| HB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Bicycles in Blacksburg. Authorizes the Town Council of Blacksburg to permit operation of bicycles in either direction on one-way streets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Passed by indefinitely in Transportation by voice vote |
| HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; telephone calls. Provides that the term "telephone call" for purposes of the Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act includes any text message sent via short message service (SMS), any message co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HJR173 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; merging Eastern Virginia Medical School with Old Dominion University; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study merging Eastern Virginia Medical School with Old Dominion University. In conducting its study, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Continued to 2013 in Rules by voice vote |
| HB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Check cashers; customer identification; civil penalty. Requires a person conducting business as a check casher to make a copy of each item cashed and either the customer's valid identification document or thumbprint. Records for each transaction are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (1-Y 20-N) |
| HB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Minority Business Enterprises; definition of small business. Changes the definition of "small business" to be a business located in Virginia that meets the definition of a small business concern as defined in the federal Small...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB432 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information. Prohibits insurers from setting rates for motor vehicle insurance on the basis of a person's credit history or credit score. The measure will become effective January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| HB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; suspension of license for local tax delinquency. Provides that upon receipt by the ABC Board of a notice certified by the treasurer, commissioner of the revenue, or finance director of any locality that a licensee of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Continued to 2013 in General Laws by voice vote |
| HJR131 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Route 28 extension across Potomac River; report. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the desirability and feasibility of extension of Virginia Route 28 across the Potomac River into Maryland and the inclusion of Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Political contributions; prohibitions during procurement process. Includes the mayor or chief executive officer of a locality, school superintendent, and any member of a local governing body, planning commission, or school board in the current prohib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws by voice vote |
| HB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Lease of highway space for solar electric production. Provides for VDOT analysis of desirability of leasing space within highway rights-of-way for solar photovoltaic power production projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Continued to 2013 in Transportation by voice vote |
| HR4 | Intro
Sine Die | House of Delegates; recording of standing committee and subcommittee meetings. Directs the Clerk of the House of Delegates to provide for the digital recording of meetings of the standing committees and subcommittees of the House of Delegates and mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
House: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits for costs to comply with excessive state regulations. Establishes a tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for the direct costs of a business attributable to its location in the Commonwealth to comply with excessive state regulations. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia College Savings Plan; acceptance of commemorative coins minted by the State Treasurer. Requires the Plan to accept as payment under prepaid tuition contracts and savings trust accounts gold, platinum, or silver coins minted by the State Trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Local motor fuels tax. Permits two or more localities that are constructing or operating high capacity transit systems to impose a local motor fuels tax at the rate of 2.1 percent of the wholesale price of fuels sold to retailers. The revenue generat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Passed by indefinitely in Finance by voice vote |
| HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit; solar energy equipment systems. Provides a personal and corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for the purchase and installation of equipment that (i) generates electricity from solar energy or (ii) uses solar energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Local cigarette tax. Prohibits any locality from restricting the owner of a business from transferring stamped cigarettes he legally possesses from one of his business locations to another of his business locations. The bill contains technical amendm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1264 | Intro
Sine Die | Extension of time to file individual income tax return; penalty for late payment of tax. Provides that for individual income tax returns filed electronically under an extension of time allowed or elected, no late payment penalty would be imposed if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB851 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education; violence prevention. Clarifies that the establishment of violence prevention committees and threat assessment teams by public colleges and universities, as required by current law, may occur as such resources and individuals may be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; tax credit for hiring military persons as STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) interns. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers employing military persons in STEM internship positions in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credits. Grants an income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, to individuals for placing into service renewable energy property. Individuals placing into service solar panels would be allowed a tax credit as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Compulsory public education; student suspension or expulsion from school. Requires the superintendent of each school division to ensure that any student who has been suspended or expelled from school continues to receive an education. The Constitutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Education by voice vote |
