| HB431 | Pass | Charter; City of Fairfax. Provides that council vacancies shall be filled in accordance with general law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| HB438 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for certain local law-enforcement employees. Provides that if an employee who has at least five years in a position covered by the higher retirement benefits plan authorized for certain local law-enforcement emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| HB445 | Pass | Adoption procedures. Makes various changes to adoption procedures, including establishing a procedure for review of petitions filed for the purpose of obtaining a juvenile and domestic relations district court's assistance with the execution of conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| HB299 | Pass | Sales and use tax exemption; certain educational materials. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2017, on the sales and use tax exemption for textbooks and other educational materials withdrawn from inventory at book-publishing distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| HB1134 | Pass | Line of Duty Act; definition of deceased person; DMV. Includes any full-time sworn member of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles in the definition of "deceased person" for the purposes of the Line of Duty Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| HB58 | Pass | Urban county executive form; board of supervisors. Provides that in a county with the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) a special election to fill a vacancy on the board shall be called no fewer than 45 days, rather than 30 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) |
| HB457 | Pass | Charter; City of Newport News. Amends provisions related to the city's boundary by adding references to bodies of water located within the city or located between its territory and any other jurisdiction. The bill also removes a provision that requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| HB927 | Pass | Purchasers of secondhand metal items. Adds to the definition of proprietary articles any telecommunications cable that is one-half of one inch or greater in diameter and that contains 50 or more individual strands of solid, insulated, color-coded cop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| HB52 | Pass | Disclosure of certain tax information by the Attorney General. Permits the Attorney General to disclose certain information related to the sale and taxation of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB632 | Pass | Charter; Town of Windsor. Provides for a transition to November elections and makes a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| SB354 | Pass | Beehive Grant Program. Creates the Beehive Grant Fund and Beehive Grant Program for new beehives. The grant is $200 to registered beekeepers for each new hive purchased or materials or supplies purchased to construct a new hive. The bill limits the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| HB451 | Pass | Adoption; appointment of counsel. Provides that a parent who does not consent to the adoption of the parent's child, but whose consent to the adoption is required, shall be appointed counsel upon the parent's request if such parent is determined to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| HB45 | Pass | General Assembly; continuance of case. Provides that the continuance as a matter of right that a party to a proceeding in any court or other tribunal may obtain if he, prior to or during the session of the General Assembly, has retained an attorney t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
| HB278 | Pass | Bonds in recognizances; how payable. Provides that bonds in recognizances in criminal or juvenile cases are payable to the county or city where the case is prosecuted, not the locality where the recognizance was taken.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) |
| SB364 | Pass | Police-requested vehicular towing. Allows "police-requested towing" to be initiated by uniformed employees of the local police department who are authorized to do so by the chief local law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474) |
| HB550 | Pass | Submission of agency reports; electronic format. Allows agency reports to be submitted in written or electronic format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB300 | Pass | Beehive Grant Program. Creates the Beehive Grant Fund and Beehive Grant Program for new beehives. The grant is $200 to registered beekeepers for each new hive purchased or materials or supplies purchased to construct a new hive. The bill limits the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| HB210 | Pass | Regulation of real estate appraisal management companies. Adds definitions of "appraisal services” and "appraiser" and provides exemptions from licensure for certain entities. The bill also (i) authorizes the Board, beginning July 1, 2014, to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) |
| HB460 | Pass | Corporate income tax; single sales factor apportionment for income of manufacturers. Repeals the penalties that would have been assessed on any manufacturer that elected the single sales factor apportionment for income and that did not maintain certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB871 | Pass | Insurance agents; limited burial insurance authority. Eliminates the provision in the definition of a limited burial insurance authority that imposes a $10,000 limit on burial insurance society memberships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| HB1251 | Pass | Charter; Town of Cedar Bluff. Shifts the town's elections from May to November and extends the mayor's term from two to four years. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| HB38 | Pass | Absentee voting; duties of general registrar and electoral board. Broadens the type of certification of mailing permitted when sending absentee ballot materials to include certification of expedited mailing or delivery by commercial delivery provider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| SB368 | Pass | Major business facility job tax credit. Extends the expiration of the period during which the major business facility job tax credit may be taken within a two-year allowance from December 31, 2012, to December 31, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| HB286 | Pass | Previous garnishments; costs. Allows costs incurred by a judgment creditor in connection with a prior garnishment to be collected in a subsequent garnishment attempt that is based on the same judgment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409) |
| SB280 | Pass | Vehicle insurance. Places time limits on appeals of DMV suspensions of driver's licenses, registration certificates, and license plates for neither having vehicle insurance nor having paid the uninsured vehicle fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0471) |
