VA Legislation | 2012 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB401	Engross 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 has technical amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB348	Engross Sine Die	Agency Effectiveness Review Commission. Establishes the Agency Effectiveness Review Commission to review state agencies on a five-year cycle and advise the General Assembly on the efficiency and effectiveness of such agencies. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB317	Engross Sine Die	Drug Treatment Courts. Provides for the establishment of drug treatment courts in the City of Danville and the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Goochland, Montgomery, Russell, and Washington, and a drug treatment court in the County of Wise that shal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB644	Engross Sine Die	Foreclosure counseling pilot program. Directs the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a pilot program for Prince William County and the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park under which qualified employees of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB345	Engross Sine Die	Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty. Raises the penalty for a person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause another to actively participate in or become a member of what he knows to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB4	Engross 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 an overt a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB127	Engross Sine Die	Sex offender registry; juvenile registration. Requires registration on the sex offender registry for juveniles who were over the age of 13 at the time of the offense who were adjudicated delinquent on or after July 1, 2012, of rape, forcible sodomy, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB587	Engross Sine Die	Special license plates; Virginia's Eastern Shore. Changes the special license plates promoting tourism on Virginia's Eastern Shore from nonrevenue sharing to revenue sharing. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Transportation Committee
SB130	Engross Sine Die	Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of $1 million in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB446	Engross Sine Die	Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in each year ending in one for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commissi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB623	Engross Sine Die	Higher education; mental health treatment coordination. Requires the governing board of each four-year public institution of higher education to establish a written memorandum of understanding with their local community services board or behavioral h... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Education Committee
SB552	Engross Sine Die	Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families assistance shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of pos... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB255	Engross Sine Die	Thomas Nelson Community College; pilot program for high school seniors. Requires Thomas Nelson Community College to create a pilot program to allow certain high school seniors to enroll in Thomas Nelson Community College full-time. Tuition and fees w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB467	Engross Sine Die	Smoking; prohibition on the grounds of public elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools. Expands the prohibition on smoking in the interior of public elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools to include the grounds of such schools. The bi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House General Laws Committee
SB468	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking in public buildings prohibited; penalty. Prohibits smoking in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof, and authorizes each locality to enact ordinances prohibiting smoking in any b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House General Laws Committee
SB549	Engross Sine Die	Machinery and Tools Investment Grant Program. Creates a grant program that would allow a person to apply for a grant for machinery and tools in service less than two years equal to the amount of local machinery and tools taxes paid. The amount of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB620	Engross Sine Die	Federal government contractor grant program. Establishes a federal government contractor grant fund and program beginning January 1, 2013, for federal contractors with at least 250 full-time employees that subcontract with small or minority-owned, ve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House General Laws Committee
SB262	Engross Sine Die	Microenterprise investment grant program. Creates a grant program for individuals who make a qualified investment in a microenterprise. The amount of the credit shall be 25 percent of an investment in a green business microenterprise or a microenterp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House General Laws Committee
HB117	Engross 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 has technical amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 House: Failed to pass in House
SB205	Engross Sine Die	Collection of forensic evidence; consent. Allows the collection of forensic evidence in cases of suspected sexual assault where the alleged victim may not be legally capable of giving consent. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB250	Engross Sine Die	Department of Minority Business Enterprise; small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses; enhancement or remedial measures. Authorizes the Department of Minority Business Enterprise to investigate complaints alleging that a business certified as... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB236	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; multiple project contracts for architectural or professional engineering services relating to construction. Raises, for certain local public bodies, the maximum cost of all projects in one contract term of a multiple ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House General Laws Committee
SB508	Engross Sine Die	In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard residing in Virginia who is not eligible for in-state tuition shall be eligible for a grant for an amount up to the difference between ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1124	Engross Sine Die	Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 House: Failed to pass in House
SB486	Engross Sine Die	Harassment by computer by prisoners; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a prisoner or a person acting on behalf of a prisoner to use a computer, computer network, or social networking site to harass, intimidate, or threaten a crime victim. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB188	Engross Sine Die	Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall implement a system to accept absentee ballot applications electronically. Currently, an applicant may request and receive, but... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
