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- HB 21 Victims of crime; notice of court hearings.
- HB 25 Law-enforcement officer; may detain person for false identity.
- HB 41 Driving under influence of alcohol; penalty for subsequent offense.
- HB 45 Death penalty; restricted for those 18 yrs. or older at time of offense.
- HB 56 Child abuse or neglect; mandatory reporting by eligibility workers; penalty.
- HB 62 Judges; increases number in general district court.
- HB 63 Judges; increases number in circuit court.
- HB 68 Courts Technology Fund; created, increase in certain fees.
- HB 70 Assault and battery; limited exception to charges for certain school personnel.
- HB 94 Eminent domain; definition of public uses.
- HB 102 Driver's license; operating vehicle with suspended or revoked license, penalty.
- HB 115 Garnishment forms and summonses; requires clarity in language therein.
- HB 125 Conservators of the peace; includes NASA's special agents.
- HB 126 Juvenile detention hearings; judge may designate courthouse where to be held.
- HB 127 Court-appointed counsel; written request for compensation.
- HB 132 Eminent domain; jury to determine just compensation.
- HB 162 Firearms in locked vehicles; immunity from liability, civil penalty.
- HB 168 Income tax, state; false claims of employment status, penalty.
- HB 176 Court-appointed counsel; court may waive limit on compensation for certain cases.
- HB 181 Motor vehicle code violations; authority for arrest without warrant.
- HB 239 Marriage; fee for ceremony.
- HB 241 Repurchase to former owner; offer thereof cannot be waived.
- HB 244 Leased or rented property; authority of sheriff to store & sell personal property removed therefrom.
- HB 255 Line of Duty Act; mandatory training required for employees covered thereby.
- HB 312 Courts of record; certain fees.
- HB 317 Railroads; passenger rail service liability.
- HB 340 Dogs; regulation of those that may be dangerous.
- HB 350 School for the Deaf & Blind at Staunton, & School for Deaf, Blind, & Multi-Disabled at Hampton.
- HB 368 Juveniles; mental health facility recommendations are admissible during commitment hearing.
- HB 372 Solemn ceremonies; unlawful assembly in protest near or at ceremony is guilty of misdemeanor.
- HB 436 Motor vehicle value; any valuation service may be used as evidence of vehicle's value.
- HB 438 Probation officers; court may order that investigations & reports only contain certain information.
- HB 443 Health care provider; definition includes marriage and family therapists, & professional counselors.
- HB 506 Jury trial of right; only named plaintiffs and defendants to be deemed parties under this statute.
- HB 514 DUI; breath test admissible as evidence in civil and criminal cases.
- HB 524 Criminal history record information; dissemination thereof to shipyards.
- HB 553 Occupational and professional criminal violations; statute of limitation.
- HB 563 Court records; removes sunset provision on prohibiting information from court-controlled website.
- HB 588 Machete; illegal to brandish machete in threatening manner, penalty.
- HB 610 Emergency medical services; facilitates development of quality of care initiative within system.
- HB 617 Profits from crime; subject to special order of escrow, with profits going to victim.
- HB 629 Prisoners; felony to tamper with fire protection or fire suppression system.
- HB 631 Condemnation proceeding; parties must attend dispute resolution evaluation session.
- HB 653 Nonevidentiary substances or paraphernalia; disposal thereof.
- HB 692 Juveniles; exceptions to confidentiality.
- HB 701 Motor carrier transportation contracts; indemnification clauses.
- HB 723 Divorce; equitable distribution.
- HB 727 Adoption laws; changes in provisions.
- HB 729 Adoption; allows birth parent to recommend adoptive parents.
- HB 731 Child or spousal support; clarify factors that court shall consider when determining support.
- HB 752 Drug treatment courts; established in City of Newport News.
- HB 775 Predicate crimminal act; addition to list of crimes included in definition.
- HB 776 Law practices; allows those who are not active members of State Bar to render professional services.
- HB 789 Expert witness; eliminates prohibition against compensating in certain criminal cases.
- HB 790 Conditional release; extends custody period following revocation thereof before treatment.
- HB 791 Insanity; conditional release shall not be revoked because of voluntary hospital admission.
- HB 796 Uniform Transfer to Minors Act; allows two people to be joint custodian for single minor.
- HB 812 Civil cases; removes requirement that plaintiff must post bond to appeal judgment.
- HB 816 Recording devices in motor vehicles; access to recorded data.
- HB 843 HOV lanes; issuance of three demerit points for first and subsequent violations thereof.
- HB 844 Indigent Defense Commission; powers and duties.
- HB 846 Sex crimes against children; mandatory minimum term of confinement for certain offenses.
- HB 847 Gangs; collection of information on individuals identified as members thereof.
