| HB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical examinations required of driver's license holders. Allows transmission to DMV of the results of required medical examinations of driver's license holders to be by fax or other electronic means. The bill also provides that if any such transmis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; documents. Requires that all documents issued by DMV that include a photograph of the person to whom issued must be produced by local DMV facilities and not by outside contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; diabetes and hearing or speech impairments. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to prepare an informational brochure to inform driver's license applicants that they may designate insulin-dependent diabetes or a hearing or spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Child care subsidies; time limits. Provides that fee child care program subsidies and services made available to families that meet financial and other eligibility criteria established by the Board of Social Services shall not be subject to time limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (14-Y 7-N) |
| HB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway median maintenance agreements. Allows VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments whereby the local governments assume responsibility for maintenance of highway medians within their boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Tabled in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB376 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; storage of driver's license information. Prohibits the retention of any information contained on a Virginia-issued driver's license for any purpose unless otherwise required by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; veterans. Allows military veterans to have their veteran status indicated on their driver's licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| SB512 | Intro
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] | 2012-01-19
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB173 | Intro
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] | 2012-01-19
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB151 | Intro
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] | 2012-01-19
Senate: Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| HB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Integrated Directional Sign Program. Adds the term "retail" to the Integrated Directional Sign Program, commonly referred to as the "logo sign" program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; prompt payment for services; certain payments under state plan for medical assistance services exempted. Exempts payments to providers of medical assistance services from the prompt payment provisions of the Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Early education; parental obligation. Requires that the parent of a child attending a grant funded preschool education program shall satisfactorily complete all parenting classes or courses offered by the preschool education program. Any child whose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Two-Year Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Increases eligibility for the Two-Year Transfer Grant to students with financial need, defined by an Expected Family Contribution of no more than $12,000, rather than the current $8,000, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing homes; involuntary discharge notification. Requires that a copy of the written notice of intent to involuntarily discharge a patient from a nursing home also be sent to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Also contains a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Discharge or transfer of nursing home patients; notice to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Provides that in cases in which a nursing home patient is involuntarily transferred or discharged from a nursing home, a copy of the written notice of such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Continued to 2013 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy. Expands the definition of renewable energy to include landfill gas. The measure also provides that the RPS Goals under the renewable energy portfolio standard program may be composed of renewable thermal energy equivalents. A renew...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Notice of suspension or revocation of driver's licenses. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to send initial notice of the suspension or revocation of a driver's license by certified mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; interscholastic activities. Requires the Board of Education to act as liaison between local school divisions and any nonprofit corporation founded in Virginia in 1913 that currently organizes and governs interscholastic activities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Methamphetamine precursors; sale and tracking; penalties. Requires the Department of State Police to enter into a memorandum of understanding to establish the Commonwealth's participation in a real-time electronic recordkeeping and monitoring system ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Infrared traffic light signal changers. Allows local governments by ordinance to permit use of infrared traffic light signal changers by firefighting vehicles in nonemergency situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB10 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; fire company personnel of the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Air National Guard. Includes under the coverage of the Line of Duty Act individuals employed as fire company personnel for the Virginia Air National Guard or the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioners of accounts; certified public accountants. Provides that a certified public accountant may serve as a commissioner of accounts or as an assistant or deputy commissioner of accounts. Currently, only lawyers may serve in such positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB423 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle license plates. Provides that motor vehicles whose manufacturers do not provide, as original equipment, for a bracket or other device for displaying a license plate on the front of the vehicle will be required to display only single lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Pedestrians. Requires vehicle drivers to stop for pedestrians crossing at marked crosswalks or at intersections not controlled by traffic signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB218 | 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] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Fines and fees for violations occurring on interstate highways. Provides that when a warrant or summons is issued for a violation of law occurring on an interstate highway or a highway that receives federal-aid funds, a state statute must be charged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (4-Y 10-N) |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Display of vehicle license plates. Provides for display of a single license plate on registered vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny; threshold amount. Increases from $200 to $750 the threshold amount of money or the value of the goods or chattel that the defendant must take before the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The same threshold is increased f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA). Requires the approval by transportation planning organizations (TPOs) of PPTA comprehensive agreements dealing with projects within the boundaries of one of the TPO's constituent localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; certain members of fire companies or departments. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Act to include members of any fire company or department providing fire protection services for facilities of the Virginia Natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Display of vehicle license plates. Provides for display of a single license plate on registered vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Vessels making fast to or lying alongside certain bridges. Prohibits promulgation of VDOT regulations that forbid the master or owner of a vessel no more than 25 feet long from making the vessel fast to or lying alongside any bridge in the system of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
House: Stricken from docket by Transportation by voice vote |
| HB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Child labor; exemption for children employed in a family business. Exempts children from certain provisions of the child labor laws if they are employed by (i) their parent or a person standing in place of their parent or (ii) an employer that is a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; meeting procedures. Requires that local school boards hold meetings in accordance with the parliamentary procedures set out in Robert's Rules of Order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
House: Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Bond administration; reimbursement of administrative costs. Provides that if the owner or developer defaults on construction of certain public facilities, the locality shall be entitled to retain the allowance for administrative costs regardless of w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
Senate: Incorporated by Local Government |
| SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member commission to prepare redistricting plans for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one each by the four ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested are entitled to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Gas pipeline safety; information disclosures. Prohibits employees and members of the State Corporation Commission from disclosing to any person any investigative notes and other correspondence and information furnished in confidence by a public servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
House: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB454 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; penalty for failure to pay. Updates the provision that excuses the Commonwealth from assessment of a penalty for failing to pay workers' compensation benefits when the Commonwealth has issued a regular payroll payment to the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | County precincts; separate precinct for certain towns. Requires a county to establish a separate county precinct for any town entirely surrounded by a combination of a United States armed forces base and water.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB188 | Intro
Sine Die | State secondary highway system. Makes the road and bridge providing access from Virginia Route 865 to the Black Bear Crossing Community in Maurertown, Shenandoah County, part of the state secondary highway system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation police officers. Changes the name of law-enforcement officers employed by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries from conservation police officers to game wardens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Guardianship; restriction of visitation. Allows a guardian to restrict visitation of an incapacitated person, unless there is a previously executed advance directive or durable power of attorney specifying otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; violence prevention. Clarifies that policies and procedures for the prevention of violence on campus, including assessment and intervention with individuals whose behavior poses a threat to the safety of the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-16
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Accident and sickness insurance; coverage for hospitalization and anesthesia for dental procedures. Expands the scope of the existing requirement that health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing accident and sicknes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. Increases the maximum amount of coverage provided by the Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association for life insurance death benefits from $300,000 to $50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-16
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; advertisements. Exempts displays of the logo of the Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association on letterheads and signs, plaques, and posters within the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-16
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
