| HB2494 | Pass | Standards for Accreditation; alternative accreditation. Provides that any school board, on behalf of one or more of its schools, may request from the Board of Education releases from state regulations and approval of an individual School Accreditatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| HB2167 | Pass | Department of Conservation and Recreation; property conveyance. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to negotiate a land exchange of a part of 1,191 acres for receipt of 36 acres in an area known as Biscuit Run in Albemarle Count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| SB1068 | Pass | Fees collected by circuit court clerks. Clarifies that the filing of a counterclaim or any other responsive pleading in annulment, divorce and separate maintenance proceedings is not subject to the $60 fee charged by circuit court clerks. This bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| HB2502 | Pass | Measurement standard for oysters. Provides that oysters in the shell may be bought or sold by (i) one-half bushel or one bushel metallic containers or (ii) a container of not less than 2,800 cubic inches and not more than 3,000 cubic inches the make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| HB2508 | Pass | Commonwealth Transportation Board; transfer of interest in and control over landings. Provides that, for purposes of transfer of interest in and control over a landing to a public access authority, landing includes wharfs, piers, and docks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667) |
| HB1586 | 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 worker...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| HB2515 | Pass | Health records; disclosure requirements. Clarifies that a health care entity is required to share, at the request of the subject of the records, health records with other health care entities, in the format requested by the individual in the manner a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) |
| SB1094 | Pass | Youth health risk survey. Requires the Department of Health to develop and administer a random survey of students in public middle and high schools to facilitate planning and implementation of effective programs for substance abuse prevention through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1796 | Pass | Plans administered by the Virginia Retirement System; technical changes. Makes certain technical changes to the administration of various Virginia Retirement System plans, including (i) permitting multiple deductions for purchase of prior service and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| SB1132 | Pass | Motor vehicle rental tax. Removes the administration and collection of the motor vehicle rental tax from the Department of Motor Vehicles and transfers it to the Department of Taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| SB1138 | Pass | Charter; City of Portsmouth. Repeals the existing charter and provides a new charter containing powers typically granted to cities. Numerous outdated and redundant provisions are deleted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| SB944 | Pass | Training standards for law-enforcement emergency calls and pursuits and lineups. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish a model policy for law-enforcement personnel assigned to vehicle patrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| SB1103 | Pass | Department of Forensic Science; powers and duties. Provides for the Department of Forensic Science to provide forensic laboratory services upon the request of the head of any private police department that has been designated as a criminal justice ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0638) |
| SB1145 | 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 (CHAP0641) |
| HB1826 | Pass | Virginia Housing Development Authority; loan servicing agreements. Authorizes the Virginia Housing Development Authority to make contracts and enter into agreements to act as the loan servicer to a housing lender for loans on properties located in or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| HB2003 | 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 (CHAP0659) |
| SB1162 | Pass | Criminal procedure warrantless arrest. Gives authority to special agents of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to arrest, without a warrant, any person who commits any crime in the presence of the agent and any person whom he has reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0643) |
| SB1156 | Pass | Exemption from jury service; general registrar, electoral board, and their employees. Provides that any general registrar, local electoral board member, or person appointed or employed by a general registrar or local electoral board, except officers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| SB1193 | Pass | Tourism zones; tax revenues for tourism projects. Entitles certain tourism projects to a percentage of the state and local sales tax revenues generated on the premises of the project, to be used towards debt service to bridge the gap between availabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646) |
| HB1836 | Pass | Hospitals; DNA sampling of infants. Requires every hospital providing maternity care to offer to obtain a sample of blood from an infant born at the hospital and provide that sample to the mother of the infant. This bill has a delayed effective date ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| HB2075 | Pass | Private capital lending for local governments. Allows a local government to enter into certain conduit lending agreements to finance certain capital projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| SB1160 | Pass | Mandatory connection to water and sewer systems. Provides that an authority may require adjacent property owners to connect their buildings to the authority's system upon or after the acquisition or construction of the water or sewer system. Currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| HB1840 | Pass | Individual income tax; long-term care insurance tax credit. Doubles the amount of the credit an individual can take for long-term care insurance from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premium paid for such insurance, for taxable years beg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723) |
| SB1165 | Pass | Electric utility service terminations; customers with a serious medical condition. Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish limitations on the authority of electric utilities to terminate electric service to the residence of a customer w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673) |
| HB1842 | 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 (CHAP0691) |
