| HB681 | Pass | Interest on appeal. Adds specificity to the description of the time period for which interest is paid on a judgment affirmed by an appellate court to provide that interest is computed from the date of filing the notice of appeal to the date the appe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058) |
| HB134 | Pass | Court distributions; dollar limits. Increases from $15,000 to $25,000 the amount of money or property that a court may distribute without the necessity of qualification as a fiduciary in cases involving (i) funds paid into court and (ii) funds or pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0043) |
| HB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Solid waste management plan; optional. Removes the mandate that a governing body develop and implement a regional or local solid waste management plan, making such plans optional. The bill includes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB708 | 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] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059) |
| HB947 | Engross
Sine Die | Nonpublic school students; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home instructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB253 | Pass | Dam safety; consultation with Department of Emergency Management. Requires the Soil and Water Conservation Board to consult with the Department of Emergency Management in implementing the dam safety program and makes clarifying amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) |
| HB1166 | Pass | Renewable portfolio standard program; reporting. Requires each utility participating in the renewable portfolio standard program to identify, in its annual report to the State Corporation Commission, the states where purchased or owned renewable ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0067) |
| HB572 | Pass | Owner financing for real property; licensing. Exempts persons who make loans or extend credit for any part of the purchase price of real property that the person owns from licensure requirements under the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053) |
| SB147 | Pass | Bear hound training. Allows the training of dogs to hunt bears to occur from 4 a.m. until 10 p.m. Currently, the training of dogs to hunt bears is limited to one-half hour before sunrise until four and one-half hours after sunset.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069) |
| HB1088 | Pass | Reduced cigarette ignition propensity. Eliminates an exemption that currently allows retailers to sell from their inventory cigarettes that do not comply with reduced ignition propensity standards if the cigarettes were stamped prior to January 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0066) |
| HB845 | Pass | Business entities; names. Clarifies that the name of a business entity, including a stock corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, business trust, limited partnership, or registered limited liability partnership, cannot imply tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0063) |
| HB1063 | Engross
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB433 | Pass | Real Estate Appraiser Board; continuing education. Requires the Real Estate Appraiser Board to evaluate the development of a continuing education curriculum for licensees that includes the effects of the use of energy efficiency and renewable energy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049) |
| HB715 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; state health plan. Makes necessary changes to the appeals process for complaints relating to the state health plan to conform Virginia law to federal health care reform. The bill removes the provision that cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0060) |
| SB74 | Pass | Roll-your-own cigarette machines. Declares that any person who maintains, operates, or rents a roll-your-own cigarette machine at a retail establishment for use by a consumer is a manufacturer of cigarettes, and resulting products from the machine ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) |
| HB232 | Pass | 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] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046) |
| HB229 | Pass | Doctrine of necessaries. Provides that a lien arising out of a judgment under the doctrine of necessaries shall not attach to the principal residence of a husband and wife that was held by the spouses as tenants by the entireties prior to the death o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) |
| SB321 | Pass | Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosures. Modifies the Prescription Monitoring Program to (i) require dispensers of covered substances to report the method of payment for the prescription, (ii) require the Director of the Department of Health Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071) |
| HB214 | Pass | Credit unions; amendments to organizational documents. Clarifies the procedure for review by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of proposed amendments to the articles of incorporation and bylaws of a credit union when the amendments would exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0044) |
| HB452 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; transcripts. Authorizes the Virginia Employment Commission, with the consent of all parties who participated in the hearing, to provide a digital or other electronic recording of the testimony taken at any hearing befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0050) |
| HB620 | Pass | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; internal service funds. Establishes the Information Technology and Management Internal Service Fund for the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The newly established fund will replace the three funds c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0055) |
| HB870 | Pass | Salvage vehicles. Defines "repairable vehicles" as late model vehicles repaired by an insurance company and not accepted by their owners immediately prior to acquisition by the insurance company and exempts them from the provisions of Chapter 16 of T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064) |
| HB292 | Pass | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; board of directors; membership. Adds the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry and the Secretary of Technology as voting members of the board of directors of the Virginia Economic Development Partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047) |
