| HJR229 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Virginia Congressional Delegation. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in urging the Virginia Congressional Delegation to oppose the enactment of a 401(k)-style defined contribution pension for the members of the United Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules 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 |
| HJR27 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program; report. Directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study the establishment of a mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program for the Commonwealth. The study will (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules 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 |
| HJR228 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress of the United States. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the Congress be requested to report to the states on all pending applications submitted by the states to call a convention to amend the United States C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules 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 |
| HJR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment First initiative; report. Requests the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop and implement an Employment First initiative for the Commonwealth to increase opportunities for meaningful employment in integrated community settin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules 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 |
| HJR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; options for an opt-out program for organ, eye, and tissue donation; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for establishing an opt-out program for organ, eye, and tissue donation in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR18 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; community-based mental health services for individuals transitioning from state hospitals; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the availability of community-based mental health services for individuals transitioning f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of their sentence inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections 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 |
| HB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Auxiliary police officers; training standards. Allows individual law-enforcement departments within jurisdictions that establish auxiliary police forces to determine the training standards for those auxiliary police officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; suspension of certain owner rights for rules violations. Gives condominium and property owners' association boards the authority, even in cases where the declaration does not expressly grant the auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in cars with a minor present; civil penalty. Makes it unlawful for a person to smoke in a motor vehicle with a child under the age of 13 present; punishable by a civil penalty of $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Littering; cigarettes, civil penalty. Includes cigarettes specifically in the category of things deemed litter for purposes of criminal punishment for improper disposal of trash. The bill also provides that in lieu of the imposition of the Class 1 mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; computers. Adds computers and related computer equipment with an aggregate sales price of $3,500 or less to the school supplies and clothing that are exempt from sales and use tax each year for a three-day period in Augus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Crime Commission; ignition interlock for DUI first offender; report. Requires the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the feasibility of requiring installation of an ignition interlock for a DUI first offender along with the issuance of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB113 | Intro
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 Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits; assistance to low-income families, scholarships for K through 12 students attending private schools. Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2012 for certain business entities making monetary donations to nonprofit organizations p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Senate: Incorporated by Finance |
| HB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is engaged in the u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HJR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; whether to establish a bank operated by the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study whether to establish a bank operated by the Commonwealth. The study shall consider recommendations for legislation to establish a publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; Department of Motor Vehicles; changes of address. Provides that a copy of the change of address form used to change the address on a driver's license or special identification card made at a DMV office or by electronic or other me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1297 | Intro
Sine Die | Tolls; use to fund other facility. Prohibits tolls imposed for use of one transportation facility to be used in connection with another facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug treatment court. Authorizes a drug treatment court in the County of Montgomery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Traffic control preemption devices. Allows local governments that control the highways within their boundaries the ability to control the use of traffic control signal preemption devices used to change traffic light signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HJR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); aid for nonpublic higher education; religious or theological education for military chaplains. Allows the General Assembly to provide for loans to, and grants to or on behalf of, students attending nonprof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of handheld personal communications devices; exceptions; penalty. Prohibits the use of handheld personal communications devices while operating a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; policies without abortion coverage. Requires any health insurer that offers, sells, or issues a health insurance policy in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for abortion services to also offer for sale in the Commonwealth a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Student driver education; instruction on organ donation. Requires that the existing organ and tissue donor awareness component included as part of the driver education curriculum be at least 30 minutes in duration and include a discussion of the opt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; prohibited discrimination; sexual orientation. Prohibits discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation. The bill defines "sexual orientation" as a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
