| HB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed weapons; correctional officers. Allows a Department of Corrections correctional officer to carry a concealed handgun without a concealed handgun permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for local products and firms; applicability. Authorizes localities to apply a preference for bidders or offerors located in the locality of up to 10 percent, provided (i) for competitive sealed bidding the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Overweight permits for haulers of farm animal feed. Provides for issuance of overweight permits for operation of certain vehicles used for hauling farm animal feed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB821 | Intro
Sine Die | Wrongful foreclosure; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action for the owner of any residential real property against any person who wrongfully asserts that he is, or has the authority to act as, the holder of the obligation secured by a deed of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in public parks. Allows localities to ban smoking in designated public parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; proof of legal age required. Provides that any person selling alcoholic beverages to an individual who the seller knows or has reason to believe is less than 21 years of age shall require the individual to present a photo ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Check cashing fee information. Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Financial Information to conduct periodic surveys of banks, savings institutions, credit unions, and persons required to be registered as check cashers. The surveys a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; service charge. Eliminates the $5 statutory service charge fee for transactions carried out in DMV that could be carried out by mail, online, or over the telephone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; permissive contract provisions for localities; resident employment. Authorizes any locality to include in its contracts a provision requiring the contractor to ensure that a specified percentage, not to exceed 20 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage modification; application; limitations on foreclosure. Provides that if a borrower has submitted an application to modify the terms of a loan securing a debt on any residential real property that serves as the primary residence of the borro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefits Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Authority is charged with establishing and operating health benefit exchanges for qualified individuals and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed handguns; penalties. Provides that any person who may lawfully possess a firearm in Virginia may carry it hidden from common observation. The bill retains the procedures to obtain a permit that authorizes a person to carry a concea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; impact of unlawful aliens; report. Requires public schools to determine whether each student enrolling in public school was born outside the jurisdiction of the United States or is the child of an alien not lawfully present in the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of moving motor vehicles while distracted; penalty. Prohibits the operator of a moving motor vehicle from being engaged in activities that are unnecessary to and that actually impair the operation of a motor vehicle. Certain exemptions appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug Treatment Courts. Provides that drug treatment courts shall be established in the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Goochland, Montgomery, Russell, Smyth, and Washington, and that a drug treatment court shall be established in the County of Wise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchase of methamphetamine precursors; acceptable identification. Provides that the documents allowed under the federal Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 to establish identity for the purpose of purchasing methamphetamine precursors are al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Extends until July 1, 2013, the sunset on use of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes by vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates, regardless of the number of occupants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Planning district commissions. Provides that the functional areas warranting regional cooperation for planning district commission purposes shall be limited to (i) solid waste, water supply, and other environmental management and (ii) transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB905 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving on suspended license; when court may reduce charge. Provides that, upon the trial of any person charged with driving while his license is suspended whose full privilege to operate a motor vehicle is restored prior to trial, the court in its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Conspiracy to commit larceny. Provides that if any person shall conspire, confederate, or combine with another or others in the Commonwealth to commit larceny or counsel, assist, aid, or abet another in the performance of a larceny, where the aggreg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Penning of fox and coyote; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to erect or maintain an enclosure for the purpose of pursuing, hunting, or killing or attempting to pursue, hunt, or kill a fox or coyote with dogs. The bill also makes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Solemnization of marriage; eliminating government oversight of religious rites of marriage. Establishes a consistent procedure for the solemnization of marriages in the Commonwealth; protects against government intrusion in the religious rites of mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; local towing ordinances. Provides that violations of a local ordinance regulating the removal or immobilization of trespassing vehicles or setting towing fees constitute prohibited practices under the Virginia Consum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB562 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse assessment and screening; unemployment benefits. Provides that an unemployed individual is not eligible to receive unemployment benefits until a representative of the Virginia Employment Commission has screened the individual to dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested are entitled to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Support; interest on arrearage. Provides that payments collected by the state Department of Social Services on any support arrearage pursuant to an order being enforced by the Department shall be applied first to the interest on the arrearage and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of firearms; criminal records check; penalties. Adds a definition of "firearms show vendor" and requires that a criminal history record information check be performed on the prospective transferee before the vendor may transfer fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB916 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment by computer by prisoners; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a prisoner or a person acting on behalf of a prisoner to use a computer, computer network, or social networking site to harass, intimidate, or threaten a crime victim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Condominium Act; assessment of charges for violations; lien for assessments. Removes the cap on charges that a unit owners' association may assess against any unit for a violation of the condominium instruments or rules or regulations. Curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; energy efficiency data for state-owned buildings. Provides for the Department of General Services to establish a program requiring an energy analysis of each state-owned building containing more than 50,000 square feet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway maintenance funds. Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways maintained by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Transportation Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; records. Requires the Workers' Compensation Commission to make its records referring to accidents, injuries, and settlements available to an organization that conducts a computerized file match program that permits an electron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway maintenance and construction. Prohibits allocation by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of any funds in the Transportation Trust Fund for highway maintenance purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; civil penalties constitute liens on real property. Establishes that a lien against real property shall exist for each penalty levied for a scheduled violation of a locality's zoning ordinance. Such a lien shall arise for each penalty that eit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1282 | Intro
Sine Die | In-state tuition and educational benefits for unlawfully present aliens. Provides that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residency within Virginia for any postsecondary educational benefit i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation. Provides that workers' compensation benefits shall not be reduced for a disabled employee who refuses employment, if he is receiving benefits under the Line of Duty Act and such acceptance would cause the cessation of his Line ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB701 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus police; report of certain incidents to local law-enforcement agency. Requires the chief law-enforcement officer of a public or private institution of higher education to report the death or an alleged rape of any person on campus property to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sales and use tax increase. Increases the state retail sales and use tax from four percent to five percent beginning January 1, 2013, subject to a statewide referendum on the same. The increase in the state retail sales and use tax would resul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Plastic bag tax. Imposes a tax of 20 cents ($0.20) on plastic bags used by purchasers to carry tangible personal property purchased in grocery stores, convenience stores, or drug stores. Durable, reusable plastic bags and bags used for ice cream, mea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxes on fuels; issuance of bonds. Makes the retail sale of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels subject to the general five percent retail sales and use tax and reduces the fuels tax on such fuels by $0.05 per gallon from $0.175 per gallon to $0.1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting on Sundays. Allows any person to hunt on private lands on Sunday, with the permission of the owner of the land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB889 | Intro
Sine Die | Tolls on Midtown or Downtown Tunnels. Requires that, if tolls are collected for use of the Midtown or Downtown Tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth, users will be able to pay tolls without use of automated or electronic devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB874 | 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 |
| HB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's licenses; veterans. Allows military veterans who are at least 21 years old to have their veteran status indicated on their driver's licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Records of the Department of Motor Vehicles; privileged records of law-enforcement officers. Provides that any records maintained by the Department of Motor Vehicles that contain the personal address and telephone number of a federal or state law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Assumption of federal wetland and dredge and fill programs. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to assume full responsibility for regulating wetlands and dredge and fill programs that are currently also under the authority of the U.S. Army Corps...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Tethering of companion animals. Allows any locality to regulate by ordinance the tethering of companion animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Property damage due to boat accident; penalty. Punishes as a Class 6 felony any operator of a vessel who damages only property in a collision, accident or other casualty and who fails to (i) give his name, address and identification of the vessel in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB374 | 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 |
