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2006 SESSION
Delegate R. Steven Landes (R) - House District 25
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 528
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-1025
- email: DelSLandes@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 12
- Verona, Virginia 24482
- (540) 245-5540
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- HB 12 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include certain school-related items.
- HB 19 Standards of Quality; calculation of high school graduation rates.
- HB 40 Estate tax; conformity of state and federal statutes.
- HB 41 Driving under influence of alcohol; penalty for subsequent offense.
- HB 42 Driving under influence of alcohol; penalty for involuntary manslaughter.
- HB 44 Driving under influence of alcohol; penalty for subsequent offense.
- HB 56 Child abuse or neglect; mandatory reporting by eligibility workers; penalty.
- HB 57 Community College System; articulation agreements and transferable credits.
- HB 61 Voter registration; duties of State Board of Elections.
- HB 66 Caregivers Grant Program; applicability to physically or mentally handicapped person.
- HB 70 Assault and battery; limited exception to charges for certain school personnel.
- HB 80 Absentee voting and ballot applications; persons 65 or older may vote absentee.
- HB 94 Eminent domain; definition of public uses.
- HB 99 District court; allows State to appeal decision holding criminal statute unconstitutional.
- HB 102 Driver's license; operating vehicle with suspended or revoked license, penalty.
- HB 113 Alcoholic beverages; penalty for purchasing for certain persons.
- HB 114 Alcoholic beverages; penalty for unlawful purchasing or possession thereof.
- HB 122 SWAM businesses; additional certification not required to participate in any program.
- HB 131 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include certain school-related items.
- HB 170 Voter registration; DMV to furnish list of non-citizens to Board of Elections.
- HB 205 Sex offenders; prohibits residence in proximity to schools.
- HB 262 Higher educational institutions; prohibiting admission of illegal aliens.
- HB 301 Absentee ballot applications; submission thereof to local registrars through official website.
- HB 314 DMV; assessment of fees on certain drivers.
- HB 346 Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act; includes campus security.
- HB 347 General Educational Development Program; allowance of participation therein.
- HB 362 Game and Inland Fisheries, Board of; duties thereof.
- HB 369 Retirement System; changes in benefits for state employees, state & local law-enforcement officers.
- HB 371 Law-enforcement officer, etc.; persons using abusive language towards guilty of misdemeanor.
- HB 411 Reducing nutrient discharges; sewage treatment facilities to meet nutrient loading allocation.
- HB 413 Cord Blood Bank Initiative; created.
- HB 415 Nursing homes; notification to residents, etc. of sex offenders residing in facility.
- HB 428 Income tax, state; filing of tax returns by military personnel in combat zones.
- HB 435 Horseshoe crabs; places a moratorium on landings and importation thereof.
- HB 449 Income tax, state; land preservation tax credit.
- HB 450 Income tax, state; land preservation tax credit.
- HB 472 Teaching Scholarship Loan Program; those teaching special education in private schools eligible.
- HB 481 School boards; required to allocate certain percentage of budget to instructional spending, report.
- HB 482 Tuition, in-state; eligibility for certain military personnel and dependents.
- HB 487 Immigration laws; Governor to enter into agreement with federal Immigration regarding.
- HB 527 Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund; created.
- HB 532 Sales and use tax exemption; school supplies, clothing and footwear, and computers.
- HB 544 Planning & Budget, Department of; agency budget estimates to Governor & General Assembly.
- HB 563 Court records; removes sunset provision on prohibiting information from court-controlled website.
- HB 570 Public libraries; technology protection measures.
- HB 586 Hospitals, nursing homes, etc.; guidelines for staffing.
- HB 596 Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund; Fund includes dam safety, report.
- HB 597 Dam safety; penalties.
- HB 598 Emergency medical services personnel; required to report child abuse or neglect.
- HB 615 Assault and battery; penalty when committed against family member.
- HB 616 Sentencing proceeding; victim impact testimony is to be admitted during jury hearing.
- HB 617 Profits from crime; subject to special order of escrow, with profits going to victim.
- HB 642 License plates, special; issuance to supporters of Boy Scouts.
- HB 666 Transportation Board; eliminates number and dollar limitations on awarding design-build contracts.
- HB 669 Transportation improvement projects; increases project cap.
- HB 671 Design-build contracts; allows localities to award for construction of transportation projects.
- HB 673 Transportation Board; election of certain members by General Assembly.
- HB 676 VDOT; Commissioner to report on actions & initiatives that involve outsourcing & privatization.
