| HJR847 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Lake Braddock Secondary School on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-27
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Inspection of food establishments; exception for private homes. Adds certain pickles and other processed vegetables to the foods that may be prepared in private homes and sold to individuals at farmers markets or the preparer's home without an inspec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-27
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR522 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the UCI World Road Cycling Championship on the occasion of the 2015 Championship to be held in Richmond, Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-24
Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar by voice vote |
| SB1466 | Intro
Sine Die | Water and waste authorities; liens. Requires that a property owner be informed in advance by written notice that liens may be placed on his property under certain circumstances for the unpaid charges to a lessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-23
House: VOTE: DEFEATED (18-Y 80-N) |
| SB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Recordation and grantor taxes. Expands, for a three-year period, the reduced recordation tax accorded to deeds of trust securing a refinanced mortgage with the same lender to all such refinancings, regardless of lender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1402 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officer; definition. Expands the definition of law-enforcement officer under the Law Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act to include a uniformed corrections employee of the Department of Corrections, regardless of the officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; fire company personnel of the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Air National Guard. Includes under the coverage of the Line of Duty Act individuals employed as fire company personnel for the Virginia Air National Guard or the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 874, 2010 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1438 | Intro
Sine Die | Goods produced or manufactured in the Commonwealth; not subject to federal regulation. Provides that all goods produced or manufactured within the Commonwealth, when such goods are held, retained, or maintained in the Commonwealth, shall not be subj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB804 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25 instead of the standard $1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB805 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Provides that the health insurance credit currently being provided to retired teachers would also be provided to all retired employees of the local school division at the option of the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR321 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw Congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB912 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2015. The bill would require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older will be entitled to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB938 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall implement a system to accept absentee ballot applications electronically. Currently, an applicant may request and receive, but...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health courts. Provides that any district court or circuit court may establish a mental health court, which is a separate court docket within the existing calendar of a district or circuit court offering judicial monitoring of the treatment a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR344 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); personal property tax exemption on boats and watercrafts. Allows the General Assembly to enact a general law allowing a locality to have the option to provide for a partial exemption for boats and watercra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
House: VOTE: REJECTED (19-Y 78-N) |
| SB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile's right to appeal transfer to circuit court. Provides for a juvenile's right to appeal to the circuit court the attorney for the Commonwealth's decision in certain violent felony cases to transfer the juvenile's case to the circuit court for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal presence required for public assistance; verification required. Provides that local departments of social services shall verify or cause to be verified information regarding the citizenship or legal presence of an applicant for public assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County. Extends the sunset date for the additional transient occupancy tax in Arlington County from January 1, 2012, to January 1, 2015. Current law requires that the revenues from the tax be designated and spent f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
House: VOTE: DEFEATED (42-Y 54-N) |
| HB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road. Adds to "Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road," designated in 2004, U.S. Route 58 from the Town of Stuart east to the City of Martinsville.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located (i) outside Virginia opens an office in a Virginia locality with popul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SJR371 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); contributions to defined benefit retirement plans maintained for employees. Requires that contributions to defined benefit retirement plans that are maintained for state employees and employees of particip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for hiring recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Provides that the tax credit would be issued on a fiscal year basis and that no more than $3 million in tax credits would be issued in any fiscal year of the Commonwealth. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB848 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbyists; annual statement of expenditures; penalty. Caps at $10,000 the civil penalty that may be assessed against a lobbyist and lobbyist principal for failing to file an annual statement of expenditures. Currently a $10-per-day penalty is assesse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
House: VOTE: DEFEATED (38-Y 58-N) |
| SB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile dispositions. Gives the circuit court the authority to modify a finding of guilt to an adjudication of delinquency when a juvenile is tried in circuit court and fulfills the conditions of probation after the court has deferred the imposition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR300 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); electoral boards and general registrars. Permits the General Assembly to provide by law that two or more counties and cities may share one electoral board and general registrar if a majority of the voters ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; progressive games. Provides that progressive games shall be sold and priced separately from other bingo games and no price discounts shall be given. The bill also provides that each bingo card or sheet used in progressive games sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zones). Requires the Department of General Services and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to develop procurement guidelines to facilitate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1338 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor; submission of financial plan; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. Provides for the Governor's financial plan to be submitted to the General Assembly before the first day of each legislative session and for the plan to prospectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1351 | Intro
Sine Die | Wireless telecommunications devices in motor vehicles. Extends prohibition on use of wireless telecommunications devices in motor vehicles to initiating or answering a call on such device, unless the device is configured for hands-free operation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Texting while driving. Repeals the "secondary enforcement" provisions of the statute prohibiting texting, etc., while driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Provisional driver's license holders. Makes cell phone use while driving by a provisional driver's license holder a primary offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB932 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member commission to prepare redistricting plans for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one each by the four ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR357 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. This joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act; use of nongeneral fund revenues. Provides that nongeneral fund revenues of institutions of higher education under a management agreement pursuant to the Restructuring Act that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government; establishment and administration of personnel system. Authorizes a locality to establish a personnel system for local administrative officials and employees based on merit and professional ability. The bill also authorizes a localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance benefits for state employees. Provides that the health insurance coverage that may be purchased by state employees for families and dependents may include coverage for any other person to whom coverage may be extended pursuant to &se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SR29 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress regarding greenhouse gas emissions regulation. Urges the United States Congress to address the proposed regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency in regards to greenhouse gas emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Professions; lawyers; client accounts. Repeals the provision prohibiting the Supreme Court from adopting a disciplinary rule requiring that lawyers deposit client funds in an interest-bearing account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (11-Y 11-N) |
| SJR349 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; transfer on death deeds. Requests the Virginia Bar Association to study the merits of legislation authorizing transfer on death deeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1556 | Intro
Sine Die | Bear hound training. Allows the training of dogs to hunt bears to occur at night. Currently, the training of dogs to hunt bears is limited to one-half hour before sunrise until four and one-half hours after sunset.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| SJR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care to study eating disorders in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study eating disorders in the Commonwealth. In conducting its study, the Joint Commission on Health Care shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Provides that an investor-owned electric utility will receive (i) double credit toward meeting the goals of the renewable energy portfolio standard program for energy from biomass or waste-to-energy; (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Letter sent to Commission on Electric Utility Regulation |
| HB2450 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishment of pretrial services agencies. Removes the mandatory requirement that any city, county or combination thereof that is required to submit a community-based corrections plan also establish a pretrial services agency, but preserves the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education. Requires each school division to implement the standards of learning for the family life education program promulgated by the Board of Education, or a family life education program consistent with the guidelines developed by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Education Committee |
| SB1066 | Intro
Sine Die | Judicial retirement; mandatory retirement. Adjusts the mandatory retirement age under judicial retirement to age 73. Currently, judges are required to retire at age 70. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (10-Y 12-N) |
