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Latest Action: 07/01/2008 - & I. Bill Text
Celebrating the life of Laurens Lee Miles.
Latest Action: 07/05/2008 - W. Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: Natural resources funding. Establishes the VirginiaNatural Resources Commitment Fund. The Fund would be capitalized withappropriated funds and moneys from public and private sources. Beginning July1, 2008, and for the next 10 years moneys in the Fund would be distributed tothe Department of Conservation and Recreation's Agricultural Best ManagementPractices Cost-Share Program for the implementation of agricultural bestmanagement practices (BMP). Fifty-seven percent of the moneys are to used formatching grants to implement BMPs on agricultural lands exclusively in theChesapeake Bay watershed and 38 percent of the moneys would be used for allother lands in the Commonwealth. Five percent of the moneys would be allocatedto soil and water conservation districts. This bill is identical to HB 1335(Landes).
Latest Action: 07/04/2008 - & I. Bill Text
Commending Mary Elizabeth McElroy Weil.
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Physical or sexual abuse of a child; school employees. Prohibitsthe employment of an applicant for employment requiring direct contact withstudents if such applicant is the subject of a founded case of physical orsexual abuse of a child. Additionally, the bill requires the dismissal of ateacher who while employed by a local school board, becomes the subject of afounded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child and has exhausted allavailable appeals. This bill also requires the Department of Social Servicesto report any founded complaints of sexual abuse of a child to a school board,where the subject of the report is a full-time, part-time, permanent ortemporary teacher in a school division located within the Commonwealth.
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.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Privileges and Elections Bill Text
Elections; absentee voting. Provides thatqualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing anexcuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on electionday. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasonsentitling a voter to cast an absentee ballot for those persons whovote absentee by mail. This bill is identical to SB 8 and SB 69.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed: Family life education; mental health. Adds mental healtheducation and awareness to the list of topics to be covered in family lifeeducation curricula.
Latest Action: 03/08/2008 - Bill text as passed House and Senate Bill Text
Commending Ruth Overton.
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Finance Bill Text
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VALORS).Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation asmembers of VALORS.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: Innovative Technology Authority; powers of board ofdirectors. Authorizes the Board of the Authority to designate thePresident and staff of the Center for Innovative Technology to carry out theday-to-day operations and activities of the Authority and to perform such otherduties as may be directed by the Board. The bill is identical to HB 578.
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Commending the Child Health Investment Partnership on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Left in Commerce and Labor Bill Text
Nominating a person to be elected to the VirginiaWorkers' Compensation Commission.
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - Read third time Bill TextSummary as passed Senate: Workers' compensation; alternative dispute resolution. Authorizes an employer primarily engaged in the constructionbusiness and a collective bargaining representative of its employees,with which the employer has a signatory agreement, to negotiate adispute resolution system, which may include mediation and bindingarbitration. The agreement may authorize or require the use of anagreed list of health care providers, which shall be the exclusivesource of examinations, treatment, and testimony provided under theWorkers' Compensation Act. The system would be an alternative todispute resolution procedures in the Workers' Compensation Act. Suchagreements may also address the use of an agreed list of health careproviders for treatment and examinations, light duty and return-to-workprograms, and vocational rehabilitation or retraining. Settlementsmust be approved by the Workers' Compensation Commission. Arbitrationdecisions may be reviewed in the same manner as decisions [...] show full description
Latest Action: 01/21/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice by voice vote Bill Text
Unsupervised probate. Allows a will to be probatedwithout supervision or intervention of the court if the will requests suchprobate or all beneficiaries of the will agree to such probate.
Latest Action: 02/26/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: Foster care; Code of Ethics agreement. Requires the Boardof Social Services to approve, in foster care policy, the language of thewritten agreement to be entered into by local boards and licensed child-placingagencies. This bill also provides that such agreements shall include at aminimum a Code of Ethics and mutual responsibilities for all parties to theagreement. This bill is identical to HB 850 (Orrock).
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Transitional benefits; TANF noncash benefits. Requiresthe Department of Social Services to continue to provide noncash TANF benefitsfor a period of five months after TANF cash benefits have been terminated.
Latest Action: 02/08/2008 - Incorporated by Rules by voice vote Bill Text
Illegal immigration; memorializing Congressto act. Requests Congress to provide federal agencies with thenecessary resources for the enforcement of existing federal immigrationlaws or, if Congress chooses not to provide those resources, to enactlegislation giving states the authority and funding to address theproblem of illegal immigration. This resolution has been incorporatedinto SJR 120 (Colgan).
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Rules Bill Text
Encourage the Government of Turkey to grant certain rightsto the Ecumenical Patriarch. Encourages the Government of Turkey togrant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition,ecclesiastical succession, and the right to train clergy of all nationalitiesand to respect the property rights and human rights of the EcumenicalPatriarchate.
Latest Action: 01/28/2008 - Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor Bill Text
Unemployment compensation; not speaking English is misconduct.Provides that an employee's inability or refusal to speak English at theworkplace, in violation of a known policy of the employer, constitutesmisconduct. An individual who is found by the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC)to have been discharged for misconduct connected with his work is disqualifiedfrom receiving unemployment compensation benefits. The VEC may considerevidence of mitigating circumstances in determining whether misconductoccurred.
Latest Action: 02/26/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Unemployment compensation; Indian tribes. Providesthat unemployment compensation benefits based on service in the employof an Indian tribe are payable to the same extent as benefits payableto other employees covered by the Virginia Unemployment CompensationAct. The measure provides Indian tribes with the option to make reimbursementpayments to the unemployment trust fund, in lieu of tax payments,to the same extent currently allowed for local governments. If anIndian tribe fails to make required payments, the tribe will becomeliable for the FUTA tax and the Virginia Employment Commission mayremove tribal services from unemployment coverage. SB 359 is identical.
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