| HB1747 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration activities by third parties. Requires individuals and groups conducting voter registration drives, when obtaining 25 or more voter registration applications from the State Board of Elections or local offices, to regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1751 | Engross
Sine Die | Crimes; assault and battery. Includes an employee or other individual who provides control, care, or treatment of sexually violent predators committed to the custody of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services within the enhance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1336 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credit for employees who telework. Creates a $250 income tax credit for employees who telework a minimum of 20 hours per week during at least 45 weeks of the taxable year. The employee would apply for tax credit to the Department of Taxation. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2235 | Engross
Sine Die | Use, display, or discharge of firearm in committing felony. Increases (exclusively mandatory minimum) penalties for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies from three to four years for a first offense and from five to si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR910 | Engross
Sine Die | Richmond Ballet; Leap Week. Designates the third full week in March, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia, Leap Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB259 | Engross
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in House of Delegates Districts 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 59, 60, 64, 67, 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB2229 | Engross
Sine Die | Detention and removal of a citizen from the Commonwealth by the federal government. Provides that the Secretary of Public Safety shall request from the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, when an agency of the federal government detains any citizen pursu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in House |
| HB1653 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration verification. Provides that the Department of Corrections or other supervisory personnel may cause to be physically verified the registration information on the Sex Offender and Crimes Aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB2096 | Engross
Sine Die | Opportunity Educational Institution established. Creates the Opportunity Educational Institution to be administered and supervised by the Opportunity Educational Institution Board. The bill requires any school that has been denied accreditation and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| HJR909 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Rejected by Senate (15-Y 24-N) |
| HR220 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| HB2295 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; duties of the Assistant to the Governor. Provides for the Assistant to the Governor for Intergovernmental Affairs to convene at least annually a meeting of the Virginia Congressional Delegation and a delegation re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
Chair votes No |
| HB1725 | Engross
Sine Die | Delivery of completed absentee ballot applications by third parties. Provides that no person, with certain exceptions, shall offer to mail or deliver 25 or more completed absentee ballot applications on behalf of voters for any election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR590 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of a metallic-based monetary unit; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study whether the Commonwealth should adopt a metallic-based monetary unit to serve as a contingency currency for the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
Rejected by Senate |
| HJR693 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); statewide school division for schools denied accreditation. Authorizes the General Assembly to establish a statewide school division to supervise and administer schools that have been denied accreditation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1823 | Engross
Sine Die | Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities. Requires local public bodies to post certain required procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website and makes newspap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 3-N) |
| HB2302 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Criminal Justice Services; electronic security sales representatives. Provides that an electronic security sales representative shall possess a valid registration issued by the Department before selling or offering for sale any electron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB1766 | Engross
Sine Die | Prior sex offenses admissible in evidence. Provides that in a criminal case in which the defendant is accused of an offense of sexual abuse, evidence of the defendant's conviction of another offense or offenses of sexual abuse is admissible and may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB2284 | Engross
Sine Die | Licensure by the Commissioner of Social Services; submission of financial information. Reduces from three to one the number of credit references that an applicant for initial licensure as a child welfare agency, assisted living facility, or adult day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 0-N) |
| HB2008 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal sentencing; mandatory minimum sentences; work release programs. Clarifies that no person while serving that portion of a sentence that is a mandatory minimum is eligible for work release, unless such person is participating in a work or educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| HJR611 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); the right to a secret ballot. Adds a provision to the Bill of Rights to preserve and protect the right to a secret ballot in elections for office, votes on ballot measures, and votes to designate or author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Rejected by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HJR536 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization are denied the right to wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Rejected by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HJR802 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the voters of Goochland County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR755 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax restructuring; report. Requests the Virginia Municipal League, Virginia Association of Counties, Virginia Small Business Commission, and Virginia Manufacturing Development Commission to evaluate and develop a plan for implementing tax restructuri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| HB1940 | Engross
Sine Die | Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors; student representatives to boards of visitors. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| HJR607 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; parental rights and third-party custody and visitation awards; report. Requests the Virginia Bar Association to study Virginia's current law regarding the ability of third parties to seek custody of and visitation rights with other parents' ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| HJR645 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcohol and substance abuse on college campuses. Encourages the institutions of higher education in Virginia to heighten awareness of the perils of alcohol and substance abuse on college campuses. The resolution notes that parents and college officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR653 | Engross
Sine Die | Tenth amendment of the United States Constitution. Reaffirms Virginia's rights and the rights of its citizens under the 10th amendment of the United States Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR654 | Engross
Sine Die | Opposing United Nations Agenda 21. Recognizes the need to oppose United Nations Agenda 21 due to its radical plan of purported "sustainable development." The resolution states that the General Assembly recognizes the policy's infringement on the Amer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1430 | Engross
Sine Die | Right to Farm Act. Expands the definition of agricultural operations to include the commerce of farm-to-business and farm-to-consumer sales as well as commerce in other related items. The bill creates a rebuttable presumption that an agricultural ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1442 | Engross
Sine Die | Students receiving home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) is receiving home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1926 | Engross
Sine Die | Selection of local school boards; school board selection commissions. Abolishes school board selection commissions in school divisions composed of a single county and gives the county governing body all powers and duties previously held by the school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR744 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognition of the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated. Recognizes the existence of the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated, within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR690 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal ethanol mandates for gasoline. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to repeal federal laws and regulations mandating that gasoline sold in the United States contain ethanol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR586 | Engross
Sine Die | Weight limits on interstate highways. Memorializes the Virginia Congressional Delegation to support efforts to allow states to authorize higher weight limits for commercial motor vehicles carrying agricultural and forestry products on interstate high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR732 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to encourage the U.S. General Services Administration to consider Virginia as the site for the new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HB1467 | Engross
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 10-N) |
| HB1948 | Engross
Sine Die | Definition of "tow." Supplies a definition of "tow" as the term is used in connection with the ticketing, removal, or immobilization of trespassing vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1631 | Engross
Sine Die | Drugs and paraphernalia forfeited to law enforcement. Provides that seized drugs and drug paraphernalia, the lawful possession of which is not established or the title to which cannot be ascertained, may be forfeited to a law-enforcement agency for r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB1494 | Engross
Sine Die | Authority to deputize persons to direct traffic. Expands the ability of sheriffs to deputize persons to direct traffic during periods of heavy traffic or congestion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-13
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| HJR622 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 3-N) |
| HJR594 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); limit on appropriations. Limits total appropriations in a year to the preceding year's total appropriations plus a percentage equal to the sum of the percentage increase in the rate of inflation plus the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB1868 | Engross
Sine Die | First-time home buyer savings account. Establishes beginning in 2013 first-time home buyer savings accounts that accrue tax-free income and that are to be used for saving funds for the purchase of homes by first-time home buyers. Funds in the account...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB1574 | Engross
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; enforcement by towns. Provides that if any town does not elect to enforce the Uniform Statewide Building Code, then such enforcement shall be the responsibility of the county in which the town is situated. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB1483 | Engross
Sine Die | Record on appeal from district court. Provides that, upon the appeal of a general district court or juvenile and domestic relations district court judgment in a civil case to circuit court, except cases involving protective orders or a civil offense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| HB1911 | Engross
Sine Die | Judicial Council; law clerks; report. Directs Judicial Council to report on law clerks used by the appellate and circuit courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2049 | Engross
Sine Die | Composition of Commonwealth Transportation Board. Increases the total membership of the Commonwealth Transportation Board from 17 to 20 members by doubling the representation for the Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia highway construction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
VOTE: RECONSIDER (46-Y 51-N) |
| HB2051 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Front Royal. Amends the town's charter by updating the boundary description. The bill also details the duties of town officers, updates references to the timing of elections, clarifies various town powers, and eliminates or updates n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1984 | Engross
Sine Die | Non-conventional vehicles. Provides for the titling and registration of mopeds and distinctive license plates for low-speed vehicles. The bill also requires a moped operator to carry government-issued photo identification and wear a face shield, safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB48 | Engross
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] | 2012-12-13
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
