| HB1492 | 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 (CHAP0743) |
| SB1269 | Pass | Autism Advisory Council created. Creates the Autism Advisory Council as an advisory council in the legislative branch of state government to promote coordination of services and resources among agencies involved in the delivery of services to Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| HB1670 | Pass | Conflict of interests for notaries. Expands what conduct constitutes a conflict of interest for a notary to include the performance of any notarial act with respect to any document, writing, or electronic document where the notary is a signatory or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| SB1469 | Pass | Medical malpractice; privileged communications of certain committees. Provides that nothing in the statute governing privileged communications of certain health committees shall be construed as providing any privilege to any health care provider, eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| SB862 | Pass | Commonwealth Energy Policy; local renewable energy facility siting ordinances. Requires that a local ordinance addressing the siting of renewable energy facilities be consistent with provisions of the Commonwealth Energy Policy, provide reasonable cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| HB1541 | Pass | Care of agricultural animals by owner; penalty. Provides standards of care specifically for agricultural animals that ensure accommodation for customary farming activities. An owner of an agricultural animal is required to provide feed to prevent ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| SB1368 | 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 (CHAP0740) |
| SB1382 | 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 such mandates on the affected local governments in addition to a written justifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| SB1113 | 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 (CHAP0751) |
| HB1794 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; collection of overpayments. Authorizes the Virginia Retirement System to collect overpayment of retirement benefits from the retiree's employer under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| HB2236 | Pass | Commercial use of seals of the Commonwealth. Authorizes the Governor to direct the State Treasurer to cause to be minted gold, platinum and silver coins for commemorative use that bear the seals of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| SB1133 | Pass | Conveyance of state-owned bottomlands. Declares that lands that (i) were once or may have been state-owned bottomlands, (ii) were filled prior to July 1, 1960, and (iii) were acquired by private persons after the bottomlands were filled, are free an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| HB2495 | Pass | Advanced Shipbuilding Training Facility Grant Program. Revises the Advanced Shipbuilding Training Facility Grant Program by allowing the Commonwealth, the eligible city, and the qualified shipbuilder to structure an agreement whereby the eligible cit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| HB2501 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; gourmet oyster house license. Creates a new wine and beer license for gourmet oyster houses and sets out the privileges of the license and the annual state and local license taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
| SB762 | Pass | Emergency vehicles proceeding past red lights. Provides that emergency vehicles proceeding past any steady or flashing red signals, traffic lights, stop signs, or other devices indicating moving traffic shall stop, must flash emergency lights and eit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| HB2507 | Pass | Form of deeds. Provides that when a trust is the grantor or grantee of a deed, the deed shall contain the names of the trust's trustees serving at the time the deed was made.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| SB1344 | Pass | Additional transient occupancy tax; Historic Triangle area. Prohibits more than one person of the same local government, including the governing body of the locality, from serving as a member of the Williamsburg Area Destination Marketing Committee a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| SB1182 | Pass | Board of Bar Examiners; exam application. Expands the methods of submitting an application to take the bar exam to include third party commercial carriers in addition to mailing using the U.S.P.S.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| SB1184 | Pass | Certificates of analysis; labs. Adds the Forensic Document Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as an authorized lab in criminal matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645) |
| HB2318 | Pass | Electronic notaries. Allows, in the case of an electronic notarization, a notary to notarize a document when the signer is not in the notary's presence if satisfactory evidence of the identity is established. Furthermore, the bill allows satisfactory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| HB2526 | Pass | Purchase of service handguns. Clarifies that when a law-enforcement officer is eligible to purchase his service handgun, he may purchase a weapon of like kind if his actual service handgun is not available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| SB774 | Pass | Jurisdictional limits of courts. Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| HB1872 | Pass | Public infrastructure maintenance bonds. Allows localities to require public infrastructure maintenance bonds from developers and property owners in conjunction with the construction of single- and two-family homes in instances where the provisions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB2183 | Pass | Sales tax registration with local commissioners of the revenue. Allows dealers to register for sales tax purposes with the local commissioner of the revenue, if such commissioner elects to provide such service. Currently, dealers may register only w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| HB1412 | Pass | Vehicles damaged by water. Increases threshold for reporting water damage from $1,000 to $3,500 and requires insurance companies to report payment of such a claim to the Department of Motor Vehicles. