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2009 SESSION
Senator John C. Watkins (R) - Senate District 10
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 331
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: district10@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 159
- Midlothian, Virginia 23113-0159
Legislation as Chief Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- SB 938 CRESPA; settlement agent registration; shifts duty to register settlement agents.
- SB 939 Indigent defendants; right to ex parte hearing for appointment of experts in capital cases.
- SB 940 Board for Architects, Professional Engineer, Land Surveyor, etc.; licensure of landscape architects.
- SB 941 SSG Jason R. Arnette (U.S.A.) Memorial Bridge; designating as Rt. 360 bridge over Goodes Bridge Rd.
- SB 942 Charter; County of Chesterfield.
- 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 1411 Health insurance, basic; increasing availability thereof in State.
- SB 1419 Daily rental property tax; definition.
- SB 1448 Indigent Health Care Trust Fund; repealed.
- SB 1524 Zoning ordinances; broadens administrator's authority to determine vested rights.
- SB 1534 Central Virginia Regional Transportation Authority; created.
- SJ 303 Year of Astronomy; designating as year 2009.
- SJ 335 Constitutional amendment; removes requirement that cities be established as entity independent.
- SJ 364 Commending the Midlothian High School girls.
- SJ 365 Commending the Powhatan High School baseball team.
- SJ 394 Commending the crew of John Adams.
- SJ 395 Commemorating the life of Thomas Jefferson on the occasion of the 265th anniversary of his birth.
- SJ 478 Celebrating the life of William Edward Lavery.
- SR 28 Nominating a person to be elected to circuit court judgeship.