VA Legislation | 2013 | Regular Session

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HJR723PassCommending the Oakton High School football team.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ723ER)
HJR725PassCommending the Asian American Society of Central Virginia.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ725ER)
HJR735PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Richard Leland Fisher.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ735ER)
HJR726PassCelebrating the life of Henry Snead Martin, Jr., D.D.S.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ726ER)
HJR734PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable John Harvey Tate, Jr.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ734ER)
HJR728PassCommending the Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ728ER)
HJR733PassCommending J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ733ER)
HJR741PassCelebrating the life of Rene Raymond Dufour.
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2013-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ741ER)
HB1920Intro

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Plea required for issuance of a writ of actual innocence. Provides that a convicted person may petition for a writ of actual innocence regardless of the type of plea he entered at trial. Under current law, a person may petition for a writ based on no...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote
HB1925Intro

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Expungement of nonviolent misdemeanor convictions. Provides that any person who has been convicted of only one nonviolent misdemeanor offense that is not a violation of § 18.2-266 (DUI) or an offense for which registration is required under ...
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2013-01-23
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
SB1001Intro

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Transfer of firearms; criminal history records check; penalties. Adds a definition of "firearms show vendor" and requires that a criminal history record information check be performed on the prospective transferee before the vendor may transfer firea...
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
SB705Intro

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Child restraint devices; penalty. Expands the violation of the Child Restraints article to include a misdemeanor for a violation where the child suffers injury or death.
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (8-Y 6-N)
SB1003Intro

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Vehicle tire weight limitations. Prohibits over-the-road operation of certain vehicles whose tire weights exceed tire weight limit guidelines.
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (7-Y 6-N 1-A)
HB1680Intro

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Temporary detention orders; duration. Increases the maximum duration that a person may be detained pursuant to a temporary detention order from 48 to 72 hours.
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote
HB1472Intro

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Transportation funding and administration. Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a motor fuels sales tax rate of five percent for highway maintenance; (ii) increasing the state sales tax in Northern Virginia by 0.5 percent fo...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Finance by voice vote
HB1827Intro

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Citizens Standards of Learning Review Board established. Creates the Citizens Standards of Learning Review Board to independently review the Standards of Learning established by the Board of Education as often as the Board of Education reviews the St...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Education by voice vote
SB1174Intro

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Electronic devices used to commit computer crimes. Prohibits use of an "electronic device" to commit numerous computer crimes. The bill defines electronic device.
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2013-01-23
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB803Engross

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Hunting nuisance species. Makes it lawful to hunt or kill nuisance species on Sunday. Among the species that could be hunted on Sunday are blackbirds, coyotes, crows, cowbirds, feral swine, grackles, English sparrows, starlings, and those species des...
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2013-01-23
Read third time and defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N)
SB1206Intro

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Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Eliminates the requirement that schools with students who receive scholarships from tax-credit-derived sources report achievement test results to the Department of Education, and that the Department of ...
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2013-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB815Intro

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Driver training schools; length of daily instruction. Authorizes a driver training school Class B licensee to determine the length of daily instruction.
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2013-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N)
SB823Intro

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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...
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2013-01-23
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
SB725Intro

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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 ...
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N)
HB1584Intro

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Fiduciary access to digital assets. Enables a fiduciary to gain access to the digital accounts and digital assets of the person or estate to whom he owes a fiduciary duty upon making a written request to the custodian of the digital accounts and digi...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB771Intro

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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.
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2013-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N)
HB2063Intro

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Establishing and adjusting sources of revenues for appropriations of the Commonwealth. Makes several changes to sources of revenue of the Commonwealth as follows: Establishes a 5% tax on motor fuels sales based on the statewide average wholesale pri...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Finance by voice vote
SB845Intro

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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...
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 2-N)
HB2179Intro

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Establishing and adjusting sources of revenue for appropriations of the Commonwealth and its localities. Makes several changes to sources of revenue of the Commonwealth: Establishes a five percent tax on motor fuels sales based on the statewide avera...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Finance by voice vote
HB2187Intro

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Spousal support; termination upon cohabitation. Provides that a supported spouse has an affirmative duty to notify the payor spouse after commencing to habitually cohabit with another and, if the supported spouse does not provide the notification, th...
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2013-01-23
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
SB1289Intro