| HB20 | 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 firea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0042) |
| HB1062 | 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] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065) |
| HB570 | Pass | Mortgage loan originators; bona fide nonprofit organizations. Exempts employees of bona fide nonprofit organizations from licensing and registration requirements applicable to mortgage loan originators. The State Corporation Commission is directed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| HB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Opening of the school year in certain school divisions. Authorizes the school boards of the City of Martinsville, Henry County, and Pittsylvania County school divisions to set the opening of the school year so that the first day students are require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| HJR111 | Pass | Study; jurisdictional capacity of Court of Appeals; report. Requests the Judicial Council of Virginia to study the jurisdictional capacity of the Court of Appeals and whether such capacity should be expanded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ111ER) |
| HJR93 | Pass | Local Government Education Week. Designates the first week in April, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Local Government Education Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ93ER) |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | BPOL tax; maximum fee and tax rates established. Prohibits a locality from increasing its local license (BPOL) fees or taxes above the rates of its BPOL fees and taxes imposed for the 2011 license year. The prohibition on increasing BPOL fees and tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 2-N) |
| HJR98 | Pass | First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson Day. Designates October 15, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ98ER) |
| HJR108 | Pass | Study; JLARC to study cost efficiency in higher education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the cost efficiency of the Commonwealth's institutions of higher education and to identify opportunities to reduce t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ108ER) |
| SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | Student discipline; parental notification. Requires the school principal or his designee to attempt to notify the parents of any student who violates a school board policy when such violation will result in the student's suspension, expulsion, or th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HJR230 | Pass | Birthplace and Childhood Home of Edith Bolling Wilson. Recognizes the Town of Wytheville and Wythe County as the birthplace and childhood home of Edith Bolling Wilson, 35th First Lady of the United States and wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ230ER) |
| SB311 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; City of Franklin. Provides that neither the city council nor any of its members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to or the removal of any person from any office or employment by the city manager. The bill also sets forth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 with substitute in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HJR430 | Pass | Commending The Links, Incorporated Central Virginia Cluster.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ430ER) |
| HJR243 | Pass | Study; state regulation of wetlands; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to study the benefits and costs of seeking authority from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to administer the § 404 permitting program under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ243ER) |
| SB550 | Engross
Sine Die | Public oyster beds on the seaside of the Eastern Shore; adjustment of boundaries. Instructs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adjust the boundaries of the public oyster beds on the seaside of the Eastern Shore using the Baylor survey as a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB216 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SJR7 | Pass | Commending Union Presbyterian Seminary on the occasion of its 200th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ7ER) |
| SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities and combined sewer overflow projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $378 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HJR105 | Pass | Virginia Cider Week. Designates the full week before Thanksgiving, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Virginia Cider Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ105ER) |
| HJR107 | Pass | Hold Out for Hunger Day. Designates April 14, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Hold Out for Hunger Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ107ER) |
| HJR132 | Pass | Study; JLARC to study homeland security planning and preparedness; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the ongoing planning and preparedness efforts throughout the Commonwealth with regard to homeland security ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ132ER) |
| HJR96 | Pass | Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; summer flounder harvest. Requests the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to allow Virginia's recreational fishermen to harvest summer flounder that are smaller than the current 17.5-inch minimum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ96ER) |
| HJR120 | Pass | Designating Mesothelioma Awareness Day. Designates September 26, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Mesothelioma Awareness Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ120ER) |
| HJR128 | Pass | Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week. Designates the third week in April, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ128ER) |
| HJR142 | Pass | Asian Lunar New Year Day. Designates the day designated as new year on the Asian lunar calendar, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Asian Lunar New Year Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ142ER) |
| HJR143 | Pass | Spay Day. Designates February 28, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Spay Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ143ER) |
| HJR144 | Pass | Small Business Day. Designates September 21, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Small Business Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ144ER) |
