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2011 SESSION
SENATE CALENDAR FOR January 13, 2011 ... pdf
- Memorial Resolutions ... report | csv file
- Commending Resolutions ... report | csv file
- Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- Resolutions Presented ... report | csv file
Memorial Resolutions ... report | csv file
- SJ 276 Celebrating the life of Edith R. Jones.
- SJ 277 Celebrating the life of William Hickerson Thomas.
- SJ 278 Celebrating the life of Yvonne Satterfield Six.
- SJ 279 Celebrating the life of Patrice R. Calloway.
- SJ 283 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Irene Height.
- SJ 286 Celebrating the life of Hubert Carlyle Church, Sr.
- SJ 288 Celebrating the life of Maxine Roberta Knight.
- SJ 289 Celebrating the life of Marcus Alton Johnson, Sr.
- SJ 290 Celebrating the life of Adlena Holloman Coleman.
- SJ 298 Celebrating the life of William Carroll.
- SJ 299 Celebrating the life of John L. Roper III.
- SJ 302 Celebrating the life of David Paul Randlett.
- SJ 303 Celebrating the life of James L. Guffey.
- SJ 304 Celebrating the life of Douglas Reed Oldham.
- SJ 305 Celebrating the life of Brian Anthony Carderelli.
- SJ 309 Celebrating the life of United States Army Corporal William Kyle Middleton.
- SJ 310 Celebrating the life of J. Clyde Hooker, Jr.
- SJ 311 Celebrating the life of Walter Holladay Yeaman.
- SJ 312 Celebrating the life of John S. Adams.
- SJ 313 Celebrating the life of William Raymond Martin, Sr.
- SJ 314 Celebrating the life of Irene Pratt Taylor Martin.
Commending Resolutions ... report | csv file
- SJ 275 Commending Jackson-Feild Homes on the occasion of its 155th anniversary.
- SJ 281 Commending David B. Nichols.
- SJ 282 Commending the Rappahannock High School baseball team.
- SJ 287 Commending Bishop Levi Edgar Willis II.
- SJ 293 Commending the Va Association of Counties and Va Cooperative Extension; Supervisor Certification.
- SJ 295 Commending Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., in Virginia.
- SJ 296 Commending Virginia's Operational Integration Cyberspace Center of Excellence and City of Hampton.
- SJ 316 Commending Joel Christopher Robins.
- SJ 317 Commending Ray A. Conner.
Senate Bills and Resolutions Referred ... report | csv file
- SB 971 Virginia Commonwealth University; board of visitors to convey certain property to City of Richmond.
- SB 972 Retail Sales & Use & transient occupancy taxes; taxes on room rentals computed based on total price.
- SB 973 Weights and measures; imposition of fee used for inspecting and testing petroleum dispensing pumps.
- SB 974 Income tax, state; agricultural best management practices tax credits.
- SB 975 Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund; established.
- SB 976 Nursing homes; required by Board of Health to send notices and information about family council.
- SB 977 Nursing homes; investigation of complaints by VDH, in-person interviews of residents.
- SB 978 FAMIS Plan; eligibility.
- SB 979 Land preservation tax credit; DCR to report on land qualifying for credit to protect water quality.
- SB 980 Transient occupancy tax; extends sunset date provision for additional tax in Arlington County.
- SB 981 Renewable energy sources; tax credit for producing energy, exception.
- SB 982 Endangered and threatened species; Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to adopt regulations.
- SB 983 Professional and Occupational Regulation, Department of; common interest communities, etc.
- SB 984 Transient occupancy tax; Counties of Brunswick and Washington authorized to impose.
- SB 985 Housing Development Authority Act; terms and conditions of purchases, etc., to lenders of mortgages.
- SB 986 Certificate of public need; exempts Veterans Services facilities.
- SB 987 Real property tax; exemption for disabled veterans.
- SB 988 Health Care, Joint Commission on; extends sunset provision.
- SB 989 Sheriffs & jail superintendents; written reports also to be received by local community boards, etc.
