| HB1217 | Pass | Sergeant David Lambert Highway; Sergeant Brandon Asbury Highway. Designates a portion of Virginia Route 19 the “Sergeant Brandon Asbury Highway” and all of Virginia Route 609 in Tazewell County the “Sergeant David Lambert Highway.&#...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB939 | Pass | Department of Accounts; recovery of erroneous or improper payments to state employee. Provides that when a state officer or employee receives compensation or payments in error such officer or employee will be liable for repayment unless the state off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| HB1192 | Pass | Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; sunset date. Extends from January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2017, the sunset date for the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| HB301 | Pass | Cool-season lawn and turf seed. Permits the sale of cool-season lawn and turf seed up to 15 months after the completion of the required germination test. Current law limits the sale of seed in general to the period within nine months of the completio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297) |
| HB1144 | Pass | Board for Contractors; waiver of license requirement for Habitat for Humanity. Adds the rehabilitation of single-family dwellings by Habitat for Humanity for which the Board for Contractors may waive the requirement for licensure. Currently, the auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB209 | Pass | Insurance agents; continuing education. Streamlines the continuing education process for insurance agents. The measure provides a producer a period of time during which he has the opportunity to correct errors and effect compliance with continuing ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| HB288 | Pass | Carrying weapons into courthouses; exception. Provides an exception from the prohibition against carrying a weapon into courthouses in the Commonwealth for city and county treasurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| HB476 | Pass | Mandatory outpatient treatment hearing prior to release from commitment. Provides that prior to the release of a person who has been involuntarily admitted or who has been the subject of a temporary detention order and chose to voluntarily admit hims...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| HB294 | Pass | Public libraries; qualifications of librarian; use of state funds. Increases from 13,000 to 15,000 the population of any locality that must meet the qualifications established by the State Library Board in order to use state funds to pay for the pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| HB329 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemptions. Exempts personal information systems maintained by auditors appointed by the local governing body of any county, city, or town or a school board that deals with local investigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| HB127 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance policies; forms and endorsements. Requires property and casualty insurance policies to contain a list of all policy forms and endorsements applicable to that policy, which shall display the respective form numbers and,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| HB384 | Pass | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference in state employment for members of the Virginia National Guard. Establishes a preference in state hiring for members of the Virginia National Guard. Under the bill, when a member of the Virginia National Guar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| HB743 | Pass | Personal property tax; farm vehicles. Allows a county, city, or town to exempt, partially exempt, or set a lower tax rate for motor vehicles used exclusively for farming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| HB1102 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; credits for investments. Allows any investor-owned electric utility that participates in the renewable energy portfolio standard program to meet up to 20 percent of an RPS Goal through certificates evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| HB253 | Pass | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference for veterans; surviving spouses and children. Adds the surviving spouse or child of a veteran killed in the line of duty to the preference in state employment for veterans. The bill defines child to mean a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| HB298 | Pass | Machinery and tools tax; car washing businesses. Classifies machinery and tools used to clean motor vehicles by a motor vehicle cleaning business as a separate class of property for tax rate purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| HB246 | Pass | Sunset provisions on state tax credits. Prohibits any committee of the General Assembly from reporting a new state tax credit or renewing an existing state tax credit unless such bill contains an expiration date of not longer than five years from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| HB465 | Pass | Secretary of the Commonwealth; organizational chart of state government. Requires the Secretary of the Commonwealth to include in the Secretary's annual report an organizational chart of state government. The bill specifies what information is to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| HB453 | Pass | Workers' compensation; penalty for failure to pay. Updates the provision that excuses the Commonwealth from assessment of a penalty for failing to pay workers' compensation benefits when the Commonwealth has issued a regular payroll payment to the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| HB867 | Pass | Certificates of insurance; property and casualty insurance. Prohibits any person from (i) issuing or delivering a certificate of insurance that attempts to confer any rights upon a third party beyond what the referenced policy of insurance expressly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| HB175 | Pass | Riparian blinds in Back Bay. Limits the placement of duck blinds by riparian landowners in Back Bay to the riparian owner's shoreline at the mean low water mark but allows blinds erected and licensed by riparian owners in 2011 to remain at their curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| HB1009 | Pass | Land-disturbing activities; service of order for violation. Specifies the means of serving an order for land disturbance where no plan has been approved or permit obtained, other than where an agricultural exemption applies. Current law refers only t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| HB995 | Pass | Payments from timber sales. Limits the payment made to localities by the Department of Forestry to one-fourth of the gross proceeds derived solely from the sale of timber harvested on state forest lands; however, the counties of Appomattox, Buckingha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| HB753 | Pass | Juvenile offenses; sex offender registry; motion by the attorney for the Commonwealth. Amends the section that permits an attorney for the Commonwealth to file a motion for the court to determine whether circumstances warrant the placement of a juven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| HB880 | Pass | Fishing licenses for partially disabled veterans. Establishes a special fishing license for resident and nonresident veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least 70 percent as rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| HB1161 | Pass | Methamphetamine precursors; sale and tracking; penalties. Requires the Department of State Police to enter into a memorandum of understanding to establish the Commonwealth's participation in a real-time electronic recordkeeping and monitoring system ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| HB1147 | Pass | Garnishment; venue. Provides that a judgment creditor may institute garnishment proceedings in the jurisdiction where the judgment debtor resides even though the underlying judgment was entered by another court. The judgment creditor must file with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| HB896 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores. Removes the current limitations on the operation of government stores on Sunday and authorizes the ABC Board to determine which such stores shall be open on Sunday after 1 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245) |
