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2005 SESSION
Senate Commerce and Labor
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Wampler (Chairman), Colgan, Saslaw, Chichester, Miller, Norment, Stosch, Stolle, Potts, Edwards, Williams, Watkins, Wagner, Newman, Rerras
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Mondays, 2:00 p.m. Senate Room B
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- HB 814 Homeowners insurance; prohibits policy cancellation or nonrenewal for claims inquiries.
- HB 1156 Payday loans; cannot make loan to any State consumer, restric. on loan made by military spouse.
- HB 1492 Medical Savings Account Act; name changed to Health Savings Account Plan, changes in provisions.
- HB 1505 Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; changes.
- HB 1559 Exemptions in bankruptcy; changes in time limitations.
- HB 1567 Workers' comp.; eligibility of volunteer members of emergency response teams & medical reserve corp.
- HB 1586 Consumer Real Estate Settlement Protection Act; limits separate charge.
- HB 1663 Unregistered motor vehicles; requirements for insurance.
- HB 1703 Volunteer firefighters; exempts minors aged 16 years or older from child labor provisions.
- HB 1728 Workers' compensation; definition of injury for use of a dealer motor vehicle.
- HB 1772 Homeowners insurance; policy nonrenewals for claims from other than natural causes.
- HB 1777 Consumer Finance Act; licensure of lenders.
- HB 1792 Ultralight aircraft; insurance requirements.
- HB 1804 Voice-over-Internet protocol service; exempt from regulation by State Corporation Commission.
- HB 1829 Business Trust Act; names of business entities. emergency.
- HB 1831 Judicial Retirement System; mandatory retirement for judges of State Corporation Commission.
- HB 1834 Discrimination; length of time to report complaint.
- HB 1862 Workers' compensation; business entity with controlling interest to guarantee obligations.
- HB 1863 Workers' compensation; failure to insure payment, penalty.
- HB 1882 Miscellaneous casualty insurance; notices and policy provisions.
- HB 1945 Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002;definition of qualifying project.
- HB 1955 Boiler and pressure vessel inspections; expiration of certificate.
- HB 2010 Judgment; rate of interest.
- HB 2027 Economic Development; services provided to economically distressed areas.
- HB 2050 Unemployment compensation; weekly benefit amount.
- HB 2053 Underground utility damage prevention; requires notification of abandoned lines.
- HB 2055 Telephone Privacy Protect. Act; prohib. telephone solicitation, date change made consis. w/fed. reg.
- HB 2056 Workers' compensation; allows illegal aliens certain medical benefits.
- HB 2061 Economic Development Revolving Fund; abolished.
- HB 2137 Unemployment tax rate; penalties for transfering any trade or business for a lower tax rate.
- HB 2143 Accident and sickness insurance; insurer required to provide notice of premium increase.
- HB 2194 Employee day of rest; exempts banking institutions.
- HB 2207 Enterprise zones; repeals sunset provision.
- HB 2218 Gift certificate disclosures; definition, penalty.
- HB 2219 Insurance; insurer may cap renewal rates for certain policies.
- HB 2286 Extended service contract; increases fee for registering or renewing registration.
- HB 2367 Fees; waiver for filing erroneous financing statements.
- HB 2371 Unemployment compensation; disqualification for chronic absenteeism.
- HB 2393 Employee's day of rest; abolished.
- HB 2395 Wireless Service Authorities; offering qualifying communications services.
- HB 2410 Medical malpractice insurance; cancellation or nonrenewal notice of policy.
- HB 2416 Unemployment compensation; changes in provisions.
- HB 2445 Extended Service Contract Act.
- HB 2457 Money transmission services; exemption from licensure.
- HB 2460 Credit counseling; eliminates requirement that licensed agencies be nonprofit and tax-exempt.
- HB 2462 Workers' Compensation; certain participants in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families not eligible.
- HB 2470 Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; to include locally elected constitutional officers.
- HB 2474 Consumer Protection Act; restricting use of social security numbers.
- HB 2482 Personal Information Privacy Act; restricting use of social security numbers.
- HB 2571 Banks; enumerates business activities in which authorized to engage.
- HB 2626 Business Assistance and Workforce Services, Department of; created.
- HB 2638 Wages; employer who fails or refuses to pay wages is guilty of embezzlement.
- HB 2681 Natural disaster damage assessment; permits disclosure of property damage to government officials.
- HB 2693 Unemployment compensation; benefit termination by employer for misconduct.
- HB 2700 Workers' compensation; coverage for first responders during state of emergency.
- HB 2713 Telecommunications relay service; allows purchase of equipment for use by hearing-impaired.
- HB 2766 Life insurance; person may take out contract upon himself for another's benefit.
- HB 2775 Workers' compensation; limitation of filing of claim by September 11, 2001, rescue & relief workers.
