| SB513 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Racing Commission; simulcast horse racing; allocations. Authorizes wagering on historical horse racing. The bill also allocates the proceeds from such racing with forty-two percent of the proceeds distributed to the Commonwealth Transportati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB707 | Engross
Sine Die | Autism Advisory Council. Creates the Autism Advisory Council as an advisory council in the legislative branch of state government to promote coordination of services and resources among agencies involved in the delivery of services to Virginians with... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee |
| SB708 | Engross
Sine Die | Water Quality Improvement Fund; nutrient offsets. Creates the Nutrient Offset Fund as a subfund of the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund to be administered by the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality for the purchase of nutrient... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB735 | Engross
Sine Die | In-state tuition; National Guard. Provides in-state tuition for any person who met the requirements for in-state tuition prior to being called to active duty in the National Guard of another state, following completion of active duty service if durin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB217 | Engross
Sine Die | Local boat and watercraft registration fees. Permits a locality, beginning January 1, 2011, to impose by ordinance a registration fee on recreational boats or watercraft. The registration fee may not be imposed any more frequently than every three ye... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB464 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and for treatment... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB221 | Engross
Sine Die | Covenants regarding natural drying devices. Provides that effective July 1, 2010, no community association shall prohibit an owner from installing or using a natural drying device on that owner's property. The bill provides that a community associati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB580 | Engross
Sine Die | School property; airsoft guns; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person under the age of 18 to possess on school property a weapon designed to expel a projectile at a speed of more than 250 feet per second by action of compress... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB224 | Engross
Sine Die | Notification of breach of medical information. Requires notification to residents of the Commonwealth if their unredacted or unencrypted medical information or insurance information is the subject of a database breach. The notification required by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB718 | Engross
Sine Die | Private capital lending for local governments and public institutions of higher education. Allows a local government or public institution of higher education to enter into certain conduit lending agreements to finance certain capital projects. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Irrigation systems; state-owned buildings and private property. Requires the Division of Engineering and Buildings, in every state-owned building or facility designed, constructed, or substantially altered after July 1, 2010, that includes as part of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB585 | Engross
Sine Die | Appointment of counsel for juveniles in correctional facilities. Provides that the judge of a juvenile and domestic relations district court in a jurisdiction where a state juvenile correctional facility is located shall, on motion of the attorney fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB586 | Engross
Sine Die | Crimes by juveniles; notice given to schools. Amends section that requires a juvenile intake officer to report to the superintendent of the school division where the juvenile attends school if a petition is filed alleging that a juvenile has committe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB531 | Engross
Sine Die | Fees for attorneys for the Commonwealth in criminal cases. Increases from $15 to $40 the fee that an attorney for the Commonwealth may receive for a felony case, and from $5 to $15 the fee that an attorney for the Commonwealth may receive for a misde... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Hazardous waste permit fees. Authorizes the Virginia Waste Management Board to collect fees from any person operating or proposing to operate a hazardous waste facility, or transporting hazardous waste. The fees collected would be in an amount that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB239 | Engross
Sine Die | Unemployment benefits; eligibility criteria and impact of legislation. Provides that certain individuals who have exhausted eligibility for unemployment benefits and who are enrolled in approved training programs are eligible for up to 26 weeks of ad... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR26 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; effects of the economic recession on public schools and families in Virginia. Directs the Virginia Commission on Youth to study the effects of the economic recession on public schools and families in Virginia. In conducting its study, the Comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee |
| SB722 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Expands the recipients of the health insurance credits currently going to retired teachers to all retired employees of local school divisions at the option of the local school division a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB260 | Engross
Sine Die | Mental health and substance abuse providers; background checks. Allows private providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to hire as a direct care employee in adult substance abuse or mental health treatment ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| SB261 | Engross
Sine Die | Weights and measures fee. Imposes a fee of one-tenth of one cent on fuels subject to Virginia's fuels taxes with the proceeds to be used solely to test petroleum dispensing pumps. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB293 | Engross
Sine Die | Administration of the circuit court system; authority of circuit court judges. Clarifies that the executive secretary's responsibility as administrator of the circuit court system does not supersede the authority of the circuit court judges over runn... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB302 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration application; required information. Provides that the failure of an applicant to register to vote to provide the information required on the application form shall constitute a material error or omission and cause the applicant not ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR94 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; replacement of the state motor fuel tax; report. Requests the Virginia Transportation Research Council to study the desirability and feasibility of replacing the state motor fuel tax with a mileage-based fee predicated on vehicle-miles travele... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee |
| SB66 | Engross
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB77 | Engross
