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2009 SESSION

SENATE CALENDAR FOR January 15, 2009 ... pdf

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• Senate Bill on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
• Memorial Resolutions ... report | csv file
• Commending Resolutions ... report | csv file
• Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file

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Senate Bill on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file

• SB 402 Law Officers' Retirement System; supplemental allowance paid until Social Security retirement age.

Memorial Resolutions ... report | csv file

• SJ 282 Celebrating the life of Mary Mildred Carrington.
• SJ 283 Celebrating the life of Arnetta Gilmore Washington.
• SJ 284 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Davis Gardner.
• SJ 285 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Clifton R. Wilson.
• SJ 286 Celebrating the life of Ruby Warren Thompson.
• SJ 287 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Theodore Alfred Bashford.
• SJ 291 Celebrating the life of E.C. Warren II.
• SJ 297 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Andrew Jackson Ellis, Jr.
• SJ 298 Celebrating the life of Benjamin H. Bolen.
• SJ 299 Celebrating the life of William Randolph Dyer.
• SJ 300 Celebrating the life of Jessie Hanby Key.
• SJ 301 Celebrating the life of Avis H. Collier
• SJ 302 Celebrating the life of Leigh Buckner Hanes, Jr.
• SJ 308 Celebrating the life of Macon Peyton Booker. 

Commending Resolutions ... report | csv file

• SJ 272 Commending Gladys Cook Bushrod.
• SJ 288 Commending Jack and Jill of Norfolk.
• SJ 293 Commending Laura Marshall.
• SJ 294 Commending the Urban League of Greater Richmond on exemplary community service.

Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file

• SB 1036 Rappahannock River Basin Commission; membership.
• SB 1037 Tuition, in-state; denied to illegal aliens.
• SB 1038 Qualified voter; definition of residence.
• SB 1039 Environmental laboratory certification & inspection; Consolidated Lab. to enter into memorandum.
• SB 1040 No Child Left Behind Act; prohibits Board of Education from complying with any provisions unfunded.
• SB 1041 Fuels taxes; annually adjusted.
• SB 1042 Transfer on Death Real Property Act; created.
• SB 1043 Roll-back taxes; locality to assess and collect for up to 15 years under value assessment program.
• SB 1044 Insurers; SCC with discretion to prescribe method of filing annual statements.
• SB 1045 Diversionary cash assistance; revises limitation on receipt of one-time assistance to one payment.
• SB 1046 REAL ID Act, federal; amends provisions for obtaining driver's license.
• SB 1047 Workers' Compensation; respiratory disease, etc. causing death of Port Authority police compensable.
• SB 1048 Temporary vehicle registrations and overload and overweight permits; revises fees.
• SB 1049 Grant program; modifies eligibility of certain foster care and special needs adoption students.
• SB 1050 Natural Resources Commitment Fund; Dept. of Conservation, etc., to provide annual funding needed.
• SB 1051 Mental health; admission of incapacitated person to a facility by an agent or guardian.
• SB 1052 Affordable housing assessments; determination of fair market value of affordable rental housing.
• SB 1053 Government facilities; local government may by ordinance, make unlawful to possess dangerous weapon.
• SB 1054 License plates, special; issuance to supporters of Washington Capitals hockey team.
• SB 1055 Housing Trust Fund; dedicating revenues to provide affordable housing.
• SB 1056 Retirement System; retirees hired as nurses without interrupting their benefits.
• SB 1057 Smoke Free Air Act; smoking in public places, civil penalties.
• SB 1058 Green roofs; authorizes counties, cities, and towns, by ordinance, to grant incentives, etc.
• SB 1059 Child support orders; revises requirements for court and administrative.
• SB 1060 Health Care, Joint Commission on; shall expire on July 1, 2012.
• SB 1061 House location survey; shall be recorded in deed book of clerk's office of county, etc., where lies.
• SB 1062 Community Integration Advisory Commission; extends sunset provision.
• SB 1063 Virginia Board for People with Disabilities; report.
• SB 1064 Comprehensive plan; local planning commission to post plan being considered on their website.
• SB 1065 Wind energy drying devices; no community association shall prohibit an owner from installing, etc.
• SB 1066 Trains; fine for boarding or riding with fraudulent or counterfeit ticket, etc.
• SB 1067 Governments, local; adoption of ordinances prohibiting delivery of unsolicited newspapers.
• SB 1068 Virginia Child Protection Accountability System; established.
• SB 1069 Fire marshals and assistant fire marshals; capital murder thereof.
• SB 1070 Absentee voting; firefighters and other first responders are entitled thereto.
• SB 1071 Charter; City of Colonial Heights. 
• SB 1072 Prayer at public events; governmental agency shall have no authority to regulate religious content.
• SB 1073 Sheriff department; performance of law-enforcement service requires no pre-notification to Division.
• SB 1074 BPOL tax; allows towns to levy on any person, firm, etc., in business of renting real property.
• SB 1075 Optometrists; those licensed may sell contact lenses & allowed to dispense ophthalmic devices.
• SB 1076 Right to notify; consumer in mental health facility to have person of choice notified of condition.
• SB 1077 Notification of family member in commitment process; disclosure of certain information of patient.
• SB 1078 Special justices; expenses when presiding over certain hearings.
• SB 1079 Emergency custody; authority of law-enforcement officer.
• SB 1080 Involuntary commitment hearing; upon request, district court judge, etc. may restrict attendance.
• SB 1081 Special justices; appointment, duties.
• SB 1082 Voluntary and involuntary commitment; Executive Secretary of Supreme Court to prepare petitions.
• SB 1083 Mental health law; amends statutes to address issues resulting from overhaul thereof.
• SB 1084 Driver's license; requires minors to show completion of a 90-minute driver safety course.
• SB 1085 Durable Do Not Resuscitate Orders; revocation. 
• SB 1086 Harvester's license, commercial; increases fee for nonresidents for those fishing in tidal waters.
• SB 1087 Marine Resources Commission; membership.
• SB 1088 Jail projects; requires Newport News to file its community-based corrections plan on Nov. 1, 2009.
• SB 1089 Investment Performance Grants; raises per project amount thereof.
• SB 1090 Annual and biennial reports; requires agencies, institutions, etc., to report to Governor, etc.
• SB 1091 Elections; removes curbside voting for persons age 65 and older, are entitled to vote absentee.
• SB 1092 Charitable food donations and distributions; civil immunity.
• SB 1093 Mutual aid agreement; institution of higher learning having police force appointed to enter therein.
• SB 1094 Derelict buildings and structures; locality authorized to require removal, repair, etc., thereof.
• SB 1095 Land development plans; adds Town of Leesburg to localities that may develop procedure for review.
• SB 1096 Design-Build Construction Management Review Board; authorized to make a one-time determination.
• SB 1097 Income tax, state; tax credit to employers for expenses incurred in allowing employees to telework.
• SB 1098 Income tax, state; tax credit to employers for employees who enter into flextime agreements.
• SB 1099 Incapacitated adults; financial exploitation thereof, penalty.
• SB 1100 Uniform Commercial Code; financing statements.
• SB 1101 Racing Commission; authorizes wagering on historical horse racing.