- HB 848 Forensic Science, Department of; change in powers and duties.
- HB 863 Computer and electronic data; access to defendant thereof seized in obscenity, etc., cases.
- HB 888 Subpoenas; those for witnesses or documents to be authorized by judge.
- HB 889 Lead-based paint maintenance; immunity from liability statute.
- HB 898 Sam's Restaurant; Governor to convey to Ocean Properties, LLC in downtown section of Hampton.
- HB 901 Gangs; person on probation prohibited from any contact.
- HB 903 Parental rights; court to determine custody arrangement thereof when convicted of certain offenses.
- HB 906 Pet trust; created.
- HB 940 Rappahannock River; Marine Resources Commission to convey certain lands pertaining thereto.
- HB 955 Eminent domain; religious corporations and unincorporated churches.
- HB 975 U.S. Navy Master Jet Base; land use adjacent to certain.
- HB 984 Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; penalties.
- HB 986 Victim notification program; civil immunity for operation thereof.
- HB 1005 Registration and certificates of title; offences relating thereto, penalty.
- HB 1007 Child custody; reports to be furnished 15 days prior to hearing.
- HB 1009 Check Clearing for 21st Evidence Act; created.
- HB 1013 False identification cards; manufacture and sale thereof, penalty.
- HB 1014 Internet; payment for access to sexually explicit material thereon, penalty.
- HB 1016 Assault and battery; increases penalty if committed against judge, etc.
- HB 1017 Juveniles; clarifies the process where it is unnecessary to file petition for certain offenses.
- HB 1022 Pretrial motions or objections; when defense may raise in circuit and district courts.
- HB 1023 Health care provider; certain documents prepared considered privileged.
- HB 1025 Personal property; Sheriff's duty to remove pursuant to an ejectment proceeding.
- HB 1027 Traffic incidents; reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to by volunteer fire, etc.
- HB 1028 Criminal procedure; determination of indigency; appointment of counsel.
- HB 1030 Marijuana; field test for evidence at trial.
- HB 1038 Sexually violent predators; adds to list of offenses that qualify as sexual offenses.
- HB 1039 Dogs; penalty when recklessly controlling or handling.
- HB 1040 Methamphetamine precursor drugs; sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine with restrictions, penalty.
- HB 1042 Involuntary manslaughter; causing death of another while engaging in vehicle race.
- HB 1046 Juveniles; reporting alleged illegal alien delinquents to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency
- HB 1049 Birth certificates; fraudulent use.
- HB 1066 Sex offenders; prohibits those convicted of offense against minor from residing with unless related.
- HB 1081 Utility services; unlawful to tamper with meters to obtain use thereof without payment.
- HB 1094 Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; violators to pay civil penalties.
- HB 1099 Eminent domain; certain persons eligible for relocation expenses.
- HB 1106 Concealed weapons; possession on owner's property and in private vehicles.
- HB 1108 Support orders; changes the effective date thereof.
- HB 1110 Physicians; immunity thereof for failing to review or act on any laboratory tests, etc., exception.
- HB 1115 Persons presumed dead; provides for the appointment of curator & eliminates surety bond req.
- HB 1141 Identity theft; penalty.
- HB 1201 Small claims court; increases ceiling of jurisdictional amount.
- HB 1203 Public defenders; allows localities to supplement compensation.
- HB 1218 Traffic misdemeanor; procedure for arrest.
- HB 1230 Tattooing or body piercing of minors; penalty.
- HB 1237 District and circuit courts; Chief Justice to designate active or retired judge to provide assist.
- HB 1238 Supreme Court of Virginia; allowed to convene when state of emergency.
- HB 1263 Telephone or telegraph communication; unlawful to tamper with when needed for emergency.
- HB 1265 Emergency services and disasters; constitutional rights.
- HB 1266 Criminal history background information; check of persons who enter homes of others.
- HB 1267 Statute of limitations; effect of written promise.
- HB 1303 Small Estate Act; modifies collection of personal property by affidavit provision.
- HB 1319 Tenants by entireties; allows transfer of real and personal property into trusts.
- HB 1322 Mental illness; notice of release of acquittee.
- HB 1325 Juveniles; Dept.of Social Services to establish amount of support.
- HB 1333 Sex Offender Registry; modifies registration of a person convicted of murdering a child.
- HB 1338 Sexual offenses; additions and deletions of certain terms from definition of sexual battery.
- HB 1339 Peeping or spying; conviction of third offense
- HB 1345 Search warrants; process for issuance.
- HB 1347 Drugs; punishment for distributing, manufacturing, etc..
- HB 1350 District court; remove case to circuit court if dismissal on basis that statute is unconstitutional.
- HB 1352 Physician; adds podiatry to definition thereof.
