| HB2479 | Pass | Virginia Liaison Office; Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; powers and duties. Changes the title of the Virginia Liaison Office to the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. The bill also reorganizes and clarifies the responsibilities of the Office a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827) |
| SB1057 | Pass | Reports by executive branch entities to the General Assembly. Authorizes state entities required to submit a report to multiple legislative branch entities to develop a consolidated report containing all required information. Such report shall be (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| HB2158 | Pass | Bonds in recognizances. Provides that bonds in recognizances in criminal or juvenile cases, whether the violation is committed against the Commonwealth or the locality, shall be payable to the jurisdiction where the recognizance was taken. Current la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| SB1375 | Pass | Board for Contractors; regulation of building analysts. Provides for the licensure of residential building energy analysts by the Board for Contractors. The bill defines residential building energy analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0865) |
| HB2160 | Pass | Implied warranties on new homes; notice of breach. Allows a vendee to give notice of a breach to the vendor by hand delivery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| SB1063 | Pass | Servicemembers and veterans courts. Provides for the program established by the Department of Veterans Services to monitor and coordinate mental health and rehabilitative services support for Virginia veterans to cooperate with localities that may es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847) |
| SB1059 | Pass | Master Settlement Agreement; regulation of cigarette manufacturers. Permits a tobacco manufacturer to request removal from the Virginia Tobacco Directory under certain circumstances, such as the cessation of business operations, without penalty. Res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| SB1384 | Pass | Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency. Advances the conformity with the federal tax code from January 22, 2010, to December 31, 2010, and restores conformity to the qualified motor vehicle tax deduction. The bill also contai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0866) |
| HB2510 | Pass | Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011. Establishes the Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011 for the purpose of fueling strong economic growth in the Commonwealth and preparing Virginians for the top job opportunities in the k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0828) |
| SB1483 | Pass | Limitation of state and local government authority; certain charitable organizations. Places limits on the authority of state and local government entities over charitable organizations that are nonstock corporations granted tax-exempt status under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873) |
| HB1768 | Pass | Mold remediation; exemption from licensure; mold in dwelling units. Clarifies that a tenant, after a temporary relocation for mold remediation, is still responsible for payment of rent for the remainder of the term of the rental agreement following t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| HB2519 | Pass | Virginia Water Protection Permits; multiagency review. Requires that agencies having an opportunity to comment on a Virginia Water Protection Permit submit such comments within 45 days or be deemed as having approved the permit without further opport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| HB2191 | Pass | Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund. Requires the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to provide the option to make voluntary contributions to the Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund, which is established by this measure. Moneys in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| HB1773 | Pass | Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security. Establishes the Office of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security with responsibility to the Governor for veterans services and homeland preparedness and security. The state entitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) |
| HB2531 | Pass | Corporate income tax; Virginia port volume increase tax credit. Provides an income tax credit to taxpayers engaged in manufacturing goods or the distribution of manufactured goods that use Virginia port facilities and increase their port cargo volume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831) |
| HB2216 | Pass | Laboratory results; authority to receive directly. Allows a laboratory, with authorization from patient, to provide a copy of the report of the results directly to the insurance carrier, health maintenance organization, or self-insured plan that prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| HB1611 | Pass | Landlord and tenant laws. Provides that localities must have a uniform set of standards as provided in the Statewide Building Code for smoke detectors, and tenants must maintain smoke detectors; prohibits tenants from painting or altering a dwelling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| HB1613 | Pass | Local prisoner programs; workforces in certain cemeteries. Allows workforces to assist with maintaining privately owned, abandoned cemeteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| SB1116 | Pass | Laboratory results; authority to receive directly. Allows a laboratory, with authorization from patient, to provide a copy of the report of the results directly to the insurance carrier, health maintenance organization, or self-insured plan that prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| SB1119 | Veto | Department of Environmental Quality; permit compliance; civil penalty procedures. Increases the limit of a civil penalty issued by a special order of the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality from $10,000 to $10,000 for an initial viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| HB2229 | Pass | Health professionals; competency assessments. Changes the requirement for assessing physicians who have had three medical malpractice judgments or claims in a 10-year period so that it only affects actively practicing physicians. The bill also change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| HB2230 | Pass | Definitions; Title 5.1. Adds definition of "aircraft based in this Commonwealth" to the definitions section of Title 5.1 (Aviation). The bill also alphabetizes existing definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809) |
| SB1124 | Pass | Administration of gross premium tax on insurance companies. Transfers the administration of the gross premiums on certain insurance companies from the State Corporation Commission to the Department of Taxation. Surplus lines brokers that fail to file...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0850) |
| SB1481 | Pass | Corporate income tax; Virginia port volume increase tax credit. Provides an income tax credit to taxpayers engaged in manufacturing goods or the distribution of manufactured goods that use Virginia port facilities and increase their port cargo volume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0872) |
| SB1130 | Pass | Taxation. Removes obsolete language from various sections of Title 58.1. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0851) |