| HB336 | Pass | Virginia Land Conservation Fund; distribution of revenues. Provides that in distributing the revenues in the Virginia Land Conservation Fund generated by the sale of land conservation tax credits, funds shall not be distributed to federal government...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232) |
| HB381 | Pass | Motorboat registration. Changes the expiration date for motorboat registration from three years from the first day of the month in which it was issued to three years from the last day of the month in which it was issued.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233) |
| HB558 | Pass | Virginia Housing Development Authority; mortgage credit certificates. Permits the Virginia Housing Development Authority to use its bond authority to issue mortgage credit certificates. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0239) |
| HB579 | Pass | Electronic application for public assistance. Provides that applications for public assistance may be made electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) |
| HB95 | Pass | Bear hound training. Allows the training of dogs to hunt bears to occur from 4 a.m. until 10 p.m. Currently, the training of dogs to hunt bears is limited to one-half hour before sunrise until four and one-half hours after sunset.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0226) |
| HB944 | Pass | Commitment of sexually violent predators; probable cause hearing; use of video and audio communication system. Provides that the hearing to determine whether probable cause exists to believe that a person is a sexually violent predator who should be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| HB523 | Pass | Fire insurance; earthquake coverage notice. Requires fire insurance policies or contracts that exclude coverage for earthquake damage to provide a written notice that (i) conspicuously states that earthquake coverage is excluded unless purchased by e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235) |
| HB484 | Pass | Court records; secure remote access; interfacing computer systems. Provides that the operational expenses associated with providing secure remote access to land records includes locating technology in an offsite facility for purposes of improving pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) |
| HB684 | Pass | Coal mine safety. Requires the operator of a coal mine to submit (i) a map of the mine to the Chief of the Division of Mines of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy before producing coal and (ii) any revisions that show directional changes w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) |
| HB990 | Pass | Authorization of nonlethal control measures against elk. Grants the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries the option to authorize nonlethal control measures against elk found to be responsible for damage. The current statute grants ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) |
| HB307 | Pass | Fee for use of Department of Game and Inland Fisheries property. Waives a facility use permit fee that will be imposed by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries on visitors to Rural Retreat Lake Park who are engaged in land-based recreational ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231) |
| HB687 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority. Allows designees of the State Treasurer and the State Health Commissioner to serve on the Board of the Virginia Resources Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242) |
| HB217 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; not applicable to certain records of the Department of Social Services. Provides that the provisions of the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act do not apply to persona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) |
| HB196 | Pass | Haul seine nets. Requires a haul seine net that is longer than 1,000 yards and is anchored at one end to the shore and the other end mechanically drawn, without the aid of a boat or vessel, to have up to 400 feet of two-and one-half inch mesh.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| HB1091 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; unlawful possession. Clarifies that ABC underage buyers acting for law enforcement may purchase alcohol in the performance of their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| HB555 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage license for certain motor sports facilities. Creates an annual mixed beverage motor sports facility license for persons operating concessions at an outdoor motor sports facility that hosts a NASCAR national ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0237) |
| HB293 | Pass | Dam safety; consultation with Department of Emergency Management. Requires the Soil and Water Conservation Board to consult with the Department of Emergency Management in implementing the dam safety program and makes clarifying amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| HB537 | Pass | Dangerous dog registry. Changes the procedure by which dangerous dogs are registered in Virginia. The bill requires an animal control officer, instead of the State Veterinarian, to post dangerous dog registration information on the registry website. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
| HB557 | Pass | Virginia Housing Development Authority; powers. Authorizes the Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA) to provide the requisite indemnifications for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) as well as for any other transactions re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0238) |
| HB1244 | Pass | Arrest, detention, admission to bail of adult charged when a juvenile. Authorizes an adult who is taken into custody pursuant to a warrant or detention order alleging a delinquent act committed when the adult was a juvenile to be released by a magis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| HB1037 | Pass | Methamphetamine site cleanup costs ordered paid by defendant. Provides that if property owned by a person convicted of manufacture of methamphetamine is damaged, destroyed, or otherwise rendered unusable as a result of such methamphetamine manufactur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| HB805 | Pass | Emissions inspections. Privatizes services now provided by the Department of Environmental Quality related to vehicle emissions inspections. The bill also updates authorized testing equipment and allows use of wireless systems and on-road emissions t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216) |
