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2012 SESSION
SENATE CALENDAR FOR January 27, 2012 ... pdf
- Senate Bills on Third Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on Third Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- House Bill on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on Second Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on First Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills on First Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- Bills or Resolutions Rereferred ... report | csv file
- Bills or Resolutions Recommitted ... report | csv file
- House Bills Read First Time and Referred ... report | csv file
- House Joint Resolution Read First Time and Referred ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- Senate Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- Resolutions Presented ... report | csv file
Senate Bills on Third Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 231 Taxicabs; local regulation.
- SB 300 Protective orders; various changes to provisions governing those issued by court, venue.
- SB 45 Open Education Curriculum Board; alters function from a policy board to an advisory board.
- SB 50 Corporations and limited liability companies; conversions, dissolution, and procedures.
- SB 51 Uniform Commercial Code; secured transactions.
- SB 53 Commonwealth Health Research Board; certain employees shall be entitled to state employee benefits.
- SB 116 Court costs, fines, etc.; extends from 15 to 30 number of days a person has to pay.
- SB 117 Biennial appropriation act; shall start on July 1 of odd-numbered years.
- SB 133 Fire investigation warrant; State Police arson investigators may obtain.
- SB 295 Virginia Employment Commission; Office of Attorney General may represent interests of State.
- SB 307 Reduced cigarette ignition propensity; eliminates an exemption.
- SB 382 Renewable energy portfolio standard program; reporting requirements to State Corporation Commission.
- SB 417 Grievance procedure; eliminates certain steps.
- SB 418 Electric transmission lines; approval process.
- SB 424 Line of Duty Act; under coverage individuals employed as fire company personnel for National Guard.
- SB 427 Information Technology and Management Internal Service Fund; established for VITA.
- SB 433 Veterans; determination of status of unclaimed cremains.
- SB 499 Health plan, state; makes changes to appeals process for complaints.
- SB 511 Natural gas utilities; qualified projects.
- SB 523 Minority Business Enterprise, Department of; certification of employment services organizations.
- SB 532 Insurance, Bureau of; maintenance assessment.
- SB 576 Workers' compensation; uninsured employer's fund financing tax.
Senate Bills on Third Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 71 Larceny; court may require accused to undergo an assessment and enter treatment program, etc.
- SB 95 Mandatory judicial retirement; increases age from 70 to 73.
- SB 103 Transient occupancy tax; authorizes Roanoke County to impose.
- SB 245 Emergency Services and Disaster Law; constitutional rights of citizens to keep & bear arms.
- SB 485 Alternative Fuel Vehicle Conversion Fund; established.
- SB 492 Renewable energy; expands definition.
- SB 534 Tangible personal property; volunteer deputy sheriffs.
- SB 562 Transient occupancy tax; adds Campbell County to list authorized to impose.
House Bill on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
Senate Bills on Second Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 31 Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2012; created.
- SB 74 Roll-your-own cigarette machines; person who operates at a retail establishment is a manufacturer.
- SB 82 Absentee voting; military and overseas voters.
- SB 85 Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution.
- SB 100 Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- SB 267 Appropriation bills; House Appropriations and Senate Finance issue reports with budget conference.
- SB 317 Drug treatment courts; established in Buchanan, Dickenson, Goochland, Montgomery & Russell Counties.
- SB 385 Candidate campaign committees; prohibited interest payments on certain loans, penalty.
- SB 394 Cigarette tax stamps, local; same technology used or required by State.
- SB 401 Taxes, local; interest on refunds and delinquent taxes.
- SB 414 Retail Sales and Use Tax; clarifies amount of revenue authorized tourism project is entitled.
- SB 519 Consumer utility tax; exemption for public utilities, etc. on natural gas used to make electricity.
- SB 540 Real estate tax; exemption for disabled veterans.
Senate Bills on Second Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 125 Line of Duty Act; political subdivision, etc., irrevocable election to self-fund benefits.
- SB 242 Public procurement; state agency agreements with labor organizations.
- SB 250 Small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses; enhancement or remedial measures.
- SB 577 VWC; majority of members constitutes a quorum for purposes of exercising functions of Commission.
- SB 56 Elections; party identification on ballots in local elections.
- SB 57 Absentee voting; applications shall be processed 5 days after person registers to vote, exceptions.
- SB 73 Residential rental apartments; appeal of real property assessments, fair market value.
- SB 207 Elections; extension of polling hours.
- SB 276 Elections; method of nominating party candidates.
- SB 283 Illegal voting and registrations; prohibition against voting more than once.
- SB 613 Candidate petitions for primaries and general elections; requirements for petition circulators.
- SB 614 Local sales tax distribution; correction of erroneous payments.
Senate Bills on First Reading - Uncontested Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 155 Repairable vehicles; definition, exemption from certain provisions, exceptions.
- SB 195 Towing ordinances; localities in Northern Virginia to require companies to submit to inspection.
- SB 230 Highway projects; VDOT to provide for training and certification of local government employees.
- SB 259 Human trafficking; Board of Education to provide information for local school division staff.
- SB 364 Towing; allows police-requested towing to be initiated by employees authorized by local agency.
- SB 421 Motor vehicle dealers; recovering title.
