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2008 SESSION
Delegate Mark D. Sickles (D) - House District 43
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 710
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-1043
- email: DelMSickles@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 10628
- Franconia, Virginia 22310
- (703) 922-6440
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 11 Constitutional amendment; exempts certain homeowners from taxation (voter referendum).
- HB 28 Titling vehicles; gives applicants the option of providing license number in lieu of Soc. Sec. no.
- HB 31 Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2008; created.
- HB 61 Special license plates for immediate family members of persons who have died in military service to
- HB 92 Standards of Quality; requires that average teacher salary not be less than annual national salary.
- HB 100 Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; includes deputy sheriffs under coverage.
- HB 152 Governmental employees; permission to form associations.
- HB 164 Buildings, state-owned and occupied; use of compact fluorescent light bulbs, report.
- HB 319 Fishing permit, special; issued to patients from veterans or military hospitals.
- HB 339 Advisory Redistricting Commission; created, report.
- HB 466 Zoning ordinance; administrator or locality may record a memorandum of lis pendens to enforce.
- HB 467 Voting equipment; authorizes wireless communications after polls are closed to transmit results.
- HB 470 Loitering; prohibited in right-of-way of certain highways with posted signs.
- HB 471 Highway construction, primary system; funds allocation.
- HB 490 Transportation funding; increases motor fuels tax and repeals certain abusive driver fees.
- HB 524 Tuition, in-state; eligibility for certain military personnel.
- HB 556 Retirement System; investments related to Sudan.
- HB 572 Smoke Free Air Act; smoking in public places.
- HB 594 Educational Facilities Bond Act of 2008; created.
- HB 617 Virginia Housing Trust Fund; creates dedicated source of funding via percentage of recordation tax.
- HB 656 Animal protection and fighting; broadens penalty.
- HB 675 Discrimination; Fairfax County to prohibit in executive form of government.
- HB 677 Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; public hearing.
- HB 760 Mentally retarded; replaces term with intellectually disabled.
- HB 809 Teachers; provisional and local eligibility licenses if military personnel.
- HB 909 Nanotechnology Authority Act of 2007; created, report.
- HB 972 Ford and Pullman grants; ratifies conveyance of certain lands in County of Fairfax.
- HB 1014 High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes; use by vehicles bearing special fuel vehicle license plates.
- HB 1047 Illegal immigrants; document verification for employment.
- HB 1048 Education; computation of composite index.
- HB 1061 Zoning ordinances; may prescribe an appeal period of less than 30 days.
- HB 1062 Absentee ballot and voting; adds women who are pregnant at time of applying to list of eligible.
- HB 1063 Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking in restaurants in Northern Virginia.
- HB 1066 Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement.
- HB 1069 Absentee voting and ballot applications; persons performing volunteer service may vote absentee .
- HB 1071 Birth control; adds definition.
- HB 1107 Single-family dwellings; fines for zoning violations related to overcrowding.
- HB 1109 Veterans; tuition waiver for certain.
- HB 1188 Civil remedial fees; repeals provision for those paid, imposed on certain drivers, refund fees.
- HB 1194 Income tax, corporate; higher education research and development tax credit.
- HB 1228 Electric utilities; notice of renewable power options.
- HB 1229 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include WaterSense qualified products.
- HB 1232 Cats and dogs; prohibits any dealer from overbreeding.
- HB 1233 Reckless driving; suspension of license on conviction of minor.
- HB 1250 Personal flotation devices; requirements for children.
- HB 1270 Pedestrians and drivers; sets out responsibilities at marked and unmarked crosswalks.
- HB 1335 Natural Resources Commitment Fund; created.
- HB 1373 Tuition, in-state; eligibility for Native Americans.
- HB 1376 Crimes Against Minors and Sex Offender Registry; use of data by SAVIN.
- HB 1403 Family life education; instruction on use of Food & Drug Administration contraception methods.
- HB 1432 Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking in restaurants in certain cities.
- HB 1437 Trees; conservation during land development process for air quality improvement.
- HB 1460 Retirement System; investments related to state sponsors of terrorism.
