| HB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Capital Projects Revenue Bonds. Provides that at least 50 percent of the proceeds of Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Capital Projects Revenue Bonds would be used for new road or highway construction pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote |
| HB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; proceedings for enforcement. Clarifies that when an FOIA petition is filed, the party against whom the writ is brought must be served with a copy of the petition prior to filing. The bill contains a technical amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB976-Anderson) by voice vote |
| HB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Street maintenance payments. Provides for increased payments where traffic volumes exceed the statewide average by more than 20 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Tabled in Transportation (13-Y 4-N) |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposal of solid waste fees; Isle of Wight and Southampton County. Allows Isle of Wight County and Southampton County to levy fees upon each household for disposal of solid waste as long as said fee does not exceed the fees paid by the county to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by Local Government (SB19-Lucas) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1139 | Intro
Sine Die | Local regulation of handbill distribution and others activities on highways. Adds the Town of West Point to existing provisions that allow certain localities to prohibit or regulate the distribution of handbills, and other similar activities, to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB350-Rust) by voice vote |
| SB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Provisional and paper ballots; information to be made available on the Internet. Requires the State Board of Elections to make available on its website the total number of provisional and official paper ballots cast and counted for each precinct. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of handbills, etc., solicitation of contributions, and sale of merchandise on highways. Grants Chesterfield County the power to regulate and prohibit distribution of handbills, leaflets, bulletins, etc., the solicitation of contributions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB350-Rust) by voice vote |
| SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Local restrictions on farm businesses. Provides that local restriction upon activities and events at farm businesses to market and sell their products shall be reasonable and shall take into account the economic impact on the farm business of such re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | HOT lanes. Requires that, in designating HOT lanes, lane shoulder widths are sufficient for safe operation of transit vehicles and levels of performance of existing HOV facilities do not deteriorate. The bill further mandates that local governments' ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| SJR137 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 0-N) |
| HB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; third party shipment of wine and beer. Authorizes a third party located off the licensed premises and under the direction and control of the Virginia wine or beer shipper licensee to (i) solicit and receive orders for wine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB630-Scott, E.T.) by voice vote |
| HB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Audiologists; authority to dispense hearing aids. Provides that licensed audiologists may also engage in the practice of fitting or dealing in hearing aids without obtaining a separate license from the Board of Hearing Aid Specialists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Continued to 2011 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. Grants the board of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority the power to establish a ranger police division and appoint rangers who may exercise the powers and duties conferred by law upon local police off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee ballot return; drop boxes prohibited. Provides that absentee ballots returned in person must be physically delivered to and received by a member of the electoral board, the registrar, or an assistant registrar, and that deposit in drop boxes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (4-Y 10-N 1-A) |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Fences along Interstate highways. Requires VDOT to adhere to local policies in installing and maintaining fences along Interstate Highway System components.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Continued to 2011 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Lyme disease; long-term antibiotic therapy allowed. Allows a licensed physician to prescribe, administer, or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient diagnosed with Lyme disease. Also specifies that the Board of Medicine shall not initiate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Continued to 2011 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB600 | Intro
Sine Die | Designation of annual surplus to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases from two-thirds to 75 percent the amount of the general fund surplus designated to the Transportation Trust Fund within the Comptroller's annual report following the close of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; injunctive relief for public bodies under certain circumstances. Provides that any public body may petition a court for injunctive relief to restrain a requester from harassment or other abuse of the rights or privileges g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote |
| HB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of handbills, etc., solicitation of contributions and sale of merchandise on highways. Makes the power to regulate and prohibit distribution of handbills, leaflets, bulletins, etc., on highways a statewide authority. This bill was incorp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB350-Rust) by voice vote |
| HB969 | Intro
Sine Die | PPTA; preconditions to certain comprehensive agreements. Requires that highway construction projects of $100 million or more undertaken under the PPTA have prior approval from the General Assembly. The bill further requires that any proposed PPTA con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Tabled in Transportation (14-Y 4-N) |
| HB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Lyme disease; reporting; registry. Provides that the Board of Health shall include Lyme disease on the list of diseases required to be reported, and directs the Department of Health to develop a Lyme Disease Registry to collect information about repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions (HB512-Rust) by voice vote |
| SB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; transfer of development rights. Allows any county with the urban county executive form of government to provide in its zoning ordinances for the dedication of density or other rights to develop real property, as defined by the county, from on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Lyme disease; reporting and treatment. Requires the Board of Health to include Lyme disease on the list of diseases required to be reported, and allows a licensed physician to prescribe, administer or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to a patien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions (HB512-Rust) by voice vote |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Alternative onsite sewage systems. Allows any locality to enact an ordinance prohibiting the use of alternative onsite sewage systems that have been approved by the Virginia Department of Health for use in the particular circumstances and conditions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 10-N) |
| HB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Lyme disease; reporting and treatment. Requires the Board of Health to include Lyme disease on the list of diseases required to be reported, and allows a licensed physician to prescribe, administer or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to a patien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Health, Welfare and Institutions (HB512-Rust) by voice vote |
