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- HB 338 Emergency plans; fee for review.
- HB 904 Mobile telephone and other wireless electronic devices; use of hands-free accessory while driving.
- HB 1582 Home access businesses; owner/operator thereof to conduct criminal background check of employees.
- HB 1596 Protective order; notification of service by local police department, sheriff's office, etc.
- HB 1614 Alcoholic beverages; penalty for possession of open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.
- HB 1656 Concealed handguns; allows faculty members at institutions of higher education to carry on campus.
- HB 1659 Wireless telecommunications devices; prohibits use of while driving except in an emergency.
- HB 1673 Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; includes certain deputy sheriffs under coverage.
- HB 1734 Concealed handgun permits; amends various processes, procedures, and requirements for obtaining.
- HB 1741 Firearms; possession or transportation thereof by persons under the age of 18, penalty.
- HB 1743 Law-enforcement officer; expands definition to include auxiliary deputy sheriffs appointed.
- HB 1748 Concealed handgun permit; no requirement for fingerprinting if previously issued permit.
- HB 1769 Mobile telephone and other wireless electronic devices; use of hands-free accessory while driving.
- HB 1801 Conservators of peace, special; those employed by locality authorized to use flashing blue lights.
- HB 1821 Concealed handguns; prohibited from carrying onto premises of restaurants and consuming alcohol.
- HB 1822 Handguns; exempts permit holders from prohibition against carrying onto school property.
- HB 1910 Firearms; localities may adopt ordinance prohibiting thereof in libraries owned by locality.
- HB 1955 Wireless telecommunications devices; prohibits use of while driving except in an emergency.
- HB 2004 Firearm silencer; shifts burden of proof that firearm is registered from State to defendant.
- HB 2210 Enforcement of traffic light signals; allows law-enforcement officers to arrest or detain persons.
- HB 2225 Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; State Police shall publish on Internet database.
- HB 2227 Airsoft guns; added to list of prohibited concealed weapons.
- HB 2253 Safety belts; makes non-use of a primary offense.
- HB 2318 Firearms; any person who sells three or more firearms at show be licensed as a firearms dealer.
- HB 2339 Safety belts; makes non-use of a primary offense.
- HB 2359 Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine; pilot program for tracking distribution thereof.
- HB 2361 Sex offender registration; juveniles adjudicated delinquent of sexually violent offense to register.
- HB 2384 Safety belt ordinances; allows local body to enact consistent with state law.
- HB 2398 Commonwealth Law-Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement; established.
- HB 2481 Machine guns; requires any registrant to notify Superintendent of State Police of change of address.
- HB 2493 Prisoner keep; increases amount locality may charge inmate to defray costs associated therewith.
- HB 2511 Notice to sex offenders of law changes; State Police, Dept. of Corrections, etc. to give notice.
- HB 2564 Three-time-loser parole eligibility; Parole Board petition for reconsideration of ineligibility.
- HB 2631 Firearms show; Fairfax County may require criminal history record information from promoter thereof.
- SB 887 Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Procedural Guarantee Act; conduct of interrogations.
- SB 1106 Smoking in cars; unlawful for a person thereto when minor is present, civil penalty.
- SB 1135 Parole Board; ensure each person eligible for parole receives a timely and thorough review.
- SB 1161 Safety belts; makes non-use of a primary offense.
- SB 1166 Firearms; increases fee paid to dealers for criminal history record information checks.
- SB 1227 Driver's license, provisional; makes cell phone use while driving a primary offense.
- SB 1235 Disabled prisoners; those terminally ill, etc. may petition Parole Board for conditional release.
- SB 1239 Pedestrians and drivers; responsibilities thereof at marked and unmarked crosswalks.
- SB 1408 Safety belt enforcement; allows for when violations are observed by officers at checkpoints.
- SB 1436 Crime victims; no law-enforcement officer shall inquire into immigration status of victim of crime.
- SB 1502 Safety belt use; extends requirement for all occupants of a motor vehicle.
- SB 1510 Felons, nonviolent; those serving time in local facilities to receive good conduct credits.
- SB 1541 Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; officer be given notice before being questioned .
- SB 1552 Home/electronic incarceration program; provides that is deemed term of confinement for offender.