| HB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms; libraries. Provides that a locality may adopt an ordinance that prohibits firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof in libraries owned or operated by the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed handguns. Allows a person with a valid concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun in a place of worship with permission of the leader of the religious meeting. The bill also eliminates the restriction against carrying a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB642 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; allowance for office expenses and supplies. Provides that payments to a member for office expenses and supplies may be made only upon the member's submission of a voucher for the expenses. This bill also provides that five percent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition of entry onto school or day care property. Rewrites language in the code section prohibiting entry onto school property and child day care center property by persons convicted of sexually violent offenses to make it abundantly clear that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR117 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits the Governor to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits election to a third term. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Derelict Buildings. Expands the definition of derelict buildings to include residential or nonresidential buildings or structures that have not been completed and approved for use or occupancy, and for which the construction permit has been revoked i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Mopeds. Prohibits driving mopeds on highways with speed limits greater than 45 mph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR118 | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Cooperative Marketing Fund of the Virginia Tourism Authority; dedication of soft drink excise tax and litter tax revenues. Dedicates the revenues from the Commonwealth's soft drink excise tax and litter tax to the Cooperative Marketing Fund administe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignment to home/electronic incarceration program. Provides that home/electronic incarceration is deemed to be a term of confinement for an offender who has been convicted and sentenced to a term of confinement, and that a court can assign home/ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1084 | Intro
Sine Die | Mopeds. Requires moped riders to wear helmets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1368 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle engine idling. Allow engine idling of unattended motor vehicles on residential streets maintained by the Commonwealth if the idling is for the purpose or warming or cooling the interior of the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR119 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; U.S. Route 1 Corridor; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the creation of a U.S. Route 1 Corridor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic security employees; carrying concealed handguns. Allows licensed electronic security employees who have a valid concealed handgun permit and who may lawfully carry a handgun to carry a concealed handgun for personal protection during busin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Enterprise zone job creation grants. Provides that a business firm is eligible for an enterprise zone job creation grant of $500 per year for up to five years for each grant eligible position that during such year is 150 percent of the federal minimu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | VDOT Secondary Street Acceptance Requirements. Requires VDOT to reconsider its Secondary Street Acceptance Requirements effective July 1, 2009, with specific focus on the connectivity index and the means by which an exception can be granted. The reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR120 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; establishes a joint subcommittee to study ways to increase the number of bachelor's degrees awarded annually by public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study ways to increase the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal welfare laws; special deputies. Authorizes sheriffs and police chiefs to designate and utilize volunteer deputies for the enforcement of this chapter, all ordinances enacted pursuant to this chapter, and all laws for the protection of domestic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; qualification of candidates. Requires that any action of the State Board in accepting or failing to accept the qualification of any candidate shall be considered a case decision and subject to the Administrative Process Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1086 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive services; local match rates. Provides that local match rates for purchase of services, including public and private residential and nonresidential services, pursuant to the Comprehensive Services Act shall be consistent, regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutionally guaranteed rights of unborn children. Provides that persons, including unborn children at every stage of development, enjoy the inherent rights to the enjoyment of life and liberty guaranteed by Article I, Section 1 of the Constituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; part-time employment and training programs. Provides that certain individuals who have exhausted eligibility for unemployment benefits and who are enrolled in approved training programs are eligible for up to 26 weeks of additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug Recognition Experts. Provides that in any trial for a violation of Article 1 (§18.2-247 et seq.) of Chapter 7 of Title 18.2 (drug offenses) involving cocaine or heroin, any law-enforcement officer shall be permitted to testify as to the res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR122 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; minimum standards for supervised visitation of children; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of establishing statewide minimum standards for the oversight of supervised visitation with children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; County of Chesterfield. Amends the county charter to authorize the county administrator to obtain the same information that the commissioner of revenue obtains from the state tax department and that the commissioner of revenue provides to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Land use adjacent to certain jet bases. Removes localities that have auxiliary landing fields for a United States Navy Master Jet Base from existing provisions that require such localities to adopt zoning ordinances that require the governing body to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; assault and battery of fire marshal. Provides for an offender who assaults a fire marshal because of his employment to be prosecuted for a Class 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB156 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption. Expands the presumption that specific types of cancers in firefighters and certain other public safety employees are occupational diseases compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; candidates; required filings; to whom submitted and deadlines. Designates the State Board of Elections as the recipient of any paperwork required of candidates for statewide office and the General Assembly. Deadlines for submitting paperwo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR123 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; local revenue sources; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study ways to improve the balance of local revenue sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee for any reason. The bill eliminates the present statutory list of specific reasons entitling a voter to cast an absentee ballot. Several special provisions concerning milita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB649 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund. Lowers the minimum private investment to qualify for incentives from the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund for localities with a population of 100,000 or less with unemployment rates in excess of 150 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1089 | Intro
Sine Die | Cold War Service Medal. Authorizes the Adjutant General to issue a service medal, to be known as the Cold War Service Medal, to any person (i) who (a) served on active duty in the Virginia National Guard for not less than 24 consecutive months during...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; early voting. Provides that any registered voter qualified to vote in the election may vote in person from 14 to three days before the election, or eight to three days before a special election, in the office of the general registrar or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB961 | 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 paid shall not exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Alternative onsite sewage systems. Prohibits the Department of Health from issuing permits from alternative onsite sewage systems that are located in a wetland, (ii) setback less than 50 feet from any impaired waters, (iii) within one foot vertically...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to mandatory testing of prisoners for HIV. Requires the Department of Corrections to test all prisoners received by the Department for human immunodeficiency virus and authorizes the Department to test for human immunodeficiency virus as the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end motor vehicle credit agreements; reporting requirements. Requires unlicensed lenders making revolving loans secured by a nonpurchase money lien on a motor vehicle, as a condition to making such loans, to provide the State Corporation Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Administration of higher education. Restructures the system of higher education by abolishing the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Chancellor and Board for the Virginia Community College System and transferring certain of their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB962 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Daniel and Brenda Brewer. Provides relief in the amount of $214,967.22 to Daniel and Brenda Brewer to correct structural problems with their home. The home contains several structural problems that were not noted by the local building officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitations on barrier crimes. Limits assault-related barrier crimes in Title 63.2 to felony assault crimes only. Currently, misdemeanor assaults are barriers to employment in certain areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR128 | Intro
Sine Die | JLARC; study the feasibility of a gross receipts assessment on pharmaceutical manufacturers to fund substance abuse treatment and prevention in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR129 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Indigent Defense Commission; public defender office to serve Montgomery County; report. Requests the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission to study the creation of a public defender office to serve Montgomery County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicles towed because of medical emergencies involving the driver. Provides for written notice, within 24 hours, to owners of vehicles that are towed because of medical emergencies involving the driver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable portfolio standards; forest products. Removes the requirement that utilities participating in a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program collectively use no more than 1.5 million tons of forest products such as wood chips, bark, and sawdu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HJR131 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to study the feasibility and appropriateness of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme as a continuum of educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Military Parents Equal Protection Act; stay of proceedings. Provides that any proceeding to modify the custodial or visitation rights of a parent or guardian who is a member of the military and who has been deployed in active military servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Enterprise Zone Grant Program; threshold for real property investment grants. Lowers the threshold for qualified real property investments under the Enterprise Zone Grant Program for distressed localities from $100,000 to $50,000 for the rehabilitati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Funeral services; burial power of attorney. Provides that a person may designate in a signed and notarized writing an individual who shall make arrangements for his funeral and the disposition of his remains, including cremation, upon his death. Such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
