| HJR226 | Engross
Sine Die | Town of Chincoteague. Memorializes the U.S. Department of the Interior to oppose the federal purchase of land within the Town of Chincoteague.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR227 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to adopt a national energy policy. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the President and the Congress adopt a national energy policy that supports the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR362 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending CACI International Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; gold, silver, and platinum bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, or platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000. The bill has a sunset date of June 30, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB218 | Engross
Sine Die | Deaf and hard of hearing children; special education. Requires local school divisions to ensure that Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams consider the specific communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing children and address those needs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Fishery compact. Removes authorization for Virginia's membership in the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact. The purpose of the Compact is to promote better utilization of the marine, shell, and anadromous fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits. Increases the number of circuit court judges in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit from eight to nine, and decreases the number of such judges in the Seventeeth Judicial Circui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Correcting errors in deeds; affidavit. Allows, in the event that a recorded deed or other instrument contains an obvious description error, the recordation of a corrective affidavit by an attorney, settlement agent, or title insurance company involve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Rape by coercion. Provides that any person who has sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, accomplished against the complaining witness's will by coercion, is guilty of rape. Currently such an offense must be accomplished by force, threat, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway maintenance allocations. Provides that allocation of funds by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for maintenance of assets within the Interstate System of Highways and the primary and secondary systems of state highways shall be based on a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB24 | Intro
Sine Die | Welfare and other entitlement fraud; penalties. Requires a 180-day mandatory minimum sentence for misdemeanor entitlement fraud, a one year mandatory minimum sentence for felony entitlement fraud, a repayment of three times the benefits received, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Appointment of Director of Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Removes the authority of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to appoint the Director of the Department, resulting in the Governor making the appointment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB214 | Intro
Sine Die | Notification of breach of medical information. Extends the requirement to notify individuals of a breach of their medical information to all individuals and public and private entities, rather than just governmental agencies. The bill also allows the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Display of vehicle license plates. Provides for display of a single license plate on registered vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; advertisements. Exempts displays of the logo of the Virginia Life, Accident, and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association on letterheads and signs, plaques, and posters within the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Weighing of vehicles. Exempts vehicles owned or leased by the City of Suffolk from being weighed at DMV-controlled weigh-stations along U.S. Route 58 in Suffolk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB61 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; industrial building rehabilitation tax credit. Creates a tax credit, not to exceed $100,000, for businesses that rehabilitate or retrofit older industrial buildings in which a new business is located for taxable years beginning on and aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption; construction materials. Establishes a two-year sales tax moratorium for construction materials and supplies purchased by licensed contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Notice of suspension or revocation of driver's licenses. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to send initial notice of the suspension or revocation of a driver's license by certified mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing homes; involuntary discharge notification. Requires that a copy of the written notice of intent to involuntarily discharge a patient from a nursing home also be sent to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Also contains a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers; records required to be maintained; digital images. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers to take a digital image of (i) the form of identification used by the person involved in the transaction, which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of unlawful photographs; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony for a person to publish on the Internet a photograph or video made in violation of the current law prohibiting filming, videotaping, or photographing a nonconsenting p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Barrier crimes; listing of crimes. Clarifies the individual crimes included in the background check and barrier crime statutes affecting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, certain licensees of the Department of Behavioral...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB463 | Engross
Sine Die | Legal custody of juveniles in custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Clarifies that commitment of a child by a court to the Department of Juvenile Justice is a transfer of legal custody if, at the time of commitment, the child is in foster c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Power of attorney; embezzlement by agent; penalty. Emphasizes that an agent who violates the Uniform Power of Attorney Act with the intent to defraud the principal and who thereby converts funds or other property is guilty of embezzlement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB483 | Engross
Sine Die | Real property tax; collection of certain taxes. Provides that the current authority to increase the assessment of real property taxes for three preceding tax years by increasing the amount of the valuation of the property applies only to errors relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public School Improvement Program. Creates the Virginia Public School Improvement Program to offer more educational options and flexibility for parents, teachers, and students. The bill authorizes local school boards to designate or approve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; certain employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education. Provides employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education the opportunity to purchase service credit in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Allows localities to charge persons convicted of violations of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting them to jail or other holding facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; long-term care insurance credit. Increases the amount of the credit an individual may claim for long-term care insurance premiums from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premiums paid. The bill would be effective for taxable ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB139 | Intro
Sine Die | County precincts; separate precinct for certain towns. Requires a county to establish a separate county precinct for any town entirely surrounded by a combination of a United States armed forces base and water.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits for costs to comply with excessive state regulations. Establishes a tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for the direct costs of a business attributable to its location in the Commonwealth to comply with excessive state regulations. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB517 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deductions; life, medical, and dental insurance premiums. Creates individual income tax deductions beginning January 1, 2012, for (i) life insurance premiums paid by the individual for a life insurance policy covering him and (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deductions; life, medical, and dental insurance premiums. Provides that beginning January 1, 2012, an individual age 66 or older with earned income of at least $20,000 for the year is allowed to deduct the amount he pays annuall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB534 | Intro
Sine Die | COPN; exemption from RFA process. Allows the Commissioner of Health, in his discretion, to accept and approve applications for a certificate of public need that have been submitted without the Commissioner having issued a Request for Applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB544 | Intro
Sine Die | Student discipline; suspension and expulsion. Prohibits instances of only disorderly or disruptive behavior offenses or technology offenses as providing sufficient cause for a long-term suspension or expulsion. Currently, a student may be suspended o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Education Committee |
| HB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Corrections; confinement of local inmates in state correctional facilities. Allows sheriffs and regional jail administrators to sign agreements with the Department of Corrections for the housing of local inmates in state prisons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information check for transfer of certain firearms; exemption for concealed handgun permittees. Provides an exemption from Virginia-specific criminal history record information checks upon the purchase of firearms from licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB194 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorialization of fallen Virginians at the Virginia War Memorial. Codifies the criteria for inclusion of Virginians who died while serving in the armed forces on the Shrine of Memory at the Virginia War Memorial, as was required by legislation adopt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic development; Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; required provisions in economic development agreements. Requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority and any locality to include in an economic development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25 instead of the standard $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of foreign law in Virginia courts. Provides that court decisions and contracts and other agreements will be void as violative of the public policy of the Commonwealth where such decisions or contracts are based on foreign law, i.e., law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; telephone calls. Provides that the term "telephone call" for purposes of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act includes any text message sent via short message service (SMS), any message co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; I SUPPORT ANIMAL RESCUE. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of Homeless Animal Rescue Team and its programs of animal rescue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Lease of highway space for solar electric production. Provides for VDOT analysis of desirability of leasing space within highway rights-of-way for solar photovoltaic power production projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB207 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for a court-ordered extension of polling hours in emergency situations and situations that interfere with the ability of voters to travel to the polls. The bill provides that no extension s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Unlawful sale of criminal history information. Provides that the sale or offer for sale of the criminal history information of a person pertaining to a charge or conviction of a criminal offense after the arrest and charge history for that offense ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education; mental health. Requires the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement a policy requesting each student to identify points of contact to be notified should the student experience a ment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Education Committee |
| SB216 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
