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2012 SESSION
HOUSE CALENDAR FOR January 13, 2012 ... pdf
- House Bill on Third Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- House Bill on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- Memorial Resolutions Laid on Speaker's Table ... report | csv file
- Commending Resolutions Laid on Speaker's Table ... report | csv file
- Bills Referred ... report | csv file
- Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- Resolutions Presented ... report | csv file
House Bill on Third Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
House Bill on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
Memorial Resolutions Laid on Speaker's Table ... report | csv file
- HJ 1 Celebrating the life of Patricia Roupas Sotos.
- HJ 14 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Lemuel Early DeBerry.
- HJ 15 Celebrating the life of A.B. Harrelson, M.D.
- HJ 16 Celebrating the life of Guy Milton Cheatham, Jr.
- HJ 20 Celebrating the life of Gayle G. Arnold, M.D.
- HJ 21 Celebrating the life of David K. Wiecking, M.D.
- HJ 24 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Leslie Longstreet Mason, Jr.
- HJ 26 Celebrating the life of Alice Clarke Lynch.
- HJ 28 Celebrating the life of Bruce Samuel Paone.
- HJ 29 Celebrating the life of Suzanne Savedge Wescoat.
- HJ 30 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Charles F. Mapp.
- HJ 31 Celebrating the life of William Revell Lewis, Jr.
- HJ 55 Celebrating the life of Edith M. Harrington.
- HJ 60 Celebrating the life of Charles Glenn Rosemond III.
- HJ 69 Celebrating the life of Adam Maynard Bowen.
- HJ 70 Celebrating the life of Ronald Dare Hundley.
- HJ 72 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. William James Marshall.
- HJ 73 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Rouse-Bottom.
- HJ 74 Celebrating the life of Elmon Taylor Gray, former member of the Senate of Virginia.
- HJ 75 Celebrating the life of Sabra Ann Bonds Bratton.
- HJ 76 Celebrating the life of Arthur Jan Jernigan.
- HJ 77 Celebrating the life of Mary Frances Coles.
- HJ 78 Celebrating the life of Ulysses Randolph.
- HJ 149 Celebrating the life of James Warren Geurin.
- HJ 150 Celebrating the life of Julia Anderson Williams.
Commending Resolutions Laid on Speaker's Table ... report | csv file
- HJ 8 Commending the Hidden Valley High School boys' 200-yard medley relay swim team.
- HJ 10 Commending the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center.
- HJ 11 Commending Oak Grove Baptist Church on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.
- HJ 22 Commending Tyler Whitley.
- HJ 25 Commending Dr. Nancy Hoover.
- HJ 32 Commending the Cave Spring High School girls' 200-yard freestyle relay swim team.
- HJ 33 Commending Kristin Harter and Emily Seibert.
- HJ 34 Commending Rochelle Evans.
- HJ 35 Commending the Christiansburg High School wrestling team.
- HJ 36 Commending the Hidden Valley High School girls' track team.
- HJ 37 Commending Kristin Harter.
- HJ 38 Commending Lauren Gray.
- HJ 39 Commending Leah Piemonte.
- HJ 40 Commending Patrick O'Keefe.
- HJ 41 Commending Annie Houston LeHardy.
- HJ 42 Commending Alexander Nicholas Vance.
- HJ 43 Commending Alexandria Kinsley Colby Horn.
- HJ 44 Commending Haley Cutright.
- HJ 45 Commending Travis Hudson.
- HJ 46 Commending Jerry Campbell.
- HJ 47 Commending Milan Tobacconists on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
- HJ 48 Commending Company C, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment of the Virginia National Guard.
- HJ 53 Commending Catherine Muldoon.
- HJ 54 Commending Physicians for Peace.
- HJ 56 Commending the Lee-Davis High School softball team.
- HJ 57 Commending the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.
- HJ 58 Commending the Reverend Dr. Robert D. Friend.
- HJ 59 Commending Marshall W. Trammell, Jr.
- HJ 61 Commending the Randolph-Macon College volleyball team.
- HJ 67 Commending the Patient Advocate Foundation on the occasion of its 15th anniversary.
- HJ 68 Commending Care Net Resource Pregnancy Center.
- HJ 79 Commending Sweet Union Baptist Church on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
- HJ 80 Commending Marion Ware.
- HJ 81 Commending the Jefferson Forest High School boys' soccer team.
- HJ 82 Commending Frances Atkins Foster.
- HJ 83 Commending Peter Holland Luke.
- HJ 99 Commending John Strother Pearson.
- HJ 151 Commending the Plaza Volunteer Rescue Squad.
- HJ 152 Commending the Cave Spring High School volleyball team.
- HJ 153 Commending Shane Wolfe.
- HJ 154 Commending Menchville House Ministries, Inc.
