| HB1502 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to members and supporters of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. The annual surcharge for thes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB1418-O'Bannon) by voice vote |
| SB1449 | Intro
Sine Die | Sale of certain products containing Bisphenol A prohibited. Prohibits the sale of child-care products containing Bisphenol A in the Commonwealth. A "child-care product" means a consumer product designed or intended primarily for children th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1408 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; "In God We Trust." Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the national motto: "In God We Trust." This bill was incorporated in
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Incorporated by Transportation (HB1418-O'Bannon) by voice vote |
| SB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Kinesiotherapists; licensure required. Requires the Board of Medicine to license and regulate kinesiotherapists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (14-Y 26-N) |
| SB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription requirements; treatment of sexually transmitted disease. Allows a practitioner to prescribe antibiotic therapy to the sexual partner of a patient diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease without the physical examination normally req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Vital records; records becoming public. Requires records of birth after 100 years have elapsed from the date of birth and records of death, marriage, or divorce certificates after 50 years have elapsed from the date of death, marriage, or divorce, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Letter sent to Joint Commission on Health Care |
| SB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Integrated Directional Sign Program. Provides that fees charged for participation in the Integrated Directional Sign Program (Logo Signs) will be based, in the case of single attractions accessible from more than one access ramp, on the number of acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | Notification of breach of medical information. Extends the requirement to notify individuals of a breach of their medical information to all individuals and public and private entities, rather than just governmental agencies. The bill also allows th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway maintenance allocations. Provides that allocation by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for maintenance of assets within the Interstate System of Highways and the primary and secondary systems of state highways shall be based on achieving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (5-Y 8-N 2-A) |
| HB1744 | Intro
Sine Die | Redesignation of joint enterprise zones. Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to expand an existing joint enterprise zone consisting of two localities to include an additional locality provided (i) all the local governing bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB2131-Barlow) by voice vote |
| SB1370 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway rumble strips. Requires installation of rumble strips along all highways with speed limits of 55 mph or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1372 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund. Increases from $20,000 to $50,000 (i) the maximum claim of one judgment creditor against the Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund based on an unpaid final judgment arising out of loss or damage for certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Letter sent to Virginia Motor Vehicle Dealer Board |
| SB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Social work; title protection. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person not licensed by the Board of Social Work to use the title "Social Worker" in writing or in advertising in connection with his practice unless he simultaneously uses the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1578 | Intro
Sine Die | 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, that is to be used either wholly or in part a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Tabled in General Laws (12-Y 7-N) |
| SB1378 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutionally guaranteed 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB2497 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Towing and Recovery Operators. Abolishes the Board of Towing and Recovery Operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote |
| SB1393 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicles transporting utility poles. Provides that vehicles transporting utility poles do not need over-length permits and do not need escort vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1097 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuing education for prescribers; substance abuse, addiction, and related pain management and prescribing practices. Requires the Board of Dentistry, Board of Medicine, and Board of Optometry to require continuing education on the topics of subst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1480 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher training; civics education. Clarifies the requirement that any teacher seeking renewal of a license with an endorsement in middle education 6-8 complete study of the structures, function, and powers of state and local government of Virginia a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1800 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission; establishment of Inspector General. Establishes an Inspector General for the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. The position is appointed by the Governor w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB2076-Landes) by voice vote |
| HB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Development Opportunity fund; criteria for awarding grants or loans. Expands the options that a grant or loan may be awarded from the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund by including proposed project that involve (i) a minimum private ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB1982-Kilgore) by voice vote |
| HB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Development Opportunity fund; criteria for awarding grants or loans. Expands the options that a grant or loan may be awarded from the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund by including proposed project that involve (i) a minimum private ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Incorporated by General Laws (HB1982-Kilgore) by voice vote |
| HB1824 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of the Commonwealth; authentication of certain documents. Clarifies the authorization for the Secretary of the Commonwealth to issue certificates of authentication for documents executed or issued in the state. The bill further provides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB2267 | Intro
Sine Die | Preneed funeral contracts; final expenses insurance. Requires an insurer issuing a life insurance policy, certificate, or annuity contract in which the face amount is primarily based on the actual or estimated cost of funeral goods or services, but i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 15-N) |
| HB2475 | Intro
Sine Die | The Wilderness Road. Designates the highway segments composing the Wilderness Road as Virginia byways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-03
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; limited licenses; licensing of limited duration meetings. Authorizes the Virginia Racing Commission to issue a limited duration license to owners of harness or Thoroughbred racing facilities provided that the owner or oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB1429-Norment) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1333 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; powers and duties; allocation of retainage. Authorizes the Virginia Racing Commission to establish by regulation the allocation of sums to be paid out of the retainage generated by pari-mutuel wagering and revenue from adv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology (SB1429-Norment) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting by localities. Authorizes the use of best value contracting by localities as an alternative to competitive bidding. The bill defines best value contracting as a procurement process where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 3-N 2-A) |
