| SB11 | Pass | Self-settled spendthrift trusts; creation of. Provides for the creation of self-settled spendthrift trusts, which protect trust assets against the claims of a settlor who is also a trust beneficiary. This bill allows a settlor to transfer assets to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| SB408 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising. Provides that all outdoor alcoholic beverage signs shall comply with the provisions of outdoor advertising in sight of highways, laws and regulations adopted by the Commonwealth Transportation Board pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| SB109 | Pass | Land trusts; successor trustee. Provides that the beneficiaries of a land trust, by majority decision, shall name a successor trustee when the trustee named in the deed of conveyance creating the trust is unable to serve if no successor trustee is na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558) |
| HB513 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemptions; extension of sunset dates. Extends the sunset dates for the limited sales and use tax exemption periods for hurricane preparedness equipment and for certain energy-efficient products from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| SB110 | Pass | Irrevocable trusts; trustee's power to appoint assets into second trust. Authorizes the trustee of an irrevocable trust to appoint all or part of the principal or income of a trust into a second trust for the benefit of the beneficiaries of the origi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0559) |
| SB414 | Pass | Authorized tourism project; sales and use tax revenues. Clarifies that the amount of revenue to which the authorized tourism project is entitled is equal to the amount of revenue generated by a one percent sales and use tax on transactions taking pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) |
| SB335 | Pass | Weight limits; haulers of sand, gravel, and crushed stone. Extends the temporary increased weight limit for trucks hauling sand, gravel, or crushed stone in coal counties to January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569) |
| HB1177 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; objectives. Adds to the list of the Commonwealth's energy objectives the following: (i) ensuring an adequate energy supply and a Virginia-based energy production capacity; and (ii) minimizing the Commonwealth's long-term exposur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) |
| SB2 | Pass | Claims; Melissa Scianna. Provides relief to pay the cost to Melissa Scianna to repair the failed sewage system for her property. The amount of the relief shall be paid from the Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| HB996 | Pass | Department of Minority Business Enterprise; electronic certification process. Authorizes the Department of Minority Business Enterprise to accept applications for certification as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business through electronic me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) |
| SB425 | Pass | Interbasin transfer of water resources. Charges the State Water Control Board with the responsibility to establish procedures for obtaining a Virginia Water Protection Permit for the transfer of water resources between major river basins in Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| HB507 | Pass | Suspected child abuse; substance exposed infants; reporting by physicians. Increases the period of time from seven days to six weeks during which a health care provider, not exclusively the attending physician as in current law, may make a finding t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) |
| HB994 | Pass | Broadband Advisory Council; designees to serve on the Council. Permits the Secretary of Commerce and Trade and the Secretary of Technology to appoint designees to serve on their behalf on the Broadband Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) |
| HB928 | Pass | Mechanics' liens; site development improvements. Allows contractors to obtain a mechanics' lien in the amount of the value of the work contracted for by the claimant for site development improvements and clarifies that common areas are not to be incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523) |
| HB522 | Pass | Statewide system of trails; wheelchairs or other power-driven mobility devices. Permits the Department of Conservation and Recreation to allow the use of wheelchairs or other power-driven mobility devices on the statewide system of trails in accordan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598) |
| HB1169 | Pass | Workers' compensation; medical fees. Provides that the Workers' Compensation Commission shall retain jurisdiction for employees to pursue payment of charges for medical services notwithstanding that bills or parts of bills for health care services ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) |
| HB973 | Pass | Sex crimes; penalties. Imposes a mandatory minimum life sentence for rape, forcible sodomy, or object sexual penetration of a child under the age of 13 when it is alleged in the indictment that the offender was 18 years of age or older at the time o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0605) |
| HB855 | Pass | Nuisance species; coyotes and feral swine. Adds coyotes and feral swine to the definition of "nuisance species."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| HB509 | Pass | Recordation tax. Clarifies that the recordation tax for deeds of trust is based on the value of the security interest created by the deed of trust, not just on the amount of the obligations described in the deed of trust. Therefore, the amount subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| SB564 | Pass | Home instruction of children; curriculum description. Requires that the description of the curriculum, which a parent electing to provide home instruction to his child in lieu of school attendance must submit to the school division superintendent, sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0587) |
| SB148 | Pass | Methamphetamine lab cleanup costs; reimbursement of localities. Allows localities to provide by ordinance that any person who is convicted of an offense for manufacture of methamphetamine shall be liable to the locality or other law-enforcement enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) |
| SB591 | Pass | Health insurance; multiple employer welfare arrangements. Increases, from 50 to 500, the maximum number of Virginia residents employed at a bank that is a member of a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) who may receive accident and sickness ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589) |
| HB1168 | Pass | Trust institutions. Provides that a federal savings bank, with or without an office or a branch in Virginia, may engage in a trust business in the Commonwealth if it is supervised and regulated by the federal Comptroller of the Currency and is author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| SB132 | 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] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0560) |