| HB203 | Pass | Special assessments for local improvements; City of Hampton. Adds the City of Hampton to the lists of localities that may impose special assessments upon abutting property owners for improvements related to the initial paving of streets, flood preven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB32 | Pass | Charter; Town of Brodnax. Changes the town council quorum from five to four. The council consists of seven councilmen and a mayor. The mayor votes only in the case of a tie vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| SB36 | 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 (CHAP0465) |
| SB34 | Pass | Landlord accounting of tenant credits and debits; upon request. Compels a landlord, upon the written request of a tenant, to produce a written accounting of charges and payments from the tenant over the tenancy or the past 12 months, whichever is sho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| HB197 | Pass | Town of Chincoteague; ordinance requiring the cutting of grass. Adds the Town of Chincoteague to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance for the cutting of grass and weeds on occupied property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403) |
| HB480 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); attendance by certain members in a closed meeting. Provides that a member of a public body shall be permitted to attend a closed meeting held by any of its committees or subcommittees, provided such member ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| HB481 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure forms. Removes the signature notarization requirement from the Statement of Economic Interests disclosure form filed by certain state and local officers and employees. In addition, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| SB393 | Pass | Media-related tax exemptions. Extends, until 2017, the sunset on media-related tax exemptions for catalogs, letters, brochures, reports, and other similar printed materials when stored for 12 months or less in the Commonwealth and distributed for use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| HJR216 | Pass | X & Y Chromosomal Variation Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as X & Y Chromosomal Variation Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
House: Introduced bill reprinted 12102951D |
| HB13 | Pass | Elections; redistricting local districts; prison populations. Provides that the local governing body may exclude from its calculations in drawing local districts for decennial redistricting the population of certain adult correctional facilities. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| HB638 | Pass | Judicial authorization of treatment; advance directives. Provides that a court may authorize medical treatment for an incapacitated person when there is no available person with legal authority to make such decisions under (i) the advance directive o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB479 | Pass | Contraband and tax-paid cigarettes; penalties. Establishes legal limits and imposes criminal and civil penalties for possession with intent to distribute contraband tax-paid cigarettes by parties outside the legitimate distribution chain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| HB1188 | Pass | Human trafficking; information for public schools. Requires the Board of Education, with assistance from the Department of Social Services, to provide awareness and training materials for local school division staff on human trafficking, including st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0370) |
| HB1202 | 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] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371) |
| HB963 | Pass | Solicitation of child pornography. Provides that any person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade another person to send, submit, transfer, or provide to him any child pornography in order to gain entry into a group, association,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369) |
| HB686 | Pass | Special license plates; veterans of Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to veterans of Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm and exempts those license plates from minimum pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| HB359 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; regulations; leasing of licensed premises by breweries. Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations prescribing the terms and conditions under which a licensed brewery may manufacture beer pursuant to an agreement with a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| HB1211 | Pass | Auxiliary grants; third-party payments. Provides that assisted living facilities and adult foster care homes may accept payments from third parties for certain goods and services provided to auxiliary grant recipients provided certain requirements ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB839 | Pass | Defective drywall; definition. Redefines the term "defective drywall" to mean drywall or similar building material composed of dried gypsum-based plaster that (i) contains elemental sulfur exceeding 10 parts per million as has been found in some dryw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| HB1152 | Pass | Threat assessment teams; criminal history and juvenile records. Authorizes threat assessment teams established by private nonprofit institutions of higher education to receive health and criminal history records of students for the purposes of assess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386) |
| SB608 | Pass | Charter; Town of Gate City. Extends council terms from two to four years and staggers elections. The bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| HB1238 | Pass | Redirection of forfeited drug assets to construction of Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial. Provides that between July 1, 2012, and July 1, 2014, local agencies may direct cash funds and proceeds from forfeited drug assets to the Virginia Public Sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) |
| HB971 | Pass | Barrier crimes. Adds the following crimes to various barrier crimes statutes: abduction, extortion, and felony violations of protective orders. People who have been convicted of or are the subject of pending charges of one of those crimes will not be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| HB852 | Pass | Student records; mental health. Clarifies that an institution of higher education may require that any accepted student provide a complete student record, including any mental health record, from not only his high school but also any other institutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) |
| HB719 | Pass | Special hunting and fishing license for disabled veterans. Allows a veteran who is permanently disabled due to a service-connected disability to obtain at no cost a combined hunting and freshwater fishing lifetime license, or a separate hunting or fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) |
