| HB1438 | Intro
Sine Die | Goods produced or manufactured in the Commonwealth; not subject to federal regulation. Provides that all goods produced or manufactured within the Commonwealth, when such goods are held, retained, or maintained in the Commonwealth, shall not be subj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal presence required for public assistance; verification required. Provides that local departments of social services shall verify or cause to be verified information regarding the citizenship or legal presence of an applicant for public assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road. Adds to "Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road," designated in 2004, U.S. Route 58 from the Town of Stuart east to the City of Martinsville.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB1556 | Intro
Sine Die | Bear hound training. Allows the training of dogs to hunt bears to occur at night. Currently, the training of dogs to hunt bears is limited to one-half hour before sunrise until four and one-half hours after sunset.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Provides that an investor-owned electric utility will receive (i) double credit toward meeting the goals of the renewable energy portfolio standard program for energy from biomass or waste-to-energy; (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Letter sent to Commission on Electric Utility Regulation |
| HB2450 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishment of pretrial services agencies. Removes the mandatory requirement that any city, county or combination thereof that is required to submit a community-based corrections plan also establish a pretrial services agency, but preserves the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1624 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; consent agreements. Authorizes the Executive Director of the Department of Environmental Quality, when the State Water Control Board is not in session, to enter into consent orders with persons who have violated t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB2007 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation; powers and duties. Removes participation in the Council on State Governments from the powers and duties of the Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB2315 | Intro
Sine Die | Notification of breach of medical information. Adds private entities to the list of those entities that are required to provide notice of a database breach involving medical information. Current law applies to state and local governmental entities on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1865 | Intro
Sine Die | Local transportation districts. Provides for membership in local transportation districts not only by whole counties and cities, but also by portions of counties and cities. The bill also allows members of local transportation districts to set terms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| HB1449 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of certain substances with intent to manufacture methamphetamines. Refines the list of substances involved in the manufacture of methamphetamine, the possession of two of which, coupled with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine, is pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB1954 | Intro
Sine Die | Obscenity. Modifies the educational, artistic, and theatrical exemption to obscenity laws by providing that certain crimes (child pornography and use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children) are not subject to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB2052 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to vote by secret ballot on labor organization representation. Declares that in any procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorization of a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individual employee to vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB2121 | Intro
Sine Die | Substitute judges; residence. Provides that every substitute judge of a district court may live within the boundaries of the district in which he serves or within an adjoining district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 6-N) |
| HB1850 | Intro
Sine Die | Riding on motorcycles. Prohibits children under the age of eight from riding on motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1664 | Intro
Sine Die | Products liability; when cause of action accrues. Provides that a cause of action for personal injury based on products liability accrues from the later of the date of the injury or the date that the product defect is publicized by the product's mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2505 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; art instruction studio license. Creates the art instruction studio license. The bill defines art instruction studio, sets out the privileges of this new license, and specifies the annual state and local license tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1665 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage foreclosures; notices and reinstatement right. Requires certain institutional lenders that are the beneficiary of a first priority deed of trust securing a loan on residential real property that is the primary residence of the grantor, with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1853 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Funding Pool. Establishes the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Funding Pool to consist of TANF block grant to be awarded to service providers for expanded TANF programs. Funds in the TANF Funding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2306 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Health Professions; membership. Adds two representatives of the health care service delivery system appointed by the Governor to the Board of Health Professions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1854 | Intro
Sine Die | Local mandates. Provides that any mandate on localities shall include a fiscal impact statement and identify the funding source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2307 | Intro
Sine Die | Texting while driving; highway work zones. Provides that the fines imposed for texting while driving shall be doubled if the offense is committed within a highway work zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2151 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax. Eliminates Virginia's corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2308 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; clean special fuels motor vehicle and plug-in electric motor vehicle tax credit. Grants an income tax credit of $2,000 to each taxpayer who purchases a clean special fuels motor vehicle or plug-in electric motor vehicle for taxable years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2514 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Excludes any investor-owned electric utility that was as of July 1, 1999, not bound by a rate case settlement adopted by the State Corporation Commission (SCC) that extended in its application beyond January 1, 2002, from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1398 | Intro
