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- HB 4 Estate tax; conformity of state and federal statutes.
- HB 16 Health insurance; abolishes optional supplemental insurance for retired state employees.
- HB 17 Motor fuels tax; changes in reporting and payment requirements.
- HB 29 Budget Bill. Additional appropriations for 2002-2004 biennium.
- HB 30 Budget Bill. Appropriations for 2004-2006 biennium.
- HB 31 Higher Educational Institutions Bond Bill of 2004; created.
- HB 32 Parking Facilities Bond Bill of 2004; created.
- HB 34 Public defender's office; establishment in Chesapeake City.
- HB 79 Firearms; penalty for possession or transportation by certain persons.
- HB 94 Real estate tax; increases asset thresh. amts. of elderly or disabled prior to reduced imposition.
- HB 97 Real estate tax; amount of land acreage of elderly or disabled prior to reduced imposition.
- HB 104 Income tax, state; tax forms to be included with filing instructions.
- HB 105 Capitol Square Preservation Act of 2003; changes in provisions.
- HB 106 Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS); financing through bonds and vehicle rental fees.
- HB 143 Personal property exempt from taxation; incl. vehic. owned by volunteer rescue & fire organizations.
- HB 154 Real estate tax; allows Charlottesville City to increase amt. of income for elderly or disable, etc.
- HB 163 Health insurance; credits for retired state employees.
- HB 184 Malicious bodily injury; penalty by means of an infectious biological subst. or radiological agent.
- HB 199 Group life and accident insurance; provisions for state and local employees.
- HB 200 Retirement System; recouping of overpayments of benefits.
- HB 201 Retirement System; benefit payment to successor of decedent by affidavit.
- HB 235 Inmate Data System; maint. by Compensation Board, recouping costs assoc. with incarcerating aliens.
- HB 237 Neighborhood Assistance Act; extends tax credit.
- HB 246 Retail Sales and Use Tax; applicable to telephone calling cards.
- HB 250 Reckless driving; penalty if convicted while license suspended and death or serious injury involved.
- HB 282 Income tax, state; qualified equity and subordinated debt investment tax credit.
- HB 285 Neighborhood Assistance Act; tax credit for donations of professional services.
- HB 293 Local taxes; offers in compromise to settle disputed assessments.
- HB 295 Business taxes; written opinions prior to filing of an appeal of local assessment.
- HB 298 Local taxes; effect of applic. for correction of assess. or appeal upon appl. for local perm. & lic.
- HB 311 RS & U Tax; limits cert. percent. of reven. from nonprof. entity to be used for administrative cost.
- HB 334 State Police Officers' and Law Officers' Retirement Systems; service requirements.
- HB 354 Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority; powers.
- HB 356 Health insurance; credits for retired school superintendents.
- HB 372 Utility tax; imposition on local consumers in Towns of Herndon and Vienna for mobile phone usage.
- HB 403 Real estate tax; allows Goochland County to increase amount of income for elderly or disabled.
- HB 414 Explosives; penalty for possession or transportation by convicted felons.
- HB 464 Mobile property tax, local; appeal for correction of assessment.
- HB 465 Public records; treasurer may impose a remote access fee to cover operational expenses.
- HB 510 Circuit court clerks; funding for additional deputies.
- HB 515 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include certain property of churches, & med. prod., etc.
- HB 525 Health insurance; plan for part-time state employees.
- HB 549 Open-space preservation; imposition of additional fee for distribution to Outdoors Foundation.
- HB 551 Government Employees Deferred Compensation Plan Act; collection of admin. fees by political subdiv.
- HB 583 Public defender's office; establishment in Newport News City.
- HB 599 Enterprise zones; designations and business and real property investment tax credit.
- HB 600 Juveniles; appointment of counsel for detention hearings.
- HB 615 Income tax, corporate; reduces new emp. threshold to rec. major business facility job tax credit.
