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Bill #
Patron
Committee
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Pos
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Description
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Comm Action
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Chamber Action
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Opp/ Chamber Comm
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Comm Action
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Chamber Action
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H.B. 10
Wright
Appropriations
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Line of Duty Act; definition of deceased
person; fire company personnel of the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia
Air National Guard. Includes under the coverage of
the Line of Duty Act individuals employed as fire company personnel for the Virginia Air National Guard or
the Virginia National Guard’s Fort Pickett Reserve.
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Sub-committee
Compensation
Retirement
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Left in
Appropriations
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H.B 39
Scott
Transportation
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Text messaging while
driving. Prohibits operation of a motor vehicle,
bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric
power-assisted bicycle, or moped on the highways in the Commonwealth while
using any wireless telecommunications device for the purpose of sending,
receiving, or reading any text message.
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Passed by in
Committee with Letter
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H.B. 128
Purkey
Appropriations
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Virginia Retirement System; defined contribution
retirement plan. Creates a new defined contribution retirement
plan for all employees who begin employment on or after July 1, 2008, in
lieu of participating in any other retirement plan administered by the
Virginia Retirement System. All other employees may elect to participate in
the plan in lieu of participating in any other retirement plan administered
by the Virginia Retirement System
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Sub-committee
Compensation
Retirement
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Left in
Appropriations
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H.B. 152
Poisson
Rules
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Governmental employees; meet and
confer. Permits employees of the Commonwealth, its
political subdivisions, or any governmental agency of any of them, to form
associations for the purpose of discussing their interests with their
employing agencies whenever such agencies agree to engage in such
discussions. Current law permits these governmental employees to form such
associations for the purpose of promoting their interests before their
employing agencies
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Left in Rules
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H.B. 228
Cosgrove
Commerce
Labor
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Fire-safe cigarettes; civil
penalties. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer
for sale of cigarettes unless the cigarettes have been tested to determine
that they meet a performance standard for fire safety
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Reported Out
22-Y 0-N
W/Substitute
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Passed House
98-Y 0-N
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Senate
Commerce
Labor
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N
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H.B. 248
O’Bannon
HWI
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Emergency medical services;
definitions. Defines “emergency medical services
physician,” “emergency medical services provider,”
“operational medical director,” and “physician course
director.”
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Reported Out
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
98-Y 0-N
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Senate
Education
Health
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N
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H.B. 271
P. Miller
Appropriations
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Line of Duty Act.
Amends the definition of “deceased person” to include an
individual who suffers a heart attack or stroke during nonroutine,
stressful, or strenuous law-enforcement situations, fire suppression,
rescue, or other such activities and who suffers the heart attack or stroke
while engaged in the activity or not later than 24 hours after the
activity. The bill also allows for the $100,000 payment to the beneficiary
of the deceased to be annually adjusted to reflect changes in the Consumer
Price Index. VPFF introduced legislation
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Sub-Committee
Compensation
Retirement
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Left in
Appropriations
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H.B. 297
Hargrove
Privilege
Elections
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Government employees
associations; use of membership fees. Prohibits an
association of governmental employees from using an individual’s
membership fees to make contributions or expenditures in an attempt to
influence an election or to operate a political committee, unless the
individual has affirmatively authorized such use of his membership fees.
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Sub-Committee
Finance
Striken
by Patron
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H.B. 320
Cox
Gen Laws
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Statewide Fire Prevention Code;
fees for inspection; exceptions. Provides that the State
Fire Marshal may not charge any fee for permits issued for the inspection
of any school.
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Sub-Committee
Housing
Reported Out
Gen Laws
22-Y 0-N
referred to
Appropriations
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Passed House
98-Y 0-N
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Senate Finance
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Reported Out
10-Y 6-N
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Passed Senate
38-Y 2-N
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H.B. 333
McClellan
Finance
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Installation of automatic
sprinkler systems; tax credit for initial installation.
