| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Professor Garfield Foundation. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of the Professor Garfield Foundation. This bill was incorporated in
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-11
Senate: Incorporated by Transportation (SB18-Lucas) (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Kinesiotherapists; licensure required. Creates a Board of Kinesiotherapy within the Department of Health Professions responsible for the licensure and regulation of kinesiotherapists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-11
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Arrest without warrant; DUI arrests. Expands the DUI crimes for which an officer may arrest a person without a warrant. The bill removes the requirement that an arrest for DUI be made within three hours of an accident and allows an arrest to be made ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement. Provides that in cases where the cooperative procurement agreement involves construction, the public body awarding the contract must comply with the provisions of the Public-Private Education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation and expenses of clerks of certain circuit courts; Virginia Beach. Requires the City of Virginia Beach to assume the salaries and expenses of the circuit court clerk's office and allows the City to retain the funds the office collects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Long-term care insurance tax credit. Increases the amount of the long-term care insurance tax credit from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount paid by the individual during the taxable year in long-term care insurance premiums for long-term care in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; disclosure of criminal investigative records. Limits the exemption for criminal investigative or prosecution records to those investigations or prosecutions that are ongoing. As a result, criminal investigative and prosecu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Solicitation to become a gang member; penalty. Provides that any person who, by telephone or by any electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or otherwise causes or atte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding of circuit court clerks' offices; fees. Creates a local fee retention funding method for circuit court clerks' offices in which the clerk retains fees locally and pays 20 percent of gross fees to the state to be held by the Compensation Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI offenses; passenger age 18 or younger; penalties. Creates a new offense of driving under the influence with a passenger who is 18 years of age or younger, which is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 6 felony for a second offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; VITA exemption. Exempts the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind from provisions related to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business establishes a new office or operation or expands an existing office or operati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retail Sales and Use Tax Act. Conforms the Commonwealth's sales and use tax laws to the provisions of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery; fire marshals; penalty. Adds fire marshals and assistant fire marshals who have police powers to the definition of law-enforcement officer in the assault and battery criminal provision, which means that the punishment for commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal street gangs; predicate criminal act. Adds burglary and shooting into an occupied dwelling to the list of predicate criminal acts for which a person committing such act may be convicted under the criminal street gang act. This bill incorpora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB556 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes against incapacitated or elder adults; penalty. Provides that any person who commits an offense set forth in Chapter 4 (crimes against the person), Chapter 5 (crimes against property), or Chapter 6 (crimes involving fraud) of Title 18.2, knowi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zones) in the state. Requires the Department of General Services, in conjunction with the Department of Minority Business Enterprise, to develop a progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB658-Ruff) (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony falsely summoning or giving false reports to a law-enforcement official.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB390 | Intro
Sine Die | Information Technology governance in the Commonwealth; Chief Information Officer and the Information Technology Investment Board; emergency. Eliminates the Information Technology Investment Board. In its place, the Governor will appoint the Chief Inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB236-Howell) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; assault and battery of ABC agent. Provides for an offender who assaults a special agent of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control because of his employment to be prosecuted for a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Carbon monoxide detectors. Authorizes any locality to enact an ordinance requiring the installation of carbon monoxide alarms in (i) any building containing one or more dwelling units; (ii) any hotel or motel regularly used, offered for, or intended ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 1-N) |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance |
| SB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Gang-free zones; penalties. Expands current "gang-free school zones" to the broader "gang-free zones" and includes any school bus stop or the property, including buildings and grounds, of any publicly owned or operated community center, park, library...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; proceedings for enforcement. Clarifies that when an FOIA petition is filed, the party against whom the writ is brought must be served with a copy of the petition prior to filing. The bill contains a technical amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| SB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast horse racing; allocations. Authorizes wagering on historical horse racing. The bill also allocates the proceeds from such racing with 35 and one-half percent of the proceeds distributed to the Commonwealth Transp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB513-Norment) (10-Y 4-N) |