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| HB1877 | Pass | Immunity of officers, etc. of nonprofits; dissolution. Provides that the immunity from civil liability the directors and other officers of tax exempt organizations enjoy for acts taken in their official capacities shall survive the termination, cance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| HB2328 | Pass | Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan. Specifies the process by which agencies' requests for capital projects are presented to the Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan Advisory Committee and the process the Advisory Committee shall follow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| SB1400 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority Act. Moves the Fort Monroe Authority Act's enabling legislation from Title 15.2 to Title 2.2 and makes necessary technical changes. Additionally, the Authority may fix, charge, and collect rents, fees, and charges for the use of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB788 | Pass | Wireless E-911 Fund; distributions. Amends the procedure by which the Wireless E-911 Services Board distributes funds in the Wireless E-911 Fund. The measure requires the Board to recalculate the distribution percentage for each public safety answeri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| SB1206 | Pass | Traffic impact analysis. Removes the requirement that a supplemental traffic analysis accompany a plat or plan submitted to the Department of Transportation by a locality because the plat or plan substantially affects transportation on state-controll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) |
| HB2284 | 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. Currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| SB1209 | Pass | Special appearance; waiver of objection to personal jurisdiction or defective process. Delineates what affirmative conduct on the part of a party constitutes a waiver of any objection such party may have to personal jurisdiction or defective process...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB1416 | Pass | Vehicles damaged by water. Increases threshold for reporting water damage from $1,000 to $3,500 and requires insurance companies to report payment of such a claim to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678) |
| HB1705 | Pass | Workers' compensation; modifications to employee's home and automobile. Authorizes the Workers' Compensation Commission, in awards entered for incapacity for work, to require the employer to furnish and maintain modifications to or equipment for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB1437 | Pass | Business, professional and occupational license tax; gross receipts or Virginia taxable income. Allows localities to decide whether to impose the BPOL tax on a business's gross receipts or its Virginia taxable income. The provisions of the bill would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| SB1423 | Pass | Wills and trusts; formula clauses referring to federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws; application. Amends a section added to the Code during the 2010 Session that was designed to address the consequences of the anticipated repeal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) |
| SB1425 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; process for withdrawal of bid due to error. Clarifies the procedure for withdrawal of a bid when the public body opens bids one day after the time fixed for the submission of bids. Under the procedure, the bidder must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| HB2358 | Pass | Benefit corporations. Authorizes a Virginia stock corporation to elect to be a benefit corporation. A benefit corporation is required to have, as one of its purposes, the purpose of creating a general public benefit, which is defined as a material p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| SB1428 | Pass | Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan. Specifies the process by which agencies' requests for capital projects are presented to the Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan Advisory Committee and the process the Advisory Committee shall follow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| SB1226 | Pass | Sales tax registration with local commissioners of the revenue. Allows dealers to register for sales tax purposes with the local commissioner of the revenue, if such commissioner elects to provide such service. Currently, dealers may register only wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| SB809 | Pass | Attorney liability to client. Removes language from statute authorizing attorney malpractice actions that provides that damages not exceeding 15%, in lieu of interest, may be awarded against the attorney. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| SB811 | Pass | Special license plates; "In God We Trust." Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the national motto: "In God We Trust."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| SB1231 | Pass | Public infrastructure maintenance bonds. Allows localities to require public infrastructure maintenance bonds from developers and property owners in conjunction with the construction of single- and two-family homes in instances where the provisions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB924 | Pass | Board of Health; regulation of facilities. Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations containing minimum standards for policies related to infection prevention, disaster preparedness, and facility security of hospitals, nursing homes, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670) |
| SB1486 | Pass | Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Trust Fund. Requires that the Fund be used for behavioral health and developmental services and to facilitate transition from state training centers to community-based services. The bill requires that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB1965 | Pass | Local capital improvement programs. Adds "life cycle costs" to the facilities estimates prepared as part of the capital improvement program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| SB1245 | Pass | Registered nurses; provisional licensure. Allows the Board of Nursing to issue a provisional license to an applicant for licensure as a registered nurse who has met the educational and examination requirements for licensure, in order to allow the app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB1249 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores; agents of the ABC Board. Designates a distillery licensee that is independently certified as an organic distillery (Catoctin Creek Distillery) by a USDA-accredited certification agency to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| SB828 | 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 is in Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB2012 | Pass | Law-enforcement employment; disclosure of juvenile records. Provides that a person who was adjudicated delinquent may be denied employment with the State Police or a local police department or sheriff's office where such denial is based on the nature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
