| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Elimination of the corporate income tax. Eliminates the corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, by setting the rate of the tax at zero percent. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuels taxes; indexing of tax rates. Increases or decreases each year the rates of Virginia's fuels taxes using a fuel efficiency index. The bill defines the fuel efficiency index as the quotient that is obtained when using as the numerator the total ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemptions for nonprofit entities; veterans organizations. Adds veterans organizations to those nonprofit entities that can qualify for sales and use tax exemption. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Assignment of general fund balance; Transportation Trust Fund. Increases from 67 percent to 75 percent the portion of the general fund surplus remaining at the end of each fiscal year that is deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund. Such deposit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1312 | Intro
Sine Die | Release of accused to pretrial services only when indigent. Provides that, when a person is arrested for either a felony or a misdemeanor, any judicial officer may place the person in the custody and supervision of a designated person, organization, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB925 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.5 percent tax rate under current law to an amount gener... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB700 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxes on fuels; issuance of bonds. Makes the retail sale of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels subject to the general 5% retail sales and use tax and reduces the fuels tax on such fuels by $0.05 per gallon from $0.175 per gallon to $0.125 per gal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB1327 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited practice by retail wine and beer licensees; penalty. Provides that no retail off-premises wine and beer licensee shall sell any alcoholic beverage by means of a self-scanning cash register or other point-of-sale... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05 Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| SB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility of graduate students for unemployment benefits. Disqualifies a graduate student from receiving unemployment compensation benefits based on services performed as a student summer employee during a summer break period, if the individual was... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical assistance fraud investigations; service of subpoenas. Authorizes the Attorney General or his authorized representative to serve subpoenas in medical assistance fraud cases. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1307 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Director; purchase of information technology and telecommunications goods and services. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to purchase the info... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1346 | Intro
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; sale of pull tabs and other instant bingo games. Authorizes certain volunteer fire departments or rescue squads or auxiliary units thereof to sell instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards one hour immediately preceding the conduct o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1344 | Intro
Sine Die | The State Council of Higher Education; accrediting agencies. Prohibits the State Council of Higher Education from recognizing or relying on the ratings of any national or regional accrediting agency unless such agency is certified by the Council. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertisement of legal notices on websites by the Towns of Damascus and Glade Spring. Allows each of the Towns of Damascus and Glade Spring to publish required legal notices on the locality's website instead of advertising them in a newspaper having ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (3-Y 11-N) |
| SB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Adds lawful source of income to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill defines lawful source of income as any income used by a person to pay for the purcha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | Reckless driving; texting; penalty. Provides that texting while driving is punishable as reckless driving, a Class 1 misdemeanor; currently, violations incur a $20 fine. The bill also makes texting while driving a primary offense; currently, law-enfo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB1239 | Intro
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] | 2013-02-04 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (4-Y 10-N 1-A) |
| SB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory stringency standard. Requires any state agency that is authorized to implement a comparable federal program to receive statutory authorization to promulgate any regulation that is more stringent than the federal statute or regulation. By J... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1297 | Intro
Sine Die | Erroneously admitted evidence; appeal. Provides that when a criminal judgment is appealed based on a claim that the evidence to convict was insufficient because the trial court improperly admitted evidence, the reviewing court shall consider all evid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Incorporates SB1348 |
| SJR316 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study death penalty costs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the direct and indirect monetary costs of the death penalty. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR319 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); contributions to defined benefit retirement plans maintained for employees. Requires that contributions to defined benefit retirement plans that are maintained for state employees and employees of particip... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Rejected by Senate (16-Y 24-N) |
| SB1371 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; repetitive requests; remedies. Allows a public body to petition the appropriate court for additional time to respond to a request for records when the request is one of a series of requests by the same requester a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1160 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving while texting; primary offense; increased penalties. Provides that driving while texting is a traffic infraction punishable, for a first offense, by a fine of $250 and, for a second or subsequent offense, by a fine of $500. The current penalt... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Riverboat Gaming Commission; regulation of riverboat gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Riverboat Gaming Commission as the licensing body for riverboat gaming. The bill sets up the regulatory system for riverboat gaming and provides pen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1372 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of firearms at gun shows; voluntary background check. Requires the Department of State Police to be available to perform background checks for non-dealer sales at gun shows if a party involved in a transaction wants one. In order for the bil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (3-Y 11-N 1-A) |
| SB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SJR281 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); tax credits. Provides that no tax credit shall remain in effect longer than five years unless it is reenacted by the General Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Rejected by Senate (12-Y 27-N 1-A) |
| SB1359 | Intro
Sine Die | Funeral services; next of kin. Adds any person recognized as the legal spouse of the decedent under the laws of another state to the definition of next of kin for the purposes of making decisions regarding funeral arrangements for the decedent. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-04 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Impeding hunting; drones; penalty. Provides that the use of a drone by a private person to monitor and photograph persons lawfully hunting on private property, when the drone is used by a private person without the permission of the landowner, consti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR278 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study property tax relief for low-income property owners; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study issues relating to property tax relief for low-income property owners. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Wrongful death and personal injury actions; future wages presumption. Creates a rebuttable presumption in actions for the personal injury or wrongful death that a person who, at the time of the injury or death, was an infant or was at least 18 years ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Search and seizure of computer and contents. Provides that any search warrant issued for the search and seizure of a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information shall be deemed to include the search and se... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | DUI; exemplary damages. Provides that in an action for personal injury or death arising from the operation of a motor vehicle, engine, or train, a defendant's conduct will be deemed so willful and wanton as to show a conscious disregard for the right... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Spousal privilege. Creates a statutory exception to the spousal privilege in criminal cases where the spouses conspired or acted jointly in the commission of the crime. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB810 | Intro
Sine Die | Bills requiring expenditures by localities. Prohibits any committee of the General Assembly from reporting any bill impacting localities that does not fully fund any net expenditures that otherwise would have to be paid by localities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice; expert witness certification; court review. Provides that in an action for medical malpractice or wrongful death premised on medical malpractice, the court, upon good cause shown, may conduct an in camera review of the opinion ob... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SJR273 | Intro
Sine Die | Banking legislation. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall Act (Banking Act of 1933). Legisl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of process; timing. Provides that in order to be timely, service of process must be made within six months from the commencement of the action. Currently, service of process is timely if made within 12 months. The bill also provides that no n... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR370 | Intro
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] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR255 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study elimination of the corporate income tax; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential impact of the elimination of the corporate income tax in the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation of members of the General Assembly. Prohibits compensation to legislators for attending conferences for which the agenda and materials are not available to the public. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules (13-Y 2-N) |
| SJR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonviolence. Encourages the public schools of Virginia to promote the ideals, heroes, and successes of nonviolence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR299 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study VDOT efficiency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency of the Virginia Department of Transportation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR306 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study pilot program for improving third grade reading and math achievement; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to implement and study a two-year pilot program in selected public elementary schools to det... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR311 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; criminal history background checks and barrier crimes; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the Commonwealth's requirements related to criminal history background checks and barrier crimes and to make recommendations for changes t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR312 | Intro
Sine Die | Toll mitigation measures. Recognizes the need for mitigation measures for disadvantaged populations adversely affected by the imposition of tolls in the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Incorporated by Rules (SR30-Lucas) by voice vote |
| SJR317 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; mitigation of the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study how Virginia can mitigate the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Incorporated by Rules (SR30-Lucas) by voice vote |
| SJR318 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee on state and local government; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study local and state government service responsibility and taxing authority. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR354 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition of the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated. Recognizes the existence of United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated within the Commonwealth. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01 Incorporated by Rules |