- HJ 155 Commending the Honorable G. Glenn Oder.
- HJ 156 Commending Patsy Joyner.
- HJ 157 Commending George and Laura Price.
- HJ 158 Commending Holly Frost.
- HJ 159 Commending RideFinders.
- HJ 160 Commending Brad Kennedy.
- HJ 161 Commending the Oscar Smith High School football team.
- HJ 162 Commending Kate Trussell.
- HJ 163 Commending the Centreville High School football team.
- HJ 164 Commending Margaret A. Focarino.
- HJ 165 Commending WETA on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
- HJ 166 Commending the Fairfax Choral Society.
- HJ 167 Commending the Poquoson Little League 9 - 10 Baseball All-Star team.
- HJ 168 Commending the Poquoson Little League 10 - 11 Baseball All-Star team.
- HJ 169 Commending the Poquoson Little League 11 - 12 Baseball All-Star team.
- HJ 170 Commending the Poquoson High School football team.
- HJ 174 Commending the Montford Point Marine Association Tidewater, Virginia Chapter #14.
- HJ 175 Commending the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians.
- HR 1 Commending Dianne E. Pettitt.
Bills Referred ... report | csv file
- HB 550 Agency reports; submission in written or electronic format.
- HB 551 Telework expenses tax credit; extended for employers through December 31, 2016.
- HB 552 Mental health and developmental services; replaces certain terminology, technical amendments.
- HB 553 Airports, privately owned; duty of care and liability of landowners.
- HB 554 Political subdivisions; Department of Aviation lease approval requirement.
- HB 555 Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage license for certain motor sports facilities.
- HB 556 Internet; publication of personal information of certain public officials prohibited.
- HB 557 Virginia Housing Development Authority; powers.
- HB 558 Virginia Housing Development Authority; mortgage credit certificates.
- HB 559 Natural gas utilities; qualified projects.
- HB 560 Driver's licenses; prohibits issuance to certain persons.
- HB 561 Solid waste disposal fee; adds Pittsylvania County to list of counties authorized to levy fee.
- HB 562 Substance abuse assessment and screening; unemployment benefits.
- HB 563 Drug treatment court; established in City of Danville.
- HB 564 Electric utilities; ratemaking incentives, landfill gas.
- HB 565 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes computers and related computer equipment.
- HB 566 Rental inspections; City of Fairfax to identify which residential dwelling units meet requirements.
- HB 567 Water and sewer authorities; may put lien on property for delinquent rates, etc., on real estate.
- HB 568 Driver's licenses; allows military veterans to have their veteran status indicated.
- HB 569 Elections; identification to register to vote and to vote at polls.
- HB 570 Mortgage loan originators; exempts from licensing employees of bona fide nonprofit organizations.
- HB 571 Housing crisis; extends sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals, etc.
- HB 572 Owner financing for real property; licensing.
- HB 573 Uniform Flag Act; flags shall be flown at half-mast for one day to honor fallen Virginians.
- HB 574 House of Delegates Districts; technical adjustment in boundaries in Pittsylvania County.
- HB 575 Salem Highway Construction District Transportation Fund; established.
- HB 576 Public schools; teacher contract and evaluation policies.
- HB 577 Teachers of online courses and college partnership laboratory schools; background checks.
- HB 578 Teacher licensure; Board of Education to develop criteria for those who teach only online courses.
- HB 579 Applications for public assistance; may be made electronically.
- HB 580 Fort Monroe Authority Act; declaration of policy, Governor to approve Fort Monroe Master Plan.
- HB 581 Retail Sales and Use Tax; clarifies amount of revenue authorized tourism project is entitled.
- HB 582 VITA; excludes procurement of information technology and telecommunications goods and services.
- HB 583 Mobile infrared transmitters; allows local governments to use devices to change traffic lights.
- HB 584 Highway median maintenance; VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments.
- HB 585 Small Business Investment Grant Fund; created.
- HB 586 Corrections, Department of; confinement of local inmates in state correctional facilities.
- HB 587 Electric transmission lines; approval process.
- HB 588 Speed limits; maximum speed limit in an industrial park is 35 miles per hour.
- HB 589 Repo men; traffic laws applicable.
- HB 590 Renewable energy facilities; eligibility for incentives.
- HB 591 School calendar; opening of school year in certain school divisions prior to Labor Day.
- HB 592 Concealed handgun permittees; criminal history record information check exemption for some firearms.
- HB 593 VEDP; required provisions in economic development agreements.
- HB 594 Virginia Retirement System; general registrars.
- HB 595 Aging services; changes deadlines for submission of four-year plan.
- HB 596 Methamphetamine laboratory; if presence of lab in same place as child, etc. person guilty of felony.
