| HB285 | Pass | Foreign adoption; procedure to obtain Virginia certificate of birth. Provides that in certain foreign adoptions, adoptive parents seeking to obtain a Virginia certificate of birth for the adopted child may provide either certified or notarized copies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| HB941 | Pass | Issuance of fire investigation warrant; State Police arson investigators. Authorizes State Police arson investigators to obtain administrative warrants to investigate fires. Current law only authorizes fire marshals to obtain such warrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| HB1136 | Pass | Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Act; liquefied propane gas containers. Exempts qualified stationary American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) LP-Gas containers used exclusively in propane service from the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) |
| HB1290 | Pass | Right-of-way of pedestrians; posting of signs in certain localities. Adds Falls Church to the list of localities authorized to post highway signs requiring motorists to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) |
| HB1261 | Pass | Landlord and tenant law; energy submetering. Provides that energy submetering equipment, energy allocation equipment, water and sewer submetering equipment, or a ratio utility billing system may be used in a campground if clearly stated in the rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338) |
| HB1220 | Pass | Industrial development authorities. Allows Roanoke County to expand the board of its authority from seven to 10 members and the City of Norfolk to appoint 11 members with staggered terms to its authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB466 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising. Provides that all lawfully erected outdoor alcoholic beverage signs shall comply with the provisions of outdoor advertising in sight of highways, laws and regulations adopted by the Commonwealth Transp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| HB270 | Pass | Department for the Aging; public guardianship and conservator program. Requires the Department for the Aging to adopt, as part of its public guardianship and conservator program, person-centered practice procedures that shall (i) focus on the prefer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| HB1142 | Pass | Charter; Town of Glen Lyn. Shifts the town's elections from May to November and provides for four-year terms. The bill also removes the requirement of voter approval prior to borrowing money and moves the town council's biennial organizational meetin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| HB1153 | Pass | Income tax; conformity with § 199 of the Internal Revenue Code. Allows the entire amount of the deduction allowed for domestic production activities pursuant to § 199 of the Internal Revenue Code to be deducted for Virginia income tax purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| HB1121 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; personnel. Provides that a ratio of claims agents with the Department of Veterans Services to the number of veterans in the Commonwealth shall be one agent for every 23,000 veterans. Current law requires sufficient s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| HB810 | Pass | Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability. Provides for staffing of the Commission by the Clerk's Office of the house of the General Assembly of which the Chairman is a member and the Division of Legislative Services, with technical support f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| HB623 | Pass | Elections, administrative matters, and duties of the electoral board and general registrar. Provides for certain administrative efficiencies: permits general registrar to administer oath to voting equipment custodians; clarifies method to give notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| HB551 | Pass | Telework expenses tax credit. Extends the telework expenses tax credit for employers through December 31, 2016. The credit currently expires on December 31, 2013. The bill also makes other clarifying changes concerning expenses eligible for the credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0327) |
| HB553 | Pass | Privately owned airports; duty of care of landowners. Limits the liability of owners of private, unlicensed airports that are not open to the public and for use of which no fee is charged to gross negligence or willful or malicious failure to guard o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| HB408 | Pass | Real property tax exemption for the elderly and disabled. Provides more flexibility to localities in determining the income and financial worth of the elderly and disabled, for those localities that choose to have caps on income and financial worth i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| HB332 | Pass | Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; general provisions applicable to penalties. Provides that the Act's requirements for filing timely and complete statements and reports remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any pending investigation into act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| HB879 | Pass | Income tax; subtraction for certain death benefit payments. Clarifies that the current subtraction applies only to death benefit payments (i) paid to a beneficiary that are pursuant to an annuity contract between an annuitant and an insurance company...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| HB735 | Pass | Community-based continuing care providers. Requires providers of community-based continuing care (CBCC) to be registered with the State Corporation Commission as a continuing care provider and file a statement regarding the provider's CBCC program. C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| HB842 | Pass | Applications for local business license or land use authorization; conditions. Permits localities to condition issuance of a local business license or land use authorization on payment of certain delinquent taxes, fees, or other charges owed by the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| HB133 | Pass | Insurance information; posting on insurer's website. Authorizes any property and casualty insurer to post property and casualty insurance forms and endorsements on the insurer's publicly available website in lieu of any other method of delivery upon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0293) |
| HB906 | Pass | Charter; Town of Leesburg. Changes the town's municipal elections from May to November and provides that all municipal elections for mayor and town council are nonpartisan. This bill contains an emergency clause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| HB535 | Pass | Certificate of public need; nursing home beds. Repeals requirements relating to relocation of certain nursing home beds and certificates of public need for certain nursing home beds. The bill requires the Department of Health, in consultation with st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| HB1217 | Pass | Sergeant David Lambert Highway; Sergeant Brandon Asbury Highway. Designates a portion of Virginia Route 19 the “Sergeant Brandon Asbury Highway” and all of Virginia Route 609 in Tazewell County the “Sergeant David Lambert Highway.&#...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB939 | Pass | Department of Accounts; recovery of erroneous or improper payments to state employee. Provides that when a state officer or employee receives compensation or payments in error such officer or employee will be liable for repayment unless the state off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| HB1192 | Pass | Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit; sunset date. Extends from January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2017, the sunset date for the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309) |
