| HB647 | Pass | Issuance of driver’s licenses to minors. Requires that a licensee who is under the age of 18 at the time that the ceremony is held to issue an original driver’s license be accompanied by a parent, guardian, spouse, or other person in loco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0030) |
| HB640 | Pass | Public school enrollment; military children. Clarifies language relating to enrollment of students pursuant to a special power of attorney to correspond to language in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029) |
| HB649 | Pass | Odometer tampering. Increases the minimum civil penalty for odometer tampering from $1,500 to $3,000. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0032) |
| HB455 | Pass | Wireless E-911 Fund; distribution. Transfers the administration of the distribution of the Wireless E-911 Fund revenues for public safety answering point operators (PSAPs) to the Department of Taxation. The bill also bases the distribution percentage... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) |
| HB171 | Pass | Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund; bonding requirements. Permits the Fund to drop below the previously mandated $250,000 balance requirement but not to register a negative balance. The bill also allows the Board to await a positive balance in t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| HB498 | Pass | Funeral processions; sheriff and police escorts. Provides that either the sheriff or the police department in a locality may provide traffic control for funeral processions. Currently, sheriffs may only provide traffic control in localities that do n... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) |
| HB333 | Pass | Access roads to economic development sites. Clarifies the Code to account for a fund name change from 2006. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019) |
| HB554 | Pass | Department of Aviation lease approval requirement. Replaces "city, town, or county" with "political subdivision" and includes "privately owned, licensed, public use airports," thereby expanding the scope of entities that abide by the DOAV's lease app... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028) |
| HB1164 | Pass | Improvements to secondary and urban system highways. Requires the Secretary of Transportation, at least once every four years, to examine the process by which secondary and urban highway system maintenance and improvement projects are approved. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0041) |
| HB940 | Pass | Purchase of handguns; eliminate limitation on handgun purchases. Eliminates the prohibition on purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0037) |
| HB362 | Pass | Exemptions from garnishment. Corrects the form listing garnishment exemptions by replacing the reference to "rent or services of a laborer or mechanic" with "spousal or child support" to reflect amendments made in 1990 (Acts, Ch. 942) that were never... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023) |
| HB344 | Pass | Dental and dental hygiene school faculty; licensure. Clarifies what patient care activities are allowed for a person enrolled in a Virginia dental education program who has a temporary license to practice dentistry while in the program, clarifies req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020) |
| HB347 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosures. Modifies the Prescription Monitoring Program to (i) require dispensers of covered substances to report the method of payment for the prescription, (ii) require the Director of the Department of Health Pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) |
| HB648 | Pass | Confession of judgment by a substitute attorney-in-fact. Allows a payee, obligee, or person otherwise entitled to payment under any note or bond to appoint a substitute for any attorney-in-fact authorized to confess judgment. The substitute attorney-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031) |
| HB119 | Pass | Golf carts; operation on the highways. Allows the governing body of the Town of Urbanna to authorize the operation of golf carts on the highways of the Town, subject to the limits of general law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| HB1123 | Pass | Dissemination of criminal history record information; state treasurer. Allows the State Treasurer access to criminal history record information for the purpose of determining whether a person receiving compensation for wrongful incarceration has bee... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) |
| HB545 | Pass | Virginia Department of Transportation; incident management. Allows VDOT to drive on a portion of the highway other than a roadway at, en route to, or from the scene of a traffic accident, without direction from law-enforcement officers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |
| HB102 | Pass | Injunctions; requirement for bond. Requires a moving party to post bond only for temporary injunctions. Under current law, a bond is required for both temporary and permanent injunctions. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| HB97 | Pass | Driving two abreast in a single lane. Allows two-wheeled motorcycles to drive two abreast in a single lane. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007) |
| HB272 | Pass | Death, marriage, or divorce records; when public. Reduces the time period after which death, marriage, divorce, or annulment records become public from 50 years to 25 years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016) |
