| SB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; real-time rates. Requires investor-owned electric utilities to develop tariffs offering real-time rates that vary in accordance with the utility's costs of providing electricity seasonally, daily, and throughout each day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (6-Y 7-N 2-A) |
| SB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil procedure; disclosure of insurance liability limits. Allows an attorney of the personal representative of a deceased person to request the disclosure of the liability limits of an insurance policy prior to filing a civil action for wrongful dea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB427-Herring) (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpublic school students; participation in interscholastic sports. Directs a nonprofit corporation founded in Virginia in 1913 to organize and govern interscholastic activities among the public high schools to provide an exception to its rules allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
House: Incorporated by Education (HB926-Bell, Robert B.) by voice vote |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program. Provides for a mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program. Under current law, the renewable energy portfolio standard program is a voluntary program to which investor-owned utilities a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| HB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act. Provides a method by which a member locality of an authority created under such act may withdraw from the authority with approval from a majority of other members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
House: Incorporated by Counties, Cities and Towns (HB1206-Crockett-Stark) by voice vote |
| SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificates of analysis and affidavits. Amends legislation enacted during the August 2009 Special Session in response to the United States Supreme Court decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. ___ (June 25, 2009) to state that provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB387-Obenshain) (14-Y 0-N) |
| HJR220 | Pass | Commending Radford University on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ220ER) |
| SB156 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Arbitration Act; vacating arbitration award. Clarifies that a party may seek to vacate an award made pursuant to an arbitration proceeding where there was no agreement to arbitrate and the party raised an objection to the arbitration, regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end loan plans; finance charges. Caps the finance charges and other charges and fees that may be charged on extension of credit under certain open-end credit plans at an annual rate of 36 percent if the maximum amount that may be advanced under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (5-Y 9-N 1-A) |
| HB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpublic school students; participation in interscholastic sports. Directs a nonprofit corporation founded in Virginia in 1913 to organize and govern interscholastic activities among the public high schools to provide an exception to its rules allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
House: Incorporated by Education (HB926-Bell, Robert B.) by voice vote |
| SB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile court; interlocutory appeals by Commonwealth. Allows the Commonwealth to appeal a juvenile court suppression ruling to circuit court and the Court of Appeals. Upon the motion of the Commonwealth the juvenile court must stay the proceedings a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-08
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 4-N) |
| HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | HOV lanes; military personnel. Allows military personnel to use HOV lanes in Hampton Roads regardless of the number of passengers. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB759-Stolle) by voice vote |
| HB597 | Intro
Sine Die | Signing of death certificates; continuing education upon receipt of three or more complaints. Provides that any physician about whom three or more complaints have been filed regarding failure to complete medical certification for a death certificate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Continued to 2011 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Overload and overweight permits; fees. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board, in consultation with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles, to establish a new schedule of fees for issuance of overweight and overload vehicle perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| SB634 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB: one will be appointed from each of Virginia's 11 Congressional Districts (as they were on January 1, 2010, four more will be at-large appointees: one representi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB653 | Intro
Sine Die | Investor-owned electric utilities; ratemaking. Establishes a process to be used by the State Corporation Commission in conducting biennial reviews of the rates, terms, and conditions of service of investor-owned electric utilities that, as of July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1308-Carrico) by voice vote |
| HB966 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; formation of routine entities. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC), upon the filing of routine articles of incorporation for a stock or nonstock corporation or articles of organization for a limited liability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB859-Cline) by voice vote |
| HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Coordination of state and local transportation planning. Provides for coordination of local transportation planning with not only the Virginia Department of Transportation, but the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation as well. This b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB808-Watts) by voice vote |
| HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; electric transmission line verification costs. Requires the applicant seeking approval of an electrical transmission line of 138 kilovolts or more to pay all costs associated with the required verification of the applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB671 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; public hearings. Requires the State Corporation Commission to conduct a public hearing in any proceeding involving approval of the construction or operation of an electrical utility facility. At least one hearing shall b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation-disadvantaged persons. Requires the Commonwealth to develop plans and programs to assist the transportation disadvantaged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Continued to 2011 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; REAL ID. Makes documents required for renewal, reissue, or duplication of driver's licenses and identification cards compliant with REAL ID.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Overtime compensation rate; law-enforcement employees. Removes the restriction that the overtime compensation rate only applies to law-enforcement agencies of 100 or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Tabled in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual health insurance coverage; elective. Provides that a resident of the Commonwealth shall not be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual health insurance coverage. This applies regardless of whether the person is eligible for h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB10-Marshall, R.G.) by voice vote |