- HB 632 Prescription drugs; unlawful to assist individuals in procuring from a pharmacy or other source.
- HB 640 Malicious bodily injury; applicable to game wardens.
- HB 645 Burglary; applicable to buildings affixed to realty.
- HB 656 Assault and battery; penalty when committed against a family or household member.
- HB 660 Aggravated sexual battery; applic. of ment. incapacity or phys. helplessness of complaining wit.
- HB 663 Filming, videotaping or photographing of another; penalty when permission not given.
- HB 699 Sickness and Disability Program; changes in long-term disability benefits for state employees.
- HB 700 Sickness and Disability Program; suspension of eligibility.
- HB 701 Sickness and Disability Program; changes in long-term disability benefits for state employees.
- HB 702 Sickness and Disability Program; program actuary.
- HB 703 Sickness and Disability Program; collection of disability overpayments.
- HB 718 Sexual abuse; definition.
- HB 739 Transient occupancy tax; imposition in Floyd County.
- HB 741 Transient occupancy tax; increased in certain counties, revenues for Performing Arts Foundation.
- HB 743 Utility tax, local consumer; exemption for churches.
- HB 798 Telephonic reading services; created.
- HB 801 Hazing; penalty when committed on a youth gang or criminal street gang member.
- HB 846 Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund; created, report.
- HB 848 Relief; Ruffin, Julius Earl.
- HB 862 Cigarettes; affixing stamps thereto, reporting requirements.
- HB 863 Assault and battery; penalty when committed against a family or household member.
- HB 871 Infected sexual battery; penalty.
- HB 872 Identity theft; identification, issuance of an Identity Theft Passport.
- HB 902 Income tax, state; filing of returns.
- HB 924 Delinquent taxes; collection by local government treasurers.
- HB 925 Real estate; nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent property.
- HB 926 Personal Property Tax Relief Act of 1998; payments when taxes paid in full.
- HB 928 Real estate tax; alternative payment schedules for elderly and handicapped persons in Prince Wm. Co.
- HB 950 Public defender's office; establishment in Arlington County and Falls Church City.
- HB 975 Recordation tax; exemptions include contracts on real or personal property.
- HB 993 Racing; conduct punishable as invol. manslaughter due to death of another, punishment for injury.
- HB 1001 Transient occupancy tax; additional imposition in Fairfax County.
- HB 1005 Dulles Corridor; issuance of transportation cred. assistance revenue bonds for funding mass transit.
- HB 1009 Educational Ventures Consortium; created.
- HB 1030 Pers. prop. exempt from taxation; includes trailers used to transp. farm animals or other farm prod.
- HB 1037 Debt Collection, Div. of; retention of revenues, use for collect. of debts, refer. of amts. to A.G.
- HB 1042 Correctional facilities; utilization of private contracts.
- HB 1057 Bail bondsmen; regulation and licensure.
- HB 1067 Enterprise zones; designations.
- HB 1076 Property exempt from taxation; provisions for certain charitable and other related organizations.
- HB 1084 Retail Sales and Use Tax; extends sunset provi. for textbooks for free distrib. to professors.
- HB 1093 Abuse and neglect of incapacitated adult; includes financial exploitation.
- HB 1101 Budget Bill; amts. approp. from any state special fund to be repaid if diverted for another purpose.
- HB 1122 Business taxes; appeal of local assessments.
- HB 1143 Trauma Center Fund; established to accept funds paid for DUI convictions.
- HB 1148 Sentencing guidelines; felony offenses include solic. to commit murder and terrorist activities.
- HB 1149 Gangs; expands list of predicate criminal acts that define a pattern of criminal activity.
- HB 1159 Income tax, state; electronic filing by tax preparers.
- HB 1172 Legal aid societies; funding.
- HB 1174 Telecommunications and video taxation; proposed changes.
- HB 1179 Long-term care insurance; development for state employees.
- HB 1185 Income tax, corporate; credit for land preservation.
