VA Legislation | 2012 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB580	Intro Sine Die	Virtual programs; state funding. Clarifies that the proportionate share of direct aid for public education provided to local school divisions for students enrolled in full-time virtual programs shall be based on the student's jurisdiction of residenc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Incorporated by Finance
SB327	Intro Sine Die	Workers' Compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (8-Y 0-N)
SB624	Intro Sine Die	Institutions of higher education; suicidal students. Requires public institutions of higher education to notify parents any time the institution receives notification from any source that a student may be suicidal, to the extent permitted by the fede... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB605	Intro Sine Die	Eligibility for in-state tuition; military personnel. Provides that, for current and former military personnel and their dependents, the intent to attend a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth is sufficient for the purpose of e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB606	Intro Sine Die	Requirement that genetically-engineered food be labeled; penalty. Defines genetically-engineered food and deems such food to be misbranded unless it is labeled as genetically engineered. Existing law makes the sale of misbranded food a Class 1 misdem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB202	Intro Sine Die	Penning of fox and coyote; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to erect or maintain an enclosure for the purpose of pursuing, hunting, or killing or attempting to pursue, hunt, or kill a fox or coyote with dogs. The bill also makes... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 2-N)
SB677	Intro Sine Die	Performance review of state agencies. Requires that the Office of the State Inspector General conduct a performance review of each executive branch agency at least every four years. The effective date of the bill is July 1, 2014. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB665	Intro Sine Die	Standards of Learning; method of administration. Allows a local school division to administer any Standards of Learning assessment for elementary school students online or by paper. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB129	Intro Sine Die	State mandates on localities. Directs the Governor to temporarily suspend certain unfunded state mandates on localities pending a review of such mandates. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (8-Y 0-N)
SB586	Intro Sine Die	Crimes by prisoners; penalties. Provides that a prisoner may be charged under the Code sections that apply to crimes by prisoners, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and possession of a firearm by a felon. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (13-Y 2-N)
SB553	Intro Sine Die	Local school divisions; unexpended state funds. Provides that local school divisions may elect to use any unexpended state funds to provide a one-time bonus to all teachers of up to three percent of the annual base salary. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB659	Intro Sine Die	Medicaid; coordinated long-term care. Directs the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop and implement a statewide, fully integrated risk-based long-term care system that integrates Medicaid-reimbursed primary, acute, an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB477	Intro Sine Die	Dangerous wild animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to privately possess, sell, transfer, or breed dangerous wild animals. The bill would grandfather in the ownership of any existing lawful exotic animals; however, the owner of such animals is req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB313	Intro Sine Die	Surgical assistants and surgical technologists; licensure and certification by the Board of Medicine. Requires surgical assistants to be licensed and surgical technologists to be certified by the Board of Medicine. The bill also grandfathers in surgi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB683	Intro Sine Die	Tick control; Sunday hunting of deer and permits for application of acaricides. Authorizes Sunday hunting of deer within the boundaries of any locality upon a finding by the governing body of that locality that tick-borne Lyme disease constitutes a s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB643	Intro Sine Die	Health information needs; Department of Health work group. Requires the Department of Health to establish a work group to examine the health information needs related to health care reform and to ensure that any new data collection is integrated with... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health
SB439	Intro Sine Die	Medical Fraud Control Unit; appointment of investigators. Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint unit investigators to investigate fraud, abuse, or neglect in the provision of care under the plan for medical assistance. Such investigators would b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB380	Intro Sine Die	Birth control; definition. Adds a definition of birth control. The bill provides that "birth control" means contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is not considered abortion for the purposes of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
SB372	Intro Sine Die	State Board for Community Colleges; mental health services. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop standards and policies directing community colleges to adopt, incrementally and as resources become available, a mental health ser... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
SB391	Intro Sine Die	Parental notification; student discipline. Requires parental notification whenever school administrators begin an investigation into a potential violation of any school board policy. Such notification may be made by phone or email, or any other reas... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health
SB97	Intro Sine Die	Barrier crimes; listing of crimes. Clarifies the individual crimes included in the background check and barrier crime statutes affecting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, certain licensees of the Department of Behavioral... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB579	Intro Sine Die	Research and technology funding; Commonwealth Innovation Investment Fund. Creates the Commonwealth Innovation Investment Fund. The Fund will be administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority to create, attract, retain, expan... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (13-Y 2-N)