• SB 1102 Campaign finance disclosure; where and how to file candidate reports.
• SB 1103 Campaign finance disclosure; where and how to file candidate reports.
• SB 1104 Income tax, state; temporary protective enclosures for oysters tax credit.
• SB 1105 Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibits smoking in certain public buildings, restaurants, etc., exceptions.
• SB 1106 Smoking in cars; unlawful for a person thereto when minor is present, civil penalty.
• SB 1107 Exposure to communicable diseases; first responders.
• SB 1108 License plates, special; issuance to those bearing logotype Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS).
• SB 1109 Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; extends sunset until July 1, 2014, etc.
• SB 1110 Town of Nassawadox; charter.  
• SB 1111 Crab season; Marine Resources Commission to establish periods of time when crabs caught for resale.
• SB 1112 Tobacco Settlement Foundation; changes name to Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth.
• SB 1113 Governments, local; adoption of ordinances prohibiting delivery of unsolicited newspapers.
• SB 1114 Stormwater management; emerging technology.
• SB 1115 Land Conservation Fund; public access parkland.
• SB 1116 Health insurance; mandated coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
• SB 1117 Mental Health, Mental Retardation & Substance Abuse Services, Department of; name change.
• SB 1118 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
• SB 1119 Economic development; incentive financing for major employment and investment projects, report.
• SB 1120 Tax Amnesty Program; State Tax Commissioner to operate program during 2009-2010 fiscal year.
• SB 1121 Charitable Gaming, Division of; conduct of fifty-fifty certain raffles.
• SB 1122 Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act; mandatory outpatient treatment; etc.
• SB 1123 Admissions tax; adds Greensville County to list of those that may impose at events.
• SB 1124 Income tax, state; tax credit for electricity that is produced using solar photovoltaic technology.
• SB 1125 Income tax, state; green jobs tax credit.
• SB 1126 Electric energy consumption; revises State's stated goal to reduce.
• SB 1127 State energy efficiency program; require Division of Purchase and Supply to ensure 20% sustainable.
• SB 1128 Wells; issuance of an express geothermal permit for construction therof.
• SB 1129 Warrants, local; local governments to publish information relating thereto.
• SB 1130 Regional Criminal Justice Academy Training Fund; limits fee that locality may charge to support.
• SB 1131 Notice for setting local real property tax rate; public notice required for increasing rate.
• SB 1132 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include fabrication of animal meat.
• SB 1133 Estate tax; reinstates federal credit amount State would receive payments from estates.
• SB 1134 Electronic summons system; localities to assess an additional fee as part of costs.
• SB 1135 Parole Board; ensure each person eligible for parole receives a timely and thorough review.
• SB 1136 Grand larceny; threshold amount.
• SB 1137 Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; adds Cities of Alexandria, etc., to use % of revenues.
• SB 1138 Parking on public highways; allows counties and towns, by ordinance, to regulate.
• SB 1139 Uniform Statewide Building Code; rental occupancy permits.
• SB 1140 General Services, Department of; clarifies authority for management of real estate assets.
• SB 1141 Income tax, state; renewable energy property tax credit.
• SB 1142 Advance medical directives; revises Health Care Decisions Act to clarify process.
• SB 1143 Common Interest Community Board; clarifies powers and duties, technical changes.
• SB 1144 Every Woman's Life Breast and Cervical Cancer Fund; established.
• SB 1145 Greenhouse gas emissions; State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulation requiring reporting.
• SB 1146 Biodiesel & green diesel; requires state public bodies to procure only diesel fuel containing 2%.
• SB 1147 Income tax, corporate; real estate investment trusts.
• SB 1148 Income tax, state; livable home tax credit.
• SB 1149 Juvenile law; makes changes in code pertaining to juveniles and juvenile court provisions.
• SB 1150 Emergency response plans; ensuring victims' rights.
• SB 1151 Companion animals; owner reclaiming dog or cat from pound to have animal spayed or neutered.
• SB 1152 Infectious disease; eliminates requirement that law-enforcement officer give notice.
• SB 1153 Public-Private Education Facilities & Infrastructure Act of 2002; definitions, review, report.
• SB 1154 Copies of medical bills and charges; no cost to patient up to three times every twelve months.
• SB 1155 Absentee voting; electoral board shall make printed ballots available.
• SB 1156 Higher educational institutions, certain; management agreements with State.
• SB 1157 Recordation and grantor taxes; penalty for misrepresentation.
• SB 1158 Workers' Compensation; pharmacist filling a prescription to dispense therapeutically equivalent.
• SB 1159 Vehicle safety inspection; extends to 5 business days amount of time person in armed forces has.
• SB 1160 Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibits smoking in all indoor restaurants and bar and lounge areas in State.
• SB 1161 Safety belts; makes non-use of a primary offense.
• SB 1162 Certificate of public need; plan of correction for failure to meet conditions.
• SB 1163 Wireless E-911 Services Board; adds Director of Dept. of Emergency Management as a member.
• SB 1164 Wireless E-911 Fund; operating expense & administrative cost of Div. of Public Safety Communication.
• SB 1165 Enterprise zone economic incentive grants; eligibility therefor.
• SB 1166 Firearms; increases fee paid to dealers for criminal history record information checks.
• SB 1167 Transportation surcharge; special license plates bearing reserved numbers or letters.