- HB 597 Eminent domain; definitions of lost profits and access.
- HB 598 VIEW; screening and assessment of public assistance recipients for use of illegal substances.
- HB 599 Northern Virginia Transportation District; responsibilities of Department of Transportation.
- HB 600 Transportation Board; changes composition.
- HB 601 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; board membership.
- HB 602 School calendar; local school divisions to set.
- HB 603 School divisions, local; open enrollment policies.
- HB 604 License plates, special; issuance of those bearing legend: IN REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 16, 2007.
- HB 605 Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; duty of care for board of directors.
- HB 606 Child custody; cases that award joint custody.
- HB 607 Unlawful filming of another; penalty.
- HB 608 Unlawful filming of another; creates civil cause of action for victims.
- HB 609 Professional and Occupational Regulation, Department of; duties of regulatory boards.
- HB 610 Corporations; filing articles of dissolution.
- HB 611 Competitive Government Act; Governor requires commercial activity procured from private sector.
- HB 612 Virginia Code Commission; public comment on revision, repeal, and recodification of Code sections.
- HB 613 Public employment; prohibits discrimination.
- HB 614 Comprehensive plan; controls future land use decisions of governing body.
- HB 615 Zoning; clarifies that localities may approve by special exception all modifications to property.
- HB 616 Advertising; within the limits of the highway, increases civil penalty, localities to share penalty.
- HB 617 Grass; authorizes locality to require by ordinance that owners of certain real estate cut.
- HB 618 Soil and water conservation boards, local; appointment of members of board of directors.
- HB 619 Convention to amend US Constitution; selection and participation of Virginia delegates.
- HB 620 Information Technology and Management Internal Service Fund; established for VITA.
- HB 621 Veterans; repeals obsolete defense housing projects laws.
- HB 622 Elections; authorizes any locality to provide for party identification of candidates on ballots.
- HB 623 Elections; administrative matters and duties of electoral board and general registrar.
- HB 624 Sex offender registry; juvenile registration.
- HB 625 Transportation planning; proposed comprehensive plans in Northern Virginia.
- HB 626 Highway noise; governing body of locality may evaluate from highways it may designate for analysis.
- HB 627 Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project; use of state funds.
- HB 628 Voter registration; applicant to provide political party affiliation when registering to vote.
- HB 629 University of Virginia; increases size of board of visitors.
- HB 630 Racketeering; amends provisions that allow for forfeiture of real or personal property.
- HB 631 Application of foreign law; court decisions and contracts will be void as violation of policy.
- HB 632 Charter; Town of Windsor.
- HB 633 Senate and House of Delegates Districts; technical adjustments in boundaries.
- HB 634 Franklin, City of; charter.
- HB 635 Equitable distribution; change of venue.
- HB 636 Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; adds attorneys for State and their assistants as members.
- HB 637 Grievance procedure; eliminates certain steps.
- HB 638 Judicial authorization of treatment; advance directives.
- HB 639 Higher Education, State Council of; publication of graduate employment rates on its website.
- HB 640 Public schools; clarifies language relating to enrollment of military children.
- HB 641 Children; employment certificate requirements.
- HB 642 High school accreditation; Board of Education to adopt regulation adjusting formula for calculating.
- HB 643 Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; telephone call includes any text message sent.
- HB 1129 Virginia Retirement System; modifies several provisions of defined benefit retirement plan.
- HB 1130 Retirement System; hybrid retirement program created, optional defined retirement plan created, etc.
Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- HJ 62 Methamphetamine precursors; Virginia State Crime Commission to study regulation of sale.
- HJ 63 Composite Index Local Ability to Pay; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
- HJ 64 Virginia General Assembly; recognizing African American members elected during Reconstruction.
- HJ 65 Sesquicentennial of Emancipation Proclamation; recognizing African American members.
- HJ 66 Public schools; JLARC to study suspension and expulsion practices, etc.
- HJ 71 Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds.
- HJ 84 Medical doctors; joint subcommittee to study current and impending severe shortage in State.
- HJ 85 Income tax credits, partnerships, etc.; House & Senate to study multiplier effects of various types.
- HJ 86 Constitutional amendment; Governor's term of office (first reference).
- HJ 87 Prostate cancer prevention; Health Commissioner to promote screening as an effective tool, report.
- HJ 88 Food deserts; SHHR to explore strategies to eliminate to make healthy food affordable, report.
- HJ 89 Public schools; JLARC to study suspension and expulsion practices, etc.
- HJ 90 Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference).
- HJ 91 National Women's History Museum; Congress to support establishing in Washington, D.C.
- HJ 92 Value-added tax; memorializing members of Va. Delegation of Congress of United States to oppose.
- HJ 93 Local Government Education Week; designating as first week in April 2012, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 94 School prayer and prayer in public meetings, public voluntary; urges Congress to propose amendment.