- HB 1208 RS&UT; entitles Newport News to revenues gen. by transactions in public facilities to pay for bonds.
- HB 1233 Dom. violence, sexual assault, stalking & violation of protect. order; training of persn. to handle.
- HB 1241 RS & UT; allows dealer to file & pay taxes he collects with local commissioner of revenue, etc.
- HB 1243 RS&UT; entitles Salem City to revenues gen. by transactions in public facilities to pay for bonds.
- HB 1262 Retail Sales and Use Tax; extends sunset provision for film and audiovisual works.
- HB 1298 Budget Bill; not to include general fund revenues in excess of projected general fund revenues.
- HB 1361 Income tax, corp.; changes provisions for permissible & impermissible trans. between companies.
- HB 1390 Cultural Economic Development Revolving Fund and Advisory Board; created, report.
- HB 1426 Coal and gas road improvement tax; distribution of revenues to local public service authority.
- HB 1430 Drug Treatment Court Act; created, report.
- HB 1453 Real estate tax; collection proceedings for delinquent taxes.
- HB 1454 Public defender's office; establishment in Hampton City.
- HB 1486 Income tax, state; limiting leg. creating voluntary contr. of refunds to charitable organizations.
- HB 1488 Sales and use tax exemptions; commercial and industrial.
- SB 3 Special funds; abolishes those that are dormant and their associated programs.
- SB 14 Utility tax; imposition on local consumers in Town of Iron Gate for mobile phone usage.
- SB 20 School Construction Grant Act of 2004; created.
- SB 28 Line of Duty Act; definition of disabled employee.
- SB 29 Budget Bill. Additional appropriations for 2002-2004 biennium.
- SB 30 Budget Bill. Appropriations for 2004-2006 biennium.
- SB 31 Higher Educational Institutions Bond Bill of 2004; created.
- SB 32 Parking Facilities Bond Bill of 2004; created.
- SB 35 Guardianship of children; subsidy for relative caregivers.
- SB 36 Capitol Square Preservation Act of 2003; changes in provisions.
- SB 37 Public Building Authority & College Building Authority; issuance of bonds for capital projects.
- SB 39 Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS); financing through bonds.
- SB 46 Line of Duty Act; coverage for booking technicians.
- SB 48 Firearms; criminal history records check required to obtain from firearms show vendor.
- SB 60 Health insurance; credits for retired teachers.
- SB 64 Enterprise zones; business and real property investment tax credit.
- SB 65 Enterprise zones; real property investment tax credit.
- SB 71 Utility tax, local consumer; exemption for churches.
- SB 73 Churches; those incorporated exempt from recordation and property taxes.
- SB 74 Tobacco prod.; tax increased, revenue deposited in Health Care Fund & Local Govt. School Const. Fd.
- SB 84 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants-VA, Inc.
- SB 85 Income tax, state; includes distributions from qualified tuition programs.
- SB 91 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions for certain contractors.
- SB 98 Parenting programs; created within Department of Correctional Education.
- SB 111 Recordation tax; leases on oil, gas and mineral rights and communications towers.
- SB 120 Public service corporations; filing of annual report.
- SB 121 Public service corporations; locality to determine taxation of real and tangible personal property.
- SB 122 Real estate tax; allows Goochland County to increase amount of income for elderly or disabled.
- SB 140 Real estate tax; limitation on tax rate.
- SB 147 Local taxes; authority concerning increase in excise tax on cigs, adms, transient occupancy, etc.
- SB 154 Fire Programs Fund; use.
- SB 157 Retirement System; purchase of prior service credit by certain local govt. chief executive officers.
- SB 164 Law Officers' Retirement System; includes juvenile probation and parole officers.
- SB 165 Tax information; release to help facilitate collection of unpaid wages.
- SB 166 Tax information; release to aid in locating holders of unclaimed property.
- SB 168 Judges; increases number in 1st, 14th, 15th, 22nd and 29th circuit court.