Sine Die | Opening of the school year; good cause. Removes the restriction that a Board of Education waiver from the post-Labor Day school opening requirement based on a school division's dependence on another school division's instructional program shall only ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Education Committee |
| SB29 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 781, 2009 Acts of Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB30 | Engross
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2011, and the thirtieth day of June, 2012. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB545 | Engross
Sine Die | Conformity with Internal Revenue Code. Advances the date as of which Virginia's system of taxation conforms with the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) from December 31, 2008, to December 31, 2009, and adds two new exceptions: the deferral of certain income... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB140 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia ports; change in ownership. Prohibits the Commonwealth, the Virginia Port Authority, any governmental entity, and any other person from selling any harbor, seaport, marine terminal, or other port facility, or inland intermodal facility owned... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Rules Committee |
| SB558 | Engross
Sine Die | Coal mine license fee. Increases the coal mine license fee from $180 to $450. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB559 | Engross
Sine Die | Mineral mining; license fees. Increases the license fee for a mineral mine license from $180 to $450 and the license fee for any person engaged in mining sand or gravel on an area of five acres or less from $48 to $120. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB560 | Engross
Sine Die | Gas and oil wells. Establishes a $50 annual permit renewal fee for wells producing gas and oil. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB206 | Engross
Sine Die | Judicial retirement; mandatory retirement. Adjusts the mandatory retirement age under judicial retirement to age 73. Currently, judges are required to retire at age 70. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council and incorporates [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB566 | Engross
Sine Die | Passing bicycles, etc. Increases from two to three feet the minimum distance of separation which other vehicles must allow when passing bicycles, etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Transportation Committee |
| SB213 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that a person retired under the Law-Enforcement Officers' Retirement System, the State Police Officers' Retirement System, or the Virginia Law Officers' Retiremen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB924 | Engross
Sine Die | What constitutes a DUI arrest. Provides that for the purposes of implied to consent to have blood or breath samples taken for suspicion of DUI, a person shall submit to a blood test when he is (i) in a medical facility receiving treatment or evaluati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB316 | Engross
Sine Die | Telecommunications relay service; funding. Defines "end-user equipment" as any communications device that enables or assists a person with a disability to communicate through the public-switched telephone network or internet protocol-enable... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB329 | Engross
Sine Die | Court fees. Increases the court fees in both district and circuit court from (i) $27 to $75 in a district court civil action and (ii) the current scale of $60-$160 to $500-$1,000 in civil actions in circuit court. The fee increases under this bill in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB767 | 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] | 2010-03-14 House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB92 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the supplemental allowance currently paid to members upon retirement until age 65 would instead be paid until Social Security Retirement Age. This will only become effective upon an appropriatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB93 | Engross
Sine Die | Personal flotation devices required for children; civil penalty. Requires children 12 years of age or younger to wear a Type I, II, III, or V U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device (life jackets) on recreational vessels. This requirement... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| SB616 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance pilot project. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a three-year rental assistance pilot project and to report its findings and recommendations to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House General Laws Committee |
| SB109 | Engross
Sine Die | Green Public Buildings Act. Requires executive branch agencies and institutions entering the design phase for construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or renovating such a building where the cost of renovation exce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB846 | Engross
Sine Die | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; civil penalties. Creates the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority Fund. Civil penalties collected by the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority will be paid into this fund, to be used solely for the purpos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 House: Failed to pass in House |
| HB472 | Engross
Sine Die | Special license plates. Authorizes issuance of special license plates bearing the legends FRIENDS OF COAL and TRUST WOMEN/RESPECT CHOICE and special license plates for supporters of the Washington Capitals hockey team. The bill also repeals authoriza... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 House: Failed to pass in House |
| SB124 | Engross
Sine Die | Electronic summons system; fees. Allows cities and counties to assess a fee not to exceed $3 as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case to be used solely for an electronic summons system. The bill also allows counties and cities operating ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB126 | Engross
Sine Die | Waiver of payment of interest on fines and costs; incarcerated defendant. Provides for the purging of interest on fines and costs in criminal and traffic cases for an incarcerated defendant when such fines and costs have accrued on cases other than t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB143 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; Renewable Energy Job Creation tax credit. Provides for a grant to be paid from newly created Green Jobs Grant Program Fund to corporations for each "Renewable Energy Job" created and filled. The amount of the grant for each such... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB144 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall implement a system to accept absentee ballot applications electronically. Currently, an applicant may request and receive, but... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB651 | Engross
Sine Die | Courts not of record; jurisdiction of small claims court. Increases from $5,000 to $10,000 the ceiling of the jurisdictional amount of a small claims court. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-14 To House Courts of Justice Committee |