| SB121 | Pass | Bank-owned real estate. Repeals a provision that limits to 10 years the period that banks may hold real estate acquired in satisfaction of a debt previously contracted. The measure allows state banks to hold such property indefinitely without writing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157) |
| HB184 | Pass | Board of Medical Assistance Services; fraud investigators. Requires that at least two members of the Board of Medical Assistance Services be individuals with significant professional experience in the detection, investigation, or prosecution of healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0137) |
| SB120 | Pass | Risk-Based Capital Act. Applies the Risk-Based Capital Act, which provides a way of measuring the minimum amount of capital appropriate for an insurer based on its size and risk profile, to fraternal benefit societies. Other provisions make trend tes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0156) |
| HB635 | Pass | Equitable distribution; change of venue. Provides that, upon or after the entry of a final divorce decree, a court may, upon its own motion or the motion of any party, transfer to the circuit court for the county or city where either party resides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144) |
| HB181 | Pass | Registered nurse or physician assistant; authority to pronounce death. Adds registered nurses employed by and physician assistants working at continuing care retirement communities to the list of individuals who may pronounce death under certain circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0136) |
| HB829 | Pass | Virginia Immunization Information System; linkages to other VDH databases. Allows the Commissioner of Health to allow health care providers authorized to access the Virginia Immunization Information System to also access other information maintained ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0147) |
| HB462 | Pass | Abortion; informed consent. Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion, to determine gestational age, every pregnant female shall undergo transabdominal ultrasound imaging and be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound imag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| HB441 | Pass | Uniform Certificate of General Studies. Clarifies that credits earned in academic subject area coursework as part of the Uniform Certificate of General Studies shall be transferable to a four-year public institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142) |
| HB770 | Pass | Protective orders against law-enforcement officers. Provides that no emergency protective order may be issued against a law-enforcement officer for any action arising out of the lawful performance of his duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| SB245 | Pass | Emergency services and disasters; constitutional rights. Provides that nothing in the Emergency Services and Disaster Law shall be interpreted to limit or prohibit the otherwise lawful possession, carrying, transportation, sale, or transfer of firear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158) |
| SB411 | Pass | Secretary of Public Safety; Virginia Fire Services Board; State Board of Juvenile Justice; powers and duties. Consolidates, eliminates, and alters various powers and duties of the Virginia Fire Services Board and the State Board of Juvenile Justice r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164) |
| HR44 | Pass | Commending Walter D. Brown III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
House: Bill text as passed House (HR44ER) |
| HR43 | Pass | Commending the Lenoid and Bessie Fowlkes family.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
House: Bill text as passed House (HR43ER) |
| HB1185 | Pass | The Road to Revolution. Expands the potential for sites on The Road to Revolution state heritage trail from those celebrating Patrick Henry and his role in liberating Virginia from Colonial rule to all those significant to men and women who played a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) |
| SB295 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; representation of Commonwealth. Provides that the Office of the Attorney General may represent the interests of the Commonwealth in hearings conducted before the Virginia Employment Commission regarding an employer's t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0161) |
| HR42 | Pass | Commending the Older Dominion Partnership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
House: Bill text as passed House (HR42ER) |
| HB1178 | Pass | Offenders required to register prohibited from operating certain charter buses. Provides that no person required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry shall be permitted to operate a charter bus used to transport children...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0153) |
| SB613 | Pass | Candidate petitions in primaries and general elections. Provides that candidate petitions in primaries and general elections must be witnessed by a legal resident of the Commonwealth who attests that he is not a minor or a felon whose voting rights h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166) |
| HR41 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Robert Anthony Snow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
House: Bill text as passed House (HR41ER) |
| HB99 | Pass | Registration of leased vehicles. Requires DMV to obtain in applications for registration of leased vehicles the residence street address of individual lessees and the names and street addresses of lessees that are businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| HB1033 | Pass | Permanent protective orders. Provides a circuit court jurisdiction to hear petitions to modify, dissolve, or extend a permanent protective order if the circuit court issued the order. The bill requires the court, when a protective order is issued, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152) |
| HB77 | Pass | Sentencing proceeding by the jury after conviction. Provides that criminal sentencing by a jury shall be done by a different jury when the original jury cannot agree on punishment, unless the parties and the court agree to sentencing by the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134) |
| SB297 | Pass | Board of Veterans Services; voting by ex officio members. Grants full voting privileges to the ex officio members of the Board of Veterans Services. Currently, only the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services has voting privileges. As a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162) |
| SB495 | Pass | Wireless E-911 Fund; distribution. Transfers the administration of the distribution of the Wireless E-911 Fund revenues for public safety answering point operators (PSAPs) to the Department of Taxation. The bill also bases the distribution percentage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0165) |
| SB294 | Pass | 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] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160) |
| HB646 | Pass | Permit applications for outdoor advertising. Defines "billboard sign" and does away with the Certification Acceptance Program, which allowed an entity with five or more signs to self-inspect and certify its compliance with the regulations in lieu of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0145) |
