| HB786 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; polling hours. Extends the hours that polls close on election day from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid; withdrawal upon passage of federal health reform. Requires the state to withdraw from the Medicaid program upon passage of federal health care reform that substantially diminishes the state's authority in administering medical services thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Political campaign advertisements; disclosure requirements. Provides that advertisements on the Internet that do not contain sufficient space to display the required disclosure statement may meet disclosure requirements by providing a direct link to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting procedures. Deletes the requirement that domestic absentee voters must provide detailed information (i.e., full name and full address) in their sworn statement on the envelope in which they return their marked absentee ball...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Common interest communities; annual assessment by Common Interest Community Board. Changes from the lesser of $1,000 to $2,000 and from five hundredths of one percent (0.05 percent) to two hundredths of one percent (0.02 percent), the amount of the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1264 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; Green Public Buildings Act. Requires public bodies entering the design phase for construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or renovating such a building where the cost of renovation e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB818 | 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] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Business entities; process. Provides that "process," when referring to service of process on the registered agent of a corporation, limited liability company, or business trust, includes any subpoena, summons, order, or other notice requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchase of Virginia-grown food products by state agencies and institutions and local school divisions. Provides for the Department of General Services to establish procurement procedures to facilitate the purchase of Virginia-grown food products by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school board; annual report. Requires that the form provided by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to local school divisions for the purposes of the annual report, include (i) total expenditure per student; (ii) transportation cost per st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Education Committee |
| HB821 | Intro
Sine Die | Child custody; record of in camera interview. Expands the requirement that a court of record shall make a record of any in camera interview conducted with a child in a custody or visitation proceeding to include courts not of record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Commission on the Centennial of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency. Establishes in the legislative branch of state government a commission charged with planning, developing, and implementing statewide appropriate programs and activities to commemor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Rules Committee |
| HB947 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricted permit; unsatisfied judgments. Adds driving to and from the grocery store to the list of places a person can drive when issued a restricted permit for a DUI. Further provides that the Commissioner may issue a restricted permit to a person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, and public hearings, etc.; alternatives. Gives localities alternatives to publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality for legal ads and other notices of pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB948 | Intro
Sine Die | HOT lanes. Requires VDOT to conduct a NEPA study prior to any HOT lane construction on any portion of I-95 or I-395.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of police and court records in district court. Provides that if a person is charged with the commission of a misdemeanor criminal offense and is acquitted, or the charge is dismissed with prejudice, he may immediately, upon the acquittal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; candidate statement of qualification. Makes it explicit that a false statement on a candidate's statement of qualification is unlawful and subject to Class 5 felony penalties under Code §24.2-1016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1271 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulating firearms by educational institution. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of an educational institution has the power to establish rules and regulations for the possession or transportation of firearms or ammunition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Melendez-Diaz notice to an accused proceeding pro se. Provides that notice of "Melendez-Diaz" 6th Amendment rights to be given to an accused who is proceeding pro se shall be given to the accused only after he has waived his right to counsel in a cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance pilot project. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a three-year rental assistance pilot project and to report its findings and recommendations to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding and administration. Provides for transportation funding and administration in Hampton Roads, Northern Virginia, the Richmond Highway Construction District, the Staunton Highway Construction District, and the Salem Highway Const...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Registration of limited service pregnancy centers. Requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations for the registration of limited service pregnancy centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional assessment for electronic summons system. Allows any locality to assess an additional $3 as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court to be used for the implementation and maintenance of an electronic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic recording of court proceedings. Authorizes the circuit and district court clerks to set up an electronic recording system in their courtrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB454 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Council; causes of action in employment discrimination. Expands the protection for employees for discrimination by certain employers (those having more than five but less than 15 employees) for failure or refusal to hire or for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold amount. Increases from $200 to $750 the threshold amount of money or the value of the goods or chattel that the defendant must take before the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The same threshold is increased f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB455 | Intro
