| HB180 | Pass | Commonwealth Health Research Board; staffing. Provides that employees of the Commonwealth Health Research Board, which provides financial support for health research funded through assets distributed to the Commonwealth as a policyholder pursuant to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| HB5 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2012, election to approve or reject an amendment that revises the prohibition on the enactment by the Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| HB330 | Pass | Virginia Transplant Council. Authorizes the Virginia Transplant Council to hire its own employees and pay them with moneys from the Virginia Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund. The bill eliminates language designating the Board of Health as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB1237 | Pass | Mandatory reporting of child abuse; penalty. Adds individuals who are 18 years of age or older and who are associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children to the list of individuals req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB1173 | Pass | Public charter schools; funding and service contracts. Provides that following a local school board decision to deny a public charter school application or to revoke or fail to renew a charter agreement, the local school board shall submit documentat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| HB853 | Pass | Policies addressing suicidal students. Removes repetitive language permitting universities to establish policies regarding students who are a danger to themselves or others; this section and another on violence prevention already permit such policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| HB343 | Pass | Virginia All-Payer Claims Database; creation. Establishes the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database system, in order to facilitate data-driven, evidence-based improvements in access, quality, and cost of health care and to improve the public health thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| HB141 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; personal information in constituent correspondence. Provides an exemption from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the names, physical addresses, telephone numbers, and email ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1248 | Pass | Transportation construction, operation and maintenance, and funding. Provides for the construction, maintenance, and funding of transportation by (i) increasing transportation's share of year-end surpluses to 67 percent, and (ii) authorizing the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB367 | Pass | Board of Education; publication of disciplinary offense and outcome data. Requires the Board of Education to annually publish disciplinary offense and outcome data by race, ethnicity, gender, and disability for each public school in the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| HB1179 | Pass | Public schools; character education. Provides that a school board, either within its existing programs or as a separate program, may provide its character education program during the summer in a youth development academy offered by the school divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| HB1274 | Pass | Requirements for transferring a nursing home resident; workgroup. Creates a workgroup for the purposes of clarifying requirements and developing guidelines applicable to nursing homes when transferring or discharging a resident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB1119 | Pass | Wake surfing. Allows persons to engage in the recreational activity of wake surfing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| HB101 | Pass | Rules of Evidence; adoption. Provides that the Rules of Evidence that have been prepared and adopted by the Supreme Court of Virginia and approved by the Virginia Code Commission shall take effect on July 1, 2012. A rule derived from an evidentiary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688) |
| HB791 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System. Makes technical changes to programs administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0696) |
| HB1262 | Pass | Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals; onsite sewage system installers. Provides that regulations of the Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| HB76 | Pass | Teachers without continuing contract status. Shifts the date of effective contract renewal for those teachers without continuing contract status from April 15 to June 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| HB970 | Pass | Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse; public and private college employees. Adds any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education other than an attorney who is employed by a public or private institution of higher ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| HB1035 | Pass | Eminent domain; lost profits and access. Provides definitions for the terms "lost profits" and "lost access" and how to determine the amount of just compensation, which includes lost profits and lost access resulting from the taking, that must be pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699) |
| HB306 | Pass | Cemeteries; abandoned interment rights; notice. Provides that when no address is known or reasonably ascertainable for a record owner of interment rights, a cemetery owner shall publish a notice of its intent to declare interment rights abandoned in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| HB57 | Pass | State Board of Elections and general registrars; duties with respect to voter registration. Provides that the State Board shall distribute the alphabetical lists of registered voters in each precinct to each county, city, and town at least 16, rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686) |
| HB639 | Pass | Higher education; publication of graduate employment rates. Requires public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education to publish data on the proportion of graduates with employment at 18 months and five years after the date of graduatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0694) |
| HB710 | Pass | Use of mine voids. Establishes the presumption that, unless specified by contract, the owner of the coal mineral estate retains the rights to extract any coal remaining in place and to use an underground void for any activity related to the removal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0695) |
| HB1130 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; hybrid defined contribution and defined benefit retirement program. Creates a new hybrid retirement program, administered by the Virginia Retirement System, that contains a defined contribution and a defined benefit compon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701) |
| HB33 | Pass | Public procurement; agreements with labor organizations. Requires state agencies to ensure that neither the state agency nor any construction manager acting on behalf of the state agency shall, in its bid specifications, project agreements, or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685) |