| SB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Information Technology governance in the Commonwealth; Chief Information Officer and the Information Technology Investment Board; emergency. Eliminates the Information Technology Investment Board. In its place, the Governor will appoint the Chief Inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB236-Howell) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax laws; conformity to Internal Revenue Code. Advances conformity with federal income tax laws to December 31, 2009, for taxable year 2009 and to December 31, 2010, for taxable year 2010, with three additional exceptions. The bill also provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration drives; payment or receipt of compensation; penalty. Provides that voter registration drives, defined as a coordinated effort by two or more individuals to provide assistance to 1,000 or more members of the general public in comple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB732 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; acquisition of voting equipment by localities. Deletes the provision enacted in 2007 that prohibits the acquisition of direct recording electronic (DRE) machines by any locality on and after July 1, 2007.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation Trust Fund; additional appropriations recommended by the Governor in cases of general fund revenue growth. Authorizes the Governor, in submitting his biennial budget bill, to provide for additional appropriations to the Transportation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member commission to prepare redistricting plans for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one each by the four ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB173-Deeds) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Botswanna Imani. Provides $1,000 in relief to Botswanna Imani for damages to her home caused by forced entry attempts by the Sheriff's Department of Washington County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to voter registration applications; material error or omission. Requires the State Board of Elections to promulgate rules and regulations for determining whether an error or omission made by a person on a voter registration application const...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Coordination of state and local transportation planning. Provides for coordination of local transportation planning with not only the Virginia Department of Transportation, but the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation as well.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Aboveground liquid fertilizer storage tanks. Requires localities in which an aboveground liquid fertilizer storage tank (ALFST) with a capacity of 100,000 gallons or more is located to adopt an ordinance that regulates the installation, operation, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Buchanan County Public Service Authority. Provides that the board of the Buchanan County Public Service Authority shall consist of nine members. This legislation is retroactive to January 1, 1985, and ratifies all actions taken by the Buchanan County...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee ballot deadline; military voters. Increases the deadline for each electoral board to make absentee ballots available from 30 to 45 days for all elections in order to match the 45-day deadline that currently applies to any November general el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB55-Martin) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB571 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; transfer of development rights. Allows any county with the urban county executive form of government to provide in its zoning ordinances for the dedication of density or other rights to develop real property, as defined by the county, from on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Local Government (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of Public Need; exception. Requires the Commissioner of Health to accept and review and authorizes the Commissioner of Health to issue certificates of public need for the addition of up to 10 Medicaid-eligible beds for nursing homes that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Requires persons otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits to not be denied benefits solely due to a previous conviction of a felony drug offense pursuant to &se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Howard M. and Inez O. Berry. Provides $400,000 in relief to Howard M. and Inez O. Berry of Midlothian, Virginia. The Berrys' daughter, Jo Ann Berry, was killed in an automobile accident in 1977 caused by a juvenile driver. The driver was cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban county executive form of government; use of county tax revenue for secondary road improvements. Provides that Fairfax County (described by optional form of county government) may by ordinance for any fiscal year choose to retain its portion of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Local Government (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Election laws; enforcement and prosecution. Gives the Attorney General the independent authority to enforce and prosecute violations of election laws in addition to the existing authority granted to the Attorney General pursuant to a unanimous vote o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB173-Deeds) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Infrastructure in Urban Development Areas Loan Fund. Creates the Virginia Infrastructure in Urban Development Areas Loan Fund. The Fund would be administered by the Virginia Resources Authority. Money in the Fund would be used exclusively fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; contribution limits. Imposes limits on contributions to candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and the General Assembly. The limits are $20,000 per general or special election and $10,000 per primary electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Cash proffer guidelines. Provides that no locality shall establish any rate policy or guideline regarding the amount and timing of the payment of cash proffers to such locality unless such rate policy or guideline is established by ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee ballot deadline; military voters. Provides that an absentee ballot will be counted if received by 5:00 p.m. on the tenth day following an election if cast by a voter who is eligible for an absentee ballot due to active duty military service,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SB55-Martin) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Children's Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to provide ombudsman services, including investigation of complaints, advocacy, and information for children, parents, and citizens involved with child-serving agencie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