- SB 530 Colleges, etc., projects, certain; required to hold at least one public hearing before undertaking.
- SB 544 Mammograms; information on breast density.
- SB 593 Back of Dragon; designates portion of Route 16 in Tazewell and Smyth Counties.
- SB 595 Railroad grade crossings; vehicles who are required to stop for trains.
Senate Bills on First Reading - Regular Calendar ... report | csv file
- SB 225 License plates, special; issuance of those bearing legend: PEACE BEGINS AT HOME.
- SB 484 Abortion; ultrasound required at least 24 hours prior to undergoing procedure.
- SB 587 License plates, special; changes those promoting tourism on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Bills or Resolutions Rereferred ... report | csv file
- SB 224 Assault and battery; Class 1 misdemeanor against a family or household member.
- SB 261 Virginia Preschool Initiative Local Grant Program; created.
- SB 426 Medicaid; appeals of agency determinations. Regarding overpayments.
- SB 553 School divisions, local; may use unexpended state funds to provide one-time bonus to teachers.
- SB 578 Virginia Port Authority; amends several provisions governing conduct of business.
- SB 619 Commonwealth Tolling Assistance Program; established.
- SB 639 Transportation; provides revenues for construction, maintenance, and funding.
Bills or Resolutions Recommitted ... report | csv file
- SB 4 Castle doctrine; self-defense and defense of others.
- SB 67 Concealed handgun permit applications; removes option for locality to require fingerprints.
- SB 94 Rules of Evidence; amendments or additions to Rule shall be adopted by Supreme Court of Va., etc.
- SB 159 Drug trafficking; 3 years shall be mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for subsequent offense.
- SB 183 Virginia Outdoors Foundation; exempt from paying clerk for remote access to land records.
- SB 184 Interpreters; cost shall be borne by non-English-speaking defendant if he is convicted of offense.
- SB 251 Circuit court clerks; fees charged and collected.
- SB 323 Handguns; eliminates prohibition on purchasing more than one in a 30-day period.
- SB 445 Protective orders, permanent; provides circuit court jurisdiction to hear petitions to modify.
- SB 459 Strangulation of another; penalty.
- SB 547 Assault and battery; adds prison contractor to class of people victimized in prisons, penalty.
- SB 548 Property conveyance; DGS to convey to County of Accomack certain real property.
- SB 554 Firearms; possession within residence of victim by persons subject to protective orders.
House Bills Read First Time and Referred ... report | csv file
- HB 21 Polling places; requirements for county precinct.
- HB 27 Residential energy efficiency standards; exempts certain homes from federal cap & trade legislation.
- HB 32 Charter; Town of Brodnax.
- HB 37 Officer of election; option to waive compensation and serve as an unpaid volunteer officer.
- HB 38 Absentee voting; duties of general registrar and electoral board.
- HB 56 Voter registration applications; protection of certain residence address information.
- HB 58 Urban county executive form; filling vacancy on board of supervisors.
- HB 60 Illegal voting and registrations; prohibition against voting more than once.
- HB 120 Tappahannock-Essex County Airport Authority; removes Tappahannock's name from Authority.
- HB 156 Housing and Community Development, Board of; terms of certain members.
- HB 166 Zoning administrator; narrows instances in which administrator may modify certain orders.
- HB 170 Zoning administrator; decisions reviewed by governing body shall be appealable to circuit court.
- HB 197 Grass, etc.; adds Town of Chincoteague to list authorized to require cutting on occupied property.
- HB 199 Town of Onancock; liens for water charges.
- HB 203 Assessments for local improvements, special; adds City of Hampton to localities that may impose.
- HB 232 Renewable energy; expands definition.
- HB 292 Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; increases membership of board of directors.
- HB 296 Charter; Town of Gordonsville.
- HB 337 Professions and occupations; unlawful procurement of certificate, license, or permit.
- HB 406 Incentives, local; local government to provide regulatory flexibility to defense contractors.
- HB 431 Charter; City of Fairfax.
- HB 491 Derelict and blighted buildings; authorizes locality to serve as receiver to repair.
- HB 492 Grass and weeds; authorizes City of Hopewell to require by ordinance to cut on certain property.
- HB 493 Grass and weeds; authorizes Prince George County to require by ordinance to cut on certain property.
- HB 502 Landlord and tenant laws; receipt required for payments in form of cash or money order.
- HB 526 Helicopters; local regulation of use.
- HB 550 Agency reports; submission in written or electronic format.
- HB 557 Virginia Housing Development Authority; powers.
- HB 558 Virginia Housing Development Authority; mortgage credit certificates.
- HB 559 Natural gas utilities; qualified projects.
- HB 587 Electric transmission lines; approval process.
- HB 595 Aging services; changes deadlines for submission of four-year plan.
- HB 632 Charter; Town of Windsor.
- HB 845 Business entities; clarifies that name of entity cannot imply that is another type of business.
- HB 897 Virginia Child Protection Accountability System; reporting of certain information by VCSC, etc.
- HB 1062 Virginia Employment Commission; Office of Attorney General may represent interests of State.
House Joint Resolution Read First Time and Referred ... report | csv file
Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file