| HB1340 | Intro
Sine Die | Land application of sewage sludge. Authorizes those localities located in karst regions to prohibit the land application of sewage sludge within their boundaries. Karst terrain is characterized by springs, caves, sinkholes, and a unique hydrogeology ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Major business facility job tax credit. Reduces the threshold amount of jobs that must be created for the major business facility job tax credit to 25 jobs, regardless of the area in which the business is located. Increases the tax credit from $1,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB472-Watkins) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; GPS devices. Authorizes a judicial officer to require that a protective order respondent be subject to GPS monitoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; GPS devices. Authorizes a judicial officer to require that a protective order respondent be subject to GPS monitoring that notifies the person to be protected and law enforcement when the monitored person is in violation of the ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB703 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Procurement Act; preference for construction contractors hiring local residents. Authorizes a locality to develop and implement a bidding system providing a preference to construction contractors that hire residents of the locality or the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Continued to 2011 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile records; confidentiality. Allows the Department of Juvenile Justice to share with law enforcement the information of a juvenile, without request, if it would aid in a criminal investigation involving a predicate criminal act or a criminal st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1121-Gilbert) by voice vote |
| HB255 | Intro
Sine Die | State Police; gang membership reporting. Requires the Department of Juvenile Justice to enter the person's name and other appropriate gang-related information required by the Department of State Police into the information system known as the Organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB254-Miller, P.J.) by voice vote |
| HB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Conduct of police lineups. Establishes a uniform procedure to be used in all lineups by all law-enforcement agencies intended to ensure maximum accuracy of the procedure. The bill requires that the person who administers the lineup be a person who is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1056 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal control officers. Clarifies the duties and responsibilities of animal control officers, who shall be sworn law-enforcement officers with jurisdiction over animal control and protection laws. All sheriffs, police officers, conservation police o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Reporting of water withdrawals. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to impose a civil penalty, not to exceed $1,000, upon any person who fails to register and report certain water withdrawal information. However prior, to determining whether a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; minor may petition. Clarifies that a minor may petition for a protective order with or without the consent of a parent, legal guardian, or other person standing in loco parentis to the minor and who has care and control of the mino...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawn fertilizers; penalty. Prohibits the application of fertilizers that contain phosphorus for use on lawns, golf courses, parks, and cemeteries. The prohibition does not apply to fertilizer products primarily intended for gardening, trees, shrubs,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Self-defense and defense of others. Provides that any person who lawfully occupies a dwelling is justified in using any degree of physical force, including deadly physical force, against another person when the other person has unlawfully entered the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB854-Morefield) by voice vote |
| HB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Humane investigators. Allows the appointment of new humane investigators. Currently, existing humane investigators may be reappointed, but the program is no longer open to new participants. The administrative entity that oversees animal control will ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Termination of parental rights; original jurisdiction; circuit court. Provides that the circuit courts shall have original and general jurisdiction over all cases involving the termination of residual parental rights and eliminates the juvenile and d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile correctional centers; appointment of counsel. Provides for the appointment of an attorney to assist individuals confined in a juvenile correctional center regarding any legal matter relating to their incarceration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosure of adverse medical outcomes; pilot program. Creates a pilot program to assess the creation of disclosure programs in health care facilities designed to facilitate disclosures of adverse medical outcomes between health care providers and pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Summary judgment; documents that can serve as basis for motion. Allows motions for summary judgment to be based, in whole or in part, upon pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, answers to requests for admissions, or affidavits filed in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Offers of judgment; costs. Provides that a party defending a claim may serve upon an adverse party not less than 10 days before trial an offer to allow judgment to be taken against him on specified terms, including the costs then accrued. An offer of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Nanotechnology Authority; established. Establishes the Virginia Nanotechnology Authority to promote development of nanotechnology in Virginia. The Authority will be responsible for administering a fund to be used to provide industry and inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Science and Technology by voice vote |
| HB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Antique motorboats. Establishes a special one-time $100 registration fee for antique motorboats. These are vessels that are essentially as originally constructed, are used for noncommercial purposes, and are at least 30 years old. The registration ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; rate reduction for small businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to 5.4 percent for small businesses, which are businesses defined as having 250 or fewer employees. The bill also requires the Governor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Major business facility job tax credit. Reduces from 50 to 25 the threshold amount of jobs that must be created in an enterprise zone or an economically distressed area for eligibility for the major business facility job tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB472-Watkins) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Technology, Nanotechnology and Biotechnology Investment Fund created. Creates the Technology, Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology Investment Fund to attract technology or biotechnology companies to, or assist those companies located in, the Commonwealt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Science and Technology by voice vote |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits for donations to nonprofit organizations providing educational funding. Establishes a tax credit beginning in taxable year 2010 for businesses donating cash or personal property to nonprofit organizations providing funding (i) in the form...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB214 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Termination of parental rights; juvenile court as court of record. Provides that final orders involving the termination of parental rights and the approval of permanency plans with the goal of adoption entered by the juvenile and domestic relations d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Computer Crimes Act; definition of computer and computer network. Amends the definition of "computer" by adding cellular phones and other wireless telecommunications devices to the definition. The bill also clarifies that wired or wireless ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Passed by in Science and Technology with letter by voice vote |
