| HB1387 | Pass | Campaign finance information and reports; public access. Clarifies that information, not required to be entered into the campaign finance database that candidates or committees may include in campaign finance report-creation software managed by or fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297) |
| HB792 | Pass | Temporary licenses and certificates. Authorizes the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to issue a temporary license or certification to an applicant who holds a comparable license or certification issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) |
| SB528 | Pass | Prisons; Treatment and control of prisoners. Requires a licensed psychiatrist or licensed clinical psychologist who is experienced in the diagnosis, treatment, and risk assessment of sex offenders to oversee sex offender treatment programs in the Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) |
| SB233 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit. Reduces from $100,000 to $50,000 the amount of the land preservation tax credit that may be claimed for taxable year 2011. Any taxpayer affected by the credit reduction would be allowed an additional taxable year in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| HB1090 | Pass | Communications sales and use tax; Tazewell County. Provides that Tazewell County's share of communication sales and use tax revenue be equal to the distributions it would have received if the Auditor of Public Accounts had certified that the County h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| SB532 | Pass | Prohibition on wearing a mask; public emergency exception. Adds to the existing exemptions in the section making it a Class 6 felony for a person over the age of 16 to wear a mask in public or on private property without the owner's written consent a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0262) |
| SB237 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; wine liter tax. Requires the portion of the wine liter tax collected from the sale of wine produced by farm wineries to be deposited in the Virginia Wine Promotion Fund for use by the Wine Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| HB1107 | Pass | Surplus property; proceeds from sale or lease of State Police communication towers or sites. Provides that the proceeds and any in-kind goods or services received from sales or leases of any interest in State Police communication towers or sites, abo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| HB1118 | Pass | Individual income tax; Virginia Military Family Relief Fund payments. Allows individuals who receive payments from the Virginia Military Family Relief Fund to subtract them from their federal adjustable gross income when calculating their Virginia ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| SB264 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit; fee for transfer of credits. Changes the fee for the sale or distribution of land preservation tax credits to two percent of the value of the donated interest. Currently, the fee is two percent of the value of the donate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| HB1135 | Pass | Wastewater discharge permits. Requires the owner or operator of a wastewater treatment facility with a discharge greater than 1,000 gallons per day up to 39,999 gallons per day that has not begun the discharge of pollutants prior to January 1, 2011, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| SB276 | Pass | Dam safety. Requires that the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board's Impounding Structure Regulations not require any dam in existence or under construction prior to July 1, 2010, that is classified as a high hazard, or is subsequently reclassi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| SB277 | Pass | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); applications. Allows TANF applicants to retain pre-existing support they may have received on their own behalf or on behalf of any other family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| HB1180 | Pass | Russell Fork Scenic River. Designates a nine-mile segment of the Russell Fork River in Dickenson County as a component of the State Scenic Rivers System. The designation is not to be used (i) to preclude the land along the river from being mined or (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| SB289 | Pass | Infant lifetime hunting and fishing licenses. Establishes lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents who are younger than two years of age. The cost for infant lifetime licenses for hunting and fishing is $125 each for resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| HB1159 | Pass | "Move over" law. Requires drivers to move left on a four lane highway when approaching vehicles displaying flashing blue, red, or amber lights. The offense is punished as a traffic infraction, formerly a Class 1 misdemeanor. A second or sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| HB760 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; Veterans Skills Database. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission, in cooperation with the Department of Veterans Services and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, to establish the Veterans Skills Database, an Int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277) |
| HB125 | Pass | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; materials to be provided by State Board of Elections and Attorney General. Requires the Attorney General to provide a written explanation of the provisions of the Act that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| HB800 | Pass | Insurance; life and annuities licenses. Removes the requirement that a nonresident insurance agent obtain a life and annuities license from the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance as a condition to obtaining a variable contract license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281) |
| HB548 | Pass | Group health insurance policies; wellness programs. Allows group health insurance policies to provide a discount to employers who institute employee wellness programs. The bill also allows an employer instituting and maintaining an employee wellness...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| HB603 | Pass | Workers' Compensation Commission; notices. Authorizes the Workers' Compensation Commission to satisfy its obligations to provide copies of notices, opinions, orders, and awards by sending them by electronic communications in the manner prescribed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| HB807 | Pass | Workers' compensation insurance; proof of coverage. Authorizes workers' compensation insurance carriers to file proof of coverage within 30 days of an insurance policy's inception. The filing shall be made electronically in the form prescribed by, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) |
