| SB1072 | Pass | Inter vivos QTIP trusts. Provides that the donor spouse who establishes for his spouse a QTIP (qualified terminable interest property) trust, which effectively gives the donee spouse a life estate in the trust property, or an inter vivos power of ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| SB1074 | Pass | In-state tuition; National Guard. Provides in-state tuition for any person who met the requirements for in-state tuition prior to being called to active duty in the National Guard of another state following completion of active duty service if during...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| SB1392 | Pass | Electric utility ratemaking incentives; coalbed methane gas. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to earn an enhanced rate of return, equal to 150 basis points above the authorized rate of return, on their investments in generation facilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
| HB1769 | Pass | Annexations by townships. Amends the law to allow townships to use the traditional annexation process to seek to expand their boundaries as long as the consolidation agreement includes a provision allowing the exercise of that power. Only townships c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB1592 | Pass | Public procurement; posting on website. Requires all state authorities, agencies, institutions, departments, and other units of state government to put requests for proposal and invitations to bid on the Department of General Services' website. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| HB1771 | Pass | Allocation of deputies to cities. Authorizes the State Compensation Board to allocate law-enforcement deputies to a city sheriff in cities without a police force if the city was created by the consolidation of a city and a county subsequent to July 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB1772 | Pass | Lien for water and sewer charges. Adds the Town of Clifton Forge to those localities that may provide that charges imposed for water or sewers shall be a lien on the real estate served by such waterline or sewer. Where residential rental real estate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| SB1092 | Pass | Agricultural and Forestal Districts Act; administration of program. Creates a program administrator designated by the local governing body to oversee the application process under the Agricultural and Forestal Districts Act. Localities are given the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| HB1776 | Pass | Expungement of police and court records; fingerprints. Requires a person petitioning for expungement because he was arrested or charged because his name or other identification was used without his consent to provide a complete set of fingerprints al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| HB2237 | Pass | Electric utility ratemaking incentives; coalbed methane gas. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to earn an enhanced rate of return, equal to 150 basis points above the authorized rate of return, on their investments in generation facilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| SB1139 | Pass | Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Updates the primary duty of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation to conform with the agency's recently updated mission statement. The bill contains technical amendments and repeals an outdated Code section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| SB1153 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit. Provides that a land preservation tax credit shall not be reduced by the amount of unused credit that could have been claimed in a prior year by the taxpayer but was unclaimed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB2038 | Pass | Local cigarette tax enforcement. Calls for the Tax Commissioner to convene a working group of interested parties to review policies with regard to how the local cigarette tax is enforced and administered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB1646 | Pass | Referendum elections; voter petition requirements. Provides that the person circulating a petition calling for a referendum election must include on each page, front and back, of the petition: his name, his residence address, and, if different, his m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| HB1831 | Pass | Fertilizer; regulation of application and labeling. Prohibits the sale, distribution and use of lawn maintenance fertilizer containing phosphorus beginning December 31, 2013. The prohibition does not apply to starter fertilizer, manipulated manure, y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| HB2289 | Pass | Common interest communities; rules violations; jurisdiction of general district courts. Provides that a court may order the owner of common interest community property who is in violation of such community's rules to abate or remedy the violation. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
| SB754 | Pass | Preliminary protective orders. Makes the prohibition on purchasing and transporting a firearm applicable to persons subject to preliminary protective orders where a petition alleging abuse or neglect has been filed. Under current law, persons subject...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) |
| SB756 | Pass | Unexecuted warrants. Clarifies that unexecuted warrants may be destroyed if dismissed under a provision enacted during the 2010 Session of the General Assembly allowing an attorney for the Commonwealth to move the court for the dismissal of an unexec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| SB1348 | Pass | Enterprise zones; attestation of information. Eliminates the requirement that the accuracy and validity of information from business firms with base year employment of 100 or fewer positions, and that create 25 or fewer grant eligible positions, on p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| SB779 | Pass | Redesignation of joint enterprise zones. Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to expand an existing joint enterprise zone consisting of two localities provided (i) all the local governing bodies of all the localities in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| SB793 | Pass | Removal of mercury switches. Extends the sunset from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2015, on the law that requires the removal of mercury switches in certain motor vehicles prior to their demolition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311) |
| SB943 | Pass | Information Technology Advisory Council; technology application framework. Requires the ITAC to advise the Chief Information Officer on the creation of a technology application governance framework through which executive branch agencies can address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| SB963 | Pass | Aquaculture opportunity zones. Removes the authority of the Marine Resources Commission to establish commercial shellfish aquaculture opportunity zones in which temporary protective enclosures can be placed in the waters off the shores of the Norther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| SB1441 | Pass | Plan for impaired waters. Requires that the plan developed and implemented to restore impaired waters be controlling unless it is amended or withdrawn by the State Water Control Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| SB1300 | Pass | Department of Conservation and Recreation; conveyance of property. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to divest itself of certain properties that were conveyed to it by Norfolk Southern Railroad for the High Bridge Trail State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