- HB 677 VDOT; Transportation Commissioner to report on certain accomplishments, actions, and initiatives.
- HB 681 Highway improvements; expands present revenue-sharing fund program.
- HB 695 In-state tuition; dependents of active duty military personnel shall be eligible to receive.
- HB 745 Felonies; court may impose additional term for drug offense.
- HB 757 Medical Assistance Services; contracting for delivery of disease management for chronic disorders.
- HB 758 Medical assistance services; State Plan amendment or application for certain waiver.
- HB 759 Medical assistance services; development of public-private long-term care partnership program.
- HB 760 Health care; determination of data concerning safety & quality services rendered by physicians.
- HB 761 Health group cooperatives; established for arranging benefit plan coverage for small employers.
- HB 775 Predicate crimminal act; addition to list of crimes included in definition.
- HB 782 Triggerman rule; eliminated.
- HB 785 Methamphetamine; modification of sentencing guidelines.
- HB 787 Health partnership authorities, local; repeals sunset provision.
- HB 788 Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals sunset provision.
- HB 789 Expert witness; eliminates prohibition against compensating in certain criminal cases.
- HB 792 Subdivision streets; do not need to meet VDOT standards if they serve fewer than 3 familes per mile.
- HB 799 Sex Offender Registry; automatic notification.
- HB 818 Public Procurement Act; design-build projects by local public bodies, methods of procurement.
- HB 829 Self defense; justification of use of physical force against intruders if occupant of dwelling.
- HB 841 Local Partnership Programs; payment schedule for reimbursement of funds to locality.
- 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 863 Computer and electronic data; access to defendant thereof seized in obscenity, etc., cases.
- HB 864 Virtual child pornography; definition thereof.
- HB 883 Students; carnal knowledge by school employee, penalty.
- HB 892 Higher education institutions; prohibiting admission of illegal aliens.
- HB 901 Gangs; person on probation prohibited from any contact.
- HB 902 Eminent domain; definition of public uses.
- HB 910 Higher educational institutions; programs to promote awareness of sex crimes upon students.
- HB 984 Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; penalties.
- HB 985 Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; registration.
- HB 986 Victim notification program; civil immunity for operation thereof.
- HB 1004 Office of Commonwealth Preparedness; provides for appointment of director by Governor.
- HB 1011 Brook Trout; redesignating as official fish of State.
- HB 1016 Assault and battery; increases penalty if committed against judge, etc.
- HB 1035 Medical Assistance Services, Office of Inspector General for; created, report.
- HB 1037 Sexually Violent Predators Services, Office of; established.
- HB 1038 Sexually violent predators; adds to list of offenses that qualify as sexual offenses.
- 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 1048 Illegal immigrants; document verification for employment, penalty.
- HB 1049 Birth certificates; fraudulent use.
- HB 1050 Tuition, in-state; alien students eligibility.
- HB 1051 Employment service centers; prohibits public funding, exception.
- HB 1052 Legislation; requires sunset date on all new state or local taxation bills.
- HB 1055 Air emissions control; Department of Environment Quality shall promulgate regulations.
- HB 1099 Eminent domain; certain persons eligible for relocation expenses.
- HB 1100 Human Trafficking Act; created, report.
- HB 1101 Sexually violent predators; adds to list of offenses that qualify as sexual offenses.
- HB 1104 Highway improvements; expands present revenue-sharing fund program.
- HB 1107 Higher educational institutions; articulation agreements.
- HB 1109 Background checks; school boards must require for public school contract employees.
- HB 1110 Physicians; immunity thereof for failing to review or act on any laboratory tests, etc., exception.
- HB 1130 Game and Inland Fisheries, Board of; changes manner in which appointments are made.
- HB 1131 Game and Inland Fisheries, Board of; Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct annual audit of accounts.
- HB 1135 Tuition, in-state; educational benefits for illegal aliens military personnel and their dependants.
- HB 1149 Pseudoephedrine; licensed pharmacist only to dispense, etc.
- HB 1150 Chesapeake Bay and Waters Clean-up and Oversight Act; created.
- HB 1152 Human Anti-Trafficking Act; created.
- HB 1155 Sex crimes against children; mandatory minimum term of confinement for certain offenses.
- HB 1184 Transportation Board; election of certain members by legislative appointing authorities.
- HB 1244 Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education Grant Program Fund; created.
- HB 1252 Sex crimes against children; mandatory minimum term of confinement for certain offenses.
- HB 1255 Department of Corrections; privatization of food service.
- HB 1257 Transportation Investment Bond Act of 2006; created.
