| HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Dangerous wild animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to privately possess, sell, transfer, or breed dangerous wild animals, which are identified by taxonomic classification. The bill would grandfather in the ownership of any existing lawful dangero...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
House: Continued to 2013 with substitute in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Bicycles helmets. Makes the hitherto local-option bicycle helmet law applicable statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Authority to create separate special hunting licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to create separate special licenses for the hunting of bear, deer, and turkey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Devocalization of cats and dogs; penalty. Requires veterinarians to keep records of devocalization procedures and provides that any person, including a licensed veterinarian, who performs a surgical devocalization on a cat or dog when such procedure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
House: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes against incapacitated or elder 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, knowi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentive payments for use of domestic tobacco by nonparticipating manufacturers. Extends through 2014 the incentive payments made to certain nonparticipating manufacturers using domestic tobacco to manufacture cigarettes. Incentive payments in 2013 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase or lease of computer equipment or enabling software by data centers by extending it to tenants of the centers, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Finance |
| SB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. Eliminates the sunset on the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. Currently the credit is set to expire on January 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Finance |
| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of certain adults; penalty. Provides that it is larceny for a person to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert, take control of or endeav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalty for DUI manslaughter. Provides that the punishment for DUI manslaughter is to include a one-year mandatory term of confinement and raises the mandatory minimum term for aggravated DUI manslaughter from one to five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Postrelease supervision of felons. Amends provisions regarding the imposition of an additional term of incarceration and postrelease supervision for certain felons who are sentenced to an active prison term. The bill clarifies that an additional ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Property conveyance. Authorizes the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Governor and in a form approved by the Attorney General, to convey to the County of Accomack for the nominal consideration of $1 a parcel of land with improv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 1-N) |
| HB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Invasive plants. Instructs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt regulations for the control of invasive plants. The bill classifies invasive plants as belonging to one of two tiers, depending upon whether the plant is widely dissem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
House: Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults; penalty. Provides that it unlawful to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert, or take control of an elde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption; construction materials. Establishes a two-year sales tax moratorium for construction materials and supplies purchased by licensed contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB56 | Engross
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] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (14-Y 25-N) |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; alcohol; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person who is under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs to carry a loaded firearm on or about his person in a public place and that a person found guilty is ineligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N) |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | On-road clean screen program; vehicle emissions inspection. Includes the on-road clean screen program and on-road emissions inspections as comparable equipment and devices to satisfy emissions inspections in the Commonwealth. The bill contains techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms transfers; penalties. Creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a person who is not a licensed dealer to sell, rent, trade, or transfer a firearm to any other person who is not a licensed dealer. The bill also creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for an interpreter for a non-English-speaking defendant shall be borne by the defendant if he is convicted of the criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-01
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| HJR185 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; support of hybrid systems of combined highway and monorail transportation methods. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the Congress of the United States should support a federal funding grant for development of ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Kenneth and Leslie VanAuken. Provides relief in the amount of $6,476 to Kenneth and Leslie VanAuken, who incurred rent, utility, and other expenses on behalf of a member of their household who was wrongly accused of abusing another member of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB833 | Intro
Sine Die | State song. Designates "At Home in Virginia" by Evi Burgin as the state song of Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Town of St. Paul; authority to prohibit the use of compression release engine brakes. Authorizes the Town of St. Paul to adopt an ordinance prohibiting or regulating the use of compression release engine brakes within the jurisdiction of the Town. An...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB666 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure requirements. Requires the disclosure of any state tax credit on income taxes received by a member, a member of his immediate family, or a person with whom the member had a close financial assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Provides that the health insurance credit currently being provided to retired teachers would also be provided to all retired employees of the local school division at the option of the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (6-Y 8-N) |
| HB691 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure requirements. Requires a member to file an addendum to his statement of economic interests within 30 days of receiving a gift with a value of $1,000 or more. The requirement does not apply to gi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate and House Committees on Standards of Conduct. Requires each house to establish a Committee on Standards of Conduct and expands the Committee from three to five members to include a retired justice or judge and an attorney experienced in ethics...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; method of nominating party candidates. Provides that the duly constituted authorities of the political party shall determine the method of nominating party candidates and deletes provisions giving incumbent officeholders the power in some ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N 1-A) |
| SJR67 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Revises the prohibition on the enactment by the General Assembly of laws whereby private property may be taken or damaged. An existing provision authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Public libraries; library boards; exceptions. Adds the County of Middlesex to the localities that are not required to have public library boards. As a result, the public library can be operated as a department of local government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| HB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Discharge from a training center; consent of parent, guardian, or responsible person required. Provides that a consumer in a training center shall only be discharged upon consent of the consumer or, if the consumer lacks capacity to consent, upon the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB510 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections and ballots. Allows write-in votes in primary elections. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. The bill requires the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR117 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Revises the prohibition on the enactment by the General Assembly of laws whereby private property may be taken or damaged. An existing provision authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB390 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; creation of new regulatory program; study by the Board for Professional and Occupational Regulation. Provides that no bill that would result in the creation of a new regulatory program or a change in the level of regulation of a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate Health Care Compact established. Creates the Interstate Health Care Compact to (i) secure the right of the member states to regulate health care in their respective states pursuant to the compact and to suspend the operation of any confli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Radiology benefits managers. Requires that any decision by a radiology benefits manager to deny a treating physician's order or recommendation for a diagnostic radiology test be made by a physician. An authorization to perform a diagnostic radiology ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Continued to 2013 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HJR139 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; requesting the Governor to petition the DEA for rescheduling of marijuana; report. Requests that the Governor petition the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to amend regulations governing the scheduling of drugs to mov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers retirement; early retirement. Requires that all employers electing to provide benefits equivalent to the State Police Officers' Retirement System for employees in hazardous duty positions consider employees eligible for full ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB291 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban development areas. Makes incorporation of urban development areas optional rather than mandatory. Any locality that has previously adopted urban development areas may reconsider such action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Local Government |
| HB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of dead bodies; how expenses paid. Requires court authorization for a county or city to pay reasonable expenses for the disposition of a dead body in all cases in which a dead body is unclaimed or is claimed by a claimant who is unable to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Continued to 2013 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| HJR282 | Pass | General Assembly. Expresses appreciation for the hospitality extended by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ282ER) |
| HB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure requirements. Requires prompt disclosure of gifts of travel with a value greater than $500.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Four-for-Life; substantive review. Requires that a reallocation of moneys set aside from the Four-for-Life fees be made pursuant to legislation that has been reviewed by the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee and the Senate Committee on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR281 | Pass | General Assembly; Joint Assembly to receive the Governor and other distinguished guests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ281ER) |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; solicitation of absentee ballot applications or ballots. Makes it unlawful for anyone to solicit, in person, absentee ballot applications or ballots from individuals in any hospital, nursing home, or assisted living facility. The prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR106 | Intro
Sine Die | National Women's History Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Supports the creation of a National Women's History Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to recognize and honor the contributions and achievements of women in the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Code Commission; public comment on revision, repeal, and recodification of Code sections. Requires the Virginia Code Commission to solicit public comment annually concerning titles and sections of the Code of Virginia that should be reviewed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification requirements; absentee voting eligibility and procedures. Revises the list of items that a voter may show to prove identification at the polls. The bill adds to the list several items now allowed to prove the identity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
