VA Legislation | 2012 | Regular Session

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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)
HB418	Engross Sine Die	Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; assessments; imposition of late fees. Authorizes condominium and property owners' associations, except to the extent the declaration provides otherwise, to impose a late fee of not more than $15 or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-07 Senate: Defeated by Senate (11-Y 26-N 1-A)
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)
HB48	Engross 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]	2012-03-07 Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice
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)
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)
HJR246	Engross Sine Die	Election of a Supreme Court of Virginia Justice, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, and a member of the State Corporation... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-06 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
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)