- HB 1260 Sexual offenses; conviction of certain violent crimes when second or subsequent offense.
- HB 1264 Sex offenders; certain registrants to reregister in person.
- HB 1268 Sexual offenses; using communications system to procure sexual activity involving minor.
- HB 1272 Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; created, report.
- HB 1278 Eminent domain; public uses shall not include taking of private property for tax revenue.
- HB 1288 Wine producer, small; creates new distribution license.
- HB 1308 School boards; authority to block use of school facilities by certain groups.
- HB 1311 Capital murder; includes premeditated killing of person assisting in criminal investigation.
- HB 1324 Health insurance; Commissioner of Insurance develop a plan to double competition in rural areas.
- HB 1331 Retirement System; creates new defined contribution plan for employees covered thereby.
- 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 1340 Home instruction; requires persons providing home instruction to hold a high school diploma.
- 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 1351 Adult abuse; requires mandated reporters to notify law-enforcement directly in cases thereof.
- HB 1356 Mutual aid agreements; all sheriffs have authority to enter into.
- HB 1359 Sexually violent predators; electronic monitoring and supervision of those on conditional release.
- HB 1365 Transportation Accountability, Joint Commission on; created.
- HB 1394 Medical assistance services; implementation of online electronic & encrypted system.
- HB 1426 Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA); provides for granting of concessions and taxation.
- HB 1581 Interstate Route 81 Corridor; diversion of truck traffic.
- HJ 3 Constitutional amendment; Transp. Fund, Transp. Trust Fund, & Hwy. Maintenance & Operating Fund.
- HJ 50 Multi-jurisdictional pilot health court; JLARC to study feasibility of establishing within State.
- HJ 54 Commending the Quartermaster Center and School.
- HJ 55 Commending Rob R. Gordon, Jr.
- HJ 69 Celebrating the life of John William Elfers.
- HJ 81 Celebrating the life of Bonnie Neff Hoover.
- HJ 104 Medicaid; Joint Commission on Health Care to form subcommittee to study reform thereof.
- HJ 105 Pocahontas Day.
- HJ 108 Celebrating the life of John Edward Baker.
- HJ 118 Community College System; joint subcommittee to study financing long-term facility needs.
- HJ 143 Interstate Route 81;construction of improvements halted.
- HJ 145 Constitutional Amendment; Governor's and Board of Education's terms of office (first reference).
- HJ 161 Higher educational institutions; SCHEV to study competitiveness in attracting & retaining faculty.
- HJ 174 Commending Brigadier General Raymond Wesley Edwards.
- HJ 194 Commending the Turner Ashby High School football team.
- HJ 201 Honoring Pocahontas for her vital contributions to the settlement at Jamestown.
- HJ 204 Commending the students and faculty of Expedition Chesapeake from Turner Ashby High School.
- HJ 212 Joint Rules Committee; development of plans for 2007 Session in Jamestown.
- HJ 274 Commending Dr. Jo Lynne DeMary, former State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
- HJ 286 Commending Mothers Against Drunk Driving on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
- HJ 304 Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the 1606 First Virginia Charter.
- HJ 338 Celebrating the life of Mark Sheridan Brennan, Jr.
- HJ 350 Commending Ronald Lee Ermey.
- HJ 352 Celebrating the life of Stanley Cornell Reaves.
- HJ 353 Commending Bruce Franklin Jamerson.
- HJ 357 Commending Ed Grimes.
- HJ 358 Commending Holly Sanford.
- HJ 359 Commending Jordan Baughan.
- HJ 370 Celebrating the life of Petty Officer First Class (SEAL) Jeffrey S. Taylor.
- HJ 371 Celebrating the life of Lieutenant Michael M. McGreevy.
- HJ 372 Celebrating the life of Petty Officer First Class Jeffrey A. Lucas.
- HJ 373 Celebrating the life of Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen.
- HJ 374 Celebrating the life of Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Danny P. Dietz.
- HJ 375 Celebrating the life of Fire Controlman Chief (SEAL) Jacques J. Fontan.
- HJ 377 Commending the United States Army Reserve, 80th Division.
- HJ 380 Celebrating the life of Anne Kincaid.
- HJ 383 Churchill, Winston Spencer;honoring occasion of 60th anniversary of his address to General Assembly.
- HJ 385 Celebrating the life of Caroline Byrd Keeney.
- HJ 387 Commending Amber Brooke Copley on being named Miss Virginia USA 2006.
- HJ 390 Commending the Home Builders Association of Virginia.
