| HB2270 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility rate structures; advancing conservation and efficiency. Directs the State Corporation Commission to encourage investor-owned electric utilities to file tariffs with rate structures that reflect time of day and seasonal cost different...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Health professions; licensure of surgical assistants. Requires surgical assistants to be licensed by the Board of Medicine and creates an Advisory Board on Surgical Assistants to assist with such licensure and regulation. A surgical assistant is an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB2273 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional powers of local building officials; unlicensed contractors. Provides that a locality may, by ordinance, authorize the building department to designate certain building officials as sworn investigators, who shall have the authority to issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2047 | Intro
Sine Die | Paper and plastic bag fee. Imposes a fee of $0.05 on paper and plastic bags used by purchasers to carry tangible personal property from the place of purchase. Durable, reusable plastic bags and bags used for ice cream, meat, fish, poultry, leftover ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2056 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; travel expenses reimbursement tax credit. Grants an income tax credit for the total amount paid annually by an employer for employees' travel expenses when such employees are required to travel outside Virginia in the natural gas industry...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2071 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater utility fees; exemptions. Provides for an exemption from stormwater utility fees for certain religious and nonprofit uses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; corporate tax credits for donations to nonprofit organizations providing educational scholarships. Establishes a tax credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for corporations donating cash to nonprofit organizations providing scholarships t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney General. Representation of the Commonwealth in civil actions. Clarifies that the Attorney General may file a civil action in the name of the Commonwealth or parens patriae when asked to do so by the Governor; may not file a civil action or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2280 | 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 re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure procedures; assignment of deed of trust. Provides that the trustee under any deed of trust or mortgage shall not proceed with any sale of the property unless the land records of the locality in which the property is located contain a dul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2079 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, and public hearings, etc.; alternatives. Gives localities alternatives to publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality for legal ads and other notices of pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sales tax exemption; gold and silver bullion coins. Establishes a retail sales tax exemption for sales of nongraded United States gold or silver bullion coins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1654 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuels tax rate; adjusted by motor fuel price index. Provides that beginning April 1, 2012, the rate of tax on motor fuel shall be increased or decreased annually by the percentage increase or decrease in the retail price of motor fuel. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1655 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; early retirement for certain employees. Removes the option for state employees hired on or after July 1, 2010, who are covered under the main defined benefit plan, (i.e., excluding the separate plans for law-enforcement em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2088 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; business and medical emergencies. Expands the provisions on late in-person absentee voting in business and medical emergencies to cover situations learned of by the voter after 6:00 p.m. on the Thursday before the election...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| HB2482 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal care; enforcement procedures and standards related to animal cruelty. Provides new procedures for the impoundment, seizure, return or forfeiture of animals when the owner or custodian is suspected of animal welfare violations. Animals in the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden fishing prohibited. Prohibits fishing for menhaden within one mile of the low mean water mark in waters adjacent to the Cities of Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach. If someone fishes in these waters, he is subject to a penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | Naturopaths; license required. Requires the Board of Medicine to license and regulate naturopaths. The bill defines a naturopath as an individual, other than a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry, who may diagnose, treat, and he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1657 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System. Requires that the Virginia Retirement System (i) adjust annually its calculation of pension fund liabilities and obligations by the rate of interest on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes and (ii) assume a rate of return on its in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2491 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Correctional Enterprises mandatory procurement; exception. Eliminates the mandatory purchase by state agencies of furniture manufactured by Virginia Correctional Enterprises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2011-02-08
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | Eminent domain; just compensation; restricted access. Provides that any restriction, change, or loss of access to or from property taken under the power of eminent domain shall be considered as an element in assessing the damages to residue for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana possession by prisoner. Reduces the penalty for possession of marijuana by a prisoner from a Class 5 felony to a Class 6 felony, the same punishment as is currently imposed for possession of a firearm or a knife by a prisoner or for setting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1846 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend Chapter 13, Section 58.1-439.18 of Title 58.1, and Chapter 43 of Section 2.2-4301 of Title 2.2, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the definition of professional services for the Neighborhood Assistance Program to include mediators ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2111 | Intro
