| SB979 | Pass | Land preservation tax credit; threshold for verification of conservation value. Provides that the annual report compiled by the Department of Conservation and Recreation on qualified donations of less-than-fee interests include information on ripari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0672) |
| HB2401 | Pass | Workers' compensation; farm and horticultural laborers. Increases, from two to three, the number of full-time farm and horticultural laborers an employer may have in service and remain exempt from requirements of the Workers' Compensation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| SB902 | Pass | Retired judges; appearing as counsel. Permits retired justices or judges to appear as counsel in cases in courts of the Commonwealth if (i) the retired justice or judge has been retired for at least two years and is not authorized for temporary recal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0705) |
| SB1257 | Pass | Department of General Services; surplus real property; inventory of state-owned land. Changes the fund to receive the 50 percent portion of the proceeds from the sale, lease, or conveyance of surplus property owned by the Commonwealth from the Conser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0675) |
| HB2408 | Pass | Notice to localities of certain state projects. Requires that notice of certain state capital projects involving new construction costing at least $500,000 be sent to localities by registered mail and specifies that the notice shall be sent prior to,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| SB906 | Pass | Family life education; dating violence. Provides that any family life education curriculum offered by a local school division shall require the Standards of Learning objectives related to dating violence and the characteristics of abusive relationshi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| HB1476 | Pass | Torts; sexual abuse; limitations period. Extends the limitations period for actions for sexual abuse committed during the infancy or incapacity of the abused person from two years to 20 years from the time of the removal of the infancy or incapacity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) |
| SB841 | 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 (CHAP0704) |
| SB1262 | Pass | Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Provides that a designee of the Attorney General may issue civil investigative demands. The bill also provides that information obtained by the Attorney General or his designee pursuant to the issuance of a civil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676) |
| SB1060 | Pass | Dam safety; regulation of impoundment structures. Allows the Director to provide financial assistance for the determination of the hazard classification for impounding structures, dam break analysis, the mapping and digitization of dam break inundati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637) |
| SB1431 | Pass | Tire recycling fee. Provides that tire recycling fee shall be collected by the person who installs tires in the Commonwealth, pursuant to an agreement with a person who (i) makes the retail sale of such tires and (ii) does not collect the tire recyc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649) |
| SB931 | Pass | Transfer fee covenants. Provides that a transfer fee covenant recorded in the Commonwealth on or after July 1, 2011, shall not run with the title to real property and is not binding on, or enforceable against, any subsequent owner, purchaser, or mort...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| HB1495 | Pass | Erosion and sediment control plans; local waste, water, and sewer authorities. Authorizes water, sewer, sewage disposal, stormwater control, refuse collection, and disposal authorities to file a general erosion and sediment control plan annually with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB1280 | Pass | Boards, commissions and councils; membership; appointing authority; abolition. Makes policy improvements and clarifications to several state boards, commissions, and councils including (i) establishing staggered terms for nonlegislative citizen membe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| SB1437 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers. Provides that in every case of a hearing before the Commissioner authorized based on a request or petition of a motor vehicle dealer, the manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
| HB2033 | Pass | Prepayment of fines under local ordinances. Provides that the chief judge of a circuit court may enter an order allowing for the prepayment of fines imposed under local traffic infraction and other local ordinances. Currently, such an order must be e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| SB1287 | Pass | Jails; localities' responsibility to pay jail expenses. Provides that a sheriff or jail superintendent may seek payment from the local governing body of the city or county, the regional jail authority, or other body responsible for fiscal management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| SB1482 | Pass | Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; surplus funds. Establishes a procedure for the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association to dispose of surplus funds on hand with respect to the insolvency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| SB1450 | Pass | Taxation; fillable tax forms. Requires the Tax Commissioner to ensure that all state tax forms are fillable forms in a portable document format for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012, and made available on the Department's website. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0680) |
| HB1399 | Pass | Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; waiver of sovereign immunity. Provides that the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act expressly waives sovereign immunity and creates a cause of action for an employee of the Commonwealth, its agencies, or any pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| SB1453 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; human trafficking. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to, in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General, advise law-enforcement agencies and attorneys for the Commonwealth regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| HB1407 | Pass | Punishment for underage drinking and driving; penalty. Provides that "zero tolerance" (0.02% BAC) underage drinking and driving is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. Currently, the punishment is loss of license for six months and a fine o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| HB1514 | Pass | Virginia Disability Commission. Clarifies that the Virginia Disability Commission shall serve as the primary forum in the Commonwealth where the needs of and issues affecting people with physical and sensory disabilities are identified and addressed,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB1411 | Pass | Reckless handling of firearms; revocation of hunting license. Provides that a person's hunting or trapping license, or privilege to hunt or trap while possessing a firearm, may be revoked for a period of one to five years for a violation of §18....