| HB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; persons with certain medical conditions. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to applicants with asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease, and paralysis. These plates would be subject to a one-time fee of $15, and wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Continued to 2011 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Off-road recreational vehicles. Authorizes localities embraced by the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to allow over-the-road operation of "off-road recreational vehicles" within their boundaries. This bill was incorporated into
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB849-Morefield) by voice vote |
| HB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Exempts any investor-owned incumbent electric utility that was, as of July 1, 1999, not bound by a rate case settlement adopted by the Commission that extended in its application beyond January 1, 2002, from the provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1308-Carrico) by voice vote |
| HB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Gift cards. Prohibits the issuance of a gift card that automatically, as a result of the passage of a period of time following its purchase or activation (i) expires, (ii) diminishes in value by the assessment of a maintenance fee or inactivity fee,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Investor-owned electric utilities; ratemaking. Establishes a process to be used by the State Corporation Commission in conducting biennial reviews of the rates, terms, and conditions of service of investor-owned electric utilities that, as of July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1308-Carrico) by voice vote |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; IN GOD WE TRUST. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: IN GOD WE TRUST.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of mercury switches from scrap and recycled vehicles. Requires manufactures to submit mercury minimization plans to the Department of Environmental Quality that include information on mercury switch removal from motor vehicles. Vehicle manuf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote |
| HB673 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; members. Increases the number of members of the State Corporation Commission from three to five, effective February 1, 2011. The measure also requires that each Commissioner initially elected or appointed to the State Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Approval of transmission lines; environmental impact. Requires the State Corporation Commission, as a condition of approving the construction of an underground or overhead transmission line, to establish certain conditions to minimize adverse environ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1222 | Intro
Sine Die | Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund; grant program. Requires electric utilities to provide customers with the option to make voluntary contributions to the Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund, which is established by this measure. Moneys ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle titles. Exempts "Special construction and forestry equipment" from having to be titled in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | HOT lane construction contracts. Requires that HOT lane construction contracts contain requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using the facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB272 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; definition of law-enforcement officer. Includes certain employees of a sheriff's department under the coverage of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act, so long as the employees woul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote |
| HB915 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Towing and Recovery Operators; regulation exemptions. Requires that the Board of Towing and Recovery Operators exempt from its regulations "automobile or watercraft transporters," "stinger-steered automobiles or watercraft tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Business entity fees for veterans. Reduces the fee for filing articles of organization of a domestic limited liability company and the charter fee for a domestic corporation to $25 if each member and manager, or director and shareholder, as applicabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle registration and driver's license application contents. The Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide a method by which an applicant conducting registration and license applications using electronic means may make a voluntary contribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Continued to 2011 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Housing Board; fair housing certification program. Requires the Fair Housing Board to establish and mandate, by regulation, an education-based certification program for persons subject to the Fair Housing Law who are involved in the business or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB192-Cosgrove) by voice vote |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Chief Executive Officer for Transportation. Abolishes the office of Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and replaces that position with a Chief Executive Officer for Transportation who takes over the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to members and supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. The annual surcharge for thes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Continued to 2011 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; limit on increases in base rates. Limits any increase in the base rates charged by an investor-owned incumbent electric utility to five percent if the unemployment rate within the utility's service territory exceeds five percent. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB510 | Intro
Sine Die | State Inspector General. Establishes the Office of the State Inspector General to examine the management and operation of state agencies and nonstate agencies that receive state funds, conduct independent evaluations of the programs and activities of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Association of Realtors. Makes license plates issued to members of the Association of Realtors revenue-sharing special license plates. The annual surcharge for these plates would now be $25, instead of the standard $10 for mos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; right to surrender time-share. Gives a time-share owner the right to surrender his time-share and be relieved of any further obligations related to the time-share provided certain conditions specified in the bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote |
| HB1333 | Intro
Sine Die | Preneed funeral contracts; authority of State Corporation Commission. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to oversee the sale of preneed funeral contracts that are to be funded by the proceeds of a life insurance policy. The measure prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual health insurance coverage; requirement to obtain. Provides that a resident of the Commonwealth shall not be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual insurance coverage. This applies regardless of whether the person has or is e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-04
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB10-Marshall, R.G.) by voice vote |
| HB90 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic filing in civil or criminal actions. Allows the clerks of the circuit courts within the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit to establish electronic filing in civil and criminal actions maintained by a designated application service provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB974-Kilgore) by voice vote |
