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Latest Action: 09/22/2008 - & I. Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Sales and use tax exemption; computers and computer-relatedequipment. Adds computers and computer-related equipment with a salesprice of $1,500 or less to the school supplies and clothing that are exemptfrom sales and use tax during a three-day period in August. The billincorporates HB's 758, 442, and 263.
Latest Action: 02/05/2008 - Incorporated by Commerce and Labor by voice vote Bill Text
Payday Loan Act; database. Requires the StateCorporation Commission, by January 1, 2009, to certify and contract with one ormore third parties to develop, implement, and maintain an Internet-accessibledatabase, and requires payday lenders to query the database prior to making anyloan to determine whether an applicant is eligible for the loan. Fifty centsmay be charged to defray the costs of using the database. The proceeds from thefees shall be used only for the payment of the expenses of the administrationof the Payday Loan Act and of the performance of other functions of the Bureauof Financial Institutions. This bill was incorporated into HB 12.
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - Incorporated by Appropriations by voice vote Bill Text
Appropriation act and budget bills; searchable electroniccopies. Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to maintain on its websitean electronic copy of the current appropriations act and any amendmentsthereto, and an electronic copy of any budget bill submitted for a newbiennium, and all amendments thereto. The electronic copies shall be completelyand easily searchable by the citizens of the Commonwealth using a commercialsearch engine. This bill is incorporated into HB 1360.
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - Incorporated by Appropriations by voice vote Bill Text
Searchable budget database website. Requires theDirector of the Department of Planning and Budget to maintain a searchablebudget database website that would allow persons to search and aggregateinformation for individual or specific appropriations or budget items. TheDirector would be required to have the database operational by July 1, 2009.When fully operational, all data in the database would be maintained for aminimum of 10 years. The bill would repeal a current provision that requiresthe Auditor of Public Accounts to maintain an online searchable databaseproviding certain state expenditure, revenue, and demographic information. Thisbill is incorporated into HB 1360.
Latest Action: 02/22/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Department of Education; best practices database. Requiresthe Department of Education to develop a database of local school divisions'best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, including results ofwellness-related fitness assessments. The database shall be accessible to alllocal school divisions and the Department of Health, and no school divisionshall be required to submit information to the database. This bill isidentical to SB 61 (Howell).
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote Bill Text
Hospital emergency departments; ability to access electronichealth records. Requires all hospitals that (i) engage in diversion at anytime and (ii) use electronic health records to have the information technologycapability to access electronic health records of other hospitals engaging indiversion in their emergency departments.
Latest Action: 02/04/2008 - Incorporated by Finance by voice vote Bill Text
Sales and use tax; school supplies sales tax holiday. Addscomputers and related equipment costing no more than $1,500 to the list ofproperty exempt from tax during the school supplies sales and use tax holiday,beginning in 2008. This bill was incorporated into HB 57.
Latest Action: 02/15/2008 - Enrolled Bill Text
Cathode ray tubes; disposal bans. Permits localities toprohibit the disposal of cathode ray tubes in any waste-to-energy or solidwaste disposal facility within its jurisdiction, provided the locality hasimplemented a recycling program that is capable of handling all cathode raytubes generated within its jurisdiction. Previously the ban only applied toprivately operated landfills.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Computer Recovery and Recycling Act; penalties.Requires the manufacturer of more than 500 items of computer equipmentto adopt and implement a recovery plan providing for the reasonablyconvenient collection, recycling, and reuse of computer equipmentreturned by a consumer in the Commonwealth. The manufacturer mustalso affix a permanent, readily visible label to the computer equipmentwith the manufacturer's brand before a manufacturer may offer computerequipment for sale in the Commonwealth. Examples of collection methodsmeeting the recovery plan requirements in this Act include (i) a systemby which the consumer may return the computer equipment free of charge;(ii) a system using a physical collection site; or (iii) a systemusing collection events at which the consumer may return computerequipment. Each manufacturer must annually report on the weight ofcomputer equipment collected, recycled, and reused during the precedingcalendar year.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Transportation Bill Text
Highway "welcome" signs and exit signs. Allowslocal governing bodies to put up "welcome" signs within highwayrights-of-way or within sight of highway rights-of-way to welcome travelers.These signs may include statements or phrases such as "birthplace of__________," "site of the __________," or "home of the__________." Such signs may also display the Internet web address of thelocality's official website. The bill also provides for display of theInternet address of a locality's official website on exit signs on controlled accesshighways.