- SB 169 Judges; increases number in 15th and 27th juvenile and domestic relations district court.
- SB 188 Real estate tax; exemptions on certain leasehold interests.
- SB 191 Claims; Larry and Virginia Mitchell.
- SB 192 Embezzlement by public official of public funds; penalty.
- SB 195 Medical assistance services; eligibility for aged and disabled individuals.
- SB 196 Health Access Plan; created.
- SB 202 Driving under influence of alcohol or drugs; proced. due to refusal to submit to breath or bld. tst.
- SB 213 Food and beverage tax; imposition in Giles County.
- SB 221 Income tax, state; voluntary contribution to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Fund.
- SB 230 Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program and Fund; created, report.
- SB 231 Income tax, corporate; reduces new emp. threshold to rec. major business facility job tax credit.
- SB 232 Economic Development Incentive Act; created.
- SB 234 Claims; Julius Earl Ruffin.
- SB 236 Dom. violence, sexual assault, stalking & violation of protect. order; training of persn. to handle.
- SB 237 Domestic Violence Victim Fund; created.
- SB 247 Real estate tax; credit for permanent easements.
- SB 248 Real estate tax; deferral for certain disabled military veterans.
- SB 253 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include Clinch Independent Living Services Inc.
- SB 254 Retirement System; includes Breaks Interstate Park Commission.
- SB 256 Claims; Marshall and Allison Lineberry.
- SB 263 Income tax, state; credit for purchase of long-term care insurance.
- SB 269 Cigarettes; tax increased, use for funding police and teacher salaries and Medicaid.
- SB 271 Felony conviction; compensation for wrongful incarceration.
- SB 279 Law Officers' Retirement System, includes managers of political subdivisions.
- SB 281 Income tax, state; increases personal exemption.
- SB 284 Line of Duty Act; funding of continued health insurance and death payment benefits thereunder.
- SB 295 Government Fee Disclosure Act; created.
- SB 305 Tax information; does not prohibit release of information to persons who are subject thereof.
- SB 310 Wine Board and Wine Promotion Fund; created, abolishes Winegrowers Advisory Board.
- SB 311 Law Officers' Retirement System; retirement benefits of persons in a hazardous position.
- SB 316 Utility tax; imposition on local consumers in Towns of Herndon and Vienna for mobile phone usage.
- SB 319 Feticide; penalty.
- SB 320 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act; created.
- SB 321 Gangs; definition, penalty upon conviction of criminal activity, forfeiture of property, etc.
- SB 325 Counterfeit controlled substance; definition.
- SB 329 Driver's license; driving after forfeiture for DUI conviction, penalty.
- SB 330 Public Defender Commission; name changed to Indigent Defense Commission.
- SB 332 State Police Officers' Retirement System; increases retire. allow. for serv. rendered in haz. pos.
- SB 334 Bail enforcement agents; regulation and licensure.
- SB 339 Juveniles; disposition for those who are delinquent.
- SB 346 Budget Reform Act of 2004; provisions.
- SB 347 Retail Sales and Use Tax; extends sunset provi. for textbooks for free distrib. to professors.
- SB 349 Personal property exempt from taxation; incl. vehic. owned by volunteer rescue & fire organizations.
- SB 356 Motor Vehicle S. & Use Tax; increased, revenue deposited in Transportation Auth. of Commonwealth.
- SB 357 Motor fuels tax; increased, revenue deposited in Transportation Authorities of Commonwealth.
- SB 358 Claims; Henry Ridge.
- SB 361 Real estate tax; allows No. Va. increase amount of income for elderly or disabled prior reduced imp.
- SB 365 Environmental permit fees; applicable to water and nonhazardous solid waste.
- SB 366 Public service corporations; locality to determine taxation of real and tangible personal property.
- SB 367 Transient occupancy tax; additional imposition in certain counties or cities.
- SB 370 Inspector General, Office of State; created.
