VA Legislation | 2011 | Regular Session | Senate | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB861	Intro Sine Die	Local defined contribution retirement plan. Permits any locality or school board to establish a defined contribution retirement plan in lieu of any other retirement plan for employees hired after such plan is established. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SJR307	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking of private property for public uses. Limits the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of public use and specifies that, with the exception of property taken for public service corporations, pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 Senate: Motion to suspend the rules rejected (18-Y 22-N)
SB864	Intro Sine Die	Voter identification requirements; provisional ballots. Eliminates the provision that allows a voter to sign a sworn statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be in lieu of showing identification and provides instead for the voter... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1018	Intro Sine Die	Causing the death of another while engaging in a vehicle race; penalty. Raises the penalty for causing the death of another person while engaging in a vehicle race to a mandatory minimum 20 years. The current penalty is a term of confinement of not l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB867	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; consideration of certain documents related to the Budget. Provides that no legislative action may be taken on (i) committee amendments to the budget, (ii) any conference committee report on the budget, or (iii) any Governor's recom... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Rules Committee
SB1022	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; creditable compensation of teachers. Provides that the creditable compensation of teachers for retirement purposes under the Virginia Retirement System shall include all compensation payable to teachers by their public sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB872	Intro Sine Die	Expansion of gang-free zones. Adds school bus stops and publicly owned parks, libraries and hospitals to the list of places denoted "gang-free zones." Criminal gang activity that occurs in gang-free zones receives additional punishment. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1031	Intro Sine Die	Public schools; unexpended funds. Allows local school divisions to keep any unexpended funds from the Commonwealth or local sources for use the next year. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 Senate: Defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N)
SB1345	Intro Sine Die	Division of Legislative Services; legislative staff support of commissions. Provides that the Division of Legislative Services may provide staff support only to commissions created by the General Assembly, or by either the Senate of Virginia or the H... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Rules Committee
SB1034	Intro Sine Die	HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Extends until July 1, 2012, the sunset on use of HOV lanes by clean special fuel vehicles, regardless of the number of occupants. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB879	Intro Sine Die	Pharmacy freedom of choice. Conforms elements of Virginia's pharmacy freedom of choice law to North Carolina's pharmacy of choice law. The measure prohibits a health benefit plan from (i) prohibiting or limiting any resident who is eligible for reimb... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB1355	Intro Sine Die	General Assembly; compensation during regular session extension. Specifies that members of the General Assembly receive neither per diem allowance nor mileage reimbursement if the session is extended past the date scheduled for adjournment sine die. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Rules Committee
SB884	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]	2011-02-08 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB888	Intro Sine Die	Duration of temporary voter registration. Deletes provision that temporary voter registration for a voter who moves overseas for employment and his spouse and dependents residing with him is permitted only as long as the voter, his spouse, or depende... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1046	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that a person retired under the Law-Enforcement Officers' Retirement System, the State Police Officers' Retirement System, or the Virginia Law Officers' Retiremen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1048	Intro Sine Die	HOT lane construction contracts. Requires that HOT lane construction contracts contain requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using the facility. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB1053	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 Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1385	Intro Sine Die	Assignment of year-end surplus. Changes the priority for assigning any year-end surplus by requiring that 10 percent of the general fund balance remaining after funds are set aside for required deposits to the Revenue Stabilization Fund, the Virgini... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1405	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic Beverage Control; gifts by licensees. Allows retail licensees and their employees to give gifts of alcohol to their patrons, limited to one alcoholic beverage per patron within a 24-hour period and limited to one bottle of wine per group of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
SJR401	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); sessions of the General Assembly. Provides that the General Assembly sessions convened in odd-numbered years shall be long sessions and sessions convened in even-numbered years shall be short sessions, rev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1125	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]	2011-02-08 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB741	Intro Sine Die	Terminations of electric utility service; endangerment of customer's health. Requires an electric utility to postpone its termination of service of a residential customer for five days, or to reconnect service to such a customer within five days, if ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB1151	Intro Sine Die	Health professions; licensure of surgical assistants. Requires surgical assistants to be licensed by the Board of Medicine and creates an Advisory Board on Surgical Assistants to assist with such licensure and regulation. A surgical assistant is an i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Education and Health Committee
SB1194	Intro Sine Die	Income tax; corporate tax credits for donations to nonprofit organizations providing educational scholarships. Establishes a tax credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for corporations donating cash to nonprofit organizations providing scholarships t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1205	Intro Sine Die	Retail sales tax exemption; gold and silver bullion coins. Establishes a retail sales tax exemption for sales of nongraded United States gold or silver bullion coins. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1313	Intro Sine Die	Taxation; employee transportation assistance tax credit. Allows a tax credit to employers that provide employee transportation assistance for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012. Such credit shall be equal to 25 percent of all expend... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB759	Intro Sine Die	Workers' compensation; compensable consequences. Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a subsequent injury to an employee is a compensable consequence of the employee's primary injury if the subsequent injury is to a body part or system that sust... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB1406	Intro Sine Die	Definition of impounding structure. Exempts dams that are operated primarily for agricultural preservation and conservation purposes and that (i) are less than 30 feet in height or (ii) create a maximum impoundment capacity smaller than 100 acre-feet... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB1060-McDougle) (15-Y 0-N)