Sine Die | Discrimination by public employers based on genetic characteristics prohibited. Prohibits the Commonwealth and other public bodies from taking adverse employment actions based on genetic testing or genetic characteristics. Such actions are currently ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB829 | Intro
Sine Die | Expert witnesses in criminal cases. Extends the application of two evidentiary statutes applicable in civil cases (§§8.01-401.1 and 8.01-401.3) to criminal cases. Va. Code §8.01-401.1 allows an expert witness to render an opinion or draw i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Admissibility of certificates of analysis at preliminary hearing; at trial. Provides that at any preliminary hearing, certificates of analysis and reports prepared by lab analysts, etc., shall be admissible without the testimony of the person prepari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB955 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption. Adds salaried and volunteer lifesaving and rescue squad members to the list of public safety personnel who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease are occupational dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB830 | Intro
Sine Die | Food and beverage tax; Fairfax County. Adds Fairfax County to those counties that may impose a food and beverage tax without a referendum, provided the governing body votes unanimously to impose the tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SJR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; state sovereignty. Urges the Congress of the United States to honor state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; filing date. Changes the Commonwealth's individual income tax returns filing date and estimated tax returns date from May 1 to April 15, like the federal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Limited access highways; keep right except to pass. Requires traffic on limited access highways to drive in the right-most lane, except to pass.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses. Requires the Department of General Services, in conjunction with the Department of Minority Business Enterprise, to develop a program that insures that at least 15 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; reports of absentee voting. Requires election results for the central absentee voter precinct to indicate the precinct of the absentee voter unless the reported total for any precinct within the central absentee precinct would disclose ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB459 | Intro
Sine Die | Pedestrians and drivers; responsibilities. Sets out the responsibilities of pedestrians and drivers at marked and unmarked crosswalks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB833 | Intro
Sine Die | Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspectors; regulation of home energy auditors. Provides for the licensure of home energy auditors by the Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspectors. The bill defines home energy audits and includes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospital emergency departments; access to electronic health records. Requires the Board of Health to include in regulations a requirement that all hospitals operating emergency departments develop and maintain a health information system that allows ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| HB959 | Intro
Sine Die | Check cashers; customer identification; penalty. Makes it unlawful for a person required to be registered as a check casher to fail to (i) make copies of the item cashed and a valid identification document of the customer or thumbprint for every tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB835 | 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 |
| HB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Restrictions on issuance of process of arrest by a magistrate. Provides that a magistrate may not issue an arrest warrant for a felony offense upon the basis of a complaint by a person other than a law-enforcement officer without prior authorization...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB838 | Intro
Sine Die | Local correctional facilities; use of state funds for local alternative incarceration programs. Allows the use of state funds appropriated for financial assistance for the confinement of persons in local facilities for local alternative incarceration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1287 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; sexual orientation. Adds sexual orientation to the definition of unlawful discriminatory practice in the Virginia Human Rights Act. The bill defines "sexual orientation."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB839 | Intro
Sine Die | Fines under local ordinances; Literary Fund. Provides that fines imposed under certain local ordinances dealing with traffic infractions are to be transmitted to the state treasury, and deposited in the Literary Fund, as is the case with fines impose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuels taxes; indexing of tax rates. Increases or decreases each year the rates of Virginia's fuels taxes using a fuel efficiency index. The bill would define the fuel efficiency index as the quotient that is obtained when using as the numerator the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB470 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; Property Owners' Association Act; foreclosure on lien for unpaid assessments; priority of certain liens. Provides that a property owners' or condominium association may conduct a foreclosure sale on a lien for unpaid assessments subj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium and Property Owners Association Acts; rule enforcement. Increases from 90 to 180 days the amount of time a total charge for any violation of association rules of a continuing nature may be assessed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Community College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Community College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to community college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds paid shall not exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter registration applications; proof of citizenship. Requires that proof of citizenship be filed with registration applications. The act will take effect January 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-16
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
