| SB452 | Engross
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; network bingo. Authorizes the conduct of a new charitable game known as network bingo. The bill sets out the terms and conditions under which network bingo may be conducted, provides for the licensing of network bingo network provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB465 | 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 |
| HB1036 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary elections expenses. Gives local electoral boards authorization to establish procedures for political party committee elections on the primary date and at other times.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1040 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates commemorating America's buffalo soldiers. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates commemorating America's buffalo soldiers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that roll-back taxes shall not apply to real property that loses its designation as devoted to agricultural or horticultural use because of excavation of sand or gravel on it, provided that such propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for hiring military veterans. Establishes beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers hiring returning or disabled military veterans into new jobs paying an annual salary of at least $50,000. Retu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Minority Business Enterprises; definition of small business. Changes the definition of "small business" to be a business that meets the definition of a small business concern as defined in the federal Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. §...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1049 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) internship tax credit. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers employing persons in STEM internship positions in the Commonwealth. The bill requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities and combined sewer overflow projects. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $378 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; tax credit for hiring military persons as STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) interns. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers employing military persons in STEM internship positions in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying weapons in air carrier airport terminals; removing prohibition against carrying firearms. Removes the prohibition against carrying certain firearms and other weapons in air carrier airport terminals. The bill retains the prohibition against...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; return of voter registration applications. Allows military and overseas voters to return a completed mail voter registration application by fax in accordance with instructions of the State Board of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; military and overseas voters. Improves registration and absentee voting procedures for military and overseas voters; includes authorization for pilot programs for secure electronic ballot delivery and other reforms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1070 | Intro
Sine Die | Definitions of all-terrain and utility vehicles. Expands the definition of all-terrain vehicles to include six-wheeled vehicles and vehicles that can carry passengers and narrows the definition of all-terrain vehicles to exclude riding lawn mowers. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Day labor centers; use of E-Verify program. Requires day labor centers to be enrolled in the E-Verify program by December 1, 2012, and to use the E-Verify program for each day laborer referred by the day labor center to a third-party employer for day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB550 | Engross
Sine Die | Public oyster beds on the seaside of the Eastern Shore; adjustment of boundaries. Instructs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adjust the boundaries of the public oyster beds on the seaside of the Eastern Shore using the Baylor survey as a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairfax County; retirement. Requires Fairfax County to exclude members of its retirement system who are elected officials from participating in its Deferred Retirement Option Program ("DROP").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Local cigarette tax. Prohibits any locality from restricting the owner of a business from transferring stamped cigarettes he legally possesses from one of his business locations to another of his business locations. The bill contains technical amendm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1080 | Intro
Sine Die | Student discipline; parental notification. Requires the school principal to take certain procedures, including parental notification and the issuance of due process warnings, prior to questioning a student in the case of a serious violation. A serio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Education Committee |
| SB554 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession or transportation of firearms; certain emergency protective orders; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for the physical possession of a firearm while in the residence of the alleged victim or the transport of a firearm by a person subj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Local taxes on cigarettes; administration and enforcement. Repeals the statute authorizing localities to utilize specific methods in administering and enforcing local taxes on cigarettes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Discharge or transfer of nursing home patients; notice to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Provides that in cases in which a nursing home patient is involuntarily transferred or discharged from a nursing home, a copy of the written notice of such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairfax County School Board; staggered elections. Allows for staggered terms for the Fairfax County school board beginning with the November 2015 general election upon a majority vote of its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of dead bodies; how expenses paid. Requires court authorization for a county or city to pay reasonable expenses for the disposition of a dead body in all cases in which a dead body is unclaimed or is claimed by a claimant who is unable to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Out-of-state concealed handgun permits; photo identification. Removes certain requirements for an out-of-state concealed handgun permit to be recognized and accepted in Virginia. Requires an out-of-state permittee to carry and present a valid govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedies; use of depositions. Allows for motions for summary judgment to be based, in whole or in part, upon pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions on file, or affidavits. Currently, such motions cannot be based on depos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Cash proffers. Removes the provision allowing the court to award attorney fees in certain cases involving collection of cash proffers. Also, the bill provides that the statute shall not apply to proffer agreements made prior to July 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of trusts established for disabled individuals. Establishes an individual income tax deduction not to exceed $2,000 for the fair market value of contributions made during the taxable year to certain supplemental needs trusts established for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; police. Provides that the Authority may exercise full law-enforcement powers upon all property owned, operated, managed, leased, or maintained by or under the control of the Authority; establish and maintain a police...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credits. Grants an income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, to individuals for placing into service renewable energy property. Individuals placing into service solar panels would be allowed a tax credit as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Human Rights Council; authority to act. Provides that a majority of a quorum of the Human Rights Council is required to exercise its powers and duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Bond issuance for wastewater treatment facilities. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional $300 million in bonds to continue installing nutrient removal technology in eligible wastewater treatment facilities to comply...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; pharmacy providers. Provides that neither an employer nor his agent shall restrict an injured employee's choice of pharmacy providers pursuant to a workers' compensation claim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Farm wineries and vineyards tax credit. Raises the total annual amount of tax credits available under the farm wineries and vineyards tax credit to $500,000 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| SB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; women-owned and minority-owned businesses; remedial measures. Provides that the Governor shall require state agencies to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law when a per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1195 | Intro
Sine Die | Tandem axle weight limit. Increases the maximum tandem axle weight limit from 34,000 pounds to 40,000 pounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Right of students to assert conscientious objection to any requirement of an academic degree program in an institution of higher education; liability. Provides that no public or private institution of higher learning may penalize or deny academic cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Education Committee |
| HB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; developer control period. Provides that, except to the extent the time-share instruments expressly provide otherwise, the developer control period shall terminate when the developer (i) transfers to purchasers leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Camping grounds; competition with private businesses. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, on or before March 1 of each year, to set its camping ground fees at or above the mean fee charged for the same service by private camping g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; U.S. Army Rangers. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to members and former members of the U.S. Army Rangers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB667 | Engross
Sine Die | Child endangerment; penalty. Relocates the crime of child endangerment to Title 18.2 (Crimes and Offenses Generally) from Title 40.1 (Labor and Employment) in order to emphasize its general application. The bill removes language that prohibited willf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Dangerous wild animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to privately possess, sell, transfer, or breed dangerous wild animals, which are identified by taxonomic classification. The bill would grandfather in the ownership of any existing lawful dangero...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Dulles Greenway; outdoor advertising; tolls. Allows the Dulles Greenway to lease property under its control for purposes of outdoor advertising. The bill also requires that the amount of toll vary according to distance traveled and take into consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1249 | Intro
Sine Die | Duck blinds. Changes the dates for renewing a person's riparian duck blind license. For persons holding riparian duck blind license the time for obtaining a license is changed from the current period May 1 through June 15 to the period February 1 to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits for symphony orchestra performers. Provides that an individual is not eligible for unemployment benefits based on services consisting of performing or training with a symphony orchestra. The provision applies to weeks of unemplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Cable franchise renewal. Provides that the right of a cable operator to renew its authority by means of an ordinance franchise shall not apply to any locality where the cable operator is in material default of the terms and conditions of the franchis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; Property Owners' Association Act; lien for assessments; priority. Provides that such portion of the unpaid assessments due and owing the association for a period not to exceed three years that is attributable to providing the mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1267 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; combined reporting requirements. Requires, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013, combined reporting for corporate income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credit. Reduces from $100,000 to $50,000 the amount of the land preservation tax credit that may be claimed for taxable years 2012 and 2013. Any taxpayer affected by the credit reduction would be allowed two additional taxable y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes by prisoners; penalties. Provides that a prisoner may be charged under the Code sections that apply to crimes by prisoners, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-29
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
