| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Long-term care insurance tax credit. Increases the amount of the long-term care insurance tax credit from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount paid by the individual during the taxable year in long-term care insurance premiums for long-term care in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government investment pool. Requires that no less than 10 percent of local government investment pool assets be invested in time, savings, or demand deposits at financial institutions qualified to accept public deposits under the Virginia Secur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery; fire marshals; penalty. Adds fire marshals and assistant fire marshals who have police powers to the definition of law-enforcement officer in the assault and battery criminal provision, which means that the punishment for commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Worker Misclassification Act; penalties. Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as an independent contractor if he is an employee. An individual shall be considered an employee of the party which pays that remuneration, for purposes of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Adverse possession; abolition. Abolishes adverse possession as a cause of action or a defense if arising on or after July 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act. Establishes a mechanism for resolving multistate jurisdictional disputes regarding adult guardianships and conservatorships. Procedures are provided for determining which jurisdi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB84 | Intro
Sine Die | Voluntary admission for mental health treatment. Provides that a person may be voluntarily admitted to a facility for mental health treatment after issuance of a temporary detention order but before a hearing for involuntary commitment by the person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary temporary detention order; hearing to be held no less than 24 and no more than 72 hours after execution. Provides that a hearing for involuntary commitment shall be held no less than 24 hours but no more than 72 hours after execution of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Voluntary admission for mental health treatment prior to involuntary commitment hearing. Provides that a person may be voluntarily admitted to a facility for mental health treatment after issuance of a temporary detention order but before a hearing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Chief Executive Officer for Transportation. Abolishes the office of Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and replaces that position with a Chief Executive Officer for Transportation who takes over the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); tax exemptions. Provides for a referendum at the November 2, 2010, election to approve or reject an amendment allowing the General Assembly to authorize legislation that permits localities to exempt or par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Local surcharge on retail sales of fuels. Authorizes each city and county to impose a one percent surcharge on the retail price of motor fuels sold at retail in the city or county. The Tax Commissioner would collect the surcharge in the same manner t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; contribution limits. Imposes limits on contributions to candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and the General Assembly. The limits are $20,000 per general or special election and $10,000 per primary electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education; complimentary materials. Specifies that instructional faculty at a Virginia public college or university shall not be prohibited from selling, gifting, or otherwise disposing of complimentary books or other instructional materials s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; proceedings for enforcement. Clarifies that when an FOIA petition is filed, the party against whom the writ is brought must be served with a copy of the petition prior to filing. The bill contains a technical amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth's lien for payment of medical services; limitations. Provides that a lien granted to the Commonwealth against any recovery from a third party obtained by an injured person whose medical costs were paid pursuant to the Virginia Medical As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR95 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property exempt from taxation. Amends the Constitution of Virginia to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to exempt or partially exempt from taxation forest harvesting and silvicultural acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB156 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Arbitration Act; vacating arbitration award. Clarifies that a party may seek to vacate an award made pursuant to an arbitration proceeding where there was no agreement to arbitrate and the party raised an objection to the arbitration, regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR145 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Appalachian Power; report. Directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study alternatives to the monopoly service provided by Appalachian Power, which is the existing investor-owned electric utility serving portions of Southwest a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Association of Realtors. Makes license plates issued to members of the Association of Realtors revenue-sharing special license plates. The annual surcharge for these plates would now be $25, instead of the standard $10 for mos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile court docket; family assault. Requires cases of assault and battery against a family or household member to be advanced on the docket and heard within 30 days of arrest or service of a summons or as soon thereafter as practicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax laws; conformity to Internal Revenue Code. Advances conformity with federal income tax laws to December 31, 2009, for taxable year 2009 and to December 31, 2010, for taxable year 2010, with three additional exceptions. The bill also provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation and expenses of clerks of certain circuit courts; Virginia Beach. Requires the City of Virginia Beach to assume the salaries and expenses of the circuit court clerk's office and allows the City to retain the funds the office collects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Rumble strips. Provides that rumble strips shall be installed on highways in the Commonwealth having speed limits of at least 55 MPH.