| HB83 | Pass | Mammograms; information on breast density. Requires the Board of Health to establish guidelines requiring licensed facilities or physicians' offices where mammography services are provided to (i) include information on breast density in mammogram let... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| HB730 | Pass | Board of Veterans Services; voting by ex officio members. Grants full voting privileges to the ex officio members of the Board of Veterans Services. Currently, only the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services has voting privileges. As a r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033) |
| HB1095 | Pass | Enforcement of support; qualified domestic relations order. Provides that a court may enforce a support order by entering a qualified domestic relations order or other order designed to attach or garnish pensions and other deferred compensation or r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0039) |
| HB439 | Pass | Veterans; disposition of cremains. Provides for a funeral director to provide the names and any other identifying information on unclaimed cremains to the Department of Veterans Services in order for the Department to determine if the unclaimed crema... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024) |
| HB235 | Pass | Supplemental sales locations of motor vehicles. Limits the number of supplemental sales licenses that can be issued for motor vehicle dealers, T&M vehicle dealers, and motorcycle dealers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013) |
| HB948 | Pass | Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; crimes included. Expands the category of crime victims entitled to receive compensation from the Fund to include injured victims of felony vehicular hit and run. Under current law, injuries resulting from the oper... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038) |
| HB266 | Pass | Definition of surgery. Defines "surgery" and provides that no person shall perform surgery unless he is (i) licensed by the Board of Medicine as a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, or podiatry; (ii) licensed by the Board of Dentistry as a doctor of de... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0015) |
| HB240 | Pass | Amherst County; conveyance of certain property by DCR. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convey a 31.153-acre parcel at State Route 1004 to Amherst County while requiring that the land remain open to the public. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014) |
| HB893 | Pass | E-911 Services Board; Commonwealth Interoperability Coordinator to serve as advisor. Establishes that the Commonwealth Interoperability Coordinator serve as an advisor to the E-911 Services Board to ensure that enhanced wireless emergency telecommun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036) |
| HB774 | Pass | Special license plates; centennial of Fort Belvoir. Repeals the 2011 Act of Assembly that authorized the issuance of special license plates celebrating the centennial of Fort Belvoir. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034) |
| HB353 | Pass | Motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing. Amends several motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing laws. The bill also authorizes the DMV Commissioner to designate members of his staff as motor carrier size and weight compliance agents t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) |
| HB289 | Pass | Handicapped parking. Allows localities by ordinance to grant four hours free parking to vehicles exhibiting disabled parking indicia in some places while not granting such free parking in other places. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017) |
| HB865 | Pass | Local regulation of taxicabs. Disallows counties, cities, and towns from reducing the number of taxicabs that are permitted or authorized under the local ordinance, except for non-use or cause as defined by the ordinance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| HB194 | Pass | Commercial driver's licenses. Requires DMV to consider, to the extent not inconsistent with federal law, applicants' military training and experience in assessing their eligibility to receive a Virginia commercial driver's license. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) |
| HB187 | Pass | Police check-points. Prohibits the establishment of "motorcycle only" police check-points. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) |
| HB17 | Pass | Electronic filing of search warrant affidavits. Allows for the electronic filing of search warrant affidavits by means other than the currently authorized electronic facsimile. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005) |
| HB103 | Pass | Consumer utility tax; natural gas. Exempts public utilities and electric cooperatives from the consumer utility tax on natural gas when the natural gas is used to generate electricity at a power station. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) |
| HB516 | Pass | Income taxes. Advances the date as of which Virginia income tax laws conform with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2010, to December 31, 2011; restores conformity to certain provisions of the federal earned income tax credit for taxable ye... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002) |
| HB1106 | Pass | Behavior analysts; licensure by Board of Medicine. Gives the Board of Medicine authority to license behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts. The bill also requires the Board to promulgate emergency regulations within 280 days of enactment a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0003) |
| HB251 | Pass | Congressional districts. Redraws the boundaries of the 11 congressional districts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0001) |