| HB349 | Pass | Virginia War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission. Extends the time that the Commission may be funded upon the approval of the Joint Rules Committee, and provides that if the Commission is not funded by a separate appropriation in the appropriation act fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0495) |
| HB63 | Pass | Elections; provisional ballots; electoral board meetings. Provides that the meeting of the electoral board on the day or days following an election is open only to authorized party and candidate representatives, the persons who cast the provisional b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) |
| HB603 | Pass | Open enrollment policies; local school divisions. Provides that local school divisions may have policies that provide for the open enrollment to any school of any student residing within the school division upon the request of a parent or guardian. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB1286 | Pass | Local capital projects; utility relocation. Provides that certain utility companies shall cooperate and coordinate in the relocation of certain utilities so as to avoid unnecessary delays in the construction of local capital projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| HB238 | Pass | Management of blue crabs. Limits the Marine Resources Commission's fisheries management authority in the Albemarle and Currituck watersheds to the recreational and commercial harvest of blue crab.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| SB67 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints. Removes the option for a locality to require that an applicant for a concealed handgun permit submit fingerprints as part of the application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0557) |
| HB56 | Pass | Voter registration applications; protection of residence address information. Adds active and retired federal and Virginia justices and judges and attorneys employed by the United States Attorney General or Virginia Attorney General to the list of pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491) |
| HB54 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $125,594,000 plus financing costs, pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia, for paying costs of acqui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| SB395 | Pass | Virginia Commission on the Centennial of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency. Amends the third enactment of Chapter 667 of the Acts of Assembly of 2010 to extend the Commission contingent upon the receipt of private funding by July 1, 2013. In the event the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| SB57 | Pass | Absentee voting. Provides for an interval of at least five days after a person registers in person to vote before his absentee ballot application can be processed and includes an exception for military and overseas voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| HB1140 | Pass | Carisoprodol added to list of Schedule IV controlled substances. Adds carisoprodol to the list of Schedule IV controlled substances in the Drug Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| SB441 | Pass | Payment for burial expenses; Line of Duty Act. Authorizes the State Comptroller to release payments, advanced from the death benefits due to the beneficiary of a deceased person under the Line of Duty Act, to a funeral service provider for burial and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576) |
| HB1141 | Pass | Ezogabine; add to Schedule V. Adds ezogabine to Schedule V of the Drug Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| HB502 | Pass | Receipt required for certain rental payments; upon request. Requires that a landlord provide a tenant with a written receipt, upon the tenant's request, whenever the tenant pays rent in the form of cash or a money order. This bill is recommended by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 503 (effective 7/1/12) |
| HB1133 | Pass | Candidate petitions in primaries and general elections. Provides that candidate petitions in primaries and general elections must be witnessed by a legal resident of the Commonwealth who attests that he is not a minor or a felon whose voting rights h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) |
| HB282 | Pass | Divorce; revocation of death benefits; notice. Requires that every decree of divorce or annulment contain a notice alerting the parties that the final decree may not necessarily serve to revoke the designation of the other party as a beneficiary in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| SB249 | Pass | Marriage ceremonies; performance by those commissioned to pastoral ministry. Allows a person commissioned to pastoral ministry to obtain an order granting him the authority to perform marriage ceremonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565) |
| SB523 | Pass | Department of Minority Business Enterprise; certification of employment services organizations. Provides for the Department of Minority Business Enterprise to certify employment service organizations. Under the bill, "employment services organization...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583) |
| HB37 | Pass | Paid and volunteer officers of election. Provides that an officer of election may waive compensation and serve as an unpaid volunteer officer. Unpaid volunteer officers shall have the qualifications and fulfill the requirements applicable to paid off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| SB41 | Pass | Claims; Thomas Edward Haynesworth. Provides relief in the amount of $1,075,178 to Thomas Edward Haynesworth, who was incarcerated for 27 years from 1984 until 2011 after being convicted of crimes of rape, sodomy, abduction with intent to defile, atte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611) |
| HB803 | Pass | Charter; Town of Hillsboro in Loudoun County. Changes the election date for council members in even-numbered years to November, clarifies the voting authority of members who are appointed to fill unexpired terms, and updates a reference to Title 15.1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| HB93 | Pass | Pupil transportation; insurance requirements. Increases the minimum amount of vehicle liability insurance required to be carried by public schools in the instances of property damage, medical expense payment coverage, and accidents when all persons a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593) |
| HB327 | Pass | Historic structures; demolition. Provides that a locality may require by ordinance that certain structures within a historic district not be demolished until approved by the review board or, on appeal, the governing body after consultation with the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 494 (effective 7/1/12) |
| HB1154 | Pass | Department of State Police; access to electronic evidence. Provides for access by the Department of State Police to certain electronic evidence, documentation, and related materials that may be physically located outside the Commonwealth but that ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542) |
| SB240 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2012, election to approve or reject an amendment that revises the prohibition on the enactment by the Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564) |