- SB 990 Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; regulation of fertilizer.
- SB 991 Acquisition of title to an abandoned vessel; changes notification procedures.
- SB 992 Marijuana, imitation; same penalties for sale, gift, distribution, etc., as for marijuana.
- SB 993 Motor vehicle emissions; testing procedures.
- SB 994 Best interests of child; jurisdiction to resolve a dispute how child shall be educated.
- SB 995 Special combined individual sportfishing licenses; boat license.
- SB 996 Cash proffers; acceptance by localities.
- SB 997 Street construction; no bond, escrow, etc., may be released until streets are accepted by agency.
- SB 998 Income tax, corporate; lower rate for certain businesses.
- SB 999 Local Defense Production Zone; created and creates a separate classification of machinery and tools.
- SB 1000 Alcoholic beverage control; definition of chaptalization and cider.
- SB 1001 Corrections, State Board of; powers and duties.
- SB 1002 Vehicle emissions inspection program; provides for an on-road clean screen program.
- SB 1003 Service of notices from DMV; fee for renewal of driver's license, exchange of license plates.
- SB 1004 Transportation agency efficiencies & cost recoveries; exempts VDOT, etc., paying remote access fee.
- SB 1005 Transportation Commissioner; changes title to Commissioner of Highways, report.
- SB 1006 Income tax, corporate; market-based sourcing.
- SB 1007 Permit fees for solid waste facilities; establishes same fee structure for sanitary landfills, etc.
- SB 1008 Retirement System; creates an optional defined contribution retirement plan for state employees.
- SB 1009 Mortgage loan originators; prohibits SCC from issuing provisional licenses on or after July 1, 2011.
- SB 1010 Unemployment benefits; minimum earnings requirement, postpones scheduled increase.
- SB 1011 Low-income residential customers; investor-owned electric utilities to offer reduced rates.
- SB 1012 Marijuana plants; when seizure of 10 or more, law-enforcement agency may destroy.
- SB 1013 License plates, special; eliminates fee for issuance or renewal of Purple Heart license plates.
- SB 1014 Dental hygienists; extension of educational and preventive care protocol.
- SB 1015 Insurance policies; exemptions of large commercial risks.
- SB 1016 Public Procurement Act; establishment of historically underutilized business zones (HUB zones).
- SB 1017 Game & Inland Fisheries, Board of; to introduce new species of game, approval by local government.
- SB 1018 Vehicle race; raises penalty for causing death of another person while engaging.
- SB 1019 Fire Prevention; transfers to Fire Services Board authority for approving fee structure.
- SB 1020 Driver's license reinstatement fees; additional fees for persons with multiple suspensions, etc.
- SB 1021 Virginia Water Protection Permit; state agencies asked to review to provide comments within 45 days.
- SB 1022 Retirement System; creditable compensation of teachers.
- SB 1023 Game and Inland Fisheries, Department of; authority to create damage stamp compensation program.
- SB 1024 Drinking water community confidence reports; publication.
- SB 1025 Coal surface mining operations; authority to issue pollutant discharge elimination permits.
- SB 1026 Agricultural animals; care by owner, penalty.
- SB 1027 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; tax credit for hiring recipients thereof.
- SB 1028 Drug treatment courts; established in various counties.
- SB 1029 Health records; health care providers who prescribe or dispense controlled substances.
- SB 1030 Primaries; state will reimburse localities for costs of statewide and federal elections.
- SB 1031 Public schools; allows local school divisions to keep any funds from State for use next year.
- SB 1032 Revenue Stabilization Fund; Auditor of Public Accounts to calculate maximum size of Fund.
- SB 1033 Continuing care retirement community; no less than 20% of board shall be residents of facility.
- SB 1034 HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates.
- SB 1035 Open container of alcohol; passenger in motor vehicle shall not possess, civil penalty.
- SB 1036 Direct recording electronic voting machines (DREs); localities to modify to meet legal mandates.