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Latest Action: 01/31/2008 - Left in Education and Health Bill Text
Influenza vaccinations; information. Requires the Departmentof Health to publish, on its website, information on influenza disease and thebenefits of influenza vaccination for children under the age of 60 months. Alsorequires the Department to work with other state agencies, as well as privatechild care organizations, to make this information available to parents on anannual basis.
Latest Action: 02/22/2008 - Tabled in Privileges and Elections by voice vote Bill Text
Campaign finance disclosure; where and how to file candidatereports. Requires candidates, beginning January 1, 2009, for the GeneralAssembly and for local or constitutional offices in counties and cities with apopulation greater than 100,000 to file campaign finance disclosure reportselectronically with the State Board of Elections. Present law gives GeneralAssembly and local candidates the option to file electronically with the StateBoard. The bill applies statewide to the General Assembly candidates and to theCounties of Fairfax, Prince William, Henrico, Chesterfield, Arlington, andLoudoun and the Cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Richmond,Newport News, Hampton, Alexandria, and Portsmouth with respect to localcandidates.
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Methamphetamine precursors; electronic log. Requires thatthe log currently required to be maintained by sellers of products containingephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or any of their salts or isomers or any salts ofisomers must be kept in electronic format. The Board of Pharmacy is required toestablish and maintain the log and ensure that the log is capable of checkingcompliance against all state, local, and federal laws, including interfacingwith other states to ensure comprehensive compliance.
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Signed by President Bill TextSummary as passed: Databasebreach notification. Requires an individual or entity that owns orlicenses computerized data that includes personal information to disclose anybreach of the security of the system following discovery or notification of thebreach to the Office of the Attorney General and any affected resident of theCommonwealth whose unencrypted and unredacted personal information was, or isreasonably believed to have been accessed and acquired by an unauthorizedperson. A breach is defined as the unauthorized access and acquisition ofunencrypted and unredacted computerized data that compromises the security orconfidentiality of personal information maintained by an individual or entityas part of a database of personal information regarding multiple individualsand that causes, or the individual or entity reasonably believes has caused, orwill cause, identity theft or other fraud to any resident of the Commonwealth.Violations by a state-charted or licensed financial institution [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Education Bill Text
Standards of Quality; instructional programs. Requireslocal school boards to provide an opportunity for every high school student tointegrate approved online lessons or instruction or an online experience intorequired courses.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Nursing workforce information; publication on website.Requires that data related to the Commonwealth's nursing workforce, which iscurrently collected by the Board of Nursing, shall be published, in aggregateform and in a format that is accessible to the public, on the Department ofHealth Professions website.
Latest Action: 02/04/2008 - Incorporated by Science and Technology by voice vote Bill Text
Database breach notification. Requires aperson or business that conducts business in Virginia and that ownsor licenses computerized data that includes personal information toconduct a reasonable investigation to promptly determine the likelihoodthat personal information has been or will be misused when it becomesaware of an incident of unauthorized access to personal customer information.Notification must be made in the most expedient time possible andwithout unreasonable delay, consistent with the legitimate needs oflaw enforcement. The bill also contains alternative notification provisions.Any customer injured by a violation of this section may institutea civil action to recover actual damages or to enjoin any businessthat violates or has violated this section. This bill has been incorporatedinto HB 1469.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Transportation Bill Text
Highway "welcome" signs and exit signs. Allowslocal governing bodies to put up "welcome" signs within highwayrights-of-way or within sight of highway rights-of-way to welcome travelers.These signs may include statements or phrases such as "birthplace of__________," "site of the __________," or "home of the__________." Such signs may also display the Internet web address of thelocality's official website. The bill also provides for display of theInternet address of a locality's official website on exit signs on controlledaccess highways.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Computer crimes; website redirection; penalty. Adds aClass 6 felony to the list of computer trespass crimes if a person, withmalicious intent, intentionally alters the markup language or Uniform ResourceLocator (URL) of a website so as to redirect a user from his intended URL orwebsite destination to a third-party URL or website.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Computer invasion of privacy; personal information; penalties.Expands the type of information, the examination of which withoutauthority would constitute the crime of computer invasion of privacy, toinclude any personal information relating to any other person as well asanother person's name and date of birth.
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