| 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) |
| HB1298 | Pass | Criminal procedure; GPS tracking device. Provides the authority and the protocol for a law-enforcement officer to apply for a search warrant to permit the use of a GPS tracking device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0636) |
| HB969 | Pass | Sexual assault response teams; addition of campus police. Requires each attorney for the Commonwealth to invite any chiefs of campus police of institutions of higher education located within the jurisdiction to the annual SART meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| HB1293 | Pass | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; local inspection fee. Provides that in the City of Chesapeake no fee charged for the inspection of any place of religious worship designated as Assembly Group A-3 under the Fire Prevention Code shall exceed $50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) |
| HB766 | Pass | Development Fund. Creates the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund. The bill establishes an economic development grant and loan program targeted specifically at agricultural and forestry operations. Grants and loans will be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622) |
| HB239 | Pass | Fumigation by Department of Forestry. Asserts that the Department of Forestry's preferred method of treatment of its forest tree nurseries is methyl bromide gas fumigation in pre-seeding land preparation under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621) |
| HB1222 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; definition of employment services organizations. Updates outdated language referring to sheltered workshops by replacing that term with "employment services organizations." The bill defines employment services organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632) |
| HB199 | Pass | Town of Onancock; ordinance providing that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on real estate. Adds the Town of Onancock to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on the real ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| HB1273 | Pass | Health insurance; parity of coverage for oral chemotherapy medications. Provides that each health insurer, health care subscription plan, and health maintenance organization whose policies, contracts, or plans include coverage for intravenously admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) |
| HB490 | Pass | Certain executive branch boards and councils; staggering of terms; membership; name change. Provides for the staggering of terms for the membership of the Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council, the Asian Advisory Board, and the State Emergency Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| HB974 | Pass | Campaign finance disclosure reports; custody and copying. Requires the State Board of Elections to replace in campaign finance disclosure reports the residence address of certain protected voters, such as law-enforcement officers, with the post offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) |
| HB1022 | Pass | Confederate cemeteries and graves. Changes the organization that will be responsible for maintaining confederate graves at the Presbyterian Cemetery in Alexandria. The Old Dominion Rifles Confederate Memorial Association will be responsible for maint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534) |
| HB1020 | Pass | Precious metal dealers; retention of purchases. Increases from 10 to 15 calendar days from the date of local law enforcement's receipt of a copy of the bill of sale the period that precious metal dealers must retain all precious metals or gems purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532) |
| HB1016 | Pass | Alternative Fuel Vehicle Conversion Fund. Establishes the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Conversion Fund to assist state agencies with the incremental cost of converting an existing state-owned vehicle to use an alternative fuel or of purchasing a new vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0531) |
| HB513 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemptions; extension of sunset dates. Extends the sunset dates for the limited sales and use tax exemption periods for hurricane preparedness equipment and for certain energy-efficient products from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| HB1177 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; objectives. Adds to the list of the Commonwealth's energy objectives the following: (i) ensuring an adequate energy supply and a Virginia-based energy production capacity; and (ii) minimizing the Commonwealth's long-term exposur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| HB996 | Pass | Department of Minority Business Enterprise; electronic certification process. Authorizes the Department of Minority Business Enterprise to accept applications for certification as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business through electronic me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| HB507 | Pass | Suspected child abuse; substance exposed infants; reporting by physicians. Increases the period of time from seven days to six weeks during which a health care provider, not exclusively the attending physician as in current law, may make a finding t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB994 | Pass | Broadband Advisory Council; designees to serve on the Council. Permits the Secretary of Commerce and Trade and the Secretary of Technology to appoint designees to serve on their behalf on the Broadband Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| HB928 | Pass | Mechanics' liens; site development improvements. Allows contractors to obtain a mechanics' lien in the amount of the value of the work contracted for by the claimant for site development improvements and clarifies that common areas are not to be incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| HB522 | Pass | Statewide system of trails; wheelchairs or other power-driven mobility devices. Permits the Department of Conservation and Recreation to allow the use of wheelchairs or other power-driven mobility devices on the statewide system of trails in accordan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB1169 | Pass | Workers' compensation; medical fees. Provides that the Workers' Compensation Commission shall retain jurisdiction for employees to pursue payment of charges for medical services notwithstanding that bills or parts of bills for health care services ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| HB973 | Pass | Sex crimes; penalties. Imposes a mandatory minimum life sentence for rape, forcible sodomy, or object sexual penetration of a child under the age of 13 when it is alleged in the indictment that the offender was 18 years of age or older at the time o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
