| HB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating a portion of U.S. Route 29 as Interstate 785. Designates U.S. Route 29 from the Virginia-North Carolina line to north of the Town of Altavista as Interstate 785. The bill provides that such designation shall not take effect until the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-01
House: Passed by in Transportation with letter by voice vote |
| SB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | State taxes paid by highway contractors dedicated for transportation purposes. Dedicates to the Transportation Trust Fund all state retail sales and use and income taxes paid by highway contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-01
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden fishery. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations to implement the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden. The bill also requires that any moratorium on the fishery be subject to legislative rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB767 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of protective orders. Provides that a person against whom a protective order has been issued may petition to have police and court records relating to the protective order expunged if the order is subsequently dissolved by the issuing cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1381 | Intro
Sine Die | Interlocutory appeal; sovereign immunity. Provides that the Commonwealth or any agency, instrumentality, political subdivision, or agent or employee thereof, have an appeal of right to the Supreme Court of Virginia of any order denying a plea of sove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB2320 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic tracking devices in opposition research; penalty. Prohibits a person from placing in or on a vehicle an electronic tracking device to track the location, movements, conduct, or activities of a person for use in opposition research. For the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2032-May) by voice vote |
| HB1878 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalties for possession, sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute synthetic marijuana. Creates a new category for "synthetic marijuana" as a series of controlled substances listed in Schedule 1 (§54.1-3446...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1434-Garrett) by voice vote |
| HB2331 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocation of highway maintenance and construction funds. Alters the manner in which the Commonwealth Transportation Board allocates highway maintenance and construction funds from the Transportation Trust Fund and the Highway Maintenance and Operati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Passed by in Appropriations with letter by voice vote |
| HB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | Enforcement of immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police shall seek to enter into a memorandum of agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1934-Miller, J.H.) by voice vote |
| HB1423 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalties for possession, sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute synthetic marijuana. Creates a new category for "synthetic marijuana" as a series of controlled substances listed in Schedule 1 (§54.1-3446...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1434-Garrett) by voice vote |
| HB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | Abduction; penalty. Provides that any person who, without legal justification or excuse, recruits, entices, solicits, seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes a child under 16 years of age, for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution, is gui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1898-Hugo) by voice vote |
| SB1411 | Intro
Sine Die | Making, drawing, uttering, or delivering a bad check; penalty. Provides that any person making, drawing, uttering, or delivering any check, draft, or order in payment of rent pursuant to a lease agreement under Chapter 13 (Landlord and Tenant) or Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1427 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalties for possession, sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute synthetic marijuana. Creates a new category for "synthetic marijuana" as a series of controlled substances listed in Schedule 1 (§54.1-3446...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1434-Garrett) by voice vote |
| SB807 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial vehicles; persons required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Prohibits persons for whom registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required from (1) driving school buses and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Letter sent to Crime Commission |
| HB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice; privileged communications of certain committees. Provides that factual information, whether written or oral, regarding specific patient care and treatment, including patient care incidents occurring within a health care facility,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2373-Peace) by voice vote |
| HB1460 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats against public officials. Provides that any person who (i) threatens to kill or injure another person or to commit violence or injury against that person or his property, or to unlawfully trespass upon his property and (ii) knows or has reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-end loan plans; finance charges. Caps the finance charges and other charges and fees that may be charged on extension of credit under certain open-end credit plans at an annual rate of 36 percent if the maximum amount that may be advanced under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 3-N 2-A) |
| HB1469 | Intro
Sine Die | Reckless driving; failing to stop at a school bus. Provides that a driver is guilty of reckless driving who fails to stop, when approaching from any direction, at any school bus which is stopped for the purpose of taking on or discharging children, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2043-Anderson) by voice vote |
| HB1471 | Intro
Sine Die | Homestead and other exemptions. Raises the homestead exemption from real or personal property not exceeding $5,000 in value to personal property not exceeding $5,000 in value and real property not exceeding $25,000 in value. The bill also adds certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1422-Albo) by voice vote |
| HB1925 | Intro
Sine Die | Garnishment; earnings. Clarifies that a person's earnings that may be subject to garnishment include earnings deposited into a bank, credit union, or financial institution on the person's behalf and includes earnings that have been commingled with no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 7-N) |
| HB1473 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalties for possession, sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute synthetic marijuana. Creates a new category for "synthetic marijuana" as a series of controlled substances listed in Schedule 1 (§54.1-3446...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1434-Garrett) by voice vote |
| HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalties for possession, sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute synthetic marijuana. Creates a new category for "synthetic marijuana" as a series of controlled substances listed in Schedule 1 (§54.1-3446...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1434-Garrett) by voice vote |
| HB1482 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's license; birth registration cards. Requires that the Department of Motor Vehicles accept birth registration cards issued by the Commonwealth as proof of legal presence on applications for driver's licenses or special identification cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB850 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting on Sundays. Allows a person to hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (2-Y 13-N) |
| HB2428 | Intro
