| HB855 | Pass | Nuisance species; coyotes and feral swine. Adds coyotes and feral swine to the definition of "nuisance species."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| HB509 | Pass | Recordation tax. Clarifies that the recordation tax for deeds of trust is based on the value of the security interest created by the deed of trust, not just on the amount of the obligations described in the deed of trust. Therefore, the amount subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| HB1168 | Pass | Trust institutions. Provides that a federal savings bank, with or without an office or a branch in Virginia, may engage in a trust business in the Commonwealth if it is supervised and regulated by the federal Comptroller of the Currency and is author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| HB526 | Pass | Local regulation of helicopter use. Provides that no local zoning ordinance shall impose a total ban on departures and landings by noncommercial helicopters for personal use. However, a locality may require a special permit under certain circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB1208 | Pass | Home instruction of children; curriculum description. Requires that the description of the curriculum, which a parent electing to provide home instruction to his child in lieu of school attendance must submit to the school division superintendent, sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB881 | Pass | Political campaign advertisements; disclosure requirements. Requires print advertisements to contain sufficient space to display the required disclosure statement in a minimum font size of seven point and provides that an electronic advertisement wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| HB809 | Pass | Provision of insurance for employees of boards working closely with a locality. Adds the employees of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth such as boards, commissions, agencies, or authorities to the list of employees who may receive insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| HB938 | Pass | Professions and occupations; qualifications for licensure; substantially equivalent military training and education. Requires the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| HB937 | Pass | Professions and occupations; expediting the issuance of licenses for spouses of military service members. Requires a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professions, or any boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB1216 | Pass | Advertisement of proposed zoning amendments. Provides that when a proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance involves a tract of land of not less than 500 acres owned by the Commonwealth or by the federal government, and when the proposed change affe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| HB830 | Pass | Arts and cultural districts. Allows a locality to create more than one arts and cultural district. The current language refers to the creation of a district in the singular.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| HB1189 | Pass | Public schools; student data requests. Allows local school boards to develop a single, standardized form to obtain parental consent for the release of student data. If developed by the local school board, such form shall be used by Community Policy a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| HB848 | Pass | Methamphetamine lab clean-up costs; reimbursement of localities. Allows localities to provide by ordinance that any person who is convicted of an offense for manufacture of methamphetamine shall be liable to the locality or other law-enforcement enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| HB1186 | Pass | Attachments by cable television systems and telecommunications service providers to poles of electric cooperatives. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to determine just and reasonable rates, and certain terms and conditions of service, for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| HB917 | Pass | Required meetings of regulatory boards at the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. Replaces specified intervals and number of meetings for regulatory boards under the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation with the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| HB869 | Pass | Urban development areas. Makes incorporation of urban development areas optional rather than mandatory. Currently urban development areas are mandatory for many higher growth localities. The bill also makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| HB378 | Pass | Funeral services licensees; continuing education requirements. Changes the continuing education requirements for funeral services licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers from 10 hours every two years to five hours per year, and allows the one hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| HB1073 | Pass | Real property tax; valuation of residential rental apartments. Requires that, in any appeal to a board of equalization concerning the fair market value of residential apartments in excess of four units, the board use the income approach to valuation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| HB902 | Pass | Condominium Act; time limits for expansion, contraction, or conversion of condominium. Increases from seven years to 10 years from the date of recordation of the declaration the time limit in which a declarant/developer of a condominium must exercise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| HB1111 | Pass | Fees for enforcement and appeals under Statewide Fire Prevention Code and Uniform Statewide Building Code. Defines the term "defray the cost" for purposes of fees authorized to be collected by a locality for costs for enforcement and appeals of the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
| HB946 | Pass | Political action committees; campaign finance filings. Requires any political action committee that files its statement of organization on or after August 15 and before the November election day in any odd-numbered year to file a campaign finance re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525) |
| HB552 | Pass | Mental health and developmental services; terminology. Replaces the terms "mental retardation" and "mental deficiency" with the term "intellectual disability" when referring to the diagnosis of, and with the term "developmental" when referring to ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| HB1117 | Pass | Annexation Moratorium Statute; continuation of the moratorium on annexation by cities. Provides that the temporary restrictions on granting city charters, filing annexation notices, and instituting annexation proceedings and county immunity proceedin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) |
| HB1277 | Pass | Licensing of contractors by localities; civil penalty. Permits a locality by ordinance to establish a civil penalty that may be assessed when a person or business falsely represents to a customer or prospective customer that such person or business h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552) |
| HB910 | Pass | Cash proffers. Expands existing provisions that allow certain alternative uses of cash proffers to provide that such cash proffers may also be used for an alternative purpose if the functional purpose for which the cash payment was made no longer exi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) |
