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HB204Intro

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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...
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2012-02-03
House: Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote
HJR265PassCelebrating the life of Dowell Richardson.
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2012-02-03
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ265ER)
HJR245PassCommending Nottingham Enterprises, Inc.
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2012-02-03
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ245ER)
HJR259PassCommending the White Hall Ruritan Club on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
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2012-02-03
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ259ER)
HB982Intro

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Crimes against incapacitated adults; penalty. Provides that any person who commits an offense set forth in Chapter 4 (crimes against the person), Chapter 5 (crimes against property), or Chapter 6 (crimes involving fraud) of Title 18.2 knowing or havi...
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2012-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice
HJR244PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Billie Meriwether Millner.
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2012-02-03
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ244ER)
HJR242PassCommending Hunt Riegel.
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2012-02-03
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ242ER)
HJR257PassCelebrating the life of Lawrence S. Eagleburger.
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2012-02-03
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ257ER)
HJR241PassCommending Bishop Peter James Lee.
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2012-02-03
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ241ER)
SB399Intro

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Deaf and hearing-impaired children; special education. Requires local school divisions to ensure that Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of hearing-impaired children and address those needs as appro...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)
SB361Intro

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Solid waste landfill; Rockbridge County. Allows the Rockbridge County landfill to operate for an additional two years or until it reaches maximum capacity, whichever occurs sooner. The landfill is scheduled to be closed by the Department of Environme...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N)
SB634Intro

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Health Practitioners' Monitoring Program; impaired health care providers. Provides that the term "impairment" includes psychological and behavioral disabilities, including the mismanagement of countertransference, for the purposes of determining eli...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB13Intro

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Disease prevention and control; Lyme disease. Adds both confirmed and suspected cases of Lyme disease to the list of diseases required to be reported to the Department of Health.
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (12-Y 0-N)
HB1240Intro

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COPN; establishing a psychiatric service and adding psychiatric inpatient beds in Planning District 20. Directs the Commissioner of Health to accept applications and review such applications in any certificate of public need Batch Group C review cyc...
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2012-02-02
House: Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB668Intro

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Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; posting of documents on association website. Requires the board of directors to post on any website maintained by the association a copy of the declaration, any articles of incorporation, and all rul...
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2012-02-02
House: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws by voice vote
SB118Intro

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Virginia Public School Improvement Program. Creates the Virginia Public School Improvement Program to offer more educational options and flexibility for parents, teachers, and students. The bill authorizes local school boards to designate or approve ...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB143Intro

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Mining permit, use of mine voids. Requires an application for a mining permit to identify the owner of the underground space to be used.
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB153Intro

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Records of pooled operations. Requires each unit operator to maintain certain records and to provide them to participating and nonparticipating operators of gas or oil wells.
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB342Intro

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Dental laboratories; register with the Board of Dentistry. Requires any individual or business entity engaged in the manufacture or repair of dental prosthetic appliances to register with the Board of Dentistry. The bill also requires the Board to de...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB354Intro

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Benefit limited liability companies. Authorizes a Virginia limited liability company to elect to be a benefit limited liability company. A benefit limited liability company is required to have, as one of its purposes, the purpose of creating a gener...
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2012-02-02
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB466Intro

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Menhaden management. Authorizes the Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations necessary to comply with Amendment 2 to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden.
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
HB345Intro

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Licensure of dietitians. Requires the Board of Medicine to promulgate regulations for the licensure of dietitians in the Commonwealth; provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to practice as or hold himself out to be a dietitian or to use in...
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2012-02-02
House: Continued to 2013 with amendment(s) in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
HB868Intro

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Plug-in electric-drive vehicles. Provides that plug-in electric-drive vehicles may park free of charge in government owned or controlled parking space when the vehicles are recharging their batteries.
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2012-02-02
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote
SB610Intro

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Regulation of care and handling of agricultural animals. Provides that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services occupies the entire field of regulation of the care and handling of agricultural animals and that no locality or humane society...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB410Intro

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Wetlands and streams; water protection permits; conditions for contribution to a Board-approved fund. Requires as a condition for contribution to a State Water Control Board-approved fund, in lieu of creating or restoring compensatory wetland or stre...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB152Intro

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Virginia Gas and Oil Act violations; penalties. Provides civil and criminal penalties for operating without a permit, disregarding orders, or making false statements.
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB221Intro

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Cottage food production operation; sales directly to consumers only. Defines the cottage food production operation and establishes requirements for food types, labeling, sales methods, and other elements. The bill allows cottage food producers to sel...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB243Intro