- SB 1037 Foster care plan; eliminates independent living as permanency goal option.
- SB 1038 Foster care; allows child placed in care to remain at his original school.
- SB 1039 Certificate of public need; removes an exception for requirements for certain nursing facilities.
- SB 1040 Foster care; placement of child through an agreement between parents and local board.
- SB 1041 Breach of medical information; adds private entities are required to provide notice.
- SB 1042 Handheld personal communications device; texting while driving.
- SB 1043 Claims; certain employees of the Prince William Health Department.
- SB 1045 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for certain computer equipment and enabling software.
- SB 1046 Retirement System; benefits for law-enforcement retirees hired as school board security personnel.
- SB 1047 Driver's license holders, provisional; makes cell phone use while driving a primary offense.
- SB 1048 HOT lane construction contracts; requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using facility.
- SB 1049 Public Procurement Act; state agencies to include in contract that contractor use E-Verify program.
- SB 1050 Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for grants or loans from Fund.
- SB 1051 Elections; extension of polling hours.
- SB 1052 Domestic absentee voters; provide information concerning legal residence in Virginia.
- SB 1053 General fund balance; assignment of year-end general fund surplus.
- SB 1054 Civics Education, Commission on; continuation of Commission until July 1, 2012.
- SB 1055 Fertilizer; regulation of application and labeling, report.
- SB 1056 Wastewater treatment; State Water Control Board develop policies eliminating wastewater discharges.
- SB 1057 State agencies; reports to General Assembly.
- SB 1058 Air emissions; repeal of laws and regulations related to Clean Air Interstate Rule.
- SB 1059 Master Settlement Agreement; regulation of cigarette manufacturers.
- SB 1060 Impounding structure; determination of hazard potential classification, development of permit.
- SB 1061 State employee health insurance plan; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
- SB 1062 Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
- SB 1063 Veterans and military servicemembers; specialty treatment procedures.
- SB 1064 Erosion & sediment control plans; may charge fee to cover costs associated with certain review, etc.
- SB 1065 Charter; Town of Narrows.
- SB 1066 Judicial retirement; mandatory retirement.
- SB 1067 Unauthorized practice of law; increases statute of limitations on prosecutions.
- SB 1068 Circuit court clerks; collection of fees.
- SB 1069 Virginia Code Commission; changes appointment authority.
- SB 1070 Small businesses; clarifies process review of existing regulations.
- SB 1071 Irrevocable trusts; trustee's power to appoint assets into second trust.
- SB 1072 Inter vivos QTIP trusts; if established by donor spouse not to be included in estate.
- SB 1073 Real estate tax relief; for the elderly and permanently and totally disabled.
- SB 1074 Tuition, in-state; person of other state meeting requirements called to National Guard is eligible.
- SB 1075 Administrative suspension of license; changes period upon arrest for a DUI from seven to 60 days.
- SB 1076 Elections; recount procedures.
- SB 1077 International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement examinations; clarifies eligibility for credit.
- SB 1078 Child care; administration of certain medicines of those regulated by local government.
- SB 1079 Cattle Industry Board; name change to Beef Industry Council.
- SB 1080 Virginia Condominium Act; limitation of future sales as smoke-free units.
- SB 1081 Charter; Town of Dayton.
- SB 1082 Marijuana, synthetic; added to Schedule I, penalty for possession.
- SB 1083 ABC; exemption from payment of tax on wine and alcoholic beverages shipped out of state.
- SB 1084 Concealed handgun permittee information; prohibits clerk of court from disclosing information.
- SB 1085 Cigarette tax; Tax Commissioner shall convene a working group to review current policies, report.
- SB 1086 Motor vehicle sales and use tax; exemption to include certain four-wheel plug-in electric vehicles.
- SB 1087 Land preservation tax credits; requires use of licensed transfer agent to transfer to taxpayer.
- SB 1088 Land preservation tax credits; refunded by the Tax Commissioner.
- SB 1089 Psychological tests; court may, upon motion, seal test received in evidence.
