| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Poker; definition of illegal gambling and charitable gaming; poker games authorized; regulation of poker tournaments. Provides that poker is a game of skill and therefore not illegal gambling. The bill also allows a qualified organization to conduct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; fingerprint submission upon application. Removes the provision allowing localities to require a person to submit to fingerprinting upon application for a concealed handgun permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Asbestos workers; violations; penalties. Requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to maintain a registry of employee complaints alleging the existence or imminent threat of an asbestos NESHAP violation. The measure prohibits employers from dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credit; application for credits prior to any donation. Provides that beginning January 1, 2013, a donor would be given the option to apply to the Department of Taxation for land preservation tax credits prior to making any donat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Immigration query at arrest or during detention. Provides that when a law-enforcement officer lawfully detains a person following a lawful stop, detention, or arrest of such person for a suspected criminal offense or traffic infraction or upon reason...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Group health insurance; small employers. Provides that a small employer, for purposes of small group coverage under a health insurance plan or policy, is one who employs between two and 50 employees who are covered under a group health plan offered b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that roll-back taxes shall not apply to real property that loses its designation as devoted to agricultural or horticultural use because of excavation of sand or gravel on it, provided that such propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of its operating budget allocated to instructional spending. The Board must report annually to the House ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Education |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | State song. Designates "Shenandoah" as the official state song. The bill also contains a technical amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Combined heat and power facilities; incentives. Provides that combined heat and power facilities that meet the output and efficiency qualifications for the federal combined heat and power tax credit are eligible for a performance incentive of 200 bas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder if the bid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB700 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes against incapacitated or elder adults; penalty. Provides that any person who commits an offense set forth in Chapter 4 (crimes against the person), Chapter 5 (crimes against property), or Chapter 6 (crimes involving fraud) of Title 18.2, knowi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; volunteer service requirement. 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 organization. This ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 1-N) |
| HB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert, or take control...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Castle doctrine. Encodes 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 act against him or another person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Tangible personal property tax relief. Requires that beginning with tax year 2013 the reimbursement paid by the Commonwealth to localities for providing tangible personal property tax relief would be apportioned approximately in an equal dollar amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Deferred disposition in a criminal case. Provides that except as otherwise provided in law, a trial court presiding in a criminal case shall, unless all parties agree to a waiver of the requirement, announce a judgment of, or enter an order of, conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoration of parental rights. Creates a procedure for restoring the parental rights to a child's parent whose rights as to that child had previously been terminated, provided certain conditions exist. The petition to restore a parent's rights may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Juveniles; trial as adults. Allows prosecutors the discretion to have juveniles charged with violations of certain gang offenses and repeat violations of certain drug offenses to be transferred to the circuit court for trial as an adult. The bill als...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans. Provides that an electric utility's integrated resource plan should identify a portfolio of electric generation supply resources that is most likely to provide the electric generation supply needed to me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity for persons acting in defense of persons. Provides civil immunity for an occupant of a dwelling who injures or kills another while engaged in the defense of his dwelling when (i) the other person has unlawfully entered the dwelling and commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Victims of unlawful filming; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action for victims of unlawful filming, videotaping, or photographing for which a victim may be awarded $150,000 per offense or actual damages sustained, whichever is greater, toget...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB526 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; permissive contract provisions for localities; resident employment. Authorizes any locality to include in its contracts a provision requiring the contractor to ensure that a specified percentage, not to exceed 20 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB290 | Intro
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 also has technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Provides for a Class 1 misdemeanor for the assault followed by a battery through the application of physical force against a member of a family or household member. The bill addresses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Proffered conditions. Provides that a landowner subject to certain proffered conditions may apply to the governing body for amendments to or variations of such proffered conditions, provided only that written notice of such application be provided in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (0-Y 0-N) |
| HB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; composition of Board of Directors; powers. Equalizes board representation among the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, and Henrico County. The bill also requires that certain actions of the Authority related to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Continued to 2013 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB156 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption assistance. Increases the age at which adoption assistance for children with special needs terminates from 18 years to 21 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Littering; penalties. Defines littering and provides for penalties for littering, based on the gravity of the offense, and subsequent littering offenses. The bill allows counties, cities, and towns to adopt litter control ordinances pursuant to, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (0-Y 0-N) |
| HB769 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; party identification on ballots; local elections. Extends to local elections the requirement that ballots identify the nominating political party for party candidates and identify independent candidates as such. Currently, this requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 12-N) |
| HB1275 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; demonstrated competency by applicants. Specifies that an applicant for a concealed handgun permit must demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing a National Rifle Association handgun safety or training course. Curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Stricken from docket by Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB372 | Intro
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers; records required to be maintained; digital images. Requires pawnbrokers to take a digital image of (i) the person involved in the transaction, (ii) the form of identification used by the person involved in the transaction, and (iii) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Tabled in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily employed teachers. Prohibits a school board from hiring temporarily employed teachers (substitutes) in the core subjects of English, mathematics, science, and history and social studies at the middle and high school levels in a manner th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Kinesiotherapists; licensure required. Requires the Board of Medicine to license and regulate kinesiotherapists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (4-Y 11-N) |
| HB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers and Precious Metals Dealers; records required to be maintained; electronic reports. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers to take a photograph or digital image of (i) the person pawning or pledging or selling an article, precio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Tabled in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB742 | Intro
Sine Die | Farm use vehicles; distance limit. Increases the maximum distance that an unregistered farm use vehicle may be driven on a highway to obtain agricultural or horticultural supplies from 30 to 200 miles and to transport farm produce or livestock from 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Drivers to exercise due care. Requires drivers to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a pedestrian or the operator of a human-powered vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar; allows local school boards to set. Allows local school boards to determine the opening date of the school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; closed-circuit cameras. Prohibits the use of closed-circuit cameras for the purpose of monitoring student conduct within the school, unless necessary to protect the physical safety and security of the students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid Managed Care Ombudsman. Establishes the Office of the Medicaid Managed Care Ombudsman within the Department of Medical Assistance Services to promote and protect the interests of covered persons under managed care programs of the Department....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Informed consent; ultrasound. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion, at the appointment for the abortion procedure every pregnant female shall undergo ultrasound imaging to determine gestation age and shall be given the opp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of locksmiths. Transfers the regulatory authority for the licensing of locksmith businesses and those who perform locksmith services from the Department of Criminal Justice Services to the Department of Professional and Occupational Regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB560 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses. Prohibits issuance of driver's licenses to any person less than 21 years old unless he is either a high school graduate or has earned a GED.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB509 | Intro
Sine Die | State Water Control Board regulations. Requires that state water quality laws be no more restrictive than federal requirements. Currently, Virginia law allows more stringent regulations than those adopted by the federal government, so long as the rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; physical activity requirement. Requires at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day during the regular school year for students in grades K through 12. This requirement would become effective beginning with the 2014-2015 school y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; veterans. Allows military veterans to have their veteran status indicated on their driver's licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB782 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical assistance; coverage for certain children and pregnant women. Provides that the Board of Medical Assistance Services shall include a provision in the state plan for medical assistance services for medical assistance for otherwise eligible pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; veterans. Allows military veterans to have their veteran status indicated on their driver's licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote |
