| HB9 | Pass | Voter identification requirements; provisional ballots. Eliminates the provision that allows a voter to sign a sworn statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be in lieu of showing identification. The bill allows the voter without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838) |
| SB1 | Pass | Voter identification requirements; provisional ballots. Eliminates the provision that allows a voter to sign a sworn statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be in lieu of showing identification. A voter without acceptable identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0839) |
| SB629 | Veto | Sanitation districts; commission expenses. Provides that members of sanitation district commissions may be paid a reasonable per diem not to exceed $1,500 annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB968 | Pass | Manufacturing, etc., Schedule I and II drugs. Adds a mandatory minimum term of confinement of three years for a second or subsequent conviction of manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute a Schedule I or I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844) |
| HB137 | Pass | Workers' compensation; injuries presumed to be in course of employment. Revises the provision enacted in 2011 that created a presumption, in the absence of a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, that an injury is work related if an employee is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841) |
| HB904 | Pass | Charter; Town of Middleburg. Empowers the town council to designate architectural control districts, specifying the issues of importance that the council must address through the design standards it adopts for each district. The amendments would requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843) |
| HB1183 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority. Amends several provisions relating to the Virginia Port Authority and the conduct of its business. The bill (i) extends until 2017 the international trade facility tax credit, the barge and rail usage tax credit, and the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| HB1181 | Pass | Public schools; reading intervention. Requires local school divisions to provide reading intervention services to students in grade three who demonstrate deficiencies based on their individual performance on the Standards of Learning reading test or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0845) |
| SB217 | Veto | Public schools; residency of children in kinship care. Allows a child receiving kinship care from a close relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bill also allows local school divisions to require one le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB530 | Pass | Public hearings prior to certain VDOT projects. Requires the institution of higher education to hold at least one public hearing before VDOT undertakes any safety-related or congestion management-related highway project requested by any college, univ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848) |
| HB1230 | Pass | Privatization of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy. Requires the Director of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy and the Board for Protection and Advocacy to establish a nonprofit organization to provide advocacy, legal, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847) |
| SB578 | Pass | Virginia Port Authority. Amends several provisions relating to the Virginia Port Authority and the conduct of its business. The bill (i) extends until 2017 the international trade facility tax credit, the barge and rail usage tax credit, and the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0849) |
| HB35 | Pass | Collection of state taxes; period of limitation. Reduces the period of limitation for the collection of state taxes from 10 years to seven years. The bill also provides that if no contact has been made with a delinquent taxpayer for a period of six y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840) |
| HB321 | Pass | Tax credits; assistance to low-income families, scholarships for K through 12 students attending private schools. Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2013 for individuals, business entities, and corporations making monetary donations to no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842) |
| SB22 | Pass | Real property tax; exemption for disabled veterans. Provides that the real property tax exemption for veterans whose disability rating occurs after January 1, 2011, begins on the date of the rating. The bill also clarifies that a locality is not liab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| SB398 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising; penalty. Requires all outdoor advertising of alcoholic beverages to be in compliance with ABC law, ABC Board regulations, and VDOT law and regulations concerning outdoor advertising. The bill also sets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) |
| HB185 | Pass | Manner of enforcement of state criminal offenses. Provides that when a law-enforcement officer of the Department of State Police or any other division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a violation of a provision of the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) |
| HB508 | Pass | Synthetic cannabinoids; bath salts; penalties. Amends provisions added to the Code last year regarding the criminalization of synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals known as "bath salts" to add newly identified chemical combinations. The bill adds a mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| HB491 | Pass | Receivership of derelict and blighted buildings. Authorizes a locality to serve as a receiver, appointed by the circuit court, to repair blighted and derelict buildings. Buildings must previously have been determined to be blighted under current spot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 761 (effective 7/1/12) |
| HB319 | Pass | Conduct of elections; observers. Requires observers to respect the area around voters and secrecy of the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| HB176 | Pass | Nutrient Trading Act; penalty. Directs the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board to adopt regulations governing the certification of certain nutrient credits. Referring to Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), the legislation sets ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) |
| SB409 | Pass | Recordation tax. Eliminates the recordation tax exemption for certain deeds of trust securing a refinanced obligation and establishes a reduced tax for all refinancing deeds of trust or mortgages that is equal to a maximum of 18 cents ($0.18) per $10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820) |
| HB325 | Pass | Students with autism spectrum disorders; training required of personnel. Requires each school board, by September 1, 2014, to ensure that aides assigned to work with a teacher who has primary oversight of students with autism spectrum disorders rece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| HB1199 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; right to counsel in rule-making proceedings. Provides that in formulating any regulation or in evidentiary hearings on regulations, an interested party shall be entitled to be accompanied by and represented by counsel or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| HB1295 | Pass | Elimination of certain state mandates on local entities. Eliminates several statewide mandates on local government and regional government entities.The bill does the following: (i) removes the requirement that surplus property be offered to political...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| HB156 | Pass | Board of Housing and Community Development; terms of certain members. Allows the Director of Regulatory Compliance of the Virginia Building Officials Association to serve for more than one four-year term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| HB744 | Pass | Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. Provides that in situations where a custodial parent identifies an urgent need for assistance or relief the parent may, in cooperation with the receiving children's facility, place a child prior to fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773) |
| HB1167 | Pass | High Performance Buildings Act. Requires executive branch agencies and institutions entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or renovating such a building where the cost of renovat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| HB771 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; campus police officers. Provides that campus police officers, as appointed by public and private institutions of higher education, are included within the definition of law-enforcement officer. The bill exempts campus police...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| HB348 | Pass | Asset forfeitures. Consolidates certain forfeiture provisions found in two chapters in Title 19.2 and found in Title 4.1 and eliminates redundancies. The bill also provides that, unless otherwise provided by law, forfeitures are to be governed by Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| SB164 | Pass | Fraudulent and voluntary conveyances; power of court to set aside; sanctions. Authorizes the court to set aside a fraudulent or voluntary conveyance during an action brought by a creditor to execute on a judgment, either on the motion of the creditor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| HB1253 | Pass | Cash proffers; profferor shall not waive rights against locality. Prohibits any locality from accepting certain proffers purporting to contain a waiver of legal rights against the locality. The bill deems any such waiver in an enacted proffer void an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) |
| HB945 | Pass | Public Procurement; performance and payment bonds on transportation-related projects. Raises from $250,000 to $350,000 the contract amount for which performance and payment bonds are required on transportation-related projects partially or wholly fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| SB627 | Veto | Solar panels in community associations. Clarifies a community association's authority to prohibit or restrict the installation of solar power devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1210 | Pass | Slowly available nitrogen. Requires that beginning July 1, 2014, lawn maintenance fertilizer list on its directions for use its nitrogen application rates. If such fertilizer does not list on its directions for use nitrogen application rates that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| HB886 | Veto | Chronic school absenteeism and truancy. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2013, to address truancy. In promulgating these regulations, the Board shall address the following: (i) provisions for early intervention at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB932 | Pass | Nutrient management. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation operate a voluntary nutrient management program to assist owners and operators of agricultural land and turf to effectively manage and apply nutrients to their land. In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| HB135 | Pass | Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; State Executive Council; membership. Adds two local government representatives, chosen from the members of a county board of supervisors or a city council and a county administrator or city mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746) |
| HB1284 | Pass | Clerks of court; certain duties of the circuit court clerk. Clarifies when the clerk of the court may destroy case file papers, and also clarifies that a person seeking authorization to perform marriages must file a petition with the clerk and pay an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| HB1184 | Pass | Public schools; dual enrollment for high school students. Requires local school boards and community colleges to develop agreements allowing high school students to complete an associate's degree or a one-year Uniform Certificate of General Studies f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| SB239 | Pass | Suspected child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporting; penalties. Adds individuals associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children and any person employed by a public or private instit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| SB676 | Pass | Recycling survey report. Requires solid waste planning units or localities with a population of greater than 90,000 to submit a recycling report annually and requires those units or localities with a population of 90,000 or less to submit the report ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834) |
| HB538 | Pass | Hunter education program. Requires the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to establish at least one full-time hunter education coordinator position in each of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries' administrative regions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 763 (effective 7/1/12) |
| SB201 | Pass | Hospital discharge; follow-up care. Requires hospitals to educate patients, and in certain circumstances their families, about follow-up care, treatment, and services upon discharge. The bill also requires community services boards to provide informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| SB284 | Pass | Commercial space flight; funding and oversight. Reconstitutes the Board of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority by reducing the number of Board members from 13 to nine and providing for all current appointments to the Board to expire on Jul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| SB273 | Pass | Synthetic cannabinoids; bath salts; penalties. Amends provisions added to the Code last year regarding the criminalization of synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals known as "bath salts" to add newly identified chemical combinations. The bill adds a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| HB1219 | 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] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| HB120 | Pass | Tappahannock-Essex County Airport Authority. Removes Tappahannock's name from the name of the airport authority and does away with the obligations of the Town of Tappahannock to fund the authority and to appoint certain members to it. The bill reduce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| SB497 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System employee contributions; local employees; school board employees. Requires that persons employed by local government or school board employers be required to pay the five percent employee contribution to the Virginia Retire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) |
| SB498 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; hybrid defined contribution and defined benefit retirement program. Creates a new hybrid retirement program, administered by the Virginia Retirement System, that contains a defined contribution and a defined benefit compon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