- SB 1090 Virginia-grown food products; purchase by state agencies and institutions, etc.
- SB 1091 Protective orders; expands class of persons who may be issued order from victims of stalking, etc.
- SB 1092 Agricultural and Forestal Districts Act; creates program administrator, review of applications.
- SB 1093 Assisted living facilities; may continue to operate with an acting administrator.
- SB 1094 Youth health risk survey; Department of Health to develop and notify parents of students selected.
- SB 1095 Schedule II, etc., controlled substances; prescriber to request information about patient.
- SB 1096 Pharmacies; shall have access to Prescription Monitoring Program.
- SB 1097 Continuing education for prescriber; completion of certain coursework for renewal, etc., of license.
- SB 1098 ABC; public warning regarding alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
- SB 1099 Stormwater nonpoint nutrient offsets; establish priorities to be used by permit issuing authorities.
- SB 1100 Nutrient Offset Fund; created.
- SB 1101 Income tax, state & corporate; tax credit for using livestock waste nutrient to produce electricity.
- SB 1102 Point source nutrient trading; shall not be subject to a two-for-one trading ratio.
- SB 1103 Forensic Science, Department of; powers and duties.
- SB 1104 Open-space land; expands definition.
- SB 1105 Virginia Farmland Preservation Fund; created.
- SB 1106 Centralized fleet; Department of General Services, et al., to promulgate minimum mileage standards.
- SB 1107 Public Procurement Act; increases small purchases exemption.
- SB 1108 Home food inspections; exempts private home whose resident processes honey produced from hives.
- SB 1109 Inmate labor; authorizes use thereof at rest areas along Interstate Highway System.
- SB 1110 UVA; to make full use of additional financial authority granted in management agreement.
- SB 1111 Virginia Coal Employment and Production Incentive Tax Credit; extends sunset provision.
- SB 1112 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs); duties and responsibilities.
- SB 1113 Unemployment compensation; eliminates requirement that certain benefits be reduced by 50 percent.
- SB 1114 DGS; review of proposed use and occupancy of real property by state agencies.
- SB 1115 Retirement System; optional defined contribution retirement program for state & local employees.
- SB 1116 Laboratory results; authority to provide directly to insurance carrier, etc.
- SB 1117 Death certificates; allows supervised nurse practitioners and physician assistants to sign.
- SB 1118 DUI ignition interlock; person convicted is required to have on first offense, restricted license.
- SB 1119 Permit compliance; Department of Environmental Quality increases limit of civil penalty issued.
- SB 1120 Judgment lien; court shall not decree real estate to be sold to enforce.
- SB 1121 Local government; establishment and administration of personnel system.
- SB 1122 State employees; health insurance benefits.
- SJ 330 Subaqueous bottomland; VIMS and VMRC to jointly study ways to better utilize those on seaside.
- SJ 331 Light Rail Safety Day; designating as April 29, 2011, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 334 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Nutrient Credit Exchange Program; Secretary of Natural Resources to study.
- SJ 335 Land conservation; JLARC to study long-term dedicated funding sources.
- SJ 341 Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
- SJ 344 Constitutional amendment; personal property tax exemption on boats and watercraft (first reference).
- SJ 345 Independent contractors; JLARC to study misclassification of employees.
Resolutions Presented ... report | csv file
- SJ 332 Celebrating the life of Anthony L. Taylor.
- SJ 333 Celebrating the life of Hermanze Edwin Fauntleroy, Jr.
- SJ 336 Celebrating the life of Katherine A. Treherne, M.D.
- SJ 337 Celebrating the life of Mattrude Person Sharpe.
- SJ 338 Commending Cranford United Methodist Church on the occasion of its 110th anniversary.
- SJ 339 Commending Colonel Claude M. Schonberger, USAFR Ret.
- SJ 340 Celebrating the life of B. Mark Fried.
- SJ 342 Celebrating the life of James Riley Knight, Jr.
- SJ 343 Commending Sheriff Clarence W. Dobson.