| HB1345 | Pass | Probate; list of heirs. Provides that the list of heirs that must be filed with the clerk of court when a personal representative for a decedent's estate seeks to qualify or a will is submitted to probate shall reflect the heirs in existence on the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| HB97 | Pass | Restricted driving privilege for out-of-state drivers. Provides that when the driver of any motor vehicle not licensed to drive in Virginia, but who has a valid driver's license from another jurisdiction, is convicted in Virginia of a violation for w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| HB1043 | Pass | Responsibilities of the Chief Workforce Development Officer. Amends certain workforce development and training program evaluation reporting requirements to avoid redundancy. The bill requires the Governor to submit annual workforce development and tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| HB98 | Pass | Restricted learner's permit. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a restricted learner's permit if the person is 25 years of age or older and a court has authorized restricted driving privileges to the person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| HB589 | Pass | Virginia Code Commission. Expands the Commission membership by one or two optional nonlegislative citizens, as may be recommended by the Commission. Those members must have demonstrated legal knowledge in the codification of session laws and the reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| SB696 | Pass | HOV lanes; military personnel. Allows uniformed military personnel to use HOV lanes in Hampton Roads regardless of the number of passengers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0485) |
| HB21 | Pass | Space flight liability and immunity; sunset. Repeals the July 1, 2013, expiration date on the act establishing space flight liability and immunity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB1349 | Pass | Taxation; Virginia Free File program. Requires the Tax Commissioner to establish a Virginia Free File program, modeled after the federal Free File program, no later than December 31, 2010. The new Virginia Free File program would be offered to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| HB1388 | Pass | Establishment of virtual school programs. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the Board of Education to approve, criteria for approving and monitoring multi-division providers of online courses and virtual school program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| HB1390 | Pass | Public charter schools; review and reconsideration. Requires the public charter school applicant to submit its proposed charter application to the Board of Education for review, comment, and a determination as to whether the application meets approva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| SB512 | Pass | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of salary paid by government. Requires a member of the General Assembly to disclose in his annual disclosure of personal interests any salary and wages in excess of $10,000 paid to him or his im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB789 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement. Increases from $1 million to $1.5 million the cost of a construction contract for which a state or local public body may use competitive negotiation instead of competitive bidding to procure th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| HB1071 | Pass | Urban development areas. Sets certain densities in urban development areas according to the population of the locality that designated the urban development area. The bill also requires that, to the extent possible, certain federal funding and state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| SB207 | Pass | Threat assessment teams; records. Authorizes threat assessment teams to receive health and criminal history records of students for the purposes of assessment and intervention, and exempts records of threat assessment teams from the Freedom of Inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| HB1356 | Pass | Local license fees and taxes; campgrounds, bed and breakfast establishments. Adds campgrounds and bed and breakfast establishments to those real property rental businesses that are not exempt from local license fees and taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| HB600 | Pass | Local government; criminal justice training academies. Eliminates the statutory requirement that criminal justice training academies contain the word "training" in their name or title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| HB1076 | Pass | Cutting of weeds and grass. Adds Colonial Heights to the list of localities that may order the cutting of grass and weeds on certain occupied property. The existing portion of the statute that includes all localities applies to vacant property only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641) |
| HB869 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB520 | Pass | Capital murder; auxiliary law-enforcement officers; penalty. Adds auxiliary police officers and auxiliary deputy sheriffs to the capital murder statute so that the death sentence can be imposed for their murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB875 | Pass | Charter; Town of Amherst. Replaces a boundary description with a reference to the survey plat, removes salary limits for the mayor and council members, deletes the reference to the treasurer's term of office and corrects inconsistencies between counc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| SB521 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| HB104 | Pass | Elections; filing deadlines. Increases the duration of time between filing deadlines and November elections. Declarations of candidacy for a special election held in November will need to be filed 81 days, rather than 74 days, before the election. A ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| SB522 | Pass | Motorcycle dealers. Increases the radius of "relevant market areas" as that term applies to motorcycle dealers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| HB105 | Pass | Security for appeal; modification. Provides that a court may impose additional requirements to security posted for an appeal in addition to altering the amount of the security. Any changes may be made to such security by a court for good cause shown....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) |
| HB109 | Pass | Certain firearms taxes; destruction of records. Repeals local authority to impose a license tax of not more than $25 on persons engaged in the business of selling pistols and revolvers. Also, a recordkeeping requirement for such persons is deleted an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| SB608 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management. Requires the president and vice-president of each public institution of higher education, or the superintendent in the case of the Virginia Military Institute, to annually cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| HB1092 | Pass | Carrying concealed handguns; retired law-enforcement officers. States that a retired law-enforcement officer who receives proof of consultation and favorable review to carry a concealed handgun without a concealed handgun permit is authorized to carr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB1375 | Pass | Prescription drug benefits; standard reference compendia. Replaces obsolete publications from the list of standard reference compendia with existing approved publications. The measure revises the compendia for both private health insurance and the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB963 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Real Estate Board. Establishes a voluntary compliance program within the Real Estate Board to allow certain real estate brokers to bring practices, policies and procedures into compliance with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| HB1095 | Pass | Individual health insurance coverage; COBRA period. Sets the parameters of the period an individual is not covered by health insurance as beginning the day after an individual's termination of coverage and ending when an application for coverage is s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| HB192 | Pass | Fair Housing Board educational materials on the Fair Housing Law; affidavit. Establishes that the Fair Housing Board shall promulgate regulations regarding educational materials concerning the Fair Housing Law, and persons in the business of selling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| HB1379 | Pass | Child-care facilities in certain counties and cities; local regulation of possession and storage of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof. Provides that certain Northern Virginia localities may adopt local ordinances that regulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| HB193 | Pass | Aerospace Advisory Council. Removes the sunset provision, thereby making the Aerospace Advisory Council a permanent council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| HB1381 | Pass | Major Employment and Investment Project Site Planning Grant Fund. Establishes the Major Employment and Investment Project Site Planning Grant Fund to award grants to political subdivisions to assist in site development work for certain prospective pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| HB166 | Pass | Capital murder; fire marshals, deputy and assistant fire marshals; penalty. Adds fire marshals and deputy and assistant fire marshals with law-enforcement powers to the capital murder statute so that the death sentence can be imposed for their murder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399) |
| SB721 | Pass | Attorney-issued summons; protective orders. Eliminates the prohibition on attorney-issued summonses in cases involving the issuance of protective orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| HB197 | Pass | Acceptance of subdivision streets into state secondary highway system. Provides that any street or segment of a street within a network addition that meets one or more of the public service requirements addressed in the regulations can be accepted in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB974 | Pass | Technological efficiencies in circuit court clerks' offices; fees. Makes technical changes in circuit court clerks' handling of electronic or digital filing and their maintenance and support of electronic filing. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB662 | Pass | Health professions; disciplinary actions. Amends the disciplinary authority of the Department of Health Professions and its regulatory boards to (i) authorize the boards to accept the surrender of a license in lieu of disciplinary action, (ii) author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB203 | Pass | Writ of actual innocence; available after parole or pardon. Provides that the statutory guidelines employed by the General Assembly for determining compensation of persons who have been wrongfully incarcerated also apply to a person granted a writ of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB1105 | Pass | Business entities; registered agents and offices. Provides that a statement of change of a business entity's registered agent, registered office, or both, may be filed electronically with the office of the clerk of the State Corporation Commission. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB1106 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| HB199 | Pass | MEI Project Approval Commission; work of the Commission. Expands the scope of incentive packages to be reviewed by the MEI Project Approval Commission by eliminating the limitation that the Commission may only review incentive packages for MEI projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| HB667 | Pass | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; wastewater systems. Adds the following seller's representation to a prospective purchaser of residential property: the owner makes no representations with respect to the presence of any wastewater system,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| HB669 | 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] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| HB209 | Pass | Outdoor signs and advertising. Provides that all penalties and costs collected for violations of advertising provisions when the locality has entered into an agreement with the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner shall be paid to the affected lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| HB1058 | Pass | Virginia Condominium Act; the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; amending association documents using technology. Provides that unless the declaration expressly provides otherwise, any notice required to be sent or received or any signature,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432) |
| HB227 | Pass | Sex offenses prohibiting entry onto school property. Provides that a sex offender who has received a court order allowing entry on school or child day center property must also obtain permission of the school board or of the owner of the private scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| HB228 | Pass | Car tax relief; qualifying vehicle. Deletes the requirement that a vehicle held in trust can qualify for personal property tax relief only if there is no more than one beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| HB690 | Pass | Public transit services; criminal background checks. Authorizes certain transportation district commissions and their contractors and public service corporations or contractors that provide public transit services to a locality to require fingerprint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563) |