Sine Die | Homestead and other exemptions. Raises the homestead exemption from real or personal property not exceeding $5,000 in value to personal property not exceeding $5,000 in value and real property not exceeding $25,000 in value. The bill also adds certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1422-Albo) by voice vote |
| HB1494 | Intro
Sine Die | Homestead exemption. Increases from $5,000 to $15,000 the homestead exemption for every householder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1422-Albo) by voice vote |
| HB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition and educational benefits for unlawfully present aliens. Provides that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residency within Virginia for any postsecondary educational benefit i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1465-Peace) by voice vote |
| HB2021 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocation of revenue-sharing funds. Removes the priority structure for allocation of revenue-sharing funds to localities and provides for funding of no less than $50 million each fiscal year. This bill incorporates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB2527-Howell, W.J.) by voice vote |
| SB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Real estate lending; creditworthiness of victims of Chinese drywall. Prohibits any bank, savings institution, credit union, or licensed mortgage lender from making a detrimental decision with regard to a real estate loan application that has been sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB2211 | Intro
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 a felony violation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1403-Loupassi) by voice vote |
| SB955 | Intro
Sine Die | Craney Island disposal. Authorizes the Virginia Port Authority to take material dredged during the expansion of Craney Island from sediment remediation and wetlands mitigation sites along the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River and dispose of it a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1445 | Intro
Sine Die | Collection of fines, costs, and fees, etc. Requires the cost of collecting fines, costs, and fees be added to the total amounts due instead of paid from amounts collected. The bill also allows the Department of Taxation's fee to localities for colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuing care retirement community board of directors; resident representation. Requires that no less than 20 percent of the members of the board of directors of a corporation providing continuing care at a facility shall be residents of the facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Spousal support and separate maintenance. Provides that in any proceeding on the issue of determining spousal support or separate maintenance, the court shall have the authority to order a party to (i) maintain any existing life insurance policy on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1512 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes against incapacitated adults; penalty. Provides that any person who commits an offense set forth in Chapter 4 (crimes against the person), Chapter 5 (crimes against property), or Chapter 6 (crimes involving fraud) of Title 18.2, knowing or hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1633-Watts) by voice vote |
| HB2061 | Intro
Sine Die | Subordinate mortgage. Increases to $150,000 from $50,000 the maximum amount of a subordinate mortgage that retains its subordinate status upon the refinancing of the primary mortgage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB1682-Toscano) by voice vote |
| SB1307 | Intro
Sine Die | State waters; regulation of interbasin transfers. Establishes a procedure for the interbasin transfer of waters. Persons initiating an interbasin transfer, or expanding an existing interbasin transfer, in excess of two million gallons per day must se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1465 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawn fertilizer; regulation of application and labeling. Requires professional lawn fertilizer applicators to become certified in nutrient management and prohibits the application of lawn fertilizer to impervious surfaces and frozen ground. The use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB1055-Stuart) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1002 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle emissions inspection program. Provides for an on-road clean screen program, allowing a motor vehicle owner to certify compliance with emissions standards by means of on-road remote sensing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Repeals the authority of the Attorney General to issue civil investigative demands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB831-Petersen) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice actions. Changes from 10 business days to 21 days the number of days after receipt of written request of a defendant in which the plaintiff must provide the defendant with a certification form that affirms that the plaintiff had o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Game and Inland Fisheries; damage stamp compensation program. Removes the local authority and responsibility to create and administer the damage stamp compensation program, which assists farmers whose crops and livestock are damaged by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB868-Stuart) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1733 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial vehicles; persons required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Prohibits persons for whom registration with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry is required from (1) driving school buses and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (HB2026-May) by voice vote |
| SB882 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Rebundles charges for the transmission, distribution, and generation services into the base rates of investor-owned electric utilities and revises the system enacted in 2007 by which rates of investor-owned electric utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation. Reinstates much of the system under which investor-owned electric utilities were regulated prior to 1999. The measure repeals the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act and reenacts provisions relating to State Corporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Impacts to wetlands. Provides that no individual or general Virginia Water Protection Permit is required to be issued for a project's impacts to wetlands if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued an individual wetlands permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB922 | Intro
Sine Die | Fertilizer; regulation of application and labeling. Regulates several aspects relating to the application and use of fertilizer to lawns and turfs, including rules against applying fertilizers containing phosphorus or applying fertilizer when the gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB1055-Stuart) (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1572 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition; certain ROTC cadets. Provides that any enrolled cadet in good standing in any Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) unit or any current member of a Reserve Component of the United States Armed Forces attending any public institutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HB1575 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; antibullying measures. Adds specificity to the codes of student conduct required of local school divisions in terms of how incidents of bullying, harassment, and intimidation are handled. The bill provides that teacher training in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Passed by in Education with letter by voice vote |
| HB1582 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding; Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank. Creates the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (VTIB) as a special fund to provide loans and grants to public and private entities to fund transportation projects in the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-31
House: Incorporated by Appropriations (HB2527-Howell, W.J.) by voice vote |