- HB 1359 Sexually violent predators; electronic monitoring and supervision of those on conditional release.
- HB 1403 Sale of violent or sexually explicit video games; penalty.
- HB 1409 Domestic Violence Victim Fund; changing name to Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund.
- HB 1417 Presentencing investigation reports; confidentiality.
- HB 1424 Service of process; failure to serve defendant.
- HB 1425 Treasurers, local; collection of unpaid fines and costs.
- HB 1431 Special conservator of peace; authority to arrest.
- HB 1468 Judges, substitute and retired; increases per diem.
- HB 1469 Defendant; availability of certificate of analysis when entered into evidence.
- HB 1490 Secured or unsecured bonds; time within which default is recorded.
- HB 1509 Identity theft; reporting to law-enforcement agencies.
- HB 1518 Telephone records; fraudulent procurement, penalty.
- HB 1526 Probation; placement of certain offenders within community-based agency.
- HB 1533 Elizabeth River; Governor to sell and convey subaqueous lands in City of Norfolk.
- HB 1537 Condemnation; allowing owners to relocate sport shooting ranges.
- HB 1540 Destructive substances; attempting to poison a person considered a crime.
- HB 1546 Reckless driving; change definition thereof.
- HB 1575 Utility easements; considered to touch and concern servient estate.
- HB 1577 Concealed handgun permits; renewal thereof.
- SB 6 Court-appointed counsel; court may appoint those not on Indigent Defense Commission list.
- SB 7 Concealed handgun permits; disqualifies an individual convicted of reckless handling of firearm.
- SB 8 Motor vehicle registration, licensing, & certificates of title; offenses relating thereto, penalty.
- SB 22 Child abuse or neglect; change in requirement for 'safe haven' law pertaining to infants.
- SB 26 Assault and battery; limited exception to charges for certain school personnel.
- SB 35 Insanity, not guilty by reason of; petition for temporary visit .
- SB 41 Divorce; separation agreement may be either written or oral.
- SB 52 Occoneechee State Park; lease extended.
- SB 58 Concealed handgun permit applications; removes option for locality to require fingerprints.
- SB 90 Recording devices in motor vehicles; access denial not to affect insurance renewability.
- SB 104 Credit cards; prohibits issuer from increasing interest rate or imposing fee thereon.
- SB 113 Banks; allows for deduction of customary fees without first having to submit an invoice.
- SB 114 Courts; certain matters to be entered on civil order book.
- SB 118 Landlord and tenant; not to be evicted for certain disturbances that occur on leased premises.
- SB 120 Protective orders; respondent to pay deposits to connect or restore utility services.
- SB 129 Juveniles; if gang affiliated certain information to be released by any law-enforcement officer.
- SB 136 Predicate criminal act; addition to list of crimes included in definition.
- SB 146 Methamphetamine precursor drugs; sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine with restrictions, penalty.
- SB 154 Evidence; chain of custody form attested to by emp. of law-enforcement agency responsible therefor.
- SB 156 Appeals, Court of; additional compensation for chief judge.
- SB 157 Courts Technology Fund; created, increase in certain fees.
- SB 165 Judiciary members; not required to disclose personal info. on statement of economic interests.
- SB 167 Child support; clarifies factors that court may consider when determining.
- SB 168 Child support; employer shall prorate amount if there is more than one withholding order.
- SB 169 Support orders; changes the effective date thereof.
- SB 183 Machete; illegal to brandish in threatening manner, penalty.
- SB 209 Criminal exhibits; destruction or donation of those used for evidence.
- SB 211 Crisis intervention pilot prog.; to respond to crisis situations involving mental illness, report.
- SB 217 Conservators, guardians and administrators; nonprofit organization can be named that of an estate.
- SB 220 Child support; revises guidelines for monthly obligations.
- SB 221 Child support; provides a self-support reserve for parents with incomes of a certain amount.
- SB 239 Defendants; payment of fine, costs, forfeitures, penalties or restitution.
- SB 250 Conditional release; extends custody period following revocation thereof before treatment.
- SB 251 Expert witness; eliminates prohibition against compensating in certain criminal cases.
- SB 284 Computer crimes; removes term without authority from definition of fraud.
- SB 288 Insanity; hearing on revocation of conditional release to be expedited.
- SB 289 Insanity; conditional release shall not be revoked because of voluntary hospital admission.
- SB 290 Psychiatric Inpatient Commitment of Minors Act; special justices.
- SB 291 Extorting money; person accused thereof will be guilty of Class 5 felony.
- SB 298 District courts; remove case to circuit ct. if dismissal on basis that statute is unconstitutional.
- SB 299 DUI of alcohol or drugs; maximum punishment.
