| HB1819 | Veto | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; registration of athlete agents; penalty. Creates a registration requirement for athlete agents administered by the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, sets o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05 Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1500 | Pass | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 874, 2010 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0890) |
| HB1945 | Pass | Regulation of motor carriers by DMV; commercial driver's licenses. Revises statutes relating to motor carriers, including requiring DMV to simply notify localities of the issuance of overweight and oversize permits and eliminating the requirement for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0881) |
| HB2103 | Pass | Aboveground storage tanks. Requires the State Water Control Board to develop standards for facilities with aboveground storage tanks in the City of Fairfax having an aggregate capacity of one million gallons or greater, existing prior to January 29, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0883) |
| HB2467 | Pass | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and treatment for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0876) |
| HB1584 | Pass | Illegal gambling; definitions. Amends the definition of "illegal gambling" to clarify that the purchase of a product, Internet access, or other thing (i.e., phone card, movie rental vouchers), which purchase credits the purchaser with free ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0879) |
| HB1795 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; employee who becomes member on or after July 1, 2010. Amends certain provisions of the Workforce Transition Act and retirement plans administered by the Virginia Retirement System to recognize the difference in benefits ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0880) |
| HB1822 | Pass | Local incentives for the design, development, or production of goods for national defense. Creates a separate classification of machinery and tools designed and used directly in manufacturing or processing materials, components, or equipment for nat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0875) |
| HB1958 | Pass | Health insurance; market reforms. Conforms inconsistent and conflicting requirements of Virginia's health insurance laws to corresponding provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that became effective on September 23, 2010... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0882) |
| HB2148 | Pass | Trademark infringement. Requires the court in any criminal proceeding involving trademark infringement, upon the request of the Commonwealth, to order that material infringing on a trademark in the possession or under the control of a defendant or la... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| HB1668 | Pass | City of Richmond; funding for community revitalization activities. Allows the City of Richmond to establish an enhanced building rehabilitation process using a newly created community revitalization fund for derelict residential property to combat bl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| HB1860 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; proceedings for enforcement. Requires that the party against whom a FOIA petition is brought must receive a copy of the petition at least three working days prior to the filing of the petition. The bill contains technical ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| HB1868 | Pass | Adult adopted person; access to identifying information. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to mail an adult adopted person's original certificate of birth to him upon order of the Commissioner of Social Services or order of a circuit cou... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| HB2173 | Pass | Drinking water community confidence reports; publication. Requires the Board of Health to include in its regulations governing waterworks, water supplies, and pure water a process whereby waterworks serving fewer than 10,000 people may seek and the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| HB2316 | Pass | Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Program created. Repeals the Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Incentive Grant Program effective July 1, 2013, and the Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program effective July 1, 2017, to create a program ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| HB2176 | Pass | Stocking of game animals and fish. Requires that policies to acquire and introduce any new species of game birds, game animals, or fish on the lands are implemented only with the authorization and cooperation of affected local governments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| HB2527 | Pass | Transportaion funding. Creates the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (Bank) as a new source for funding transportation projects. The Bank would be managed and administered by the Virginia Resources Authority and would be capitalized as reco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) |
| HB2324 | Pass | Investment in research and technology in the Commonwealth. Amends the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) to allow for awards for a matching funds program and an eminent researcher program. The bill also expands upon the Innovation an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| HB1686 | Pass | Distributed solar generation demonstration programs. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to exercise its existing authority to consider for approval petitions filed by a utility to own and operate distributed solar generation facilities an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| HB1418 | Pass | Special license plates. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates (i) bearing the legend: "DONT TREAD ON ME," (ii) bearing the national motto: "In God We Trust," (iii) for members and supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Park... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| HB1691 | Pass | Servicemembers and veterans services. Provides for the program established by the Department of Veterans Services to monitor and coordinate mental health and rehabilitative services support for Virginia veterans to cooperate with localities that may... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| HB1422 | Pass | Homestead exemptions. Adds one firearm, not to exceed $3,000 in value, to the list of items that every householder shall be entitled to hold exempt from creditor process. The bill also increases the maximum exemption for a motor vehicle from $2,000 t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| HB1694 | Pass | Driver's license; suspension for failure to pay child support. Increases from $500 to $600 the minimum child support payment that a person must make pursuant to an agreement with the Department of Social Services in order to renew or reinstate the pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| HB2255 | Pass | Disclosure of health records; dispensing of controlled substances. Clarifies that nothing in the Health Records Privacy Act shall prohibit a health care provider who dispenses a controlled substance to a patient from disclosing information obtained ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| HB1696 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. Places limitations and conditions on the relationship between motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. This bill is the same as [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
