VA Legislation | 2012 | Regular Session | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB1236	Intro Sine Die	Special license plates; U.S. Army Rangers. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to members and former members of the U.S. Army Rangers. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote
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)
HB790	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund. Renames the Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund to the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. The bill provides that 20 percent of the moneys deposited in the Fund in any fiscal year shall be used by the Dep... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Incorporated by General Laws
HB1008	Intro Sine Die	Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; rights of owners. Provides that no provision of the declaration or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall prohibit an owner or any person entitled to occupy a unit or lot from exercisin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
HB90	Intro Sine Die	Correctional enterprises; exemption from mandatory purchase provisions. Provides that any department, institution, or agency of the Commonwealth may use competitive sealed bidding in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§2.2-4300... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Incorporated by General Laws
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)
HB1040	Intro Sine Die	Special license plates commemorating America's buffalo soldiers. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates commemorating America's buffalo soldiers. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote
HB256	Intro Sine Die	HOV lanes; sunset clause. Extends the sunset clause on HOV lanes in Northern Virginia to 2013 and in Hampton Roads to 2017. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote
HB741	Intro Sine Die	Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission; powers. Authorizes the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review the detailed proposal for certain qualifying transportation facilities under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
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)
HB1256	Intro Sine Die	Condominium Act; Property Owners' Association Act; lien for assessments; priority. Provides that such portion of the unpaid assessments due and owing the association for a period not to exceed three years that is attributable to providing the mainten... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 with substitute in General Laws by voice vote
HB219	Intro Sine Die	Unemployment benefits; volunteer service requirement; study; report. Provides that eligibility for unemployment benefits is contingent upon the claimant's performance of at least 24 hours per week of volunteer service with a nonprofit charitable orga... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB1254	Intro Sine Die	Unemployment benefits for symphony orchestra performers. Provides that an individual is not eligible for unemployment benefits based on services consisting of performing or training with a symphony orchestra. The provision applies to weeks of unemplo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB835	Intro Sine Die	Unemployment compensation; shared work programs. Establishes a shared work program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 with amendment(s) in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB788	Intro Sine Die	Department of General Services; Green Public Buildings Act. Requires public bodies entering the design phase for construction of a new building greater than 7,500 gross square feet in size, or renovating such a building where the cost of renovation e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Incorporated by General Laws
HB604	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]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote
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
HB651	Intro Sine Die	Special license plates; I SUPPORT ANIMAL RESCUE. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of Homeless Animal Rescue Team and its programs of animal rescue. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote
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)
HB815	Intro Sine Die	University-related foundation funds; University of Virginia; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if the University of Virginia uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the University in relation t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
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
HB705	Intro Sine Die	Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service or test, or related procedure, that is administered or cond... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB816	Intro Sine Die	University-related foundation funds; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if a Virginia college or university uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the college or university in relation to the e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
HB817	Intro Sine Die	Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a Virginia college or university may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
HB818	Intro Sine Die	Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that the University of Virginia may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by the Un... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-09 House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
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)
HB474	Intro Sine Die	Higher education; employee salaries. Provides that the governing bodies of the public institutions of higher education shall not pay an employee a salary from state funds that is greater than 125 percent of the salary of the Governor of the Commonwea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote
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)
HB342	Intro Sine Die	Designation of a person authorized to kill deer or bear damaging property. Permits a landowner or lessee whose property may be damaged by deer or bear to request that another person or persons be designated to kill such animals upon any written autho... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 House: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
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)
HB1207	Intro Sine Die	Right of students to assert conscientious objection to any requirement of an academic degree program in an institution of higher education; liability. Provides that no public or private institution of higher learning may penalize or deny academic cre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 House: Continued to 2013 in Education by voice vote
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
HB1225	Intro Sine Die	Camping grounds; competition with private businesses. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, on or before March 1 of each year, to set its camping ground fees at or above the mean fee charged for the same service by private camping g... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 House: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
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)
HB1180	Intro Sine Die	Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $300 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wastewater treatment facilities to comply... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote
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)
HB814	Intro Sine Die	Virginia Public Health Foundation; established. Creates the Virginia Public Health Foundation in order to (i) support the development and implementation of innovative activities and creative solutions for the prevention of disease and the promotion o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote
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)
HB400	Intro Sine Die	Local school boards; policies permitting parents to observe children. Requires local school boards to adopt and implement policies that would ensure parents may observe in the child's classroom. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-02-08 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N)