- SB 373 Industrial access road funds; use in Colleen Industrial Park in Nelson County.
- SB 374 Admissions tax; imposition in Nelson County.
- SB 375 Transient occupancy tax; imposition in Nelson County.
- SB 377 Prescription Drug Payment Assistance Program; created, annual report on effectiveness.
- SB 378 Estate tax; exemptions for closely held businesses or property used for agricultural purposes.
- SB 379 Marriage license; waiver of tax if parties have received counseling.
- SB 380 Driver's license; increases reinstatement fee due to suspension or revocation.
- SB 384 Driving under influence of alcohol or drugs; mandatory minimum sentence of 3rd offense, joint pros.
- SB 386 Air emissions trading; prohibited.
- SB 392 Estate tax; conformity of state and federal statutes.
- SB 398 RS&UT; entitles Newport News to revenues gen. by transactions in public facilities to pay for bonds.
- SB 399 Recordation tax; leases on oil, gas and mineral rights and communications towers.
- SB 403 Tax information; may be provided to assist in collecting overpayments of income to injured workers.
- SB 410 Claims; Sharon Dalton.
- SB 411 Income tax, corporate; Tiered Incentive Prog. created to provide tax cred. in distr. local., report.
- SB 413 Rail Transportation Development Authority; membership, powers, etc.
- SB 422 Retirement System; creditable compensation of certain law-enforcement officers employed at airports.
- SB 424 Contractors; classif. engaged in business of storing, maintain, or repair. vessels license tax pur.
- SB 431 Retirement System; service credit for state employees when no general salary increase.
- SB 436 Neighborhood Assistance Act; extends tax credit.
- SB 439 RS & UT; entitles Hampton City to allocable revenues from watercraft business and sales.
- SB 442 Bail; denied due to multiple DUI offenses.
- SB 446 Income tax, state; increase personal exemption.
- SB 450 Public defender's office; establishment in Arlington County and Falls Church City.
- SB 453 Local government taxing authority; equalizing county and city powers.
- SB 455 Cigarettes and tobacco products; tax increased.
- SB 458 Motor fuels tax; additional imposition in Northern Virginia transportation district.
- SB 465 Cigarettes and tobacco products; tax increased revenue deposited in Health Care Fund.
- SB 466 Income tax, state; system of taxation and conformity of terms.
- SB 467 Tax reform; changes in provisions for income tax, sale & use tax, cig. tax, pers. property tax, etc.
- SB 476 Retirement System; credit for prior service as a substitute teacher.
- SB 479 Standards of Quality in public schools; changes in provisions.
- SB 482 Agricultural Enterprise Zone Act; created.
- SB 483 Library computers; juveniles' Internet access.
- SB 484 Sentencing guidelines; modification for use of methamphetamine.
- SB 492 Gangs; presumption against bail, presentence report due to criminal participation.
- SB 500 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include Loudoun Healthcare Foundation.
- SB 501 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include Farmwell Hunt Homeowners Association, Inc.
- SB 502 Personal property tax; rate on motor homes.
- SB 512 Transient occupancy tax; additional imposition in Fairfax County.
- SB 514 Retail Sales & Use Tax Act; renamed Streamlined Sales & Use Tax Act to conform w/national agreement.
- SB 515 Income tax, state; subtractions include certain salary of local school board employees.
- SB 516 Staunton Correctional Center; Governor to sell and convey.
- SB 517 Transient occupancy tax; additional imposition in Rockbridge Co. & Lexington & Buena Vista Cities.
- SB 518 School divisions; adjustment of state share due to consolidation of smaller divisions.
- SB 526 Income tax, state; system of taxation and conformity of terms.
- SB 530 Tax reform; changes in provisions for income tax, sales & use tax, cig. tax, per. prop. tax, etc.
- SB 531 Parks and Natural Areas Bond Act of 2002; issuance of bonds.
- SB 532 Educational Facilities Bond Act of 2002; issuance of bonds.
