| HB860 | Intro
Sine Die | Special emergency power of the Secretary of the State Board of Elections to maintain uniform application of election laws to special elections. Provides that the Secretary may suspend the implementation of an amendment to the election laws for no mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| HB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; average teacher salary. Requires that the state average teacher salary not be less than the annual national average teacher salary in order to ensure high-quality instructional personnel in the public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for in-state tuition; Native Americans. Provides that any person who is a member of a Native American tribe officially recognized by the Commonwealth is eligible for in-state tuition so long as such membership is verified. Additionally, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Recording of interrogations of juveniles. Requires that statements made by a juvenile criminal defendant accused of committing a violent juvenile felony are to be electronically recorded and that failure to record such statements shall be a factor t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB1118 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax exemptions and deferrals for certain residential or farm property. Authorizes local governing bodies to exempt, partially exempt, or defer the taxation of real property of up to 20 percent of the assessed value or the assessment fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| HB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; policies regarding certain activities. Allows local school boards to develop and implement policies regarding the acceptance by a teacher, or other employee of a local school board, of an award or payment in honor of meritorious ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty. Prohibits a person subject to a protective order from possessing a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses; local governments and historic buildings. Permits the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to grant annual mixed beverage special events licenses to local governments for use in a building owned by a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Group life insurance coverage. Allows coverage under a group life insurance policy to be extended to insure any class of persons as may mutually be agreed upon by the insurer and the group policyowner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Hate crimes; homeless persons; penalty. Adds homeless persons to the categories of acts for which a person may seek injunctive relief or file an action for damages. The bill also adds homeless persons to the categories of victims whose intentional se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid eligibility; young adults transitioning from foster care. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan to provide for the payment of medical assistance, pursuant to The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | General Education Development testing program. Lowers the age for the General Education Development (GED) testing program from 18 to 16 years of age with the written permission of a parent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control (ABC); privatization of ABC stores. Provides for the issuance of a "package store" license to authorize the retail sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. The bill also requires the ABC Board to dispose o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; form of ballots. Provides that all candidates who are nominated by a political party or primary shall be identified by party on the ballot. Present law provides for party identification on the ballot only for candidates for federal, state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| HB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; toll payment tax credit. Provides a tax credit against individual income tax for taxpayers making electronic toll collection payments, such as Smart Tag, in an amount equal to 10% of the total amount paid annually for tolls on Virginia h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Setoff Debt Collection Act; setoff against federal tax refunds for local tax debt. Allows local governments, with the Department of Taxation's assistance, to collect past due local taxes from federal income tax returns. The provisions of the act wil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; definitions. Includes deputy sheriffs under the coverage of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure of certain school personnel. Provides that only classroom teachers must be licensed to teach in the public schools and removes the licensure requirements for division superintendents, principals, and assistant principals. This bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB1381 | Intro
Sine Die | Closely held corporations; pro se representation. Allows a closely held corporation to be represented by an officer or an employee pro se before the general district courts if the amount in controversy is $4,500 or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone solicitations; charitable organizations for law-enforcement officers. Requires a person associated with a criminal justice agency who makes a telephone call for the purpose of soliciting contributions for a charitable organization comprise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspending water hook-ups during certain emergencies. Allows a locality that has adopted a water supply emergency ordinance to suspend the issuance of water hook-up permits for connection to its water and sewer systems during such emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Counties, Cities and Towns |
| HB614 | Intro
Sine Die | Public charter school; definition. Amends the definition of "public charter school" to include a publicly chartered individual department or a program in math, science, or other critical shortage discipline area, to exist within a public s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Real estate tax; limitation on tax rate. Provides that the total tax revenue in a locality may not exceed 105% of the total tax revenue in the locality in the immediately prior year unless approved by at least a two-thirds majority vote of the local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Evidence of life expectancy. Establishes that in any matter where it is necessary to establish the expectancy of continued life, life tables published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pertaining to age, sex, and ethnicity of the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Verification of citizenship and alien status of a person committed to a correctional facility. Clarifies the mandate that any person in charge of a correctional facility shall inquire as to the citizenship status of a person in his facility and to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB1385 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocation of primary and secondary highway construction funds. Revises the formulas used to allocate primary and secondary highway construction funds so that such funds are allocated on the basis of population.