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- HB 648 Health reimbursement arrangements; prohibits health insurers from canceling, etc. on certain ground.
- SB 157 Mortgage lenders and brokers; duties to borrowers.
- SB 223 Wages and salaries; employer to pay by credit to prepaid debit card or card account.
- SB 258 Mortgage lending and brokering practices; prohibitions and penalties.
- SB 264 Fire insurance; prohibits insurer from refusing to issue policy for family day homes.
- SB 318 Wind Underwriting Association; established.
- SB 324 Utility Facilities Act; renewable energy facilities.
- SB 412 Fire Programs Fund; increases rate of assessment.
- SB 571 Telephone service; alternatives to regulation.
- SB 583 Unclaimed property; reduces holding period for abandonment for banks & financial organizations.
- SB 645 Health insurance; mandated coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
- SB 719 Railroad corporations; prohibits foreign control without approval of State Corporation Commission.
- SB 738 Adult abuse; financial institution employees to report suspected financial abuse of elder persons.
- SB 807 Mobile camps; establishes standards for rooms at terminals, etc. provided by a railroad company.
- SB 821 Workers' compensation; presumption that injury arises out of employment.
- SB 879 Uninsured motorist insurance; authorizes insurer to assume control of defense of a certain action.
- SB 913 Forest products; removes certain requirements if participating in renewable portfolio standard prog.
- SB 917 Unemployment compensation; wage offset for concurrent job.
- SB 921 Health insurance; eliminates all mandated benefits from inclusion in individual policies.
- SB 964 Health insurance; requires health insurer, etc., to calculate amount based on actual charge.
- SB 976 Basic health benefit plans; requires health insurer, etc., to offer to eligible individuals.
- SB 991 Mortgage lending practice; borrower right of action for violation of certain prohibited practices.
- SB 996 Payday Loan Act; repealed limiting interest at maximum annual rate of 36 percent.
- SB 1126 Electric energy consumption; revises State's stated goal to reduce.
- SB 1172 Mortgage Lender and Broker Act; eliminates provision that lenders, etc., are required to conduct.
- SB 1190 Local exchange telephone service; SCC to sustain levels of intrastate access rates.
- SB 1194 Renewable energy projects; DEQ develop a permit by rule for construction of electrial facilities.
- SB 1220 Securities Act; sale of business doctrine.
- SB 1253 Electric service; prohibits electric utilities from charging public schools for service provided.
- SB 1255 Radio frequency identification systems; suppliers of consumer products to affix to product, etc.
- SB 1266 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting and eliminates post-Labor Day opening.
- SB 1273 Electric utility regulation; SCC to determine rates of investor-owned electric utilities.
- SB 1274 Health insurance; business practices.
- SB 1296 Energy efficiency & demand response goal; every investor-owned utility in State reduce consumption.
- SB 1331 Health benefits plans; insurers licensed to sell in any other state may sell to Virginia residents.
- SB 1376 Unemployment compensation; eliminates requirement that applicants wait one week for benefits.
- SB 1413 Adult abuse; financial institution employees to report suspected financial abuse of elder persons.
- SB 1440 Electric utilities; include in integrated resource plan reduce customers' electricity consumption.
- SB 1447 Energy Efficiency Commission; established, report.
- SB 1452 Energy Efficiency Programs; created.
- SB 1458 Health insurance; mandated coverage for telehealth services.
- SB 1472 Wireless E-911; establishes procedure for collection and remittance of prepaid charges by sellers.
- SB 1486 Domestic insurers; SCC delay application of provision applicable to investment of those petitioning.
- SB 1490 Consumer Finance Act; open-end loan plans secured by motor vehicle titles.
- SB 1493 Successor corporations; asbestos-related liability.