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- HB 13 Stalking; enhanced penalty if victim is a minor.
- HB 124 Machinery and tools taxation; exempts certified pollution control equipment and facilities.
- HB 437 Public schools; composite index formula for basic state aid.
- HB 510 Medical assistance plan; DMAS to contract with DMHMRSAS for mental health services.
- HB 749 Standards of Quality; apportionment of state & local share for costs of giving educational programs.
- HB 878 School divisions, local; requires 65% of each education dollar to be spent in classroom, report.
- HB 921 Jail construction, local; State will reimburse up to one-half of capital costs.
- HB 987 Higher Education, Council of; creation of nonstock corporation to support academic research.
- HB 1082 Virginia Housing Trust Fund; creates dedicated source of funding via percentage of recordation tax.
- HB 1109 Veterans; tuition waiver for certain.
- HB 1360 Planning and Budget, Director of Department; required to have searchable budget database website.
- HB 1392 Jail construction, local; State will reimburse up to one-half of capital costs.
- HB 1589 Retirement System; duty of employers to provide accurate information to correct erroneous records.
- HB 1612 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- HB 1632 Retirement System; adds full-time employees of Va. Municipal League & Va. Association of Counties.
- HB 1651 Line of Duty Act; short-term disability benefits for state police officers.
- HB 1669 Income tax, state; State shall return to cities & counties 50% of growth in collections.
- HB 1684 Retirement System; retirees may be hired as nurses without interrupting retirement benefits.
- HB 1696 Higher education; increase of admission of in-state students at public institutions.
- HB 1723 Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund; provides a formula for allocating proceeds.
- HB 1742 Deferred compensation plans, local; locality to provide automatic enrollment of all employees.
- HB 1758 Flood Mitigation Bond Act of 2009; created.
- HB 1759 Transportation Capital Projects Bond Act of 2009; created.
- HB 1760 Claims; Mr. and Mrs. Brian Cebula.
- HB 1818 Judges; increases mandatory retirement age from age 70 to age 75.
- HB 1827 Retirement System; authority to manage and invest certain funds for postemployment benefits.
- HB 1848 Transportation; Auditor of Public Accounts to administer operational performance audit.
- HB 1858 Retirement System; locality may increase retirement allowance for its employees.
- HB 1861 Street maintenance payments; increased where traffic volumes exceed statewide average by 20%.
- HB 1863 Jail construction, local; State will reimburse up to one-half of capital costs.
- HB 1911 Retirement System; retirees may be hired as teachers without interrupting retirement benefits.
- HB 1915 Line of Duty Act; exempts police department, etc., from requirement to reimburse investigation cost.
- HB 1937 Adoption records; all shall be available to birth parents, etc., upon showing of good cause.
- HB 1949 Retirement System; teachers and administrative faculty of institutions of higher education.
- HB 1960 Line of Duty Act; continued health insurance coverage for disabled employee, etc.
- HB 1967 Taxpayer Surplus Relief Fund; established to provide tax relief.
- HB 1985 Autism Tuition Assistance Grant Program; established.
- HB 1992 Outdoor signs and advertising; all penalties & costs collected for violations of advertising.
- HB 1993 Highway maintenance funds; requirements for Commonwealth Transportation Board in allocating.
- HB 1997 Line of Duty Act; includes local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in definition.
- HB 1998 Retirement System; removes cap on number of years of creditable service member may purchase.
- HB 2092 Budget, State; changes from biennial to covering single fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012.
- HB 2118 Secondary highway system construction allocations; allocates among counties on basis of population.
- HB 2130 Supplemental Highway Construction Fund; established.
- HB 2139 Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel without benefit interuption.
- HB 2143 Retirement System; purchase of prior service credit by teachers.
- HB 2146 Retirement System; adds school board members to membership.
- HB 2154 Retirement System; creates new defined contribution retirement plan for certain employees.
- HB 2206 Budget Bill; Governor to include funding for transportation in biennium equal to at least 10%.
- HB 2207 Virginia Budget Office; established.
- HB 2230 Highway construction allocations; Transportation Board allocate projects in Northern Virginia, etc.
- HB 2235 Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Fund; created.
- HB 2260 Claims; Botswanna Imani.
- HB 2280 Law Officers' Retirement System; supplemental allowance paid until Social Security retirement age.
- HB 2287 Planning and Budget, Department of; required to provide copies of all agency budget estimates.
- HB 2295 Two-Year College Transfer Grant; increases annual amount.
- HB 2296 Income tax, corporate; extends sunset date of major business facility job tax credit.
