VA Legislation | 2011 | Regular Session | Senate | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB1061	Intro Sine Die	State employee health insurance plan; coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires that the health insurance plan for state employees provide coverage for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, and the treatment of autism spectrum disorder in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-02 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB1088	Intro Sine Die	Land preservation tax credits; refunded by the Tax Commissioner. Allows a donor of land or any interest in land to request a refund of unused land preservation tax credits with the Tax Commissioner for 90 percent of the face value of the credits. Th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-02 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB1075	Intro Sine Die	Administrative suspension of license. Changes the period of administrative license suspension upon arrest for a DUI from seven to 60 days and, for a second or subsequent offense, from 60 days until the time of trial. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-02 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N)
SB1090	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]	2011-02-02 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
SB1115	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; optional defined contribution retirement program for state and local employees. Creates an optional defined contribution retirement program for state and local employees beginning January 1, 2012. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-02 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 3-N)
SB1479	Intro Sine Die	Department of Housing and Community Development; rapid re-housing pilot project. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a three-year rapid re-housing pilot project and to report its findings and recommendations to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-02 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
SB1118	Intro Sine Die	First offense DUI; ignition interlock and restricted license. Provides that a person who is convicted of DUI is required to have an ignition interlock on the first offense as a condition of a restricted license. Currently, the requirement for an inte... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-02 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N)
SB1394	Intro Sine Die	Sales and use tax revenue dedication; transportation in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. Dedicates a portion of state sales and use tax revenue for transportation projects in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads equivalent to a one quarter percent... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-01 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 1-N)
SB1283	Intro Sine Die	Assignment of year-end surplus. Changes the priority for assigning any year-end surplus by requiring that any general fund balance remaining after funds are set aside for required deposits to the Revenue Stabilization Fund would be assigned as follo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-01 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB1295	Intro Sine Die	Transportation funding. Provides new and increased taxes, tolls, and general fund revenues for transportation funding. The bill would (i) decrease the motor fuels tax from $0.175 per gallon to $0.05 per gallon and establish a five percent tax on mot... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-01 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB1475	Intro Sine Die	Town of Leesburg; charges to residents for water and sewer services. Provides that the percentage differential between the rates, fees, and charges imposed by the Town of Leesburg for water and sewer services to customers located outside of its munic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-01 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 6-N)
SJR396	Intro Sine Die	Constitutional amendment (first resolution); limitation on debt. Provides that in any 10-fiscal-year period beginning with fiscal years of the Commonwealth starting on or after July 1, 2012, no more than five percent of projected blended revenues app... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-01 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
SB1329	Intro Sine Die	Highway "revenue sharing" construction funds. Removes the $1 million cap for individual allocations and changes first priority for allocation to congestion relief. The bill also changes the maximum and minimum appropriations from $50 millio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-01 Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB1446-Wampler) (14-Y 0-N)
SB1285	Intro Sine Die	State taxes paid by highway contractors dedicated for transportation purposes. Dedicates to the Transportation Trust Fund all state retail sales and use and income taxes paid by highway contractors. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-01 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB765	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 rev... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N)
SB767	Intro Sine Die	Expungement of protective orders. Provides that a person against whom a protective order has been issued may petition to have police and court records relating to the protective order expunged if the order is subsequently dissolved by the issuing cou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
SB1381	Intro Sine Die	Interlocutory appeal; sovereign immunity. Provides that the Commonwealth or any agency, instrumentality, political subdivision, or agent or employee thereof, have an appeal of right to the Supreme Court of Virginia of any order denying a plea of sove... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N)
SB1411	Intro Sine Die	Making, drawing, uttering, or delivering a bad check; penalty. Provides that any person making, drawing, uttering, or delivering any check, draft, or order in payment of rent pursuant to a lease agreement under Chapter 13 (Landlord and Tenant) or Cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB807	Intro Sine Die	Commercial vehicles; persons required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Prohibits persons for whom registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required from (1) driving school buses and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Letter sent to Crime Commission
SB825	Intro Sine Die	Open-end loan plans; finance charges. Caps the finance charges and other charges and fees that may be charged on extension of credit under certain open-end credit plans at an annual rate of 36 percent if the maximum amount that may be advanced under ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 3-N 2-A)
SB850	Intro Sine Die	Hunting on Sundays. Allows a person to hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal on Sundays. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (2-Y 13-N)
SB1284	Intro Sine Die	Real estate lending; creditworthiness of victims of Chinese drywall. Prohibits any bank, savings institution, credit union, or licensed mortgage lender from making a detrimental decision with regard to a real estate loan application that has been sub... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
SB955	Intro Sine Die	Craney Island disposal. Authorizes the Virginia Port Authority to take material dredged during the expansion of Craney Island from sediment remediation and wetlands mitigation sites along the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River and dispose of it a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB1445	Intro Sine Die	Collection of fines, costs, and fees, etc. Requires the cost of collecting fines, costs, and fees be added to the total amounts due instead of paid from amounts collected. The bill also allows the Department of Taxation's fee to localities for colle... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB1291	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 facil... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
