| SB1401 | Engross
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; eligibility criteria. Provides that certain individuals who have exhausted eligibility for unemployment benefits and who are enrolled in approved training programs are eligible for up to 26 weeks of additional benefits. The mea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1775 | Engross
Sine Die | English as a Second Language; report. Requires local school boards to annually collect data on the number of students enrolled in English as a Second Language courses and report such data to the Board of Education, as well as provide the number of st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1172 | Engross
Sine Die | Training standards for law-enforcement using tracking devices during pursuits. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish a model policy for law-enforcement personnel for use of an electronic or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1180 | Engross
Sine Die | Pretrial deposition of a witness in a criminal trial. Creates a mechanism for the taking of a pretrial deposition of a witness in a criminal trial who has been shown to the satisfaction of the court to be likely to be unavailable for trial because o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1155 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the supplemental allowance currently paid to members upon retirement until age 65 would instead be paid until Social Security Retirement Age. The provisions of the bill are made conditional upon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1167 | Engross
Sine Die | Crashes on HOT lanes under construction on the Capital Beltway. Requires that when there is a vehicle crash on HOT lanes under construction on any portion of Interstate 95, 395, or 495 and the vehicles involved in the crash can be moved and there are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1319 | Engross
Sine Die | Insurance companies; investments in derivative transactions; exercising qualified financial contracts upon insolvency or delinquency. Establishes conditions under which domestic insurers may engage in transactions involving derivative instruments, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2511 | Engross
Sine Die | Immunity for persons acting in defense of persons. Provides civil immunity for an occupant of a dwelling who injures or kills another while engaged in the defense of his dwelling when (i) the other person has unlawfully entered the dwelling and commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB1785 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal procedure; collection of fines, costs, penalties, forfeitures, and restitution. Authorizes a local treasurer to recover the costs of collecting fines, costs, penalties, forfeitures, and restitution pursuant to an agreement with the attorney ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1988 | Engross
Sine Die | Property conveyances; mineral mining; ownership of underground void. Provides that, unless expressly excepted by the instrument creating an interest in a coal mineral estate, the owner or the lessee of coal retains the right to any coal remaining in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB2396 | Engross
Sine Die | Unlawful solicitation of a child by an adult; penalty. Provides that any adult who, by an offer of something of value or by misrepresentation of his identity, lures or entices a minor who is three or more years younger than the adult to enter a motor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Letter sent to Crime Commission |
| HB1999 | Engross
Sine Die | Northern Virginia Transportation District. Revises criteria for allocation of revenues to highway projects within the Northern Virginia Transportation District. The bill also contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB2000 | Engross
Sine Die | Appointments to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board of Directors. In appointing Virginia members of the board of directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (8-Y 5-N) |
| HB2410 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; optional defined contribution retirement program for state and local employees. Creates an optional defined contribution retirement program and other related benefits for state and local employees beginning January 1, 2012...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB851 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporary injunctions. Provides that, in assessing whether to award a temporary injunction, a court shall review the following factors: (i) the likelihood of irreparable harm to the party seeking the temporary injunction if the temporary injunction i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (9-Y 12-N) |
| SB1460 | Engross
Sine Die | Workforce skills enhancement training program for unemployed workers. Establishes a program whereby unemployed workers may continue to receive unemployment compensation benefits while participating in workforce skills enhancement training from a pote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
House: Passed by in Appropriations with letter by voice vote |
| HB1548 | Engross
Sine Die | Parental notification; school board policy violations. Requires the school principal, or designee, to notify the parents of a student who violates a school board policy or the compulsory school attendance requirements when such violation is likely to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Defeated by Senate (12-Y 28-N) |
| HB2202 | Engross
Sine Die | Child support arrearages. Provides that the Division of Child Support Enforcement shall, in order to enhance enforcement, publish at regular intervals a list of delinquent parents who owe child support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB768 | Engross
Sine Die | Designation of school zones in certain residential communities. Provides for the designation and enforcement of school zones within common interest communities with the costs borne entirely by the communities in which they are located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote |
| HB1416 | Engross
Sine Die | Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to allocate 65 percent of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 10-N) |
| HB1419 | Engross
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccination; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement for vaccination against human papillomavirus for female children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB1440 | Engross
Sine Die | Rights of unborn children. Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and constitution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB1956 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of trespassing vehicles; localities. Provides that, when a local governing body regulates towing by ordinance, such ordinance shall not limit the ability to remove a trespassing vehicle from one locality and store or release it in another ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Letter sent to Board of Towing and Recovery Operators |
| HB2009 | Engross
Sine Die | Open enrollment policies; local school divisions. Provides that local school divisions may have policies that provide for the open enrollment to any school of any pupil residing within the school division upon the request of a parent or guardian. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| HB1491 | Engross
Sine Die | Highway maintenance funds. Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways maintained by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Transportation Bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Letter sent to Joint Commission on Transportation Accountablility |