| HB335 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual and corporate income taxes; subtraction for investment in small businesses. Grants an individual and corporate income tax deduction for any income taxed (i) as a gain for federal income tax purposes attributable to an investment in a smal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB1049 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) internship tax credit. Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers employing persons in STEM internship positions in the Commonwealth. The bill requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deduction for tolls. Establishes an individual income tax deduction beginning with the 2013 taxable year for tolls paid for the use of a publicly owned and publicly operated highway located in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate tax credit; taxes paid in another state. Allows an entity that pays corporate income tax in Virginia based upon 100 percent of its sales to receive a tax credit equal to the amount of income tax paid in another state for sales in that state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax credit; disabled military veterans. Establishes an individual income tax credit beginning with the 2012 taxable year for veterans with a military service-connected disability. The credit would be computed by multiplying the vete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; military retirement pay subtraction. Establishes an individual income tax subtraction for annual retirement compensation received for service as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Virginia National Guard. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Compulsory public education; student suspension or expulsion from school. Requires the superintendent of each school division to ensure that any student who has been suspended or expelled from school continues to receive an education. The Constitutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Education by voice vote |
| HB366 | Intro
Sine Die | Student discipline; suspension and expulsion. Prohibits instances of only disorderly or disruptive behavior offenses or technology offenses as providing sufficient cause for a long-term suspension or expulsion. Currently, a student may be suspended o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Education by voice vote |
| HB544 | Intro
Sine Die | Student discipline; suspension and expulsion. Prohibits instances of only disorderly or disruptive behavior offenses or technology offenses as providing sufficient cause for a long-term suspension or expulsion. Currently, a student may be suspended o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Education by voice vote |
| HB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for hiring military veterans. Establishes beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers hiring returning or disabled military veterans into new jobs paying an annual salary of at least $50,000. Retu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Home school instruction tax credit. Creates an individual income tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for amounts paid by a parent or legal guardian for his child for home instruction-related materials and correspondence courses or distance learning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Small business job creation tax credit. Creates an individual and corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2012, for small businesses creating new full-time jobs in the Commonwealth. The credit would equal $1,000 for each new job created. A s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB783 | Intro
Sine Die | Microenterprise investment tax credits. Creates a tax credit for individuals who make a qualified investment in a microenterprise in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, but before January 1, 2017. The amount of the credit shall be 25 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB999 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for individual who teleworks. Creates a $500 credit for an individual who teleworks a minimum of 20 hours per week during at least 45 weeks of the year. The credit is available for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, but b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax. Eliminates Virginia's corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for contracting with small or minority-owned, veteran-owned, or women-owned businesses. Establishes a corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2013, for federal contractors with at least 250 full-time employees that subcontract wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Food and beverage tax; Floyd County. Authorizes Floyd County to impose a food and beverage tax at a rate not to exceed four percent, provided that (i) the local governing body unanimously votes to impose it and (ii) the local governing body decreases...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of trusts established for disabled individuals. Establishes an individual income tax deduction not to exceed $2,000 for the fair market value of contributions made during the taxable year to certain supplemental needs trusts established for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government taxing authority. Equalizes city and county taxing authority beginning January 1, 2013, by granting counties the same authority available to cities. In general, cities are not subject to maximum tax rates that may be imposed on meals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Gunston Hall; administration. Clarifies that, consistent with existing law, any administrative head of Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason bequeathed to the Commonwealth by a former owner, is appointed by the Governor to serve at his pleasure. Ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Education by voice vote |
| HB787 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; renewable energy equipment. Provides refunds of sales and use tax paid on the purchase of certain renewable energy equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB191 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for small businesses hiring graduates of Virginia's colleges. Creates, beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for certain small businesses creating new full-time jobs that are filled by persons holding ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal severance tax. Codifies the manner in which the coal severance tax is calculated and is declarative of existing local practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote |
| HB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Local taxes on cigarettes; administration and enforcement. Repeals the statute authorizing localities to utilize specific methods in administering and enforcing local taxes on cigarettes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deductions; life, medical, and dental insurance premiums. Provides that beginning January 1, 2012, an individual age 66 or older with earned income of at least $20,000 for the year is allowed to deduct the amount he pays annuall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB517 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deductions; life, medical, and dental insurance premiums. Creates individual income tax deductions beginning January 1, 2012, for (i) life insurance premiums paid by the individual for a life insurance policy covering him and (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Ignition interlock installation requirement. Removes the requirement that any person whose driving privilege is conditioned upon driving a motor vehicle only when there is an ignition interlock installed in the vehicle have such a device installed o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB1258 | Intro
Sine Die | Ignition interlock permit replaces restricted license post-DUI. Replaces the restricted license issued following a DUI with mandatory ignition interlock on every vehicle driven by the offender. The offender would be issued an "ignition interlock perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-03
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
