| SB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Petitions for writs of actual innocence; joint motion for writ of actual innocence. Provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth of the jurisdiction wherein a person was convicted of a felony may join in a petition for a biological or nonbiologica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain misdemeanors. Allows a person convicted of certain misdemeanors who has successfully completed all terms of probation to file a petition for expungement 10 years after the conviction if he has never been convicted of any other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB771 | Intro
Sine Die | Number and display of vehicle license plates. Reduces the number of license plates furnished by DMV to registered motor vehicles from two to one and requires the single license plate to be attached to the rear of the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of certain misdemeanors. Allows a person convicted of certain misdemeanors who has successfully completed all terms of probation to file a petition for expungement 10 years after the conviction if he has not been convicted of any other of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N) |
| SB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitlement to sales and use tax revenues; development of regional impact. Adds the County of Washington as a locality entitled to retain certain sales and use taxes generated on the premises of a development of regional impact located in the County,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Destruction of controlled substances, etc.; Department of State Police. Requires law-enforcement reports on the destruction of seized controlled substances and other drugs and paraphernalia that under current law have to be submitted to the Board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitlement to certain sales and use tax revenues; City of Bristol. Provides that payments of sales and use tax revenue generated on the premises of a public facility located in the City of Bristol used to pay bonds issued to construct the public fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1318 | Intro
Sine Die | Synthetic cannabinoids; research chemicals; penalties. Amends provisions added to the Code in previous years regarding the criminalization of synthetic cannabinoids and chemicals known as "research chemicals" (previously referred to as "bath salts") ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Mopeds. Prohibits the operation of mopeds on highways with posted speed limits in excess of 35 miles per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB746 | Intro
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] | 2013-01-23
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure and age requirements of operators of mopeds and motorized skateboards and scooters. Requires that operators of mopeds to have a valid driver's license, have completed a special examination, and wear a helmet. The bill also disallows having ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Courts of record; land records; indigency determinations. Requires the Supreme Court to make available to the courts databases containing land records for use by the courts in indigency determinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB1000 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits for donations to scholarships foundations. Provides for the repeal of tax credits for donations to scholarship foundations for kindergarten through twelfth grade students attending nonpublic schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1067 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of all-terrain vehicles. Exempts all-terrain vehicles from retail sales and use tax and applies a five percent motor vehicle sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-23
Incorporated by Transportation |
| SB787 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Provides that the health insurance credit currently being provided to retired teachers would also be provided to all retired employees of the local school division at the option of the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 3-N) |
| SB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for employees who telework. Creates a $500 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] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Solicitation of election fraud; penalty. Makes it a Class 6 felony to solicit five or fewer violations of the election law provisions governing illegal voting and illegal registration activities and a Class 5 felony to solicit more than five such vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Local taxes; interest on refunds and delinquent taxes. Authorizes a locality to not pay interest on refunds owed to a taxpayer that are due to willful errors made by the taxpayer. The bill also directs the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB805 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; costs of primaries. Provides that the state will reimburse the localities for the costs of primary elections as funded by the general appropriation act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential primary costs. Provides that localities shall be reimbursed by the state for all costs incurred in conducting the presidential primary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB764 | Intro
Sine Die | Smyth County; ordinance providing that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on real estate. Adds Smyth County to the list of localities permitted to provide by ordinance that charges for water and sewer shall be a lien on the real estate serve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR269 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Provides that no person convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote "unless he has served his full sentence and been released back to civil society." The proposed amendmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney fees in certain land use cases. Provides that a court, in addition to any other relief provided, and for good cause, may award reasonable attorney fees, expenses, and court costs to any person, group, or entity that prevails in an action suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of solar energy equipment. Exempts solar energy equipment facilities and devices from state and local taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 9-N) |
| SJR321 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of voting rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of senten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB989 | Intro