SB795	Intro Sine Die	Foreclosure procedures. Makes various changes to procedures for foreclosure, including requiring additional documentation showing the right of the beneficiary to request foreclosure, altering the requirements for providing notice prior to a foreclosu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Letter sent to Virginia Housing Commission
SB798	Intro Sine Die	Judicial foreclosure. Provides that a court must order the sale of property subject to foreclosure for deeds of trust entered into on or after July 1, 2011. Property secured by deeds of trust entered into prior to July 1, 2011, may still be foreclose... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Letter sent to Virgina Bar Association
SB1422	Intro Sine Die	Practice of law. Provides that the practice of law shall not include (i) the design, creation, publication, distribution, display or sale of written materials, books, forms, computer software, or similar products, including publication, distribution,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N)
SB1230	Intro Sine Die	Hearings in the Supreme Court of Virginia; Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission. Clarifies that the hearings allowed under the Constitution related to complaints filed by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission are to be evidentiary hearings an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N)
SB1251	Intro Sine Die	Electronic tracking devices; penalty. Prohibits a person from placing, through intentionally deceptive means, an electronic tracking device in or on a vehicle. The prohibition would not apply to law-enforcement officers, judicial officers, probation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
SB836	Intro Sine Die	Notice of foreclosure. Provides that written notice of the intent to foreclose shall be sent to the present owner of the property at least 30 days before any proposed sale in execution of a deed of trust. The notice shall contain the name and contac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 11-N)
SB842	Intro Sine Die	Humane investigators. Allows the appointment of new humane investigators. Currently, existing humane investigators may be reappointed, but the program is no longer open to new participants. The administrative entity that oversees animal control will ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (10-Y 0-N)
SB1288	Intro Sine Die	Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence. Requires all public contractors and their subcontractors to register and participate in a federal Electronic Work Verification Program or similar electronic verification of work authorization pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1049-Barker) (13-Y 0-N)
SB1304	Intro Sine Die	Electronic transfer of funds; required approval. Requires a financial institution to give a depositor two weeks notice prior to honoring instructions directing the financial institution to electronically transfer funds in the consumer deposit account... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
SB994	Intro Sine Die	Best interests of the child. Provides that when a court has jurisdiction to resolve a dispute between parents as to how a child shall be educated, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that it is in the child's best interests to remain in the last ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N)
SB1474	Intro Sine Die	Unemployment compensation; shared work programs. Establishes a shared work program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Letter sent to Commission on Unemployment Compensation
SB1328	Intro Sine Die	Magistrates ascertaining citizenship of arrested persons. Requires a magistrate or other issuing authority having jurisdiction who issues a warrant following a warrantless arrest to inquire as to whether the arrested person (i) was born in a country... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 3-N)
SB875	Intro Sine Die	Renewable portfolio standards; forest products. Removes the requirement that utilities participating in a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program collectively use no more than 1.5 million tons of forest products such as wood chips, bark, and sawdu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N)
SB1033	Intro Sine Die	Continuing care retirement community board of directors; resident representation. Requires that no less than 20 percent of the members of the board of directors of a corporation providing continuing care at a facility shall be residents of the facili... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N)
SB1071	Intro Sine Die	Irrevocable trusts; trustee's power to appoint assets into second trust. Authorizes the trustee of an irrevocable trust to appoint all or part of the principal or income of a trust into a second trust for the benefit of the beneficiaries of the origi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
SB1143	Intro Sine Die	Determination of child support. Provides that a court shall make a determination of child support and enter an order containing such determination at the initial court date on any initial petition for support if the petitioner demonstrates that (i) ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N)
SB1187	Intro Sine Die	Reimbursement for law-enforcement training by certain public employers. Provides that whenever a public employer provides law-enforcement training for a person who has been or will be hired as a law-enforcement officer with such employer, and such p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N)
SB1157	Intro Sine Die	Citations for vehicle equipment violations. Provides for a simplified procedure for processing simple vehicle equipment violations punishable as traffic infractions. If the defects are remedied within 24 hours, the case is dismissed. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N)
SB1192	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; ownership interests of manufacturers. Allows manufacturers of alcoholic beverages to sell their product in retail establishments that they own or in which they have an ownership interest. Current law prohibits manufacture... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-04 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
SB1250	Intro Sine Die	Regulation of firearms by state entities. Prohibits any department, agency, or other entity of the Commonwealth from adopting or enforcing any rule, regulation, or policy regarding firearms or ammunition except for those rules, regulations, or polici... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-04 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules (12-Y 2-N)
SB1183	Intro Sine Die	Legislative sessions. Provides that no bills may be introduced in an odd-year regular session except (i) amendments to the biennial budget, (ii) constitutional amendments, (iii) legislation continued from the even-year regular session immediately pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-04 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Rules (4-Y 12-N)
SJR399	Intro Sine Die	Memorializing Congress to amend the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-191). Urges Congress to restore in loco parentis at institutions of higher... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-04 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote