| HB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Elected or appointed officials; limit on attorney-issued subpoenas. Provides that no subpoena for the attendance of an elected or appointed official of a public body may be issued by an attorney unless the subject matter of the subpoena is unrelated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR43 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendments (first resolution); Governor's term of office; Board of Education. Permits the Governor to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB9 | Intro
Sine Die | State Police Volunteer Chaplaincy Program. Allows the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Volunteer Chaplaincy Program. The Superintendent may establish guidelines regarding the selection, conduct, and supervision of volunteers, but may not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | Composite index of local ability-to-pay. Provides that a locality whose composite index exceeds 0.6750 must be considered as having an index of 0.6750 for purposes of distributing all payments based on the composite index.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1129 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; Standard 2. Increases the requirement for state-supported instructional positions for students identified as having limited English proficiency from 17 full-time equivalent positions for each 1,000 students to 30 full-time equiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB328 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure database. Provides that the Clerks of the House and Senate shall each establish a searchable electronic database, available to the public through the Internet, containing the information from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1130 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance purchasing pool for small businesses. Directs the Secretary of Administration, in cooperation with the Bureau of Insurance, to prepare a program design for a voluntary, public-private health insurance purchasing pool for businesses w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Composition of Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); formulas for allocating primary, urban, and secondary highway system construction funds. Adds one member from the Northern Virginia highway construction district to the CTB. The bill also provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of contraband by a prisoner; penalty. Provides that any prisoner who willfully in any manner brings into the facility in which he is confined, or attempts to bring into the facility, any article of any nature whatsoever, without first sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study the extent and cost of hunger and malnutrition in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the extent and cost of hunger and malnutrition in the Commonwealth, including the scope and natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal control records. Exempts from release to the public the name and address of the owner of an animal that has been taken into custody by animal control officers, law-enforcement officers, humane investigators, or any pound or shelter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Decriminalization of possession of marijuana. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession. The bill does not make marijuana possession legal but creates a civil penalty of $500 for simple possession of marijuana, a penalty equal to the current crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Health professionals; instruction on pain management and addiction. Requires that education programs for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists include instruction in pain management and addiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Alternative onsite sewage systems; routine testing; who may test. Prohibits the Department of Health from requiring that owners of alternative onsite sewer systems with flows of less than or equal to 1,000 gallons per day and serving a single-family ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuing education for prescribers; substance abuse, addiction, and related pain management and prescribing practices. Requires the Board of Dentistry, Board of Medicine, and Board of Optometry to require continuing education on the topics of subst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Scope of prescription for marijuana for medical purposes. Provides that no person shall be prosecuted for the possession of marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol when that possession occurs pursuant to a valid prescription issued by a medical doctor in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Random drug screens for certain prescriptions. Requires any physician who prescribes a Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance for a duration greater than 31 days to require the recipient of such prescription to undergo mandatory random urine d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Ground water withdrawal permit fees. Increases the maximum amount that the State Water Control Board can charge for a permit to withdraw ground water from $6,000 to $12,000. The term of a ground water permit is up to 10 years. The State Water Control...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Opening of the 2010-2011 school year in Planning Districts 5 and 12. Authorizes the school boards in Planning Districts 5 and 12, which includes Alleghany County, Botetourt County, Craig County, Roanoke County, City of Covington, City of Roanoke, Cit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | County food and beverage tax; all counties may impose. Allows all counties to impose the local food and beverage tax without a referendum, provided the revenues from the tax are used to reduce the county's real property tax rate. The new provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; financing. Creates the Virginia School Construction Revolving Fund for financing elementary, secondary, or vocational education school projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR54 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); legislative sessions. Provides that the General Assembly may agree to delay the reconvened session for a period of up to one week. The Constitution now provides that the reconvened session will be held on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1178 | Intro
