| HB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices; penalty. Prohibits any use of a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; powers of general registrar. Clarifies that a general registrar may, in his judgment, request any reasonable and nondiscriminatory information from an applicant to determine such applicant's qualification to register and vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1049 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory self-identification. Provides that any person, when he is lawfully detained by a law-enforcement officer under circumstances that reasonably indicate that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, and is reques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited photographs of children. Provides that any person previously convicted of a "crime prohibiting proximity to children" who takes a photograph of a child of another at a prohibited location ((i) a primary, secondary, or high school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Deferred proceedings for petit larceny. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a first-offense petit larceny charge, provided the accused meets terms and conditions of probation, including payment of a loss-prevention fee of $100 to $500 to the owner of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility rates; temporary and interim increases. Prevents an electric public utility from changing its rates on an interim or temporary basis, and states that the scheduled rates of such a utility shall not be changed unless and until approve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1351 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking in public buildings prohibited; penalty. Prohibits smoking in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof or any locality. The bill contains numerous technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB24 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Excess funds in the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Establishes a mechanism to provide tax relief to Virginia taxpayers when the Auditor of Public Accounts determines the Revenue Stabilization Fund has reached its maximum size as provided in the Constitu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Delivery of marijuana field test results. Provides that notice of the right to a full chemical analysis following a marijuana field test may be given by the law-enforcement officer to the defendant or, if the defendant is a minor, to his parent or gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Transportation Plan. Requires that the Statewide Transportation Plan include quantifiable measures and achievable goals for greenhouse gas emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Outdoor advertising. Provides that 501(c)(3) sponsorships that can be seen from highways are not to be deemed "advertising."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB595 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Business Assistance; Virginia Economic Development Partnership. Repeals the Department of Business Assistance and transfers its duties to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB705 | Intro
Sine Die | New and increased taxes for funding the Standards of Quality. Provides additional revenues to be appropriated for funding the Standards of Quality by (i) establishing an additional individual income tax of three percent in taxable years 2011, 2012, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 10-N) |
| HB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget process of the Commonwealth. Changes the Commonwealth's budget from a biennial budget to a budget covering a single fiscal year beginning with the budget for the period July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013. The bill also provides that if a gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB596 | Intro
Sine Die | Filing fee moratorium for new business entities. Directs the State Corporation Commission not to assess or collect a registration fee, filing fee, franchise tax, charter fee, or entrance fee, for which payment would be required, for any new for-profi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | Procedure in bifurcated trial. Clarifies that when a jury cannot agree on punishment in the punishment phase of a bifurcated trial, the court shall impanel a different jury to ascertain punishment unless the defendant, the attorney for the Commonweal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit default insurance. Establishes requirements for the conduct within the Commonwealth of the business of credit default insurance. The measure prohibits "naked" credit default swaps and establishes a regulatory framework for "covered swaps"...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposal of solid waste fees; Isle of Wight and Southampton County. Allows Isle of Wight County and Southampton County to levy fees upon each household for disposal of solid waste as long as said fee does not exceed the fees paid by the county to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Cemetery Board; exemptions. Exempts from licensure any person engaged in the resale of any grave or entombment right in a cemetery located in the Commonwealth provided the resale includes the complete transfer of all preneed burial contract rights as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB514 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; compensation during regular session extension. Specifies that members of the General Assembly receive neither per diem allowance nor mileage reimbursement if the session is extended past the date scheduled for adjournment sine die.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain confessions inadmissible if not videotaped. Provides that no confession of a criminal defendant to the commission of any the following criminal offenses shall be admissible in a court of law unless the confession is recorded on videotape and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Health benefits plans offered by foreign health insurers. Authorizes any foreign health insurer approved by any other state to sell a group health benefits plan that is offered in the insurer's domiciliary state to sell to persons in Virginia any hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Exceptions as to purchases from state correctional facilities. Allows exception for purchase of products by state agencies where the cost of purchase and installation is more than 10 percent over the cost of the product and the product is commonly co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1074 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; consideration of driving record. Requires the issuer of a motor vehicle insurance policy to examine the driving record of the insured when underwriting or re-underwriting a policy. The insurer is further required to consider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility rate structures; advancing conservation and efficiency. Directs the State Corporation Commission to encourage investor-owned electric utilities to file tariffs with rate structures that reflect time of day and seasonal cost different...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of concealed handguns by faculty members at state institutions of higher education. Allows full-time faculty members of state institutions of higher education who possess a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Cruelty to animals. Narrows the exemption to animal cruelty penalties available to the owner of a dog or cat when his dog or cat is attacked on his property by a dog. Currently, that exemption allows the owner of the injured dog or cat to use all rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information. Prohibits insurers from setting rates for motor vehicle insurance on the basis of a person's credit history or credit score. The measure will become effective January 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | State and local debt; estimates of debt service costs required. Requires that bond authorizations by the Commonwealth or by local governments that require voter approval shall include in the published notice estimates of the number of years to amort...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB868 | 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] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB35 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care data reporting; surgical complications. Requires any physician, regardless of whether he performed the surgical procedure, who treats a patient experiencing complications from an inpatient or outpatient surgical procedure, which occur wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; reports and audits; exceptions. Exempts volunteer fire departments and rescue squads from filing quarterly reports of their charitable gaming activity with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The bill also exempts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR113 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 11-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB714 | Intro
Sine Die | Estate tax reinstated. Reinstates the federal credit amount so that the Commonwealth will receive payments from those estates of persons dying on or after July 1, 2010. No estate tax would be imposed on estates valued at $5 million or less, working f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Housing Law; exemption removed. Removes private individuals who sell or rent by owner, without a real estate agent, and who do not own more than three single family homes, from being exempt from the Virginia Fair Housing Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain cemetery companies exempt from reporting requirements. Exempts cemetery companies that sell plots of land to an individual or individuals for use as a family burial plot from any requirement that they create and maintain records of interments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | Title loans. Establishes a system for regulating title loans, which are non-purchase money loans secured by a lien on a motor vehicle's title. The interest rate that currently may be charged on such loans is uncapped if the loan is structured as an o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR114 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking of private property for public uses. Limits the exercise of eminent domain to the purpose of public use and specifies that, with the exception of takings for the provision of any utility or common c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuels taxes; percentage of wholesale cost. Replaces the current fuels tax on gasoline, gasohol, and diesel fuel with a tax that is a percentage of the wholesale price of a gallon of self-serve unleaded regular gasoline. The percentage shall be establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Investor-owned electric utility regulation. Reinstates, only for those investor-owned electric utilities that, as of July 1, 1999, were not bound by a rate case settlement adopted by the State Corporation Commission that extended in its application b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
House: VOTE: --- AGREE TO MOTION (25-Y 74-N) |
| HB1080 | Intro
Sine Die | Police chaplains; certification. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to develop a voluntary training and certification program for police chaplains. Such program shall include, but not be limited to, training regarding stress managem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for in-state tuition grants for members of the National Guard of the Commonwealth of Virginia to allow for religious training or theological education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HJR115 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking of private property for public uses. Defines the term "public uses" and specifies the instances for which private property may be taken. The measure also specifies that a taking of private...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB878 | Intro
Sine Die | Local community-based probation services. Allows local probation programs to supervise offenders referred from drug courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway rest areas and welcome centers. Requires VDOT to reopen closed highway rest stops and prohibits closure of highway welcome centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1365 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor carriers. Provides for the regulation of transportation of railroad employees by contract carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR116 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of their sentence inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional VDOT construction accounts. Provides for the establishment of regional accounts to be used by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for allocation of funds for specific transportation projects within the region wherein the revenue is generat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