| SB378 | Pass | DUI ignition interlock limitations. Provides that a person who is convicted of DUI may drive only with an ignition interlock after the first offense, as a condition of a restricted license, and is required to have an ignition interlock installed in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| HB475 | Pass | Involuntary commitment; mandatory outpatient treatment. Alters the criteria for ordering a person to mandatory outpatient treatment or discharging a person for a period of mandatory outpatient treatment following involuntary commitment, replacing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0501) |
| SB33 | Pass | Real estate with delinquent taxes or liens; City of Hampton. Adds the City of Hampton to a list of localities authorized to have a special commissioner appointed to execute the necessary deeds to convey certain real estate to the locality when the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) |
| SB31 | Pass | Bonds; capital projects at institutions of higher learning. Authorizes the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $125,594,000, plus financing costs, pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia, for paying costs of acqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556) |
| HB1245 | Pass | Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Changes the composition of the Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB21 | Pass | Elections; polling place requirements. Permits a polling place for a county precinct to be located in a city wholly contained within the county on property owned by the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| HB629 | Pass | University of Virginia; board of visitors. Increases the size of the board of visitors from 16 to 17, of whom (i) at least 12 shall be appointed from the Commonwealth at large, (ii) at least 12 shall be alumni of the University of Virginia, and (iii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0599) |
| HB190 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for disabled veterans. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services to promulgate rules and regulations for the administration and implementation of the real property tax exemption for disabled veterans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| SB140 | Pass | Fire insurance; coverage for costs of services by volunteer fire departments. Requires fire insurance policies to provide coverage, with limits not less than $250, for the cost charged by a volunteer fire department that is not fully funded by proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0561) |
| HB1269 | Pass | Board of zoning appeals. Provides that if certain votes of a local board of zoning appeals result in a tie vote, the person filing an appeal may have the matter carried over until the next meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0550) |
| HB630 | Pass | Racketeering; forfeiture. Amends provisions that allow for forfeiture of real or personal property used in substantial connection with racketeering offenses to provide that the interest or profits derived from the investment of the forfeited money ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| SB473 | Pass | Fort Monroe Authority Act; declaration of policy. Removes the requirement for the consent of both the Governor and the General Assembly in cases where real property interests in the Area of Operation at Fort Monroe are sold. The bill retains, however...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| HB621 | Pass | Obsolete housing laws; repeal. Repeals two chapters of Title 36 that deal with World War II era defense housing projects and housing projects for veterans. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| HB316 | Pass | Cemeteries. Clarifies the uses that shall be included in the approval of a cemetery without further zoning approval being required. The bill becomes effective on January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB492 | Pass | Cutting of grass; City of Hopewell. Adds Hopewell to the list of localities that may enforce a grass cutting ordinance on occupied property. The existing general provisions apply to vacant property only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| HB177 | Pass | Health records privacy; disclosure to emergency medical services councils. Provides that health care providers shall disclose health information to a regional emergency medical services council when the health information and data will be used for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| HB564 | Pass | Electric utility ratemaking incentives; landfill gas. Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to earn an enhanced rate of return, equal to 200 basis points above the authorized rate of return, on their investments in generation facilities that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| HB493 | Pass | Cutting of grass; Prince George County. Adds Prince George County to the list of localities that may enforce a grass cutting ordinance on occupied property. The existing general provisions apply to vacant property only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| HB3 | Pass | Requirement that certain injuries to children be reported. Adds athletic coaches, directors, or other persons aged 18 years or older employed by or volunteering with private sports organizations or teams and administrators or employees aged 18 years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) |
| HB504 | Pass | Virginia Center for School Safety; antibullying training. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety to provide training on antibullying tactics to public school personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| SB8 | Pass | Guardians; disposition of remains. Grants both public and private guardians authority to make arrangements for the funeral and disposition of remains, including cremation, interment, entombment, memorialization, inurnment, or scattering of the crema...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| HB326 | Pass | Proffered conditions; amendments or variations. Provides that a landowner subject to certain proffered conditions may apply to the governing body for amendments to or variations of such proffered conditions, provided only that written notice of such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415) |
| HB170 | Pass | Review of zoning administrator decisions; appeals. Provides that in instances in which decisions of a zoning administrator are reviewed by the governing body, the governing body's decision shall be appealable to the circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| HB166 | Pass | Decisions of zoning administrator. Narrows the instances in which a zoning administrator may modify certain previously issued written orders outside a 60-day time period by deleting the phrase "or other nondiscretionary" from the provision that curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| SB472 | Pass | Common Interest Community Board; Virginia Condominium Act; Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; common interest communities. Authorizes the Common Interest Community Board to terminate inactive condominium or time-share registrations. In addition, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
