| SB656 | Pass | Public schools; possession and administration of epinephrine. Requires local school boards to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every school. The school nurse or a school board employee may administe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) |
| HB599 | Pass | Northern Virginia Transportation District; long-range planning. Establishes responsibilities for various entities for long-range transportation planning for the Northern Virginia Transportation District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| HB543 | Pass | Licensed massage therapists. Requires that massage therapists be licensed, rather than certified, by the Board of Nursing; includes "bodywork" in the definition of "massage therapy"; and identifies activities that do not constitute massage therapy an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0764) |
| SB45 | Pass | Open Education Curriculum Board. Alters the function of the Open Education Curriculum Board from a policy board to an advisory board. In its new role, the Open Education Curriculum Board shall advise the Governor and the Board of Education on the cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| HB796 | Pass | State Board of Health; guidelines for cleanup of residential property used as clandestine drug lab. Provides for the State Board of Health to establish guidelines for the cleanup of residential property formerly used as a clandestine methamphetamine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| HB878 | Veto | License taxes on certain motor vehicles. Allows localities to impose a license tax, not to exceed $250 annually, upon resident owners of motor vehicles that do not display license plates issued by the Commonwealth and that are not exempted from the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| HB206 | Pass | Real Estate Board; duties of real estate brokers and salespersons. Requires the Real Estate Board to establish procedures for carrying over continuing education credits by real estate licensees. The bill also (i) authorizes the Board to regulate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| HB1151 | Pass | Petition requirements for candidates for statewide offices. Provides that the petition requirement for statewide office candidates of 400 signatures from each congressional district may be met on the basis of the existing congressional districts if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB34 | Pass | Advertising within highway limits. Allows the Commissioner of Highways to enter into agreements with any local governing body authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental entities to act as agents of the Commissioner regardi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| HB1291 | Pass | Governor's reorganization of executive branch of state government. Reorganizes the executive branch of state government as follows: Eliminates the Commonwealth Competition Council and transfers the responsibility of developing and maintaining the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| SB653 | Pass | Condemnation; public uses. Provides that lands may be condemned for certain specified uses, including the installation of electric utility lines or telephone lines, because those uses are inherently public uses when undertaken by a locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832) |
| HB573 | Pass | Flags flown at half staff. Provides that whenever a member of the United States armed forces, Virginia National Guard, Virginia Defense Force, a police officer, a firefighter, or an emergency medical services provider who is a resident of Virginia is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| HB736 | Veto | Primary schedule in 2012. Moves the June 12, 2012, primary date to August 7, 2012, in response to the 2012 redistricting process and adjusts various deadlines for filings and election preparations to accommodate the new primary date. The bill also au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
House: House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB625 | Pass | Transportation planning; comprehensive plan. Provides that when a locality in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) submits a proposed comprehensive plan or amendment to the Department of Transportation for review, the Department will determine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| SB679 | Pass | Elimination of certain state mandates on local entities. Eliminates several statewide mandates on local government and regional government entities.The bill does the following: (i) removes the requirement that surplus property be offered to political...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0836) |
| SB678 | Pass | Governor's reorganization of executive branch of state government. Reorganizes the executive branch of state government as follows: Eliminates the Commonwealth Competition Council and transfers the responsibility of developing and maintaining the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| HB1065 | Pass | Integration of agencies' programs. Integrates elements of the Erosion and Sediment Control Act, the Stormwater Management Act, and the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act so that these regulatory programs can be implemented in a consolidated and consist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| SB680 | Pass | Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit. The bill lowers the threshold, from 50 percent to 40 percent, for the percentage of low-income persons to whom a neighborhood assistance organization that submits a proposal to the State Board of Social Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837) |
| HB302 | Pass | Exemption from environmental laboratory certification program. Exempts laboratories from the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services' environmental certification program when the laboratories are using the protocols established by the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-18
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0753) |
| SB520 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance; public adjusters. Provides for State Corporation Commission licensing and regulation of public adjusters. Public adjusting means investigating, negotiating, adjusting, or providing advice to an insured in relation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0735) |
| HB872 | Pass | Property and casualty insurance; public adjusters. Provides for State Corporation Commission licensing and regulation of public adjusters. Public adjusting means investigating, negotiating, adjusting, or providing advice to an insured in relation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) |
| HB183 | Pass | Medical assistance; coverage for certain children and pregnant women. Provides that the Board of Medical Assistance Services shall include a provision in the state plan for medical assistance services for medical assistance for otherwise eligible pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689) |
| HB180 | Pass | Commonwealth Health Research Board; staffing. Provides that employees of the Commonwealth Health Research Board, which provides financial support for health research funded through assets distributed to the Commonwealth as a policyholder pursuant to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB94 | Pass | Rules of Evidence; adoption. Provides that the Rules of Evidence that have been prepared and adopted by the Supreme Court of Virginia and approved by the Virginia Code Commission shall take effect on July 1, 2012. A rule derived from an evidentiary p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
