| HB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of equalization; Loudoun County. Allows the Loudoun County board of supervisors to appoint the members of the Loudoun County board of equalization. Currently, the members are appointed by the circuit court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory reporting of child abuse; penalty; damages. Adds persons associated with or employed by a public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children to the list of mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse or neglect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1086 | Intro
Sine Die | Restitution; collection. Allows the victim to whom restitution is owed to authorize the attorney for the Commonwealth to collect the restitution using private attorneys, collection agencies, or other methods. The costs and fees associated with the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission to study regulation of sale of methamphetamine precursors; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the effectiveness of the current regulatory scheme for the sale of the methamphetamine prec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; resident employment and apprenticeship participation; required contract provisions. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract of more than $100,000 that involves the performance of work within the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of health care providers; prohibited acts. Provides that any person who is licensed, registered, certified, or otherwise subject to the oversight of a health regulatory board who knowingly or intentionally makes any false statement or incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Menhaden harvest cap. Removes the provision that allows an adjustment for underages or overages in the annual harvest cap to be carried over to the next year's cap limit. Currently, if a person harvests less than the 109,020 metric ton limit on takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR63 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the Composite Index of Local Ability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB86 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB472 | Intro
Sine Die | Immigration query at arrest or during detention. Provides that when a law-enforcement officer lawfully detains a person who cannot produce a driver's license or properly identify himself following a lawful traffic stop, the officer is authorized, dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Landlord and tenant law; landlord obligations; receipt required for certain rent payments.Requires a landlord to provide, upon request, a written receipt whenever a tenant pays rent in the form of cash or money orders. The bill also requires written ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Emissions inspections. Privatizes services now provided by the Department of Environmental Quality related to vehicle emissions inspections. The bill also updates authorized testing equipment, allows use of wireless systems to increase convenience, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | Overweight and oversize vehicle permits and fees. Allows temporary registration of overweight and oversize vehicles and assigns fees based on the amount that a vehicle is overweight or oversize. The bill also designates fees into specific funds. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefits Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, as recommended by the Virginia Health Reform Initiative Advisory Council. The Authority is charged with establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Miranda rights to be read in arrestee's native language. Provides that when a person accused of a criminal offense is placed under arrest and advised of his Miranda rights, the arresting officer or officers shall so advise the arrestee in his native ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR66 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study suspension and expulsion practices in public schools; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review and consider school discipline practices and effective alternatives to suspension and expulsion an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; opening of the school year. Allows local school boards, for years in which Labor Day falls on September 5 or later, to set the school calendar so that the first day students are required to attend school shall be no earlier than one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1292 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code; grandfathering certain kitchens. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt regulations to amend the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code for the purpose of allowing certain kitchens l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to revise the Uniform Statewide Building Code to require a two-year time limit on the duration of a building permit issued for the completion of new construction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR137 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; land-disturbing activities; report. Requests the Secretary of Natural Resources to study the possibility that regulatory requirements may be modified to alleviate the cost and time required to pursue land-disturbing activities in Virginia, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Planning commissions; appointments. Provides that no member shall be appointed to a planning commission who holds a pecuniary interest or professional position with any organization to which the outcome of local planning and zoning policies is integr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HJR84 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; severe shortage of medical doctors; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the current and impending severe shortage of medical doctors in Virginia. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) determine whether a shor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; hours polls are open. Authorizes any county or city by ordinance to extend the hours polls are open for voting by one hour from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. rather than to 7:00 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1028 | Intro
Sine Die | Approval of electrical utility facilities. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when considering requests for approval to construct electrical utility facilities, to consider the public health impacts of the electrical utility facility that hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Procurement of information technology and telecommunications goods and services; Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Excludes procurements of information technology and telecommunications goods and services from certain requirements under metho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Science and Technology Committee |
| HB993 | Intro
Sine Die | Homestead exemption. Raises the homestead exemption from $5,000 to (i) $25,000, (ii) 20 percent of the property's tax-assessed value, or (iii) 40 percent of the property's tax-assessed value if the householder is 65 years of age or older. The bill r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor fuels tax; rate increase. Increases the motor fuels tax rate by $0.10 per gallon and dedicates the additional revenue to the operation, maintenance, improvement, and expansion of the Commonwealth's transportation system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Texting while driving. Removes the "secondary enforcement" provision from the statute prohibiting sending or reading email or text messages while driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Public records; retention and destruction of original records by clerk. Clarifies inconsistencies between the law governing the retention and destruction of original public records by the clerk of the circuit court and the Public Records Management A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR136 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; determination eligibility for disability claims under the Virginia Retirement System; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the system for determining eligibility for disability claims under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; computers. Adds computers and related computer equipment with an aggregate sales price of $3,500 or less to the school supplies and clothing that are exempt from sales and use tax each year for a three-day period in Augus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1085 | Intro
Sine Die | Persons entitled to register and vote. Provides that any person who registers to vote in the Commonwealth shall be deemed to be a resident of the Commonwealth for the purpose of being licensed to operate a motor vehicle in the Commonwealth. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Eliminates the Performance Incentive provision in the renewable energy portfolio standard program that entitles any investor-owned electric utility to a 50 basis point increase in its authorized combined r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act; Property Owners' Association Act; foreclosure on lien for unpaid assessments; priority of certain liens. Provides that a property owner or condominium association may conduct a foreclosure sale on a lien for unpaid assessments subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of weapons in legislative buildings. Except those lawfully possessing a handgun, no person shall possess a weapon in legislative buildings and all persons, except General Assembly members, staff or any law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Time-served credit for pretrial home/electronic incarceration. Provides that a circuit or district court, when imposing a sentence of incarceration upon a person convicted of a criminal offense, may allow the person convicted credit for time served p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB434 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing child to be present in methamphetamine manufactory; penalty. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who knowingly allows a child to be present in the same dwelling, apartment, unit of a hotel, garage, shed, or vehicle (i) during ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; prohibited publication of registrant employment information. Prohibits information regarding the employer of a Sex Offender Registry registrant from being made available on the Internet system develope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement ineligibility. Clarifies that a criminal case that is dismissed following the satisfaction of terms and conditions of a deferred judgment is not eligible for expungement. Currently, a case that is "otherwise dismissed" or wherei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1067 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; alternative dispute resolution. Provides that contractual claims submitted under §2.2-4363, related to a construction contract entered into by or on behalf of the Virginia Community College System for which the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing education programs; due process. Requires the Board of Nursing to develop regulations detailing the due process procedures to be followed before restricting the enrollment of any nursing education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HJR89 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study suspension and expulsion practices in public schools; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review and consider school discipline practices and effective alternatives to suspension and expulsion an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR134 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study economic impact of proposed Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential economic impact of the proposed Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Park...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1002 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting on Sunday. Allows any person to hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal on Sunday, on private lands, in the Counties of Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe deposit boxes. Requires the bank or other entity renting a safe deposit box to permit limited access to the box by the spouse or next of kin of the deceased lessee of the box, a court clerk, or other interested person, to look for a will or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB934 | Intro
Sine Die | Bottomlands conveyed by special grant; trespass; proof. Establishes a presumption in a private civil action for trespass upon bottomlands alleged to have been conveyed by a special grant or compact that such bottomlands are owned by the Commonwealth....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB956 | Intro
Sine Die | Immediate sanction probation. Continues immediate sanction probation programs adopted in 2010 and which were subject to sunset on July 1, 2012, and removes the two program limit (expands program to statewide application). The bill provides that as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
