| SB409 | Pass | Duties of the clerk of the circuit court. Allows the court to order the immediate destruction, donation, or return of evidence where a defendant is found not guilty, and allows the clerk to do the same for cases concluded prior to July 1, 2005, witho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| SB619 | Pass | Individual income tax; Virginia Military Family Relief Fund payments. Provides that it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth to allow individuals who receive payments from the Virginia Military Family Relief Fund to subtract them from their federa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| SB105 | Pass | Mechanics' and materialmen's liens. Removes the definitional requirement that one must give consent in writing in order to be a "mechanics' lien agent." The bill also authorizes any person entitled to claim a lien to notify the mechanics' l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| SB413 | Pass | Triennial census of school population; sales and use tax distribution. Eliminates the requirement that every three years a census of all school-age persons residing within each school division take place. Also eliminates all related requirements rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| HB467 | Pass | Hampton Federal Area Development Authority. Expands the board from seven to nine members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| SB423 | Pass | Liability of certain health care practitioners. Provides that no health care practitioner who renders at any site health care services, voluntarily and without compensation, to a patient of a clinic for the indigent and uninsured that is organized f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| SB427 | Pass | Disclosure of insurance policy limits; wrongful death action. Allows the personal representative of the estate of a decedent who died as a result of a motor vehicle accident, or his attorney, to request the disclosure of the liability limits of an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| HB473 | Pass | Weight limits for trucks hauling gravel, etc. Extends "sunset" on increased weight limits applicable to trucks hauling gravel and certain other cargoes in coal-producing counties to July 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| HB1297 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority Act. Establishes the Fort Monroe Authority as a public body corporate and as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to be governed by a Board of Trustees. As a result of decisions made by the federal Base Realignment and Cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| SB645 | Pass | Undergrounding of electric transmission lines. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission from approving an agreement between a local governing body and an electric utility for the underground installation of an electric transmission line of at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| SB439 | Pass | Home service contract providers. Exempts any home service contract provider that has a net worth in excess of $100 million from the provisions of Article 2 of Chapter 26 of Title 38.2 of the Virginia Code, which provides for the licensure regulation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| HB550 | Pass | Repayment of unemployment benefits. Allows the Virginia Employment Commission to negotiate the terms of repayment for benefits to which a recipient is not entitled. The Commission may deduct up to 50 percent of future benefits, forego collection of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0327) |
| HB909 | Pass | Disposal of unclaimed property in possession of sheriff or police; storage fee. Restates that payment of a storage fee to the sheriff or other department storing unclaimed property is required unless the property is being retained by that sheriff's o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| SB148 | Pass | Community Integration Advisory Commission. Extends the sunset for the Community Integration Advisory Commission from July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2014. The bill also changes the responsibility for staff support from the Virginia Board for People with Dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| SB154 | Pass | Increasing various costs, fees, penalties, etc. Increases the amounts of various costs, potential attorney fee awards, potential damages, jurisdictional amounts, and other dollar-based provisions in the Virginia Code to account for the effect of infl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| SB465 | Pass | Group life insurance coverage. Allows coverage under a group life insurance policy to be extended to insure any person in whom the insured group member has an insurable interest, as may mutually be agreed upon by the insurer and the group policyholde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| HB624 | Pass | Major business facility job tax credit. Amends the Major Business Facility Job Tax Credit. Current law provides a $1,000 tax credit for major business facilities that create at least 100 qualified full-time jobs. The legislation reduces the number of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| HB555 | Pass | Enterprise Zone Grant Program; preference for allocating grant funds. Changes the eligibility for enterprise zone job grants in areas with an unemployment rate that is one and one-half times or more than the state average to positions paying at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| HB1018 | Pass | Insurance policies; countersignature requirements. Repeals a provision that prohibits insurance policies from containing any provision that deems the policy to be invalid due to the absence of the signature or countersignature of an agent or company ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB567 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; state-aid construction projects. Raises the competitive bidding/competitive negotiation dollar threshold from $30,000 to $50,000 for state-aid construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| SB490 | Pass | Bail terms set by court on a capias to be honored by magistrate. Provides that a magistrate who is to set the terms of bail of a person arrested and brought before him on a capias shall do so in accordance with the order of the court that issued the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB84 | Pass | Foreign search warrants to be honored. Provides that a Virginia corporation or other entity that provides electronic communication services or remote computing services to the general public, when properly served with a warrant and affidavit in suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