| HB923 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI ignition interlock limitations. Provides that a person who is convicted of DUI is required to have an ignition interlock on the first offense as a condition of a restricted license. Currently, the requirement for an interlock is only imposed upon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1197-Iaquinto) by voice vote |
| HB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; companion animals. Provides that a court may include in a protective order provisions prohibiting harm to a companion animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by the petitioner, or his family or household members, when the ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs; powers and duties relating to consumer protection laws. Transfers investigative and consumer complaint and dispute resolution functions for certain consumer protection l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of custody of a DUI arrestee. Allows a law-enforcement officer to arrest someone for DUI, underage drinking and driving, or driving on a (DUI) suspended license if the offense is committed in his presence and then to transfer custody to anot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB770-Cleaveland) by voice vote |
| SB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; production of electricity from offshore winds. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for certain tangible personal property used directly in generating electricity from offshore winds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1259 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal records maintained by the clerk of the court; social security numbers. Provides that the clerk of each district court shall ensure that all nonconfidential court records regarding a person's conviction for a criminal offense or a traffic inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalty for certain crimes against adults 60 years of age or older. Increases criminal penalties when the victim of the offense is 60 years of age or older and the offender knows or reasonably should know the victim of the offense is 60 years of age ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB556-Herring) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditions of sentence suspension, etc.; credits toward reducing length of probation. Requires the Department of Corrections to develop a supervision plan for every offender placed on supervised probation and allows for credits to be applied toward r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal procedure; sentencing revocation report worksheets. Requires sentencing revocation report worksheets in all probation revocation and sentence suspension revocation cases in which the defendant was under the direct supervision of the probatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic filing in civil or criminal actions. Allows circuit court clerks to establish electronic filing in civil or criminal actions under the auspices and procedures of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. The bill allows fees of up to $50 fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB974-Kilgore) by voice vote |
| HB453 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of protective orders. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may effect service of a protective order by personally serving the person subject to the order with either (i) a copy of the order or (ii) a notification of the issuance of the ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; control of association by declarant. Provides that a declaration may provide for declarant control of an association and its board of directors until (i) three months after 80 percent of all lots that the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Continued to 2011 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB508 | Intro
Sine Die | Land application of sewage sludge. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt a regulation that establishes procedures for notifying health sensitive individuals who live within two miles of the site where sewage sludge is going to be land appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Destruction of live marijuana plants. Provides that where a seizure of more than 10 suspected live marijuana plants is made in connection with any drug prosecution or investigation, the appropriate law-enforcement agency may retain 10 of the seized p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB1009 | Intro
Sine Die | Plea of guilty on first-offense drug possession case; no appeal. Provides that any person who, upon a plea of guilty, is placed on probation pursuant to a deferral and dismissal arrangement in a first-offense drug possession case, who then violates a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Short-term rental property tax. Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town levying a short-term rental property tax to exempt from such tax any person engaged in the short-term rental business whose gross proceeds from all short-term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB355-Obenshain) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Enjoining violations of consumer laws. Authorizes the Office of Consumer Affairs to refer matters involving illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, or dangerous practices to the Attorney General, and to request the Office of the Attorney General to investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB388-Obenshain) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1035 | Intro
Sine Die | Information Technology governance in the Commonwealth; the Chief Information Officer; the Information Technology Investment Board; the Department of Technology Management, established; the Information Technology Investment Council, established; and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
House: Incorporated by Science and Technology (HB1034-Byron) by voice vote |
| SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; use of fireworks on residential property. Limits the exception from application of the Statewide Fire Prevention Code to the use of permissible fireworks on residential property. The current exception applies to the sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-03
Senate: Continued to 2011 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR94 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Health Professions; access to health care and health care professions in Southwest Virginia; report. Requests the Department of Health Professions to study current access to health care and health care professionals in Southwest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Rules (HJ124-Kilgore) by voice vote |
| SB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Route 28 transportation improvement district. Allows a county to initiate a change in zoning upon a property within such district in order to bring such property into conformance with the county's current comprehensive plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB510 | Intro
Sine Die | New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority. Authorizes the Towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg, the County of Montgomery, and Virginia Tech to create the New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority. The purposes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by Local Government (SB433-Edwards) (15-Y 0-N) |
