| HB217 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; not applicable to certain records of the Department of Social Services. Provides that the provisions of the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act do not apply to persona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) |
| SB42 | Pass | City of Richmond tax amnesty program. Expands the scope of the City of Richmond's tax amnesty program to include all local taxes and accrued interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0254) |
| SB87 | Pass | Charter; City of Falls Church. Shifts elections for city council from May to November. Council members shall have their four-year terms shortened by six months during the transition. The bill also provides that candidates shall be nominated only by p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255) |
| HB196 | Pass | Haul seine nets. Requires a haul seine net that is longer than 1,000 yards and is anchored at one end to the shore and the other end mechanically drawn, without the aid of a boat or vessel, to have up to 400 feet of two-and one-half inch mesh.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0228) |
| HB1091 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; unlawful possession. Clarifies that ABC underage buyers acting for law enforcement may purchase alcohol in the performance of their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| HB555 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage license for certain motor sports facilities. Creates an annual mixed beverage motor sports facility license for persons operating concessions at an outdoor motor sports facility that hosts a NASCAR national ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0237) |
| HB293 | Pass | Dam safety; consultation with Department of Emergency Management. Requires the Soil and Water Conservation Board to consult with the Department of Emergency Management in implementing the dam safety program and makes clarifying amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| HB537 | Pass | Dangerous dog registry. Changes the procedure by which dangerous dogs are registered in Virginia. The bill requires an animal control officer, instead of the State Veterinarian, to post dangerous dog registration information on the registry website. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236) |
| HB557 | Pass | Virginia Housing Development Authority; powers. Authorizes the Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA) to provide the requisite indemnifications for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) as well as for any other transactions re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0238) |
| SB394 | Pass | Local cigarette tax stamps. Requires that beginning January 1, 2013, any local tax stamp or meter impression required to be used to evidence payment of the local cigarette tax shall be of the same stamp technology that is used or required by the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| HB1244 | Pass | Arrest, detention, admission to bail of adult charged when a juvenile. Authorizes an adult who is taken into custody pursuant to a warrant or detention order alleging a delinquent act committed when the adult was a juvenile to be released by a magis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0253) |
| HJR528 | Pass | Commending Carole Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ528ER) |
| HR72 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Kenneth Vincent Geroe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR72ER) |
| HJR49 | Pass | Governor's Executive Reorganization Plan. Sets out the Governor's executive reorganization plan dated November 25, 2011, for approval by each house of the General Assembly and subject to the enactment of a bill by the 2012 Session of the General Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ49ER) |
| HJR529 | Pass | Commending Jack Gates III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ529ER) |
| HR73 | Pass | Commending the Battlefield High School marching band.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR73ER) |
| HR74 | Pass | Commending Ken Sorenson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR74ER) |
| HJR65 | Pass | Recognizing the African American representatives to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867-1868 and members elected to the Virginia General Assembly during Reconstruction. Recognizes and celebrates the outstanding service of the African Ameri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ65ER) |
| HR75 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Amarria Denise Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR75ER) |
| HR76 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Anthony Joseph Basile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR76ER) |
| HR71 | Pass | Commending Dr. William M. Kelso.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR71ER) |
| HR77 | Pass | Commending the Reverend Dr. A. Lincoln James, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR77ER) |
| HR70 | Pass | Commemorating the life and legacy of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR70ER) |
| HR69 | Pass | Commending Carolyn Gamble.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR69ER) |
| HR68 | Pass | Commending Simple Changes, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR68ER) |
| HR67 | Pass | Celebrating the life of John Watts Bowditch.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House (HR67ER) |
| HJR518 | Pass | Commemorating the life of Oscar Scott Woody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ518ER) |
| HJR522 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ522ER) |
| SB401 | Engross
Sine Die | Local taxes; interest on refunds and delinquent taxes. Authorizes localities not to pay interest on the refund of local taxes when the refund is due to errors made by the taxpayer. This bill has technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR113 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Elmon T. Gray.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| HB1037 | Pass | Methamphetamine site cleanup costs ordered paid by defendant. Provides that if property owned by a person convicted of manufacture of methamphetamine is damaged, destroyed, or otherwise rendered unusable as a result of such methamphetamine manufactur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| SB348 | Engross
Sine Die | Agency Effectiveness Review Commission. Establishes the Agency Effectiveness Review Commission to review state agencies on a five-year cycle and advise the General Assembly on the efficiency and effectiveness of such agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB317 | Engross
Sine Die | Drug Treatment Courts. Provides for the establishment of drug treatment courts in the City of Danville and the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Goochland, Montgomery, Russell, and Washington, and a drug treatment court in the County of Wise that shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB805 | Pass | Emissions inspections. Privatizes services now provided by the Department of Environmental Quality related to vehicle emissions inspections. The bill also updates authorized testing equipment and allows use of wireless systems and on-road emissions t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216) |
| SB644 | Engross
Sine Die | Foreclosure counseling pilot program. Directs the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a pilot program for Prince William County and the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park under which qualified employees of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB345 | Engross
Sine Die | Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty. Raises the penalty for a person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause another to actively participate in or become a member of what he knows to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB4 | Engross
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 an overt a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB122 | Pass | Receivership of derelict and blighted buildings. Authorizes a locality to serve as a receiver, appointed by the circuit court, to repair blighted and derelict buildings. Buildings must previously have been determined to be blighted under current spot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| SB127 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex offender registry; juvenile registration. Requires registration on the sex offender registry for juveniles who were over the age of 13 at the time of the offense who were adjudicated delinquent on or after July 1, 2012, of rape, forcible sodomy, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB587 | Engross
Sine Die | Special license plates; Virginia's Eastern Shore. Changes the special license plates promoting tourism on Virginia's Eastern Shore from nonrevenue sharing to revenue sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB130 | Engross
Sine Die | Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of $1 million in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB446 | Engross
Sine Die | Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in each year ending in one for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB346 | Pass | Practice of nurse practitioners; patient care teams. Amends provisions governing the practice of nurse practitioners. The bill provides that nurse practitioners shall only practice as part of a patient care team and shall maintain appropriate collabo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0213) |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Tramadol added to list of Schedule IV controlled substances. Adds tramadol, an opiate painkiller, to the list of Schedule IV controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure; use of false records, documents, or statements. Provides that any person who knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false or fraudulent record, document, or statement in support of any foreclosure shall be liable to the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB623 | Engross
Sine Die | Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Requires the governing board of each four-year public institution of higher education to establish a written memorandum of understanding with their local community services board or behavioral h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB552 | Engross
Sine Die | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families assistance shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB255 | Engross
Sine Die | Thomas Nelson Community College; pilot program for high school seniors. Requires Thomas Nelson Community College to create a pilot program to allow certain high school seniors to enroll in Thomas Nelson Community College full-time. Tuition and fees w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB467 | Engross
Sine Die | Smoking; prohibition on the grounds of public elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools. Expands the prohibition on smoking in the interior of public elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools to include the grounds of such schools. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB468 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking in public buildings prohibited; penalty. Prohibits smoking in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof, and authorizes each locality to enact ordinances prohibiting smoking in any b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House General Laws Committee |