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Charter schools; flexibility. Allows public charter schools to choose whether its employees will participate in the Virginia Retirement System. The bill also (i) requires only 75 percent of public charter elementary school teachers to be licensed and...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health
SB191Intro

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Intellectual disability and developmental services; terminology. Replaces the terms "mental retardation" and "mental deficiency" with the term "intellectual disability" when referring to the diagnosis of, and with the term "developmental" when refer...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Incorporated by Education and Health
SB269Intro

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Physical education; JROTC participation fulfills requirement. Requires local school boards to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps as fulfillment of any high school physical education requirement.
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB403Intro

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Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria. Adds the requirement that at least 30 percent of the jobs created must be filled by Virginia residents to the criteria for making grants or loans from the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund.
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2012-02-02
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote
SB513Intro

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Career and technical education; substitution for required credits. Requires the Board of Education to expand the subject matter areas for which successful completion of certain career and technical education competency assessments may be substituted....
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB411Intro

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Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; recovery of costs and interest. Requires the award to the prevailing party in an action brought under the Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts for noncompliance with the declaration of r...
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2012-02-02
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote
HB593Intro

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Economic development; Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; required provisions in economic development agreements. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority and any locality to include in an economic development...
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2012-02-02
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote
SB214Intro

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Notification of breach of medical information. Extends the requirement to notify individuals of a breach of their medical information to all individuals and public and private entities, rather than just governmental agencies. The bill also allows the...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (12-Y 0-N)
SB145Intro

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Pooling orders and coalbed methane drilling; application to activities since 1990. Requires a well operator to obtain any required pooling order before applying for a well permit. Where an operator begins ground disturbing activity for a well without...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
HB1296Intro

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Speed limit; Huguenot Bridge in Richmond. Sets the speed limit on the Huguenot Bridge in Richmond at 35 mph.
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2012-02-02
House: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation by voice vote
SB320Intro

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Prescribing Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substances. Requires any prescriber who prescribes to a patient a controlled substance included in Schedule II, III, or IV of the Drug Control Act to request and review information abou...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
HB980Intro

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Health insurance; time limit on submitting claims. Establishes a minimum period of one year for the filing of a claim with a health insurance carrier. If it is not reasonably possible to submit a claim within this period, the carrier shall not reduce...
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2012-02-02
House: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB571Intro

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Camping grounds; competition with private businesses. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, on or before March 1 of each year, to set its camping ground fees at or above the mean fee charged for the same service by private camping g...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N)
HB610Intro

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Corporations; filing articles of dissolution. Requires the State Corporation Commission, before issuing a certificate of dissolution for a stock or nonstock corporation, to find that the person signing the articles of dissolution is listed as a direc...
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2012-02-02
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
HB960Intro

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Certificates of insurance; property and casualty insurance. Prohibits any person from (i) issuing or delivering a certificate of insurance that attempts to confer any rights upon a third party beyond what the referenced policy of insurance expressly ...
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2012-02-02
House: Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
SB144Intro

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Plats or maps; where map acreage differs from amount listed in county records. Requires a surveyor or engineer to certify that the acreages shown on a map or plat produced under the Virginia Oil and Gas Act since January 1, 1990, match the acreages l...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
HB1252Intro

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Construction of structures affecting navigable airspace; technical review. Requires the Virginia Aviation Board, upon request by a locality, to issue a nonbinding technical review of the effects that certain proposed construction will have on navigab...
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2012-02-02
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote
SB402Intro

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Nutrient Offset Fund. Establishes as a priority for funding from the Nutrient Offset Fund those nutrient offsets that are produced from facilities that generate electrical or heat energy, steam, or hot water using animal waste as a fuel source. The i...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
SB373Intro

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Higher education; violence prevention. Clarifies that the establishment of violence prevention committees and threat assessment teams by public colleges and universities, as required by current law, may occur as such resources and individuals may be...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
SB637Intro

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Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, created in new Article 9.1 of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2, prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reas...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 7-N 1-A)
SB176Intro

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Jurisdiction of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Removes the jurisdiction to enforce fishing and boating laws in the waters of Back Bay and the inlets and navigable waters in the Tidewater counties and cities from the Department of Game a...
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N)
SB25Intro

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Appointment of Director of Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Removes the authority of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to appoint the Director of the Department, resulting in the Governor making the appointment.
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2012-02-02
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 1-N)
HB186Intro

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Authority to prohibit land application of sewage sludge. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to prohibit the land application of sewage sludge within its boundaries; makes clarifying amendments.
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2012-02-01
House: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
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