| HB88 | Pass | Prepaid electric utility service. Authorizes electric cooperatives to install and operate a prepaid metering equipment and system upon a customer's request. The equipment and system will terminate electric service immediately and automatically when t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| HB1073 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets and certain proprietary records disclose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB633 | Pass | State and Local Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited conduct relating to contracts; exceptions. Provides that a conflict exists where there is employment by the same governmental agency of an officer or employee and spouse or any other relative resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| SB527 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. Expands the definition of "franchised motor vehicle dealer" to include used car dealerships operating under the trademark of a manufacturer. The bill also defines the relevant market area applicable to dealers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| HB1099 | Pass | Employment for individuals with autism; program goals. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Rehabilitative Services and local community services boards and behavioral health a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| HB210 | Pass | Extortion; definition of injury to property. Provides that for the purposes of the extortion statute "injury to property" includes the sale, distribution or release of personal identifying information listed in the identity theft statute, unless it i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| HB733 | Pass | Medicaid fraud. Provides that a person will be guilty of Medicaid fraud and therefore punishable for causing certain acts, in addition to knowingly and willfully engaging in such acts. The bill also provides that the Director of the Department of Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| HB1174 | Pass | Housing authorities; compensation of commissioners. Provides that a commissioner shall receive such compensation as may be determined by a locality for each meeting of the authority attended by the commissioner. Currently, that amount cannot exceed $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311) |
| HB1194 | Pass | Bail terms set by court on a capias to be honored by magistrate. Provides that a magistrate who is to set the terms of bail of a person arrested and brought before him on a capias shall do so in accordance with the order of the court that issued the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) |
| HB1199 | Pass | Waiver of certain graduation requirements; pursuant to Board of Education criteria. Requires the Board of Education to provide for the waiver of certain graduation requirements to be granted only for good cause and to be considered on a case-by-case ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| HB1216 | Pass | Public defenders; supplemental compensation. Provides that supplemental compensation for public defenders provided by a locality shall go directly to the employees rather than going to the Indigent Defense Commission for distribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| HB747 | Pass | Stepparent and close relative adoption; appointment of guardian ad litem not required. Allows a court to waive appointment of a guardian ad litem for a child in cases of stepparent or close relative adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| SB60 | Pass | Copying of absentee ballot applications. Provides that applications for absentee ballots may be inspected but not copied. Currently the applications may be inspected and copied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| HB1250 | Pass | Vested rights. Provides that the issuance of any written order, requirement, decision, or determination by the zoning administrator regarding the permissibility of a specific use or density of the landowner's property that is no longer subject to cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| HB431 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; proceedings for enforcement. Clarifies that a FOIA action may be brought in the name of a person notwithstanding that a request for public records was made by the person's attorney in his representative capacity. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| HB432 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; working papers and correspondence of the Clerks of the House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia. Provides an exemption from the mandatory disclosure requirements of FOIA for the working papers and correspondence of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| HB444 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibited contracts; exceptions. Provides an exception to the conflict of interests rules, under certain circumstances, where an officer or employee whose personal interest in a contract with a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| SB483 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; third party shipment of wine and beer. Creates a fulfillment warehouse license, which authorizes an agricultural cooperative association with a place of business in the Commonwealth and under the direction and control of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| HB951 | Pass | Scenic river. Designates a 56-mile portion of the Blackwater River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB458 | Pass | Attorney-issued summons; protective orders. Eliminates the prohibition on attorney-issued summonses in cases involving the issuance of protective orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| HB618 | Pass | Constitutionality of local ordinances. Permits a locality to obtain a determination by the circuit court as to the constitutionality of a local ordinance that has been held to be unconstitutional in a court not of record. Currently, only the Commonwe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| HB1028 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; recording of public meetings. Prohibits any public body from conducting a meeting required to be open in any building or facility where any recording devices are prohibited. The bill also clarifies that no public body may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| HB585 | Pass | Information entered into VCIN. Provides that within 72 hours following the receipt of a written statement issued by a parole officer authorizing the arrest of a person who has violated the provisions of his post-release supervision or probation, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| SB692 | Pass | Fee in lieu of probate tax. Imposes a fee in the amount of $25 for the recordation of a list of heirs of a decedent who died intestate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| HB774 | Pass | Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority. Delays the reversion of title to real property from the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority to the Commonwealth, in the event that the Authority ceases to operate, until July 1, 2011. The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279) |
| HB761 | Pass | Workers' Compensation Commission filings. Expands the options for filing materials with the Workers' Compensation Commission to include means of electronic transmission that have been approved by the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278) |
| HB99 | Pass | Appeal bonds; unlawful detainer; indigents. Adds unlawful detainer cases against a former owner based upon a foreclosure against that owner to the list of actions for which an indigent must post an appeal bond. In cases of unlawful detainer against a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| SB194 | Pass | Health professions; certain consumer-directed services. Clarifies that nothing in Title 54.1 shall prevent any person from performing state or federally funded health care tasks directed by a consumer, which are typically self-performed, for an indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
