| SB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Machinery and Tools Investment Grant Program. Creates a grant program that would allow a person to apply for a grant for machinery and tools in service less than two years equal to the amount of local machinery and tools taxes paid. The amount of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center; King College. Adds King College to the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees and allows graduate degree instructional programs in education to be provided with King College at the Cen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB541 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles. Makes numerous comprehensive DMV service and safety changes. The bill also makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0215) |
| SB620 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal government contractor grant program. Establishes a federal government contractor grant fund and program beginning January 1, 2013, for federal contractors with at least 250 full-time employees that subcontract with small or minority-owned, ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB262 | Engross
Sine Die | Microenterprise investment grant program. Creates a grant program for individuals who make a qualified investment in a microenterprise. The amount of the credit shall be 25 percent of an investment in a green business microenterprise or a microenterp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Provisional driver's license holders. Changes from a secondary offense to a primary offense use of a cell phone by a provisional driver's license holder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB876 | Pass | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax. Transfers the administration and collection of the motor vehicle fuels sales tax imposed in certain transportation districts from the Department of Taxation to the Department of Motor Vehicles, effective July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0217) |
| HB117 | 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
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB205 | Engross
Sine Die | Collection of forensic evidence; consent. Allows the collection of forensic evidence in cases of suspected sexual assault where the alleged victim may not be legally capable of giving consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Text messaging and emailing while driving; penalty. Allows police officers to issue citations to violators who text message or email while operating a moving motor vehicle. Currently, police officers must have cause to stop or arrest a driver for som...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB250 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Minority Business Enterprise; small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses; enhancement or remedial measures. Authorizes the Department of Minority Business Enterprise to investigate complaints alleging that a business certified as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR233 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending Rule 16 of House Joint Resolution No. 5, relating to the first conference on revenue bills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB236 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; multiple project contracts for architectural or professional engineering services relating to construction. Raises, for certain local public bodies, the maximum cost of all projects in one contract term of a multiple ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB503 | Pass | Motor vehicle fuels sales tax. Transfers the administration and collection of the motor vehicle fuels sales tax imposed in certain transportation districts from the Department of Taxation to the Department of Motor Vehicles, effective July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225) |
| SB508 | Engross
Sine Die | In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard residing in Virginia who is not eligible for in-state tuition shall be eligible for a grant for an amount up to the difference between ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB382 | Pass | Transfer of assistive technology devices by a school division. Provides that a school division may transfer assistive technology devices purchased by the division for a child with a disability to (i) a different school division to which the child tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0214) |
| HB1124 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB486 | Engross
Sine Die | Harassment by computer by prisoners; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a prisoner or a person acting on behalf of a prisoner to use a computer, computer network, or social networking site to harass, intimidate, or threaten a crime victim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB188 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall implement a system to accept absentee ballot applications electronically. Currently, an applicant may request and receive, but...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB261 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Preschool Initiative Local Grant Program. Creates a grant program to be administered by the Virginia Department of Education to improve training for preschool educators; create, outfit, or expand preschool classrooms; implement the Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB170 | Pass | Charter; City of Fairfax. Provides that council vacancies shall be filled in accordance with general law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Following too closely. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB464 | Engross
Sine Die | Hunting on Sundays. Allows the hunting of wild birds or wild animals including nuisance species on Sundays (i) by a landowner or the landowner's immediate family on his property or by any person on private property with the written permission of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB447 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middleburg. Empowers the town council to designate architectural control districts, specifying the issues of importance that the council must address through the design standards it adopts for each district. The amendments would requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224) |
| SB125 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act. Allows a political subdivision with employees eligible for coverage under the Line of Duty Act to make an irrevocable election, on or before July 1, 2013, to self-fund the benefits available under the Line of Duty Act. The bill cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; fiscal impact analysis of employer contribution rates. Requires the Board of the Virginia Retirement System to conduct a fiscal impact analysis whenever the appropriation for employer contribution rates included in the bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential primary; uncommitted option. Allows a voter in a presidential primary to vote "uncommitted" where such vote indicates that the voter has no preference among the candidates on the ballot and does not want to commit delegates to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB136 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as police chief in certain towns. Provides that a retiree receiving retirement benefits may be hired as a police chief in any town with a population less than 10,000 without interruption of his retirement be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB111 | Engross
Sine Die | Sanctions with Unified Rapid Enforcement (SURE) probation program created. Creates a specialized probation program available to offenders who are on probation pursuant to a suspended sentence and have not been convicted of a violent felony. The progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Elmon Taylor Gray, former member of the Senate of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB85 | Engross
Sine Die | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Broadens eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program by including students whose Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2017. The bill would require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB84 | Engross
Sine Die | Foster care; independent living services. Extends the time during which a person who was in foster care on his eighteenth birthday and who has not reached the age of 21 years may request restoration of independent living services from 60 days to 180 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB250 | Pass | Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires the Department of Education to include in the annual School Performance Report Card for school divisions the percentage of each division's annual operating budget allocated to instructiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0212) |
| SB104 | Engross
Sine Die | Higher education; partial tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty. Requires public institutions of higher education to grant a 50 percent tuition waiver to dependent students of current full-time faculty members who have been employed full t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. This is a recommendation of the Judicial Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB482 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspectors; examination; initial asbestos worker license applicants. Provides for the Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspectors to require initial applicants for an asbestos worker license t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB420 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex Offender Registry; listing of laws. Requires the Attorney General to annually prepare a listing of laws containing requirements and prohibitions affecting persons who must register as sex offenders and to communicate the list to the Departments o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB359 | Engross
Sine Die | Trap, Neuter, and Return Programs. Permits a pound, animal shelter, or humane society to operate a program of trapping, vaccinating, and sterilizing feral cats before returning them to the sites where they were trapped. The bill excludes a person who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB585 | Engross
Sine Die | Psychiatric hospital admissions; local inmates. Amends the criteria for psychiatric inpatient admission for inmates at local correctional facilities to add mentally ill inmates for whom there exists a substantial likelihood that they will suffer seri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB66 | Engross
Sine Die | Failure to report missing child; penalty. Provides that any parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care of a child under the age of 12 who, with intent to conceal the fact that the child is missing, fails to report to law enforcement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB943 | Pass | Purchase of service handguns; certain law-enforcement officers. Reduces by five years the amount of time that certain law-enforcement officers must have served in order for the officer, or in some cases the officer's survivor, to purchase the officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0218) |
| HB958 | Engross
Sine Die | Arresting officer to ascertain citizenship of arrestee. Supplements the existing law that requires sheriffs to make a query into legal presence when a person is "taken into custody" at a jail. This bill expands such inquiries by requiring inquiries o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB337 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles. Makes numerous comprehensive DMV service and safety changes. The bill also makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
House: Enacted, Chapter 222 (effective 7/1/12) |
| SB431 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or incapacitated adults; penalty. Provides that it is a felony punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not less than one nor more than 20 years to knowingly and without legal justification, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB570 | Engross
Sine Die | Circuit courts; number of judges; Tenth Circuit. Adds a fourth circuit court judge to the Tenth Judicial Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR130 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. This joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB355 | Engross
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credits; information about approved credits. Requires the Department of Taxation to publish and annually update a list that indicates the aggregate number of acres in each county or city for which tax credits were issued. The l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
