| SB592 | 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] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure; use of false records, documents, or statements. Provides that any person who knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false or fraudulent record, document, or statement in support of any foreclosure shall be liable to the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center; King College. Adds King College to the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees and allows graduate degree instructional programs in education to be provided with King College at the Cen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Provisional driver's license holders. Changes from a secondary offense to a primary offense use of a cell phone by a provisional driver's license holder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Text messaging and emailing while driving; penalty. Allows police officers to issue citations to violators who text message or email while operating a moving motor vehicle. Currently, police officers must have cause to stop or arrest a driver for som...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Following too closely. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; fiscal impact analysis of employer contribution rates. Requires the Board of the Virginia Retirement System to conduct a fiscal impact analysis whenever the appropriation for employer contribution rates included in the bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential primary; uncommitted option. Allows a voter in a presidential primary to vote "uncommitted" where such vote indicates that the voter has no preference among the candidates on the ballot and does not want to commit delegates to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2017. The bill would require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. This is a recommendation of the Judicial Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia State Bar admission for full-time law school professors. Allows a full-time law professor to be admitted as an active member of the Virginia State Bar without examination provided that (i) he has been engaged in the full-time practice of law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Air pollution; outdoor wood-burning heaters. Requires the Air Pollution Control Board to develop a model ordinance for localities that could be used, at the discretion of the locality, to regulate air pollution emissions resulting from the use of out...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB465 | Intro
Sine Die | Appointment, compensation, and offices of general registrars. Provides that all general registrars shall serve on a full-time basis. The bill takes effect on enactment of an appropriation to effectuate its purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-05
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; women-owned and minority-owned businesses; remedial measures. Provides that the Governor shall require state agencies to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law when a per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; long-term care insurance credit. Increases the amount of the credit an individual may claim for long-term care insurance premiums from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premiums paid. The bill would be effective for taxable ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemptions for nonprofit entities; veterans organizations. Adds veterans organizations to those nonprofit entities that can qualify for sales and use tax exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; military and overseas voters. Directs the State Board of Elections to provide instructions and procedures for the submission of ballots from military and overseas voters by fax or other electronic means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB139 | Intro
Sine Die | County precincts; separate precinct for certain towns. Requires a county to establish a separate county precinct for any town entirely surrounded by a combination of a United States armed forces base and water.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Reston. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for Reston bearing the word: "RESTON!" and the legend: "LIVE WORK PLAY."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Death records. Reduces the amount of time that must pass before death records may become public information from 50 years to 25 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosure of records related to marriages, divorces, and annulments. Reduces the period of time that must pass before records related to marriages and divorces may become public information from 50 years to 25 years and provides that annulments may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25 instead of the standard $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of NASCAR. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of NASCAR. Revenues derived from sale of these plates will be shared with Richmond International Raceway CARES once a minimu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; PEACE BEGINS AT HOME. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend PEACE BEGINS AT HOME to support the programs of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance for the preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Public procurement; products manufactured in the United States. Requires public contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of a public building or public works to contain a provision that the iron,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-21
Senate: Rereferred to Transportation |
| SB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; transfers of wine or beer. Allows a retail off-premises or on-and-off-premises licensee to transfer any wine or beer from one licensed place of business to another licensed place of business under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
House: Referred to Committee on General Laws |
| SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information. Prohibits insurers from setting rates for motor vehicle insurance on the basis of a person's credit history or credit score. The measure will become effective January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices by localities. Allows localities to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio, or television rather than being limited to a newspaper of general circulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater program assistance. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, if requested by a local government, to provide technical and staff assistance in managing the local stormwater municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-15
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in Senate Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 33, 36, 37, and 39 in order to eliminate split voting precincts and otherwise facilitate admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections |
| SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; energy efficiency data for state-owned buildings. Provides for the Department of General Services to establish a program requiring an energy analysis of each state-owned building containing more than 50,000 square feet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits; assistance to low-income families, scholarships for K through 12 students attending private schools. Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for certain business entities making monetary donations to nonprofit organizations p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Senate: Incorporated by Finance |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate tax credit; taxes paid in another state. Allows an entity that pays corporate income tax in Virginia based upon 100 percent of its sales to receive a tax credit equal to the amount of income tax paid in another state for sales in that state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Construction projects using public funds; iron, steel, and manufactured goods must be produced in the United States. Prohibits use of state funds for construction projects, including any construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers; records required to be maintained; digital images. Requires pawnbrokers to take a digital image of (i) the person involved in the transaction, (ii) the form of identification used by the person involved in the transaction, and (iii) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefits Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Authority is charged with establishing and operating health benefit exchanges for qualified individuals and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 4-N) |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value procurement by certain localities. Authorizes the governing body of a locality with a population in excess of 100,000 to procure construction on a best value procurement basis. Under the bill, if pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Stricken from docket by General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefits Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, as recommended by the Virginia Health Reform Initiative Advisory Council. The Authority is charged with establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 4-N) |
| SB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandated health insurance benefits; essential benefits package. Provides that health insurance plans will not be required, effective January 1, 2014, to provide coverage for state-mandated health benefits to the extent that the benefit is not an esse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; criminal investigative records. Amends the definition of "criminal investigative file" so that the exemption applies to records relating to active or ongoing investigations or prosecutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; exemption for cell phone numbers for EMS personnel and firefighters. Provides an exemption from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act for records of a fire/EMS company or fire/EMS department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Opportunities for work and career and technical education; child support. Requires the Department to withhold child support payments out of moneys paid to prisoners who maintain a job within the Department. Child support payments owed will also be wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited practice by retail wine and beer licensees; penalty. Provides that no retail off-premises wine and beer licensee shall sell any alcoholic beverage by means of a self-scanning cash register or other point-of-sale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
Senate: Stricken from docket by Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Gunston Hall; administration. Clarifies that, consistent with existing law, any administrative head of Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason bequeathed to the Commonwealth by a former owner, is appointed by the Governor to serve at his pleasure. Ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Fishery compact. Removes authorization for Virginia's membership in the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact. The purpose of the Compact is to promote better utilization of the marine, shell, and anadromous fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Private or out-of-state institutions of higher education; certification. Allows a private or out-of-state institution of higher education whose certification has been revoked by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to continue to enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