- SB 300 Spousal support; expedited hearing for member Armed Forces Reserves or National Guard.
- SB 310 Mentally ill defendants; may be hospitalized if unable to care for himself.
- SB 318 Sexually violent predators; monitoring and supervision of those on conditional release.
- SB 319 Sexually Violent Predators Services, Office of; established.
- SB 341 Jurisdiction of corporate authorities of cities and towns; traffic cases included in offenses.
- SB 343 Jails, regional; exempts certain counties from funding limitation.
- SB 344 Gangs; person on probation prohibited from any contact.
- SB 345 False identification cards; used for establishing residency, penalty.
- SB 348 Internet; penalty for facilitating payment by children to access sexually explicit material thereon.
- SB 349 Halal and kosher food; regulation of sale, penalty.
- SB 362 Death penalty; restricted for those 18 yrs. or older at time of offense.
- SB 367 Drug treatment courts; established in City of Newport News.
- SB 369 Domestic relations documents; certain required information be contained in separate addendum.
- SB 372 Law-enforcement vehicle; penalty for impersonating or misrepresenting.
- SB 378 Motor fuel establishment; driving off without paying for gasoline.
- SB 379 District court; parties not represented by counsel.
- SB 381 Recognizance bonds; provision for default.
- SB 388 Judges; increases number in circuit court.
- SB 389 Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; membership.
- SB 391 Judges; increases number in general district court.
- SB 394 Eminent domain; public uses shall not include taking of private property through exercise thereof.
- SB 402 Wage garnishment; liens.
- SB 433 Mortgage satisfaction; provisions.
- SB 446 Registered agent; fee for recording name thereof.
- SB 448 Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; reenacted.
- SB 460 Identity theft; increase in penalty.
- SB 471 DUI of alcohol or drugs; term inference replaces presumption relating to alleged offense.
- SB 473 Predicate criminal act; addition to list of crimes included in definition.
- SB 482 Law practices; allows those who are not active members of State Bar to render professional services.
- SB 489 Child support orders; specifies date that support orders are effective and payment due dates.
- SB 497 Fraud crimes; venue for prosecution thereof.
- SB 515 Line of Duty Act; disabled state employees.
- SB 524 Drug-free school zones; includes licensed child day centers.
- SB 534 Adoption laws; creation of putative father registry.
- SB 543 Witness; allows in child and spousal support proceedings.
- SB 549 Pretrial motions or objections; when defense may raise in circuit and district courts.
- SB 552 Human biological evidence; orders regarding destruction thereof, penalty.
- SB 553 Drugs; punishment for distributing, manufacturing, etc..
- SB 555 Transportation Safety Fund; created.
- SB 559 Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; increases penalties for certain sex crimes.
- SB 560 Campus safety; Department of Criminal Justice Services to develop training standards thereof.
- SB 561 Gang information; juvenile records.
- SB 562 Indigent Defense Commission; powers and duties.
- SB 563 Forensic Science, Department of; powers and duties thereof.
- SB 566 Probation officers; investigations and reports required thereby in certain cases.
- SB 567 Juvenile record information; dissemination thereof to Criminal Sentencing Commission.
- SB 570 Controlled substances; person convicted of possession, penalty.
- SB 572 Sentencing revocation reports, etc.; completion and use thereof.
- SB 573 Court-appointed counsel; removes monetary caps on fees.
- SB 578 Sex offenders; presumption of no bail for person charged with certain offense.
- SB 579 Felonies; DNA analysis after arrest for capital murder.
- SB 582 Easement; placing objects that create visual nuisance.
- SB 604 Criminal background checks, national; fingerprints provided to certain qualified entities.
- SB 610 Physicians; extends sunset provision to purchase medical malpractice insurance.
- SB 611 Therapeutic Incarceration Program; created, report.
- SB 632 Neurological birth-related injury cases; review of certain cases.
- SB 633 Courthouse security fee.
- SB 636 Line of Duty Disability Fund; created.
- SB 637 Circuit court; issuance of warrants by judges.
- SB 639 Expert witness; increase in fee for rendering professional service.
- SB 649 Drug treatment courts; eliminates requirement for General Assembly approval.
- SB 652 Passenger rail transportation liability; limitations.
- SB 657 State law-enforcement employees; clarifies current overtime compensation provisions.
- SB 666 Public-Private Transportation Act; allocation of concession payments.
- SB 669 Motor carrier transportation contracts; indemnification clauses.
- SB 694 Sexually violent predators; adds to list of offenses that qualify as sexual offenses.
- SB 696 Reversion of certain land; Governor to convey interest thereof to locality in which located.
- SB 717 Law-enforcement officers; those retired may purchase service handguns.
- SB 722 DMV; assessment of fees on certain drivers, use of fees collected.