| HB346 | Pass | Practice of nurse practitioners; patient care teams. Amends provisions governing the practice of nurse practitioners. The bill provides that nurse practitioners shall only practice as part of a patient care team and shall maintain appropriate collabo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0213) |
| HB541 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles. Makes numerous comprehensive DMV service and safety changes. The bill also makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| HB876 | Pass | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax. Transfers the administration and collection of the motor vehicle fuels sales tax imposed in certain transportation districts from the Department of Taxation to the Department of Motor Vehicles, effective July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| HB382 | Pass | Transfer of assistive technology devices by a school division. Provides that a school division may transfer assistive technology devices purchased by the division for a child with a disability to (i) a different school division to which the child tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0214) |
| HB250 | Pass | Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires the Department of Education to include in the annual School Performance Report Card for school divisions the percentage of each division's annual operating budget allocated to instructiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212) |
| HB943 | Pass | Purchase of service handguns; certain law-enforcement officers. Reduces by five years the amount of time that certain law-enforcement officers must have served in order for the officer, or in some cases the officer's survivor, to purchase the officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0218) |
| HB22 | Pass | Disposition of firearms. Provides that no locality may participate in any program in which individuals are given a thing of value in exchange for surrendering a firearm to the locality unless the governing body of the locality has enacted an ordinanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) |
| HB894 | Pass | Utility energy efficiency programs. Provides that an energy efficiency program proposed by an electric utility is in the public interest if, among other factors, the net present value of the benefits exceeds the net present value of the costs as dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210) |
| HB780 | Pass | Converted vehicles. Creates a definition for vehicles converted from gas to electric power and provides that such vehicles, when accompanied by certain documents, need not be examined by the Department of Motor Vehicles prior to the issuance of a tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177) |
| HB1231 | Pass | Onsite sewage systems; inspections. Clarifies that if a licensed professional engineer or onsite soil evaluator does not inspect an onsite sewage system, the evaluation and design of which he certified, at the time of installation in a timely manner,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0184) |
| HB746 | Pass | Unregistered farm vehicles. Restates the present gross vehicle weight ratings associated with exemptions from registration of certain farm vehicles (including trailers and semitrailers).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174) |
| HB800 | Pass | Nonsurface-treated highways. Allows counties to adopt an ordinance that the speed limit on nonsurface-treated roads shall be 35 miles per hour. Current law restricts the 35 mph speed limit to certain counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) |
| HB914 | Pass | "Children at play" signs. Allows counties and towns, pursuant to an agreement with the Commissioner of Highways, to install "Children at play" signs on highways within their boundaries. The cost of the signs and installation will be borne by the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179) |
| HB1215 | Pass | Virtual schools; accreditation. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations establishing standards for accreditation of public virtual schools that enroll students full time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0183) |
| HB885 | Pass | Nursing; licensure exemption. Exempts from licensure any nurse who holds a current unrestricted license in another state, the District of Columbia, or a United States possession or territory while such nurse is in the Commonwealth temporarily and is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0178) |
| HB1108 | Pass | Career and technical education industry certifications. Delays for one year the effective date of legislation providing that, where there is a national industry certification for career and technical education instructional personnel or programs for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) |
| HB754 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints. Removes the option for a locality to require that an applicant for a concealed handgun permit submit fingerprints as part of the application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) |
| HB733 | Pass | Pharmacists; compounding authority. Increases pharmacists' authority to compound to allow the compounding of (i) a commercially manufactured drug whose manufacturer has notified the FDA that the drug is unavailable due to a current drug shortage or (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0173) |
| HB1089 | Pass | Public schools; immunization requirements. Allows a 180-day conditional enrollment period for students who need more than two doses of the required hepatitis B vaccine, to allow for proper spacing of the vaccine doses. Current law allows a 90-day con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| HB1075 | Pass | Hospital discharge; follow-up care. Requires hospitals to educate patients, and in certain circumstances their families, about follow-up care, treatment, and services upon discharge. The bill also requires community services boards to provide informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0180) |
| HB765 | Pass | College partnership laboratory schools. Allows a private institution of higher education that operates a teacher education program approved by the Board of Education to operate a college partnership laboratory school. Currently, only a public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176) |
| HB268 | Pass | Practice of occupational therapy. Provides that the definition of "practice of occupational therapy" is amended to make clear that "practice of occupational therapy" includes the therapeutic use of occupations for habilitation and rehabilitation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168) |
| HB626 | Pass | Highway noise; certain reports by VDOT required. Allows the local governing body of any county, city, or town, at its own expense, to evaluate noise from highways it may designate for analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0171) |
| HB577 | Pass | Teachers of online courses and college partnership laboratory schools; background checks. Clarifies that teachers of online courses and in college partnership laboratory schools shall, as a condition of employment requiring direct contact with studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170) |
| HB195 | Pass | Higher education; course credit for military experience. Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education, in accordance with guidelines developed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to implement polici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0167) |
| HB548 | Pass | Higher education; active duty military. Requires public institutions of higher education, in accordance with guidelines developed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, to implement policies that recognize the scheduling difficulties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0169) |
| HB521 | Pass | Indemnifying bond; not required of Commonwealth. Clarifies that the Commonwealth is not required to give an indemnifying bond that an authority may require before levying an attachment, writ of fieri facias, or warrant of distress on property if suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| HB642 | Pass | Board of Education; high school accreditation; industry certifications. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations adjusting the formula for calculating the final high school accreditation status to add points for each student obtaining a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0172) |
| HB184 | Pass | Board of Medical Assistance Services; fraud investigators. Requires that at least two members of the Board of Medical Assistance Services be individuals with significant professional experience in the detection, investigation, or prosecution of healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0137) |
| HB635 | Pass | Equitable distribution; change of venue. Provides that, upon or after the entry of a final divorce decree, a court may, upon its own motion or the motion of any party, transfer to the circuit court for the county or city where either party resides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144) |
| HB181 | Pass | Registered nurse or physician assistant; authority to pronounce death. Adds registered nurses employed by and physician assistants working at continuing care retirement communities to the list of individuals who may pronounce death under certain circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) |
| HB829 | Pass | Virginia Immunization Information System; linkages to other VDH databases. Allows the Commissioner of Health to allow health care providers authorized to access the Virginia Immunization Information System to also access other information maintained ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0147) |
| HB462 | Pass | Abortion; informed consent. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion, to determine gestational age, every pregnant female shall undergo transabdominal ultrasound imaging and be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound imag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| HB441 | Pass | Uniform Certificate of General Studies. Clarifies that credits earned in academic subject area coursework as part of the Uniform Certificate of General Studies shall be transferable to a four-year public institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142) |
| HB770 | Pass | Protective orders against law-enforcement officers. Provides that no emergency protective order may be issued against a law-enforcement officer for any action arising out of the lawful performance of his duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| HB1185 | Pass | The Road to Revolution. Expands the potential for sites on The Road to Revolution state heritage trail from those celebrating Patrick Henry and his role in liberating Virginia from Colonial rule to all those significant to men and women who played a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) |
| HB1178 | Pass | Offenders required to register prohibited from operating certain charter buses. Provides that no person required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry shall be permitted to operate a charter bus used to transport children...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0153) |
| HB99 | Pass | Registration of leased vehicles. Requires DMV to obtain in applications for registration of leased vehicles the residence street address of individual lessees and the names and street addresses of lessees that are businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| HB1033 | Pass | Permanent protective orders. Provides a circuit court jurisdiction to hear petitions to modify, dissolve, or extend a permanent protective order if the circuit court issued the order. The bill requires the court, when a protective order is issued, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152) |
| HB77 | Pass | Sentencing proceeding by the jury after conviction. Provides that criminal sentencing by a jury shall be done by a different jury when the original jury cannot agree on punishment, unless the parties and the court agree to sentencing by the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134) |
| HB646 | Pass | Permit applications for outdoor advertising. Defines "billboard sign" and does away with the Certification Acceptance Program, which allowed an entity with five or more signs to self-inspect and certify its compliance with the regulations in lieu of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0145) |
| HB220 | Pass | Home care organizations; licensure. Provides that no license to establish or operate a home care organization shall be issued to or renewed for any person who has been sanctioned pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b, which relates to criminal penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) |
| HB273 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; minimum training standards; juvenile correctional officers. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Criminal Justice Services Board to provide compulsory minimum entry-level training stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| HB875 | Pass | Vehicle insurance. Places time limits on appeals of DMV suspensions of driver's licenses, registration certificates, and license plates for neither having vehicle insurance nor having paid the uninsured vehicle fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151) |
| HB279 | Pass | DUI ignition interlock limitations. Provides that a person who is convicted of DUI may drive only with an ignition interlock after the first offense, as a condition of a restricted license and is required to have an ignition interlock installed in ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) |
| HB39 | Pass | Causing telephone to ring with intent to annoy. Provides that a second or subsequent conviction of the Class 3 misdemeanor of causing a telephone or digital pager to ring with intent to annoy is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133) |
| HB556 | Pass | Internet publication of personal information of certain public officials prohibited. Adds various public officials to the current provision prohibiting a state or local agency from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet the home address or pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0143) |
| HB861 | Pass | Vehicle and trailer immobilization. Makes all vehicles and trailers, in addition to motor vehicles, subject to removal or immobilization for outstanding parking violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150) |
| HB26 | Pass | Failure to carry concealed handgun permit; penalty. Provides that failure to produce, upon demand of a law-enforcement officer, a concealed handgun permit and a government-issued photo identification while carrying a concealed handgun is punishable b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| HB860 | Pass | Local towing ordinances. Allows localities in Northern Virginia by ordinance to regulate the towing of trespassing vehicles from the locality adopting the ordinance to another locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