| HB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden assessment; penalty. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to assess a fee of $10 for each ton of menhaden harvested. The fees are to be paid to the Commission semiannually and are to be used by the Commission to evaluate the condition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB1866 | Intro
Sine Die | Real estate tax relief for the elderly and permanently and totally disabled. Authorizes a local government to cap real property taxes of the elderly and permanently and totally disabled, at an amount equivalent to a percentage of their income, as de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Incorporated by Finance (HB2278-Keam) by voice vote |
| HB1676 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax registration with local commissioners of the revenue. Allows dealers to register for sales tax purposes with the local commissioner of the revenue. Currently, dealers may register only with the Tax Commissioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Incorporated by Finance (HB2183-Cline) by voice vote |
| SB1365 | Intro
Sine Die | State insurance license tax credit. Provides a tax credit against the state license tax liability on certain insurance companies for investments in Virginia small business investment companies. The tax credit will be administered by the Tax Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Letter sent to the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission |
| SB1398 | Intro
Sine Die | Coalbed methane gas; conflicting claims to ownership. Provides that, in order to establish a conflicting claim to the ownership of coalbed methane gas, a claimant who is not the surface owner must submit the document by which the interest in coalbed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N) |
| HB2215 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; local defense manufacturing zones. Allows local governments to designate local defense manufacturing zones, similar to local technology zones and tourism zones, in which tax incentives and regulatory flexibility may be provided. Suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Incorporated by Finance (HB1822-Peace) by voice vote |
| SB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule; penalty. Redefines the "triggerman rule," by expanding the principals in the second degree and accessories before the fact who can be charged with capital murder. This bill allows a principal in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuel inspection; affixation of decal showing state and federal taxes. Requires state inspectors of motor fuels and motor fuel dispensers to attach a decal to dispensers showing the amount of federal and state taxes levied per gallon of motor fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB2346 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; compensation of athletic coaches. Requires that the board of visitors of every public institution of higher education adopts and implements policies such that the annual total compensation provided to any coac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Passed by indefinitely in Education by voice vote |
| HB1431 | Intro
Sine Die | Recordation tax. Reduces the state recordation tax on deeds of trust from $0.25 per $100 of the amount financed to $0.2375 per $100 of such amount. The bill also eliminates the reduced recordation tax based on deeds of trust securing a refinanced mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Tabled in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1704 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sales and use tax exemption for spaceport activities. Eliminates the sunset date of the sales and use tax exemption for personal property involved in spaceport activities. The sales and use tax exemption is set to expire on July 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Incorporated by Finance (HB1638-Purkey) by voice vote |
| HB1908 | Intro
Sine Die | Recordation and grantor taxes. Changes the basis on which recordation and grantor taxes are calculated on the conveyance of real estate to the consideration for the property conveyed, effective July 1, 2013. Under current law, the basis is the greate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Tabled in Finance by voice vote |
| HB2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Fertilizer and deicing agents; regulation of application; penalty. Requires certain localities to regulate the sale and application of fertilizers and deicing agents. In those localities, effective January 1, 2014, fertilizer shall not (i) contain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (HB1831-Scott, E.T.) by voice vote |
| SB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; access to salary information, etc., of public employees. Allows public access to the records of only the job position, official salary, or rate of pay of, and the allowances or reimbursements for expenses paid to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Letter sent to Freedom of Information Advisory Council |
| HB2378 | Intro
Sine Die | Accreditation of schools; delayed implementation of certain statutes and regulations, etc. Provides for the delayed implementation of statutes and regulations upon which the accreditation of schools in the Commonwealth is based that were not already ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
House: Incorporated by Education (HB1554-Wilt) by voice vote |
| SB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Passing a stopped school bus. Rewrites the Code section that punishes passing a school bus as reckless driving to correct an error in legal construction and to further clarify the language. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB769-Marsden) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; market-based sourcing. Changes the way the sales factor is determined, for purposes of the corporate income tax, so that it will be market-based sourcing rather than costs of performance, which is the current method used. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Letter sent to the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission |
| SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduced electricity rates for low-income residential customers; tax credit. Requires investor-owned electric utilities to offer eligible residential customers a reduced rate for electric service during December through April of each year. The reduced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Letter sent to the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission |
| SB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; concurrence of the Office of the Attorney General. Requires the receipt of the concurrence of the Office of the Attorney General before the Fair Housing Board may make a determination of reasonable cause to believe a discr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) |
| SB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers of land preservation tax credits. Requires the use of a licensed transfer agent to transfer a land preservation tax credit to a taxpayer who is not an individual. Transfer agents would be licensed by the Department of Taxation. The bill pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB1232-Deeds) (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1432 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; industrial building rehabilitation tax credit. Creates a tax credit, not to exceed $100,000, for businesses that rehabilitate or retrofit older industrial buildings in which a new business is located, for taxable years beginning on and af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Letter sent to the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission |
| SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorialization of fallen Virginians at the Virginia War Memorial. Codifies the criteria for inclusion of Virginians who died while serving in the armed forces on the Shrine of Memory at the Virginia War Memorial, as was required by legislation adopt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
