| HB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices; penalty. Prohibits any use of a handheld personal communications device while operating a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Termination of certain coal tax credits. Repeals the Virginia coal employment and production incentive tax credit and the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonpartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2021 and each 10th year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB652 | Intro
Sine Die | Text messaging and emailing while driving; penalty. Allows police officers to issue citations to violators who text message or email while operating a moving motor vehicle. Currently, police officers must have cause to stop or arrest a driver for som...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB2 | Intro
Sine Die | Dulles Metrorail Project. Prohibits use of state funds for Phase II of the Dulles Metrorail Project if the Project is subject to a project labor agreement, the policies and bylaws of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority do not permit public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of names of taxpayers claiming state tax credits. Requires the Tax Commissioner to annually report on and publish on the Department of Taxation's website the following for certain state tax credits: a brief description of the tax credit, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting; knowingly trespassing while carrying a firearm; penalty. Prohibits hunting without permission or authority, while carrying a firearm, on land where the hunter knows a No Trespassing sign is posted or where the hunter should know entry is pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; graduation rates. Requires each four-year public institution of higher education to report annually its four-year graduation rate to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and requires SCHE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Net energy metering program; standby charges. Revises the requirement, enacted in 2011, that a customer-generator pay a monthly standby charge that allows its supplier to recover a portion of its infrastructure costs. The revisions provide that a su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment certificates for children. Increases the age at which children are required to have a work-training certificate or part-time employment certificate from 16 to 18, provided that any individual who has obtained a standard diploma, advanced s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB680 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI; exemplary damages. Provides that in an action for personal injury or death arising from the operation of a motor vehicle, engine, or train, a defendant's conduct will be deemed both so willful and wanton as to show a conscious disregard for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental notification; student discipline. Requires parental notification whenever school administrators begin an investigation into a potential violation of any school board policy. Such notification may be made by phone or email, or any other reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; undergraduate out-of-state tuition charges. Requires the boards of visitors of every public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to set tuition and fee charges at levels they deem to be appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency lights. Removes the limit of two warning lights allowed any member of a fire department, rescue squad, ambulance driver, or police chaplain on a vehicle he owns, when answering emergency calls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Human Rights Council; causes of action for discrimination. Provides that no employer employing more than five but less than 20 persons shall discharge any such employee on the basis of age if the employee is 40 years of age or older. Currently, the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Special driver's license required for convicted methamphetamine offenders. Provides that any person convicted of a violation of §18.2-248, 18.2-248.02, 18.2-248.03, 18.2-266, 29.1-738, or 46.2-341.24 when such offense involves the possession, m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone carriers; third-party billing. Prohibits a telephone company that issues a telephone bill to its customers from including on its bill charges for any products, goods, or services, other than those provided by the telephone company or its af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Inspection of farm stores. Exempts stores that are owned and operated by a farmer, that are located on the farmer's land, and that sell agricultural products from being inspected by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Such s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Automobile insurance policies; use of credit and driving record information. Prohibits insurers from nonrenewing, cancelling, increasing any charge, or taking other adverse action regarding motor vehicle insurance on the basis of a person's credit hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Allows any prisoner serving a sentence imposed for a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, who has reached the age of 60 or older to petition the Parole Board for conditional release without regard t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Application for driver's license; social security number. Allows issuance of a driver's license to an applicant who fails to provide a social security number on the application if such failure is due to a bona fide religious objection to providing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB706 | 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] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; candidate campaign committees; investments. Authorizes the investment of campaign committee funds subject to the prudent investment standards applicable to Virginia Retirement System investments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Human Resource Management; state employees killed in line of state duties. Requires the Director of the Department of Human Resource Management to provide a state flag, upon request, to the next of kin of a state employee killed in line...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB991 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter schools; employees. Provides that public charter school personnel, at the discretion of the local school board, need not be employees of the local school board or boards granting the charter. Charter school personnel remain subject to backgro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Cigarette and other tobacco products; tax rates. Increases the cigarette tax rate from 30 cents ($0.30) per pack to $1.45 per pack and increases the cigarette excise tax on roll-your-own tobacco from 10 percent to 50 percent. The bill also increases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB986 | Intro