Requires that all buildings that (i) are more than
75 feet high or more than six stories high, (ii) are being used to house
individuals or to provide guest rooms for occupancy, and (iii) are not
equipped with an automatic sprinkler system would be equipped with an
automatic sprinkler system by December 31, 2017
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Sub-Committee
3
Re-referred to
General Laws
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Left in General Laws
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H.B. 485
Shuler
C.C.T.
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Carbon monoxide detectors in certain
buildings. Provides that any locality may, by ordinance,
require that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in the following
structures or buildings: (i) any building
containing one or more dwelling units, (ii) any hotel or motel regularly
used or offered for or intended to be used to provide overnight sleeping
accommodations for one or more persons, and (iii) rooming houses regularly
used, offered for, or intended to be used to provide overnight sleeping
accommodations.
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Re-referred to
Gen Laws
Sub-committee
Housing
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Left in General Laws
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H.B 498
Cosgrove
Gen Laws
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Uniform Statewide Building Code; Board of Housing and Community Development;
standards for the installation of in-building antenna systems.
Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to establish
standards for the installation of in-building antenna systems capable of providing
800 MHZ communication coverage.
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Left in General
Laws
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H.B. 532
Mathieson
Militia/Police
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Infectious disease presumption;
emergency declaration by Governor. Authorizes the
Governor to declare that a communicable, contagious or infectious disease,
or any condition that leads to the disease, is a disease or condition that
is covered by the existing infectious disease presumption for firefighters,
paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and certain law-enforcement
officers under the Virginia Workers Compensation Act. The presumption
currently exists for hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis, and
HIV. Such a declaration may be made after the Board of Health has issued an
order for the purpose of suppressing the outbreak of the disease and the
Governor has declared a state of emergency due to an outbreak of the disease
that poses a danger to the life and health of the public. VPFF Introduced legislation.
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Referred Commerce
Labor
Sub-Committee
1
Reported out of sub-committee
5-Y 3-N
Tabled
12-Y 9-N
Yes vote was a wrong
vote
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H.B. 546
Nixon
Commerce
Labor
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Multiline telephone
systems. Provides that an alternative method of providing
call location information exists when a 9-1-1 call to a public safety
answering point (PSAP) provides sufficient information to ensure that
emergency responders are dispatched to a location at the facility from
which the call was placed
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Reported Out
W/Substitute
20-Y 0-N
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Passed House
98-Y 1-N
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Senate
Commerce
Labor
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H.B. 852
Ebbin
Rules
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Collective bargaining for
governmental employees. Repeals provisions that
prohibit state and local officers, agents, and governing bodies from
collectively bargaining with a labor union or other employee association as
a bargaining agent of public officers or employees.
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9-Y 0-N
Without
Recommendation
Yes vote was a wrong vote for Bill
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Motion by Patron to Strike
43-Y 55-N
Motion to kill by Speaker
82-Y 0-N
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The vote was recorded as Rule69 which means that
those who did not vote were still recorded as voting against bill
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This bills vote is hard to record in this format.
Referred question to VPFF Office.
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H.B. 922
Rust
Transportation
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Vehicle registration fee increase
for firefighting and emergency medical services.
Increases the $4-for-life fee to $4.25, with the revenues generated by the
additional $0.25 to be used for costs associated with the certification and
recertification training of emergency medical services personnel.
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Sub-Committee
1
Reported Out
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
88-Y 10-N
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Senate
Transportation
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Reported Out
12-Y 3-N
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Passed Senate
30-Y 9-N
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H.B. 981
Nutter
Appropriations
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M
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Virginia Retirement System; local law-enforcement
officers. Requires localities choosing to provide
retirement benefits to local law-enforcement officers that are comparable
to the benefits provided to state police officers, to compute a factor in
the retirement benefits by multiplying average final compensation by
1.85%Under current law the localities may choose a multiplier of 1.7% or
1.85%.
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Sub-Committee
Compensation
Retirement
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Left in
Appropriations
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H.B. 998
Bell
Gen Laws
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M
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Line of Duty Act; definition of
disabled person. Amends the definition of disabled person,
for purposes of the Line of Duty Act, to include permanently disabled local
employees who were injured in the line of duty on or after January 1, 1990.
The Act currently provides health insurance coverage to eligible disabled
state employees retroactively to 1966, but is not retroactive for disabled
local employees
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Sub-Committee
Housing
Reported Gen Laws
22-Y 0-N
Referred to
Appropriations
Comp/Retirement
Sub-committee
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Left in
Appropriations
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H.B. 1072
Caputo
Commerce
Labor
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Fire-safe cigarettes; civil
penalties. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or offer for
sale of cigarettes unless the cigarettes have been tested to determine that
they meet a performance standard for fire safety. The test predicts the
likelihood that a cigarette will ignite material with which it comes in
contact. Cigarette manufacturers are required to file a certification with
the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services that their cigarettes
meet the mandated performance standard as measured by the prescribed test.
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Rolled into
HB 228
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H.B. 1154
Phillips
Appropriations
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Retirement credit for unused sick
leave. Provides that the unused sick leave balances
of state and local employees who are not covered by the Virginia Sickness
and Disability Program or an employer-sponsored short- or long-term
disability sickness plan would be converted into additional retirement
credit upon the effective date of retirement. Unused sick leave would be
converted into retirement credit at the rate of one month of service for
each 173 hours of unused sick leave.
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Sub-Committee
Compensation
Retirement
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Left in
Appropriations
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H.B. 1225
Bowling
Commerce
Labor
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Fire Programs Fund. Increases
the rate of the assessment for the Fire Programs Fund from one to 1.5
percent of the total direct gross premium income for fire and related lines
of insurance.
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Continued to
2009
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H.B. 1294
Athey
Courts/Justice
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Good Samaritan statute; where
protection extends; what is considered compensation.
Provides that immunity under the statute extends to those providing
care at a location for screening or stabilization in addition to the scene
of the accident and en route to the hospital. Also the bill clarifies that
reimbursement for expenses is not considered compensation under the
statute.
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Sub-Committee
Civil
Reported Out
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
99-Y 0-N
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Senate Court
Justice
Sub-committee
Civil
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N
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H.B. 1302
Nichols
Transportation
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Incident management.
Makes several changes to the law in order to increase the effectiveness and
efficiency of various aspects of incident management in the Commonwealth.
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Reported Out
22-Y 0-N
Referred to Courts
Justice
Reported Out of Courts
22-Y 0-N
W/amendment
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Passed House
99-Y 0-N
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Senate Transportation
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N
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H.B. 1340
Barlow
Commerce
Labor
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Fire Programs Fund. Increases
the rate of the assessment for the Fire Programs Fund from one to 1.5
percent of the total direct gross premium income for fire and related lines
of insurance.
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Commerce
Labor
Sub-committee
1
Rolled into
HB 1225
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H.B. 1353
Gear
Gen Laws
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Fire Prevention Code; fireworks. Essentially
prohibits a locality from restricting the manufacture, transportation,
storage, sale or use of any permissible firework. Defines permissible
firework as any ground-based or hand-held sparkler, fountain, snake, cap for pistols, spinner or smoke item.
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ABC/Gaming
Sub-Committee
Striken
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H.B. 1436
Bulova
Gen Laws
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Line of Duty Act; definitions;
funding for Line of Duty Health Benefits Trust Fund. Includes
local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in the definition of
disabled employee. The bill also provides for a $1 fee to be collected from
alarm company operators for each alarm system monitored and a $5 fee to be
collected for processes and services in civil proceedings to provide
funding to the Line of Duty Health Benefits Trust Fund.
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Sub-committee
Housing
Reported Out
14-Y 8-N
referred to Appropriations
Comp/Retirement
Sub-committee
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Left in
Appropriations
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H.B. 1501
Amundson
Militia
Police
Pub
Safety
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Firefighters; task force to
develop training standards. Creates a task force,
appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety, to develop criteria for the training
and certification of all firefighters in Virginia. The bill sets out the
membership of the task force and its duties. VPFF worked with other stakeholders to introduce this legislation
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PBI
15-Y 7-N
Yes was a wrong vote
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H.J. 233
Moran
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Celebrating
the life of Jack Carper.
VPFF
Introduced Legislation
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Engrossed in House
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Agreed to in House
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Communicated to the
Senate
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Engrossed in Senate
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Agreed to in Senate
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Bill #
Patron
Committee
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Pos
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SENATE
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Comm Action
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Chamber Action
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Opp/ Chamber Comm
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Comm Action
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Chamber Action
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S.B. 20
Edwards
Local
Govt
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S
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Carbon monoxide detectors in
certain buildings. Provides that any locality may, by
ordinance, require that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in the
following structures or buildings: (i) any
building containing one or more dwelling units, (ii) any hotel or motel
regularly used or offered for or intended to be used to provide overnight
sleeping accommodations for one or more persons, and (iii) rooming houses
regularly used, offered for, or intended to be used to provide overnight
sleeping accommodations.
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Reported out
15-Y 0-N
referred to General Laws
Reported Out
W/amendment
14-Y 1-N
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Passed Senate
39-Y 1-N
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House General Laws
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Left in Committee
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S.B. 41
Reynolds
Courts/Justice
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Line of Duty Act; definitions. Amended to conform to SB
329
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Sub-Committee
Civil
Reported Out
14-Y 0-N
Referred to
Finance
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Passed Senate
39-Y 1-N
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House Appropriations
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Left in
Committee
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S.B. 110
McDougle
Finance
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Retirement benefits; public safety
officers and state police officers. Makes legislation
passed by the 2007 Session of the General Assembly that increased
retirement benefits for certain sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, public safety
officers, and state police officers applicable to persons who retired from
service on or after July 1, 2002. Under the 2007 legislation, among other
changes, the average final compensation retirement multiplier for sheriffs
and state police officers was increased from 1.7 percent to 1.85 percent,
and all deputy sheriffs of localities participating in the Virginia
Retirement System were provided LEOs retirement
benefits.
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Left In Finance
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S.B. 167
Blevins
Gen Laws
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Uniform Statewide Building Code; use of noncombustible materials in the
construction of certain structures. Requires the Board of
Housing and Community Development to promulgate regulations establishing
standards for requiring the use of noncombustible materials in the
construction of assisted living facilities, residential dwelling units
designed or developed and marketed to senior citizens, nursing homes, and
nursing facilities.
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PBI
14-Y 0-N
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S.B. 168
Stuart
Finance
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Individual income tax; volunteer
firefighters and emergency medical services personnel tax credit.
Provides an income tax credit for individuals who volunteer as firefighters
or emergency medical services personnel and are in good standing in an
amount ranging from $500 to $3,000 annually, depending on length of service
and satisfaction of certain training requirements.
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Left In
Finance
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S.B. 228
McDougle
Rehab
Social Services
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M
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Mandatory child abuse reporters; EMS personnel. Adds emergency
medical services personnel certified by the Board of Health to the list of
mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.
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Reported Out
W/substitute
14-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
39-Y 0-N
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Health Welfare
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Reported Out
21-Y 0-N
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Passed House
98-Y 0-N
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S.B. 329
Quayle
Finance
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Line of Duty Act; definitions;
funding for Line of Duty Health Benefits Trust Fund.
Includes local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in the
definition of “disabled employee.” The bill also provides for a
$1 fee to be collected from alarm company operators for each alarm system
monitored and a $5 fee to be collected for processes and services in civil
proceedings to provide funding to the Line of Duty Health Benefits Trust
Fund. VPFF Introduced Legislation
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Reported Out
W/amendments
16-Y 0-N
Re-referred to Court of
Justice
sub-committee
Civil
Reported Out
of Courts
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
39-Y 1-N
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Appropriations
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Left in Committee
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