| HB775 | Pass | Application for public assistance; accurate contact information. Requires local departments of social services to collect, to the extent required by federal law, accurate contact information, including the best available address and telephone number...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| HB764 | Pass | Division of Risk Management; risk management plans for public liability; indemnification agreements by public institutions of higher education. Provides that no Virginia public institution of higher education shall be authorized to enter into an inde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB756 | Pass | Public schools; Innovation Technical Advisory Committee. Authorizes the Department of Education to establish an Innovation Technical Advisory Group, comprised of individuals with experience in the establishment and operation of charter schools, colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| SB594 | Pass | Acquisition of land by localities. Allows counties and cities to acquire land within their boundaries for development of business or industry by voluntary sale, but not by condemnation; current law allows such land acquisition only by towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| HB578 | Pass | Online courses; teacher licensure. Requires the Board of Education to develop licensure criteria for teachers who teach only online courses. The bill also provides that teachers who hold a Board-issued five-year renewable license may teach online cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| HB84 | Pass | Child custody; communication of decision. Provides that the judge's required communication of the basis for his decision regarding child custody or visitation, except in cases of a consent order for custody or visitation, shall set forth the judge's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| HB1042 | Pass | Expiration of driver's licenses; active duty military. Extends the grace period for driver's license expiration from 90 to 180 days after the return from service outside the United States of active duty military personnel, a member of the diplomatic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0384) |
| HB1043 | Pass | Grace period for vehicle registration. Extends the allowance of a grace period for replacement of plates or decals and for vehicle registration to the spouse and dependent children accompanying a member of the armed services of the United States, a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB601 | Pass | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; board membership. Provides that in appointing Virginia members of the board of directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB263 | Pass | Correctional enterprises; exemption from mandatory purchase provisions. Provides that state departments, institutions, and agencies may be granted an exemption from mandatory procurement of articles produced or manufactured by persons confined in sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| HB265 | Pass | Board of Health Professions; meetings. Requires the Board of Health Professions to meet at least annually, rather than quarterly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| HB536 | Pass | Motor fuels tax. Removes the requirement that bulk users and retailers of undyed diesel fuel be licensed. The bill also gives the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles discretion to seize and lock or seal a tank or other storage receptacle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| HB1203 | Pass | Research and Technology Investment Advisory Committee. Provides that the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority shall administer the Research and Technology Investment Advisory Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372) |
| HB275 | Pass | Virginia Board of Accountancy; confidentiality of certain information. Provides that tax returns, financial statements, and other financial information that is not generally available to the public through regulatory disclosure or otherwise, subdivis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB211 | Pass | Procurement; forward energy pricing. Authorizes, subject to available appropriation, any public body to use forward pricing mechanisms for budget risk reduction. Forward pricing mechanisms are contracts or financial instruments that obligate the publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359) |
| HB42 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; certain members of fire companies or departments. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Act to include members of any fire company or department providing fire protection services for facilities of the Virginia Natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| HB546 | Pass | Crimes by gangs. Includes within the definition of "predicate criminal act" the offenses of the taking or detaining of any person into a place for the purpose of prostitution and the receiving of money from earnings of any person engaged i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) |
| SB507 | Pass | Real Estate Appraiser Board; continuing education. Requires the Real Estate Appraiser Board to evaluate the development of a continuing education curriculum for licensees that includes the effects of the use of energy efficiency and renewable energy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) |
| HB324 | Pass | Tax-supported debt of the Commonwealth. Establishes the method of calculating the total principal amount of debt issued by any state agency, institution, board, or authority when the authority to issue the debt restricts the maximum principal amount ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| SB453 | Pass | Charter; City of Winchester. Provides for the appointment by the Common Council of a city manager, city attorney, and city clerk; eliminates the outdated offices of treasurer, civil and police justice, and judge of the corporation court; and makes cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| HB1212 | Pass | Storage of health records. Replaces obsolete terminology and cross-references related to storage of health records, currently referred to as medical records or patient records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB1146 | Pass | Charter; Town of Stephens City. Shifts the town's local elections from May to November. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| SB533 | Pass | Petroleum Products Franchise Act; divorcement clause. Revises the divorcement requirement to provide that a refiner may operate a retail outlet only if it is not less than 1.5 miles from the nearest retail outlet operated by a dealer or jobber/distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| SB254 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; personnel. Provides that a ratio of claims agents with the Department of Veterans Services to the number of veterans in the Commonwealth shall be one agent for every 23,000 veterans. Current law requires sufficient s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| HB377 | Pass | Condominium Act; sale at auction. Provides that a disposition of a unit through a sale at auction, where the resale certificate was made available as part of the auction package for prospective purchasers prior to the auction, is exempt from certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| SB238 | Pass | Telework expenses tax credit. Extends the telework expenses tax credit for employers through December 31, 2016. The credit currently expires on December 31, 2013. The bill also makes other clarifying changes concerning expenses eligible for the credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) |