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| SB1457 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; regulations; prorated license fees for act of God. Provides for proration of ABC license taxes for licensees whose place of business is destroyed by an act of God, including but not limited to fire, earthquake, hurricane,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB1522 | Pass | Water and Waste Authorities; eminent domain powers. Amends the current law so that water and waste authorities have the power to exercise eminent domain as set out in Chapter 2 (§25.1-200 et seq.) or Chapter 3 (§25.1-300 et seq.) of Title 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| HB2437 | Pass | Regulation of bail bondsmen. Provides that a licensed bail bondsman shall not charge less than 10 percent or more than 15 percent of the amount of the bond for a bail bond premium and shall not loan money with interest for the purpose of helping anot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| SB1471 | Pass | Advisory boards, councils, etc; elimination. Eliminates certain advisory boards, councils, and other advisory collegial bodies. The bill contains numerous technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0681) |
| HB1529 | Pass | Pendente lite support orders; payment of debts. Provides that a pendente lite spousal support order may include ordering that a party pay secured or unsecured debts incurred jointly by the parties or in either party's name.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| SB1318 | Pass | Sex offenders on school property; penalty. Clarifies that a sex offender is prohibited from entering or being present on school property during school-related or school-sponsored events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0648) |
| SB856 | Pass | Patriots Crossing project. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation to accept for review unsolicited proposals for construction of the Patriots Crossing (Third Crossing) project at Hampton Roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB1532 | Pass | Local tax administration; special commissioner to execute title to real estate. Lowers the threshold percentage of taxes and liens together on property from 50 percent to 35 percent of the assessed value of the parcel and, if only taxes, from 25 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| HB1714 | Pass | Identity Theft Passport. Makes the issuance of an Identity Theft Passport under certain conditions discretionary with the Office of the Attorney General, rather than mandatory. The bill also provides that the provisions of the Government Data Collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| SB1015 | Pass | Insurance; large commercial risks. Makes professional liability insurance policies eligible for the exemptions that currently exist for most types of policies written for large commercial risks. Currently, professional liability insurance and workers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB2448 | Pass | Political contributions; prohibition during procurement process. Clarifies that a person must knowingly violate the prohibition against making or soliciting certain political contributions during the procurement process to the Governor, his politica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| SB870 | Pass | Blue Alert Program. Provides for the establishment of a Blue Alert Program to be administered by the Department of State Police when a suspect for a crime involving the death or serious injury of a law-enforcement officer has not been apprehended and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) |
| HB1726 | Pass | Bridge vertical clearance; signage. Clarifies that the Commissioner's responsibility for posting restricted vertical clearances applies only to bridges on roads under the Commissioner's jurisdiction. Localities are responsible for placing signs for r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| SB1032 | Pass | Revenue Stabilization Fund; maximum size. Directs the Auditor of Public Accounts, when annually calculating the maximum size of the Revenue Stabilization Fund, to calculate the maximum at 15 percent (rather than 10 percent) as a result of the passage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| HB1729 | Pass | Background checks; providers licensed by DBHDS. Allows community services boards and providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to hire for compensation a person who has been convicted of not more than one of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| HB2464 | Pass | Drug Control Act; Schedule II. Conforms Schedule II of the Drug Control Act to the federal drug classification schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| SB1037 | Pass | Foster care plan; independent living. Eliminates independent living as a permanency goal option for foster care plans approved on or after July 1, 2011, except in cases involving children admitted to the United States as refugees or asylees who are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB2533 | 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 (CHAP0724) |
| HB2132 | Pass | Cutting of grass; James City County. Adds James City County to the list of localities that may enforce a grass cutting ordinance on occupied property. The existing general provisions apply to vacant property only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| HB2133 | Pass | Land trusts; successor trustee. Provides that where a land trust has been created by the recordation of a deed of conveyance to a trustee, and the trustee named in the deed is unable to serve, the beneficiaries of the trust, by majority decision, sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| HB1565 | Pass | Secure remote access to court records. Provides that restrictions on the secure remote access to court records do not apply to secure access by attorneys in good standing with the Virginia State Bar and their authorized agents and attorneys admitted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB1568 | Pass | Elections; absentee ballots; deceased voter. Provides that an absentee ballot cast by a voter found to be entitled to vote when he returned the ballot will be counted although the voter died between the time he returned the ballot and the time that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| HB1569 | Pass | Equitable distribution; marital debts. Provides that for purposes of equitable distribution in divorce actions, the court is required to classify debts of the parties as either marital or separate. The bill defines what constitutes a marital debt and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| SB1369 | Pass | Electronic filing in civil or criminal proceedings. Clarifies that clerks may provide official certificates and certified records in digital form of any document maintained by the clerk. The bill also confirms the clerks' authority to perform notaria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| HB2483 | Pass | Secure remote access to court records. Allows access to an attorney's staff if directly supervised by counsel of record on a particular case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| SB940 | Pass | Emblems and designations; state saltwater fish. Designates the striped bass as the state saltwater fish.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671) |
