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General Assembly
Crossover Update
Jobs
& Economic Development
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SB 475 (Watkins)
– Governor’s Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for
awarding grants and loans – Provides that criteria to be
used in awarding grants and loans from the Governor’s
Development Opportunity Fund shall include (i) job creation,
(ii) private capital investment, and (iii) anticipated
additional state tax revenue expected to accrue to the state
and affected localities as a result of the capital investment
and jobs created.
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SB 554 (Puckett)
– Governor’s Development Opportunity Fund; authority to
award grants – Authorized the Governor to award grants of up
to $2 million for projects located in central city or urban
core area
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SB 658 (Ruff)
– Virginia Public Procurement Act; establishment of
Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUB Zones) in the
state – Requires the Department of General Services to
develop a program that insures that at least 15 percent of
state procurement contracts are awarded to small businesses in
historically underutilized business zones (HUB Zones).
The bill defines HUB Zones.
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SB 623 (Hanger)
– Income tax; corporate and individual; green jobs tax
credit – Allows a $500 income tax credit for the creation of
“green” jobs for taxable years beginning on or after
January 1, 2010. Each
taxpayer is allowed a credit for up to 350 new green jobs and
may qualify for the Enterprise Zone Grant program if the job
is located in an enterprise zone
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SB 472 (Watkins)
– Major business facility job tax credit – Amends the
Major Business Facility Job Tax Credit. Current law provides a
$1,000 tax credit for major business facilities that create at
least 100 qualified full-time jobs. This legislation increases
the tax credit to $2000, and reduces the number of qualified
full-time jobs required to be created to 50. In enterprise
zones or economically distressed areas, the base or threshold
is lowered from 50 newly created jobs to 25. The changes also
allow the credit to be taken over a two-year period for
taxable years beginning January 1, 2009, through December 31,
2012, rather than December 31, 2010.
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SB 473 (Watkins)
– Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership
– Adds the Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce and
Trade or their designees to the membership of the Board of
Trustees of the Center for Rural Virginia
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SB 428 (Herring)
– Income taxes; recognition of income from capital gains –
Grants an income tax exemption for any gain taxed as a capital
gain for federal income tax purposes, on or after January 1,
2010, that is related to a qualified investment of a
technology and science start-up business made in the first
three years in which the business was founded.
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SB 257 (Lucas)
– Motion picture film production tax credits – Provides
income tax credits to any motion picture production company
with qualifying expenses of at least $250,000 with respect to
a film production in the Commonwealth, for taxable years
beginning on or after January 1, 2010. Total credits allowed
for any biennium cannot exceed $10 million.
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SB 644 (Howell)
– Specialized Biotechnology Research Performance Grant
Program; established – Establishes the Specialized Biotechnology Research
Performance Grant Program for nonprofit entities engaged in
research, development, and production related to molecular
diagnostics and drug development that enter into a
performance-based memorandum of understanding with the
Commonwealth prior to June 30, 2010. Grants would be paid to
an eligible entity based in Fairfax County that commits in the
memorandum of understanding and fulfills its obligation to (i)
make a new capital investment of at least $200 million, (ii)
create at least 415 new full-time jobs, and (iii) meet any
other criteria set forth in the memorandum of understanding.
Grants from the program to a qualified entity shall not exceed
$22 million in the aggregate.
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SB 733 (McWaters
& Vogel) – State insurance license tax credit – Provides
a tax credit against the state license tax liability on
certain insurance companies for investments in Virginia small
business investment companies. The tax credit will be
administered by the Tax Commissioner. The tax credit is
capped at $20 million per year and may not exceed $100 million
for the life of the program.
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SB 730
(Reynolds) – Major Employment and Investment Project
Site Planning Grant Fund; established – Establishes the
Major Employment and Investment Project Site Planning Grant
Fund to award grants to political subdivisions to assist in
site development work for certain prospective projects. The
bill provides that the Fund will sunset on July 1, 2014, if no
appropriation has been made by the General Assembly, or no
gifts, grants, or donations have been made from public or
private sources to the Fund by that date.