- HJ 95 Baccalaureate degrees, selected; feasibility for community colleges to offer, report.
- HJ 96 Summer flounder; Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to allow options for harvest.
- HJ 97 Regional higher education centers; SCHEV to study management and structure.
- HJ 98 First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson Day; designating as October 15, 2012, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 100 U.S. Constitution; application to Congress to call constitutional convention.
- HJ 101 Public policy issues; meetings with U.S. Senate members of Va. Congressional Delegation & State.
- HJ 102 United States Constitution; applies to Congress to call an amendment convention.
- HJ 105 Virginia Cider Week; designating full week before Thanksgiving 2012, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 106 National Women's History Museum; supports creation thereof on National Mall in Washington, D.C.
- HJ 107 Hold Out for Hunger Day; designating as April 14, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 108 Higher educational institutions; JLARC to study cost efficiency and opportunities to reduce cost.
- HJ 109 United States Constitution; urges Congress to propose an amendment to impose a balance budget.
- HJ 110 School divisions; JLARC to study efficiency of regionalizing and consolidating personnel, etc.
- HJ 111 Court of Appeals of Virginia; Judicial Council of Virginia to study jurisdictional capacity.
- HJ 112 Early childhood education; recognizes value to children and sets goal of extending availability.
- HJ 113 ICPRB; joint subcommittee to study State's withdrawal & effects upon source of drinking water, etc.
- HJ 114 State renewable energy utility; joint subcommittee to study feasibility of establishing.
- HJ 115 United States Constitution; General Assembly of Va. to ratify and affirm Equal Rights Amendment.
- HJ 116 Constitutional amendment; establishes Virginia Redistricting Commission (first reference).
- HJ 117 Unfunded mandates; General Assembly to recognize difficulties caused upon State localities.
- HJ 118 Alternate medium of commerce or currency; joint subcommittee to study whether State should adopt.
- HJ 119 Medicaid; joint subcommittee to study reducing costs by increasing efficiencies and reducing fraud.
- HJ 120 Mesothelioma Awareness Day; designating as September 26, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 121 Horse Month; designating as month of May 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 122 Parole; joint subcommittee to study reinstituting in State.
- HJ 123 School attendance; Board of Education to study causes of chronic school absenteeism, etc.
- HJ 124 Public Safety Memorial; requests Governor to include names of state and local parole officers, etc.
- HJ 125 Constitutional amendment; restoration of civil rights to persons convicted of felonies, etc.
- HJ 126 Solitary confinement; JLARC to study uses including segregation, isolation, etc., by DOC.
- HJ 127 Nonviolent felony offenders; VSCC to determine best use of resources for helping those released.
- HJ 128 Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week; designating third week in April 2013, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 129 TMDL; Attorney General to explore challenge to constitutionality of regulations by USEPA.
- HJ 130 United States Constitution; urging Congress to honor state sovereignty under Tenth Amendment.
- HJ 131 Route 28; VDOT to study feasibility of extending across Potomac River into Maryland, etc.
- HJ 132 Homeland security and emergency management; JLARC to study planning & preparedness efforts in State.
- HJ 133 Child protective services; JLARC to study operation and performance of State's system.
- HJ 134 Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway; JLARC to study economic impact of proposed projects.
- HJ 135 U.S. Constitution; application to Congress to call constitutional convention.
- HJ 136 Virginia Retirement System; JLARC to study system for determining eligibility for disability claims.
- HJ 137 Land-disturbing activities; Secretary of Natural Resources to study modification of requirements.
- HJ 138 Constitutional amendment; General Assembly to delay reconvened session (second reference).
- HJ 139 Marijuana; Governor requested to petition DEA for rescheduling from Schedule I to Schedule II.
- HJ 140 Marijuana; revenue impact to State on legalizing sale and use, selling through ABC stores, report.
- HJ 141 Unfunded federal mandates; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
- HJ 142 Asian Lunar New Year Day; designates day designated as new year on Asian lunar calendar 2012.
- HJ 143 Spay Day; designating February 28, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 144 Small Business Day; designating as September 21, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 145 Preeclampsia Month; designating as May 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 146 High capacity transit; Transportation Board to make priority for funding by State.
- HJ 147 Expedited partner therapy; Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for implementing.
- HJ 148 Turkey, Government of; General Assembly to encourage to grant certain right to Ecumenical Patriarch.
- HJ 171 Medicaid; joint subcommittee to study reducing costs using telemedicine.
- HJ 172 Horse racing industry; joint subcommittee to study.
- HJ 173 Eastern Virginia Medical School; SCHEV to study merging with Old Dominion University.
- HR 4 House of Delegates; recording of standing committee and subcommittee meetings.