| SB565 | Pass | Elections; military and overseas voters. Adopts the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act, with modifications, to promote uniformity of treatment and improved administration of election laws for military and overseas voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| HB285 | Pass | Foreign adoption; procedure to obtain Virginia certificate of birth. Provides that in certain foreign adoptions, adoptive parents seeking to obtain a Virginia certificate of birth for the adopted child may provide either certified or notarized copies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| HB941 | Pass | Issuance of fire investigation warrant; State Police arson investigators. Authorizes State Police arson investigators to obtain administrative warrants to investigate fires. Current law only authorizes fire marshals to obtain such warrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| HB1136 | Pass | Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Act; liquefied propane gas containers. Exempts qualified stationary American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) LP-Gas containers used exclusively in propane service from the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| SB103 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; Roanoke County. Authorizes Roanoke County to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed seven percent. Under its charter, Roanoke County currently is authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| SB301 | Pass | Sexual assault response teams; addition of campus police. Requires each attorney for the Commonwealth to invite any chiefs of campus police of institutions of higher education located within the jurisdiction to the annual SART meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| SB546 | Pass | Industrial development authorities. Allows Roanoke County to expand the board of its authority from seven to 10 members and the City of Norfolk to appoint 11 members with staggered terms to its authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |
| HB1290 | Pass | Right-of-way of pedestrians; posting of signs in certain localities. Adds Falls Church to the list of localities authorized to post highway signs requiring motorists to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| SB660 | Pass | Vital records; records becoming public. Provides that when 100 years have elapsed from the date of birth or 25 years from the date of death, marriage, divorce, or annulment, the records of such events shall, unless precluded from release by statute o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| HB1261 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; energy submetering. Provides that energy submetering equipment, energy allocation equipment, water and sewer submetering equipment, or a ratio utility billing system may be used in a campground if clearly stated in the rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| SB588 | Pass | Town of Onancock; ordinance providing that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on real estate. Adds the Town of Onancock to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on the real ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| HB1220 | Pass | Industrial development authorities. Allows Roanoke County to expand the board of its authority from seven to 10 members and the City of Norfolk to appoint 11 members with staggered terms to its authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB466 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising. Provides that all lawfully erected outdoor alcoholic beverage signs shall comply with the provisions of outdoor advertising in sight of highways, laws and regulations adopted by the Commonwealth Transp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| HB270 | Pass | Department for the Aging; public guardianship and conservator program. Requires the Department for the Aging to adopt, as part of its public guardianship and conservator program, person-centered practice procedures that shall (i) focus on the prefer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| SB353 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; agents of Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Authorizes the appointment of a distillery licensee that is employing traditional distilling techniques, including the use of authentic copper pot stills to blend or produce spi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) |
| SB382 | Pass | Renewable portfolio standard program; reporting. Requires each utility participating in the renewable portfolio standard program to identify, in its annual report to the State Corporation Commission, the states where the purchased or owned renewable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| SB417 | Pass | State Grievance Procedure. Eliminates certain steps in the grievance procedure by mandating that grievances following terminations due to formal discipline or unsatisfactory job performance proceed directly to a hearing. The bill also (i) allows eith...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| HB1142 | Pass | Charter; Town of Glen Lyn. Shifts the town's elections from May to November and provides for four-year terms. The bill also removes the requirement of voter approval prior to borrowing money and moves the town council's biennial organizational meetin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| SB367 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; definition of personal interest in a transaction. Amends the definition of personal interest in a transaction to clarify that such an interest does not exist where an officer or employee of a loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| HB1153 | Pass | Income tax; conformity with § 199 of the Internal Revenue Code. Allows the entire amount of the deduction allowed for domestic production activities pursuant to § 199 of the Internal Revenue Code to be deducted for Virginia income tax purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| HB1121 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; personnel. Provides that a ratio of claims agents with the Department of Veterans Services to the number of veterans in the Commonwealth shall be one agent for every 23,000 veterans. Current law requires sufficient s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| HB810 | Pass | Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability. Provides for staffing of the Commission by the Clerk's Office of the house of the General Assembly of which the Chairman is a member and the Division of Legislative Services, with technical support f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| SB375 | Pass | Student records; mental health. Clarifies that an institution of higher education may require that any accepted student provide a complete student record, including any mental health record, from not only his high school but also any other institutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| HB623 | Pass | Elections, administrative matters, and duties of the electoral board and general registrar. Provides for certain administrative efficiencies: permits general registrar to administer oath to voting equipment custodians; clarifies method to give notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
