| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding; the Salem Highway Construction District. Provides funds for transportation in the Salem Highway Construction District by allocating revenue attributable to a portion of economic growth due to or facilitated by the Inland Port ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB178 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility of seasonal or temporary workers for unemployment benefits. Disqualifies an unemployed individual for unemployment compensation benefits if he was provided with written notice, and signed an acknowledgment of receipt of such notice, by hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; powers and duties. Authorizes the State Board to make reasonable inspections of any polling place or any general registrar or electoral board office. The bill also provides that the State Board shall develop and implement pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each 10th year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Authority of jail superintendent and jail officers to serve process. Provides that the superintendent and jail officers at regional jail facilities are invested with the powers and authority of a sheriff or sheriff's deputy for the purpose of service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB809 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; dangerous and vicious dogs. Includes individuals who have suffered physical injury or death due to an attack by a dangerous or vicious dog as victims for the purpose of eligibility to receive awards from the Crimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; early voting. Provides that any registered voter qualified to vote in the election may vote in person from 19 to three days before the election at specified times and at the sites provided in the locality. The provisions for absentee votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Waiver of payment of interest on fines and costs; incarcerated defendant. Provides for the purging of interest on fines and costs for an incarcerated defendant when such fines and costs have accrued on cases other than the one for which the defendant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacant building registration. Increases the maximum registration fee required of an owner of a building that has been vacant for a continuous period of 12 months from $25 to $250.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of criminal conviction record. Allows a person convicted of a criminal offense to have his conviction expunged after 10 years have passed following the conviction, upon a showing that his opportunities for employment, education, or profe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited contributions from certain attorneys; penalty. Prohibits any attorney who has represented or reasonably anticipates the representation of the Virginia Retirement System or any local retirement system in securities litigation from making a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Local business license tax; payment of all taxes prior to license renewal or issuance. Allows the local governing bodies to require applicants of business licenses for new and existing businesses to prove payment of all local taxes before the local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Petition to vacate finding of guilt of convicted person. Provides that notwithstanding any rule of court or any other provision of law, any person convicted of a crime may, upon the discovery of previously unknown or unavailable evidence, petition jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Government Efficiency Review Commission; established. Establishes the Government Efficiency Review Commission to review agencies on an eight-year cycle and advise the General Assembly on the elimination of waste, duplication, and inefficiency on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Fees for attorneys for the Commonwealth in criminal cases. Increases from $15 to $40 the fee that an attorney for the Commonwealth may receive for a felony case, and from $5 to $15 the fee that an attorney for the Commonwealth may receive for a misde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; early voting. Provides that any registered voter qualified to vote in the election may vote in person from 14 to three days before the election, or eight to three days before a special election, in the office of the general registrar or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; defined contribution retirement plan. Creates a new defined contribution retirement plan for all employees who begin employment on or after July 1, 2010, in lieu of participating in any other retirement plan administered b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; registration of machine guns. Requires that the Superintendent of State Police be notified in writing of the change of address of the registrant or the change of the address of the permanent physical location of a machine gun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB541 | 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] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in cars with minor present; civil penalty. Makes it unlawful for a person to smoke in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, in which a child under the age of 13 is present, punishable by a civil penalty of $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sales and use tax; distribution to Transportation Trust Fund. Increases the distribution to the Transportation Trust Fund from the sales and use tax revenue generated by a one-half percent sales and use tax to the sales and use tax revenue gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill; estimate of impact on the number of state employees. Requires the Director of the House Appropriations Committee staff to estimate the net change in the number of state employees resulting from Budget Bills pending before the House of De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care facilities; licensure fees. Allows the Board of Health to establish annual licensure and renewal fees for certain health care facilities and programs and to set additional fees to cover the cost of the licensure and inspection programs. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed handguns; judges. Allows a judge to carry a concealed handgun without a permit at all times. Currently, judges are authorized to carry a concealed handgun without a permit while in the discharge of their official duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax surtax to fund car tax relief. Imposes a state individual income tax surtax to provide a new source of revenue for localities to encourage them to essentially remove the tangible personal property tax on vehicles that currently qualify und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end lending; car title loans. Provides that extensions of credit under an open-end credit or similar plan by a seller or lender, under which interest currently may be charged at any rate on which the parties agree, may be made only by sellers of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical emergency response plan and automated external defibrillators; required in certain buildings. Requires the development of medical emergency response plans and the installation of automated external defibrillators in health spas and certain st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Payday loans; permitted interest. Repeals provisions of the Payday Loan Act that authorize lenders to charge a loan fee or verification fee, thereby limiting permissible charges on payday loans to simple interest at a maximum annual rate of 36 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; rental inspections; posting of signs. Provides that a rental inspection ordinance may include a provision that requires the owners of any multifamily residential development in a rental inspection district, which dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Hate crimes; homeless persons; penalty. Adds homeless persons to the categories of persons who may seek injunctive relief or file an action for damages for harassment, etc., based on their status. The bill also adds homeless persons to the categories...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunizations; philosophical exemption. Establishes a philosophical exemption from requirements for immunizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; delay textbook purchases. Provides that local school divisions shall not be required to purchase new textbooks until the 2011 - 2012 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB614 | Intro
Sine Die | Conformity with Internal Revenue Code. Advances the date as of which Virginia's system of taxation conforms with the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) from December 31, 2008, to December 31, 2009, and adds two new exceptions; the deferral of certain income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB855 | Intro
Sine Die | Internet sex offender registry information. Allows the Internet sex offender registry information system to include a "wanted" notation for a person who is wanted for any crime. Currently, the "wanted" notation is only posted for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB353 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; redirecting of class size reduction funds. Requires any funds appropriated for class size reduction programs for the 2010 - 2012 biennium to instead be distributed as direct aid to public education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearm on public school property; penalty. Prohibits a person from possessing an unloaded firearm that is in a closed container in or upon a motor vehicle located at a public elementary, middle, or high school or an unloaded shotgun or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony to knowingly violate §30-103, which lists 11 categories of prohibited conduct for General Assembly members, if the violation involves a monetary value of more than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices in motor vehicles; penalty. Makes texting while driving a primary offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Procurement of services by certain state agencies. Requires the Director of the Division of Purchases and Supply of the Department of General Services to require each state agency, except law-enforcement agencies, to procure nonprofessional services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Child visitation. Provides that the court may order that a parent who has a documented history of alcohol abuse, as a condition of visitation, have an ignition interlock system installed on each vehicle that the parent drives with the child as a pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB859 | 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] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB551 | Intro
Sine Die | Local rezoning actions. Provides for more limited review by VDOT when a property being considered for rezoning has already been subject to a VDOT review in connection with development of a local comprehensive plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
Senate: Continued to 2011 in Local Government |
| HB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Stalking; enhanced penalties. Provides that any person who commits a second or subsequent offense of stalking occurring within five years of a conviction of a prior offense is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, the Class 6 felony applies for a th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit line deeds of trust; maturity date. Puts credit line deeds of trust under the same 20-year statute of limitations as other deeds of trust and mortgages. Currently, credit lines without a specific maturity date are unenforceable after 40 years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB364 | 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 Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Careless driving. Provides that a person is guilty of careless driving, a Class 3 misdemeanor, if he commits a moving violation under Title 46.2 while using a handheld personal communications device, unless he is using such communications device in h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile correctional facilities; nonviolent offenders. Requires the Department of Juvenile Justice to maintain at least one juvenile facility for nonviolent juvenile offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Estate tax reinstated. Reinstates the estate tax for persons dying on or after July 1, 2010. No estate tax will be imposed on a gross estate if the majority of the assets of the estate is an interest in a closely held business or a working farm. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zones) in the state. Requires the Department of General Services, in conjunction with the Department of Minority Business Enterprise, to develop a progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Payments to cities and towns for maintenance. Equalizes municipal street payments to comparable amounts paid for state maintenance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
