| SJR276 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR438 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Providence Presbyterian Church Upward Basketball League.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB968 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee ballots. Provides that officers of election shall not reject an absentee ballot on the basis that the voter failed to include a middle name or initial on the ballot envelope if such failure is not material to determining whether the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR303 | 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] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SR34 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending South Vietnamese Americans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR420 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the YMCA of Arlington.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB742 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member commission to prepare redistricting plans for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one each by the four ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HR167 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential power. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to examine independently the U.S. Justice Department White Paper asserting a constitutional basis for the Executive Branch's assertion of authority to target and kill United States's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR786 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Heather Griles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR931 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending James P. Fisher.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
Stricken from House calendar |
| HB1727 | Intro
Sine Die | Water and waste authorities; rates. Clarifies the ability of a water or waste authority to fix rates for services that are furnished by a refuse collection and disposal system. The bill expands the list of rate-setting powers that require a public he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Business Assistance (DBA); Center for Innovative Technology (CIT); Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC); Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP); marketing campaign. Directs the DBA, CIT, VTC, and VEDP to develop a marketing camp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation; goal. States that it is a goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is competitive with the national average teacher salary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
Tabled in Education by voice vote |
| SB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth Teaching Fellows Program established. Creates a Commonwealth Teaching Fellows Program in which the Board of Education or a local school division in conjunction with a Virginia college or university with an approved education preparation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations authorizing local school divisions to determine the date for administering Standards of Learning assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB978 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates supporting Eastern Shore business community. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates supporting education, charity, and scientific study for Virginia's Eastern Shore business community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; fees. Changes approval authority over fees that may be charged by the State Fire Marshal to recover enforcement costs from the Board of Housing and Community Development to the Virginia Fire Service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB991 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Services; veterans identification card; discount on state-operated attractions. Provides a 50 percent discount on the admission fee to all state-operated attractions for a Virginia veteran who presents a valid veterans identifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonconsecutive jail time. Authorizes a court to sentence defendants convicted of a criminal offense, not just those convicted of a misdemeanor, who are sentenced to confinement in jail, to weekend days or nonconsecutive days to permit the defendant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 3, 2012 Special Session I Acts of Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1129 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly; general appropriation bills. Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority Fund. Establishes the Fund with the purpose of assisting in the financing of the Authority's operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth Circuit. Creates an additional circuit court judgeship in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit (City of Fredericksburg and Counties of Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King George, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Spo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial appropriation act. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2017. The bill requires that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Moves the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department of Business Assistance to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB781 | 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] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | IEIA; Commonwealth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Measurement System. Authorizes the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority to create the Commonwealth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Measurement System as a tool to measure areas within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure; use of false records, documents, or statements. Provides that any person who knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used a false or fraudulent record, document, or statement in support of any foreclosure shall be liable to the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Local income tax. Adds the City of Portsmouth to the list of localities authorized to impose a local income tax to generate revenue to be used for transportation purposes. The bill also removes the requirement that the local income tax be approved by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking in certain public areas. Allows localities to ban smoking in designated public parks, public beaches, and similar outdoor public areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Provisional driver's license holders. Changes from a secondary offense to a primary offense use of a cell phone by a provisional driver's license holder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee Misclassification Task Force. Establishes the Employee Misclassification Task Force to, among other things, develop and recommend legislation to provide a clear and consistent definition of "employee" to ensure conformance with relevant fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Following too closely; passing other vehicles. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
VOTE: DEFEATED (42-Y 55-N) |
| SB934 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter schools; personnel. Allows public charter schools to designate in their application whether their employees will participate in the Virginia Retirement System. The bill directs the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB939 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Salem. Provides that no primary elections shall be held for nomination of candidates for the office of councilman. The bill also provides that all candidates for the office of councilman shall file their notice of candidacy and be no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective helmet ordinance. Provides that any locality may by ordinance require that every person shall wear a commercially manufactured protective helmet whenever riding or being carried on a bicycle, a skateboard, or roller skates on any publicly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Tabled in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HJR883 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Dr. Emma Violand-Sanchez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Stricken from House calendar |
| HJR881 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Walter Tejada.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Stricken from House calendar |
| HB1794 | Intro
Sine Die | Nondisclosure of crime victim or witness personal and identifying information. Provides that upon request of any witness in a criminal prosecution for the sale or manufacture of drugs or a violent felony as defined in subsection C of §17.1-805, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB1536 | Intro
Sine Die | Cutting of grass; Dinwiddie County. Adds Dinwiddie County to the list of localities that may enforce a grass-cutting ordinance on occupied property. The existing general provisions apply to vacant property only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Requires 27 affirmative votes |
| HB1732 | Intro
Sine Die | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; composition of Board of Directors; powers. Equalizes board representation among the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, and Henrico County. The bill also requires that certain actions of the Authority related to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical assistance services; fraud prevention; provider information database. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to develop and maintain a database of all health care providers currently eligible for reimbursement for medical assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Tanning facilities; age limit; parental consent. Prohibits minors younger than 15 years of age from using tanning devices at tanning facilities. The measure also prohibits unemancipated minors age 15, 16, or 17 years from using tanning devices at tan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| SB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utility regulation; schedule for biennial reviews; authority to petition for rate increase. Requires Appalachian Power, referred to as a Phase I utility, to delay the filing of its next biennial review from March 31, 2013, until March 31, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB1319 | Intro
Sine Die | Opening of the school year in certain school divisions. Authorizes the school boards of the City of Danville, the City of Martinsville, Henry County, and Pittsylvania County school divisions to set the opening of the school year so that the first day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | Claims; Edna Twiddy. Grants relief in the amount of $50,000 to Edna Twiddy to allow her to purchase an easement to gain access to her land that is lost from road widening.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (10-Y 0-N) |
| HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | Local grievance procedure. Removes the requirement that both parties must approve the locality's use of an administrative hearing officer in lieu of a three-person panel during the final step of the grievance procedure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1687 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax; increases in assessed value for prior years. Reduces the period of time in which the assessed value of real property may be increased for prior years from the three preceding tax years to the preceding tax year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Finance (15-Y 0-N) |