- HJ 393 Celebrating the life of Pinkie L. Riddick.
- HJ 394 Celebrating the life of Ardell C. Johnson.
- HJ 423 Celebrating the life of John Edward Thomas II.
- HJ 428 Commending Marian Van Landingham.
- HJ 429 Celebrating the life of Alison Yowell Pazmino.
- HJ 434 Celebrating the life of Cecilia Murphy Hall.
- HJ 437 Commending the Black History Museum in Jackson Ward.
- HJ 446 Celebrating the life of Major Lowell Thomas Miller II.
- HJ 451 Commending Mickey R. Thompson.
- HJ 452 Commending Elizabeth Korte.
- HJ 454 Commending Susan Aheron Magill on a remarkable political career.
- HJ 458 Commending the University of Virginia.
- HJ 460 Celebrating the life of Dr. Georgia Atkins Ryder.
- HJ 466 Celebrating the life of Trevor Ray Cobb.
- HJ 469 Celebrating the life of Dr. Lyman Beecher Brooks.
- HJ 470 Celebrating the life of Private First Class Lee Arthur Lewis, Jr.
- HJ 478 Celebrating the life of Kenneth Michael Keesee.
- HJ 479 Celebrating the life of Hierome Lindsay Opie, Jr.
- HJ 480 Celebrating the life of Dr. Samuel Henley Carter.
- HJ 481 Celebrating the life of Archibald Alexander Sproul.
- HJ 486 Celebrating the life of Judge William Oliver Hawkins, Sr.
- HJ 523 Commending Riverheads High School FCCLA.
- HJ 524 Commending G. John Avoli for his service as mayor of Staunton.
- HJ 528 Commending those involved in the 2006 Inaugural Ceremonies held in Williamsburg.
- HJ 529 Commending McKinley L. Price.
- HJ 548 Commending Dr. John O. Simpson.
- HJ 549 Commending Anita O. Poston.
- HJ 550 Commending Cynthia J. Watson.
- HR 17 Commending Gail Gerringer Schenck.
- HR 18 Commending Barbara Lucas Regen.
- HR 22 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Mae Wilkerson Roberts.
- SB 20 Retirement System; first-day bill introduction relating thereto.
- SB 21 Internet; simplifies and updates references thereto in Code.
- SB 191 All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; owners must obtain title from DMV.
- SB 251 Expert witness; eliminates prohibition against compensating in certain criminal cases.
- SB 252 Health partnership authorities, local; repeals sunset provision.
- SB 287 Income tax, state; credit for purchase of long-term care insurance.
- SB 288 Insanity; hearing on revocation of conditional release to be expedited.
- SB 330 Legislative appointees on certain boards.
- SB 398 Health insurance credits; teachers and other local school board employees.
- SB 400 Economic Development for Virginians with Disabilities Grant Program; created.
- SB 410 No Child Left Behind Act; Board of Education develop plan to identify initiatives funded thereby.
- SB 411 No Child Left Behind Act; state to withdraw from participation in federal act.
- SB 419 Farmland and forestland plans; directs state agencies to submit annually.
- SB 437 Transportation Board; election of certain members by legislative appointing authorities.
- SB 438 Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals sunset provision.
- SB 676 School for the Deaf & Blind at Staunton, & School for Deaf, Blind, & Multi-Disabled at Hampton.
- SJ 100 Constitutional Amendment; Governor's and Board of Education's terms of office (first reference).
- SJ 101 Constitutional amendment; legislative and organizational sessions of General Assembly (1st ref.).
- SJ 102 Revenue estimates; joint subcommittee of G. A. established to oversee provision thereof.
- SJ 122 Medicaid; JLARC, et al., to monitor changes in federal restrictions on sheltering assets to qualify.
- SJ 165 Interstate Route 81; Department of Transportation to address urgently needed improvements thereof.
- SJ 194 Celebrating the life of Edward L. Kelly.
- SJ 198 Celebrating the life of Fred O. Funkhouser.
- SJ 199 Celebrating the life of Lance Corporal Daniel Scott Resner Bubb.
- SJ 200 Celebrating the life of Lance Corporal Jourdan L. Grez.
- SJ 230 Celebrating the life of Bonnie Neff Hoover.
- SJ 231 Celebrating the life of Frances Ann Minor Litten.
- SJ 261 Commending the Haymarket Woman's Club.
- SJ 264 Celebrating the life of Coretta Scott King.
- SJ 267 Celebrating the life of William B. Rowland, Jr.
- SJ 300 Commending Old Dominion University on its 75th anniversary.