- SB 533 Retail Sales and Use Tax; extends sunset provision for certain media-related businesses.
- SB 537 Income tax, corporate; credit against cigarettes manufactured and exported to a foreign country.
- SB 540 Retirement System; amending defined contribution plan.
- SB 541 Retirement System; procedure when employer in default.
- SB 547 Workers' compensation; eligibl. of AmeriCorps memb. & certain Food Stamp Empl. & Trng. participants.
- SB 548 Timber; penalty for theft.
- SB 559 State police officers; salary increases, review by Department of Human Resource Management.
- SB 565 Health-related data elements; Secretary of Health & Human Resources to create a reference database.
- SB 568 Claims; Sean and Jennie Barrett.
- SB 569 Natural and Historic Resources Fund and Commission; created, report.
- SB 571 Retail Sales and Use Tax; extends sunset provision for film and audiovisual works.
- SB 572 Claims; Beverly Anne Monroe.
- SB 583 College Building Authority; designation of projects financed by bonds.
- SB 585 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include certain property of churches, & med. prod., etc.
- SB 589 Tax reform; changes in provisions for income tax, sales and use tax and corporate tax.
- SB 599 Retirement System; electronic communication to State and local members.
- SB 605 Water columns for aquaculture purposes; leasing.
- SB 627 Utility tax; imposition on local consumers in Towns of Vienna and Clifton for mobile phone usage.
- SB 628 Sickness and Disability Program; changes in short-term coverage for state employees.
- SB 632 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include software and content delivered electronically.
- SB 635 Tax reform; changes for income, sales & use, estate, local license and motor fuels taxes, etc.
- SB 636 Drug Treatment Court Act; created, report.
- SB 642 Coal and gas road improvement tax; distribution of revenues for water & sewer system projects.
- SB 643 Food and beverage tax; imposition in Fairfax County.
- SB 645 Real estate tax; alternative payment schedules for elderly and handicapped.
- SB 652 Transient occupancy tax; additional imposition in Greater Williamsburg area.
- SB 655 Business license tax; phase-out in all localities.
- SB 667 Businesses; electronic confirmation of receipt of tax returns.
- SB 668 Retail Sales and Use Tax; constitutional nexus for imposition.
- SB 672 Nursing homes; establishment of staffing standards.
- SB 675 Cigarettes; imposition of fee on manufacturer who are not participating in Master Settlement Agreem.
- SB 676 Cultural Economic Development Revolving Fund and Advisory Board; created, report.
- SB 677 Assault and battery; penalty when committed against a volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member.
- SB 678 Income tax, state and corporate; limits land preservation tax credits.
- SB 681 Publ. serv. corpor.; requires certain electric suppliers to pay a minimum tax rather than corp. tax.
- SB 682 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions for certain public service corporations.
- SB 683 Income tax, corporate; changes provisions permissible & impermissible transactions bet. companies.
- SB 684 Transient occupancy & food & beverage taxes; technical changes in provisions.
- SB 686 Sailing vessel Virginia; authorizing Governor to enter into agreement w/Maritime Her. Fdt.
- SB 690 Income tax, corporate; extends sunset prov. credit for machinery & equip. used to prod. recyclable.
- SB 692 Retail Sales and Use Tax Exemption; Pilot Club International Luncheon Pilot Club of Chesapeake.
- SJ 18 Constitutional amendment; Hwy. Maintenance & Operating Fund & Transp. Trust Fund continued.
- SJ 29 Veterans care centers; Dept. of Veterans Services to study need for and cost of additional.
- SJ 48 Workforce, Joint Commission on Management of; reestablished.
- SJ 78 Transportation maintenance and construction program and funding; joint subcommittee to study.
- SJ 82 Tax code and policy issues; Senate and House Committees on Finance to continue study thereof.
- SJ 123 Constitutional amendment; General Assembly to establish special fund for specified purposes.