• SB 1168 DMV records; contract with Postal Service to obtain updated addresses for Department's records.
• SB 1169 Consumer Protection Act; foreclosure rescues.
• SB 1170 Mortgage Lender and Broker Act; SCC to request Attorney Gen. to investigate violations thereunder.
• SB 1171 Mortgage loan originators; definition, establishes licensure and registry.
• SB 1172 Mortgage Lender and Broker Act; eliminates provision that lenders, etc., are required to conduct.
• SB 1173 Open Education Resource Center Grant Fund; established, development of two-year pilot project.
• SB 1174 Patent and copyright policies; requires Secretary of Administration to establish policies regarding.
• SB 1175 Property owned by locality; Cumberland County may levy and collect service charge.
• SB 1176 Transient occupancy tax; consultation with lodging industry.
• SB 1177 Regional Industrial Facilities Act; expands scope of act statewide.
• SB 1178 Independent cities; eliminates presumption that all are independent by deleting word in statutes.
• SB 1179 State Executive Council; increases membership and establishes term limits.
• SB 1180 State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services; powers and duties.
• SB 1181 Office of Comprehensive Services; report expenditures on children receiving pool-funded services.
• SB 1182 Office of Comprehensive Services; report cost of services for at-risk and troubled children.
• SB 1183 Office of Comprehensive Services; develop coordinator job description.
• SB 1184 Office of Comprehensive Services; guidelines for multidisciplinary teams.
• SB 1185 Retail Sales and Use Tax Act; conforms State's sales and use tax laws to provisions.
• SB 1186 Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program; producer of non-advanced neat biofuels may receive.
• SB 1187 Garbage and refuse services; eliminates provision that barred localities from preventing disposal.
• SB 1188 Elections; clarifications and revisions to registration and election processes; penalties.
• SB 1189 Law libraries, local; authorized to use space at public libraries, which may include flat rate.
• SB 1190 Local exchange telephone service; SCC to sustain levels of intrastate access rates.
• SB 1191 Process and service fees; increases certain sheriffs' fees.
• SB 1192 Voter registration drives; must register with Board of Elections and fulfill training requirements.
• SB 1193 Law Officers' Retirement System; reemployment after break in service not exceeding 12 months.
• SB 1194 Renewable energy projects; DEQ develop a permit by rule for construction of electrial facilities.
• SB 1195 Prescription Monitoring Program; disclosure of information.
• SB 1196 Behavioral Correction Program; created.
• SB 1197 Identity theft; relieves victim thereof of any fees for filing petition to expunge.
• SB 1198 State parks; establishes a Disabled Veterans Passport for disabled persons for free entry, etc.
• SB 1199 Prisoner keep; increases amount locality may charge inmate to defray costs associated therewith.
• SB 1200 Vehicle license fees and taxes; localities to exempt veterans and surviving spouses of veterans.
• SB 1201 Home Energy Assistance Program; report effectiveness of low-income energy assistance programs.
• SB 1202 Dental hygienists; those who hold a license, etc., may provide educational and preventative care.
• SB 1203 Public Procurement Act; prequalification for certain transportation contracts.
• SB 1204 Royalty payments from gas or oil drilling; property owners whose interest has been force-pooled.
• SB 1205 Officials and officers, local; retirement benefits for certain.
• SB 1206 Reciprocal agreements with other states; guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor if not in compliance.
• SB 1207 Unused Pharmaceutical Disposal Program; created.
• SB 1208 Commercial goods or services; obtaining or attempting to obtain without payment, penalty.
• SB 1209 License plates, special; Appalachian School of Law and University of Appalachia College of Pharmacy.
• SB 1210 Real Estate Board; waiver of broker education requirements.
• SB 1211 Invasive species; Sec. of Nat. Resources, etc., to develop a plan to prevent introduction thereof.
• SB 1212 Clean Energy Financing Program; locality may authorize contracts to finance by ordinance.
• SB 1213 Alcoholic beverage control; designates as agents any licensed distiller who blends alcoholic bev.
• SB 1214 Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; eligibility.
• SB 1215 Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Fund; created.
• SB 1216 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include solar photovoltaic systems, etc. purchased.
• SB 1217 Employment Dispute Resolution, Department of; powers and duties of Director.
• SB 1218 Juveniles; transmission of probation and parole reports to school superintendent.
• SB 1219 Noose; hanging thereof on property of another or in public place with intent to intimidate, felony.
• SB 1220 Securities Act; sale of business doctrine. 
• SB 1221 Businesses; tax credits for donations to nonprofit organizations providing educational funding.
• SB 1222 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions for nonprofit entities.
• SB 1223 Corrections, Department of; powers and duties of Director.
• SB 1224 Littering; person to perform community service if matter illegally dumped or ejected from vehicle.
• SB 1225 Charter; Town of Fincastle.
• SB 1226 School Construction Revolving Fund; created.
• SB 1227 Driver's license, provisional; makes cell phone use while driving a primary offense.
• SB 1228 Community services board; removes provision allowing employment if convicted of assault of family.
• SB 1229 Medical information; protection by adding definition of personal information.
• SB 1230 Elections; extension of polling hours in emergency declared by Governor.
• SB 1231 Income tax, state; energy-efficient equipment tax credit.