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; grade placement test. Requires the Board of Education to develop or approve a standardized test to be used to determine the appropriate grade placement for a student transferring from a private school to a public school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Setoff Debt Collection Act; setoff against federal tax refunds for local tax debt. Allows local governments, with the Department of Taxation's assistance, to collect past due local taxes from federal income tax returns. The provisions of the act wil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI Court. Allows Chesterfield and Colonial Heights General District Courts to use a special docket to run a driving under the influence court based on the state drug court model. Participants will be those who violate ASAP program requirements, but...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Reckless driving by speed. Reduces from 20 mph to 10 mph the speed by which drivers of heavy trucks must exceed the posted speed limit to be guilty of reckless driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to conduct a screening of all applicants or recipients of public assistance. This bill provides that, where a scre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of firearms by state entities. Prohibits a state agency, council, commission, or other entity from adopting any rules, regulations, or policies governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, storage, or transporting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Sanctuary cities prohibited. Prohibits a local governing body from adopting a policy that serves to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. Furthermore, no locality shall prohibit its employees from asking a person about his immigration s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB624 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal procedure; interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for such interpreter shall be borne by a defendant who is convicted at trial of the criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Interest on fines and costs. Provides that interest on fines and costs shall not accrue while a person is incarcerated. Currently, fines and costs do not accrue during incarceration but only with respect to the case resulting in the incarceration. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; collection practices. Prohibits a payday lender, when collecting a payday loan, from (i) engaging in any conduct the natural consequence of which is to harass, oppress, or abuse any person in connection with the collection of a debt, (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
Senate: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; state and local law-enforcement officers. Permits members of the State Police Officers' System, the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System, and local law-enforcement officials covered under the Virginia Retirement Syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Green roof incentive programs. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to develop guidelines for incentive programs for use by localities to encourage the use of green roofs in the construction and remodeling of residential and comme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Representation of petitioner during civil commitment hearing; Commonwealth's attorney. Provides that a petitioner during a civil commitment hearing shall be represented by an attorney from the local Commonwealth's attorney's office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB1396 | Intro
Sine Die | Agritourism. Charges the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services with the responsibility of promoting Virginia agritourism both nationally and internationally. He is to develop a statewide agritourism master plan and coordinate efforts to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway "welcome" signs and exit signs. Allows local governing bodies to put up "welcome" signs within highway rights-of-way or within sight of highway rights-of-way to welcome travelers. These signs may include statements or phr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB629 | Intro
Sine Die | VDOT regulations; fiber optic facilities. Requires the Department of Transportation, by regulation, to allow communications providers deploying fiber optic facilities to overlash fiber optic facilities onto existing aerial copper facilities. Vertica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Community College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Community College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to community college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds may be paid on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding for transportation and transportation-related alternatives. Increases the state motor fuels tax rate by $0.01 per gallon with the revenues deposited into the Biofuels Production Fund to fund grants for biofuels production.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
Senate: Continued to 2009 in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB376 | Intro
Sine Die | Examination of applicants for driver's licenses. Requires that all examinations of applicants for driver's licenses be conducted exclusively in the English language. Use of interpreters in connection with driver's license examinations is prohibited...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Oversize truck permits. Provides that permits issued by DMV for operation of trucks hauling storage sheds that are 10 feet or 12 feet wide may not contain limitations on hours of operation depending on whether or not schools are in session. However,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Education; computation of composite index. Requires the General Assembly to adjust the state share of providing an educational program meeting the Standards of Quality, for all localities that have adopted a land-use plan. The state share for such l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial (abusive driver) fees. Allows a court to order community service in lieu of imposition of civil remedial fees when it finds that the person is unable to pay such fees or that payment will present a substantial hardship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB1145 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; certain works of art. Exempts from sales and use tax works of art created in a locality and sold for less than $500 in an art district designated by and located within the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
