Session Activity
Legislation
HB1123 Real and personal property tax; public service corporations. Clarifies that the tax rate to be applied to real and personal property of public service corporations is the locality's general real estate tax rate and does not include any other rate that localities are permitted to apply to certain energy-efficient buildings.
HB1124 Management agreement with
HB1125 Virginia Port Authority; Craney Island Marine Terminal expansion. Authorizes the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to grant easements and rights-of-way across and in the beds of Hampton Roads Harbor (Lower James River), including a portion of the Baylor Survey, to the Virginia Port Authority, for the eastward expansion of Craney Island.
HB1126 Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty. Provides that any person, including the pregnant female, who administers to or causes to be taken by a pregnant female any drug or other thing or uses means with intent to destroy her unborn child or to produce abortion or miscarriage and thereby destroys such child or produces such abortion or miscarriage is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill excepts medically approved contraceptives as a means of producing abortion or miscarriage. Current law does not with specificity include the pregnant female as a possible perpetrator.
HB1127 Campaign finance disclosure; required special reports for certain large contributions. Provides a technical correction to two sections requiring special reports for certain large contributions by adding a cross-reference to the section that covers the manner and place for filing the reports. An existing cross-reference in these sections covers the required contents of the special reports.
HB1128 Board of Pharmacy; continuing education. Allows the Board of Pharmacy to require two of the currently required 15 hours of continuing education to be in a specific subject area and exempts this requirement from the Administrative Process Act. Also allows the Board to determine, in regulation, the number of continuing education hours required for inactive status.
HB1129 Board of Pharmacy; expiration of licenses. Removes the requirement that certain licenses expire on January 1 annually, and instead allows the Board to set an annual expiration date by regulation. Contains emergency regulation clause.
HB1130 VDOT logo signs. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to allow businesses that cater to recreational vehicle users and participate in the Integrated Directional Sign Program to identify themselves through use of distinctive symbols or images.
HB1367 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); exemption for local government investment pools. Adds a FOIA exemption for the records maintained by the Department of the Treasury or participants in the Local Government Investment Pool, to the extent such records relate to information required to be provided by such participants to the Department to establish accounts.
HB1368 Per diem compensation for substitute and retired judges. Increases the daily per diem rate for substitute and retired judges from $200 to $250.
HJ159 U.S. Route 460 Communications Committee; report. Extends the mandate of the U.S. Route 460 Communications Committee until commencement of construction of the U.S. Route 460 project as approved by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in November 2005.
HJ187 Celebrating the life of Howard Nathaniel
HJ188 Celebrating the life of Obadiah Colander. Recognizes the memory and passing of Obadiah Colander, a bishop of Faith Temple Apostolic Ministries, Suffolk, Virginia.
HJ189 Celebrating the life of Herman T. Benn. Recognizes the memory and passing of Herman T. Benn, a respected citizen and pioneering attorney of Suffolk, Virgnia.
HJ190 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Thelma Norfleet. Recognizes the memory and passing of the Reverend Dr. Thelma Norfleet, a longtime public school teacher and beloved pastor of Tabernacle Christian Church, Suffolk, Virginia.
HJ191 Commending Chums Club of Suffolk on the occasion of its 70th anniversary. Commending Chums Club of Suffolk on the occasion of its 70th anniversary in 2007 and recognizing its excellence towards networking, camaraderie and outstanding service to others in the community.
HJ194 Study; transportation network of Hampton Roads. Establishes a 10-member joint subcommittee to conduct a one-year study of the transportation network of Hampton Roads.