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SB 323 (Ruff)
– Secretary of Education; name change – Changes the name
of the Secretary of Education to the Secretary of Education
and Workforce Development.
Public
Safety
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SB 467 (Howell)
– Protective orders; coordination with other states –
Requires the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, on an
annual basis, to consult with the appropriate judicial
authorities of adjacent states, and allows the Executive
Secretary to consult with the appropriate judicial authorities
of any other state, concerning the forms used in connection
with the issuance of protective orders under the laws of the
Commonwealth and the other states. The Executive Secretary
shall, to the extent feasible under the laws of the
Commonwealth, coordinate the contents of such protective order
forms with other states in order to facilitate the enforcement
of foreign protective orders in the Commonwealth and the
enforcement of Virginia protective orders in other states.
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SB 468 (Howell)
– Extension of protective orders – Allows a petitioner who
has obtained a protective order under § 16.1-279.1 (cases of
family abuse) or § 19.2-152.10 (stalking) to obtain an
extension of such order for a period of no more than one year
if the respondent continues to pose a threat to the health or
safety of the petitioner and the petitioner's family and
household members. There is no limit on the number of
extensions that may be requested.
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SB 531 (McDougle)
– Fees for attorneys for the Commonwealth in criminal cases
– Increases from $15 to $40 the fee that an attorney for the
Commonwealth may receive for a felony case, and from $5 to $15
the fee that an attorney for the Commonwealth may receive for
a misdemeanor case.
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SB 486 (Hurt)
– Juvenile records; gang information; exceptions to
confidentiality – Places an affirmative duty on the
Department of Juvenile Justice to provide information to
law-enforcement that may aid in initiating or furthering an
investigation of a criminal street gang. The bill also
requires, rather than allows, the Department or locally
operated court services unit to release to law-enforcement
information on a juvenile's criminal street gang involvement
and the criminal street gang-related activity of others.
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SB 9 (Blevins)
– Safety belts – Makes nonuse of safety belts a primary
offense.
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SB 229 (Barker)
– Safety belt use – Extends requirement for safety belt
use to all occupants of a motor vehicle, not just those in the
front seat.
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SB 495 (Hurt)
– DUI; prior offenses – Provides a definition of
"substantially similar" for the purpose of
determining when an out-of-state DUI conviction can be used to
enhance punishment for a current Virginia DUI offense.
Out-of-state laws that criminalize driving with a prohibited
blood alcohol content of .08 percent or more by weight by
volume or .08 grams or more per 210 liters of breath are
deemed to be substantially similar offenses. In addition, a
driving under the influence conviction in a state contiguous
to the Commonwealth or in the District of Columbia is deemed
to be substantially similar.
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SB 517 (Norment)
– Wireless telecommunications devices in motor vehicles –
Extends prohibition on use of wireless telecommunications
devices in motor vehicles to initiating or answering a call on
such device, unless the device is configured for hands-free
operation and is being used in the hands-free mode. The
bill also provided for graduated penalties for violations.
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SB 518 (Norment)
– Safety belt enforcement – Allows for primary enforcement
of safety belt requirements when violations are observed by
law-enforcement officers at traffic safety checkpoints.
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SB 566 (Ticer)
– Passing bicycles, etc. – Increases from two to three
feet the minimum distance of separation which other vehicles
must allow when passing bicycles, etc.
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SB 588 (Marsden)
– Felony assault and battery against a mass transit operator
– Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to commit an assault
or battery upon a mass transit operator defined as a person
who operates any train, bus, trolley or van that is designed
to carry six or more passengers.
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SB 679 (Hanger)
– Restorative justice programs – Establishes a restorative
justice program for offenders and victims. Provisions address
participation, court involvement, confidentiality, and
immunity from civil liability.
