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- HB 75 Venture capital investments; creates program which makes investment return guarantees for certain.
- HB 159 Technology and Biotechnology Investment Act; created.
- HB 492 Textbooks in public schools; availability for home use.
- HB 501 Health insurance; employees of local governments to have same coverage as state employees.
- HB 572 Medical assistance services; burial expenses disregard from countable resources.
- HB 767 Transportation Trust Fund; dedication of certain surplus revenue.
- HB 1089 Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; State Board of Elections to review reports of certain candidates.
- HB 1243 Electronic voting equipment; State Board of Elections to design pilot program.
- HB 1369 Local retirement systems; prohibits allowing any employee to earn more than 1 yr. of service credit.
- HB 1387 Line of Duty Disability Fund; created.
- HB 1615 Keep our Promise Act of 2007; reinstates Personal Property Tax Relief Act of 1998.
- HB 1617 School boards; required to allocate certain percentage of budget to instructional spending.
- HB 1619 Budget Office; established in legislative branch.
- HB 1632 Inmate telecommunications systems; State Corporation Commission to regulate charges therefor.
- HB 1637 Retirement System; increases average final compensation retirement multiplier for teachers.
- HB 1638 Transportation Trust Fund; sales and use tax revenue dedicated thereto.
- HB 1644 Line of Duty Act; fire personnel of National Guard and Air National Guard are covered thereunder.
- HB 1675 Revenue-sharing funds; may be used to construct, etc. highway system located between localities.
- HB 1697 Venture capital investments; creates program which makes investment return guarantees for certain.
- HB 1700 Defense Facility and Transportation Improvement Fund and Program; created.
- HB 1702 Standards of Quality; requires G.A. to modify current funding formula, etc. of composite index.
- HB 1703 Retail Sales and Use Tax; increases amount of revenue dedicated to Transportation Trust Fund.
- HB 1705 National Defense Industrial Authority; clarifies that employees are eligible to participate in VRS.
- HB 1709 Car tax relief reimbursements; income tax sharing w/localities for transp. & educa. in lieu thereof.
- HB 1717 Recordation tax; distribution of excess revenues to Transportation Board for certain projects.
- HB 1725 Transportation Bond Act of 2007; created.
- HB 1731 Retirement System; retirees hired as nurses.
- HB 1734 Juvenile and domestic relations district court; increasing number of judges in 23rd Jud. District.
- HB 1756 Law Officers' Retirement Sys.; adds Dept. of Juvenile Justice probation and parole officers.
- HB 1759 Minors; penalty for carnal knowledge of certain.
- HB 1766 Health insurance; increases credit for retired teachers.
- HB 1794 Children; penalty for object penetration when victim is less than 10 years of age.
- HB 1812 Claims; William E. McQueen.
- HB 1825 Housing Trust Fund; name change, deposit of recordation tax revenues into Fund.
- HB 1828 Retirement System; investments related to Sudan.
- HB 1833 Health insurance; increases credits for retired state employees.
- HB 1841 Statutory rape; provides penalty therefor.
- HB 1852 Law Officers' Retirement System; agency heads not eligible except Chief of Capitol Police.
- HB 1856 Deputies; shall be increased by Compensation Board for each 750 population in correctional facility.
- HB 1870 Retirement System; clarifies purchase of prior service credit for National Guard.
- HB 1881 Health insurance; increases credit for retired teachers.
- HB 1882 Retirement System; increases average final compensation retirement multiplier for teachers.
- HB 1891 Local government; composite index of local ability-to-pay.
- HB 1894 Car tax relief; removes cap on overall amount, and creates Personal Property Tax Relief Fund.
- HB 1904 Outpatient treatment orders; changes first criterion to include failure to properly take medication.
- HB 1915 Retirement System; increases average final compensation retirement multiplier for teachers.
- HB 1926 State employees; permits early retirement for those who are terminally ill.
- HB 1939 Technology, Nanotechnology and Biotechnology Investment Fund; created.
- HB 1941 Retirement System; defined contribution retirement plan.
- HB 1946 House Appropriations Committee; to report new positions authorized by appropriation acts, report.
- HB 1967 Law Officers' Retirement System; agency heads not eligible except Chief of Capitol Police.
- HB 1972 Retirement system; teachers and administrative faculty of institutions of higher education.
