| HB2056 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; travel expenses reimbursement tax credit. Grants an income tax credit for the total amount paid annually by an employer for employees' travel expenses when such employees are required to travel outside Virginia in the natural gas industry...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2071 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater utility fees; exemptions. Provides for an exemption from stormwater utility fees for certain religious and nonprofit uses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney General. Representation of the Commonwealth in civil actions. Clarifies that the Attorney General may file a civil action in the name of the Commonwealth or parens patriae when asked to do so by the Governor; may not file a civil action or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2280 | 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 re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure procedures; assignment of deed of trust. Provides that the trustee under any deed of trust or mortgage shall not proceed with any sale of the property unless the land records of the locality in which the property is located contain a dul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2079 | 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] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1654 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuels tax rate; adjusted by motor fuel price index. Provides that beginning April 1, 2012, the rate of tax on motor fuel shall be increased or decreased annually by the percentage increase or decrease in the retail price of motor fuel. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1655 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; early retirement for certain employees. Removes the option for state employees hired on or after July 1, 2010, who are covered under the main defined benefit plan, (i.e., excluding the separate plans for law-enforcement em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2088 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; business and medical emergencies. Expands the provisions on late in-person absentee voting in business and medical emergencies to cover situations learned of by the voter after 6:00 p.m. on the Thursday before the election...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| HB2482 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal care; enforcement procedures and standards related to animal cruelty. Provides new procedures for the impoundment, seizure, return or forfeiture of animals when the owner or custodian is suspected of animal welfare violations. Animals in the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden fishing prohibited. Prohibits fishing for menhaden within one mile of the low mean water mark in waters adjacent to the Cities of Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach. If someone fishes in these waters, he is subject to a penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | Naturopaths; license required. Requires the Board of Medicine to license and regulate naturopaths. The bill defines a naturopath as an individual, other than a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry, who may diagnose, treat, and he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1657 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System. Requires that the Virginia Retirement System (i) adjust annually its calculation of pension fund liabilities and obligations by the rate of interest on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes and (ii) assume a rate of return on its in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2491 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Correctional Enterprises mandatory procurement; exception. Eliminates the mandatory purchase by state agencies of furniture manufactured by Virginia Correctional Enterprises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; Social Security offset. Eliminates the requirement that unemployment compensation benefits be reduced by 50 percent of the amount of the claimant's Social Security Act or Railroad Retirement Act retirement benefits in years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | Eminent domain; just compensation; restricted access. Provides that any restriction, change, or loss of access to or from property taken under the power of eminent domain shall be considered as an element in assessing the damages to residue for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana possession by prisoner. Reduces the penalty for possession of marijuana by a prisoner from a Class 5 felony to a Class 6 felony, the same punishment as is currently imposed for possession of a firearm or a knife by a prisoner or for setting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1846 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend Chapter 13, Section 58.1-439.18 of Title 58.1, and Chapter 43 of Section 2.2-4301 of Title 2.2, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the definition of professional services for the Neighborhood Assistance Program to include mediators ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2111 | Intro
Sine Die | Enterprise zone job creation grants. Provides that a business firm in a locality with an unemployment rate two percent or higher than the statewide average is eligible for an enterprise zone job creation grant of $500 per year for up to five years fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax and sales and use tax. Removes the remaining portion of the state sales and use tax (one and one-half percent) from food for human consumption (effective July 1, 2012) and restructures the individual income tax rate brackets for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2118 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Rebundles charges for the transmission, distribution, and generation services into the base rates of investor-owned electric utilities and revises the system enacted in 2007 by which rates of investor-owned electric utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Planning and Budget; budget performance data provided by state agencies; establishment of Performance Improvement Officers. Requires each state agency to conduct an annual review and prioritization of its operations and programs. Under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance license tax. Dedicates to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund one-third of the total revenue from the insurance license tax, phased in over three years, beginning with fiscal year 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1946 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial vehicles on interstate highways. Prohibits driving of commercial vehicles on the left-most lanes of interstate highways except where (i) the posted speed limit is less than 65 miles per hour or (ii) the average annual daily traffic exceeds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT REFUSED (39-Y 60-N) |
| HB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems. Provides that the owner of an alternative onsite sewage system installed prior to January 1, 2010, with flows of less than 1,000 gallons per day serving an individual single-family dwelling occupied by such owner shall be exemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
House: Engrossment refused by House |
| HB1662 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory testing of prisoners for HIV. Requires the Department of Corrections to test all prisoners received by the Department for human immunodeficiency virus upon arrival and prior to release, and authorizes the Department to test for human immuno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Militia, Police and Public Safety (HB1688-Dance) by voice vote |
| HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential elections and primaries. Moves the presidential primary date from the second Tuesday in February to the first Tuesday in March and retains the first Tuesday in March as the primary date before the May general election. The bill also redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (HB1843-Cole) by voice vote |
| HB2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo monitoring systems; limitations on local adoption of systems. Limits the operation of a traffic signal enforcement program, commonly referred to as a "photo red program," to those localities that have adopted ordinances establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Militia, Police and Public Safety (9-Y 12-N) |
| HB1876 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective order; grounds. Expands the class of persons who may be issued a protective order from victims of stalking, sexual battery, aggravated sexual battery, or a criminal offense resulting in serious bodily injury to any party who is or has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2063-Bell, Robert B.) by voice vote |
| HB2340 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; dating relationship. Expands the class of persons who is eligible to obtain a protective order in cases of family abuse to include persons who are in a dating relationship and who have been subjected to dating relationship abuse. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2063-Bell, Robert B.) by voice vote |
| HB2288 | 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] | 2011-02-04
House: Tabled in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB1922 | 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 in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 9-N) |
| HB2380 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms stored in employee vehicle; employer liability. Provides civil immunity for employers who do not prohibit their employees from storing a firearm in their vehicles while parked on the employer's property from damages resulting from the stora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1969 | Intro
Sine Die | Sewage disposal systems; civil penalties. Allows localities to use a properly licensed contractor working on behalf of the locality to issue civil summonses for certain violations related to sewage disposal systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; acquisition of voting equipment by localities. Permits localities to acquire direct recording electronic (DRE) machines by deleting the provision enacted in 2007 and later amended that generally prohibited the acquisition of such machines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (HB2080-Landes) by voice vote |
| HB2422 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; definition of family abuse; dating violence; penalty. Makes numerous changes to the laws governing family abuse protective orders and stalking protective orders, including (i) amending the definition of "family abuse" to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2063-Bell, Robert B.) by voice vote |
| HB1490 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; acquisition of voting equipment by localities. Permits localities to acquire direct recording electronic (DRE) machines by deleting the provision enacted in 2007 and later amended that generally prohibited the acquisition of such machines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (HB2080-Landes) by voice vote |
| HB2250 | Intro
Sine Die | State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; creation of nonstock corporation to support academic research. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to establish a nonprofit, nonstock corporation under Chapter 10 (§13.1-801...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB2324-Lingamfelter) by voice vote |
| HB2432 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Procedural Guarantee Act; definition of law-enforcement officer. Adds certain employees of the Department of Corrections to the definition of "law-enforcement officer" for purposes of the Law-Enforcement Procedural Guarante...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB2441 | Intro
Sine Die | Cemeteries; abandoned interment rights; notice. Requires a cemetery to publish a general notice of its intent to declare interment rights abandoned in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or city where the cemetery is located for four con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Stricken from House calendar |
| HB1716 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders. Provides that a court may include in a protective order provisions prohibiting harm to a companion animal and damage to any item of personal property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2063-Bell, Robert B.) by voice vote |
| HB2490 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus police; report of certain incidents to local law-enforcement agency. Requires the chief law-enforcement officer of a public or private institution of higher education to report the death or an alleged rape of any person on campus property to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Passed by in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter by voice vote |
| HB1936 | Intro
Sine Die | Family abuse protective orders. Provides that upon conviction of assault and battery against a family or household member, the court may enter a protective order for a specified period not exceeding two years from the date of conviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1639 | 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 provide industry and institutions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB2324-Lingamfelter) by voice vote |
| HB2098 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; conversion of contributions to personal use. Enacts a separate provision to make it unlawful for any person to convert to his personal use, at any time, money and like intangibles that have been contributed to a candi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
House: Tabled in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB2304 | Intro
Sine Die | Common interest communities; suspension of certain owner rights for rules violations. Gives common interest community boards the authority, even in cases where the declaration does not expressly grant the authority to the boards, to (i) suspend a uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB1671 | Intro
Sine Die | Public procurement; person with a disability-owned businesses. Includes person with a disability-owned business in the public procurement provisions for small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses. The bill defines "person with a disabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote |
| HB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; license suspension or revocation. Provides for the suspension or revocation of an alcoholic beverage license unless the licensee is actively engaged in providing assistance to intoxicated persons loitering on the licensee'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB2528 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; vision screening. Provides that Department of Motor Vehicles shall waive its vision screening conducted in Customer Service Centers at the time of application for a driver's license or learner's permit when the applicant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote |
| HB2530 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; Property Owners' Association Act; lien for assessments; priority. Provides that such portion of the unpaid assessments due and owing the association for a period not to exceed three years that is attributable to providing the mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote |
