| HB238 | Pass | Management of blue crabs. Limits the Marine Resources Commission's fisheries management authority in the Albemarle and Currituck watersheds to the recreational and commercial harvest of blue crab.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| HB56 | Pass | Voter registration applications; protection of residence address information. Adds active and retired federal and Virginia justices and judges and attorneys employed by the United States Attorney General or Virginia Attorney General to the list of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB54 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $125,594,000 plus financing costs, pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia, for paying costs of acqui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| HB1140 | Pass | Carisoprodol added to list of Schedule IV controlled substances. Adds carisoprodol to the list of Schedule IV controlled substances in the Drug Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| HB1141 | Pass | Ezogabine; add to Schedule V. Adds ezogabine to Schedule V of the Drug Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| HB502 | Pass | Receipt required for certain rental payments; upon request. Requires that a landlord provide a tenant with a written receipt, upon the tenant's request, whenever the tenant pays rent in the form of cash or a money order. This bill is recommended by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 503 (effective 7/1/12) |
| HB1133 | Pass | Candidate petitions in primaries and general elections. Provides that candidate petitions in primaries and general elections must be witnessed by a legal resident of the Commonwealth who attests that he is not a minor or a felon whose voting rights h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| HB282 | Pass | Divorce; revocation of death benefits; notice. Requires that every decree of divorce or annulment contain a notice alerting the parties that the final decree may not necessarily serve to revoke the designation of the other party as a beneficiary in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| HB37 | Pass | Paid and volunteer officers of election. Provides that an officer of election may waive compensation and serve as an unpaid volunteer officer. Unpaid volunteer officers shall have the qualifications and fulfill the requirements applicable to paid off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB803 | Pass | Charter; Town of Hillsboro in Loudoun County. Changes the election date for council members in even-numbered years to November, clarifies the voting authority of members who are appointed to fill unexpired terms, and updates a reference to Title 15.1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| HB93 | Pass | Pupil transportation; insurance requirements. Increases the minimum amount of vehicle liability insurance required to be carried by public schools in the instances of property damage, medical expense payment coverage, and accidents when all persons a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| HB327 | Pass | Historic structures; demolition. Provides that a locality may require by ordinance that certain structures within a historic district not be demolished until approved by the review board or, on appeal, the governing body after consultation with the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 494 (effective 7/1/12) |
| HB1154 | Pass | Department of State Police; access to electronic evidence. Provides for access by the Department of State Police to certain electronic evidence, documentation, and related materials that may be physically located outside the Commonwealth but that ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| HB475 | Pass | Involuntary commitment; mandatory outpatient treatment. Alters the criteria for ordering a person to mandatory outpatient treatment or discharging a person for a period of mandatory outpatient treatment following involuntary commitment, replacing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| HB1245 | Pass | Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Changes the composition of the Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB21 | Pass | Elections; polling place requirements. Permits a polling place for a county precinct to be located in a city wholly contained within the county on property owned by the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| HB629 | Pass | University of Virginia; board of visitors. Increases the size of the board of visitors from 16 to 17, of whom (i) at least 12 shall be appointed from the Commonwealth at large, (ii) at least 12 shall be alumni of the University of Virginia, and (iii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| HB190 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for disabled veterans. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services to promulgate rules and regulations for the administration and implementation of the real property tax exemption for disabled veterans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| HB1269 | Pass | Board of zoning appeals. Provides that if certain votes of a local board of zoning appeals result in a tie vote, the person filing an appeal may have the matter carried over until the next meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| HB630 | Pass | Racketeering; forfeiture. Amends provisions that allow for forfeiture of real or personal property used in substantial connection with racketeering offenses to provide that the interest or profits derived from the investment of the forfeited money ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| HB621 | Pass | Obsolete housing laws; repeal. Repeals two chapters of Title 36 that deal with World War II era defense housing projects and housing projects for veterans. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| HB316 | Pass | Cemeteries. Clarifies the uses that shall be included in the approval of a cemetery without further zoning approval being required. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB492 | Pass | Cutting of grass; City of Hopewell. Adds Hopewell to the list of localities that may enforce a grass cutting ordinance on occupied property. The existing general provisions apply to vacant property only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB177 | Pass | Health records privacy; disclosure to emergency medical services councils. Provides that health care providers shall disclose health information to a regional emergency medical services council when the health information and data will be used for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| HB564 | Pass | Electric utility ratemaking incentives; landfill gas. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to earn an enhanced rate of return, equal to 200 basis points above the authorized rate of return, on their investments in generation facilities that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| HB493 | Pass | Cutting of grass; Prince George County. Adds Prince George County to the list of localities that may enforce a grass cutting ordinance on occupied property. The existing general provisions apply to vacant property only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| HB3 | Pass | Requirement that certain injuries to children be reported. Adds athletic coaches, directors, or other persons aged 18 years or older employed by or volunteering with private sports organizations or teams and administrators or employees aged 18 years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| HB504 | Pass | Virginia Center for School Safety; antibullying training. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety to provide training on antibullying tactics to public school personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| HB326 | Pass | Proffered conditions; amendments or variations. Provides that a landowner subject to certain proffered conditions may apply to the governing body for amendments to or variations of such proffered conditions, provided only that written notice of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB170 | Pass | Review of zoning administrator decisions; appeals. Provides that in instances in which decisions of a zoning administrator are reviewed by the governing body, the governing body's decision shall be appealable to the circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB166 | Pass | Decisions of zoning administrator. Narrows the instances in which a zoning administrator may modify certain previously issued written orders outside a 60-day time period by deleting the phrase "or other nondiscretionary" from the provision that curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| HB337 | Pass | Professions and occupations; unlawful procurement of certificate, license, or permit. Clarifies language prohibiting the use, disclosure, or release of questions and answers for examinations for certification or licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| HB978 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Shifts elections for city council from May to November. Council members shall have their four-year terms shortened by six months during the transition. The bill also provides that candidates shall be nominated only by p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452) |
| HB350 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; disability benefits. Modifies the disability benefits provided to state employees by (i) no longer reducing such benefit by the amount of military disability benefits received and (ii) reflecting changes made in 2009 by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| HB806 | Pass | Overweight vehicle permits and fees. Provides a uniform method of assigning cost-based fees based on the amount that a vehicle is overweight. The bill also allocates payment of fees into specific funds. The bill has a delayed effective date of Januar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB352 | Pass | Emergency management plans; victims' rights. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund to be the lead coordinating agencies for individuals determined to be victims during critical event...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB1288 | Pass | Charter; Town of Boyce. Moves election years for members of the Common Council from even-numbered years to odd-numbered years and sets election dates according to town ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| HB1205 | Pass | Charter; Town of South Hill. Repeals provisions related to the town treasurer and makes other technical changes to accurately reflect current town practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| HB900 | Pass | Higher education; mental health and parental notification policies. Provides that any person licensed to diagnose and treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders who is treating a student may determine to withhold parental notification of a depe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448) |
| HB371 | Pass | Agricultural and forestal districts. Adds James City County to the list of counties authorized to create agricultural and forestal districts of local significance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB965 | Pass | Campus police; MAAs with local law-enforcement agencies. Requires campus police to enter into mutual aid agreements with an adjacent local law-enforcement agency or the State Police for cooperation in providing assistance with the investigation of de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB1224 | Pass | Transfer of property by VDOT; emergency. Authorizes VDOT to convey certain real property located in Tazewell County controlled by the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| HB847 | Pass | Charter; Town of Coeburn. Establishes the duties of officers appointed by the town council, including the town manager, the town clerk, and the town attorney; authorizes the town council to appoint other officers deemed necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446) |
| HB841 | Pass | Major business facility job tax credits and enterprise zone job creation grants. Allows a business creating permanent, full-time positions to be eligible for both the major business facility job tax credit and enterprise zone job creation grants. How...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| HB804 | Pass | Charter; Town of Purcellville. Distinguishes the authority of the town council to adopt all architectural design standards and review processes from the responsibility of the Board of Architectural Review to apply such duly adopted standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| HB387 | Pass | Fees collected by clerks; payment with dishonored check or credit card. Increases the fee for paying the clerk of court with a bad check or credit card from $20 to $50, which is the same penalty merchants may charge for the same.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| HB726 | Pass | Sale of certain property in Newport News. Allows the City of Newport News to sell certain property of 2,501 square feet or less and not suitable for development for a nominal amount. The act expires on July 1, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB972 | Pass | Criteria for involuntary commitment. Provides that when a court is to make a decision as to whether it should involuntarily commit a person for 30 days when less restrictive alternatives are inappropriate, it shall consider, in addition to other rele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB313 | Pass | Life insurance and annuities agents; licensing examination. Requires the State Corporation Commission annually to review whether the pass rate for the licensing examination for life insurance and annuities agents is consistent with the 2011 National ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| HB1019 | Pass | Charter; City of Chesapeake. Expands the board of zoning appeals from five to seven members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
