VA Legislation | 2011 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB920	Intro Sine Die	Inspection of food establishments; exception for private homes. Adds certain pickles and other processed vegetables to the foods that may be prepared in private homes and sold to individuals at farmers markets or the preparer's home without an inspec... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-27 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB1466	Intro Sine Die	Water and waste authorities; liens. Requires that a property owner be informed in advance by written notice that liens may be placed on his property under certain circumstances for the unpaid charges to a lessee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-23 House: VOTE: DEFEATED (18-Y 80-N)
SB780	Intro Sine Die	Recordation and grantor taxes. Expands, for a three-year period, the reduced recordation tax accorded to deeds of trust securing a refinanced mortgage with the same lender to all such refinancings, regardless of lender. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Finance Committee
SB1402	Intro Sine Die	Law-enforcement officer; definition. Expands the definition of law-enforcement officer under the Law Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act to include a uniformed corrections employee of the Department of Corrections, regardless of the officer... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB1407	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; fire company personnel of the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Air National Guard. Includes under the coverage of the Line of Duty Act individuals employed as fire company personnel for the Virginia Air National Guard or the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB800	Intro Sine Die	Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 874, 2010 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB804	Intro Sine Die	Special license plates; IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25 instead of the standard $1... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Transportation Committee
SB805	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Provides that the health insurance credit currently being provided to retired teachers would also be provided to all retired employees of the local school division at the option of the l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB912	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, 2013, through June 30, 2015. The bill would require ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB937	Intro Sine Die	Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older will be entitled to vote absentee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB938	Intro Sine Die	Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall implement a system to accept absentee ballot applications electronically. Currently, an applicant may request and receive, but... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB949	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]	2011-02-22 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB820	Intro Sine Die	Mental health courts. Provides that any district court or circuit court may establish a mental health court, which is a separate court docket within the existing calendar of a district or circuit court offering judicial monitoring of the treatment a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB822	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile's right to appeal transfer to circuit court. Provides for a juvenile's right to appeal to the circuit court the attorney for the Commonwealth's decision in certain violent felony cases to transfer the juvenile's case to the circuit court for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB980	Intro Sine Die	Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County. Extends the sunset date for the additional transient occupancy tax in Arlington County from January 1, 2012, to January 1, 2015. Current law requires that the revenues from the tax be designated and spent f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 House: VOTE: DEFEATED (42-Y 54-N)
SB998	Intro Sine Die	Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located (i) outside Virginia opens an office in a Virginia locality with popul... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Finance Committee
SB1027	Intro Sine Die	Tax credit for hiring recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Provides that the tax credit would be issued on a fiscal year basis and that no more than $3 million in tax credits would be issued in any fiscal year of the Commonwealth. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Finance Committee
SB848	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law enf... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB852	Intro Sine Die	Lobbyists; annual statement of expenditures; penalty. Caps at $10,000 the civil penalty that may be assessed against a lobbyist and lobbyist principal for failing to file an annual statement of expenditures. Currently a $10-per-day penalty is assesse... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 House: VOTE: DEFEATED (38-Y 58-N)
SB948	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile dispositions. Gives the circuit court the authority to modify a finding of guilt to an adjudication of delinquency when a juvenile is tried in circuit court and fulfills the conditions of probation after the court has deferred the imposition... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB1476	Intro Sine Die	Charitable gaming; progressive games. Provides that progressive games shall be sold and priced separately from other bingo games and no price discounts shall be given. The bill also provides that each bingo card or sheet used in progressive games sha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB1016	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zones). Requires the Department of General Services and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to develop procurement guidelines to facilitate the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB1338	Intro Sine Die	Governor; submission of financial plan; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. Provides for the Governor's financial plan to be submitted to the General Assembly before the first day of each legislative session and for the plan to prospectiv... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1351	Intro Sine Die	Wireless telecommunications devices in motor vehicles. Extends prohibition on use of wireless telecommunications devices in motor vehicles to initiating or answering a call on such device, unless the device is configured for hands-free operation and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB1042	Intro Sine Die	Texting while driving. Repeals the "secondary enforcement" provisions of the statute prohibiting texting, etc., while driving. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB1047	Intro Sine Die	Provisional driver's license holders. Makes cell phone use while driving by a provisional driver's license holder a primary offense. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee
SB932	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member commission to prepare redistricting plans for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one each by the four ma... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1484	Intro Sine Die	Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act; use of nongeneral fund revenues. Provides that nongeneral fund revenues of institutions of higher education under a management agreement pursuant to the Restructuring Act that... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Appropriations Committee
SB1121	Intro Sine Die	Local government; establishment and administration of personnel system. Authorizes a locality to establish a personnel system for local administrative officials and employees based on merit and professional ability. The bill also authorizes a localit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
SB1122	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance benefits for state employees. Provides that the health insurance coverage that may be purchased by state employees for families and dependents may include coverage for any other person to whom coverage may be extended pursuant to &se... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB747	Intro Sine Die	Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or sta... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-22 To House General Laws Committee
SB817	Intro Sine Die	Professions; lawyers; client accounts. Repeals the provision prohibiting the Supreme Court from adopting a disciplinary rule requiring that lawyers deposit client funds in an interest-bearing account. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (11-Y 11-N)
SB967	Intro Sine Die	Family life education. Requires each school division to implement the standards of learning for the family life education program promulgated by the Board of Education, or a family life education program consistent with the guidelines developed by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 To House Education Committee
SB1066	Intro Sine Die	Judicial retirement; mandatory retirement. Adjusts the mandatory retirement age under judicial retirement to age 73. Currently, judges are required to retire at age 70. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-21 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (10-Y 12-N)
SB904	Intro Sine Die	Family assault and battery. Allows the penalty for family assault and battery to be elevated from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony if the defendant has previously been convicted of unlawful wounding or unlawful bodily injury by means of a su... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-18 House: Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote
SB911	Intro Sine Die	Local grievance procedures. Allows the local government at its option to permit an observer for each party at the informal first step of the grievance process. The grievant and the local government at their option may also have an observer of their c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-18 House: Tabled in Counties, Cities and Towns (12-Y 8-N)
SB1234	Intro Sine Die	One-way roadways and highways; bicycle operation. Allows the governing body of City of Charlottesville to permit the operation of bicycles in either direction of traffic on one-way roadways and highways. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-17 House: Tabled in Transportation (12-Y 10-N)
SB830	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory practice, affordable housing. Specifies that localities shall not discriminate by failing to grant an application for land use or the permitting of a development, which is to be used either wholly or... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-17 House: Passed by in General Laws with letter by voice vote
SB928	Intro Sine Die	Following too closely; passing other vehicles. Adds bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds to the list of vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-17 House: Tabled in Transportation (11-Y 10-N)
SB973	Intro Sine Die	Inspecting and testing of weights and measures; imposition of a fee used for inspecting and testing petroleum dispensing pumps. Imposes a fee of one-tenth of one cent on fuels subject to Virginia's fuels taxes, with the proceeds to be used solely to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-14 House: Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote
SB743	Intro Sine Die	Transient Occupancy Tax; Washington County. Adds Washington County to those localities authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent, with any excess over two percent to be spent solely on tourism. Under current law, any c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-14 House: Incorporated by Finance (SB984-Lucas) by voice vote
SB1237	Intro Sine Die	Ground water withdrawal permit fees. Increases the maximum amount that the State Water Control Board can charge for a permit to withdraw ground water from $6,000 to $12,000. The term of a ground water permit is up to 10 years. The State Water Control... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-11 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (8-Y 14-N)
SB1173	Intro Sine Die	Department of Planning and Budget; reestimate of agency needs. Provides that within five business days after the preliminary close of the Commonwealth's accounts at the end of each fiscal year, each of the several state agencies and other agencies a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1179	Intro Sine Die	Regulation of trespassing vehicles; localities. Provides that, when a local governing body regulates towing by ordinance, such ordinance shall permit the towing company to tow the vehicle at least 10 miles from the origination of the tow. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Transportation Committee
SB1181	Intro Sine Die	DUI maiming; penalty. Raises the penalty for DUI maiming, causing permanent impairment, from a Class 6 to a Class 4 felony and creates a Class 6 felony when the offense causes serious bodily injury without maiming. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB775	Intro Sine Die	Waiver of payment of interest on fines and costs; incarcerated defendant. Provides for the purging of interest on fines and costs for an incarcerated defendant when such fines and costs have accrued on cases other than the one for which the defendant... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
SB1397	Intro Sine Die	Allocations to certain homeowners' associations; highway maintenance and maintenance replacement. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board annually to set aside from all funds available for highway maintenance and construction $50 million to b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1403	Intro Sine Die	Corporate income tax. Eliminates Virginia's corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on or after July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
SB1203	Intro Sine Die	Primary elections; costs. Provides that the political party shall pay the costs of the primary. The bill provides that the party must post bond in advance of the primary to cover those costs. Currently the costs of the primary are paid by the localit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SB1409	Intro Sine Die	Sex offender registry. Requires registration when a person 18 years of age or older is convicted of engaging in consensual sexual intercourse with a child 15 years of age or older. Registration will also be required for someone convicted of the feder... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2011-02-08 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee