| HB1000 | Intro
Sine Die | Telework expenses tax credit. Raises the cap on the aggregate amount of tax credits available in calendar years 2012 and 2013 for telework expenses from $1 million to $1.5 million. The bill also raises the cap on the amount of credits that can be cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB838 | Intro
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 47 and 49 in Arlington County in order to coordinate polling places with precincts. Both districts remain within one percent d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone services for incarcerated persons. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to exercise jurisdiction over rates and charges of telecommunication services that enable correctional inmates to originate calls at pay telephones or other tele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB962 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalty for DUI maiming. Provides that the punishment for DUI maiming, a Class 6 felony, shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed weapons by former attorneys for the Commonwealth. Provides an exemption for former attorneys for the Commonwealth and former assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth from the requirement to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Passed by indefinitely in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, created in new Article 9.1 of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2, prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid; appeals of agency determinations. Provides that all recommended or final case decisions in administrative hearings regarding Medicaid overpayments shall be made in accordance with the Administrative Process Act, shall be based on the whole...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Child custody and visitation; person with a legitimate interest. Provides that a person with a legitimate interest who may petition for custody or visitation of a child that is not his or her own must be a grandparent, stepparent, former stepparent, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage foreclosure; right to reinstatement. Provides that the grantor under a first priority deed of trust securing a loan on residential real property may, at any time up to the date of the sale of the property, cure any default, de-accelerate, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of foreign law in Virginia courts. Provides that court decisions and contracts and other agreements will be void as violative of the public policy of the Commonwealth where such decisions or contracts are based on foreign law, i.e., law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information check for transfer of certain firearms; exemption for concealed handgun permittees. Provides an exemption from the required criminal history record information check upon firearms transfers in the Commonwealth for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB850 | 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional emergency services councils; plan requirements related to crime victims. Removes language requiring regional emergency services councils to include a provision requiring that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Crim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Militia, Police and Public Safety |
| HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulating firearms by educational institution. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of an educational institution has the power to establish rules and regulations for the possession or transportation of firearms or ammunition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Stricken from docket by Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB1235 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract pricing arrangements. Provides that the award of a public contract may be made on the basis of cost plus a percentage of the private investment made by a private entity in cases of the procurement of commerc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB923 | Intro
Sine Die | Reorganizing and recodifying the law related to carrying concealed weapons and concealed handgun permits. Reorganizes the existing § 18.2-308 into a new Article 6.1 in Chapter 7 of Title 18.2. The new article creates separate, discrete sections ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Allows localities to charge persons convicted of violations of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting them to jail or other holding facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 with amendment(s) in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB574 | Intro
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 14 and 16 in Pittsylvania County in order to place all of the new Keeling and Mt. Hermon Precincts in District 14 and all of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Arresting officer to ascertain citizenship of arrestee. Supplements the existing law that requires sheriffs to make a query into legal presence when a person is "taken into custody" at a jail. This bill expands such inquiries by requiring inquiries o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; ultrasound required. Requires every pregnant female to undergo a limited ultrasound examination prior to undergoing an abortion procedure. The bill also requires the Department of Health to compile information on facilities that perform fre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty. Provides that any person who, by telephone or by any electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB426 | Intro
Sine Die | Planning districts; strategic plans. Requires all planning districts to prepare regional strategic plans for the guidance of the district. Currently, planning districts in which regional planning is conducted by multistate councils of government are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Destruction of juvenile delinquency records; underage possession of alcohol. Provides that the juvenile court records of a juvenile found delinquent for underage possession of alcohol shall be destroyed no sooner than his 21st birthday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB724 | Intro
Sine Die | False advertising; liability of real estate brokers and salespersons; exemption. Exempts a licensed real estate broker or salesperson from criminal and civil liability for making an advertisement that contains any promise, assertion, representation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Funeral protests; penalty. Makes it unlawful for a person to disrupt a funeral or memorial service during the 60 minutes immediately preceding through the time immediately following such service with the intent to disrupt the service. A violation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Worker retraining tax credit; increase in credit amount. Increases the worker retraining tax credit for worker retraining courses taken by employees at private schools from a maximum of $100 per year per employee to $250 per year per employee or $500...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Riparian forest tax credit; refund. Makes the existing tax credit for riparian forest buffer protection for waterways refundable. Currently, the tax credit may be carried forward for five taxable years, but is not refundable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; certain employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education. Provides employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education the opportunity to purchase service credit in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 with amendment(s) in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB891 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of vehicles equipped with mobile infrared transmitters; penalty. Increases from a traffic infraction to a Class 4 misdemeanor any violation of the prohibition on operation of nonemergency vehicles equipped with mobile infrared transmitters ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 with substitute in Appropriations by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Record on appeal from district court. Provides that, upon the appeal of a district court judgment in a civil case to circuit court, only the original warrants or pleadings with the judgment endorsed thereon and all other pleadings filed in the case ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate and House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Changes district assignments of certain Loudoun County census blocks between Senate Districts 13 and 33 and House of Delegates Districts 10, 32, 33, 67, and 87 in order to follow new pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| 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] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB295 | Intro
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignment of certain census blocks in Culpeper County from District 18 to District 30 in order to include all of the new East Fairfax Precinct in District 30. Both districts remain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; PEACE BEGINS AT HOME. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend PEACE BEGINS AT HOME to support the programs of the Domestic Violence Action Alliance for the prevention of sexual and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Salvage vehicles. Heightens consumer awareness of issues that may arise in connection with the purchasing of motor vehicles at salvage auctions without fully understanding the disclaimers and waivers related to total-loss vehicles. The bill would all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides a bid match preference for Virginia business in procurements up to $100,000. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
House: Continued to 2013 with amendment(s) in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; Trees Virginia. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of Trees Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-09
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-09
House: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| 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] | 2012-02-09
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
