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2008 SESSION
Senator John S. Edwards (D) - Senate District 21
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 309
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-7521
- email: district21@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 1179
- Roanoke, Virginia 24006-1179
- (540) 985-8690
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- SB 13 Health insurance; mandated coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
- SB 14 Income tax credit, earned; employers to provide notice to employees.
- SB 15 Income tax credit, earned; Department of Social Services to provide notice to all applicants.
- SB 16 Crisis intervention team pilot programs; established for persons with mental illness, report.
- SB 17 Medical services; State's lien for payment.
- SB 18 Mental health courts; establishment of pilot program, report.
- SB 19 Judges; increases mandatory retirement age.
- SB 20 Carbon monoxide alarms; locality to require installation in certain buildings.
- SB 117 Income tax and sales and use tax; credit and exemption for telecommunications service providers.
- SB 118 Notarial certificates; removes requirement that wording appear on same page as signature.
- SB 119 VPI & SU; board of visitors to convey certain property to Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc.
- SB 120 Blacksburg, Town of; authority to bring civil action for failure to provide adequate crowd control.
- SB 121 TransDominion Express Commission; created.
- SB 122 Rail Transportation Development Authority; created.
- SB 123 Evidence; destruction of trial exhibits.
- SB 124 Public schools; Superintendent to develop guidelines eliminating trans fatty foods served.
- SB 125 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- SB 126 Dependent Children of University and College Faculty Tuition Grant Program; created.
- SB 127 Higher educational institutions; retirement plan for teachers and administrative faculty.
- SB 128 Higher educational institutions; optional retirement plan for certain employees.
- SB 139 Community services board; requires employee that prepared report to attend hearing.
- SB 140 Independent examinations; training of persons conducting.
- SB 141 State hospitals; discharge plans upon release.
- SB 142 Involuntary commitment hearings; recordings.
- SB 143 Temporary detention order; extends time period.
- SB 144 Emergency custody orders, temporary detention orders, and involuntary commitment; criteria.
- SB 150 Wilderness Road: Virginia's Heritage Migration Route; designating certain highway segments thereas.
- SB 211 Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program; increases annual assessment for physicians.
- SB 212 Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; right to confront witnesses.
- SB 213 Pleadings; naming represented person or fiduciary as party to an action.
- SB 214 Special justices; required to complete minimum training program.
- SB 215 Charter; Town of Narrows.
- SB 216 Voluntary admission; report to Central Criminal Records Exchange.
- SB 217 Involuntary commitment; independent examination.
- SB 218 Health Professions, Department of; investigative procedures.
- SB 219 Roanoke Higher Education Authority; removes Virginia Intermont College from Board of Trustees.
- SB 220 Outpatient treatment order; community services board to monitor person's compliance with order.
- SB 313 Child support; exemption for parents who are imprisoned for life.
- SB 314 Veterans Services Foundation; established to provide funding for veteran services and programs.
- SB 315 Children's Ombudsman, Office of; created, report.
- SB 394 Parental rights; appeal when terminated.
- SB 395 Death sentence; execution dates
- SB 396 Health insurance carriers; hospital disclosure of contractual arrangements.
- SB 397 Methamphetamine precursors; electronic log to be maintained by sellers of products.
- SB 509 Voting equipment; locking and securing after an election.
- SB 580 War Memorial Foundation; increase in membership.
- SB 666 Utility Transfers Act; person shall not acquire or dispose of control of public utility, etc.
- SB 688 Motor vehicle insurance; provide reductions to certain persons who complete DMV approved course.
- SB 692 Insurance agents; revises definition of limited burial insurance authorities.
- SB 693 Physician assistants; agreement with supervising physician detailing activities delegated thereto.
- SB 717 Coal combustion byproduct; use, reuse, or reclamation in a floodplain
- SB 738 Adult protective services; reporting of suspected financial abuse of elderly & dependent persons.
- SB 753 Public-Private Transportation Act; prohibits private entity from imposing tolls on Interstate 81.
- SB 754 Public-Private Transportation Act; prohibits private entity from imposing tolls on Interstate 81.
- SJ 33 Celebrating the life of Margie M. Jumper.
- SJ 34 Commending the William Fleming High School boys' basketball team.
- SJ 35 Celebrating the life of F. Rodney Fitzpatrick.
- SJ 36 Celebrating the life of Thomas B. Mason.
- SJ 37 Celebrating the life of William Andrew Dickinson.
- SJ 38 Celebrating the life of Jack B. Coulter.
- SJ 39 Celebrating the life of Byron Adna Hicks.
- SJ 139 Commending Joey Goodrich.
- SJ 140 Commending Gordon Churchill Willis, Sr.
- SJ 144 Commending the Virginia Tech football team.