| HB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexually violent predators; penalties. Revises provisions relating to the civil commitment and conditional release process. This bill imposes a Class 6 felony for absconding from custody or failing to return to the Commonwealth in violation of a cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB1553 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuel sales tax collection in certain transportation districts; compromise and settlement. Prohibits the Tax Commissioner from compromising and settling motor fuels taxes imposed in certain transportation districts without the consent of the tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB1554 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; small, women-, or minority-owned businesses. Requires the Department of General Services, in conjunction with the Department of Minority Business Enterprise, to develop a program that insures that at least 15 percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuel tax; rate increase. Increases the tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and alternative fuel by $0.10 per gallon; increases the motor carrier road tax by an equivalent of $0.10 per gallon of fuel used in the Commonwealth. All motor fuels taxes w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Transitional benefits; TANF noncash benefits. Requires the Department of Social Services to continue to provide noncash TANF benefits for a period of five months after TANF cash benefits have been terminated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1300 | Intro
Sine Die | Threatening state employee; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to threaten to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon a state employee for the purpose of interfering with such employee's official duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving with an animal. Makes it a traffic infraction to drive with an animal in the driver's lap or with the animal in a location or position that interferes with the driver's control or vision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Real property tax exemptions and deferrals for certain residential or farm property. Authorizes local governing bodies to exempt, partially exempt, or defer the taxation of real property of up to 20 percent of the fair market value of up to one acre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| HB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired members working at public colleges and universities. Permits certain retired members to work as an administrative or teaching faculty employee at a public college or university and continue receiving his retiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1046 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing homes; staffing levels. Requires the Board of Health to establish staffing standards for nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB791 | Intro
Sine Die | Fort Lee Housing Enterprise Zone. Establishes the Fort Lee Housing Enterprise Zone to encompass a 10-mile radius surrounding the Fort Lee military base located in Prince George County for the purpose of encouraging the construction, redevelopment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Document verification for employment of illegal immigrants; penalty. Provides that each day of continued unlawful employment of an alien worker, each alien who cannot provide documents indicating that he is legally eligible for employment in the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB1303 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; property located within a historic district. Authorizes a locality to, by ordinance, provide that an owner of residential real property located within such locality shall disclose, in writing, to the purc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HJR237 | Intro
Sine Die | Center for Innovative Technology; innovation index; report. Requests the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) to establish a Commonwealth Innovation Index to foster the formation, retention, and expansion of technology-based economic development op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation of court-appointed counsel; juvenile offenders. Provides that court-appointed counsel who are appointed to defend a juvenile in district court for an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult may request a waiver on the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB792 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental leave for school involvement. Requires employers to permit employees who are parents or guardians of, or who stand in loco parentis to, a school-aged child to take up to four hours of leave annually in order to attend parent-teacher confere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Education; computation of composite index. Codifies the current Standards of Quality (SOQ) funding formula and calculation of composite index of local ability-to-pay, and modifies the formula that determines each locality's ability to pay for its sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Authority. Provides specific procedures to be followed by the Authority in making legislative requests and recommendations to the General Assembly. The bill also provides that no tax or fee to be charged or imposed and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HJR238 | Intro
Sine Die | Family caregivers of the frail elderly and disabled and community-based caregiver support organizations. Joint Commission on Health Care to study support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB24 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Employment Commission; employment office closures. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to close Commonwealth-operated employment offices, if required to close any such offices as a result of reductions in the amount of Federal Unempl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB281 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; possession of firearms. Prohibits a person subject to a protective order from possessing a firearm. Currently, persons subject to such orders are prohibiting from purchasing and transporting firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Natural Resources; development of strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Requires the Secretary to develop a comprehensive plan by January 1, 2010, that, if adopted by the General Assembly, is capable of providing a 30 percent red...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB1561 | Intro
Sine Die | Local license tax; exemption for new businesses. Permits any locality to provide an exemption from local license taxes, to any business that has not previously been licensed in the locality, for the first five years that the business operates in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe driving points. Allows drivers to accumulate up to 10 (rather than five) "good" points -- one a year for 10 years. The bill also allows five "good" points for satisfactory completion of a safe driving class up to twice in 10 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; in-home health care tax credit. Provides an income tax credit for every individual taxpayer who pays medical and in-home care expenses for family members living with the taxpayer for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Finance |
| HB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program. Increases the annual assessment for physicians who participate in the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program from its current level of $5,300 to $5,600, which a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Family life education; parental notification. Requires school divisions to distribute to the parents or guardians of a student participating in the family life education program a summary of the program implemented by the school division. In additio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
| HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonrepairable vehicles; title and registration. Allows the title and registration of a nonrepairable vehicle to be retained by its owner if the vehicle passes an examination by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB1563 | Intro
Sine Die | Telecommuting; reports to the General Assembly. Requires the Secretary of Technology to work in conjunction with the Secretary of Administration and Secretary of Transportation in advising and assisting the public and private sectors regarding telec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle; penalty. Provides that no person shall possess an alcoholic beverage in the passenger area of a motor vehicle upon a public highway of the Commonwealth in other than the manufacturer's unop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Notice to employees; earned income tax credit. Requires employers to provide oral notice to employees that they may be eligible for the earned income tax credit and to post any notice that may be provided by the Department of Social Services informi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Commerce and Labor |
| HB540 | Intro
Sine Die | Deed; cemetery usage disclosed. Requires the disclosure of whether property is, or has been, used as a cemetery or burial ground when recording the deed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional Industrial Facility Authority; Wythe County. Provides that Wythe County may withdraw from Virginia’s First Regional Industrial Facility Authority if Wythe County (i) has not voted affirmatively for such regional industrial facility author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Continued to 2009 in Counties, Cities and Towns |
| HB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Titling vehicles; statements in application. Gives applicants for a certificate of title the option of providing their license number as assigned by the Department of Motor Vehicles in lieu of a Social Security number.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; statute of limitation for prosecution of violations. Increases from two to three years the time period within which any prosecution for violation of the Building Code shall be commenced. The bill contains a technical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HB797 | Intro
Sine Die | Traffic signs in Fairfax County. Transfers from VDOT to Fairfax County any and all powers, duties, responsibility, and control over traffic signage and marking within the boundaries of the County of Fairfax. VDOT is further required to fully reimbur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB1565 | Intro
Sine Die | Multicounty/city Transportation District. Creates such district for the purpose of providing funding for transportation projects. Each district member is authorized to have a local option fuel tax of $0.02 per gallon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1566 | Intro
Sine Die | Speed limits in counties. Grants counties certain powers with regard to setting speed limits and performing maintenance along county roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB799 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; information to be provided to voters. Requires the State Board of Elections to mail a voter guide to all registered voters in advance of the November general election with information on pending constitutional amendments, statewide refere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Privileges and Elections |
| HB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms by certain persons who have had parental rights terminated; penalty. Prohibits a person who has had his parental rights terminated based upon a finding of aggravated circumstances from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; restaurants. Allows localities to adopt ordinances containing standards or provisions relating to smoking in restaurants that meet or exceed those established in the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in General Laws |
| HJR246 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging the utilization of Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS). Encourages the utilization of MARS by commercial space launch providers to re-supply and re-crew the orbiting International Space Station upon retirement of the space shuttle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB289 | Intro
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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Appropriations |
| HB1569 | Intro
Sine Die | Deferred disposition. Allows a court to defer disposition in and discharge and dismiss any criminal case subject to limitations already set forth re deferral and dismissal for specific crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Courts of Justice |
| HJR247 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; International education. Recognizes the importance of international education in higher education in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Rules |
| HB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedial fees on certain drivers. Repeals § 46.2-206.1, which provides for the imposition of civil remedial fees on certain drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Transportation |
| HB1570 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animals; sterilization; penalty. Requires that sellers of dogs and cats adhere to the same sterilization requirements currently applied to releasing agencies, such as shelters and pounds. Breed improvers, fancier breeders, and hobby breeder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| HB291 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; duties. Requires local school boards to develop written plans prescribing a procedure for: (i) designating school bus stop locations; and (ii) ensuring that no school bus stops shall be located within 50 feet of the home of an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2008-02-12
House: Left in Education |