| HB189 | Pass | Child-placing agency; conscience clause. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, no private child-placing agency shall be required to perform, assist, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any placement of a child for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) |
| HB153 | Pass | Workers' Compensation; exclusion of certain employees. Excludes a person who suffers an injury on or after July 1, 2012, from coverage under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act if there is jurisdiction under either the Longshore and Harbor Workers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| HB1118 | Pass | Elections; persons eligible to obtain lists of persons voting at primaries and elections. Allows access to the lists for all political purposes by members of the public and nonprofit organizations as well as by candidates, elected officials, and poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) |
| HB1007 | Pass | Voter registration; Department of Motor Vehicles. Provides for cooperation between the Department of Motor Vehicles and the State Board of Elections in the prompt transmittal of voter registration applications and change of address information from D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB792 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; deferred compensation plan for local employees. Permits localities that choose to allow employees to participate in a deferred compensation plan to require new employees to join the plan on an opt-out basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB1233 | Pass | Local license tax ordinances for the severance of minerals. Requires certain localities that imposed local severance taxes for the 2008, 2009, 2010, or 2011 license year to amend their local ordinances to adopt or include certain local license tax un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665) |
| HB1113 | Pass | Land exchange. Establishes a procedure that authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to exchange parcels of land it owns for interest in property owned by a private company near Biscuit Run in Charlottesville.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663) |
| HB739 | Pass | Virginia College Savings Plan Oversight Act. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to oversee and evaluate the Virginia College Savings Plan on a continuing basis. The bill requires JLARC and the Virginia College Savings P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) |
| HB81 | Pass | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that prior use of any property shall not be considered in determining its current use for land use valuation purposes. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| HB703 | Pass | Higher education; policies related to student nonpayment. Requires the board of visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education to refrain from referring a student account to collections until required to do so by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0658) |
| HB60 | Pass | Illegal voting and registrations; write-in absentee ballots. Clarifies that the prohibition against voting more than once in one election does not apply to military and overseas voters entitled to vote a federal write-in absentee ballot who may send ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| HB585 | Pass | Small business investment grant program. Creates the small business investment grant fund and program that would provide a grant equal to 10 percent of a qualified investment in a small business for an eligible investor. Grants would be paid from suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| HB216 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase or lease of computer equipment or enabling software by data centers by extending it to tenants of the centers, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655) |
| HB897 | Pass | Virginia Child Protection Accountability System. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to report information about sentences imposed in cases involving certain criminal violations and requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| HB41 | Pass | Personal property tax; situs of certain motor vehicles. Provides that when a motor vehicle is normally garaged in a location different from the domicile of the owner of the vehicle due to its use by a student attending an institution of higher educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| HB496 | Pass | Discharge from state hospital or training center; return to place of residence. Provides that community services boards shall, as part of the discharge planning process for each individual released from a state hospital or training center, inform the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) |
| HB1243 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middletown. Shifts town elections from May to November and makes technical amendments. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| HB1128 | Pass | Delinquent real property taxes. Modifies procedures governing delinquent real property taxes by (i) requiring the attorney for a locality who handles delinquent real property taxes to request the commissioner of the revenue to correct land records th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627) |
| HB1200 | Pass | Human trafficking hotline; posted notices. Provides that any employer who operates a business that provides entertainment commonly called stripteasing or topless entertaining or entertainment that has employees who are not clad above or below the wai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) |
| HB964 | Pass | Displaying a grooming video or materials to a minor; penalty. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who displays child pornography or a grooming video or materials to a child under 13 years of age is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| HB1218 | Pass | Stream mitigation banks. Combines the Tennessee River Basin and the Big Sandy River Basin into one river watershed for the purpose of establishing and operating a stream mitigation bank within the watershed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| HB1158 | Pass | Virginia Water Protection Permit. Requires the State Water Control Board to give consideration to any relevant information contained in the state water supply plan when determining whether to issue a Virginia Water Protection Permit. There is a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628) |
| HB1182 | Pass | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; uses. Allows the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund to provide grants for scientific research performed at one of the Commonwealth's National Cancer Institute-designate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| HB919 | Pass | Personal property tax; distraint and sale of personal property for delinquent taxes. Provides that a locality is not required to obtain a certificate of title when motor vehicles are distrained for sale to satisfy delinquent taxes. The bill clarifies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| HB975 | Pass | Public service corporations and companies; governmental utility corporation. Clarifies that (i) property may be taken by eminent domain by a public corporation for sanitary sewer, water and stormwater facilities, or transportation facilities and (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) |