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Courts not of record; circuit court hearing; termination of juvenile court jurisdiction; objections and appeals. Provides in certain violent felony cases for a juvenile's right to appeal to the circuit court, the attorney for the Commonwealth's decis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Family or household member; definition. Includes within the definition of a person's "family or household member" any individual who is currently or was formerly involved in a substantive, intimate dating relationship with the person; the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end credit plan loans; penalties. Establishes requirements for open-end credit plan loans that track many of the provisions of the payday Loan Act. Currently, lenders and sellers making open-end loans are not required to be licensed and may char...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; REAL ID. Makes documents required for renewal, reissue, or duplication of driver's licenses and identification cards compliant with REAL ID.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding of circuit court clerks' offices; fees. Creates a local fee retention funding method for circuit court clerks' offices in which the clerk retains fees locally and pays 20 percent of gross fees to the state to be held by the Compensation Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; definition of law-enforcement officer. Includes certain employees of a sheriff's department under the coverage of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act, so long as the employees woul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Board for Housing and Community Development; Green Building Code. Requires the Board for Housing and Community Development to promulgate a Green Building Code as a part of the Uniform Statewide Building Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI offenses; passenger age 18 or younger; penalties. Creates a new offense of driving under the influence with a passenger who is 18 years of age or younger, which is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 6 felony for a second offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony falsely summoning or giving false reports to a law-enforcement official.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; VITA exemption. Exempts the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind from provisions related to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Community services boards; access to medication assisted treatment. Requires every community services board to provide access to medication assisted treatment for substance abuse to all persons for whom such treatment is appropriate by (i) employing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Community services boards; providing information about substance abuse services. Requires all community services boards to provide information about the full range of substance abuse treatment services, including medication assisted treatment, that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retail Sales and Use Tax Act. Conforms the Commonwealth's sales and use tax laws to the provisions of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Installation of voltage regulation technologies; recovery of costs. Allows electric utilities to recover the costs and to earn a 15 percent rate of return on investments in certain voltage regulation technologies. To qualify for this treatment, a vol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; medical services. Limits the liability of an employer for certain costs of an employee's surgical procedures in connection with an award under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. If more than one covered surgical procedure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Workplace Fraud Act. Establishes penalties for employers providing construction services that wrongly classify their employees as independent contractors. The measure authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to initiate an investigation unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB389 | Intro
Sine Die | Offenses for which a juvenile is subject to transfer and trial as an adult. Provides that a juvenile age 14 or older shall, without more, be subject to a preliminary hearing in juvenile court, and transfer to a circuit court for trial as an adult if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban county executive form of government; use of county tax revenue for secondary road improvements. Provides that Fairfax County (described by optional form of county government) may by ordinance for any fiscal year choose to retain its portion of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Infrastructure in Urban Development Areas Loan Fund. Creates the Virginia Infrastructure in Urban Development Areas Loan Fund. The Fund would be administered by the Virginia Resources Authority. Money in the Fund would be used exclusively fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; control of association by declarant. Provides that a declaration may provide for declarant control of an association and its board of directors until (i) three months after 80 percent of all lots that the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB435 | Intro
Sine Die | TransDominion Express Commission. Establishes the TransDominion Express Commission, to be responsible, within the TransDominion Corridor, for identifying needed construction, reconstruction, improvements of or repairs to railroads and their facilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB454 | Intro
Sine Die | Private institutions of higher education; credit enhancement. Allows the Virginia College Building Authority to issue or acquire credit enhancements to secure payment of bonds issued by the Authority. Credit enhancements include, without limitation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Political parties to determine method of nominating candidates. Provides that only political parties may determine the method by which it nominates candidates for office and eliminates exceptions that allowed incumbents in certain cases to determine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB507 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of the Commonwealth; lobbyist disclosure. Redesigns the Lobbyist's Disclosure Statement to clarify information requested and increase compliance. Among other things, the redesigned form (i) requires a lobbyist to include a list of all House...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Solicitation to become a gang member; penalty. Provides that any person who, by telephone or by any electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or otherwise causes or atte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
