| SB384 | Pass | Dental and dental hygiene school faculty; licensure. Clarifies what patient care activities are allowed for a person enrolled in a Virginia dental education program who has a temporary license to practice dentistry while in the program, clarifies req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116) |
| SB596 | Pass | Auxiliary grants; third-party payments. Provides that assisted living facilities and adult foster care homes may accept payments from third parties for certain goods and services provided to auxiliary grant recipients provided certain requirements ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0128) |
| SB461 | Pass | Commitment of sexually violent predators; probable cause hearing; use of video and audio communication system. Provides that the hearing to determine whether probable cause exists to believe that a person is a sexually violent predator who should be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121) |
| HB140 | Pass | State Police Officers' Retirement System (SPORS); mandatory retirement; regional jail or jail farm superintendent. Exempts regional jail or jail farm superintendents from the age 70 mandatory retirement requirement. Currently, gubernatorial appointe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085) |
| SB190 | Pass | Public school enrollment; military children. Clarifies language relating to enrollment of students pursuant to a special power of attorney to correspond to language in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0103) |
| HB959 | Pass | Sales and use tax; public transportation companies. Clarifies that the sales and use tax is not applicable to any company that is owned, operated, or controlled by any county, city, or town and provides public transportation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095) |
| HB922 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for disabled veterans. Provides that the tax exemption for the primary residence of a disabled veteran, a disabled veteran and his spouse, or a surviving spouse of a disabled veteran includes real property (i) held in a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0075) |
| SB487 | Pass | Certificate of public need program; annual report. Eliminates the requirement that the Commissioner of Health report annually to the Governor and the General Assembly on the status of Virginia's certificate of public need program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123) |
| SB305 | 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] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0107) |
| SB481 | Pass | Odometer tampering. Increases the minimum civil penalty for odometer tampering from $1,500 to $3,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122) |
| SB231 | Pass | Local regulation of taxicabs. Disallows counties, cities, and towns from reducing the number of taxicabs that are permitted or authorized under the local ordinance, except for non-use or cause as defined by the ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0105) |
| HB126 | Pass | Use of affidavits in no-fault divorce cases. Allows parties to submit evidence supporting the grounds for a no-fault divorce by affidavit or deposition, without leave of court, in lieu of oral testimony where (i) the parties have resolved all issues ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0072) |
| SB340 | Pass | Practice of occupational therapy. Provides that the definition of "practice of occupational therapy" is amended to make clear that it includes the therapeutic use of occupations for habilitation and rehabilitation to enhance physical health, mental h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0110) |
| SB228 | 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] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0104) |
| SB561 | Pass | Previous garnishments; costs. Allows costs incurred by a judgment creditor in connection with a prior garnishment to be collected in a subsequent garnishment attempt that is based on the same judgment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127) |
| SB558 | Pass | Redirection of forfeited drug assets to construction of Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial. Provides that between July 1, 2012, and July 1, 2014, local agencies may direct cash funds and proceeds from forfeited drug assets to the Virginia Public Saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0126) |
| HB104 | Pass | Divorce; service of process; failure to respond. Provides that if a defendant fails to file an answer in a divorce suit or otherwise appear after having been personally served with notice of the suit, no additional notice to take depositions is requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0084) |
| HB395 | Pass | Payment for burial expenses; Line of Duty Act. Authorizes the State Comptroller to release payments, advanced from the death benefits due to the beneficiary of a deceased person under the Line of Duty Act, to a funeral service provider for burial and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090) |
| SB370 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority. Allows designees of the State Treasurer and the State Health Commissioner to serve on the Board of the Virginia Resources Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0114) |
| SB278 | Pass | Teachers without continuing contract status. Shifts the date of effective contract renewal for those teachers without continuing contract status from April 15 to June 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0106) |
| SB146 | Pass | Dental hygienists; scope of practice. Expands an earlier trial program to allow licensed dental hygienists employed by the Department of Health to provide educational and preventative dental care throughout the Commonwealth when such care is provided...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0102) |
| HB255 | Pass | Warrants maintained by treasurers. Specifies that the information regarding warrants that shall not be disclosed includes any invoice that has been presented to a locality for payment, which the locality has attempted to pay, but the payment has not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088) |
| SB514 | Pass | Board of Education; high school accreditation; industry certifications. Requires the Board of Education to adopt regulations adjusting the formula for calculating the final high school accreditation status to add points for each student obtaining a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083) |
| SB543 | Pass | Definition of surgery. Defines "surgery" and provides that no person shall perform surgery unless he is (i) licensed by the Board of Medicine as a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, or podiatry; (ii) licensed by the Board of Dentistry as a doctor of den...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124) |
| SB126 | Pass | Fumigation by Department of Forestry. Asserts that the Department of Forestry's preferred method of treatment of its forest tree nurseries is methyl bromide gas fumigation in pre-seeding land preparation under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0101) |
| SB544 | Pass | Mammograms; information on breast density. Requires the Board of Health to establish guidelines requiring licensed facilities or physicians' offices where mammography services are provided to (i) include information on breast density in mammogram let...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0125) |
| SB89 | Pass | Exemptions from garnishment. Corrects the form listing garnishment exemptions by replacing the reference to "rent or services of a laborer or mechanic" with "spousal or child support" to reflect amendments made in 1990 (Acts, Ch. 942) that were never...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 79 (effective 7/1/12) |
| HB531 | Pass | Historic rehabilitation tax credit. Provides that any gain or income under federal law relating to the allocation or application of a historic rehabilitation tax credit would not be gain or income for Virginia tax purposes. The bill's provisions are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0092) |
| SB106 | Pass | Physician assistants; fluoroscopy. Allows a licensed physician assistant who (i) is working under the supervision of a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy specializing in the field of radiology, (ii) has been trained in the proper use of equipm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0081) |
| HB581 | Pass | Authorized tourism project; sales and use tax revenues. Clarifies that the amount of revenue to which the authorized tourism project is entitled is equal to the amount of revenue generated by a one percent sales and use tax on transactions taking pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073) |
| SB330 | Pass | Coal mine safety. Requires the operator of a coal mine to submit (i) a map of the mine to the Chief of the Division of Mines of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy before producing coal and (ii) any revisions that show directional changes w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| SB315 | Pass | Virginia Department of Transportation; incident management. Allows VDOT to drive on a portion of the highway other than a roadway at, en route to, or from the scene of a traffic accident, without direction from law-enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108) |
| SB60 | Pass | Divorce; service of process; failure to respond. Provides that if a defendant fails to file an answer in a divorce suit or otherwise appear after having been personally served with notice of the suit, no additional notice to take depositions is requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 78 (effective 7/1/12) |
| SB343 | Pass | Motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing. Amends several motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing laws. The bill also authorizes the DMV Commissioner to designate members of his staff as motor carrier size and weight compliance agents t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0111) |
| SB59 | Pass | Injunctions; requirement for bond. Requires a moving party to post bond only for temporary injunctions. Under current law, a bond is required for both temporary and permanent injunctions. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 77 (effective 7/1/12) |
| SB346 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management plans. Increases the Department of Emergency Management's oversight of institutional crisis and emergency management plans by requiring institutions to certify in writing to the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112) |
| SB416 | Pass | Confession of judgment by a substitute attorney-in-fact. Allows a payee, obligee, or person otherwise entitled to payment under any note or bond to appoint a substitute for any attorney-in-fact authorized to confess judgment. The substitute attorney-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| SB52 | Pass | Exemption from environmental laboratory certification program. Exempts laboratories from the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services' environmental certification program when the laboratories are using the protocols established by the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099) |
| HB277 | 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] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| HB1148 | Pass | Tangible personal property; volunteer deputy sheriffs. Allows motor vehicles owned by volunteer deputy sheriffs to be classified as a separate class of tangible personal property for local taxation purposes for tax years beginning on or after January...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0097) |
| HB1250 | Pass | Judicial Conference of Virginia; membership. Adds to the ranks of the honorary members of the Judicial Conference of Virginia the deans of the Liberty University School of Law and the Appalachian School of Law and the president and secretary of the V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076) |
| SB371 | Pass | Judicial authorization of treatment; advance directives. Provides that a court may authorize medical treatment for an incapacitated person when there is no available person with legal authority to make such decisions under (i) the advance directive o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0115) |
| HB202 | Pass | Real estate with delinquent taxes or liens; City of Hampton. Adds the City of Hampton to a list of localities authorized to have a special commissioner appointed to execute the necessary deeds to convey certain real estate to the locality when the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0087) |
| HB406 | Pass | Local incentives for defense contractors. Authorizes a local government to provide local incentives and regulatory flexibility to defense contractors located within a defense production and support services zone established by the local government. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091) |
| SB415 | Pass | Nursing; licensure exemption. Exempts from licensure any nurse who holds a current unrestricted license in another state, the District of Columbia, or a United States possession or territory while such nurse is in the Commonwealth temporarily and is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0117) |
| SB105 | Pass | Roanoke Higher Education Authority. Removes the president of the Jefferson College of Health Sciences from the Board of Trustees governing the Roanoke Higher Education Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0080) |
| SB366 | Pass | Interstate placement of children. Provides that regulations adopted by the State Board of Social Services cannot prohibit the placement of a nonresident child in a children's residential facility in the Commonwealth by a custodial parent who assumes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0082) |
| HB849 | Pass | Juveniles held in secure local facility; conduct of hearing. Authorizes the court to conduct the mandatory review hearing for a juvenile held in a secure local facility via the use of two-way electronic video and audio communication. Such hearing sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0094) |
| SB363 | Pass | Virginia Child Protection Accountability System. Requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to report information about sentences imposed in cases involving certain criminal violations and requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0113) |
| HR40 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Jizeng Chen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-05
House: Bill text as passed House (HR40ER) |
