| HB994 | Pass | Charter; Town of Christiansburg. Amends the charter of the Town of Christiansburg to change the date of the town council member and mayoral election to the general election date in November. The changes provide that three council members shall be ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848) |
| HB1300 | Pass | Air Pollution Control Board; regulations under the Clean Air Interstate Rule. Retains the authority of the Air Pollution Control Board to provide for participation in the EPA-administered cap and trade system for NOx and SO2 to the fullest extent per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0867) |
| HB513 | Pass | Administrative impoundment of motor vehicles. Provides for a three-day administrative impoundment of a motor vehicle when driving without an operator's license if the person has previously been convicted of driving without a license. A person who kno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| HB553 | Pass | Regulation of signage in highway rights of way. Allows county employees and volunteers who are acting as agents of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to remove and confiscate signs from the public right-of-way. If a sign is confiscated by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832) |
| HB928 | Pass | Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation. Creates the Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation as a body corporate and a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Foun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0846) |
| SB654 | Pass | Electronic reforms; State Board of Elections. Makes several amendments to Title 24.2 (Elections) that authorize the State Board of Elections to utilize various electronic systems. The bill provides that the State Board shall provide only electronic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| SB459 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; workforce and education program evaluation and policy analysis. Provides for certain agencies to share encrypted (de-identified) data to create one-time restricted-use data sets in order to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| HB523 | Pass | Income taxes; recognition of income from capital gains. Grants an income tax deduction for any income taxed as a long-term capital gain for federal income tax purposes or any income taxed as investment services partnership interest income, on or afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) |
| HB621 | Pass | Rabies regulation and control; penalty. Clarifies the procedures and responsibilities among the Department of Health, localities, and other entities to prevent and control rabies. This bill clarifies that all dogs and cats over the age of four months...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0834) |
| SB667 | Pass | Dulles Access Highway. Provides for the enforcement through the use of a photo-monitoring system or automatic identification system on the Dulles Access Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| HB1322 | Pass | Waste kitchen grease; transportation; fees; penalty. Requires any person who transports waste kitchen grease to register with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services unless he qualifies for an individual exemption. Registrants mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0868) |
| HB1022 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Provides that an investor-owned electric utility will receive triple credit toward meeting the goals of the renewable energy portfolio standard program for energy derived from offshore wind. The measure al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0850) |
| SB491 | Pass | Sale of used building fixtures; penalty. Requires dealers in secondhand building fixtures to retain records of identifying information about the seller or purchaser of such materials. The seller of an article is required to provide documentation to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| HB1033 | Pass | Human infant; independent and separate existence. Provides that for the purposes of homicide, the fact that the umbilical cord has not been cut or that the placenta remains attached shall not be considered in determining whether a human infant has ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0851) |
| SB496 | Pass | Charter; Town of Chatham. Amends the charter for the Town of Chatham to change council member and mayoral elections from May to November. Further changes are made to the appointment procedure and qualification of the town manager. This legislation co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| HR30 | Pass | Commending Lt. Robert C. Marland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-14
House: Bill text as passed House (HR30ER) |
| HJR11 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property exempt from taxation. Amends the Constitution of Virginia to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to establish their own income or financial worth limitations for purposes of granti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 770 (effective 7/1/10) |
| HJR33 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property tax exemption for certain veterans. Directs the General Assembly to exempt from taxation real property that is the principal residence of a veteran (or widow or widower of a veteran) if the veter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 771 (effective 7/1/10) |
| HJR34 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); limit on taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Increases the permissible size of the Fund by 50 percent; i.e., from 10 percent to 15 percent of the Commonwealth's average annual tax reven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 772 (effective 7/1/10) |
| SJR81 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); limit on taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Increases the permissible size of the Fund by 50 percent; i.e., from 10 percent to 15 percent of the Commonwealth's average annual tax reven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 774 (effective 7/1/10) |
| SJR97 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property exempt from taxation. Amends the Constitution of Virginia to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to establish their own income or financial worth limitations for purposes of granti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 775 (effective 7/1/10) |
| SJR13 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property tax exemption for certain veterans. Directs the General Assembly to exempt from taxation real property that is the principal residence of a veteran (or widow or widower of a veteran) if the veter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-14
House: Assigned Chapter 773 (effective 7/1/10) |
| HB1038 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; employees of school boards. Provides that the prohibition on the employment of certain relatives of members of a school board does not apply to school districts located in Planning Districts 11, 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| SB184 | Pass | MEI Project Approval Commission; work of the Commission. Expands the scope of incentive packages to be reviewed by the MEI Project Approval Commission by eliminating the limitation that the Commission may only review incentive packages for MEI projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB502 | Pass | Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority. Delays the reversion of title to real property from the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority to the Commonwealth, in the event that the Authority ceases to operate, until July 1, 2011. The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| HB1348 | Pass | Provisions of a subdivision ordinance. Provides that with regard to approval by a locality of surety provided by a developer, "designated administrative agency" means the planning commission of the locality or an agent designated by the gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| SB506 | Pass | Political contributions; prohibition during procurement process. Provides that neither the Governor, his political action committee, nor any pertinent Secretaries shall knowingly solicit or accept a contribution, gift, or other item with a value gre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB787 | Pass | Offshore energy resources. States that it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth to support oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production 50 miles or more off Virginia's coast, taking into account the impact on affected localities, ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| SB220 | Pass | Electronic filing of cases in circuit courts. Establishes electronic filing of cases in circuit courts by providing for acceptance of electronic images as original documents for filing and recording, and for the attachment of electronic seals or stam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0717) |
| HB143 | Pass | Practitioner self-referral. Clarifies when a health care practitioner may make a referral to an entity in which he or an immediate family member is an investor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743) |
| HB637 | Pass | Concealed handgun permit; fees. Waives the concealed handgun permit fee (maximum $50) for certain designated boarding team members and boarding officers of the United States Coast Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| HB147 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); limit on taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Provides for a referendum at the November 2010 election on the approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to the limit on the si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| HB107 | Pass | Adult students under the jurisdiction of the juvenile and domestic relations district court; notification to schools. Provides that the same notification that is given to the superintendents of school divisions for juveniles must be given when studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0742) |
| HB883 | Pass | Declaration of judicial emergency. Sets out a procedure for the Supreme Court to follow in entering an order declaring a judicial emergency when there is a disaster as defined in the Commonwealth's Emergency Services and Disaster Law. The judicial em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) |
| HB1088 | Pass | Coyote control. Requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to join in a cooperative agreement with the federal government to reestablish the Virginia Cooperative Coyote Damage Control Program to control coyotes that pose a danger ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| SB232 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; new employees. Modifies for new employees, all the defined benefit retirement plans administered by the Virginia Retirement System ("VRS"), as follows: (i) requires employees to contribute five percent of credita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| HB892 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; withdrawal of member contributions. Requires a member of the Virginia Retirement System to be vested before being eligible to withdraw that portion of his accumulated contributions made by his employer on his behalf subseq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| HB1113 | Pass | Forfeiture of vehicles used in pandering involving a minor or abduction. Requires that a vehicle knowingly used by the owner or another with the owner's knowledge during the commission of any felony abduction offense or pandering when the prostitute ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0710) |
| SB259 | Pass | Detention of transferred or certified juveniles. Provides that a juvenile whose criminal case has been transferred to circuit court or certified be placed in a juvenile secure facility unless the court determines that he is a threat to the security o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| HB1065 | Pass | Electronic filing of cases in circuit courts. Establishes electronic filing of cases in circuit courts by providing for acceptance of electronic images as original documents for filing and recording, and for the attachment of electronic seals or stam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| HB8 | Pass | Renewal of concealed handgun permits. Allows a person who previously has been issued a Virginia concealed handgun permit to submit an application to renew the permit via the United States mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| HB713 | Pass | Board for Contractors; prerequisite for obtaining business license. Requires any contractor applying for or renewing a business license in any locality to furnish prior to the issuance or renewal of the business license either (i) satisfactory proof ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755) |
| HB723 | Pass | Health professions; practice of podiatry; expert witness. Clarifies that the practice of podiatry includes the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure or alleviation of physical conditions, diseases, pain, or infirmities of the human foot and ankl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| HB736 | Pass | Virginia Child Protection Accountability System. Adds the Department of State Police and circuit courts to the list of entities required to report information for inclusion in the Virginia Child Protection Accountability System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1179 | Pass | Coalbed methane gas; presumption regarding estate of owner of surface rights. Provides that a conveyance, reservation, or exception of coal shall not be deemed to include coalbed methane gas. The presumption does not affect (i) a coal operator's righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| SB317 | Pass | Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee. Removes the cap on reappointments for nonlegislative citizen members of the Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee. Currently, nonlegislative citizen members may only serve three consecutive two-year terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| HB1382 | Pass | Public disclosure of personal information; law-enforcement officers. Prohibits a state or local agency from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet the home address or personal telephone numbers of a law-enforcement officer if the officer has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| HB1189 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; new employees. Modifies for new employees, all the defined benefit retirement plans administered by the Virginia Retirement System ("VRS"), as follows: (i) requires employees to contribute five percent of credita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| SB69 | Pass | Surrogacy contracts. Provides that, upon expiration of three days following birth of any resulting child, a surrogate may relinquish her parental rights to the intended parents, if at least one intended parent is the genetic parent of the child, by s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| HB1396 | Pass | Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; economic development incentives Expands the use of moneys in the Fund to include grants for the construction or build-out of privately owned buildings. The bill would also cap the aggregate amount of grants ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