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SB 520 (Norment)
– Capital murder; auxiliary police officers; penalty –
Adds auxiliary police officers and auxiliary deputy sheriffs
to the definition of law-enforcement officer in the capital
murder statute so that the death sentence can be imposed for
the murder of such an officer.
Second
Amendment
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SB 3 (Smith)
– Renewal of concealed handgun permits - Allows a person who
previously has been issued a Virginia concealed handgun permit
to submit an application to renew the permit via the United
States mail.
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SB 334 (Hanger)
– Concealed handguns; restaurants; penalty – Allows a
person with a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed
handgun onto the premises of a restaurant or club and
prohibits such person from consuming alcoholic beverages while
on the premises. A person who consumes alcohol in violation of
the provisions of the bill is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor
and a person who becomes intoxicated in violation of the
provisions of the bill is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
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SB 408 (Vogel)
– Possession of concealed weapons in vehicles – Creates a
new exemption to the general prohibition against carrying
concealed weapons by allowing a person who may lawfully
possess a firearm to carry a handgun in a private motor
vehicle or vessel if the handgun is locked in a container or
compartment.
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SB 533 (McDougle)
– Concealed handgun permit applications; right to ore tenus
hearing – Clarifies that a person who is applying for a
concealed handgun permit for the first time has the same right
to an ore tenus hearing if the permit is denied as a person
who has previously held a concealed handgun permit.
Transportation
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SB 537 (Newman)
– Highway speed limits – Increases the general highway
speed limit on highways where it is presently 65 mph to 70
mph.
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SB 601 (Wagner)
– Royalties from offshore drilling – Requires that at
least 80 percent of any revenues and royalties paid to the
Commonwealth as a result of offshore natural gas and oil
drilling shall be deposited to the Transportation Trust Fund.
Veterans/Military
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SB 455 (Hurt)
– Permit fees; veterans waiver – Requires state regulatory
agencies to waive any fees for issuing a permit when the
application is submitted by a veteran in connection with his
establishment and operation of a small business.
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SB 31 (Puller)
– Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); property tax
exemptions – Provides for a referendum at the November 2,
2010, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the
General Assembly to provide a real property tax exemption for
the principal residence of a veteran, or his or her surviving
spouse, if the veteran has a 100 percent service-connected,
permanent, and total disability.
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SB 55 (Martin)
– Federal write-in absentee ballots; use in state and local
elections – Provides that voters who are entitled to vote
absentee due to active duty military service, membership in
the merchant marines, or temporary residence outside of the
country, or the spouse or dependent residing with such a
voter, may use the federal write-in absentee ballot to vote in
state and local elections, as well as federal elections. The
federal write-in absentee ballot may also serve as an absentee
ballot application and voter registration application for
state and local elections, as well as federal elections.
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SB 243 (Watkins)
– Fishing license; exempts active duty military personnel
who are residents – Exempts active duty military personnel
who are residents and on leave from having to obtain a basic
fishing license so long as they can show proof that they are
on leave. Such an exemption does not extend to such persons to
fish in waters stocked with trout.
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SB 297 (J.C.
Miller) – Veterans Services Fund – Provides that
moneys in the Veterans Services Fund shall be administered by
the Veterans Services Foundation to provide funding for
veterans services and programs in the Commonwealth.
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SB299 (J.C.
Miller) – Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on
Educational Opportunity for Military Children; military family
education liaison - Requires the Department of Education to
employ a military family education liaison to provide staff
support for the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on
Educational Opportunity for Military Children and to assist
military families and the state in facilitating the
implementation of the Interstate Compact.
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SB 349 (Hanger)
– Reemployment rights of members of Virginia National Guard,
Virginia State Defense Force, or naval militia - Extends the
period in which a member of the Virginia National Guard,
Virginia State Defense Force, or naval militia is required to
apply for reinstatement in his former job to 90 days following
his release from duty or from hospitalization following
release, if the length of the member's absence by reason of
service in the uniformed services exceeds 180 days. If the
duration of his absence does not exceed 180 days, such notice
must be given within 14 days, which is the current period
allowed in all instances regardless of the duration of the
absence. This notice period is consistent with that provided
under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and
Reemployment Rights Act for service members deployed for 181
days or longer.