- HB 2821 Title insurance; allows companies to charge negotiated risk rates.
- HB 2840 Unemployment compensation; weekly benefit amount.
- HB 2842 Wages or salaries; consent by employee for payment to prepaid debit card /card acct. not required.
- SB 128 Unemployment compensation; eliminates offset for retirement benefits.
- SB 705 Minimum wage; qualification for overtime pay.
- SB 707 Influenza vaccine; prohibits price gouging; penalties.
- SB 713 Parental leave for school involvement; employer requirement.
- SB 733 Enterprise zones; extends designations and authority.
- SB 735 Enterprise zones; extends designations and authority.
- SB 772 Unemployment compensation; base period for benefits.
- SB 776 Banks; prohibits unauthorized use of name, logo, etc., penalty.
- SB 783 Electrical transmission lines; location underground in certain localities.
- SB 798 Landfill gas; increases number of commercial or industrial customers to which a company may sell.
- SB 799 Unemployment compensation; obsolete benefit tables.
- SB 824 Payday loans; exclusions.
- SB 848 Enterprise zones; extends designations and authority.
- SB 860 Health insurance; coverage for prescription contraceptives.
- SB 864 Accident & sickness ins.; prohibits insurer from imposing affiliation period on elig. individuals.
- SB 875 Consumer Real Estate Settlement Protection Act; prohibits separate charge.
- SB 886 Consumer Finance Act; revolving loans secured by non-purchase-money security interest in motor veh.
- SB 891 Uniform Trust Code; created, modification to existing Code to accomodate.
- SB 904 Health insurance; claims paid to insureds for services rendered by non-participating providers.
- SB 913 Insurance rates; revises criteria for qual. as large commercial risk by reducing elig. threshold.
- SB 933 Limited liability companies; procedure for filing of articles of restatement.
- SB 936 Banks or savings institutions; authorized to amend terms of revolving credit agreement.
- SB 959 Telecommunication and cable television; release of information.
- SB 960 Telecommunications services provided by localities; cost allocations.
- SB 971 Labor discrimination; reporting complaint within 60 days after occurrence.
- SB 974 Banks; authorized to make interest-only mortgage loans.
- SB 975 Pay-per-call services; prohibit provider from accepting call from number not accepted by individual.
- SB 982 Title insurance; policies or contracts to be based upon published risk rates, penalty.
- SB 987 Gas pipeline safety; regulation by State Corporation Commission.
- SB 1029 Banks; eliminates requirements that certain mortgage loans be amortized by periodic payments.
- SB 1037 Accident and sickness insurance, group; misreporting of claims experience data; penalty.
- SB 1047 Unemployment compensation; independent contractor.
- SB 1049 Health insurance; optional coverage for developmental delay treatment.
- SB 1055 Unemployment compensation; minimum earnings.
- SB 1059 Insurance Collateral Assessment Fund; created within state treasury.
- SB 1097 Medical Savings Account Plan; amd. prov. that permit eligible indiv. to establ. health savings acct.
- SB 1106 Health insurance carriers; ethics and fairness in business practices.
- SB 1107 Public Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; changes in provisions.
- SB 1108 Public-Private Transportation Act; changes in provisions.
- SB 1112 Unemployment compensation; benefits charges resulting from a temporary closure forced by disaster.
- SB 1159 Wireless E-911 Services Board; changes in provisions.
- SB 1172 Employer and employee; covenants restricting competition.
- SB 1182 Enterprise zones; extends sunset provision.
- SB 1190 Investment Partnership Act; qualified research & dev. services eligible to receive grants.
- SB 1201 Unemployment tax rate; penalties for transfering any trade or business for a lower tax rate.
- SB 1215 Workers' compensation; definition of injury for use of a dealer motor vehicle.
- SB 1227 Life insurance; person may take out contract upon himself for another's benefit.
- SB 1228 Stock Corporation Act; changes in provisions.
- SB 1260 Liability insurance; limitations on policies.
- SB 1265 Health insurance; explanation of benefits.
- SB 1276 Consumer reporting agencies; release of wage information by Employment Commission thereto.
- SB 1283 Unemployment compensation; VEC may furnish information to allow collection of monetary obligations.
- SB 1291 Workers' compensation; definition of hypertension.
- SB 1307 Tourism Authority; to promote historical destinations in anticip. of 400th anniv. of Jamestown.
- SB 1321 Health care provider panels; definition.
- SB 1323 Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; procedures for response to claimant's petition.
- SB 1328 Fire insurance policies; limitation for mold coverage.
- SB 1335 Communications services; various revisions to taxation thereof.
- SB 1337 Video infrastructure development; equalizing franchise requirements for competitors.
- SB 1338 Health insurance; coverage for certain persons.