SB261	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Preschool Initiative Local Grant Program. Creates a grant program to be administered by the Virginia Department of Education to improve training for preschool educators; create, outfit, or expand preschool classrooms; implement the Virginia ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB535	Engross Sine Die	Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB464	Engross Sine Die	Hunting on Sundays. Allows the hunting of wild birds or wild animals including nuisance species on Sundays (i) by a landowner or the landowner's immediate family on his property or by any person on private property with the written permission of the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
SB125	Engross Sine Die	Line of Duty Act. Allows a political subdivision with employees eligible for coverage under the Line of Duty Act to make an irrevocable election, on or before July 1, 2013, to self-fund the benefits available under the Line of Duty Act. The bill cont... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB136	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as police chief in certain towns. Provides that a retiree receiving retirement benefits may be hired as a police chief in any town with a population less than 10,000 without interruption of his retirement be... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB111	Engross Sine Die	Sanctions with Unified Rapid Enforcement (SURE) probation program created. Creates a specialized probation program available to offenders who are on probation pursuant to a suspended sentence and have not been convicted of a violent felony. The progr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB85	Engross Sine Die	Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Broadens eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program by including students whose Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the fa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB84	Engross Sine Die	Foster care; independent living services. Extends the time during which a person who was in foster care on his eighteenth birthday and who has not reached the age of 21 years may request restoration of independent living services from 60 days to 180 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB104	Engross Sine Die	Higher education; partial tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty. Requires public institutions of higher education to grant a 50 percent tuition waiver to dependent students of current full-time faculty members who have been employed full t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB482	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspectors; examination; initial asbestos worker license applicants. Provides for the Board for Asbestos, Lead, Mold, and Home Inspectors to require initial applicants for an asbestos worker license t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House General Laws Committee
SB420	Engross Sine Die	Sex Offender Registry; listing of laws. Requires the Attorney General to annually prepare a listing of laws containing requirements and prohibitions affecting persons who must register as sex offenders and to communicate the list to the Departments o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB359	Engross Sine Die	Trap, Neuter, and Return Programs. Permits a pound, animal shelter, or humane society to operate a program of trapping, vaccinating, and sterilizing feral cats before returning them to the sites where they were trapped. The bill excludes a person who... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
SB585	Engross Sine Die	Psychiatric hospital admissions; local inmates. Amends the criteria for psychiatric inpatient admission for inmates at local correctional facilities to add mentally ill inmates for whom there exists a substantial likelihood that they will suffer seri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB66	Engross Sine Die	Failure to report missing child; penalty. Provides that any parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care of a child under the age of 12 who, with intent to conceal the fact that the child is missing, fails to report to law enforcement t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
HB958	Engross Sine Die	Arresting officer to ascertain citizenship of arrestee. Supplements the existing law that requires sheriffs to make a query into legal presence when a person is "taken into custody" at a jail. This bill expands such inquiries by requiring inquiries o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 House: Failed to pass in House
SB431	Engross Sine Die	Financial exploitation of elderly or incapacitated adults; penalty. Provides that it is a felony punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not less than one nor more than 20 years to knowingly and without legal justification, by... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB570	Engross Sine Die	Circuit courts; number of judges; Tenth Circuit. Adds a fourth circuit court judge to the Tenth Judicial Circuit. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Appropriations Committee
SB355	Engross Sine Die	Land preservation tax credits; information about approved credits. Requires the Department of Taxation to publish and annually update a list that indicates the aggregate number of acres in each county or city for which tax credits were issued. The l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Finance Committee
SB365	Engross Sine Die	Judgments for motor vehicle accident damages; orders for suspension. Provides that a suspension of a judgment debtor's driver's license shall not extend (i) beyond 10 years from the date of judgment for any civil judgment obtained in a general distri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Courts of Justice Committee
SB386	Engross Sine Die	Conversion of leased property. Removes the provision that a person who fails to return leased property within 10 days after expiration of the lease or rental period stated in a written lease is deemed guilty of larceny. The bill also removes the prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Courts of Justice Committee
HB624	Engross Sine Die	Sex offender registry; juvenile registration. Requires registration on the sex offender registry for juveniles who were over the age of 13 at the time of the offense who were adjudicated delinquent on or after July 1, 2005, of rape, forcible sodomy, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 House: Failed to pass in House
HJR74	Engross Sine Die	Celebrating the life of the Honorable Elmon Taylor Gray, former member of the Senate of Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate
SB100	Engross Sine Die	Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to two-year college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds paid shall not exceed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-10 To House Education Committee
HB1301	Engross Sine Die	Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2013, and the thirtieth day of June, 2014. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2012-03-09 Senate: Continued to a 2012 Special Session of the General Assembly (15-Y 0-N)