| HB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; diagnostic procedures resulting from preventive care or screening. Prohibits a health carrier from imposing cost-sharing requirements with respect to any diagnostic service or test, or related procedure, that is administered or cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Funeral protests; penalty. Makes it unlawful for a person to disrupt a funeral or memorial service during the 60 minutes immediately preceding through the time immediately following such service with the intent to disrupt the service. A violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; medical expense benefits; assignments. Invalidates assignments of medical expenses benefits provided under a motor vehicle liability insurance policy. Medical expense benefits due to a covered injured person may be paid direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB224 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Provides for a Class 1 misdemeanor for a battery through the application of physical force against a family or household member. This provision addresses the decision in U.S. v. White fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Worker retraining tax credit; increase in credit amount. Increases the worker retraining tax credit for worker retraining courses taken by employees at private schools from a maximum of $100 per year per employee to $250 per year per employee or $500...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; PEACE BEGINS AT HOME. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend PEACE BEGINS AT HOME to support the programs of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance for the preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB724 | Intro
Sine Die | False advertising; liability of real estate brokers and salespersons; exemption. Exempts a licensed real estate broker or salesperson from criminal and civil liability for making an advertisement that contains any promise, assertion, representation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; statewide uniform grading policy. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide uniform grading policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Education Committee |
| HB741 | Intro
Sine Die | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission; powers. Authorizes the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review the detailed proposal for certain qualifying transportation facilities under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Minority Business Enterprises; definition of small business. Changes the definition of "small business" to be a business located in Virginia that meets the definition of a small business concern as defined in the federal Small...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB787 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; renewable energy equipment. Provides refunds of sales and use tax paid on the purchase of certain renewable energy equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB277 | Engross
Sine Die | Forced or coerced abortion prohibited; penalty. Provides that any person who forces or coerces a pregnant female to have an abortion against her will is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also creates a private right of action against the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Salvage vehicles. Heightens consumer awareness of issues that may arise in connection with the purchasing of motor vehicles at salvage auctions without fully understanding the disclaimers and waivers related to total-loss vehicles. The bill would all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB799 | Intro
Sine Die | Wetlands and streams; water protection permits; conditions for contribution to a Board-approved fund. Requires as a condition for contribution to a State Water Control Board-approved fund, in lieu of creating or restoring compensatory wetland or stre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB290 | Engross
Sine Die | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Removes the petition requirement for the Parole Board to consider a geriatric release, and requires the Parole Board to report to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB814 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Health Foundation; established. Creates the Virginia Public Health Foundation in order to (i) support the development and implementation of innovative activities and creative solutions for the prevention of disease and the promotion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB815 | Intro
Sine Die | University-related foundation funds; University of Virginia; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if the University of Virginia uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the University in relation t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB311 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; City of Franklin. Provides that neither the city council nor any of its members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to or the removal of any person from any office or employment by the city manager. The bill also sets forth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB816 | Intro
Sine Die | University-related foundation funds; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that if a Virginia college or university uses funds from one of its affiliated foundations to pay for costs incurred by the college or university in relation to the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a Virginia college or university may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of general fund appropriations; Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Provides that the University of Virginia may only use funds appropriated to it from general fund revenues, and not from any other source, to pay for any costs incurred by the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia College Savings Plan; acceptance of commemorative coins minted by the State Treasurer. Requires the Plan to accept as payment under prepaid tuition contracts and savings trust accounts gold, platinum, or silver coins minted by the State Trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of foreign laws. Prohibits any Virginia court or administrative agency from applying the law of any jurisdiction outside of the United States and its territories unless the application is required by the United States Constitution, the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of sales tax revenue to localities based on school-age population. Permits local school divisions that make the determination that the annual estimate of school-age population within the division provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; shared work programs. Establishes a shared work program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees, while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Trees Virginia. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of Trees Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB850 | Intro
Sine Die | Appointment, compensation, and offices of general registrars. Provides that all general registrars shall serve on a full-time basis. The bill takes effect on enactment of an appropriation to effectuate its purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; supporters of NASCAR. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of NASCAR. Revenues derived from sale of these plates will be shared with Richmond International Raceway CARES once a minimu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information check for transfer of certain firearms; exemption for concealed handgun permittees. Provides an exemption from the required criminal history record information check upon firearms transfers in the Commonwealth for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deduction for tolls. Establishes an individual income tax deduction beginning with the 2013 taxable year for tolls paid for the use of a publicly owned and publicly operated highway located in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB341 | 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 |
| HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit; solar energy equipment systems. Provides a personal and corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for the purchase and installation of equipment that (i) generates electricity from solar energy or (ii) uses solar energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Compulsory public education; student suspension or expulsion from school. Requires the superintendent of each school division to ensure that any student who has been suspended or expelled from school continues to receive an education. The Constitutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Education Committee |
| HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage foreclosure; right to reinstatement. Provides that the grantor under a first priority deed of trust securing a loan on residential real property may, at any time up to the date of the sale of the property, cure any default, de-accelerate, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB891 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of vehicles equipped with mobile infrared transmitters; penalty. Increases from a traffic infraction to a Class 4 misdemeanor any violation of the prohibition on operation of nonemergency vehicles equipped with mobile infrared transmitters ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB388 | 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 |
| HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credit; application for credits prior to any donation. Provides that beginning January 1, 2013, a donor would be given the option to apply to the Department of Taxation for land preservation tax credits prior to making any donat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid; appeals of agency determinations. Provides that all recommended or final case decisions in administrative hearings regarding Medicaid overpayments shall be made in accordance with the Administrative Process Act, shall be based on the whole...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB923 | Intro
Sine Die | Reorganizing and recodifying the law related to carrying concealed weapons and concealed handgun permits. Reorganizes the existing § 18.2-308 into a new Article 6.1 in Chapter 7 of Title 18.2. The new article creates separate, discrete sections ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act. Adopts the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act to promote uniformity of treatment and improved administration of election laws for military and overseas voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; time limit on submitting claims. Establishes a minimum period of one year for the filing of a claim with a health insurance carrier. If it is not reasonably possible to submit a claim within this period, the carrier shall not reduce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Provides for a Class 1 misdemeanor for the assault followed by a battery through the application of physical force against a member of a family or household member. The bill addresses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB999 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for individual who teleworks. Creates a $500 credit for an individual who teleworks a minimum of 20 hours per week during at least 45 weeks of the year. The credit is available for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, but b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1000 | Intro
Sine Die | Telework expenses tax credit. Raises the cap on the aggregate amount of tax credits available in calendar years 2012 and 2013 for telework expenses from $1 million to $1.5 million. The bill also raises the cap on the amount of credits that can be cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB429 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal history record checks for firearms; required forms. Provides that only certain information about the purchaser may be required on the State Police form to be completed when purchasing a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB434 | Engross
Sine Die | Funeral protests; penalty. Makes it unlawful for a person to address speech to a person attending a funeral or memorial service that is reasonably likely to provoke an imminent breach of the peace, or to engage in picketing activity within 250 feet o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Home school instruction tax credit. Creates an individual income tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for amounts paid by a parent or legal guardian for his child for home instruction-related materials and correspondence courses or distance learning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; rights of owners. Provides that no provision of the declaration or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall prohibit an owner or any person entitled to occupy a unit or lot from exercisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1012 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information checks; elimination of fees. Eliminates the fees to be collected by licensed dealers for every firearms transaction that requires a criminal history record information check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