- HB 1973 Retirement plan, optional; certain conditions for institutions of higher education.
- HB 2006 Line of Duty Act; definition of disabled person to include local employee.
- HB 2007 Line of Duty Disability Benefits Fund; expenses related to certain traffic incidents credited to.
- HB 2008 Line of Duty Disability Fund; created.
- HB 2075 Assault and battery; definition of law-enforcement officer to include ABC agents.
- HB 2093 Standards of Quality; changes in provisions.
- HB 2094 School superintendents; retirement benefits.
- HB 2136 Taxpayer Surplus Relief Fund; created.
- HB 2138 Planning and Budget, Department of; submissions to General Assembly.
- HB 2158 Adult Fatality Review Team; created, report.
- HB 2164 TransDominion Express Commission; created.
- HB 2172 Teachers; removes sunset provision for retirement allowance.
- HB 2176 Disaster Response Fund; authorizes disbursements therefrom.
- HB 2185 Sex Offenses and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act; registrants to submit email address.
- HB 2186 Line of Duty Act; amends definition of deceased person.
- HB 2200 State funds; repeals structure and formula for distributing to local law-enforcement in localities.
- HB 2232 Rail Enhancement Fund; local contribution.
- HB 2233 Rail Enhancement Fund; governing body approving project must be received before funds expended.
- HB 2234 Rail Enhancement Fund; creation of a five-year plan.
- HB 2246 Law Officers' Retirement System; permits early retirement for any member thereof.
- HB 2275 Nanotechnology Authority Act of 2007; created, report.
- HB 2279 Sexual offenses; creates number of new crimes labeled indecent liberties against child, etc.
- HB 2306 Higher educational institutions ; operational authority for areas of information technology, etc.
- HB 2310 Transportation projects, local; state funding for portions thereof.
- HB 2312 State agencies; Governor to ensure financial and management review of executive branches, report.
- HB 2329 Drunk driving; mandatory minimum jail time for third offense.
- HB 2358 Southeastern Public Service Authority; special committee to investigate operations and finances.
- HB 2411 Highway revenue-sharing funds; Transportation Board make an equivalent matching allocation.
- HB 2420 Retirement System; benefits for certain state and local public safety officers.
- HB 2432 Claims; Dylan Scott Stanley.
- HB 2434 Supplemental funding; dedicates to primary and secondary road construction.
- HB 2440 Commonwealth Transportation Investment Fund; created.
- HB 2473 Literary Fund; raises maximum limit for any loan.
- HB 2475 Highway revenue-sharing funds; eliminates four-tier priority system for distributions thereof.
- HB 2479 Nurse, licensed; local school boards to employ for each school.
- HB 2485 Public Procurement Act; procurement of environmentally preferable products.
- HB 2505 District court and juvenile and domestic relations district court; increases number of judges, etc.
- HB 2506 Circuit court; increase of judges in various circuits.
- HB 2514 Line of Duty Act; benefits for certain private citizens.
- HB 2519 Retirement System; certain conditions apply when hiring retirees into covered positions.
- HB 2571 Sex Offender Registry;revocation of probation/parole if person is convicted of failure to register.
- HB 2604 Tuition; waiver thereof for children and spouses of certain public safety personnel.
- HB 2612 TANF; eligibility for benefits if convicted of drug-related felonies.
- HB 2613 Standards of Quality; reduces current pupil-teacher ratio in kindergarten.
- HB 2620 Community policy and management teams; adds children requiring mental health services.
- HB 2636 Geriatric mental health care services; DMHMRSAS to develop pilot program therefor.
- HB 2655 Highway maintenance payments; counties that have withdrawn from state secondary highway system.
- HB 2664 Planning and Budget, Department of; reestimate of agency needs.
- HB 2682 Local Partnership Programs; VDOT make sure funds are transmitted periodically to locality.
- HB 2693 Retirement System; certain conditions for retirees hired as nurses.
- HB 2703 Transportation District Programs, and Transportation Projects Fund; created.
- HB 2704 Retail sales and use tax; portion dedicated for transportation.
- HB 2705 Recordation tax; dedicated for transportation.
- HB 2706 Transportation District Programs, and Transportation Investment Fund; created.
- HB 2718 Law Officers' Retirement System; provides supplemental allowance currently paid to certain members.
