| HB1299 | Intro
Sine Die | Immediate sanction program created. Creates a specialized probation program available to offenders who are on probation pursuant to a suspended sentence and have not been convicted of a violent felony. The program provides for immediate arrest of a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Enforcement of immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police shall seek to enter into a memorandum of agreement with United States Department of Homeland Security,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; appointment of executive director. Provides that the Governor and not the Authority board of directors shall appoint the executive director of the Authority. The bill further provides that the exec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-05
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 3-N) |
| HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalty for DUI manslaughter. Provides that the punishment for DUI manslaughter is to include a one-year mandatory term of confinement and raises the mandatory minimum term for aggravated DUI manslaughter from one to five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Opening of the school year in certain school divisions. Authorizes the school boards of the City of Martinsville, Henry County, and Pittsylvania County school divisions to set the opening of the school year so that the first day students are require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding for certain abortions. Repeals the section authorizing the Board of Health to fund abortions for women who meet the financial eligibility criteria of the State Plan for Medical Assistance in cases in which a physician certifies that he believ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; gold, silver, and platinum bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, or platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000. The bill has a sunset date of June 30, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 2-N) |
| HB1193 | Intro
Sine Die | Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities. Requires local public bodies to post required procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website and makes newspaper publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 4-N) |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition; purchases from net metering sellers. Authorizes individual retail customers who are eligible customer-generators under Virginia's net energy metering program to purchase electricity provided 100 percent from re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Asset forfeiture. Provides that forfeited drug assets are to be distributed in accordance with Article VIII, Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia. The bill also provides that the seizing agency may request that forfeited drug assets be destroyed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to develop a plan to address needs of Virginians with disabilities. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group composed of various stakeholders to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Incorporated by Rules |
| HB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for an interpreter for a non-English-speaking defendant shall be borne by the defendant if he is convicted of the criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Obscenity. Modifies the educational, artistic, and theatrical exemption to obscenity laws by providing that certain crimes (child pornography and use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children) are not subject to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-22
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation; bonds for specific project. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue bonds in the principal amount of $550 million to finance the cost of adding an additional lane on both the northbound and southbound lanes of Inters...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccine; Commonwealth liable. Provides that the Commonwealth shall assume liability for any injury resulting from administration of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB318 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; general registrars. Permits a general registrar who (i) is involuntarily separated and (ii) has 20 or more years of creditable service to retire with an unreduced allowance upon attaining age 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the U.S. Route 58 Corridor Completion Fund. Dedicates $50 million annually from the general fund to the U.S. Route 58 Trust Fund beginning July 1, 2013, until such time as Route 58 is completed to its intersection with Interstate 77 in Ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | State Inspector General. Includes any full-time sworn investigator of the Office of the State Inspector General in the definition of law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway maintenance funds. Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways maintained by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Transportation Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB169 | Intro
Sine Die | State enterprise zone designations. Provides that an area for which state enterprise zone designation is sought would be required to meet one of the following: (i) have 25 percent or more of the population with incomes below 80 percent of the median ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB501 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignments of the year-end general fund balance. Provides that 15 percent of the year-end general fund balance would be assigned for kindergarten through grade 12 public education programs other than Standards of Quality programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or incapacitated adults; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert, or take cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget development; each state agency to submit a prioritized list of its programs. Requires each state agency during budget development to submit to the Governor a numerically prioritized list of the programs performed by the state agency that have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of State Police; establishment of cold case searchable database. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police may establish and maintain a cold case searchable database including unsolved homicide, missing person, and unidentified pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; campus police officers; definitions. Includes within various definitions of "law-enforcement officers" campus police officers at institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Auditor of Public Accounts; procurement of private accountants and auditing firms. Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to procure the professional services of CPAs and auditing firms to carry out his duty to audit all the accounts of every state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act. Allows a political subdivision with employees eligible for coverage under the Line of Duty Act to make an irrevocable election to self-fund the benefits available under the Line of Duty Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Zero tolerance BAC after restoration of full driving privilege following DUI conviction. Provides that the zero tolerance (0.02%) blood alcohol content restriction imposed upon a person following a DUI conviction (i) during the pendency of a restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide fraud control program; medical assistance. Provides that all overpayment moneys collected or recovered from recipients of medical assistance by local departments of social services shall be paid into the Fraud Recovery Special Fund and made...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB953 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery a felony when certain classes of people are victimized; penalty. Expands the class of people for whom, when they are victims of an assault or assault and battery, the offense is punished as a Class 6 felony. The expanded class wou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Preschool Initiative Local Grant Program. Creates a grant program to be administered by the Virginia Department of Education to improve training for preschool educators; create, outfit, or expand preschool classrooms; implement the Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; optional defined contribution retirement plan for state employees. Establishes an optional defined contribution retirement plan that state employees may elect to join in lieu of the defined benefit retirement plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Preschool programs; private funding. Allows a locality currently providing preschool programs to at least 60 percent of its at-risk four-year-olds to accept private funding, which may have restrictions or conditions attached, to meet its local share ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB682 | Intro
Sine Die | Petition for child custody or visitation. Provides that issues of child custody or visitation may be included in a single petition in juvenile and domestic relations district court, and that such issues may be included in a single petition involving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1074 | Intro
Sine Die | Prostitution; affirmative defense, solicitation of a minor. Provides that any person who is charged with the crime of prostitution shall have available the affirmative defense that he was induced by another through the use of force, threat, intimidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Stalking; enhanced penalties. Provides that any person who commits a second or subsequent offense of stalking within five years of a conviction of a prior offense is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Currently, the Class 6 felony applies for a third or sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Four-for-Life; substantive review. Requires that a reallocation of moneys set aside from the Four-for-Life fees be made pursuant to legislation that has been reviewed by the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee and the Senate Committee on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; animals. Provides that a court may include in a protective order provisions granting to the petitioner the care, custody, and control of an animal owned, possessed, or kept by either the petitioner, the respondent, or a child resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB698 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; conference report on the budget; posting on the Internet. Provides that at least 48 hours prior to the vote of each house of the General Assembly, the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Chairman of the Senate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentive payments for use of domestic tobacco by nonparticipating manufacturers. Extends through 2014 the incentive payments made to certain nonparticipating manufacturers using domestic tobacco to manufacture cigarettes. Incentive payments in 2013 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Power of Attorney Act; violation; penalty. Provides that an agent under a power of attorney who violates the Uniform Power of Attorney Act with intent to defraud the principal and converts his principal's property is guilty of embezzlement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB877 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignment of general fund balance remaining at year end. Changes current law for the assignment of any year-end general fund surplus. The surplus would first be used for any Revenue Stabilization Fund deposit. Next, 30 percent of the remaining amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1126 | Intro
Sine Die | Sanctions with Unified Rapid Enforcement (SURE) probation program created. Creates a specialized probation program available to offenders who are on probation pursuant to a suspended sentence and have not been convicted of a violent felony. The progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Trust Fund Authority. Creates the Virginia Housing Trust Fund Authority to administer the Virginia Housing Trust Fund also created by the bill to assist in increasing the capacity of community housing organizations and encourage pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | Circuit courts; number of judges; Tenth Circuit. Adds a fourth circuit court judge to the Tenth Judicial Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Tramadol added to list of Schedule IV controlled substances. Adds tramadol, an opiate painkiller, to the list of Schedule IV controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Submission of executive budget; zero-based budgeting. Requires, beginning in the 2014-2016 biennium, "The Executive Budget," and all "Executive Budgets" shall be prepared and formulated using zero-based budgeting principles. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation funding and administration. Provides for transportation funding and administration in Hampton Roads, Northern Virginia, the Richmond Highway Construction District, and the Staunton Highway Construction District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; virtual education. Provides that any student who enrolls full time in a virtual school program served by a multidivision online provider outside his school division of residence shall have his state and local share of Standards of Qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB511 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System. Requires that the Virginia Retirement System (i) adjust annually its calculation of pension fund liabilities and obligations by the rate of interest on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes and (ii) assume a rate of return on its in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