| HB301 | Pass | Cool-season lawn and turf seed. Permits the sale of cool-season lawn and turf seed up to 15 months after the completion of the required germination test. Current law limits the sale of seed in general to the period within nine months of the completio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0297) |
| HB1144 | Pass | Board for Contractors; waiver of license requirement for Habitat for Humanity. Adds the rehabilitation of single-family dwellings by Habitat for Humanity for which the Board for Contractors may waive the requirement for licensure. Currently, the auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308) |
| HB209 | Pass | Insurance agents; continuing education. Streamlines the continuing education process for insurance agents. The measure provides a producer a period of time during which he has the opportunity to correct errors and effect compliance with continuing ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| HB288 | Pass | Carrying weapons into courthouses; exception. Provides an exception from the prohibition against carrying a weapon into courthouses in the Commonwealth for city and county treasurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| HB476 | Pass | Mandatory outpatient treatment hearing prior to release from commitment. Provides that prior to the release of a person who has been involuntarily admitted or who has been the subject of a temporary detention order and chose to voluntarily admit hims...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| HB294 | Pass | Public libraries; qualifications of librarian; use of state funds. Increases from 13,000 to 15,000 the population of any locality that must meet the qualifications established by the State Library Board in order to use state funds to pay for the pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) |
| HB329 | Pass | Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemptions. Exempts personal information systems maintained by auditors appointed by the local governing body of any county, city, or town or a school board that deals with local investigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| HB127 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance policies; forms and endorsements. Requires property and casualty insurance policies to contain a list of all policy forms and endorsements applicable to that policy, which shall display the respective form numbers and,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| HB384 | Pass | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference in state employment for members of the Virginia National Guard. Establishes a preference in state hiring for members of the Virginia National Guard. Under the bill, when a member of the Virginia National Guar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| HB743 | Pass | Personal property tax; farm vehicles. Allows a county, city, or town to exempt, partially exempt, or set a lower tax rate for motor vehicles used exclusively for farming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| HB1102 | Pass | Renewable energy portfolio standard program; credits for investments. Allows any investor-owned electric utility that participates in the renewable energy portfolio standard program to meet up to 20 percent of an RPS Goal through certificates evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) |
| HB253 | Pass | Virginia Personnel Act; hiring preference for veterans; surviving spouses and children. Adds the surviving spouse or child of a veteran killed in the line of duty to the preference in state employment for veterans. The bill defines child to mean a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) |
| HB298 | Pass | Machinery and tools tax; car washing businesses. Classifies machinery and tools used to clean motor vehicles by a motor vehicle cleaning business as a separate class of property for tax rate purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267) |
| HB246 | Pass | Sunset provisions on state tax credits. Prohibits any committee of the General Assembly from reporting a new state tax credit or renewing an existing state tax credit unless such bill contains an expiration date of not longer than five years from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| HB465 | Pass | Secretary of the Commonwealth; organizational chart of state government. Requires the Secretary of the Commonwealth to include in the Secretary's annual report an organizational chart of state government. The bill specifies what information is to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| HB453 | Pass | Workers' compensation; penalty for failure to pay. Updates the provision that excuses the Commonwealth from assessment of a penalty for failing to pay workers' compensation benefits when the Commonwealth has issued a regular payroll payment to the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) |
| HB867 | Pass | Certificates of insurance; property and casualty insurance. Prohibits any person from (i) issuing or delivering a certificate of insurance that attempts to confer any rights upon a third party beyond what the referenced policy of insurance expressly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| HB175 | Pass | Riparian blinds in Back Bay. Limits the placement of duck blinds by riparian landowners in Back Bay to the riparian owner's shoreline at the mean low water mark but allows blinds erected and licensed by riparian owners in 2011 to remain at their curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) |
| HB1009 | Pass | Land-disturbing activities; service of order for violation. Specifies the means of serving an order for land disturbance where no plan has been approved or permit obtained, other than where an agricultural exemption applies. Current law refers only t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| HB995 | Pass | Payments from timber sales. Limits the payment made to localities by the Department of Forestry to one-fourth of the gross proceeds derived solely from the sale of timber harvested on state forest lands; however, the counties of Appomattox, Buckingha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0248) |
| HB753 | Pass | Juvenile offenses; sex offender registry; motion by the attorney for the Commonwealth. Amends the section that permits an attorney for the Commonwealth to file a motion for the court to determine whether circumstances warrant the placement of a juven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| HB880 | Pass | Fishing licenses for partially disabled veterans. Establishes a special fishing license for resident and nonresident veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least 70 percent as rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| HB1161 | Pass | Methamphetamine precursors; sale and tracking; penalties. Requires the Department of State Police to enter into a memorandum of understanding to establish the Commonwealth's participation in a real-time electronic recordkeeping and monitoring system ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252) |
| HB1147 | Pass | Garnishment; venue. Provides that a judgment creditor may institute garnishment proceedings in the jurisdiction where the judgment debtor resides even though the underlying judgment was entered by another court. The judgment creditor must file with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