Sine Die | Vote centers; pilot program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to provide for a pilot program in no more than 10 localities in which localities may establish vote centers for use in elections instead of having to operate a polling place for eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Vote centers; pilot program. Authorizes the State Board of Elections to provide for a pilot program in which localities may establish vote centers for use in primary elections instead of having to operate a polling place for every precinct in the loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1094 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals are computed based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Incorporated by Finance |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits for donations to science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) educational programs at qualified schools. Establishes a tax credit beginning in taxable year 2014 through taxable year 2018 for donations made to STEM organizations. The t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1113 | Intro
Sine Die | Filing fraudulent liens or encumbrances against a public employee; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly files a fraudulent lien or encumbrance in a public record against the real or personal property of a state or local employee, member of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Forensic Toxicology Fund created. Creates the Forensic Toxicology Fund and provides that a convicted defendant who demanded the testimony of a forensic analyst rather than relying on the certificate of analysis is subject to an additional court cost ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N) |
| SB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Property exempt from taxation by designation. Adds Historic Pocahontas, Inc., to the list of organizations whose property is exempt from taxation, so long as the corporation continues to be organized and operated not for profit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Stricken from Senate calendar (39-Y 0-N) |
| SB1258 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial exploitation of elderly or incapacitated adults; penalties. 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, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB966 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery of magistrate; penalty. Elevates the punishment for committing an assault and battery against a magistrate who is engaged in the performance of his public duties from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony, with a six-month man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Business One Stop electronic portal program; participation by State Corporation Commission. Requires the clerk of the State Corporation Commission to cooperate with the Department of Business Assistance to ensure that entrepreneurs are able,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Management of Confederate cemetery. Authorizes the disbursement of funds to the Mount Hebron Cemetery for management of the Confederate gravesites at the Stonewall Confederate Section of the cemetery. Current law authorizes the Stonewall Confederate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Information Technologies Agency; procurement of information technology and telecommunications by state agencies. Clarifies that all information technology and telecommunications goods and services of every description procured on behalf of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas utility ratemaking; eligible safety activity costs. Permits natural gas utilities to recover certain safety activity costs incurred on or after January 1, 2013, in future rates by accounting for them as deferred costs. These deferred cost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of State Police; reimbursement of expenses. Provides that the Department of State Police may recover the cost of all reasonable expenses for providing emergency response services from a person convicted of certain offenses involving motor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 1-N) |
| SB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Coverage for certain foods; phenylketonuria. Requires each (i) insurer issuing individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; (ii) corpora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Indigent defense; appellate defender office. Creates an appellate defender office under the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N) |
| SB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health assessments for certain juveniles. Requires the juvenile and domestic relations court, when the attorney for the Commonwealth is seeking commitment of a juvenile, to order that an interdisciplinary team evaluate the service needs of a j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; mandated coverage for enteral formulas necessitated by short bowel syndrome. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage, under a policy, contract, or plan that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB961 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Housing and Community Development; Statewide Fire Prevention Code; annual operational permits for certain open burning. Provides for the Board of Housing and Community Development to promulgate regulations to allow food vendors servicing com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurers; Own Risk and Solvency Assessments. Requires insurance companies to maintain a risk management framework to assist with identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing, and reporting on material and relevant risks. As part of this requirement, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-21
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearm transfers; penalties. Creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a person who is not a licensed dealer to sell, rent, trade, or transfer a firearm to any other person who is not a licensed dealer. The bill also creates a Class 2 misdemeanor for a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-18
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Sale of firearms; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm transfer and requires the Department of State Police to establish a process for sellers to obtain such a check from licensed firearm dealers. A seller who fails to obtain such a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-18
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Court adoption of jails. Clarifies that when a county or city is without an adequate jail the court can adopt a regional jail until it can obtain an adequate jail. Currently the statute provides for the adoption of the jail of another county or city ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-18
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services by voice vote |
| SB964 | Intro
Sine Die | Hours polls to be open. Provides that polls shall close at 8:00 p.m. rather than 7:00 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-18
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (5-Y 8-N) |
| SB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Sale of firearms; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm purchase and requires the Department of State Police to establish a process for sellers to obtain such a check from licensed firearm dealers. A seller who fails to obtain such a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 6-N) |