Sine Die | Air pollution emissions. Defers to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the enforcement of any carbon dioxide standards or cap and trade provisions that are included in the federal Clean Air Act. The Governor through an executive order or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1669 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of firearms; criminal records check; penalties. Adds a definition of "firearms show vendor" and requires that a criminal history record information check be performed on the prospective transferee before the vendor may transfer fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2309 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignment of general fund balance remaining at year-end. Changes current law for the assignment of any year-end general fund surplus to provide that the surplus shall be used (i) first, for the Revenue Stabilization Fund deposit, and (ii) then, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2516 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; agricultural best management practices. Allows any taxpayer to transfer income tax credits that he receives for agricultural best management practices and that he cannot use to another taxpayer who can use the credits, for taxable years b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1400 | 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, at the office of the general registrar or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2518 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; mine inspection tax credit. Provides an income tax credit to mine operators for personnel expenses incurred when providing employees to accompany or assist a mine inspector or delegate of the Secretary of Labor during mine inspections or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1401 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee for any reason. The bill eliminates the present statutory list of specific reasons entitling a voter to cast an absentee ballot. Several special provisions concerning milita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1864 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban Development Areas. Makes several changes to the urban development area legislation. Developable acreage is redefined to exclude (i) parks, rights-of-way of arterial and collector streets, railways, and resource protection areas, and wetlands; (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1402 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1673 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishment of enhanced enforcement areas to deter prostitution. Allows localities to establish enhanced enforcement areas in any area in which the governing body determines the conduct of prostitutes and those that solicit prostitutes establishes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | Fish size limits; summer flounder. Directs the Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that establish the same size limits for summer flounder taken by commercially licensed hook-and-line fishermen and persons fishing recreationally with a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1404 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices; penalty. Prohibits any use of a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2524 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition of sale of certain firearms magazines. Prohibits any person from selling, bartering, or transferring a firearms magazine designed to hold 20 or more rounds of ammunition. A violation is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1405 | Intro
Sine Die | Revocation of law license; petition for reinstatement of law license; members of the General Assembly. Requires the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to appoint only retired judges to hear cases involving the revocation of the law license of a membe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1678 | Intro
Sine Die | Overtime compensation of correctional officers. Adds full-time, duly-sworn employees of correctional facilities whose duties relate to the control, supervision, and custody of prisoners to the definition of "law-enforcement employee" for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1869 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2175 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; dental and oral health programs for children. Provides that the mission of the State Board of Health and the Department of Health shall include provision of a comprehensive program of dental and oral health services for children...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2525 | Intro
Sine Die | Judicial review of school board decision; aggrieved person. Provides that, for the purpose of judicial review, any parent, custodian, or legal guardian of a school-age child eligible to attend a school directly affected by an action of the local scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB1870 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; reports by businesses receiving development subsidies. Requires any business entity that receives a development subsidy to file an annual report with the granting agency or the Authority no later t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1409 | Intro
Sine Die | Prayer at public events. Provides that whenever an individual is requested to provide prayer, invocation, or benediction at a public event that is sanctioned by a governmental agency, such governmental agency shall have no authority to regulate how t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1788 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; winner-take-all games. Reinstates the conduct of "winner-take-all" bingo games for charitable organizations. The bill also increases from 55 to 60 the number of bingo games that may be played in a session of bingo, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2178 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in emergency response vehicles prohibited. Prohibits smoking in emergency medical services vehicles and other emergency response vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; small business reduced rate. Allows a reduction of one-half of one percent in the corporate income tax rate for up to three years for certain small businesses that increase the number of their employees by a minimum of five perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1681 | Intro
Sine Die | Zero-Based Budgeting. Whenever a state agency which receives General Fund revenue requests the Governor or his designee for funding to be included in the Governor's next Executive Budget, the state agency shall submit its budget request utilizing a z...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1873 | Intro
Sine Die | Converted vehicles. Creates a definition for vehicles converted from gas to electric power and provides that such vehicles, when accompanied by certain documents, need not be examined by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
