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2008 SESSION
Delegate James M. Scott (D) - House District 53
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 402
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: DelJScott@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 359
- Merrifield, Virginia 22116-0359
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- HB 5 Gas chambers; prohibits use thereof for euthanizing companion animals.
- 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 92 Standards of Quality; requires that average teacher salary not be less than annual national salary.
- HB 147 Transportation Plan; to include regional goals and performance measures for highway districts.
- HB 152 Governmental employees; permission to form associations.
- HB 271 Line of Duty Act; amends definition of deceased person.
- HB 277 Traffic control measures; allows installation and application on secondary system components.
- HB 289 Rental assistance pilot project; Department of Housing and Community Development to establish.
- HB 339 Advisory Redistricting Commission; created, report.
- HB 340 Disabled veteran; definition thereof.
- HB 341 Dishwashing detergents; bans use of phosphorus therein for household dishwashing machines.
- HB 343 Cathode ray tubes; disposal bans.
- HB 344 Computer Recovery and Recycling Act; adoption and implementation of recovery plan.
- HB 345 Credit reports; authorizes an individual to freeze access thereto.
- HB 437 Public schools; composite index formula for basic state aid.
- 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 491 Indecent exposure; penalty.
- HB 512 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- HB 532 Infectious disease presumption; emergency declaration by Governor.
- HB 556 Retirement System; investments related to Sudan.
- HB 592 Criminal history record information; required for transfer of firearms.
- HB 594 Educational Facilities Bond Act of 2008; created.
- HB 609 Wireless telecommunications device; prohibits use of text messaging while driving certain vehicles.
- HB 615 Health insurance; mandated coverage for medically necessary amino acid-based elemental formulas.
- 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 741 Involuntary mental health treatment; prohibition from purchasing, etc. firearms.
- HB 760 Mentally retarded; replaces term with intellectually disabled.
- HB 815 Voluntary admission; report to Central Criminal Records Exchange.
- HB 955 Public-Private Education Facilities & Infrastructure Act of 2002; definition of qualifying projects.
- HB 1017 Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance, Office of; established, report.
- HB 1018 Telecommuting; definition.
- HB 1019 Telecommuting; state agencies to keep savings.
- HB 1021 Telecommuting; establishes goal for state agencies.
- HB 1047 Illegal immigrants; document verification for employment.
- HB 1048 Education; computation of composite index.
- HB 1052 Identity theft; notice of database breach.
- HB 1061 Zoning ordinances; may prescribe an appeal period of less than 30 days.
- HB 1063 Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking in restaurants in Northern Virginia.
- HB 1066 Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement.
- HB 1071 Birth control; adds definition.
- HB 1118 Real estate tax; exemptions and deferrals for certain residential or farm property.
- HB 1228 Electric utilities; notice of renewable power options.
- HB 1229 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include WaterSense qualified products.
- HB 1233 Reckless driving; suspension of license on conviction of minor.
- HB 1311 Credit reports; authorizes consumer to freeze access thereto.
- HB 1319 Underground transmission lines; pilot program established.
- HB 1403 Family life education; instruction on use of Food & Drug Administration contraception methods.
- HB 1437 Trees; conservation during land development process for air quality improvement.
- HB 1465 Dogfighting; violations include attending such fights.
- HB 1493 Nondiscrimination; prohibits discrimination in state government employment based on race, etc.
- HB 1501 Firefighters; task force to develop training standards, report.
- HB 1507 Trooper Charles Mark Cosslett Memorial Highway; designating as portion of Fairfax County Parkway.
- HB 1547 21st Century Capital Improvement Program; created, report.
- HB 1576 Pruitt, William A.; awarded handgun for noteworthy service to Marine Resources Commission.
- HJ 4 Constitutional amendment; exempts certain homeowners from taxation (second reference).
- HJ 68 LEED; DGS to adopt standards for new state office buildings.
- HJ 106 Fluorescent light bulbs; Recycling Markets Development Council to study costs and benefits of recy.
- HJ 108 Affordable housing; Departments of Housing and Community Development, and Taxation to study.
- HJ 120 Constitutional amendment; establishing Redistricting Commission (first reference).
- HJ 139 Commending Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
- HJ 145 Commending the Westfield High School football team.
- HJ 146 Commending the Chantilly High School cheerleading squad.
- 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 230 Commending Robert F. Horan, Jr.
- HJ 237 Innovative Technology, Center for; innovation index, report.
- HJ 251 Celebrating the life of Oliver White Hill, Sr.
- HJ 275 Commending Theodore V. Morrison, Jr.
- 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 358 Commending the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on the 20th anniversary of Clean the Bay Day.
- 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 382 Commending Diana F. Cantor.
- 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 413 Commending Angela G. Lawson.
- HJ 414 Commending Leah Paige Truitt.
- 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 466 Commending the rescue squads, police departments, fire departments, sheriff's offices, and agencies.
- HJ 471 Celebrating the life of Maxine Shelly Turner.
- HJ 478 Commending nine hospitals in the Commonwealth that have achieved recognition as Magnet Healthcare.
- HJ 484 Commending the Virginia Port Authority.
- HJ 502 Commending Irvine Byrd Hill.
- HJ 531 Commending Sharon Ann Crouch Steidel.
- HJ 594 Commending Our Military Kids, Inc.
- 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 83 Political candidate contribution tax credit; increases maximum amount.
- SB 104 Outpatient treatment; community services board et al., to report any material noncompliance.
- SB 189 Highway construction; increases cost of project using state or local employees.
- SB 237 Localities; allowed to make donations to nonprofit association furnishing services to community.
- SB 300 Dangerous weapons; governing body has authority to restrict in governmental facilities.
- SB 329 Line of Duty Act; definition, and funding for Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund.
- SB 444 Motor fuels tax; funding for transportation-related alternatives.
- SB 446 Clean energy future; electric energy sold to be generated from renewable generation energy sources.
- SB 447 Green Buildings Act; Department of General Services determines when project qualifies for exemption.
- SB 500 Infectious disease presumption; emergency declaration by Governor.
- SB 627 Climate Change, Commission on; created, report.
- SB 628 Incarceration; waiving interest during period thereof.
- SB 634 Public defenders; permits county or city offices to supplement compensation thereof.
- SB 637 Child abuse; animal control officers required to report.
- SB 638 Protective orders; notification of service.
- SB 647 Freedom of Information Act; exemption for certain publicly owned museum records.
- SB 648 Motor oil, used; annual survey of individual practices.
- SB 710 Trees; conservation during the land development process for air quality improvement.
- SJ 27 Commending the Westfield High School football team.
- SJ 71 High voltage transmission lines; SCC to require electric utility applying for approval to construct.
- SJ 96 Private landowners; Board of Forestry to study provision of ecological services incentives.
- SJ 97 Celebrating the life of Marion Gibbs Galland.
- SJ 177 Celebrating the life of Michael E. Shaheen, Jr.
- SJ 197 Celebrating the life of Peter Don Rose.
- SJ 242 Commending Leland D. Melvin.