- HB 2324 Higher educational institutions; at least 80% of transfer students admitted be Virginia domiciles.
- HB 2325 Higher educational institutions; at least 70% of students admitted be Virginia domiciles.
- HB 2327 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- HB 2333 P-16 Education Council; makes permanent advisory council within executive branch.
- HB 2335 Standards of Quality; state average teacher salary not be less than national average.
- HB 2356 Budget Bill; requires 2010-12 biennium and future bills to be prepared using zero-based principles.
- HB 2357 Retirement System; investments related to state sponsor of terrorism.
- HB 2375 Application for social or health services; for purposes of qualifying for any program.
- HB 2383 Tax and fee discounts and allowances; eliminates dealer tax and fee discounts and allowances.
- HB 2387 Green Public Buildings Act; certain new or renovated buildings to be built to certain standards.
- HB 2457 Retirement System; divest itself of investments in companies investing in Iran's petroleum sector.
- HB 2475 Higher educational institutions; at least 75% of students admitted be Virginia domiciles.
- HB 2490 Claims; Daniel and Brenda Brewer.
- HB 2497 Electronic government; Secretary of Technology to develop and implement strategies therefor.
- HB 2501 Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance pilot project.
- HB 2547 Federal economic stimulus funds; available for State use exclusively for transportation & education.
- HB 2574 Line of Duty Act; amends definition of deceased person thereunder, payment to beneficiaries.
- HB 2622 Salem Highway Construction District Transportation Revenue Fund; established.
- HB 2654 Public Education Distribution; Governor, etc. to develop plan to lower maximum Composite Index rate.
- HB 2661 Recordation tax; exemption.
- SB 178 Judges; increases number in circuit court.
- SB 179 Judges; increases number in various general district courts.
- SB 402 Law Officers' Retirement System; supplemental allowance paid until Social Security retirement age.
- SB 408 Literary Fund; distributions.
- SB 743 Group life insurance; permits retiree to make beneficiary designation to purchase funeral services.
- SB 814 Retirement System; changes formula for purchase of service by school division superintendents.
- SB 816 Fire marshals; increased to a Class 6 felony for assault and battery thereof.
- SB 853 Carbon monoxide detectors; Board of Housing & Community Development to establish requirements.
- SB 930 Waste Management Plan; requires Department of Environmental Quality to prepare.
- SB 943 Line of Duty Act; amends definition of deceased person thereunder, payment to beneficiaries.
- SB 987 Retail Sales and Use Tax; requirements for dealer or direct permit holder discount.
- SB 998 Process and service fees; increases certain sheriffs' fees.
- SB 1006 Line of Duty Act; funding for Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund.
- SB 1016 P-16 Education Council; established as an advisory council within executive branch.
- SB 1055 Housing Trust Fund; dedicating revenues to provide affordable housing.
- SB 1056 Retirement System; retirees hired as nurses without interrupting their benefits.
- SB 1118 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- SB 1146 Biodiesel & green diesel; requires state public bodies to procure only diesel fuel containing 2%.
- SB 1193 Law Officers' Retirement System; reemployment after break in service not exceeding 12 months.
- 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 1240 Two-Year College Transfer Grant; increases annual amount thereof.
- SB 1245 Public Building Authority; financing energy performance-based contract projects.
- SB 1252 Green Public Buildings Act; certain new or renovated buildings to be built to certain standards.
- SB 1314 Purchases of Services From People with Severe Disabilities, Board for; established.
- SB 1334 Certificate of Public Need; increases maximum amount for fees for an application therefor.
- SB 1345 Energy efficiency in state government; goal of reducing annual cost nonrenewable energy purchases.
- SB 1355 Trusts, state and local; created to fund costs for providing postemployment public benefits.
- SB 1368 Highway systems; allocation of maintenance funds.
- SB 1380 Probation revocation and suspended sentence revocation worksheets; court to utilize in all cases.
- SB 1386 Jail construction, local and regional; adjusts state reimbursement therefor.
- SB 1388 Retirement System; provide benefits for regional jail's superintendent and sworn officers.
- SB 1401 Budget Bill(s); Chairman of House Appropriations Committee, etc. to issue reports concurrently.
- SB 1430 Residential homes; bonds to fund grants for purchasers of newly constructed.
- SB 1497 Virginia Network for Geospatial Health Research Authority; created, report.
- SB 1512 Veterans Services, Department of; required to provide burial vaults at no cost to eligible veterans.
- SB 1520 General registrars; appointment and compensation therefor.
- SB 1522 Line of Duty Act; short-term disability benefits for state police officers.