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2008 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
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 11 Constitutional amendment; exempts certain homeowners from taxation (voter referendum).
- HB 12 Payday Loan Act; requires SCC to contract with one or more parties to develop, etc. database.
- HB 20 Primary elections; voter registration by political party.
- HB 31 Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2008; created.
- HB 103 Correctional facility; verification of citizenship and alien status of person committed.
- HB 123 Higher educational institutions; enrollment of aliens.
- HB 161 Traffic crimes; mandatory minimum fines.
- HB 171 Resources Authority; authorized to finance energy conservation and energy efficiency projects.
- HB 219 Retail Sales and Use Tax; Energy Star products tax holiday.
- HB 229 Veterans services; Dept. to establish guidelines for eligibility for domiciled veterans, etc.
- HB 319 Fishing permit, special; issued to patients from veterans or military hospitals.
- HB 326 Speed limits; maximum on rural, rustic roads.
- HB 440 Illegal aliens; presumption of no bail for those charged with certain crimes.
- HB 441 Correctional facilities; enforcement of federal civil immigration laws.
- HB 474 Virginia War Memorial; State Treasurer to advance loan for construction of an educational wing.
- HB 477 Veterans Services Foundation; established as body politic and to fund veteran services and programs.
- HB 499 Involuntary commitment; establishes new standard for outpatient commitment.
- HB 524 Tuition, in-state; eligibility for certain military personnel.
- HB 559 Emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, and involuntary commitment; criteria.
- HB 560 Commitment hearing; community services board representative, treating physician, etc. to attend.
- HB 602 Real estate assessments; burden of proof on appeal.
- HB 623 Immigration laws; Governor to enter into memorandum of agreement with Immigration and Customs.
- HB 631 Special license plates; sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.
- HB 779 Illegal aliens; presumption of no bail for those charged with certain crimes.
- HB 780 Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act; reorganizes provisions.
- HB 782 Mental health records; disclosure, etc.
- HB 809 Teachers; provisional and local eligibility licenses if military personnel.
- HB 820 Inmates; officer of correctional facility to inquire of alien status.
- HB 837 Dam break inundation zones; localities with authority to address development.
- HB 923 School Construction Revolving Fund; created, report.
- HB 924 Income tax and sales and use tax; credit and exemption for certain telecommunications service.
- HB 926 Illegal aliens; corporate existence terminated involuntarily for employing.
- HB 927 Tax rates; requires localities to fix for ensuing year at least 30 days prior to approval of budget.
- HB 929 Illegal aliens; presumption against admission to bail for those charged with criminal offense.
- HB 991 Development rights; allows Albemarle County to enact an ordinance for severance and transfer.
- HB 1007 Fusion Intelligence Center; confidentiality and immunity from service of process.
- HB 1009 Real estate taxes; assessments, bills, and deferral by localities.
- HB 1311 Credit reports; authorizes consumer to freeze access thereto.
- HB 1318 Taxpayer Surplus Relief Fund; established to provide tax relief.
- HB 1352 Game and Inland Fisheries, Board of; membership.
- HB 1391 Bicentennial of American War of 1812 Commission and Fund; created, report.
- HB 1406 Rural rustic road program; increases maximum average daily traffic volume for roads.
- HB 1482 Bears; non-lethal control measures.
- HB 1516 Public-Private Transportation Act; prohibits private entity from imposing tolls on Interstate 81.
- HB 1522 Business Assistance, Department of; abolish & transfer duties to Economic Development Partnership.
- HB 1530 Foster children; placement of siblings together.
- HB 1547 21st Century Capital Improvement Program; created, report.
- HB 1555 Lance Corporal Daniel Todd Morris Bridge; designating as bridge over I-81 at Steeles Tavern.
- HB 1557 Mopeds; limitations on operation thereof.
- HJ 4 Constitutional amendment; exempts certain homeowners from taxation (second reference).
- HJ 55 Commending Dr. Marcella F. Fierro.
- HJ 130 Ronald Reagan Day; designating as February 6, 2008, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 137 Celebrating the life of Nelson Showalter Gardner.
- HJ 139 Commending Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
- HJ 148 Commending the Virginia Forest Products Association on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
- HJ 149 Commending Charles W. Ahrend.
- HJ 150 Commending Donald J. Ford.
- HJ 197 Commending the University of Mary Washington and James Madison University
- HJ 198 Commending Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
- HJ 225 Commending The Lincoln Society of Virginia.
- HJ 234 Commending Jeanette Lancaster.
- HJ 237 Innovative Technology, Center for; innovation index, report.
- HJ 266 Commending Jon Fried.
- HJ 275 Commending Theodore V. Morrison, Jr.
- HJ 279 Commending the valuable work of Virginia’s health safety net and its many private sector supporters.
- HJ 286 Celebrating the life of Jo Ann Davis.
- HJ 298 Commending William H. Leighty.
- HJ 336 Commending Barter Theatre on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
- HJ 341 Commending the State of Israel on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.
- HJ 346 Celebrating the life of Myron Boyd Jones.
- HJ 347 Celebrating the life of Jerry Laymon Falwell.
- HJ 350 Celebrating the life of Jane Maury Denton.
- HJ 363 Celebrating the life of Richard G. Darman.
- HJ 380 Commending the United States Army Reserve on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
- HJ 382 Commending Diana F. Cantor.
- HJ 384 Commending the Western Albemarle High School field hockey team.
- HJ 395 Celebrating the life of Mitchell Van Yahres.
- HJ 413 Commending Angela G. Lawson.
- HJ 414 Commending Leah Paige Truitt.
- HJ 442 Celebrating the life of Staff Sergeant Chad A. Barrett.
- HJ 444 Commending Vincent F. Callahan, Jr.
- HJ 448 Commending Hokies United.
- HJ 450 Commending the Honorable George Mason III.
- HJ 462 Commending Charles R. Obaugh, Jr.
- HJ 466 Commending the rescue squads, police departments, fire departments, sheriff's offices, and agencies.
- HJ 478 Commending nine hospitals in the Commonwealth that have achieved recognition as Magnet Healthcare.
- HJ 479 Commending James E. Copp.
- HJ 491 Commending Nielsen Builders, Inc., on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
- HJ 492 Commending John Kidd.
- HJ 531 Commending Sharon Ann Crouch Steidel.
- HJ 547 Celebrating the life of Fred Parkis Yates, Jr.
- HJ 550 Commending T. Carter Melton, Jr.
- HJ 565 Commending Paul Hatcher.
- HJ 594 Commending Our Military Kids, Inc.
- HR 13 Commending Mary Elizabeth McElroy Weil.
- HR 14 Commending Carmela Bills Putney.
- HR 15 Commending Lois Vivian Johnson.
- HR 21 Celebrating the life of John Ashby Bowden, Jr.
- HR 22 Celebrating the life of James Paul Shaw.
- SB 423 DEQ; authority to issue and enforce permits, etc. related to air and water pollution.
- SB 472 Group homes & residential facilities for children; regulations for licensure of programs offered.
- SB 474 Sheltered workshop; Department of Minority Business Enterprises to establish certification program.
- SB 490 No Child Left Behind Act; Board of Education to make recommendation regard to participation therein.
- SB 494 Neurotrauma Initiative Advisory Board; changes reporting requirments.
- SB 674 Health insurance credits; all retired employees of local school divisions to receive.
- SJ 242 Commending Leland D. Melvin.
- SJ 258 Celebrating the life of Fred Parkis Yates, Jr.