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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,...
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
SB1146Intro

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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 ...
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N)
HB2192Intro

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Guardians; annual report to local department of social services. Requires court-appointed guardians of incapacitated persons to file the annual report of all money and other property received, chargeable, or disbursed with the local department of soc...
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2013-01-23
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
HB1403Intro

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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...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Finance
SB861Intro

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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...
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2013-01-23
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (14-Y 0-N)
HB2224Intro

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Motor fuels tax; rate increase. Increases the motor fuels tax rate by $0.10 per gallon and dedicates the additional revenue to the operation, maintenance, improvement, and expansion of the Commonwealth's transportation system.
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Finance by voice vote
HB1409Intro

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Motor fuels tax rate. Converts the rate of taxation on motor fuels from cents per gallon to a percentage rate. The bill provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall calculate the percentage rate in an amount that will most...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Finance by voice vote
HB2253Intro

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Transportation funding. Makes several changes to state and local taxes and fees to account for and provide funding for transportation. The bill makes several changes to the individual and corporate income tax. The bill (i) decreases all individual in...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Finance
HB2277Intro

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School security officers. Provides that school security officers shall be retired law-enforcement officers or persons who have been certified as a law-enforcement officer within the previous five years of employment as a school security officer. Such...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote
HB1677Intro

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Transportation funding. Adjusts the sources and amounts of funding for transportation by repealing the tax on all motor fuels except diesel fuel and diesel blended fuel, increasing the retail sales and use tax rate by 0.75 percent and allocating the ...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Finance
SB1231Engross

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Correcting errors in deeds; affidavit. Allows an attorney to record a corrective affidavit to correct an obvious description error contained in a recorded deed, deed of trust, or mortgage. Obvious description errors include (i) errors transcribing co...
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2013-01-23
Read third time and defeated by Senate (10-Y 30-N)
SB1318Intro

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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") ...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
SB731Intro

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Mopeds. Prohibits the operation of mopeds on highways with posted speed limits in excess of 35 miles per hour.
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2013-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation with letter (14-Y 0-N)
HB1663Intro

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Local motor fuels tax. Authorizes any county or city to impose a tax at a rate not to exceed $0.10 per gallon on motor fuel sold by a wholesale distributor to a retail dealer in the locality. The revenue from such tax shall be used solely for transpo...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Finance
HB1623Intro

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Prior sex offenses against children admissible in evidence. Provides that in a criminal case in which the defendant is accused of an offense of child sexual abuse, evidence of the defendant's conviction of another offense or offenses of child sexual ...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
HB1438Intro

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Motor fuels tax; indexed. Requires that the motor fuels tax rate be indexed on January 1, 2014, and each year thereafter, to the average percentage change in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Transportation Services Index for the three years en...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Finance
HB1888Intro

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Individual income tax and fuels taxes; adjusted for inflation. Adjusts elements of Virginia's individual income tax and fuels taxes annually to account for inflation. The individual income tax income brackets, return filing thresholds, standard deduc...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Finance
HB1821Intro

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Child Pornography Images Registry; exemptions from disclosure, etc. Provides that records related to child abuse and exploitation that are in the possession of the Department of State Police pursuant to its duties in maintaining the Child Pornography...
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2013-01-23
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
HB2333Intro

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Transportation funding and administration. Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a motor fuels sales tax rate of five percent for highway maintenance and (ii) increasing the additional registration fee on electric vehicles fr...
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2013-01-23
Tabled in Finance by voice vote
HB1465Intro

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Forced prostitution; expungement. Provides that there shall exist an affirmative defense to the crime of prostitution when the person arrested or charged was induced to engage in prostitution through the use of force, intimidation, or deception by an...
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2013-01-23
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
HB1840Intro

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Total allowable catch for menhaden landed in Virginia. Establishes a total allowable catch for menhaden landed in Virginia by the reduction and other menhaden fisheries. The annual menhaden harvest cap in the Chesapeake Bay for the reduction fishery ...
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2013-01-23
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
SB746Intro

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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...
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2013-01-23
Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
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