| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption; construction materials. Establishes a two-year sales tax moratorium for construction materials and supplies purchased by licensed contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; alcohol; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person who is under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs to carry a loaded firearm on or about his person in a public place and that a person found guilty is ineligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | On-road clean screen program; vehicle emissions inspection. Includes the on-road clean screen program and on-road emissions inspections as comparable equipment and devices to satisfy emissions inspections in the Commonwealth. The bill contains techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms transfers; penalties. Creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a person who is not a licensed dealer to sell, rent, trade, or transfer a firearm to any other person who is not a licensed dealer. The bill also creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for an interpreter for a non-English-speaking defendant shall be borne by the defendant if he is convicted of the criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Kenneth and Leslie VanAuken. Provides relief in the amount of $6,476 to Kenneth and Leslie VanAuken, who incurred rent, utility, and other expenses on behalf of a member of their household who was wrongly accused of abusing another member of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB833 | Intro
Sine Die | State song. Designates "At Home in Virginia" by Evi Burgin as the state song of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Town of St. Paul; authority to prohibit the use of compression release engine brakes. Authorizes the Town of St. Paul to adopt an ordinance prohibiting or regulating the use of compression release engine brakes within the jurisdiction of the Town. An...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB666 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure requirements. Requires the disclosure of any state tax credit on income taxes received by a member, a member of his immediate family, or a person with whom the member had a close financial assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Provides that the health insurance credit currently being provided to retired teachers would also be provided to all retired employees of the local school division at the option of the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB691 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure requirements. Requires a member to file an addendum to his statement of economic interests within 30 days of receiving a gift with a value of $1,000 or more. The requirement does not apply to gi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate and House Committees on Standards of Conduct. Requires each house to establish a Committee on Standards of Conduct and expands the Committee from three to five members to include a retired justice or judge and an attorney experienced in ethics...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; method of nominating party candidates. Provides that the duly constituted authorities of the political party shall determine the method of nominating party candidates and deletes provisions giving incumbent officeholders the power in some ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N 1-A) |
| HB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Public libraries; library boards; exceptions. Adds the County of Middlesex to the localities that are not required to have public library boards. As a result, the public library can be operated as a department of local government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Discharge from a training center; consent of parent, guardian, or responsible person required. Provides that a consumer in a training center shall only be discharged upon consent of the consumer or, if the consumer lacks capacity to consent, upon the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB510 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections and ballots. Allows write-in votes in primary elections. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. The bill requires the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB390 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; creation of new regulatory program; study by the Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation. Provides that no bill that would result in the creation of a new regulatory program or a change in the level of regulation of a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Health Care Compact established. Creates the Interstate Health Care Compact to (i) secure the right of the member states to regulate health care in their respective states pursuant to the compact and to suspend the operation of any confli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Radiology benefits managers. Requires that any decision by a radiology benefits manager to deny a treating physician's order or recommendation for a diagnostic radiology test be made by a physician. An authorization to perform a diagnostic radiology ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Continued to 2013 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers retirement; early retirement. Requires that all employers electing to provide benefits equivalent to the State Police Officers' Retirement System for employees in hazardous duty positions consider employees eligible for full ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB291 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban development areas. Makes incorporation of urban development areas optional rather than mandatory. Any locality that has previously adopted urban development areas may reconsider such action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Local Government |
| HB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of dead bodies; how expenses paid. Requires court authorization for a county or city to pay reasonable expenses for the disposition of a dead body in all cases in which a dead body is unclaimed or is claimed by a claimant who is unable to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Continued to 2013 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure requirements. Requires prompt disclosure of gifts of travel with a value greater than $500.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Four-for-Life; substantive review. Requires that a reallocation of moneys set aside from the Four-for-Life fees be made pursuant to legislation that has been reviewed by the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee and the Senate Committee on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; solicitation of absentee ballot applications or ballots. Makes it unlawful for anyone to solicit, in person, absentee ballot applications or ballots from individuals in any hospital, nursing home, or assisted living facility. The prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Code Commission; public comment on revision, repeal, and recodification of Code sections. Requires the Virginia Code Commission to solicit public comment annually concerning titles and sections of the Code of Virginia that should be reviewed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification requirements; absentee voting eligibility and procedures. Revises the list of items that a voter may show to prove identification at the polls. The bill adds to the list several items now allowed to prove the identity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; membership. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement benefits unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Rape by coercion. Provides that any person who has sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, accomplished against the complaining witness's will by coercion, is guilty of rape. Currently such an offense must be accomplished by force, threat, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil commitment of sexually violent predators. Removes current language citing the Static-99 and score of "5" as the factor that determines whether violent sex offenders who are being released from prison must be referred for further review for poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearings in the Supreme Court of Virginia; Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission. Clarifies that the hearings allowed under the Constitution related to complaints filed by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission are to be evidentiary hearings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB572 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for local businesses. Allows a locality to give a procurement preference to persons, firms, or corporations having principal places of business in the locality if such bidder's bid is within five percent of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly and incapacitated; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly exploits the impaired mental or physical capacity of an incapacitated adult or an adult (defined in the section as 60 years old or older) by decepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Neighborhood assistance tax credits. Provides that an auxiliary, subsidiary, or subordinate of a §501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) nonprofit is a neighborhood organization that may submit a proposal for an allocation of neighborhood assistance tax credits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; officers processing clandestine drug laboratories. Establishes a presumption that any respiratory disease or pancreatic, prostate, rectal, throat, ovarian, or breast cancer causing the death of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; resident employment and apprenticeship participation; required contract provisions. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract of more than $100,000 that involves the performance of work within the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 2-N) |
| HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Bank franchise tax; apportionment. Provides that the bank franchise tax for banks operating in multiple states shall be apportioned according to the proportion of the bank's deposits held in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB882 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults; barrier crimes; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast horse racing; allocations. Authorizes wagering on historical horse racing. The bill also allocates the proceeds from such racing with 50 percent of the proceeds distributed to the Commonwealth Transportation Trus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB925 | Intro
Sine Die | Castle doctrine; self-defense and defense of others. Codifies 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; urinating in public. Creates the crime of urinating in public, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on administrative actions relating to Firearms Act. Establishes legislative preemption of any administrative action taken by an administrative body that has the direct or indirect effect of governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic filing of search warrant affidavits. Allows for the electronic filing of search warrant affidavits by use of portable document format (PDF) in addition to the currently authorized electronic facsimile submission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Confederate Memorial Chapel; state war memorial. Provides for the Governor to designate the Confederate Memorial Chapel an official state war memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Public employment; nondiscrimination. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on sexual orientation. The bill defines "sexual orientation" as a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, or gender ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by for the day in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Power of attorney; embezzlement by agent; penalty. Emphasizes that an agent who violates the Uniform Power of Attorney Act with the intent to defraud the principal and who thereby converts funds or other property is guilty of embezzlement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information checks upon handgun purchases; dissemination of information. The bill limits the requirement for a Virginia-specific criminal history record information check to the purchase of handguns. The bill requires the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawyers; client accounts. Repeals the provision prohibiting the Supreme Court of Virginia from adopting a disciplinary rule requiring that lawyers deposit client funds in an interest-bearing account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (8-Y 9-N) |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for local products and firms; applicability. Authorizes localities to apply a preference for bidders or offerors located in the locality of up to 10 percent, provided (i) for competitive sealed bidding the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
