| SB638 | Pass | Cemeteries; perpetual care trust fund. Clarifies that no portion of the perpetual care trust fund shall be used to pay any personal obligation or debt of any officer or owner of the cemetery or any tax obligation incurred by the cemetery or for any p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| SB369 | Pass | Fire insurance; earthquake coverage notice. Requires fire insurance policies or contracts that exclude coverage for earthquake damage to provide a written notice that (i) conspicuously states that earthquake coverage may be excluded and (ii) if such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| HB551 | 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 (CHAP0327) |
| SB362 | Pass | Critical incident stress management teams; privileged information. Provides that information communicated to critical incident stress management team members by public safety personnel who are the subjects of peer support services shall not be disclo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| SB15 | Pass | Town of Ashland; ordinance requiring the cutting of grass. Adds the Town of Ashland to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance for the cutting of grass and weeds on property, whether vacant or occupied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311) |
| HB553 | Pass | Privately owned airports; duty of care of landowners. Limits the liability of owners of private, unlicensed airports that are not open to the public and for use of which no fee is charged to gross negligence or willful or malicious failure to guard o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| HB408 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for the elderly and disabled. Provides more flexibility to localities in determining the income and financial worth of the elderly and disabled, for those localities that choose to have caps on income and financial worth i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| HB332 | Pass | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; general provisions applicable to penalties. Provides that the Act's requirements for filing timely and complete statements and reports remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any pending investigation into act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| HB879 | Pass | Income tax; subtraction for certain death benefit payments. Clarifies that the current subtraction applies only to death benefit payments (i) paid to a beneficiary that are pursuant to an annuity contract between an annuitant and an insurance company...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| SB528 | Pass | Special hunting and fishing license for disabled veterans. Allows a veteran who is permanently disabled due to a service-connected disability to obtain at no cost a combined hunting and freshwater fishing lifetime license or a separate hunting or fre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) |
| HB735 | Pass | Community-based continuing care providers. Requires providers of community-based continuing care (CBCC) to be registered with the State Corporation Commission as a continuing care provider and file a statement regarding the provider's CBCC program. C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| SB332 | Pass | Charter; Town of Troutdale. Provides for four-year terms for council members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
| HB842 | Pass | Applications for local business license or land use authorization; conditions. Permits localities to condition issuance of a local business license or land use authorization on payment of certain delinquent taxes, fees, or other charges owed by the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| HB133 | Pass | Insurance information; posting on insurer's website. Authorizes any property and casualty insurer to post property and casualty insurance forms and endorsements on the insurer's publicly available website in lieu of any other method of delivery upon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| HB906 | Pass | Charter; Town of Leesburg. Changes the town's municipal elections from May to November and provides that all municipal elections for mayor and town council are nonpartisan. This bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| HB535 | Pass | Certificate of public need; nursing home beds. Repeals requirements relating to relocation of certain nursing home beds and certificates of public need for certain nursing home beds. The bill requires the Department of Health, in consultation with st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| HB1217 | Pass | Sergeant David Lambert Highway; Sergeant Brandon Asbury Highway. Designates a portion of Virginia Route 19 the “Sergeant Brandon Asbury Highway” and all of Virginia Route 609 in Tazewell County the “Sergeant David Lambert Highway.&#...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB939 | Pass | Department of Accounts; recovery of erroneous or improper payments to state employee. Provides that when a state officer or employee receives compensation or payments in error such officer or employee will be liable for repayment unless the state off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| HB1192 | Pass | Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; sunset date. Extends from January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2017, the sunset date for the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| HB301 | Pass | Cool-season lawn and turf seed. Permits the sale of cool-season lawn and turf seed up to 15 months after the completion of the required germination test. Current law limits the sale of seed in general to the period within nine months of the completio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297) |
| SB259 | Pass | Human trafficking; information for public schools. Requires the Board of Education, with assistance from the Department of Social Services, to provide awareness and training materials for local school division staff on human trafficking, including st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317) |
| SB149 | Pass | Charter; Town of Bluefield. Shifts town elections from May to November and grants the mayor full voting privileges. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| SB142 | Pass | Charter; Town of Pocahontas. Shifts the town's elections from May to November, shifts the date that elected officials enter into their duties from July 1 to January 1, and extends the terms of the mayor and councilmen serving at the time of the date ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| SB86 | Pass | Solicitation of contributions; registration of charitable organizations. Provides that any charitable organization whose annual gross revenue would qualify it to file Form 990-N with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may submit a balance sheet and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| SB308 | Pass | Applications for local business license or land use authorization; conditions. Permits localities to condition issuance of a local business license or land use authorization on payment of certain delinquent taxes, fees, or other charges owed by the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| SB54 | Pass | Unemployment benefits; minimum earnings requirement. Postpones the scheduled increase, from $2,700 to $3,000, in the minimum amount of wages an employee must have earned in the two highest earnings quarters of his base period in order to be eligible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) |