| SB349 | Pass | Reemployment rights of members of Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force, or naval militia. Extends the period in which a member of the Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force, or naval militia is required to apply for re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| HB1213 | Pass | Department of Historic Resources; historic preservation grants. Clarifies and makes several technical and procedural changes to the authority of the Department of Historic Resources to supervise state moneys appropriated to organizations, including l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| SB354 | Pass | Limited English proficient students; assessment. Provides that local school divisions may administer a locally developed or selected limited English proficiency assessment mandated for students pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, so lon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| SB355 | Pass | Local taxation of short-term rental property. Classifies short-term rental property as a separate classification of merchants' capital, and would authorize the governing body of any locality to tax short-term rental property under the merchants' capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| SB372 | Pass | Maintenance of roadways by Buchanan County. Authorizes the Buchanan County Board of Supervisors to maintain roadways within the right-of-way of railroads, subject to an agreement with the railroad.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| SB51 | Pass | Absentee voting; poll watchers. Authorizes any person to vote absentee who has been designated by a political party or candidate to be a representative of that party or candidate inside a polling place on the day of the election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| HB749 | Pass | Consent to parental placement adoption; out-of-state placements. Allows a birth parent who is located in the Commonwealth to waive his right to consent to the adoption of his child pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth and elect to exercise consen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0276) |
| SB598 | Pass | Regulation of private and out-of-state institutions of higher education; exemptions. Clarifies that the definition of "vocational" shall not include instructional programs intended solely for recreation, enjoyment, personal interest, or as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| SB328 | Pass | EMS providers; vaccinations. Allows emergency medical services providers to administer vaccines to adults and minors pursuant to a protocol approved by the Board of Nursing. This bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| HB438 | Pass | Dam safety. Requires the Soil and Water Conservation Board to establish an incremental damage analysis procedure that provides for a new standard for the spillway design requirement. The bill requires the Board to adopt regulations that consider the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| HB346 | Pass | Small Estate Act; revision. Revises the Small Estate Act by repealing related provisions in the Title 6.1 (Banking and Finance), Title 51.1 (Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement), and Title 64.1 (Wills and Decedents' Estates) and consolidating them in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| HB443 | Pass | Adoption assistance. Amends eligibility and application process requirements for adoption assistance; provides for separate maintenance, nonrecurring expense, and state special services payments; sets forth the requirements of each; and amends provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| HB1269 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; demonstrator vehicles; vehicle buyer's orders. Establishes conditions under which dealers may sell demonstrator vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) |
| HB1277 | Pass | Vehicle exempt from registration. Limits certain exemptions from registration to pickup trucks, panel trucks, sport utility vehicles, and vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 7,500 pounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| SB415 | Pass | Foster care and independent living services. Requires local departments that provide independent living services to persons between 18 and 21 years of age to provide any person who chooses to leave foster care or terminate independent living services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| SB422 | Pass | Drug Treatment Court Act; City of Bristol. Establishes a drug treatment court in the City of Bristol subject to the requirements and conditions established by the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee, provided the court is funded within exis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| HB985 | Pass | BPOL tax; gross receipts of security brokers and dealers. Defines gross receipts of security brokers and security dealers to be exclusive of receipts that are paid to an independent contractor as a commission on the sale or purchase of a security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283) |
| HB1293 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; exemptions from licensure; consumption by underaged persons. Clarifies that a person in his residence may serve or give to his guests or family members lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages when (i) such guests are 21 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| HB1301 | Pass | Local taxation of short-term rental property. Classifies short-term rental property as a separate classification of merchants' capital, and would authorize the governing body of any locality to tax short-term rental property under the merchants' capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| HB1307 | Pass | Zoning provisions for temporary family healthcare structures. Provides that zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider temporary family healthcare structures (i) for use by a caregiver in providing care for a mentally or physically impaired pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| SB656 | Pass | Local property tax; separate classification for renewable energy manufacturing tangible personal property and improvements to real property. Adds tangible personal property and improvements to real property designed and used primarily for manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| SB661 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit; donations. Requires the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to verify the conservation value of certain donations described under the Virginia Land Conservation Incentives Act of 1999 that are from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| HB619 | Pass | Erosion and sediment control; penalty. Removes the specific authority of a locality to impose a $1,000 civil penalty on a person who engages in a land-disturbing activity without having an approved plan. Instead, any violation of any erosion and sedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0275) |
| HB1012 | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0284) |
| SB473 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. Adds the Lieutenant Governor and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade or their designees to the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| SB474 | Pass | Temporary licenses and certificates. Authorizes the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to issue a temporary license or certification to an applicant who holds a comparable license or certification issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0260) |
| SB728 | Pass | Child support orders; emergency. Eliminates the ability of the Department of Social Services to order 2.5 percent cash medical support payments from the noncustodial parent when the child is a recipient of Medicaid or the Family Access to Medical Ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| HB715 | Pass | Releases of deed of trust. Allows certain title insurance companies to exercise the authority that settlement agents currently possess to release the lien of a deed of trust. References to "mortgage" are replaced with "deed of trust.&q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