SB1307	Intro Sine Die	State waters; regulation of interbasin transfers. Establishes a procedure for the interbasin transfer of waters. Persons initiating an interbasin transfer, or expanding an existing interbasin transfer, in excess of two million gallons per day must se... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB1465	Intro Sine Die	Lawn fertilizer; regulation of application and labeling. Requires professional lawn fertilizer applicators to become certified in nutrient management and prohibits the application of lawn fertilizer to impervious surfaces and frozen ground. The use ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB1055-Stuart) (15-Y 0-N)
SB1002	Intro Sine Die	Vehicle emissions inspection program. Provides for an on-road clean screen program, allowing a motor vehicle owner to certify compliance with emissions standards by means of on-road remote sensing. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (14-Y 1-N)
SB1314	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Repeals the authority of the Attorney General to issue civil investigative demands. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB831-Petersen) (15-Y 0-N)
SB1330	Intro Sine Die	Medical malpractice actions. Changes from 10 business days to 21 days the number of days after receipt of written request of a defendant in which the plaintiff must provide the defendant with a certification form that affirms that the plaintiff had o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB1023	Intro Sine Die	Department of Game and Inland Fisheries; damage stamp compensation program. Removes the local authority and responsibility to create and administer the damage stamp compensation program, which assists farmers whose crops and livestock are damaged by ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB868-Stuart) (15-Y 0-N)
SB882	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]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N)
SB883	Intro Sine Die	Electric utility regulation. Reinstates much of the system under which investor-owned electric utilities were regulated prior to 1999. The measure repeals the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act and reenacts provisions relating to State Corporat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N)
SB885	Intro Sine Die	Impacts to wetlands. Provides that no individual or general Virginia Water Protection Permit is required to be issued for a project's impacts to wetlands if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued an individual wetlands permit. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N)
SB922	Intro Sine Die	Fertilizer; regulation of application and labeling. Regulates several aspects relating to the application and use of fertilizer to lawns and turfs, including rules against applying fertilizers containing phosphorus or applying fertilizer when the gr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB1055-Stuart) (15-Y 0-N)
SB1084	Intro Sine Die	Access to concealed handgun permittee information. Prohibits the clerk of the court from disclosing identifying information contained on a concealed handgun permit application or on an order issuing a concealed handgun permit, if so requested by the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
SB1120	Intro Sine Die	Court's jurisdiction to enforce judgment lien through sale of real estate. Provides that a court shall not decree real estate to be sold to enforce a judgment lien if (i) such real estate is used as the owner's primary residence, (ii) such owner has... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N)
SB1142	Intro Sine Die	Deferred disposition. Allows a court to defer disposition in and discharge and dismiss any criminal case. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 1-N)
SB1089	Intro Sine Die	Sealing psychological tests received into evidence. Provides that a court may, upon motion, seal a psychological test or other assessment device received into evidence if the moving party establishes that (i) the value of the psychological test or as... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
SB1164	Intro Sine Die	Illegal gambling; definitions. Amends the definition of "illegal gambling" to clarify that the purchase of a product or other thing of value (e.g., phone card, Internet time), which purchase credits the purchaser with free points or other measurable ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1195-Obenshain) (15-Y 0-N)
SB1239	Intro Sine Die	Personal Information Privacy Act. Makes several amendments to the Personal Information Privacy Act. The bill would prohibit a person from requiring an individual to provide his social security number to access goods and services if he also is require... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-31 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
SB1201	Intro Sine Die	Study; feasibility and cost-effectiveness of withdrawal from Medicaid; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of withdrawing from Medicaid in favor of a state-run program. In... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules (16-Y 0-N)
SB796	Intro Sine Die	Rehabilitative programming; earned sentence credits. Allows prisoners to earn 10 additional sentence credits for each 30 days of incarceration for participation in programs aimed at earning a GED, college credit, or a certification through an accred... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-28 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (2-Y 12-N)
SB1421	Intro Sine Die	Local correctional facilities; collection of fees and costs. Allows sheriffs and jail superintendents to enter into installment payment agreements with prisoners for the payment, after release, of costs and fees owed for the prisoner's keep. The bil... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
SB1316	Intro Sine Die	Rate at which sentence credits may be earned. Allows a maximum of seven and one-half sentence credits, as opposed to the current four and one-half, for each 30 days served. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 2-N)
SB1098	Intro Sine Die	Alcoholic beverage control; regulations of the board. Provides that the Board shall require all off-premises retail licensees and all government stores to post a sign in a conspicuous location that bears a warning regarding the risks of consuming al... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-28 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (7-Y 7-N)
SJR359	Intro Sine Die	Study; joint subcommittee to study method of selecting Auditor of Public Accounts; report. Establishes a five-member joint subcommittee to recommend the best method for selecting the Auditor of Public Accounts. This is a one-year study. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-28 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
SB1225	Intro Sine Die	DMV offices and agencies; agreements; compensation. Provides that in any county, city, or town that does not have either a branch office or an automated agency, the Commissioner shall, upon request of any commissioner of the revenue, treasurer, or lo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-27 Senate: Incorporated by Transportation (SB776-Marsh) (14-Y 0-N)
SB834	Intro Sine Die	VDOT highway maintenance contracts. Allows VDOT to contract with private entities for the maintenance of state-owned highway rights-of-way in return for the Department's permission for display by the private entity of a single advertising sign, no la... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-27 Senate: Letter sent to Virginia Department of Transportation
SB1277	Intro Sine Die	Professional engineering of onsite treatment works; Department of Health oversight. Contains several provisions restricting the Department of Health's oversight of the requirements for and the review of onsite treatment works submitted by profession... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-01-27 Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)