Sine Die | Synthetic cannabinoids; bath salts; penalties. Amends provisions added to the Code last year regarding the criminalization of synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals known as "bath salts" to add newly identified chemical combinations. The bill also adds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle title loans, payday loans, and open-end credit plans; interest rate. Caps the rate of interest that may be charged on motor vehicle title loans, payday loans, and open-end credit plans at 36 percent per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Virginia's Eastern Shore. Changes the special license plates promoting tourism on Virginia's Eastern Shore from nonrevenue sharing to revenue sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB662 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board for Community Colleges; mental health services. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges to develop standards and policies directing community colleges to adopt, incrementally and as resources become available, a mental health ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; party identification on ballots; local elections. Extends to local elections the requirement that ballots identify the nominating political party for party candidates and identify independent candidates as such. Currently, this requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbying and finance disclosure; disclosure of gifts and contributions. Provides that lobbyists' annual disclosure forms will be filed by November 1 complete through August 31, rather than July 1 complete through April 30, and requires General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB981 | Intro
Sine Die | Failure to report death of child or of a missing child by parent, guardian, etc.; penalty. Provides that any parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child or a person standing in loco parentis to a child who, (i) with intent to conceal the death, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for hiring certain individuals released from incarceration. Establishes beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers hiring individuals released from incarceration into new jobs paying an annual sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Revenue sharing funds for highways in certain localities. Provides that funds provided to localities are a grant and that the Department of Transportation shall not have administrative oversight on local projects. Requires localities to certify in wr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1206 | Intro
Sine Die | Requirements of preneed funeral contracts. Eliminates the requirement that, in cases in which a life insurance or annuity contract is used to fund the contract, the insurance or annuity contract must provide for adjustment of the face value of the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Statute of limitations; judgments of the Commonwealth. Exempts judgments in favor of the Commonwealth from the 20-year limitations period for enforcement of a judgment and the 10-year period for the enforcement of a lien of a judgment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code insurance requirements for certain fireworks shows. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the Statewide Fire Prevention Code so that insurance coverage for permit holders for consumer firewor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | State Council of Higher Education; development of uniform lower division curriculum. Requires the State Council of Higher Education to develop a uniform lower division curriculum consisting of no more than 60 credit hours. The curriculum shall be un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective order; transfer of venue. Allows a general district court to transfer a case where a party is seeking a protective order to the appropriate juvenile and domestic relations district court or circuit court if either of the parties is a part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation police officers. Requires the Board to adopt regulations that prohibit a conservation police officer from hunting or fishing in those areas he is assigned to patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animals; euthanasia. Requires a city or county pound to maintain a registry of organizations willing to accept healthy, nonvicious animals scheduled to be euthanized and prohibits the pound from euthanizing such animals until it has given 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; minors; jurisdiction. Provides that a minor may petition for a protective order on his own behalf without the consent of a parent or guardian. The bill also provides that protective orders sought against individuals who are not fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; drug testing. Requires each applicant for unemployment benefits, as a condition of eligibility, to provide the Virginia Employment Commission with the results of a drug test that is negative for the use of a nonprescribed contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Following too closely. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission to Review the Effectiveness of Virginia's Tax Preferences; report. Establishes the Commission to oversee the evaluation of Virginia's tax preferences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; party identification on ballots; local elections. Gives candidates in local elections the option to be identified by party on the ballot. Currently, only federal, statewide, and General Assembly candidates who are nominated by a political ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB527 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Slave Commission. Establishes the Virginia Slave Commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of addressing contemporary political, economic, educational, and societal issues and public policies whose roots lie i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax on watercraft. Removes the $2,000 cap on the amount of tax imposed under the sales and use tax on watercraft.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