| HB220 | Pass | Home care organizations; licensure. Provides that no license to establish or operate a home care organization shall be issued to or renewed for any person who has been sanctioned pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b, which relates to criminal penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) |
| HB273 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; minimum training standards; juvenile correctional officers. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Criminal Justice Services Board to provide compulsory minimum entry-level training stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| SB51 | Pass | Uniform Commercial Code; secured transactions. Incorporates amendments to the secured transactions title of the Uniform Commercial Code that have been adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The amended sections (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0155) |
| SB293 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; minimum training standards; juvenile correctional officers. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Criminal Justice Services Board to provide compulsory minimum entry-level training stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0159) |
| HB875 | Pass | Vehicle insurance. Places time limits on appeals of DMV suspensions of driver's licenses, registration certificates, and license plates for neither having vehicle insurance nor having paid the uninsured vehicle fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151) |
| HB279 | Pass | DUI ignition interlock limitations. Provides that a person who is convicted of DUI may drive only with an ignition interlock after the first offense, as a condition of a restricted license and is required to have an ignition interlock installed in ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) |
| HB39 | Pass | Causing telephone to ring with intent to annoy. Provides that a second or subsequent conviction of the Class 3 misdemeanor of causing a telephone or digital pager to ring with intent to annoy is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133) |
| HB556 | Pass | Internet publication of personal information of certain public officials prohibited. Adds various public officials to the current provision prohibiting a state or local agency from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet the home address or pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0143) |
| SB385 | Pass | Campaign finance; prohibited interest payments on certain loans to candidate campaign committees. Provides that a campaign committee shall not pay interest on any loan to the committee made by the candidate or by a member of his immediate family. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) |
| HB861 | Pass | Vehicle and trailer immobilization. Makes all vehicles and trailers, in addition to motor vehicles, subject to removal or immobilization for outstanding parking violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150) |
| HB26 | Pass | Failure to carry concealed handgun permit; penalty. Provides that failure to produce, upon demand of a law-enforcement officer, a concealed handgun permit and a government-issued photo identification while carrying a concealed handgun is punishable b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| HB860 | Pass | Local towing ordinances. Allows localities in Northern Virginia by ordinance to regulate the towing of trespassing vehicles from the locality adopting the ordinance to another locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| HB856 | Pass | Critical incident stress management teams; privileged information. Provides that information communicated to critical incident stress management team members by public safety personnel who are the subjects of peer support services shall not be disclo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| HB192 | Pass | State facilities; reporting of critical incidents involving consumers. Requires the director of each state hospital and training center to notify the authorized representative of a consumer, or other person identified by the consumer, when the consum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) |
| SB433 | Pass | Determination of status of unclaimed cremains belonging to veterans. Provides for a funeral director to provide the names and any other identifying information on unclaimed cremains to the Department of Veterans Services in order for the Department t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120) |
| HB714 | Pass | Major business facility job tax credit. Extends the expiration of the period during which the major business facility job tax credit may be taken within a two-year allowance from December 31, 2012, to December 31, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093) |
| HB1013 | Pass | Income tax; capital gains subtraction. Extends the subtraction from individual and corporate taxable income of capital gains from investments in qualified businesses from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0096) |
| SB421 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; the Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund. Provides a new mechanism whereby a person who purchases a vehicle from a dealer may recover the title to that vehicle if the title is in the possession of someone other than the deal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0119) |
| SB113 | Pass | Issuance of driver’s licenses to minors. Requires that a licensee who is under the age of 18 at the time that the ceremony is held to issue an original driver’s license be accompanied by a parent, guardian, spouse, or other person in loco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0100) |
| HB1201 | Pass | Exemptions from jury service; foreign service workers; military. Provides that any member of the armed services of the United States or the diplomatic service of the United States who will be serving outside of the United States at the time of the j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098) |
| HB519 | Pass | Corporations and other business entities; conversion and termination. Makes provisions that set out how amended and restated articles are to be an attachment to a plan of domestication uniform across the laws regarding corporations, limited liability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130) |
| HB761 | Pass | Recording deeds; statement of preparation. Authorizes the circuit court clerk to reject for filing or recording a deed, except for deeds where a public service company, railroad, or cable system operator is either a grantor or grantee, unless it stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074) |
| HB154 | Pass | Apportionment of corporate income tax; retail companies. Requires retail companies to use a formula for apportioning taxable income to the Commonwealth based on multiplying their income by the sales factor. The provisions of the bill would be effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0086) |
| SB625 | Pass | Garnishment; venue. Provides that a judgment creditor may institute garnishment proceedings in the jurisdiction where the judgment debtor resides even though the underlying judgment was entered by another court. The judgment creditor must file with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129) |