SB506	Intro Sine Die	Local defined contribution retirement plan. Permits any locality or school board to establish a defined contribution retirement plan in lieu of any other retirement plan for employees hired after such plan is established. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB567	Intro Sine Die	Low-income and student toll tax credit. Establishes a tax credit for students and low-income persons who have an E-ZPass or who pay tolls. The amount of the credit is capped at $1,000 per qualified taxpayer. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB150	Intro Sine Die	Presumption of ownership of mineral rights. Adds the rights to transport coal, gas, and oil to those rights presumed to be held by the owner of the shell. Current law provides only the right to transport minerals. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB162	Intro Sine Die	Fuels taxes; indexing of tax rates. Increases or decreases each year the rates of Virginia's fuels taxes using a fuel efficiency index. The bill would define the fuel efficiency index as the quotient that is obtained when using as the numerator the t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Incorporated by Finance
SB208	Intro Sine Die	Administrative suspension of license. Changes the period of administrative license suspension upon arrest for a DUI from seven to 60 days and, for a second or subsequent offense, from 60 days until the time of trial. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB673	Intro Sine Die	Income Tax. Deconforms Virginia income tax laws from two provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that otherwise would increase the state income tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB220	Intro Sine Die	Assignment of year-end surplus. Changes the priority for assigning any year-end surplus by requiring that of any general fund balance remaining after funds are set aside for required deposits to the Revenue Stabilization Fund, 50 percent would be ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB211	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]	2012-02-08 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB583	Intro Sine Die	Courts not of record; circuit court hearing; termination of juvenile court jurisdiction; objections and appeals. Provides, in certain violent felony cases, for a juvenile's right to appeal to the circuit court the attorney for the Commonwealth's deci... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N)
SB178	Intro Sine Die	Satellite office expenses tax credit. Creates a $250,000 tax credit for a business that opens a satellite office or operation in a Virginia locality that reduces the commute of at least 10 current employees to five miles or less. The capital investme... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB61	Intro Sine Die	Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB649	Intro Sine Die	Retirement service credit; Thomas Edward Haynesworth. Awards Thomas Edward Haynesworth 27 years of creditable service in the Virginia Retirement System for time spent wrongfully incarcerated in the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Incorporated by Finance
SB58	Intro Sine Die	Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N 1-A)
SB326	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]	2012-02-08 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
SB166	Intro Sine Die	Homestead exemption; exemptions in bankruptcy petition; poor debtor's exemption; bankruptcy exemptions. Makes various changes to homestead exemptions, including providing that the official schedule of property claimed exempt filed with the United St... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB19	Intro Sine Die	Cash proffers. Changes the sunset date from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2012, on provisions that state that cash proffers shall be collected or accepted by any locality only after completion of the final inspection and prior to the time of the issuance ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (13-Y 2-N)
SB403	Intro Sine Die	Land preservation tax credit; working farmers. Increases the land preservation tax credit from 40 percent to 50 percent of the fair market value of the conveyance for working farmers, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2013. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB642	Intro Sine Die	Sales and use tax; lottery tickets. Amends the definition of "retail sale" to include lottery tickets, for purposes of the imposition of the sales and use tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB281	Intro Sine Die	Elections; persons entitled to place on ballot; compliance with campaign finance disclosure provisions. Provides that a candidate will not be entitled to have his name printed on the ballot unless he has filed all required campaign finance reports an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SB640	Intro Sine Die	Capital improvement; courthouses. Provides that no locality shall approve a capital project involving the locality's courthouse until such time as the United States Gross Domestic Product Annual Growth Rate is three percent or greater. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 9-N)
SB177	Intro Sine Die	Performance guarantees; street construction. Allows localities to retain full performance guarantees until streets in a new development are accepted by the state agency, local government department or agency, or other public authority that is respons... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (13-Y 2-N)
SB600	Intro Sine Die	Senate districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 17 and 24 in Culpeper County in order to reunite four current precincts that were split by the Senate plan. District 17 has a 2.1 percent ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
SB547	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]	2012-02-07 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)
SB490	Intro Sine Die	Senate districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Senate Districts 15, 16, 18, and 20 in order to reduce split current precincts and facilitate local administration of legislative elections. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB491	Intro Sine Die	Senate districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 9, 10, and 16 in the City of Richmond in order to reunite three split precincts. All districts remain within two percent deviation from th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SB229	Intro Sine Die	Zoning; civil penalties constitute liens on real property. Establishes that a lien against real property shall exist for each penalty levied for a scheduled violation of a locality's zoning ordinance. Such a lien shall arise for each penalty that eit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 8-N)
SB233	Intro Sine Die	Proffered conditions. 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 application be provided in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (14-Y 0-N)
SB671	Intro Sine Die	Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals are computed based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-07 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)