Sine Die | Combative fighting; prohibition; penalty. Provides that a person who engages in the promotion, arrangement or conduct of or participates in combative fighting is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and a Class 6 felony for a third offense within three y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Local defined contribution retirement plan. Permits any locality or school board to establish a defined contribution retirement plan in lieu of any other retirement plan, for employees hired after such plan is established.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1140 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia State and Local Government Ethics Advisory Council. Establishes the Virginia Ethics Advisory Council to receive, investigate, and make findings and recommendations upon complaints alleging violations of the State and Local Government Conflic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR55 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights: (i) defined marriage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Education; computation of composite index. Requires the General Assembly to modify the current Standards of Quality (SOQ) funding formula and calculation of composite index of local ability to pay that determines each locality's ability to pay for it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Motorcycles; helmet use. Removes exception that allows operators and passengers riding on motorcycles with wheels of eight inches or less to ride without wearing a helmet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1142 | Intro
Sine Die | Hate crimes; sexual orientation. Includes within the definition of hate crimes a category of acts committed against a person or his property because of that person's sexual orientation. Also included is (i) the right of a person who is subject to suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Administration of animal welfare and enforcement; study. Creates a legislative study to examine best management practices in Virginia and other states for animal humane law enforcement and regulation; the most effective standards for training and sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Water and wastewater utilities; delinquent payment of rates and charges. Removes the authority of localities and Water and Waste Authorities to hold a non-occupying owner of premises liable for delinquent rates or charges incurred by a tenant or less...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB744 | Intro
Sine Die | Bullying at school punishable as assault and battery. Provides that any person who engages in the bullying, harassment, and intimidation of a student on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity shall be subject to punishmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of marinas. Requires issuance of a certificate to operate by the Department of Health for operation of a marina or other place where boats are moored. The bill establishes a procedure and fee structure for issuance of certificates and esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB732 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; limitation on eligibility; 75 percent Virginia domicile requirement. Provides that students entitled to in-state tuition, who have already completed eight semesters for a four-year degree or 10 semesters for a five-year degree, will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB775 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; Serious bodily injury resulting from another driving while intoxicated. Eliminates the element of a permanent and significant physical impairment from the serious injury caused by the defendant for the defendant to be guilty of serious bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle equity loans; penalties. Establishes requirements for motor vehicle equity loans, which are non-purchase money closed-end loans secured by an interest in a motor vehicle. The interest rate that currently may be charged on such loans is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Punishment for stalking; penalty. Clarifies the number of instances of stalking behavior necessary for conviction of multiple offenses of stalking, and provides that a person may be convicted of stalking for a singular instance of stalking behavior w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms by certain persons who have had parental rights terminated; penalty. Prohibits a person who has had his parental rights terminated based upon a finding of aggravated circumstances from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR61 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Commission on Virginia's Transportation Needs; report. Establishes the Commission on Virginia's Transportation Needs to look at transportation needs in Virginia and alternatives for planning and financing Virginia's transportation system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR22 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; establishing a joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study the impact of No Child Left Behind on the Standards of Learning and high school graduation rates in Virginia; report. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; authority to manage and invest certain funds. Authorizes the Virginia Retirement System to manage and invest funds in a trust, or equivalent arrangement, established by a local government or other local entity to fund cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; whether to establish a bank operated by the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study whether to establish a bank operated by the Commonwealth. The study shall consider recommendations for legislation to establish a state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance disclosure reports; reviews. Provides a procedure for review of campaign finance reports for candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General and for candidates in a random sample of General Assembly districts. Focu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; disclosure of controlling individuals. Adds a requirement for campaign committees, political committees, and out-of-state political committees to report the name and address of any controlling individual with an ownership interest e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax; optional local tax for education. Authorizes any county or city to levy an additional local sales and use tax at a rate of one-half percent with all revenue generated from such tax to be used for education purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery on a campus police officer. Adds campus police officers appointed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17 (§23-232 et seq.) of Title 23 to the list of officers who, when victims of assault and battery, subject the perpetrato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); limit on appropriations. Limits total appropriations in a year to the preceding year's total appropriations plus a percentage equal to the sum of the percentage increase in the rate of inflation plus the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct notification to certain claimants. Provides that any person or entity represented by counsel, and any insurer whether or not represented by counsel, making or delivering a payment of $5,000 or more on a claim or judgment based on contract, tor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed weapons. Prohibits a person from carrying a concealed butterfly knife.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Handguns in courthouses. Allows a person who may lawfully possess a firearm to carry a handgun into a courthouse when the courthouse is being used for non-judicial activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