| HB1629 | Pass | Parking violations on Department of Game and Inland Fisheries properties. Clarifies that parking violations that occur on DGIF properties are subject to a $25 civil penalty, not to criminal penalties. The civil penalties will be deposited in the Game...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| HB2253 | Pass | Health professions; reciprocity exemption from licensing. Provides an exemption for the requirement that health professionals be licensed for a practitioner who is in good standing with the applicable regulatory agency in another state and who is tre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| HB1928 | Pass | Health insurance; independent external reviews. Revises the process for independent external reviews of a health carrier's adverse decision regarding covered health care benefits. The measure (i) eliminates the minimum eligibility threshold, (ii) eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| SB1141 | Pass | Child abduction. Makes it a duty of the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse to maintain close liaison with the National Crime Information Center and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the exchange of information on chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852) |
| HB1645 | Pass | Real property tax; exemption for disabled veterans. Codifies the constitutional amendment adopted by voters in November, 2010, that provides for a property tax exemption for veterans who have a 100 percent, service-related disability. The exemption w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| SB1163 | Pass | Powers and duties of the Criminal Justice Services Board and the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Repeals the requirements for the Department of Criminal Justice Services to (i) establish a Crime Prevention Center, (ii) adopt regulations for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0854) |
| HB1830 | Pass | Agriculture; resource management plans. Allows owners of agricultural land who implement and maintain a resource management plan to be deemed as being in full compliance with (i) any load allocation contained in a total maximum daily load (TMDL) esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| HB2042 | Pass | Veterans Services Foundation. Requires the Veterans Services Foundation to provide an annual report to the Secretary of Public Safety on or before November 30. The bill also (i) provides that ex officio members of the Foundation are ineligible to ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| SB1159 | Pass | Charter; City of Hopewell. Amends the charter to change election day for city council members from May to November, beginning in November 2012, and to extend the terms of the council's president and vice-president from June 30, 2012, to December 31, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0853) |
| HB2282 | Pass | Department of General Services; centralized fleet; alternative fuels. Requires the Director of the Department of General Services, in conjunction with the Secretary of Administration and the Governor's senior advisor on energy, to develop a plan prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| SB1282 | Pass | Income tax; barge and rail usage tax credit. Grants an income tax credit for the usage of barge and rail to move cargo containers throughout the Commonwealth rather than trucks or other motor vehicles on the Commonwealth's highways. The amount of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0861) |
| SB757 | Pass | Pneumatic gun regulations. Prohibits a locality from adopting an ordinance that prohibits the shooting of pneumatic guns on private property, with permission of the owner of the property, if reasonable care is taken to prevent a projectile from cross...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832) |
| HJR679 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); legislative sessions. Provides that the General Assembly may agree to delay the reconvened session for a period of up to one week. The Constitution now provides that the reconvened session will be held on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
House: Assigned Chapter 756 (effective - see bill) |
| HJR693 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Revises the prohibition on the enactment by the General Assembly of laws whereby private property may be taken or damaged. An existing provision authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
House: Assigned Chapter 757 (effective - see bill) |
| SB1326 | Pass | Income tax; research and development expenses tax credit. Allows income tax credits for individuals and businesses for qualified research and development expenses for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, but before January 1, 2017. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| SB766 | Pass | Water well systems providers; definition. Clarifies that a water well systems provider is qualified to install, remove or repair geothermal water well systems to the point of connection to the ground source heat pump.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| HB2310 | Pass | Conveyance of state-owned bottomlands. Creates an administrative procedure that allows the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to convey title to filled subaqueous bottomlands if the applicant can provide evidence that such fill was lawfully deposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB2319 | Pass | State agency mandates on localities. Provides that the assessment of mandates imposed on local governments currently required include an estimate of the fiscal impact of the mandates on the affected local governments in addition to a written justific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| HB1832 | Pass | Virginia Racing Commission; powers and duties; retainage; illegal wagering on horse racing; penalty. Removes the specific percentage on pari-mutuel pools by the licensee and allows the Commission to approve an amount to be so retained as jointly requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB1432 | Pass | HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Extends until July 1, 2012, the sunset on use of HOV lanes by clean special fuel vehicles, regardless of the number of occupants. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| HB2357 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; Social Security offset. Eliminates the requirement that unemployment compensation benefits be reduced by 50 percent of the amount of the claimant's Social Security Act or Railroad Retirement Act retirement benefits in years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| HB2367 | Pass | Telecommunications services; regulation. Eliminates certain requirements applicable to competitive telecommunications services. The requirement that competitive services be offered for sale under a filed tariff is eliminated. The State Corporation Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| HB1447 | Pass | Income tax; research and development expenses tax credit. Allows income tax credits for individuals and businesses for qualified research and development expenses for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, but before January 1, 2016. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| HB2375 | Pass | Commonwealth Information Technology Governance and Oversight; information technology project risk and complexity. Provides for the creation of the Commonwealth Project Management Standard, by which information technology projects in state agencies an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| HB1962 | Pass | Toll violation notice. Sets out the procedures for issuance of toll violation notices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736) |
