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VAHB655General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; House and Senate Ethics Advisory Panels. Opens ethics inquiries to the public after a preliminary investigation. During the preliminary investigation, the Panel will require that (i) the facts stated in th...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0876)2010-05-21
VAHB281Animal cruelty; penalty. Increases the penalty for a second or subsequent violation of the animal care laws regarding an owner's failure to provide adequate food, adequate water, adequate shelter, and adequate veterinary care from a Class 4 to a Clas...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0875)2010-05-21
VAHB1010Illegal gambling; definitions; free spin devices. Amends the definition of "illegal gambling" to make it clear that the making, placing or receipt of any bet or wager of money or other thing of value shall include the purchase of a product,...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0877)2010-05-21
VAHB30Budget Bill. Appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia providing a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 2011, andGovernor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0874)2010-05-17
VASB406Salvage vehicles; maintenance and contents of records; reports. Clarifies items that must be contained in the records that licensees maintain on receipt of any vehicles and allows the governing body of any locality to require that the records be repo...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0873)2010-05-12
VAHB29Budget Bill. Amending Chapter 781, 2009 Acts ofGovernor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0872)2010-05-07
VAHJR112Legislative status for Virginia VA House of Delegates Joint Resolution HJR112House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ112ER)2010-04-26
VAHJR493Election of a Supreme Court of Virginia Justice,House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ493ER)2010-04-26
VAHR32Nominating a person to be elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia.House: Bill text as passed House (HR32ER)2010-04-26
VAHR33Nominating a person to be elected toa circuit court judgeship.House: Bill text as passed House (HR33ER)2010-04-26
VAHR34Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.House: Bill text as passed House (HR34ER)2010-04-26
VAHJR494General Assembly; 2010 procedural resolution. Extends the deadline for the first conference on the Budget Bill(s) until midnight,House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ494ER)2010-04-26
VAHJR495Adjournment Sine Die.House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ495ER)2010-04-26
VAHR40House of Delegates; per diem during session extension. Provides that House members and legislative assistantsHouse: Bill text as passed House (HR40ER)2010-04-26
VAHJR9General Assembly; 2010 Session schedule. Establishes a schedule for the conduct of business coming before the 2010 Regular SessionHouse: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ9ER)2010-04-26
VAHJR10General Assembly; 2011 Session prefiling schedule. EstablishesHouse: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ10ER)2010-04-26
VAHJR153Resolution; establishing an inaugural committee. Establishes an inaugural committee to make suitable plans and arrangements for the reception and induction into their respective offices of the Governor-elect,House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ153ER)2010-04-26
VAHR3Establishing the Rules of the House of Delegates for the 2010 - 2011 Session.House: Bill text as passed House (HR3ER)2010-04-26
VAHR4Salaries, contingent and incidentalHouse: Bill text as passed House (HR4ER)2010-04-26
VASB478Tobacco products tax; moist snuff. Changes the tax on moist snuff from 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price to $0.18 per ounce. The bill also would provide that loose leaf tobacco would be subject to the Commonwealth's tobacco products tax on...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804)2010-04-21
VAHB582Center for Rural Virginia; expansion and promotion of agricultural opportunities. Provides the Center for Rural Virginia with the additional authority to facilitate the development of incentives and to provide a forum for competing interests to allow...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833)2010-04-21
VAHB1039Notification of breach of medical information. Requires notification to residents of the Commonwealth if their unredacted or unencrypted medical information or health insurance information is the subject of a database breach. The notification require...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0852)2010-04-21
VASB193Medicaid provider agreements; authority to terminate. Allows the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services to refuse to enter into or renew, or elect to terminate an existing provider agreement or contract for any of the reasons the U...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785)2010-04-21
VASB509Charter; Town of Vinton. Amends the charter for the town of Vinton by requiring the town to follow the general law regardingGovernor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807)2010-04-21
VAHB1389College Partnership Laboratory Schools. Allows for the establishment of college partnership laboratory schools by any public institution of higher education that operates an approved teacher education program. Such schools shall be public schools est...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0871)2010-04-21
VASB715Teacher training; civics education. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations to require (i) all education preparation programs for teachers in history and social sciences, elementary education K-6, and middle education 6-8 to include...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814)2010-04-21
VAHB1372Virginia Economic Development Partnership; Executive Director; change of title. Changes the title of the Executive Director ofGovernor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0869)2010-04-21
VASB726Ballast Water Control Report. ChangesGovernor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)2010-04-21
VAHB651Use of commissioners in eminent domain cases. Reinstates the option of the landowner to choose between commissioners and juries to hear an eminent domain case. The option to choose commissioners was eliminated by Chapter 586 of the 2006 Acts of Assem...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835)2010-04-21
VAHB1378Department of Medical Assistance Services; pilot program for the use of biometric data. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to design and develop a plan for a pilot program for the use of biometric data to identify medical assistan...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0870)2010-04-21
VASB241Open Education Curriculum Board; established. Establishes the Open Education Curriculum Board. The purpose of the Board is to designate qualifying entities as Open Education Consortiums and set the standards for submission of education materials and ...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787)2010-04-21
VAHB967Assisted living facility and group home; no more than 8 aged, infirmed, etc., persons shall reside. Expands certain provisions that currently apply to the Counties of Arlington and York statewide. The existing provisions declare that zoning ordinance...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0847)2010-04-21
VAHB1100Stormwater management facilities; liability. Provides that a common interest community shall enjoy limited liability protection relating to a stormwater management facility located on property owned by that community if: (i) the common interest commu...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0853)2010-04-21
VAHB1102Property Owners' Association Act; authority of board of directors; parking. Provides that to the extent the declaration gives the board of directors the authority to adopt rules and regulations relating to the parking of motor vehicles by lot owners,...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0854)2010-04-21
VAHB201Funeral services; handling of human remains. Provides that, upon taking custody of a dead human body, a funeral service establishment shall maintain the body in a manner that provides complete coverage and is resistant to leakage or spillage. If the ...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823)2010-04-21
VASB246Noise ordinance; authorizes governing body to adopt civil penalties. Authorizes the governing body of a locality to adopt civil penalties for violations of noise ordinances. Civil fines will not exceed $250 for the first offense and $500 for each sub...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)2010-04-21
VASB248Indigent defendants; right to ex parte hearing for appointment of experts in capital cases. Provides that an indigent defendant who has been charged with a capital offense may move in circuit court for the appointment of experts to assist in the pre...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789)2010-04-21
VAHB688Using transportation district trains without a valid ticket. Rewrites the code section that punishes unlawfully riding on a transportation district train. The bill punishes failure or refusal to pay the posted fare, or failure to properly validate a ...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0837)2010-04-21
VAHB233Assessments for affordable housing units. Provides that assessments for certain affordable housing units be done according to the income approach, based on the property's current use and restrictions. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Hou...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824)2010-04-21
VASB265Hospice and home health care; licensure. Amends hospice licensure standards to allow inspections of facilities that are exempt from licensure to the extent necessary to ensure public health and safety, and allows the Commissioner of Health to cause a...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)2010-04-21
VAHB1161Jailer-issued identification for prisoners. Allows sheriffs, jail superintendents and jail administrators to issue a special identification card to prisoners who do not possess valid ID at release. All costs shall be paid by the prisoner.Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0856)2010-04-21
VAHB10Individual health insurance coverage; requirement to obtain. Provides that a resident of the Commonwealth shall not be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual insurance coverage. This applies regardless of whether the person has or is e...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818)2010-04-21
VASB273Assessments for affordable housing units. Provides that assessments for certain affordable housing units be done according to the income approach, based on the property's current use and restrictions.Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791)2010-04-21
VAHB1133Adoption; explanation of legal effects. Clarifies the requirement that a local board or child-placing agency provide information about the adoption process, its legal effects, and the alternatives to adoption to the birth mother and, if reasonably av...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0855)2010-04-21
VASB275Advance medical directives. Clarifies authority of an advance directive in cases in which a person is subject to an emergency custody, temporary detention, involuntary admission, or mandatory outpatient treatment order; eliminates the requirement tha...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792)2010-04-21
VAHB248Psychiatric treatment of minors. Revises the Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act in order to create a stand alone juvenile commitment act that will be titled the Psychiatric Treatment of Minors Act and to eliminate various cross references ...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825)2010-04-21
VAHB725Polysomnographic technologist; license required. Provides that no person shall practice as a polysomnographic technologist or assume the title "licensed polysomnographic technologist," "polysomnographic technologist," or "lic...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838)2010-04-21
VAHB42Transportation programs; performance audit by Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC). Requires JLARC to administer a performance audit of the Commonwealth's transportation programs. JLARC shall issue an RFP to initiate the procurement ...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819)2010-04-21
VASB282Landlord and Tenant; eviction procedure; acceptance of redemption tenders. Provides that when a tenant presents on or before the first return date on an action for unlawful detainer for the nonpayment of rent, a redemption tender in the amount of all...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)2010-04-21
VAHB46Virginia Disaster Response Fund; hazardous materials in dwellings. Creates the Virginia Defective Drywall Correction and Restoration Assistance Fund to promote the correction and restoration of residential property affected by the environmental probl...
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Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0820)2010-04-21