- HB 1474 Citizenship Assistance Initiative Program; established.
- HB 1493 Nondiscrimination; prohibits discrimination in state government employment based on race, etc.
- HB 1501 Firefighters; task force to develop training standards, report.
- HB 1547 21st Century Capital Improvement Program; created, report.
- HJ 4 Constitutional amendment; exempts certain homeowners from taxation (second reference).
- HJ 43 Higher educational institutions, online; Council of Higher Education to study establishment thereof.
- HJ 105 Autism services; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
- HJ 106 Fluorescent light bulbs; Recycling Markets Development Council to study costs and benefits of recy.
- HJ 120 Constitutional amendment; establishing Redistricting Commission (first reference).
- HJ 139 Commending Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
- HJ 153 Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; study competitive bidding on projects thereunder.
- HJ 171 Endocrine disrupting compounds; Department of Environmental Quality to study effects on environment.
- HJ 172 Vision care services and products; JLARC to study impact of current law impeding accessibility.
- HJ 230 Commending Robert F. Horan, Jr.
- HJ 233 Celebrating the life of Jack Carper.
- HJ 251 Celebrating the life of Oliver White Hill, Sr.
- HJ 275 Commending Theodore V. Morrison, Jr.
- HJ 284 Commending Jeffrey C. Dietze.
- HJ 286 Celebrating the life of Jo Ann Davis.
- HJ 287 Celebrating the life of Eve Marie Wilson.
- HJ 295 Commending the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
- HJ 298 Commending William H. Leighty.
- HJ 307 Celebrating the life of William A. Strauss.
- HJ 329 Commending NASA on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
- 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 355 Commending the Fairfax County school winners of the Governor's Award for Educational Execllence.
- HJ 363 Celebrating the life of Richard G. Darman.
- HJ 376 Celebrating the life of Erin Peterson.
- HJ 377 Celebrating the life of Reema Samaha.
- HJ 380 Commending the United States Army Reserve on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
- HJ 395 Celebrating the life of Mitchell Van Yahres.
- HJ 399 Commending Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
- HJ 400 Celebrating the life of Joseph A. Johnson.
- HJ 402 Commending the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership on the occasion of its 15th anniversary.
- HJ 404 Commending Inova Fair Oaks Hospital on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
- HJ 444 Commending Vincent F. Callahan, Jr.
- HJ 445 Commending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Langley High, and Oakton High.
- HJ 450 Commending the Honorable George Mason III.
- HJ 451 Commending the Knights of Columbus on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
- HJ 466 Commending the rescue squads, police departments, fire departments, sheriff's offices, and agencies.
- HJ 471 Celebrating the life of Maxine Shelly Turner.
- HJ 484 Commending the Virginia Port Authority.
- HJ 514 Commending Bread and Water for Africa.
- HJ 531 Commending Sharon Ann Crouch Steidel.
- HJ 554 Commending R. Michael Mohler.
- HJ 594 Commending Our Military Kids, Inc.
- HJ 596 Celebrating the life of Stephen H. Snell.
- HJ 597 Celebrating the life of Mary Walton McCandlish Livingston.
- 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 237 Localities; allowed to make donations to nonprofit association furnishing services to community.
- SB 443 Civil remedial fees; repeals provision for those imposed on certain drivers.
- SB 444 Motor fuels tax; funding for transportation-related alternatives.
- SB 447 Green Buildings Act; Department of General Services determines when project qualifies for exemption.
- SB 511 Natural Resources Commitment Fund; created.
- SB 714 Petroleum products franchises; rights of dealers upon sale or assignment of franchise agreement.
- SJ 147 Commending TWIG Junior Auxiliary of Inova Alexandria Hospital on its 75th anniversary.
- SJ 149 Celebrating the life of Julia Campbell.
- SJ 181 Celebrating the life of Private First Class David H. Sharrett II.
- SJ 230 Commending R. Scott Silverthorne.
- SJ 242 Commending Leland D. Melvin.
- SJ 253 Commending Dana Kauffman.