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SB 455 (Hurt)
– Permit fees; veterans waiver – Requires state regulatory
agencies to waive any fees for issuing a permit when the
application is submitted by a veteran in connection with his
establishment and operation of a small business.
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SB 563 (Ticer)
– Charitable organizations; exemptions to reporting
requirements – Adds veterans' posts or organizations to
those groups that are exempt from submitting annual
registration statements.
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SB 613 (Wampler)
– State active military duty; health care coverage –
Allows a member of the Virginia National Guard called to state
active duty by the Governor to continue his health care
coverage, at the member's expense.
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SB 619 (Herring)
– Individual income tax; Virginia Military Family Relief
Fund payments – Allows individuals who receive payments from
the Virginia Military Family Relief Fund to subtract them from
their federal adjustable gross income when calculating their
Virginia taxable income, for taxable years beginning on and
after January 1, 2010.
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SJ 13 (Puller
& Stuart) – Constitutional amendment (second
resolution); property tax exemption for certain veterans –
Directs the General Assembly to exempt from taxation real
property that is the principal residence of a veteran (or
widow or widower of a veteran) if the veteran has been
determined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
or its successor agency pursuant to federal law to have a 100
percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability.
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SB 696 (McWaters)
– HOV lanes; military personnel - Allows uniformed military
personnel to use HOV lanes in Hampton Roads regardless of the
number of passengers.
Ethics
Reform
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SB 430 (Herring)
– State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act;
disclosure of interest in real estate – Clarifies that when
state and local government officials disclose interest in real
estate as required by the State and Local Government Conflict
of Interests Act, they must list each real estate parcel
individually. Currently the disclosure form provides that
individual listing is at the option of the filer.
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SB 506 (Smith)
– Political contributions; prohibition during procurement
process – Provides that no bidder or offeror, controlling
person of a bidder or offeror, or person acting on behalf of a
bidder or offeror, who has submitted a bid or proposal for the
award of a public contract with an expected value of $1
million or more pursuant to the Virginia Public Procurement
Act shall make, directly or indirectly, a contribution to any
campaign committee, political action committee, or political
party committee during the period between the submission of
the bid or proposal and the award of the contract. A person
who violates this prohibition shall be subject to a civil
penalty of up to two times the amount of the contribution.
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SB 118
(Petersen) – General Assembly; conflict of interest
disclosure – Specifies that disclosure
forms filed by members of the General Assembly shall be posted
on the website of the clerk of the appropriate house for the
five years that they are maintained as public records.
·
SB 186 (Norment,
Northam, & Smith) – General Assembly Conflicts of
Interest Act; establishment of a General Assembly Ethics
Review Panel – Makes a number of revisions to the process
followed by the Senate Ethics Advisory Panel, including
requiring that proceedings beyond the preliminary
investigation phase shall be public.
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SJ 147 (Norment)
– Study; ethics issues affecting the General Assembly –
Establishes a joint committee of the General Assembly and
Senate and House Ethics Advisory Panels to evaluate the
adequacy of the current law in spelling out ethics rules,
defining improper behavior, and providing for the proper
disposition of complaints alleging that the General Assembly
Conflicts of Interests Act has been violated.
Government
Reform/Accountability
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SB 431 (Herring)
– State Government Spending Accountability Act – Requires
state agencies to maintain a transaction register including a
complete record of all funds expended over one hundred
dollars. The bill also requires state agencies to post a copy
of each monthly statement for all credit cards issued to
officers or employees for official use and a list of all of
the number of full-time employees and the average compensation
in each class. In addition, the bill directs the Auditor of
Public Accounts to conduct a review of the searchable
databases providing expenditure, revenue, and demographic
information used by other states and to incorporate best
practices for ease of use and transparency of state agency
expenditures.