- HB 2743 Rental assistance pilot project; Department of Housing & Community Development to establish, report.
- HB 2774 Judges; early retirement.
- HB 2805 Enterprise zone incentive grants; Governor to include in budget bill appropriation therefor.
- HB 2807 Enterprise zone grants; allows businesses to apply for additional appropriations.
- HB 2813 Transportation Trust Fund; dedication of certain surplus revenue.
- HB 2817 Line of Duty Disability Fund; created.
- HB 2820 Biotechnology Investment Tax Credit; created.
- HB 2823 Line of Duty Act; definition of disabled person to include local employee.
- HB 2847 Standards of Quality; average teacher salary.
- HB 2848 Retirement System; benefits for certain state and local public safety officers.
- HB 2866 Health insurance credits; to include all retired school division employees.
- HB 2868 Deputies; number of full-time appointed by sheriff of county without police force to be fixed.
- HB 2869 Retirement System; investments related to Sudan.
- HB 2871 Trusts, state and local; created to fund postemployment benefits other than pensions.
- HB 2874 Retail Sales and Use Tax; distribution of local use tax revenues.
- HB 2879 Claims; Charles City County.
- HB 2881 Priority Transportation Fund; dedicates revenues from motor vehicle insurance license tax thereto.
- HB 2889 Claims; Rodney Robinette and Susan Cowden.
- HB 2904 Retirement System; additional information to localities.
- HB 2915 State Police Headquarters, former; State to convey property on Rt. 83 to Buchanan County.
- HB 2956 Retirement System; creates new defined contribution plan for employees who enter on/after 7/1/07.
- HB 2960 Hotel or restaurant services; failure to pay charges, penalty.
- HB 2984 Retirement System; benefits for certain state and local employees.
- HB 2996 Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; procedure for review of reports for certain candidates.
- HB 3009 Retirement system; localities provide benefits to local employees of juvenile detention facilities.
- HB 3014 Health insurance credits; increased for retired teachers.
- HB 3027 Health insurance credits; increased for certain retired public officers and employees.
- HB 3063 Judges; increases number in general district court.
- HB 3067 Transportation Capital Projects Bond Act of 2008; created.
- HB 3069 Overtime compensation; to include state law-enforcement employees.
- HB 3102 City of Lynchburg Combined Sewer Overflow Fund; created.
- HB 3166 Adult Fatality Review Team; created, report.
- HB 3175 Virginia-Africa Advisory Board; created, report.
- HB 3178 Wastewater treatment plants; funding for upgrades.
- SB 272 Electronic voting equipment; State Board of Elections to design pilot program.
- SB 750 Budget Bill.
- SB 786 Private College Enrollment Grant Program Fund; established.
- SB 812 Revenue-sharing funds; for highway systems in certain.
- SB 813 School superintendents; retirement benefits.
- SB 835 TANF; eligibility for benefits if convicted of drug-related felonies.
- SB 876 Gangs; definition of predicate criminal act.
- SB 885 Line of Duty Act; amends definition of deceased person.
- SB 965 Criminal cases; increases compensation of experts.
- SB 975 Retirement System; allows certain employees to transfer to VRS.
- SB 1087 Retirement System; creditable compensation of teachers.
- SB 1156 Law Officers' Retirement System; provides supplemental allowance currently paid to certain members.
- SB 1160 Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund; revenue source therefor.
- SB 1174 Circuit court; increase of judges in various circuits.
- SB 1175 Judges; increases number in general district court.
- SB 1190 Fighting of cocks and other animals; Class 6 felony for any person to engage therein.
- SB 1234 Methamphetamine; manufacturing, selling, giving, and distributing thereof.
- SB 1242 Health insurance program; provision for employees by locality.
- SB 1308 Courthouse security; training of officers providing.
- SB 1311 Judges; early retirement.
- SB 1322 Combined Sewer Overflow Fund; created.
- SB 1325 Medical assistance services; state plan to include provision for medically needy aged & disabled.
- SB 1327 Minimum wage; increase per hour.
- SB 1342 Higher educational institutions; operational authority therefor in areas of procurement, etc.
- SB 1389 TransDominion Express Commission; created.
- SB 1419 Students with Disabilities Tuition Assistance Grant Program; created.