| HB1428 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion clinics; licensure and regulation. Requires all abortion clinics, defined as any facility other than a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center in which 25 or more first-trimester abortions are performed in any 12-month period, to be license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB1728 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle window tinting films. Increases the allowed tinting of front side windows so as to reduce permitted light transmittance from the present minimum of 50 percent to a minimum of 35 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Letter sent to Secretary of Public Safety and Virginia State Police |
| HB1559 | Engross
Sine Die | Audiologists; sale of hearing aids. Exempts audiologists with a doctoral degree in audiology licensed to practice in Virginia from the examination requirement for issuance of a license to engage in the practice of fitting or dealing in hearing aids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Letter sent to Departments of Health Professions and Professional & Occcupational Regulation |
| HB2147 | Engross
Sine Die | Health benefits exchanges; abortion coverage not permitted. Prohibits any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in the Commonwealth pursuant to federal health care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB1642 | Engross
Sine Die | Dental school faculty; licensure. Provides that the Board of Dentistry may issue a faculty license to a faculty member of an accredited dental program who is (i) a graduate of a dental school or college or dental department of a college or universit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1644 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; physical education requirement. Requires at least 150 minutes of physical education per week on average during the regular school year for grades K through eight, with a similar goal for high school students. This requirement would go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1190 | Engross
Sine Die | Aquaculture; Virginia Marine Resources Commission; authority of local governments. Expands the definitions of agricultural operation and production agriculture in the "Right to Farm Act" to include the practice of aquaculture. As a result,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (12-Y 5-N) |
| HB1993 | Engross
Sine Die | Reckless driving offenses. Provides that any person who operates a motor vehicle in violation of §46.2-833 (running a red light) is guilty of reckless driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB2032 | Engross
Sine Die | Electronic tracking devices; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 3 misdemeanor to place an electronic tracking device in or on a vehicle with the intent to track the vehicle without the knowledge and consent of the operator. The prohibition would no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB2513 | Engross
Sine Die | Inherent authority to defer and dismiss a criminal case. Provides that no court shall have the authority, upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or after a plea of not guilty, when the facts found by the court would justify a finding of guilt, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Senate: Letter sent to Crime Commission |
| HB1515 | Engross
Sine Die | Traffic lights; enforcement. Provides that, in addition to observing the violation directly, a law-enforcement officer may detain or arrest the driver of a motor vehicle violating a traffic light signal if the officer observes the violation through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB868 | Engross
Sine Die | Damage of crops and livestock; lawful killing of elk. Changes the procedures for lawfully killing animals that damage agricultural operations and adds elk to those animals that may be killed. Whenever deer, elk, and bear are damaging agricultural op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 3-N) |
| SB1056 | Engross
Sine Die | Wastewater treatment. Authorizes the State Water Control Board, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, to eliminate wastewater discharges from sewage treatment facilities by July 1, 2020. They are to develop alternative treatme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (14-Y 2-N) |
| HB1834 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; permissible fireworks. Redefines what constitutes permissible fireworks in Virginia, and prevents localities from prohibiting the use, design, possession, ignition, display, storage, sale, or transportation of permissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1175 | Engross
Sine Die | Taxation of trusts established for disabled individuals. Establishes an individual income tax deduction not to exceed $2,000 for the fair market value of contributions made during the taxable year to certain supplemental needs trusts established for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1906 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; gold, silver, and platinum bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, or platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| HB2073 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; redistricting local districts; prison populations. Provides that the local governing body may exclude from its calculations in drawing local districts for decennial redistricting the population of certain correctional facilities. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB2314 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; educational improvement scholarships. Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for corporations donating cash to nonprofit organizations providing education improvement scholarships to students who would have been eligible for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1478 | Engross
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; Director of Elections. Provides for the position of Director of Elections to be appointed by the Governor for a four-year term, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. The Director shall serve as head of the electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1721 | Engross
Sine Die | Urban development areas. Makes incorporation of urban development areas optional rather than mandatory. Any locality that has previously adopted urban development areas may, and upon voter petition shall, reconsider such action. Also, when a locality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1403 | Engross
Sine Die | Forfeiture of vehicle used to elude police. Provides that any vehicle driven to elude police and in such a manner as to interfere with or endanger the operation of a law-enforcement vehicle or officer or to endanger a person (in violation of subsecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB2412 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offender registry. Provides that no court order or plea agreement shall state that a person is not required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB1473 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Business Assistance; job retraining accounts; tax exemptions. Allows an individual to open a job retraining account through the Department of Business Assistance. The account would be a trust or savings account administered by the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
House: Tabled in Finance (12-Y 10-N) |
| HB1724 | Engross
Sine Die | Crab dredging season. Authorizes the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adjust the opening or closing dates of a crab dredge season or to close the crab dredge season for one or more years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| HB1573 | Engross
Sine Die | Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force by a person in his dwelling, against an intruder in the dwelling who has committed an overt act against him or another person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-14
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 4-N 1-A) |