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SB 236 (Howell,
Stosch, & McDougle) – Information
Technology governance in the Commonwealth; the Chief
Information Officer; the Information Technology Investment
Board; the Department of Technology Management, established;
the Information Technology Investment Council, established;
and the Council on Technology Services, established –
summary to long to print
Social
Conservative
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SB 602 (Newman
& Hurt) – Human infant; independent and separate
existence – Provides that for the purposes of homicide and
child abuse the determination of an independent and separate
existence of a human infant from its mother shall not be
conditioned solely upon whether or not the umbilical cord has
been cut or the placenta detached.
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SB 117
(Petersen) – Serving of meals by churches – Exempts
churches serving meals consisting of food prepared in the
homes of members or in the kitchen of the church from
licensure requirements applicable to restaurants.
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SB 361 (Barker)
– Religious holidays; attendance records – Requires local
school boards to develop policies ensuring that any student's
absence because of the observance of a religious holiday be
recorded as excused on the student's attendance record and
that a student not be deprived of any award or of eligibility
or opportunity to compete for any award or of the right to
take an alternate test or examination, for any which he missed
because of such absence.
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SB 116
(Petersen) – Virginia Consumer Protection Act; religious
bodies – Provides that any transaction that involves the
advertisement, sale, lease, or license, or the offering for
sale, lease or license, of goods or services to a church or
other religious body constitutes a "consumer
transaction" for purposes of the Virginia Consumer
Protection Act.
Taxation/Finance
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SJ 97 (Barker)
– Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property
exempt from taxation –- Amends the Constitution of Virginia
to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to
establish their own income or financial worth limitations for
purposes of granting property tax relief for homeowners not
less than 65 years of age or permanently and totally disabled.
The Constitution presently requires a showing that the
homeowners granted property tax relief bear an extraordinary
tax burden on the property in relation to their income or
financial worth as provided by the General Assembly by state
law.
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SB 15 (Colgan)
– Bonds; capital projects at colleges and universities –
Authorizes the Treasury Board to issue bonds pursuant to
Article X, Section 9 (c) of the Constitution of Virginia in an
amount up to $206,870,000 plus financing costs to finance
revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher
education. The bill declares that an emergency exists and that
the bill is effective upon passage.
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SB 121
(Petersen) – Effect on rate when assessment results in
tax increase; public hearings – Provides that notice of the
public hearing a locality must hold prior to increasing its
real property tax when that locality's assessment of real
property results in a tax increase shall be given at least 14
days before the date of the hearing.
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SB 362 (Barker)
– Constitutional amendment (voter referendum) ; limit on
taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund –
Provides for a referendum at the November 2010 election on the
approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to
the limit on the size of the Revenue Stabilization Fund. The
proposed amendment increases the permissible size of the Fund
by 50 percent; i.e., from 10 percent to 15 percent of the
Commonwealth's average annual tax revenues derived from income
and sales taxes for the preceding three fiscal years.
Health
Care
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SB 283 (Quayle),
SB 311 (Martin) & SB 417 (Vogel) – Individual 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 eligible for health insurance coverage under
any policy or program provided by or through his employer or a
plan sponsored by the Commonwealth or the federal government.
The measure also states that no provision of Title 38.2
renders a resident liable for any penalty, assessment, fee, or
fine as a result his failure to procure or obtain health
insurance coverage. The measure does not apply to individuals
voluntarily accepting coverage under a state-administered
Medicare or Medicaid program.
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SB 622 (Wampler)
– Dental plans; reimbursement for health care services –
Prohibits a contract between a dental plan and a dentist or
oral surgeon from establishing the fee or rate that the
dentist or oral surgeon is required to accept for the
provision of health care services, or from requiring that a
dentist or oral surgeon accept the reimbursement paid by the
dental plan as payment in full, unless the services are
covered services under the dental plan. The measure applies to
contracts entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or
after July 1, 2010. The State Corporation Commission does not
have jurisdiction to adjudicate individual controversies
arising out of this measure.
