| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of care and handling of agricultural animals. Provides that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services occupies the entire field of regulation of the care and handling of agricultural animals and that no locality or humane society...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information checks upon handgun purchases; dissemination of information. The bill limits the requirement for a Virginia-specific criminal history record information check to the purchase of handguns. The bill requires the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; energy efficiency data for state-owned buildings. Provides for the Department of General Services to establish a program requiring an energy analysis of each state-owned building containing more than 50,000 square feet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB624 | Intro
Sine Die | Institutions of higher education; suicidal students. Requires public institutions of higher education to notify parents any time the institution receives notification from any source that a student may be suicidal, to the extent permitted by the fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB634 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Practitioners' Monitoring Program; impaired health care providers. Provides that the term "impairment" includes psychological and behavioral disabilities, including the mismanagement of countertransference, for the purposes of determining eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in Senate Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 33, 36, 37, and 39 in order to eliminate split voting precincts and otherwise facilitate admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax; lottery tickets. Amends the definition of "retail sale" to include lottery tickets, for purposes of the imposition of the sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospitals and physicians; processing health insurance claims. Requires any hospital or licensed physician who treats a patient who presents proof of health insurance providing coverage within the applicable provider network to process such patient's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid; coordinated long-term care. Directs the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop and implement a statewide, fully integrated risk-based long-term care system that integrates Medicaid-reimbursed primary, acute, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | State song. Designates "Shenandoah" as the official state song. The bill also contains a technical amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; appointment of executive director. Provides that the Governor and not the Authority board of directors shall appoint the executive director of the Authority. The bill further provides that the exec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Learning; method of administration. Allows a local school division to administer any Standards of Learning assessment for elementary school students online or by paper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Felony punishment for subsequent misdemeanor sex offense; penalty. Provides that when a person is convicted of a specified misdemeanor sex offense and it is alleged in the warrant that he was convicted of two or more substantially similar offenses u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB671 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Income Tax. Deconforms Virginia income tax laws from two provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that otherwise would increase the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Performance review of state agencies. Requires that the Office of the State Inspector General conduct a performance review of each executive branch agency at least every four years. The effective date of the bill is July 1, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Tick control; Sunday hunting of deer and permits for application of acaricides. Authorizes Sunday hunting of deer within the boundaries of any locality upon a finding by the governing body of that locality that tick-borne Lyme disease constitutes a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1265 | Engross
Sine Die | Mechanics' lien notice. Provides that any person intending to perfect a mechanics' lien against a one- or two-family residential dwelling unit must send the mechanics' lien agent designated on the building permit or, if no agent is designated, the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR2 | Intro
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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR5 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR6 | Intro
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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the Composite Index of Local Abilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR25 | Intro
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 shall be denied the right ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR35 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed service of their sentences...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR45 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; property tax relief for low-income property owners; report. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study issues relating to property tax relief for low-income property owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; determination eligibility for disability claims under the Virginia Retirement System; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the system for determining eligibility for disability claims under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Rights of unborn children. Provides that unborn children at every stage of development enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and Constitution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SJR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; property tax relief for low-income property owners; report. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study issues relating to property tax relief for low-income property owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB8 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting of vessel accident; penalty. Requires any passenger 18 years of age or older who is a passenger in a vessel that is involved in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury or death and in which the operator has (i) failed to stop and ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR69 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; mandatory retirement of judges; report. Directs the State Crime Commission to study mandatory retirement of judges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | BPOL tax; maximum fee and tax rates established. Prohibits a locality from increasing its local license (BPOL) fees or taxes above the rates of its BPOL fees and taxes imposed for the 2011 license year. The prohibition on increasing BPOL fees and tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR70 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR71 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Housing Commission; foreclosure procedures; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the foreclosure procedures of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation. Recognizes the existence of Appalachian Cherokee Nation within the Commonwealth and grants the Appalachian Cherokee Nation, Incorporated, representation on the Virginia Council on Indians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB59 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; persons entitled to place on ballot; compliance with campaign finance disclosure provisions. Provides that a candidate will not be entitled to have his name printed on the ballot unless he has filed all required campaign finance reports an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR74 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption for certain surviving spouses of disabled veterans. Expands the real property tax exemption for the primary residence of a surviving spouse of a disabled veteran, to include the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR85 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study phase-out of the corporate income tax; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study and make recommendations as to how best to phase out the corporate income tax over a period of eight years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR90 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study excess capacity at secure juvenile facilities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission to study excess capacity at secure juvenile facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition; purchases from net metering sellers. Authorizes individual retail customers who are eligible customer-generators under Virginia's net energy metering program to purchase electricity provided 100 percent from re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR96 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study Virginia's withdrawal from ICPRB; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study Virginia's withdrawal from the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin and its effects upon the viability of the Potomac a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR131 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating Abraham Lincoln Day in Virginia. Designates February 12, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Abraham Lincoln Day in Virginia. This resolution is a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR91 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress. Memorializes Congress to support the establishment of a National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious freedom. Memorializes the Secretary of State of the United States of America to support those suffering religious persecution and discrimination in countries that do not recognize religious freedom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR92 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing the members of the Virginia Delegation of the Congress of the United States; value-added tax. Urges the Virginia Delegation of Congress to oppose any legislation that would levy a value-added tax (VAT) on the consumption of goods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR94 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; voluntary school prayer and prayer in public meetings. Memorializes the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow for voluntary public school prayer and public prayer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR97 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; management and structure of higher education centers; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the management and structure of the Commonwealth's four regiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR124 | Engross
Sine Die | Governor; Virginia's Public Safety Memorial. Requests the Governor to include in the Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial the names of state and local probation and parole officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR148 | Engross
Sine Die | Encourage the Government of Turkey to grant certain rights to the Ecumenical Patriarch. Encourages the Government of Turkey to grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition, ecclesiastical succession, and the right to train cle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for an interpreter for a non-English-speaking defendant shall be borne by the defendant if he is convicted of the criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