| SB1168 | Pass | Detention of juvenile for violation of conditions of release. Provides that a juvenile taken into custody whose case is considered by a judge, intake officer or magistrate, who, following his release upon a Class 1 misdemeanor charge or a felony cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| HB1851 | Pass | Real property tax; classification of certain historical buildings. Creates a separate class of property for real property tax rate purposes, consisting of buildings that are on the Virginia Landmarks Register that are maintained in proper condition, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| HB1852 | Pass | Military laws of Virginia. Makes several amendments to the military laws of the Commonwealth. Many of the changes are technical, such as updating references to the Virginia State Guard and Virginia State Defense Force to the Virginia Defense Force a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| HB1859 | Pass | Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence. Provides that any employer with more than an average of 50 employees for the previous 12 months entering into a contract in excess of $50,000 with any agency of the Commonwealth to perform work ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0573) |
| SB1189 | Pass | Charter; City of Williamsburg. Amends the charter for the City of Williamsburg so that vacancies in the city council are filled pursuant to Virginia Code. Vacancies may first be appointed by the remaining council members if a vacancy in the council o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| SB1196 | Pass | Elections; voter registration system; maintenance. Requires that the State Board of Elections promptly provide to general registrars pertinent information to update voter registration records and requires that the general registrars update records wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| SB783 | Pass | Zoning; clustering. Provides that a cluster development is otherwise subject to applicable land use ordinances of the locality; however, the locality shall not impose more stringent land use requirements for such cluster development. Also, the locali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| HB2337 | Pass | State agencies; use of certified mail for certain notices. Provides that whenever a state agency sends any mail or notice by certified mail and such mail or notice is sent certified mail, return receipt requested, then any additional mail or notice t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| SB1410 | Pass | Confederate graves. Provides funds for the maintenance of 407 Confederate graves at Portsmouth Cedar Grove Cemetery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| SB1216 | Pass | Delinquent sewer and water fees and charges; notice. Requires that prior to recording a lien on an owner's property for a tenant's unpaid water or sewer fees, the water or sewer authority shall provide the owner with 30 days' written notification. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| HB2362 | Pass | Restricted license. Authorizes the court to issue a restricted license to a person convicted of DUI and certain other offenses to travel to and from jail to serve a sentence of confinement in jail on weekends or nonconsecutive days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| SB1220 | Pass | Landlord and Tenant Law; notice to tenant in event of foreclosure. Provides that if a landlord fails to notify the tenant of a notice of mortgage acceleration, or notice of foreclosure sale relative to the loan on the dwelling unit, then the tenant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| SB801 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the Treasury Board to issue bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount up to $64,579,000 plus financing costs to finance revenue-produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| SB1424 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; action against contractor's payment. Provides that any claimant with a direct contractual relationship with any subcontractor but who has no contractual relationship with the contractor, may bring an action on the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| SB1223 | Pass | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Funding Pool. Establishes the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Funding Pool Program to consist of TANF block grant funds to be awarded to service providers for expanded TANF programs. Funds shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| SB1426 | Pass | Child pornography. Provides that a defendant convicted of an offense relating to child pornography shall be ordered to pay mandatory restitution to the victim of the offense in an amount as determined by the court. The Commonwealth shall make reasona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| HB1931 | Pass | Zoning; clustering. Provides that a cluster development is otherwise subject to applicable land use ordinances of the locality; however, the locality shall not impose more stringent land use requirements for such cluster development. Also, the locali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| SB887 | Pass | Deadlines for certain special elections. Adjusts various deadlines for certain special elections and nominations in response to changes required by the federal Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act regarding when ballots are to be prepared and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| SB1227 | Pass | Jails; electronic visitation and messaging. Allows sheriffs and jail superintendents who operate correctional facilities to charge a fee for the use of an electronic visitation system or electronic messaging system. The fee may not exceed the actual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| SB889 | Pass | Referendum petitions; social security numbers. Provides that each voter who signs a petition to call for a referendum election may provide the last four digits of his social security number on the petition. Currently, the voter must provide his entir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| SB1228 | 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] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| SB1235 | Pass | Charitable organizations; exemptions to reporting requirements. Eliminates the exemption from submitting annual registration statements that was extended to certain veterans' posts and organizations during the 2010 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| SB815 | Pass | State Grievance Procedure; scope of hearing officer's decision; reinstatement. Clarifies that the reinstatement remedy that may be ordered by the hearing officer under the State Grievance Procedure consists of reinstatement to the same position, or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| SB1458 | Pass | Claims; Richard Hitt; Chares P. Jarrett. Provides relief to Richard Hitt and to Chares P. Jarrett for not receiving the Virginia Retirement System benefits that are based on Hazardous Duty service when they were led to believe that certain purchased ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB1982 | Pass | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for grants or loans from the fund. Reduces, among other things, the threshold for private investment and new job creation from $10 million and 100 new jobs to $5 million and at least 50 new jobs, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