| SB504 | Pass | Facilities upgrade; air quality, water quality, and solid waste permits. Allows operators of facilities that hold air quality, solid waste, or water quality permits to install new technology, equipment, or other apparatus at the permitted facility wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| HB526 | Pass | Local regulation of helicopter use. Provides that no local zoning ordinance shall impose a total ban on departures and landings by noncommercial helicopters for personal use. However, a locality may require a special permit under certain circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| SB299 | Pass | Kinship foster care placements. Provides that the Commissioner of Social Services may grant a variance from requirements governing approval of foster care placements and may approve a kinship foster care provider when he determines (i) the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| HB1208 | Pass | Home instruction of children; curriculum description. Requires that the description of the curriculum, which a parent electing to provide home instruction to his child in lieu of school attendance must submit to the school division superintendent, sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547) |
| HB881 | Pass | Political campaign advertisements; disclosure requirements. Requires print advertisements to contain sufficient space to display the required disclosure statement in a minimum font size of seven point and provides that an electronic advertisement wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0519) |
| SB470 | Pass | Combined fishing license. Removes references to specific dollar amounts currently charged for the freshwater and saltwater components of a combined sportfishing license and recognizes that the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Marine Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| HB809 | Pass | Provision of insurance for employees of boards working closely with a locality. Adds the employees of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth such as boards, commissions, agencies, or authorities to the list of employees who may receive insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| SB270 | Pass | Fiduciaries; permission to notarize. Clarifies that a notary named in a document for the purposes of receiving notices or as a fiduciary shall not be disqualified from notarizing the document for that reason alone. Currently, a notary so named is pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| HB938 | Pass | Professions and occupations; qualifications for licensure; substantially equivalent military training and education. Requires the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524) |
| HB937 | Pass | Professions and occupations; expediting the issuance of licenses for spouses of military service members. Requires a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professions, or any boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| HB1216 | Pass | Advertisement of proposed zoning amendments. Provides that when a proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance involves a tract of land of not less than 500 acres owned by the Commonwealth or by the federal government, and when the proposed change affe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548) |
| SB463 | Pass | Income taxes. Advances the date as of which Virginia income tax laws conform with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2010, to December 31, 2011; restores conformity to certain provisions of the federal earned income tax credit for taxable ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
| SB180 | Pass | Protection of certain trustees from liability. Provides for the protection of a trustee from liability when he follows the directions of a trust director or fails to act while awaiting directions from a trust director. The bill specifies that the tru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) |
| HB830 | Pass | Arts and cultural districts. Allows a locality to create more than one arts and cultural district. The current language refers to the creation of a district in the singular.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) |
| HB1189 | Pass | Public schools; student data requests. Allows local school boards to develop a single, standardized form to obtain parental consent for the release of student data. If developed by the local school board, such form shall be used by Community Policy a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0546) |
| HB848 | Pass | Methamphetamine lab clean-up costs; reimbursement of localities. Allows localities to provide by ordinance that any person who is convicted of an offense for manufacture of methamphetamine shall be liable to the locality or other law-enforcement enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) |
| HB1186 | Pass | Attachments by cable television systems and telecommunications service providers to poles of electric cooperatives. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to determine just and reasonable rates, and certain terms and conditions of service, for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545) |
| SB551 | Pass | Real property tax; discount for payment in full. Allows a locality to provide, by ordinance, a discount for the payment of real estate taxes in full on or before the due date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585) |
| HB917 | Pass | Required meetings of regulatory boards at the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. Replaces specified intervals and number of meetings for regulatory boards under the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation with the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522) |
| SB475 | Pass | College partnership laboratory schools. Allows a private institution of higher education that operates a teacher education program approved by the Board of Education to operate a college partnership laboratory school. Currently, only a public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580) |
| SB604 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of brewery licensees. Allows a brewery licensee to sell at retail the brands of beer that the brewery owns at premises described in the brewery license for on-premises consumption and in closed containers for of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0619) |
| HB869 | Pass | Urban development areas. Makes incorporation of urban development areas optional rather than mandatory. Currently urban development areas are mandatory for many higher growth localities. The bill also makes technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0518) |
| HB378 | Pass | Funeral services licensees; continuing education requirements. Changes the continuing education requirements for funeral services licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers from 10 hours every two years to five hours per year, and allows the one hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| HB1073 | Pass | Real property tax; valuation of residential rental apartments. Requires that, in any appeal to a board of equalization concerning the fair market value of residential apartments in excess of four units, the board use the income approach to valuation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| HB902 | Pass | Condominium Act; time limits for expansion, contraction, or conversion of condominium. Increases from seven years to 10 years from the date of recordation of the declaration the time limit in which a declarant/developer of a condominium must exercise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520) |
| HB1111 | Pass | Fees for enforcement and appeals under Statewide Fire Prevention Code and Uniform Statewide Building Code. Defines the term "defray the cost" for purposes of fees authorized to be collected by a locality for costs for enforcement and appeals of the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0607) |
