| HB263 | Pass | Cutting of weeds and grass. Adds Winchester 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 (CHAP0403) |
| HB1 | Pass | Unsolicited commercial electronic mail (spam); penalty. Narrows the scope of the existing spam statute to cover only those emails that constitute unsolicited commercial electronic mail (spam). Commercial electronic mail is defined in the bill as elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB4 | Pass | Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee. Removes the cap on reappointments for nonlegislative citizen members of the Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee. Currently, nonlegislative citizen members may only serve three consecutive two-year terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| HB1066 | Pass | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; uniform general studies certificate. Requires the development of a uniform certificate of general studies program by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with the Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| HB5 | Pass | Claims; Victor Anthony Burnette. Provides relief in the amount of $226,065 to Victor Anthony Burnette, who was incarcerated from October 1979 to November 1987 after being convicted of rape and burglary. Forensic testing conducted in 2006 using previo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| HB708 | Pass | Home health aides; drug testing. Requires home health care organizations to establish policies for maintaining a drug free work place, which may include drug testing of employees, and requires home health care organizations to report any positive res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB710 | Pass | Health care data and reporting. Requires the Department of Health to take steps to increase public awareness of data and information related to health care quality that is available through a website maintained by a nonprofit organization with which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| HB239 | Pass | Animal control officers; county manager form of government. Requires that the division of police in localities using the county manager form of government, currently only Henrico County, have an animal protection police officer and at least one deput...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| HB1162 | Pass | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; regulation of pyrotechnicians and fireworks operators. Provides for the State Fire Marshal to establish a certification program for pyrotechnician or fireworks operator to design, setup, conduct or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| HB11 | Pass | Health services; peer utilization reviews. Clarifies that a health care provider may seek reconsideration or appeal of an adverse health care utilization review decision, and that written notification of an adverse decision must include instructions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| SB272 | Pass | Biodiesel and green diesel; procurement by state public bodies. Requires the Department of General Services to establish the conditions under which state public bodies may procure diesel fuel containing, at a minimum, two percent, by volume, biodiese...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| HB719 | Pass | Uniform Power of Attorney Act (UPOAA). Establishes in the Code of Virginia the Uniform Act that was adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2006. The UPOAA consists of default rules that can be modified if the pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB16 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); property exempt from taxation. Provides for a referendum at the November 2010 election on the approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to property exempt from taxation. The proposed amendme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| HB247 | Pass | Involuntary commitment, certification, and mandatory outpatient treatment orders; appeals. Reduces from 30 to 10 days the length of time for a person to appeal to circuit court an order for involuntarily commitment, mandatory outpatient treatment, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| HB1145 | Pass | Veterinarians; reporting suspected animal cruelty. Provides that any veterinarian who makes a report of suspected animal cruelty or who provides records or information related to a report of suspected cruelty or testifies in any judicial proceeding a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| HB415 | Pass | Certificate of Public Need; exception. Provides that the relocation of no more than 10 nursing home beds or 10 percent of the beds, whichever is less, from one facility to another facility under common ownership or control that is located in an adjac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| HB1147 | Pass | Civil damages for computer trespass. Expands the availability to institute a suit for civil damages resulting from computer trespass to include computer trespass by installing or causing to be installed, or collecting information through, computer so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| HB50 | Pass | Absentee voting; duties of the general registrar; penalty. Requires, once the printed ballots are available, that the general registrar send the absentee ballot within three business days of receiving a properly completed application. Any person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| HB290 | Pass | Fire programs; donated equipment; liability. Provides that any fire/EMS department of a city, town, or county, or any fire/EMS company donating equipment for fighting fires or performing emergency medical services to any fire/EMS department or any fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| HB417 | Pass | Exchange Facilitators Act; established. Establishes requirements for the activities of exchange facilitators, who are persons that for a fee, enter into an agreement with a taxpayer to act as (i) a qualified intermediary in an exchange of like-kind p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| HB291 | Pass | Appeal of bail decision. Specifies the court to which a bail decision, bond amount, or term of recognizance should be appealed. The proper court is determined based on where the initial determination was made and the court in which the charge is pend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB861 | Pass | Motion picture film production tax credits. Provides refundable income tax credits to any motion picture film production company with qualifying expenses of at least $250,000 with respect to a motion picture film production in the Commonwealth for ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB737 | Pass | E-Verify Program. Requires agencies of the Commonwealth to enroll in the E-Verify Program by December 1, 2012, and to use the Program for each newly hired employee who is to perform work within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| SB291 | Pass | Donations by localities; energy efficiency. Provides that a locality may make gifts and donations to any nonprofit tax-exempt organization that is engaged in providing energy efficiency services or promoting energy efficiency within or without the bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| HB741 | Pass | Use of profane, threatening, or indecent language over public airways or by computer or text. Provides that any person who uses obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or makes any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565) |
| SB293 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; demonstrator vehicles; vehicle buyer's orders. Establishes conditions under which dealers may sell demonstrator vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| HB742 | Pass | Impoundment of vehicle for driving while license suspended. Allows vehicle impoundment for a violation of §18.2-272 (driving on a suspended license when suspended for driving for DUI or a DUI-related crime) and provides that a motor vehicle impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| HB296 | Pass | Water safety zones. Authorizes marine patrol divisions of police departments in Tidewater localities and conservation police officers of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to patrol those tidal waters that have been designated as federal saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB297 | Pass | Civil penalties for violations of noise ordinance. Authorizes the governing body of a locality to adopt civil penalties for violations of noise ordinances. Civil fines will not exceed $250 for the first offense and $500 for each subsequent offense. N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| HB63 | Pass | In-person absentee voting; late applications and emergencies. Expands the scope of persons defined as members of the voter's immediate family, and whose death or hospitalization permits the registered voter to submit a late application for in-person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| SB8 | Pass | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; regulation of pyrotechnicians and fireworks operators. Provides for the State Fire Marshal to establish a certification program for pyrotechnician or fireworks operator to design, setup, conduct or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| HB486 | Pass | Impeding hunting. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally facilitate or attempt to cause a violation of the baiting law by putting out bait or salt in a place used or occupied by hunters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| HB764 | Pass | Income tax credits; landlords participating in housing choice voucher programs. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit beginning with the 2010 taxable year for landlords who participate in a housing choice voucher program. Eligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| HB488 | Pass | Model bow hunting ordinance; penalty. Directs the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to develop model bow hunting ordinances for those counties and cities where the deer population is overabundant, resulting in conflicts between humans and deer. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| HB308 | Pass | Regulation of mobile dental clinics. Requires the Board of Dentistry to develop regulations for the registration of mobile dental clinics and other portable dental operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| HB769 | Pass | Consecutive license suspensions for DUI. Provides that any suspension of driving privilege for driving while intoxicated shall run consecutively with any other court-ordered period of suspension for driving while intoxicated or for underage driving w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| HB1246 | Pass | Officers and directors of public utilities; required disclosure. Limits the disclosure requirement for any officer or director of a public utility with an ownership value of more than five percent or $50,000 in a contractor or subcontractor hired by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| HB311 | Pass | Hospitalization of inmates in local correctional facilities. Repeals provisions dealing with determining (i) a defendant's competency to be sentenced after he has been convicted of a crime and (ii) whether an inmate who is in the custody of a local c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| HB1187 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Health Authority; appointments; quorum. Adds four additional appointments to the Authority's board of directors and deletes the requirement that a quorum include a majority of the representatives of the Authority's localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0575) |
| HB533 | Pass | Natural gas utilities; cost recovery for certain infrastructure improvement costs. Authorizes investor-owned natural gas utilities to petition the State Corporation Commission to implement a separate rider that will allow for recovery of certain cost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| HB1188 | Pass | Local board of social services; county board form of government. Allows counties that have adopted the county board form of government to appoint five rather than three members to the local board of social services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB314 | Pass | DNA data bank. Makes technical changes providing that instead of blood, saliva and tissue samples, "samples of human biological evidence" shall be analyzed. The bill also provides that results of analyses are to be provided to an accused or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| HB535 | Pass | Unemployment benefits; minimum earnings requirement. Postpones the scheduled increase, from $2,700 to $3,000, in the minimum amount of wages an employee must have earned in the two highest earnings quarters of his base period in order to be eligible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| HB315 | Pass | Health insurance; continuation of coverage under group policy. Expands the ability of a person who becomes ineligible for coverage under a group health insurance policy to exercise the option to continue coverage under the group policy. The measure (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| HB1191 | Pass | Issuance of concealed handgun permits; clerk of court. Allows a circuit court judge to authorize the clerk of court to issue concealed handgun permits in instances where the application is complete, the background check does not indicate that the app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| HB317 | Pass | Group health insurance; enrollment opportunities. Requires group health insurance policies, health services plans, and health care plans to offer enrollment opportunities for employees and dependents who are eligible for coverage under, but not enrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB1193 | Pass | Actions or suits involving fiduciaries; style of the case; amendment of pleading. Provides that in any action or suit required to be prosecuted or defended by or in the name of a fiduciary, the style of the case in regard to the fiduciary must be sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| SB334 | Pass | Concealed handguns; restaurants; penalty. Allows a person with a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun onto the premises of a restaurant or club and prohibits such person from consuming alcoholic beverages while on the premises. A per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB1195 | Pass | Impanelment of multi-jurisdiction grand jury. Provides that the impaneling order shall designate the jurisdiction requested on the application as the jurisdiction where the multi-jurisdiction grand jury shall be convened and shall appoint a judge of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| SB257 | Pass | Motion picture film production tax credits. Provides refundable income tax credits to any motion picture film production company with qualifying expenses of at least $250,000 with respect to a motion picture film production in the Commonwealth for ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