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SB 652 (Northam)
– Public schools; policies in concussions – Requires the
Board of Education to develop and distribute to local school
divisions guidelines for policies dealing with concussions in
student-athletes and requires each local school division to
develop policies and procedures regarding the identification
and handling of suspected concussions in student-athletes.
·
SB 464 (Howell)
– Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum
disorder – Requires health insurers, health care
subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to
provide coverage for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) and for treatment of ASD in individuals from age two to
six, subject to an annual maximum benefit of $35,000. This
requirement does not apply to individual or small group
policies, contracts, or plans, and will not apply to the state
employees' health insurance plan until July 1, 2015. This
measure will not apply to an insurer, corporation, or health
maintenance organization if the costs associated with coverage
exceed one percent of premiums charged over the experience
period.
Energy
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SB 394 (Wagner)
– Offshore energy resources – States that it shall be the
policy of the Commonwealth to support oil and natural gas
exploration, development, and production 50 miles or more off
Virginia's coast. Currently, the policy is limited to
supporting exploration for natural gas resources 50 miles or
more offshore.
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SB 577 (McEachin
& Wagner) – Virginia Offshore Wind Project
Development Authority – Creates the Virginia Offshore Wind
Development Authority to facilitate and support the
development of the offshore wind industry and wind-powered
electric energy facilities located off the coast of the
Commonwealth beyond the Commonwealth's three-mile
jurisdictional limit. The Authority is charged with, among
other tasks, (i) identifying existing state and regulatory or
administrative barriers to the development of the offshore
wind industry, (ii) collecting metocean and environmental
data, (iii) upgrading port facilities to accommodate the
manufacturing and assembly of project components and vessels
that will support such projects, (iv) applying to the U.S.
Department of Energy for loan guarantees for such projects,
and (v) facilitating a negotiation process to prevent offshore
wind project development from impeding or interfering with the
conduct of defense-related operations. SB
393 is incorporated.
Miscellaneous
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SB 151 (Stuart) – Virginia Condominium
Act and the Virginia Property Owners’ Association Act;
display or the flag of the United States - Provides that a
unit owners' or property owner's association shall not
prohibit or otherwise adopt or enforce any policy restricting
a unit or lot owner from displaying upon property to which
that owner has a separate ownership interest or a right to
exclusive possession or use the flag of the United States
whenever such display is in compliance with the federal Flag
Code. The bill also provides that the unit owners' or property
owners' association may establish reasonable restrictions as
to the size, place, duration, and manner of placement or
display of the flag provided the restrictions are necessary to
protect a substantial interest of the unit owners' or property
owners' association. Under the bill, if an action is brought
by a unit owners' or property owners’ association to enforce
a rule pertaining to display of the flag, the unit or lot
owner may assert as an affirmative defense that the rule does
not protect a substantial interest of the association.
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SB 173 (Deeds)
– Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created –
Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare
redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for
the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional
districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one
each by the four majority and minority party leaders of the
House and Senate and by the state chairmen of the two major
political parties. Those six appointees shall appoint the
seventh member and chairman for the Commission. If they cannot
agree, they shall submit the names of the two persons
receiving the most votes to the Supreme Court for the Court to
select the chairman. The Commission will prepare plans and
submit them as bills to the General Assembly. The General
Assembly shall then proceed to act on the bills in the usual
manner. The bill provides for Commission comments on plans as
they change in the legislative process. It also spells out the
standards and process to be followed by the Commission in
preparing plans, including limitations on the use of political
data and opportunities for public comment on the plans.
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SB 237 (Watkins)
– Alcoholic beverage control; wine liter tax – Requires
the portion of the wine liter tax collected from the sale of
wine produced by farm wineries to be deposited in the Virginia
Wine Promotion Fund for use by the Wine Board.
