| HJR109 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to impose a balanced budget requirement. Expresses the General Assembly's support for a balanced budget amendment and urges Congress to submit such an amendment to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; membership. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement benefits unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR130 | Intro
Sine Die | State sovereignty; Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Urges Congress to honor state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and claims sovereignty for the Commonwealth under the Tenth Amendment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-31
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Rape by coercion. Provides that any person who has sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, accomplished against the complaining witness's will by coercion, is guilty of rape. Currently such an offense must be accomplished by force, threat, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil commitment of sexually violent predators. Removes current language citing the Static-99 and score of "5" as the factor that determines whether violent sex offenders who are being released from prison must be referred for further review for poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearings in the Supreme Court of Virginia; Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission. Clarifies that the hearings allowed under the Constitution related to complaints filed by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission are to be evidentiary hearings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB572 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for local businesses. Allows a locality to give a procurement preference to persons, firms, or corporations having principal places of business in the locality if such bidder's bid is within five percent of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly and incapacitated; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly exploits the impaired mental or physical capacity of an incapacitated adult or an adult (defined in the section as 60 years old or older) by decepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Neighborhood assistance tax credits. Provides that an auxiliary, subsidiary, or subordinate of a §501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) nonprofit is a neighborhood organization that may submit a proposal for an allocation of neighborhood assistance tax credits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; officers processing clandestine drug laboratories. Establishes a presumption that any respiratory disease or pancreatic, prostate, rectal, throat, ovarian, or breast cancer causing the death of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; resident employment and apprenticeship participation; required contract provisions. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract of more than $100,000 that involves the performance of work within the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 2-N) |
| HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Bank franchise tax; apportionment. Provides that the bank franchise tax for banks operating in multiple states shall be apportioned according to the proportion of the bank's deposits held in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB882 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults; barrier crimes; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast horse racing; allocations. Authorizes wagering on historical horse racing. The bill also allocates the proceeds from such racing with 50 percent of the proceeds distributed to the Commonwealth Transportation Trus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB925 | Intro
Sine Die | Castle doctrine; self-defense and defense of others. Codifies a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, by a person in his dwelling against an intruder in the dwelling who has committed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes; urinating in public. Creates the crime of urinating in public, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on administrative actions relating to Firearms Act. Establishes legislative preemption of any administrative action taken by an administrative body that has the direct or indirect effect of governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic filing of search warrant affidavits. Allows for the electronic filing of search warrant affidavits by use of portable document format (PDF) in addition to the currently authorized electronic facsimile submission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Confederate Memorial Chapel; state war memorial. Provides for the Governor to designate the Confederate Memorial Chapel an official state war memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Public employment; nondiscrimination. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on sexual orientation. The bill defines "sexual orientation" as a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, or gender ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by for the day in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Power of attorney; embezzlement by agent; penalty. Emphasizes that an agent who violates the Uniform Power of Attorney Act with the intent to defraud the principal and who thereby converts funds or other property is guilty of embezzlement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information checks upon handgun purchases; dissemination of information. The bill limits the requirement for a Virginia-specific criminal history record information check to the purchase of handguns. The bill requires the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| HB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawyers; client accounts. Repeals the provision prohibiting the Supreme Court of Virginia from adopting a disciplinary rule requiring that lawyers deposit client funds in an interest-bearing account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (8-Y 9-N) |
| SB525 | 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] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Poker; definition of illegal gambling and charitable gaming; poker games authorized; regulation of poker tournaments. Provides that poker is a game of skill and therefore not illegal gambling. The bill also allows a qualified organization to conduct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; fingerprint submission upon application. Removes the provision allowing localities to require a person to submit to fingerprinting upon application for a concealed handgun permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Asbestos workers; violations; penalties. Requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to maintain a registry of employee complaints alleging the existence or imminent threat of an asbestos NESHAP violation. The measure prohibits employers from dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credit; application for credits prior to any donation. Provides that beginning January 1, 2013, a donor would be given the option to apply to the Department of Taxation for land preservation tax credits prior to making any donat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Immigration query at arrest or during detention. Provides that when a law-enforcement officer lawfully detains a person following a lawful stop, detention, or arrest of such person for a suspected criminal offense or traffic infraction or upon reason...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Group health insurance; small employers. Provides that a small employer, for purposes of small group coverage under a health insurance plan or policy, is one who employs between two and 50 employees who are covered under a group health plan offered b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| HB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that roll-back taxes shall not apply to real property that loses its designation as devoted to agricultural or horticultural use because of excavation of sand or gravel on it, provided that such propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of its operating budget allocated to instructional spending. The Board must report annually to the House ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Education |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | State song. Designates "Shenandoah" as the official state song. The bill also contains a technical amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Combined heat and power facilities; incentives. Provides that combined heat and power facilities that meet the output and efficiency qualifications for the federal combined heat and power tax credit are eligible for a performance incentive of 200 bas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder if the bid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB700 | 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] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; volunteer service requirement. Provides that eligibility for unemployment benefits is contingent upon the claimant's performance of at least 24 hours per week of volunteer service with a nonprofit charitable organization. This ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 1-N) |
| HB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony to knowingly, by deception, intimidation, undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, or misrepresentation, use, obtain, convert, or take control...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Castle doctrine. Encodes a version of the "castle doctrine," allowing the use of physical force, including deadly force, by a person in his dwelling against an intruder in the dwelling who has committed an overt act against him or another person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Tangible personal property tax relief. Requires that beginning with tax year 2013 the reimbursement paid by the Commonwealth to localities for providing tangible personal property tax relief would be apportioned approximately in an equal dollar amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Deferred disposition in a criminal case. Provides that except as otherwise provided in law, a trial court presiding in a criminal case shall, unless all parties agree to a waiver of the requirement, announce a judgment of, or enter an order of, conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoration of parental rights. Creates a procedure for restoring the parental rights to a child's parent whose rights as to that child had previously been terminated, provided certain conditions exist. The petition to restore a parent's rights may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Juveniles; trial as adults. Allows prosecutors the discretion to have juveniles charged with violations of certain gang offenses and repeat violations of certain drug offenses to be transferred to the circuit court for trial as an adult. The bill als...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; integrated resource plans. Provides that an electric utility's integrated resource plan should identify a portfolio of electric generation supply resources that is most likely to provide the electric generation supply needed to me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N 1-A) |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity for persons acting in defense of persons. Provides civil immunity for an occupant of a dwelling who injures or kills another while engaged in the defense of his dwelling when (i) the other person has unlawfully entered the dwelling and commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Victims of unlawful filming; civil action. Creates a civil cause of action for victims of unlawful filming, videotaping, or photographing for which a victim may be awarded $150,000 per offense or actual damages sustained, whichever is greater, toget...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB526 | 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] | 2012-01-30
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Local taxes; interest on refunds and delinquent taxes. Authorizes localities not to pay interest on the refund of local taxes when the refund is due to errors made by the taxpayer. This bill also has technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HJR196 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Warren Calvin Falwell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ196ER) |
| HJR195 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Betty Louise Jones Gilliam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ195ER) |