| HB1139 | Pass | Reinsurance credits. Conforms Virginia's law regarding credits to insurers for reinsurance ceded to approved assuming insurers to the provisions of the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| HB385 | Pass | Industrial development authorities. Removes a prohibition that currently prevents industrial development authorities (also referred to as economic development authorities) from refinancing debt of organizations that are organized and operated for edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| HB961 | Pass | Shoplifting and employee theft; civil action. Provides that a civil action for shoplifting or employee theft may be initiated or maintained by a merchant even though a criminal action for the same conduct has been initiated; however, such civil actio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| HB997 | Pass | Application for public assistance; information to applicant. Requires local departments of social services to provide each applicant for public assistance other than energy assistance with electronic or written and oral information regarding all rig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) |
| HB368 | Pass | Neighborhood assistance tax credits; eligibility of certain mediators. Provides that mediators certified under guidelines of the Judicial Council of Virginia who provide mediation services, without charge, at the direction of an approved neighborhood...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0596) |
| HB571 | Pass | Extension of measures to address housing crisis. Extends the sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals, the timing of cash proffer payments, and bonding requirements from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2017. The bill also expan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| HB1270 | Pass | Transfer of certain property in the City of Hampton. Provides that the Department of General Services, on behalf of the Department of Education and the Commonwealth of Virginia, with the approval of the Governor, is authorized to convey its interest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551) |
| HB269 | Pass | Certificate of public need; process for review and approval of psychiatric and substance abuse services. Eliminates the requirement that a Request for Applications be issued before the Commissioner of Health may accept and consider applications for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| HB732 | Pass | Transfer of development rights. Provides that a transfer of development rights ordinance may permit a sending property, subsequent to severance of development rights, to be used for parks and campgrounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) |
| HB424 | Pass | School records; self-authentication. Provides that school records shall be admissible in any matter where such records are material and otherwise admissible, provided that they are authenticated as true and accurate copies by the custodian of the rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| HB752 | Pass | Strangulation; penalty. Provides that any person who, without consent, impedes the blood circulation or respiration of another person by knowingly, intentionally, and unlawfully applying pressure to the neck of such person resulting in the wounding o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) |
| HB1068 | Pass | Real property tax; commercial and industrial property in localities in Northern Virginia. Extends the sunset date from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2018, on the reduction in the tax rate for the special real property tax on commercial and industrial pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0535) |
| HB734 | Pass | Recordation tax. Requires that a deed or other document regarding conveyance of real property state on its first page the actual consideration for the conveyance before it can be admitted to record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513) |
| HB738 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; health and related insurance for state employees. Clarifies that the Department of Human Resource Management has exclusive authority to establish and enforce employer contribution rates for some state employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600) |
| HB430 | Pass | Incentives for inter-local service delivery. Expands the scope of the Regional Cooperation Incentive Fund to foster inter-local service delivery consolidation or coordination where such consolidation or coordination will result in the more efficient ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| HB745 | Pass | Supreme Court of Virginia; judicial caseloads; weighted caseload system. Requires the Supreme Court to develop and implement a weighted caseload system to assess judicial caseloads throughout the Commonwealth, and using that system, requires the Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) |
| HB1021 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); legislative sessions. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2012, election to approve or reject an amendment authorizing the General Assembly to delay the reconvened session for a period of up to on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| HB1059 | Pass | Appeals to the board of zoning appeals. Provides that a civil penalty shall not be assessed by the court during pendency of a 30-day appeal period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0606) |
| HB595 | Pass | Four-year plan for aging services; deadlines for plan submission. Changes the deadline for submission of a four-year plan for aging services from June 30, 2013, to October 1, 2015, and the deadline for submission of an update to the current plan from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0509) |
| HB358 | Pass | City of Richmond tax amnesty program. Expands the scope of the City of Richmond’s tax amnesty program to include all local taxes and accrued interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB1287 | Pass | Definition of development. Replaces "property" with "tract of land" for purposes of this definition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554) |
| HB349 | Pass | Virginia War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission. Extends the time that the Commission may be funded upon the approval of the Joint Rules Committee, and provides that if the Commission is not funded by a separate appropriation in the appropriation act fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| HB63 | Pass | Elections; provisional ballots; electoral board meetings. Provides that the meeting of the electoral board on the day or days following an election is open only to authorized party and candidate representatives, the persons who cast the provisional b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB603 | Pass | Open enrollment policies; local school divisions. Provides that local school divisions may have policies that provide for the open enrollment to any school of any student residing within the school division upon the request of a parent or guardian. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB1286 | Pass | Local capital projects; utility relocation. Provides that certain utility companies shall cooperate and coordinate in the relocation of certain utilities so as to avoid unnecessary delays in the construction of local capital projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