| HB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. Increases the maximum amount of coverage provided by the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association for life insurance policies from $300,000 to $500,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-02
House: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB448-Ware, R.L.) by voice vote |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden fishery. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations to implement the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden. The bill also requires that any moratorium on the fishery be subject to legislative rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; small business reduced rate. Allows a reduction of one percent in the corporate income tax rate for up to three years for certain small businesses that increase the number of their full-time employees by a minimum of five percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Continued to 2011 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; indexing rates, filing thresholds, personal exemptions, and standard deductions. Indexes to the rate of inflation the amount in the income tax brackets for tax rates, filing thresholds, personal exemptions, and standard deductions, for ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Continued to 2011 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB562 | 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] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB239-Watkins) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Labeling fertilizer products. Requires that specialty fertilizers include a label with directions for proper fertilizer use and precautionary statements to educate users. Specialty fertilizer means a fertilizer distributed for nonfarm use, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of pesticides and fertilizers; civil penalty. Prohibits commercial providers of lawn care and landscaping services from broadly applying pesticides and fertilizers onto impervious surfaces such as streets and driveways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Using transportation district trains without a valid ticket. Rewrites the code section that punishes unlawfully riding on a transportation district train. The bill punishes failure or refusal to pay the posted fare, or failure to properly validate a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB25-Puller) (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB978 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; statewide uniform grading policy. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide uniform grading policy whereby a student could receive a maximum of five quality points for an "A" in an Advanced Placement, Inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Continued to 2011 in Education by voice vote |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management programs. Delays the effective date of regulations that establish local program criteria and delegation procedures and the water quality and water quantity criteria for stormwater management from July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2011. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB395-Wagner) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Adds to the "good cause" circumstances for which school divisions may be granted a waiver from the regular post-Labor Day school opening schedule a school division containing one or more elementary schools that are receivin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| HB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Open Education Curriculum Board; established. Establishes the Open Education Curriculum Board. The purpose of the Board is to designate qualifying entities as Open Education Consortiums and set the standards for submission of education materials and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Continued to 2011 in Education by voice vote |
| HB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; public school renovation tax credit. Provides an income tax credit to taxpayers that undertake and complete a public school renovation, in accordance with the provisions of the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Continued to 2011 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax deduction for organ donation. Increases the deduction from Virginia adjusted gross income for organ donation from $5,000 to $25,000 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Continued to 2011 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB805 | Intro
Sine Die | Royalties from offshore drilling. Requires that 80 percent of any revenues and royalties paid to the Commonwealth as a result of offshore natural gas and oil drilling shall be deposited to the Transportation Trust Fund. The remaining 20 percent shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB756-Stolle) by voice vote |
| HB1212 | Intro
Sine Die | Visitors of Norfolk State University; authority. Authorizes the Visitors of Norfolk State University, with the approval of the Governor first obtained, to lease real estate to which the University has acquired title by gift, devise or purchase.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Worker Misclassification Act; penalties. Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as an independent contractor if he is an employee. An individual shall be considered an employee of the party which pays that remuneration, for purposes of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Workplace Fraud Act. Establishes penalties for employers providing construction services that wrongly classify their employees as independent contractors. The measure authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to initiate an investigation unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | Child support; child attending college. Provides that child support may be ordered for a child attending an institution of higher learning until the child obtains an undergraduate degree or reaches the age of 23.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 1-N) |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic tracking devices in motor vehicles. Provides that any person who, with the intent to electronically track the location of a motor vehicle, knowingly installs or places an electronic tracking device, or causes an electronic tracking device ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Pursuant to Senate Rule 20(L) |
| HB397 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; statewide uniform grading policy. Requires the Board of Education to establish a policy to interpret end-of-course grades in a uniform manner across the Commonwealth in grades 6 - 12, but allows for a weighted grading system for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Incorporated by Education (HB978-Anderson) by voice vote |
| SB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Rabies vaccination certificates; responsibilities of treasurer. Removes the responsibility of the local treasurer for transmitting dog license applications to residents of the locality who have vaccinated their dog for rabies but failed to apply for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 2-N) |
| HB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Offshore drilling; royalties. Apportions 80 percent of any royalties that the Commonwealth might receive from offshore drilling for natural gas and oil to the Transportation Trust Fund, and 20 percent to programs developed by the Secretary of Natural...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB756-Stolle) by voice vote |
| SB649 | Intro
Sine Die | Autism Tuition Assistance Grant Program established; mandated health insurance for autism. Establishes a tuition assistance grant program for students with autism. The program provides grants of no more than $20,000 a year per student to a Virginia n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth's lien for payment of medical services; limitations. Provides that a lien granted to the Commonwealth against any recovery from a third party obtained by an injured person whose medical costs were paid pursuant to the Virginia Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
