| HB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 890, 2011 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-09
Senate: Continued to a 2012 Special Session of the General Assembly (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB598 | Engross
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 share of Standards of Quality per p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
House: Delegates: Greason, Scott, E.T., Plum |
| HB576 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; teacher contract and evaluation policies. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and retained. Teachers, assistant principals, and principals who have not achieved continuing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health |
| HB259 | Engross
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in House of Delegates Districts 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 59, 60, 64, 67, 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-08
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections |
| HB418 | Engross
Sine Die | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; assessments; imposition of late fees. Authorizes condominium and property owners' associations, except to the extent the declaration provides otherwise, to impose a late fee of not more than $15 or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Senate: Defeated by Senate (11-Y 26-N 1-A) |
| HB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, by a person in his dwelling against an intruder in the dwelling who has committed an overt act against him or another person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice |
| HJR246 | Engross
Sine Die | Election of a Supreme Court of Virginia Justice, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, and a member of the State Corporation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR273 | Engross
Sine Die | Election of a Circuit Court Judge and a General District Court Judge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB8 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting of vessel accident; penalty. Requires any passenger 18 years of age or older who is a passenger in a vessel that is involved in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury or death and in which the operator has (i) failed to stop and ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB667 | Engross
Sine Die | Child endangerment; penalty. Relocates the crime of child endangerment to Title 18.2 (Crimes and Offenses Generally) from Title 40.1 (Labor and Employment) in order to emphasize its general application. The bill removes language that prohibited willf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Grand larceny; first offender. Allows the court to defer disposition for a person charged with larceny who has not previously been convicted of or charged with a felony, an offense related to larceny, embezzlement, fraud, or any crime of moral turpit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB750 | Engross
Sine Die | Inherent authority to defer and dismiss a criminal case. Provides that no court shall have the authority, upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or after a plea of not guilty, when the facts found by the court would justify a finding of guilt, to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N) |
| HB477 | Engross
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 that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall consider achievin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N) |
| HB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Solid waste management plan; optional. Removes the mandate that a governing body develop and implement a regional or local solid waste management plan, making such plans optional. The bill includes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB947 | Engross
Sine Die | Nonpublic school students; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home instructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1063 | Engross
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | BPOL tax; maximum fee and tax rates established. Prohibits a locality from increasing its local license (BPOL) fees or taxes above the rates of its BPOL fees and taxes imposed for the 2011 license year. The prohibition on increasing BPOL fees and tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 2-N) |
| SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | Student discipline; parental notification. Requires the school principal or his designee to attempt to notify the parents of any student who violates a school board policy when such violation will result in the student's suspension, expulsion, or th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB311 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; City of Franklin. Provides that neither the city council nor any of its members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to or the removal of any person from any office or employment by the city manager. The bill also sets forth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 with substitute in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB550 | Engross
Sine Die | Public oyster beds on the seaside of the Eastern Shore; adjustment of boundaries. Instructs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adjust the boundaries of the public oyster beds on the seaside of the Eastern Shore using the Baylor survey as a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB216 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities and combined sewer overflow projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $378 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB30 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2013, and the thirtieth day of June, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| HB29 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 890, 2011 Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SB102 | Engross
Sine Die | Water and waste authorities; liens. Prohibits a water authority in some circumstances from establishing a lien against a landlord's property for a tenant's delinquent fees absent an agreement signed by the landlord permitting such recourse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (5-Y 16-N) |
| HB483 | Engross
Sine Die | Real property tax; collection of certain taxes. Provides that the current authority to increase the assessment of real property taxes for three preceding tax years by increasing the amount of the valuation of the property applies only to errors relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB866 | Engross
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] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB452 | Engross
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; network bingo. Authorizes the conduct of a new charitable game known as network bingo. The bill sets out the terms and conditions under which network bingo may be conducted, provides for the licensing of network bingo network provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB1131 | Engross
Sine Die | Costs of elections. Requires cities and towns to pay the costs incurred by the State Board of Elections in administering local May elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits. Increases the number of circuit court judges in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit from eight to nine, and decreases the number of such judges in the Seventeeth Judicial Circui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (12-Y 1-N) |
| HB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; defined benefit plan. Modifies several provisions of the defined benefit retirement plan. Beginning January 1, 2013, the bill changes the calculation of average final compensation to cover a period of 60 months rather than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Senate: Incorporated by Finance |
| SB194 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorialization of fallen Virginians at the Virginia War Memorial. Codifies the criteria for inclusion of Virginians who died while serving in the armed forces on the Shrine of Memory at the Virginia War Memorial, as was required by legislation adopt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB6 | Engross
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB277 | Engross
Sine Die | Forced or coerced abortion prohibited; penalty. Provides that any person who forces or coerces a pregnant female to have an abortion against her will is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also creates a private right of action against the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
House: Continued with amendments to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB807 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of electronic tracking devices; penalty. Provides that any person who uses an electronic tracking device through intentionally deceptive means and without consent to track the location of another person is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1265 | Engross
Sine Die | Mechanics' lien notice. Provides that any person intending to perfect a mechanics' lien against a one- or two-family residential dwelling unit must send the mechanics' lien agent designated on the building permit or, if no agent is designated, the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB434 | Engross
Sine Die | Funeral protests; penalty. Makes it unlawful for a person to address speech to a person attending a funeral or memorial service that is reasonably likely to provoke an imminent breach of the peace, or to engage in picketing activity within 250 feet o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers; records required to be maintained; digital images. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers to take a digital image of (i) the form of identification used by the person involved in the transaction, which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Correcting errors in deeds; affidavit. Allows, in the event that a recorded deed or other instrument contains an obvious description error, the recordation of a corrective affidavit by an attorney, settlement agent, or title insurance company involve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB1112 | Engross
Sine Die | Human papillomavirus vaccination; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement for vaccination against human papillomavirus for female children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health |
| HJR97 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; management and structure of higher education centers; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the management and structure of the Commonwealth's four regiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR362 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending CACI International Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR91 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress. Memorializes Congress to support the establishment of a National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| SB207 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for a court-ordered extension of polling hours in emergency situations and situations that interfere with the ability of voters to travel to the polls. The bill provides that no extension s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HJR227 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to adopt a national energy policy. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the President and the Congress adopt a national energy policy that supports the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR226 | Engross
Sine Die | Town of Chincoteague. Memorializes the U.S. Department of the Interior to oppose the federal purchase of land within the Town of Chincoteague.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| SB484 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion; informed consent. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion, to determine gestation age, every pregnant female shall undergo ultrasound imaging and be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound image of her fetus pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar (31-Y 2-N) |
| SB224 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Provides for a Class 1 misdemeanor for a battery through the application of physical force against a family or household member. This provision addresses the decision in U.S. v. White fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HJR92 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing the members of the Virginia Delegation of the Congress of the United States; value-added tax. Urges the Virginia Delegation of Congress to oppose any legislation that would levy a value-added tax (VAT) on the consumption of goods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR94 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; voluntary school prayer and prayer in public meetings. Memorializes the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow for voluntary public school prayer and public prayer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