Sine Die | Enterprise zone job creation grants. Provides that a business firm in a locality with an unemployment rate two percent or higher than the statewide average is eligible for an enterprise zone job creation grant of $500 per year for up to five years fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax and sales and use tax. Removes the remaining portion of the state sales and use tax (one and one-half percent) from food for human consumption (effective July 1, 2012) and restructures the individual income tax rate brackets for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation; employee transportation assistance tax credit. Allows a tax credit to employers that provide employee transportation assistance for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012. Such credit shall be equal to 25 percent of all expend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; compensable consequences. Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a subsequent injury to an employee is a compensable consequence of the employee's primary injury if the subsequent injury is to a body part or system that sust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2118 | 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] | 2011-02-08
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Planning and Budget; budget performance data provided by state agencies; establishment of Performance Improvement Officers. Requires each state agency to conduct an annual review and prioritization of its operations and programs. Under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance license tax. Dedicates to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund one-third of the total revenue from the insurance license tax, phased in over three years, beginning with fiscal year 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | Definition of impounding structure. Exempts dams that are operated primarily for agricultural preservation and conservation purposes and that (i) are less than 30 feet in height or (ii) create a maximum impoundment capacity smaller than 100 acre-feet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (SB1060-McDougle) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure procedures. Makes various changes to procedures for foreclosure, including requiring additional documentation showing the right of the beneficiary to request foreclosure, altering the requirements for providing notice prior to a foreclosu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Letter sent to Virginia Housing Commission |
| SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Judicial foreclosure. Provides that a court must order the sale of property subject to foreclosure for deeds of trust entered into on or after July 1, 2011. Property secured by deeds of trust entered into prior to July 1, 2011, may still be foreclose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Letter sent to Virgina Bar Association |
| SB1422 | Intro
Sine Die | Practice of law. Provides that the practice of law shall not include (i) the design, creation, publication, distribution, display or sale of written materials, books, forms, computer software, or similar products, including publication, distribution,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N) |
| SB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearings in the Supreme Court of Virginia; Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission. Clarifies that the hearings allowed under the Constitution related to complaints filed by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission are to be evidentiary hearings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N) |
| HB1946 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial vehicles on interstate highways. Prohibits driving of commercial vehicles on the left-most lanes of interstate highways except where (i) the posted speed limit is less than 65 miles per hour or (ii) the average annual daily traffic exceeds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT REFUSED (39-Y 60-N) |
| SB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic tracking devices; penalty. Prohibits a person from placing, through intentionally deceptive means, an electronic tracking device in or on a vehicle. The prohibition would not apply to law-enforcement officers, judicial officers, probation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB836 | Intro
Sine Die | Notice of foreclosure. Provides that written notice of the intent to foreclose shall be sent to the present owner of the property at least 30 days before any proposed sale in execution of a deed of trust. The notice shall contain the name and contac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Humane investigators. Allows the appointment of new humane investigators. Currently, existing humane investigators may be reappointed, but the program is no longer open to new participants. The administrative entity that oversees animal control will ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence. Requires all public contractors and their subcontractors to register and participate in a federal Electronic Work Verification Program or similar electronic verification of work authorization pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (SB1049-Barker) (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic transfer of funds; required approval. Requires a financial institution to give a depositor two weeks notice prior to honoring instructions directing the financial institution to electronically transfer funds in the consumer deposit account...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB994 | Intro
Sine Die | Best interests of the child. Provides that when a court has jurisdiction to resolve a dispute between parents as to how a child shall be educated, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that it is in the child's best interests to remain in the last ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB1474 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; shared work programs. Establishes a shared work program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Letter sent to Commission on Unemployment Compensation |
| SB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Magistrates ascertaining citizenship of arrested persons. Requires a magistrate or other issuing authority having jurisdiction who issues a warrant following a warrantless arrest to inquire as to whether the arrested person (i) was born in a country...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable portfolio standards; forest products. Removes the requirement that utilities participating in a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program collectively use no more than 1.5 million tons of forest products such as wood chips, bark, and sawdu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB1033 | 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 facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | Onsite sewage systems. Provides that the owner of an alternative onsite sewage system installed prior to January 1, 2010, with flows of less than 1,000 gallons per day serving an individual single-family dwelling occupied by such owner shall be exemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
House: Engrossment refused by House |
| SB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Irrevocable trusts; trustee's power to appoint assets into second trust. Authorizes the trustee of an irrevocable trust to appoint all or part of the principal or income of a trust into a second trust for the benefit of the beneficiaries of the origi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Determination of child support. Provides that a court shall make a determination of child support and enter an order containing such determination at the initial court date on any initial petition for support if the petitioner demonstrates that (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-07
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N) |