| HB1699 | Pass | Restoration of firearms rights; hearings. Makes parallel the process for the request for and conduct of a hearing requested by a person to restore his right to possess or carry a firearm after being acquitted by reason of insanity, adjudicated legal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| HB2285 | Pass | Tourism zones; tax revenues for tourism projects. Entitles certain tourism projects to a percentage of the state and local sales tax revenues generated on the premises of the project, to be used towards debt service to bridge the gap between availabl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| HB1898 | Pass | Abduction; forced labor or services. Provides that abduction of any person for the purpose of prostitution or of a minor for the purpose of manufacturing child pornography is a Class 2 felony. The bill also provides that any person who receives any m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB1903 | Pass | Print-on-demand program; temporary transport license plates to dealers and vehicle owners. Provides that the Department of Motor Vehicles may develop and implement procedures and requirements necessary for the delivery of temporary transport license ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| HB1911 | Pass | Video-monitoring system; school bus violations. Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances to allow local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in order to detect drivers passing stopped school buses. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| HB1435 | Pass | American Sign Language; recognition for completed coursework. Provides that if a local school board offers an elective course in American Sign Language, it must grant academic credit for course completion on the same basis as the successful completio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| HB2361 | Pass | Child abduction. Makes it a duty of the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse to maintain close liaison with the National Crime Information Center and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the exchange of information on chil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| HB1708 | Pass | Pittsylvania County school board; staggered terms. Allows for staggered terms for the Pittsylvania County school board beginning with the November 2012 general election upon a majority vote of its members. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| HB1763 | Pass | Charter; Town of Rich Creek. Shifts council elections from May to November; removes a salary cap for council members, referencing state law for the setting of salaries; and updates several out-of-date provisions of the town's charter. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| HB2370 | Pass | Multiple-year licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue multiple-year hunting, fishing, or trapping licenses or permits. The costs of these types of licenses cannot exceed the costs of the permits or licenses if they were p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819) |
| HB1951 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid, performance, and payment bonds. Raises the minimum contract amount required for bid, performance, or payment bonds from $100,000 to $500,000 for nontransportation-related construction projects. The bill provides ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| HB1459 | Pass | Remedies; limitation on recovery in certain medical malpractice actions. Increases from $2 million to $2.05 million, on July 1, 2012, the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice. Thereafter, the cap is inc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| HB2011 | Pass | Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. Allows the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to designate someone to serve in his place on the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. The bill also requires motor vehicle dealers, T&M vehicle dealers, trailer deal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB1848 | Pass | Eligibility for in-state tuition charges. Ensures that the established Virginia domicile of a spouse of an active duty military service member, and therefore in-state tuition eligibility, must not be affected by the establishment and maintenance of a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| HB2072 | Pass | Charter; City of Hopewell. Amends the charter to change election day for city council members from May to November, beginning in November 2012, and to extend the terms of the council's president and vice-president from June 30, 2012, to December 31, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| HB2018 | Pass | Cemetery Board; exemptions; resale of interment right. Establishes requirements for the resale of interment rights in a cemetery located in the state. Any resale conducted in compliance with the requirements set out by the bill shall be exempt from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| HB2413 | Pass | All-terrain vehicles in Tazewell County. Allows over-the-road operation of ATVs at certain locations in Tazewell County, subject to the approval of the County Board of Supervisors. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| HB1487 | Pass | Venue for criminal sexual assault coupled with a violent felony. Provides that venue for the trial of a person charged with committing or attempting to commit (i) a crime against nature, the crime of taking indecent liberties with a child, or a crimi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| HB2001 | Pass | Quiet pavement technology. Requires VDOT to expedite the development of quiet pavement technology. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HB2022 | Pass | Overweight vehicle fees. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles, in consultation with the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and the Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority, shall develop a comprehensive, t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| HB2434 | Pass | Health benefits exchange; intent to develop. States that it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Commonwealth create and operate its own health benefits exchange or exchanges that meet the relevant requirements of the federal Affordable Car... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| HB2037 | Pass | Social work; title protection. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person not licensed by the Board of Social Work to use the title "Social Worker" in writing or in advertising in connection with his practice unless he simultaneously... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| HB2251 | Pass | Elections; pollbooks. Provides that when the electronic pollbooks fail to operate and no alternative voter list or pollbook is available, the officers of election shall maintain a written list of the persons voting and provide provisional ballots to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| HB1508 | Pass | Elections; local electoral boards; certain prohibitions. Prohibits a member of a local electoral board from being the spouse or other relative of a candidate for or holder of an office filled in whole or in part by voters in the jurisdiction of the e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| HB2335 | Pass | Insurance premiums tax; retaliatory costs tax credit. Enhances the retaliatory tax credit for the insurance premiums tax by increasing the amount of the refund for certain taxpayers receiving the credit in 2000, beginning in taxable year 2011, from a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |