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Democratic Central : Environmental legislation in the General Assembly

March 11, 2008
Here is a run-down of the environmental legislation presented in this session of the General Assembly: HB 18 and 19 -- David Englin's bills to amend and to repeal legislation passed during the 2007 session of the General Assembly to consolidate the existing three citizen boards -- the State Air Pollution Control Board, the State Water Control Board, and the Waste Management Board -- into one 11- member citizen board died in Committee. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bi... , http://leg1.state.va.us...

vahighered.com: Pamunkey heritage runs deep for native Virginian

March 4, 2008
James Krigsvold wants to study archaeology. After he graduates from Rappahannock Community College with an arts and sciences degree he wants to transfer and major in anthropology at the College of William and Mary. Last summer he attended the college?s Archaeological Field School. ?That experience really sold me on the idea.? He participated in the [...]...

Richmond Leaders : Lawmaking in Virginia: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

March 3, 2008
Could it be a ploy? Worse, a plot? Assembly Anonymous is suspicious. The General Assembly passes a bill, the governor signs it and a law is enacted. Everyone goes home, writes newsletters to constituents boasting about the accomplishments of the session. Much patting on the back. Yet, legislators may want to go easy on the bluster. Nearly the entire 2008 session has been dominated by undoing what the General Assembly previously did! Exhibit A: In 2002 an innocent little bill was passed, the ...

VB Dems : Tit for Tat, You Stupid Republicans

February 27, 2008
Tit for Tat, You Stupid Republicans Fourteen House Republicans defeated commonsense today when the House voted 14-8 against SB 51, the bill that allowed local governments to make their own decisions about health care insurance. I blogged about it here. But horrors upon horrors, if those employees of said local government might actually include homosexuals with an interest in insuring their lifelong committed partners. Writes the ?Some Families? Foundation: ?SB 51, however, was assigned to...

baconsrebellion.blogspot.com: Warning: Don't Let Your Legislator Play with Guns

February 22, 2008
We've all enjoyed a good laugh at the bull-testicles bill, but nothing strikes me as more mock-worthy than the debate over the right to carry concealed weapons in restaurants. Surely, people must have something better to worry about! I don't own a gun, never have and never will. But I don't get exercised about other people who do -- unless they're convicted felons, of course, or their last name is Cho. The Swiss are armed to the teeth. Every male of military age is enrolled in the national guar...

Recent Mentions in the Media

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• HB207
  Introduced: December 27, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009)
  
  : Animal pounds, local; clarifies definition.
• HB314
  Introduced: January 04, 2008
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540)
  
  : Assessors and appraisers; Department of Taxation to establish certification program.
• HB315
  Introduced: January 04, 2008
  Status: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice
  
  : Marijuana; expungement of charges.
• HB316
  Introduced: January 04, 2008
  Status: Stricken from docket by Finance
  
  : Neighborhood Assistance Act; organization to make available to donors balance of tax credit.
• HB317
  Introduced: January 04, 2008
  Status: Left in Appropriations
  
  : State employees; increases health insurance credits for those retired.
• HB821
  Introduced: January 08, 2008
  Status: Left in General Laws
  
  : Smoke Free Air Act; smoking in public places.
• HB822
  Introduced: January 08, 2008
  Status: Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (HB233-Cosgrove)
  
  : Dishwashing detergents; bans use of phosphorus therein for household dishwashing machines.
• HB823
  Introduced: January 08, 2008
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074)
  
  : Oripavine and lisdexamfetamine; adds to list of Schedule II drugs.
• HB824
  Introduced: January 08, 2008
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368)
  
  : Water quality information; Secretary of Natural Resources to be lead Secretary to coordinate.
• HB1305
  Introduced: January 09, 2008
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520)
  
  : Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program; increases annual assessment for physicians.
• HB1306
  Introduced: January 09, 2008
  Status: Left in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program; increases annual assessment for physicians.
• HB1307
  Introduced: January 09, 2008
  Status: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (HB1311-Byron)
  
  : Credit reports; fee exemption for security freezes for military personnel
• HB1308
  Introduced: January 09, 2008
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020)
  
  : Coastal primary sand dunes; authorizes additional localities to adopt ordinance.
• HB1309
  Introduced: January 09, 2008
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449)
  
  : Income tax, state; riparian waterway tax credit.
• HB1310
  Introduced: January 09, 2008
  Status: Continued to 2009 in Commerce and Labor
  
  : State Corporation Commission; grants provisional certification of gas distributors.
• HB1548
  Introduced: January 18, 2008
  Status: Continued to 2009 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  
  : Landfills; prohibits those publicly owned from accepting construction and demolition debris.
• HB1576
  Introduced: February 01, 2008
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)
  
  : Pruitt, William A.; awarded handgun for noteworthy service to Marine Resources Commission.
• HJ51
  Introduced: December 27, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ51ER)
  
  : Unemployment compensation benefits; Commission on Unemployment Compensation to study.
• HJ112
  Introduced: January 08, 2008
  Status: Stricken from docket by Rules
  
  : Beverage containers; JLARC to include in two-year study analysis of effectiveness of recovery, etc.
• HJ136
  Introduced: January 08, 2008
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ136ER)
  
  : Celebrating the life of Sergeant Mason Lee Lewis.
• HJ275
  Introduced: January 23, 2008
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ275ER)
  
  : Commending Theodore V. Morrison, Jr.
• HJ305
  Introduced: January 29, 2008
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ305ER)
  
  : Commending the 10 River Basin Grand Winners of the Clean Water Farm and the Bay Friendly Farms.
• HJ407
  Introduced: February 18, 2008
  Status: Agreed to by Senate
  
  : Celebrating the life of D. Henry Almond.
• HJ461
  Introduced: February 22, 2008
  Status: Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
  
  : Commending Virginia's Rx Partnership and its partners for service to the Commonwealth.

• HB322
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: Left in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Accident and sickness insurance; ethics and fairness in carrier business practices.
• HB325
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: Left in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Motor vehicle title loans; caps rate of interest that may be charged.
• HB936
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Continued to 2007 in General Laws
  
  : Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects; definitions.
• HB943
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Left in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Child labor; hour limits.
• HB945
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Tabled in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Pharmacy benefits managers; requirements for regulation and registration.
• HB946
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Left in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Health insurance; assignment of benefits to emergency care physicians.
• HB1632
  Introduced: November 09, 2006
  Status: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  
  : Inmate telecommunications systems; State Corporation Commission to regulate charges therefor.
• HB1633
  Introduced: November 09, 2006
  Status: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
  
  : Mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services providers; retaliation prohibited.
• HB1720
  Introduced: December 19, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025)
  
  : Gold mining, recreational; exempts miners from having to obtain permit if meet certain conditions.
• HB1948
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Incorporated by Finance (HB2545-Hogan)
  
  : Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for volunteer fire departments and rescue squads.
• HB1949
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0448)
  
  : Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund; indemnification claim time.
• HB1950
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Letter sent to Housing Study Commission
  
  : Engineers, licensed professional; Board of Health, et al., to accept private site evaluations, etc.
• HB1951
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Assigned GL sub: #1 Housing (Suit)
  
  : Traditional onsite sewage system; definition.
• HB1952
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Left in General Laws
  
  : Smoke Free Air Act; created.
• HB1953
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621)
  
  : Burial and funeral expenses; preneed contracts.
• HB1954
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Left in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Pharmacy benefits managers; regulation thereof.
• HB1955
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Assigned C & L sub: Financial Institutions (Dudley)
  
  : Payday loans; requires SCC to contract w/third party to establish database through Internet.
• HB1956
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Left in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Motor vehicle title loans; caps rate of interest that may be charged.
• HB2178
  Introduced: January 09, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014)
  
  : Schedule III controlled substances; adds embutramide to list thereof.
• HB2778
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: Left in Courts of Justice
  
  : Marijuana charges; expungement of records .
• HB2779
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: Impact statement from VDOT (HB2779)
  
  : Haley's Mill Pond Dam; Virginia Department of Transportation to repair dam in Middlesex County.
• HB2780
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303)
  
  : House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment in boundary line within King William County.
• HB2781
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304)
  
  : Transfer of highways, etc.; may transfer interest in or control over certain highways, etc.
• HB2782
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0879)
  
  : Bottomlands; conveyance of state-owned.
• HB2783
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0667)
  
  : Child labor offenses; civil penalty that may be assessed.
• HB2784
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: Impact statement from SCC (HB2784)
  
  : Electric utility restructuring; rates for customers receiving default service rates.
• HB3050
  Introduced: January 15, 2007
  Status: Impact statement from SCC (HB3050)
  
  : Electric utilities; repeals provisions of Electric Utility Restructuring Act.
• HB3133
  Introduced: January 18, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688)
  
  : Sanitary landfills; Department of Environmental Quality to develop postclosure guidelines.
• HB3134
  Introduced: January 18, 2007
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0892)
  
  : Onsite sewage systems; Board of Health to establish program for operation and maintenance thereof.
• HJ617
  Introduced: January 05, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ617ER)
  
  : Commending West Point Public Schools on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
• HJ730
  Introduced: January 10, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ730ER)
  
  : Yorktown Campaign of 1781; recognizing Gloucester County's important role therein.
• HJ764
  Introduced: January 18, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ764ER)
  
  : Celebrating the life of Specialist Eric Thomas Caldwell.
• HJ769
  Introduced: January 18, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ769ER)
  
  : Commending the Rx Partenrship for its service to the Commonwealth.
• HJ917
  Introduced: February 14, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ917ER)
  
  : Commending Margie E. Elliott.
• HR80
  Introduced: February 22, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House (HR80ER)
  
  : Commending John Warren Cooke.
• HR81
  Introduced: February 22, 2007
  Status: Bill text as passed House (HR81ER)
  
  : Commending Poroporone Baptist Church on the occasion of its 200th anniversary.

• HB322
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: Continued to 2007 in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Accident and sickness insurance; ethics and fairness in carrier business practices.
• HB323
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398)
  
  : Accident and sickness insurance; health care provider panel contracts.
• HB324
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0399)
  
  : Tax refund anticipation loans; requires persons who facilitate to display their fees and info.
• HB325
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: Continued to 2007 in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Motor vehicle title loans; caps rate of interest that may be charged.
• HB326
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
  
  : Workers' compensation; adds sole shareholders and members thereof.
• HB327
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400)
  
  : Personal property tax; classification of watercraft used for business purposes.
• HB328
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: Left in Finance
  
  : Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for funeral expenses.
• HB788
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0113)
  
  : Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals sunset provision.
• HB936
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Continued to 2007 in General Laws
  
  : Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects; definitions.
• HB937
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346)
  
  : Anabolic steroids; electronic ordering of Schedule II drugs and additions to Schedules IV and V.
• HB938
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (HB362-LingamfelHB9"
  
  : Game and Inland Fisheries; Board of; changes from a supervisory board to a policy board.
• HB939
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  
  : Game wardens; Director of Department of Game and Inland Fisheries given power to appoint.
• HB940
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201)
  
  : Rappahannock River; Marine Resources Commission to convey certain lands pertaining thereto.
• HB941
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265)
  
  : Workers' compensation liability; corrects the statement of the minimum ratio of debt to equity.
• HB942
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786)
  
  : Structured Settlement Protection Act; workers' compensation benefits.
• HB943
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Continued to 2007 in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Child labor; hour limits.
• HB944
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor
  
  : Wireless service; commercial mobile radio service is a public utility.
• HB945
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Continued to 2007 in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Pharmacy benefits managers; requirements for regulation and registration.
• HB946
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Continued to 2007 in Commerce and Labor
  
  : Health insurance; assignment of benefits to emergency care physicians.
• HB947
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Left in Appropriations
  
  : George P. Coleman Bridge; tolls to be removed therefrom.
• HB948
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603)
  
  : Abandoned vehicles; disposal thereof by localities.
• HB949
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
  
  : Old City Hall; Director of DGS to record declaration of historic preservation covenants relating.
• HB1319
  Introduced: January 11, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)
  
  : Tenants by entireties; allows transfer of real and personal property into trusts.
• HB1320
  Introduced: January 11, 2006
  Status: Left in Courts of Justice
  
  : Tenants by entireties; protect. against creditors to extend to prop. conveyed to limited liab. com.
• HB1321
  Introduced: January 11, 2006
  Status: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N)
  
  : Marijuana; expungement of charges.
• HB1322
  Introduced: January 11, 2006
  Status: G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358)
  
  : Mental illness; notice of release of acquittee.
• HB1415
  Introduced: January 16, 2006
  Status: Left in Appropriations
  
  : General registrars; shall serve on five-day per week full-time basis.
• HJ36
  Introduced: January 04, 2006
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ36ER)
  
  : Angelman Syndrome Awareness Week.
• HJ104
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Left in Rules
  
  : Medicaid; Joint Commission on Health Care to form subcommittee to study reform thereof.
• HJ105
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Stricken at request of Patron in Rules
  
  : Pocahontas Day.  
• HJ106
  Introduced: January 10, 2006
  Status: Tabled in Rules
  
  : American Revolutionary War flags; encouraging return thereof to State and Connecticut.
• HJ201
  Introduced: January 19, 2006
  Status: Stricken from House calendar
  
  : Honoring Pocahontas for her vital contributions to the settlement at Jamestown.
• HJ245
  Introduced: January 30, 2006
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ245ER)
  
  : Commending Judge Isaac Clinton Miller.
• HJ306
  Introduced: February 10, 2006
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ306ER)
  
  : Commending the Middle Peninsula Regional Security Center and Superintendent David L. Harmon.
• HJ5175
  Introduced: September 28, 2006
  Status: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ5175ER)
  
  : Commending the Reverend Marvin F. Kerby, Jr.
• HR10
  Introduced: January 24, 2006
  Status: Bill text as passed House (HR10ER)
  
  : State Corporation Commission; nomination for election of member.
• HR11
  Introduced: January 24, 2006
  Status: Bill text as passed House (HR11ER)
  
  : Workers' Compensation Commission; nomination for election of member.