| HB1144 | Pass | Board for Contractors; waiver of license requirement for Habitat for Humanity. Adds the rehabilitation of single-family dwellings by Habitat for Humanity for which the Board for Contractors may waive the requirement for licensure. Currently, the auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB209 | Pass | Insurance agents; continuing education. Streamlines the continuing education process for insurance agents. The measure provides a producer a period of time during which he has the opportunity to correct errors and effect compliance with continuing ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| HB288 | Pass | Carrying weapons into courthouses; exception. Provides an exception from the prohibition against carrying a weapon into courthouses in the Commonwealth for city and county treasurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| HB476 | Pass | Mandatory outpatient treatment hearing prior to release from commitment. Provides that prior to the release of a person who has been involuntarily admitted or who has been the subject of a temporary detention order and chose to voluntarily admit hims...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| HB294 | Pass | Public libraries; qualifications of librarian; use of state funds. Increases from 13,000 to 15,000 the population of any locality that must meet the qualifications established by the State Library Board in order to use state funds to pay for the pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| SB248 | Pass | Reporting and paying unemployment insurance taxes; employers of domestic service individuals. Allows all employers of domestic service individuals in the private home of the employer to pay unemployment taxes and file reports annually. Currently, suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| SB527 | Pass | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference in state employment for members of the Virginia National Guard. Establishes a preference in state hiring for members of the Virginia National Guard. Under the bill, when a member of the Virginia National Guar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| SB133 | 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] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279) |
| HB329 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemptions. Exempts personal information systems maintained by auditors appointed by the local governing body of any county, city, or town or a school board that deals with local investigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| SB563 | Pass | Concealed handgun permits; application procedures. Restricts the clerk and the circuit court from requesting or requiring any information from an applicant other than that which is allowed on the concealed handgun permit application and provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| SB562 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; Campbell County. Adds Campbell County to the list of counties authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| SB427 | Pass | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; internal service funds. Establishes the Information Technology and Management Internal Service Fund for the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The newly established fund will replace the three interna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| SB325 | Pass | Asset forfeitures. Consolidates certain forfeiture provisions found in two chapters in Title 19.2 and found in Title 4.1 and eliminates redundancies. The bill also provides that, unless otherwise provided by law, forfeitures are to be governed by Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0283) |
| HB127 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance policies; forms and endorsements. Requires property and casualty insurance policies to contain a list of all policy forms and endorsements applicable to that policy, which shall display the respective form numbers and,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| SB123 | Pass | Environmental covenants. Limits the use of covenants under the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act to those situations in which all parties agree to use such a covenant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278) |
| HB384 | Pass | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference in state employment for members of the Virginia National Guard. Establishes a preference in state hiring for members of the Virginia National Guard. Under the bill, when a member of the Virginia National Guar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| HB743 | Pass | Personal property tax; farm vehicles. Allows a county, city, or town to exempt, partially exempt, or set a lower tax rate for motor vehicles used exclusively for farming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| HB1102 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; credits for investments. Allows any investor-owned electric utility that participates in the renewable energy portfolio standard program to meet up to 20 percent of an RPS Goal through certificates evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| SB534 | Pass | Tangible personal property; volunteer deputy sheriffs. Allows motor vehicles owned by volunteer deputy sheriffs to be classified as a separate class of tangible personal property for local taxation purposes. The classification currently includes moto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| SB155 | Pass | Repairable vehicles. Defines “repairable vehicle” and exempts repairable vehicles from Chapter 16 of Title 46.2 (Salvage, Nonrepairable, and Rebuilt Vehicles).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (effective 7/1/12) |
| SB271 | Pass | Virginia Center for School Safety; antibullying training. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety to provide training on antibullying tactics to public school personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281) |
| SB454 | Pass | Handicapped parking. Allows localities by ordinance to grant four hours free parking to vehicles exhibiting disabled parking indicia in some places while not granting such free parking in other places.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| HB253 | Pass | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference for veterans; surviving spouses and children. Adds the surviving spouse or child of a veteran killed in the line of duty to the preference in state employment for veterans. The bill defines child to mean a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| HB298 | Pass | Machinery and tools tax; car washing businesses. Classifies machinery and tools used to clean motor vehicles by a motor vehicle cleaning business as a separate class of property for tax rate purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
