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2011 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

Chairman: Richard L. Saslaw

Clerk: Hobie Lehman, Bonnie Shelhorse
Staff: Frank Munyan
Date of Meeting: January 31, 2011
Time and Place: Half Hour After Adjournment / Senate Room B

S.B. 741 Terminations of electric utility service; endangerment of customer's health.

Patron: Reynolds

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 56-247.2, relating to terminations of electric service that endanger health.

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S.B. 759 Workers' compensation; compensable consequences.

Patron: Reynolds

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 65.2-601, 65.2-603, and 65.2-708 of the Code of Virginia, relating to workers' compensation; coverage for compensable consequences of injury; burden of proof and limitations period.

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S.B. 794 Electric utilities; integrated resource plans.

Patron: McEachin

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 56-597 and 56-598 of the Code of Virginia, relating to integrated resource planning by electric utilities.

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S.B. 823 Workers' compensation; presumption that injury arises out of employment.

Patron: Edwards

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 65.2 a section numbered 65.2-105, relating to a presumption that certain injuries occurring at a workplace arise out of employment.

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S.B. 854 Sales of secondhand building materials; sheriff may refuse to issue permit if applicant is a felon.

Patron: Wagner

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 59.1-117, 59.1-118, 59.1-119, 59.1-120 through 59.1-123, and 59.1-125 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 59.1 a section numbered 59.1-116.1, relating to the regulation of transactions involving certain secondhand articles.

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S.B. 862 Commonwealth Energy Policy; local renewable energy facility siting ordinances.

Patron: Wagner

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 67 a section numbered 67-103, relating to the Commonwealth Energy Policy; local renewable energy facility siting ordinances.

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S.B. 879 Pharmacy; conforms elements of State's freedom of choice law to North Carolina's law.

Patron: Reynolds

A BILL to amend and reenact § 38.2-3407.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to health insurance; choice of pharmacy.

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S.B. 882 Electric utility regulation; rebundles charges for transmission, etc., into base rates.

Patron: Reynolds

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 15.2-1901, 56-231.24, 56-234.2, 56-235.2, 56-238, 56-249.6, 56-576, 56-578, 56-579, 56-580, 56-581, 56-585.1, 56-585.2, 56-585.3, 56-590, 56-592, 56-593, 56-594, and 58.1-400.3 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal §§ 56-577, 56-582, 56-584, 56-585, 56-586, 56-587, 56-588, and 56-589 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the regulation of electric utilities.

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S.B. 883 Electric utilities; reinstates part of system under which investor-owned were regulated.

Patron: Reynolds

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 10.1-1186.2:1, 10.1-1197.8, 10.1-1307.02, 15.2-1901, 15.2-2316.2, 30-201, 30-202, 30-205, 56-1, 56-231.24, 56-234.2, 56-235.1:1, 56-235.2, 56-235.6, 56-235.8, 56-238, 56-245.1:2, 56-249.6, 56-265.2, 56-598, 58.1-400.3, 58.1-2900, 58.1-3221.4, 58.1-3506, 58.1-3814, 62.1-44.15:21, 67-101, and 67-1100 of the Code of Virginia; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 56-240.1, 56-247.2, 56-250.1, and 56-250.2; and to repeal Chapter 23 (§§ 56-576 through 56-596) of Title 56 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the regulation of electric utilities.

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S.B. 907 Electric utilities; inclining block rate schedules.

Patron: McEachin

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 56-585.4, relating to rates of investor-owned electric utilities; inclining block rate schedules.

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S.B. 916 Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; advertisements.

Patron: McDougle

A BILL to amend and reenact § 38.2-1715 of the Code of Virginia, relating to advertisement of coverage by the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association.

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S.B. 975 Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund; established.

Patron: Whipple

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 67 a chapter numbered 13, consisting of sections numbered 67-1300 through 67-1305, relating to the establishment of a grant program for solar energy projects; Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund.

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S.B. 1033 Continuing care retirement community; no less than 20% of board shall be residents of facility.

Patron: Barker

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38.2-4910.1, relating to continuing care retirement community board of directors; resident representation.

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S.B. 1062 Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder.

Patron: Howell

A BILL to amend and reenact § 38.2-4319 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38.2-3418.17, relating to health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder.

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S.B. 1123 Wireless E-911 surcharge; required to be remitted to Department of Taxation.

Patron: Stosch

A BILL to amend and reenact § 56-484.17 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the E-911 surcharge.

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S.B. 1124 Taxation, Department of, and SCC; memorandum of understanding.

Patron: Stosch

A BILL to facilitate transferring administration of the tax on gross premiums of certain insurance companies from the State Corporation Commission to the Department of Taxation.

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S.B. 1165 Electric utility service; termination of service of customers with a serious medical condition.

Patron: Reynolds

A BILL to require the State Corporation Commission to limit electric utility service shutoffs for individuals with a serious medical condition.

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S.B. 1239 Personal Information Privacy Act; makes several amendments to Act.

Patron: Ticer

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 59.1-443.2 and 59.1-444 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Personal Information Privacy Act.

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S.B. 1284 Real estate lending; creditworthiness of victims of Chinese drywall.

Patron: McWaters

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 6.2-407.1, relating to lenders making certain loans to individuals whose creditworthiness has been affected by Chinese drywall.

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S.B. 1291 Continuing care retirement community; no less than 20% of board shall be residents of facility.

Patron: McWaters

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38.2-4901.1, relating to continuing care retirement community boards of directors; resident representation.

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S.B. 1294 Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practice for supplier to sell defective drywall.

Patron: Miller, J.C.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 59.1-198 and 59.1-200 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale of defective drywall; penalty.

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S.B. 1388 Life insurance companies; to provide beneficiary at time a claim is made.

Patron: Barker

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 31 of Title 38.2 an article numbered 1.1, consisting of sections numbered 38.2-3117.1 through 38.2-3117.4, relating to the use of retained asset accounts.

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S.B. 1390 Life insurance; specified disease coverage or limited benefit health coverage.

Patron: Howell

A BILL to amend and reenact § 38.2-102 of the Code of Virginia, relating to life insurance; definition.

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S.B. 1392 Renewable energy portfolio standard program; coalbed methane gas.

Patron: Puckett

A BILL to amend and reenact § 56-585.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the generation of electricity from renewable sources or coalbed methane gas.

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S.B. 1401 Unemployment benefits; eligibility criteria.

Patron: McEachin

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 60.2-528 and 60.2-618, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, of the Code of Virginia; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 60.2-613.1; and to repeal the third enactment of Chapter 878 of the Acts of Assembly of 2009, relating to unemployment compensation benefits.

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S.B. 1413 State Corporation Commission staff; discovery of settlement negotiations.

Patron: Norment

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 12.1-25.1, relating to discovery upon staff of the State Corporation Commission.

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S.B. 1472 Electric utilities; SCC to enter its final order in biennial rate review proceedings.

Patron: Stanley

A BILL to amend and reenact §56-585.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to investor-owned electric utility rates; schedule.

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