements. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish minimum training requirements and to provide educational programs for foster and adoption workers and their supervisors. Under the bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| SB749 | Pass | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission. Corrects the staff support for the Commission to require that technical assistance will be provided by the Department of General Services. In addition, this bill requires that, prior to entering into ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB754 | Pass | Public-Private Transportation Act; tolls on Interstate highways. Prohibits a private entity from imposing tolls or user fees under the Public-Private Transportation Act on any existing rural segment of Interstate Route 81 without the prior approval ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838) |
| SB244 | Pass | Magistrates. Reforms the magistrate system by transferring appointment and supervisory responsibilities from the circuit court judges to the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, although the chief judges of the circuit courts in the region are t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| SB247 | Pass | Commitment of minors; appointment of counsel and guardians ad litem. Provides that a court shall appoint a guardian ad litem and counsel for a minor for involuntary commitment hearings and proceedings for the judicial approval of the admission for i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| SB248 | Pass | Additional fees in certain courts; use by Virginia State Bar. Increases the civil action filing fee in circuit and district court to $10. Currently, the fee is $5. The additional $5 would be deposited into the Legal Aid Services Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| SB760 | Pass | Veterans services in the Commonwealth. Requires the Department of Veterans Services to establish guidelines for the determination of eligibility for Virginia-domiciled veterans and their spouses, orphans, and dependents for participation in programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| SB506 | Pass | Resetting of bail, amending bail set upon arrest. Provides that when the court having jurisdiction of a bail proceeding believes the amount of bond or security set by a judicial officer at initial arrest to be inadequate or excessive, it may, after n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| SB511 | Pass | Natural resources funding. Establishes the Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Fund. The Fund would be capitalized with appropriated funds and moneys from public and private sources. Beginning July 1, 2008, and for the next 10 years moneys in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| SB1 | Pass | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0656) |
| SB770 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax for the Historic Triangle area. Makes changes to the Williamsburg Area Destination Marketing Committee, which is responsible for administering the local transient occupancy tax for the Historic Triangle area. The bill also wou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839) |
| SB517 | Pass | Public body contracts; illegal alien employment. Requires that all public bodies provide in every written contract that the contractor does not, and shall not during the performance of the contract for goods and services in the Commonwealth, knowingl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| SB773 | Pass | Prosecution of identity theft; statute of limitations. Allows prosecutions for misdemeanor identity theft to be commenced within the same limits as computer crimes. Those limits are the earlier of (i) five years after the commission of the last ille...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| SB778 | Pass | Virginia Highway Corporation Act; authority of SCC. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC), in setting tolls under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 during the period January 1, 2013, through January 1, 2020, to approve requests t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844) |
| SB268 | Pass | Affordable Dwelling Unit ordinance; permitting certain densities in the comprehensive plan. Authorizes the City of Charlottesville to provide in its comprehensive plan for the physical development within the city for densities of development ranging...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB782 | Pass | Business entities; employing illegal aliens. Provides that the authority of certain business entities, including foreign and domestic corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, and limited partnerships, to operate in the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB271 | Pass | Prescription medications; schools for students with disabilities. Allows a person in a licensed school for students with disabilities or a licensed private children’s residential facility to administer prescription medication to a student if the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB786 | Pass | Policies for responding to crimes involving sexual assault. Requires that the Department of State Police, local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments establish written policies and procedures regarding response to incidents involving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| SB276 | Pass | Psychiatric inpatient treatment of minors; timing of petition and hearing. Increases from 72 hours to 96 hours the length of time (i) to hold a hearing for the involuntary commitment of a minor or the emergency admission of a minor for inpatient trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| SB788 | Pass | Department of Social Services; petitions. Authorizes designated nonattorney employees of the Department of Social Services to complete, sign, and file petitions and motions in Department cases relating to the establishment, modification, or enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| SB536 | Pass | Elections; certification of voting equipment. Provides for additional testing of voting equipment in the certification process by individuals with expertise in election management and computer system security. The bill also permits decertification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-04-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