| HB5 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2012, election to approve or reject an amendment that revises the prohibition on the enactment by the Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) |
| SB349 | Pass | Child-placing agency; conscience clause. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, no private child-placing agency shall be required to perform, assist, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any placement of a child for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0715) |
| HB330 | Pass | Virginia Transplant Council. Authorizes the Virginia Transplant Council to hire its own employees and pay them with moneys from the Virginia Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund. The bill eliminates language designating the Board of Health as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| HB1237 | Pass | Mandatory reporting of child abuse; penalty. Adds individuals who are 18 years of age or older and who are associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children to the list of individuals req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728) |
| HB1173 | Pass | Public charter schools; funding and service contracts. Provides that following a local school board decision to deny a public charter school application or to revoke or fail to renew a charter agreement, the local school board shall submit documentat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702) |
| SB432 | Pass | Grantor trusts; settlor's creditors; payment of taxes. Prohibits creditors from compelling the trustee of a grantor trust to exercise his discretionary authority to pay income taxes on trust income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) |
| SB437 | Pass | Eminent domain; lost profits and access. Provides definitions for the terms "lost profits" and "lost access" and how to determine the amount of just compensation, which includes lost profits and lost access resulting from the taking, that must be pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| SB440 | Pass | Public charter schools; funding, and service contracts. Provides that following a local school board decision to deny a public charter school application or to revoke or fail to renew a charter agreement, the local school board shall submit documenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| HB853 | Pass | Policies addressing suicidal students. Removes repetitive language permitting universities to establish policies regarding students who are a danger to themselves or others; this section and another on violence prevention already permit such policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697) |
| HB343 | Pass | Virginia All-Payer Claims Database; creation. Establishes the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database system, in order to facilitate data-driven, evidence-based improvements in access, quality, and cost of health care and to improve the public health thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| SB639 | Pass | Transportation construction, operation and maintenance, and funding. Provides for the construction, maintenance, and funding of transportation by (i) increasing transportation's share of year-end surpluses to 67 percent, and (ii) authorizing the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| SB458 | Pass | Policies addressing suicidal students. Removes repetitive language permitting universities to establish policies regarding students who are a danger to themselves or others; this section and another on violence prevention already permit such policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| HB141 | Pass | Freedom of Information Act; personal information in constituent correspondence. Provides an exemption from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the names, physical addresses, telephone numbers, and email ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| HB1248 | Pass | Transportation construction, operation and maintenance, and funding. Provides for the construction, maintenance, and funding of transportation by (i) increasing transportation's share of year-end surpluses to 67 percent, and (ii) authorizing the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| SB131 | Pass | Tax credits; assistance to low-income families; scholarships for K through 12 students attending private schools. Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2013 for individuals, business entities, and corporations making monetary donations to no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB237 | Pass | Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Expands the Authority from 13 to 17 members and changes its composition. The bill also prohibits a member from serving after the expiration of the member's term or terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| SB251 | Pass | Court fees. Provides for the acceptance of debit cards in addition to credit cards and allows the clerk to outsource the processing of credit and debit card transactions. The bill also provides that the clerk may charge a convenience fee for processi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| HB367 | Pass | Board of Education; publication of disciplinary offense and outcome data. Requires the Board of Education to annually publish disciplinary offense and outcome data by race, ethnicity, gender, and disability for each public school in the Commonwealth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| SB674 | Pass | Action for death by wrongful act; fetal death. Creates a cause of action for the death of a fetus caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of any person, ship, vessel, or corporation. The action shall be brought by the natural mother of the fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0725) |
| HB1179 | Pass | Public schools; character education. Provides that a school board, either within its existing programs or as a separate program, may provide its character education program during the summer in a youth development academy offered by the school divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| SB204 | Pass | School placement; children in foster care. Clarifies that the agreement as to where a child placed in foster care will attend school does not need to be made before placing the child in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB242 | Pass | Public procurement; agreements with labor organizations. Requires state agencies to ensure that neither the state agency nor any construction manager acting on behalf of the state agency shall, in its bid specifications, project agreements, or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| HB1274 | Pass | Requirements for transferring a nursing home resident; workgroup. Creates a workgroup for the purposes of clarifying requirements and developing guidelines applicable to nursing homes when transferring or discharging a resident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| SB672 | Pass | Hampton Roads Sanitation District. Amends the sanitation district's enabling act by expressly permitting the Hampton Roads Sanitation District Commission to determine the rate of interest on revenue bonds, removing the six percent interest-rate cap f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| HB1119 | Pass | Wake surfing. Allows persons to engage in the recreational activity of wake surfing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| SB246 | Pass | Winter Sports Safety Act. Limits the liability of ski resorts and other winter sports area operators when death, personal injury, or property damage is caused by an inherent risk of participating in a winter sport. Winter sports area operators are re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