• SB 1232 HOT lane construction contracts; requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using.
• SB 1233 Common Interest Community Board; increases filing fee for persons to register written complaints.
• SB 1234 Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel, no interruption of benefits.
• SB 1235 Disabled prisoners; those terminally ill, etc. may petition Parole Board for conditional release.
• SB 1236 Health, Board of; adds two members.
• SB 1237 Child support; amends guidelines related to provision of health insurance or health care costs.
• SB 1238 Rail and Public Transportation, Department of; Director may procure architectural, etc. services.
• SB 1239 Pedestrians and drivers; responsibilities thereof at marked and unmarked crosswalks.
• SB 1240 Two-Year College Transfer Grant; increases annual amount thereof.
• SB 1241 Limited liability companies; bound by its operating agreement whether or not executes.
• SB 1242 Small Business Financing Authority; activities under Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995.
• SB 1243 Securities Act; increases maximum civil penalty that SCC may impose for violation thereof.
• SB 1244 Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; qualifying project definition.
• SB 1245 Public Building Authority; financing energy performance-based contract projects.
• SB 1246 Retaliatory costs tax credit; extends carry-over period to 10 years.
• SB 1247 Human Rights Act; adds sexual orientation to definition of unlawful discriminatory practice.
• SB 1248 Electrical generation; base rates of return for certain types thereof.
• SB 1249 Eastern Virginia Medical School; alters manner in which Board of Visitors is appointed.
• SB 1250 Civil immunity; officers and directors of certain local civic league and community organizations.
• SB 1251 College Savings Plan; provide for exclusion of certain financial record from Freedom of Information.
• SB 1252 Green Public Buildings Act; certain new or renovated buildings to be built to certain standards.
• SB 1253 Electric service; prohibits electric utilities from charging public schools for service provided.
• SB 1254 Concealed handguns; when permit from reciprocal State, person shall carry permit at all times.
• SB 1255 Radio frequency identification systems; suppliers of consumer products to affix to product, etc.
• SB 1256 Homicide; prosecution regardless of amount of time that has passed between act or omission.
• SB 1257 Firearms; criminal records check performed at a gun show before vendor may transfer.
• SB 1258 Alcoholic beverage control; requires ABC Board to establish a schedule of offenses.
• SB 1259 Land preservation; increases cap on aggregate amount of tax credits.
• SB 1260 Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
• SB 1261 Speed limit; allows towns to increase 25 mph limit on roads in business and residence districts.
• SB 1262 Interrogatories; execution debtors may be reissued one or more summonses to answer in 6 months.
• SB 1263 Nursing homes; authorization and acceptance of certain certificate of public need applications.
• SB 1264 Wages and salaries; employer to pay by credit to prepaid debit card or card account.
• SB 1265 Unattended children in a motor vehicle; definition of child abuse and neglect.
• SB 1266 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting and eliminates post-Labor Day opening.
• SB 1267 Professional and Occupational Regulation, Department of; licensure of business brokers.
• SB 1268 Electronic video and audio communication, two-way; if available in criminal proceeding, judge use.
• SB 1269 Land development plans; adds Town of Leesburg to localities that may develop procedure for review.
• SB 1270 Abortion clinics; requires all to be licensed.
• SB 1271 Treasury, Department of; liability coverage for Risk Management Division for certain volunteers.
• SB 1272 Tax and fee legislation; requires sunset dates on all and on those existing that are increased.
• SB 1273 Electric utility regulation; SCC to determine rates of investor-owned electric utilities.
• SB 1274 Health insurance; business practices.
• SB 1275 Privileged communications; provides communications between physicians and patients thereof.
• SB 1276 Alternative on-site sewage systems; no locality shall prohibit use thereof.
• SB 1277 Land records; may contain only last four digits of social security numbers therein on Internet.
• SB 1278 Income tax, state; school supplies expense tax credit.
• SB 1279 Economic Development Partnership Authority; powers of board of directors.
• SB 1280 Economic Development Partnership Authority; issuance of export documentation.
• SB 1281 Advertising structures; prohibition thereon within 660 feet of parkway except Jerry Falwell Parkway.
• SB 1282 Health Professions, Department of; prohibited from providing personal information of individuals.
• SB 1283 Motor fuels tax; change in tax basis.
• SB 1284 Compulsory training standards; courthouse and courtroom security.
• SB 1285 School budgets; local school divisions to publish on website.
• SB 1286 Health, Department of; extends sunset provision for certain certificates of free sale.
• SB 1287 Annexation; extends to 2018 temporary restriction on city authority on granting of city charters.
• SB 1288 Parkway; term used in § 33.1-369 of Code does not include Jerry Falwell Parkway.
• SB 1289 Criminal conviction record; person convicted of certain criminal offenses to petition.
• SB 1290 District courts; appeal may be taken to circuit court & heard de novo.
• SB 1291 Deed of trust or mortgage; limitation on enforcement.
• SB 1292 Setoff Debt Collection Act; allows local governments to collect past due local taxes..
• SB 1293 Persons under a disability; approval of compromises on behalf thereof in suits or actions.
• SB 1294 Crisis intervention team programs; established, report.
• SB 1295 Silvicultural activities; State Forester to inspect land to determine if activity causing pollution.