·
SB 276 (Houck)
– Dam safety - Allows those dams that do not comply with dam
safety regulations to continue to operate so long as the owner
of the dam has adopted a dam safety emergency action plan.
These dams would continue to operate under conditional
operation and maintenance certificates without correcting any
deficiencies as long as funding is not available through the
Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund.
Once such funding is available the dams will have to comply
with all of the dam safety regulations.
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SB 289 (Deeds)
– Infant lifetime hunting and fishing licenses –
Establishes lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for
residents and nonresidents who are younger than two years of
age. The cost for infant lifetime licenses for hunting and
fishing is $125 each for residents and $250 each for
nonresidents. The original license remains valid even if the
licensee changes his place of residency.
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SB 302 (Martin)
– Voter registration application; citizenship – Provides
that the failure of an applicant to register to vote to
provide information regarding whether he is presently a United
States citizen shall constitute a material error or omission
in the application and the applicant shall not be registered
to vote.
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SB 313 (Martin)
– Absentee voters; central absentee voting precinct –
Provides that a voter, who has applied for but did not receive
or has lost an absentee ballot or who returns an unused or accidentally
spoiled absentee ballot, shall be allowed to vote on election
day at his precinct or proper polling place or at a central
absentee voter precinct for his county or city.
·
SB 395 (Wagner)
– Stormwater management regulations; effective date –
Extends the effective date of the regulation that establishes
local program criteria and delegation procedures and the water
quality and water quantity criteria based on the completion of
the Virginia Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) Implementation
Plan for the Chesapeake Bay Nutrient and Sediment TMDL
approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
and the regulations thereafter adopted to implement the Plan.
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SB 463 (Howell)
– Primary schedule in 2011 – Authorizes the State Board of
Elections to reschedule the June 14, 2011, primary, and revise
related schedules, if redistricting has not been completed and
pre-clearance from the appropriate United States authority
under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act has not been received in
time to hold the primary at the regularly scheduled time. The
Board may reschedule the primary to any Tuesday not later than
September 13, 2011. The bill applies to elections for the
Senate and House of Delegates, constitutional officers, and
local government and school board officers scheduled to be
elected on November 8, 2011.
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SB 471 (J.
Miller) – Defective drywall; penalties – Makes it a
prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act
for a supplier to sell, offer for sale, or use in the
construction, remodeling, or repair of any residential
dwelling in Virginia, any drywall that he knows or has reason
to know is drywall that, as a result of containing the same or
greater levels of strontium sulfide that has been found in
drywall manufactured in China and imported between 2004 and
2007, is capable of releasing sulfur compounds into the air.
Such a sale, offering or use of drywall that has been
designated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission as posing
a substantial product hazard is also made a prohibited
practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The
legislation applies to transaction occurring on or after July
1, 2010.
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SB 523 (Norment)
– Authorizes funds from the Virginia Disaster Response Fund
to be disbursed to political subdivisions to political
subdivisions, for costs incurred for the removal of Chinese
drywall hazardous materials, from, and subsequent repair of,
dwelling units. Under the bill, in order to qualify for
disbursements from the fund, the existence of the hazard in
the dwelling unit must be certified by the political
subdivision and the application for the funds must be made by
the political subdivision on behalf of the owner of the
dwelling unit constructed in the calendar years 2006 and 2007.
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SB 614 (Houck)
– Civil War Preservation Fund; established – Establishes
the Civil War Site Preservation Fund for the purpose of
awarding grants to private nonprofit organizations to preserve
endangered Virginia Civil War historic sites. The bill sets
out eligibility criteria for receiving a matching grant from
the fund. The Director of the Department of Historic Resources
is responsible for administering the fund.
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SJ 149 (Newman)
– Revocation of transfer of Jens Soering – Expresses
support of the revocation of the Commonwealth’s consent to
the transfer of Jens Soering to the Federal Republic of
Germany.
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