| SB1456 | Pass | Soil and Water Conservation Board; dam safety. Requires owners of dams who submit annual certifications relating to dam compliance to do so each year by January 15. Dam owners who fail to submit certifications in a timely fashion shall not enjoy the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| SB1478 | Pass | Judicial sale of real estate. Authorizes a locality to institute proceedings to sell real property that is located within or abutting a community development authority and upon which special taxes or assessments have been imposed when the special tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| SB863 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit; definition of impoverished people. Amends the definition of "impoverished people." Currently the definition differs based on what type of proposal is being submitted by a nonprofit entity requesting an allocati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) |
| SB1070 | Pass | Regulatory flexibility for small businesses; periodic review. Clarifies the process for the notice of completion of the small business impact statement and review of existing regulations to minimize the economic impact of regulations on small busines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| SB1389 | Pass | Release of driver information by Department of Motor Vehicles. Authorizes DMV to release to the Virginia Council of the Girls Scouts of the USA driver information about volunteers with the Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) |
| SB1108 | Pass | Home food inspections. Exempts a private home whose resident processes and prepares honey produced from hives owned by the resident from inspection by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. To be exempted the person has to meet certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| SB1129 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit program. Extends the sunset date of the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit program from July 1, 2011, to July 1, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| SB1150 | Pass | Schedule II drugs; identification required in filling prescriptions. Specifies that certain duties imposed upon a pharmacist in the delivery of Schedule II drugs may be undertaken by the agent of the pharmacist. The bill also provides that if the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| SB777 | Pass | Jail processing fee. Allows a locality to divide the fees collected post-conviction proportionately between a police department and the sheriff's department if costs are incurred by a police department for booking or fingerprinting services. Current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| SB786 | Pass | Definition of mortgage loan originator for residential mortgage loan; exception. Allows for a limited exception under the mortgage loan originator definition for an individual who is employed by a housing counseling organization certified or approved...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| SB790 | Pass | Unemployment compensation bills; impact statement. Requires that bills enhancing unemployment compensation benefits payable to a claimant contain a statement reflecting the projected impact on the solvency level of the unemployment trust fund and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| SB791 | Pass | Extended unemployment benefits. Clarifies the expiration of provisions, enacted in 2009, that expanded the criteria for a state "on" indicator, during which unemployed individuals are eligible for extended benefits to include weeks when the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| SB1211 | Pass | Property transfer; Department of General Services; Mennel Milling Company. Authorizes the Department of General Services to convey certain real property to the Mennel Milling Company located in Roanoke County, Virginia. The property is in exchange fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 309 (effective 3/20/11) |
| SB823 | Pass | Workers' compensation; presumption that injury is work related. Creates a presumption, in the absence of a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, that an injury is work related. The presumption arises in a claim under the Workers' Compensation Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| SB916 | Pass | Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; advertisements. Requires that the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association's summary document be posted on the Association's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| SB930 | Pass | Debt management plan providers; licensure; exemption. Provides that licensed certified public accountants and accounting firms engaging in usual and customary services performed on behalf of clients are not credit counselors, and thus are exempt from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| SB859 | Pass | Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Infrastructure Development Compact. Repeals the Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Infrastructure Development Compact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| SB1127 | Pass | Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; review of proposals initiated by private entities. Provides that whenever a responsible public entity rejects a proposal initiated by a private entity that purports to develop specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB2126 | Pass | Location of wetland mitigation banks. Removes the references to an outdated map used to identify mitigation banks and instead uses the more readily identifiable hydrologic unit boundaries of the National Watershed Boundary Dataset.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| HB2131 | Pass | Redesignation of joint enterprise zones. Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to expand an existing joint enterprise zone consisting of two localities provided (i) all the local governing bodies of all the localities in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| HB2142 | Pass | Fees for bad checks to localities. Raises the fee a locality may charge for the passing of a bad check to the locality from $35 to $50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| HB2317 | Pass | Information Technology Advisory Council; technology application framework. Requires the ITAC to advise the Chief Information Officer on the creation of a technology application governance framework through which executive branch agencies can address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| HB2198 | Pass | Employment of personnel in the executive branch of state government. Clarifies that if an executive branch agency employee is promoted within the same agency to a higher position classification that requires a new probationary period and is unable to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) |
| HB1856 | Pass | Concealed handgun permits; lost or destroyed permits. Allows a concealed handgun permit holder to obtain a replacement permit in the event that the original permit is lost or destroyed. The permit holder would be required to submit a notarized statem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| HB1690 | Pass | Battery of emergency health care providers; penalty. Provides that the punishment for battery of a health care provider who is engaged in the performance of his duties as an emergency health care provider in an emergency room of a hospital or clinic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) |
