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Administration of the Government

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P HB 1673

Commission on Immigration. Creates the Virginia Commission on Immigration as an advisory commission in the executive branch. The purpose of the Commission is to study, report, and make recommendations to address the costs and benefits of immigration on the Commonwealth, including the impact on education, health care, law enforcement, local demands for services and the economy, and the effect on the Commonwealth of federal immigration and funding policies. The Commission expires on August 1, 2009. This bill incorporates HJR 776.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

P HB 1790

Freedom of Information Act; access by persons civilly committed under the Sexually Violent Predators Act. Provides that the Freedom of Information Act does not afford any rights to persons civilly committed pursuant to the Sexually Violent Predators Act, except in exercising their constitutionally protected rights.
Patron - Griffith

P HB 1791

Freedom of Information Act; responses to requests for public records. Adds an additional response to address situations when a public body receives a request for public records under FOIA but cannot find the requested records or the requested records do not exist. The bill also clarifies the other responses to requests for public records under FOIA. The bill also contains technical amendments.
Patron - Griffith

P HB 1942

Administrative Process Act; economic impact analysis of regulations to be provided to members of the General Assembly. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to provide an electronic copy of its economic impact analysis to each member of the General Assembly.
Patron - Purkey

P HB 1943

Comptroller; reports of other obligations of the Commonwealth. Provides that to assist in the managing, planning, and budgeting of the state's financial resources, the Comptroller, in conjunction with the Secretary of Finance, shall report biannually to the Governor and the members of the General Assembly each off-balance sheet financial obligation of the Commonwealth, itemized by agency, board, institution, or authority of the Commonwealth, and such other obligations of the Commonwealth that are estimated by the Comptroller to be incurred.
Patron - Purkey

P HB 1997

Conveyance of property by the Commonwealth. Requires prior written notice to the General Assembly of any transaction involving military property owned by the Commonwealth. A certification of compliance with the notice requirement in a deed or other instrument conveying military property shall serve as prima facie evidence of compliance, absent knowledge to the contrary by the purchaser or transferee.
Patron - Suit

P HB 2030

Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council; created. Creates the Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council to advise the Governor on policy and funding priorities to promote the modeling and simulation industry in the Commonwealth.
Patron - Cosgrove

P HB 2032

Department for the Aging; long-term care services. Expands the type of long-term care services that must be provided, including transportation, educational, and housing services and opportunities for self-care and independent living.
Patron - Hamilton

P HB 2033

Secretary of Health and Human Resources; duties. Provides that the Secretary of Health and Human Resources shall serve as the lead Secretary for the coordination and implementation of the long-term care policy of the Commonwealth, working with the Secretaries of Transportation, Commerce and Trade, and Education, and the Commissioner of Insurance, to facilitate interagency service development and implementation, communication, and cooperation. This bill is identical to SB 1024.
Patron - Hamilton

P HB 2062

Freedom of Information Act; Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; land records. Provides that the Freedom of Information Act does not apply to land records available via secure remote access. The bill provides requirements for posting land records via secure remote access to the Internet and requires, beginning July 1, 2010, that social security numbers not be contained in such documents. Judgments, however, will contain the last four digits of a social security number for identification purposes. The clerk is given the authority to reject documents that contain social security numbers and also is allowed to perform a global redaction of social security numbers from those documents filed before the 2010 deadline. The bill also allows the use of the Technology Trust Fund to pay for redaction. The bill clarifies that the clerk is to charge $0.50 per electronic image for transmitting "papers or records" to go out of his office in the same manner that he charges $0.50 per page for copying. The bill is identical to SB 824.
Patron - McQuigg

P HB 2137

Procurement of services by certain state agencies. Requires the Division of Purchases and Supply of the Department of General Services, the CIO of VITA, and the Director of SCHEV to solicit from each state agency under their respective control a list of all procurements conducted by an agency that were competed with the private sector by October 1, 2009. The bill also requires that the Commonwealth Competition Council update its commercial activities list every two years.
Patron - Cline

P HB 2153

Virginia Public Broadcasting Board; membership. Decreases the membership of the Virginia Public Broadcasting Board from 15 to 14 members by removing the chairman of the State Council of Higher Education. The bill is identical to SB 1278.
Patron - Tata

P HB 2196

Powers of the CIO. Gives the CIO of the Commonwealth the power to enter into contracts with one or more other public bodies, or public agencies or institutions or localities of the several states, of the United States or its territories, or the District of Columbia for the provision of information technology services. The CIO must have the approval of the Information Technology Investment Board for any contracts over $1,000,000.
Patron - Nixon

P HB 2198

Electronic health records. Requires any electronic health records system or software purchased by a state agency to adhere to accepted standards for interoperability or to be certified by a recognized certification body. The bill also requires state agencies making grants available to other entities for electronic patient information or electronic health records to ensure that the systems or software adheres to accepted standards for interoperability, privacy and data exchange or has been certified by a nationally recognized certification body.
Patron - Nixon

P HB 2213

Virginia Personnel Act; exemptions; employees of the Indigent Defense Commission. Exempts employees of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission from the provisions of the Virginia Personnel Act.
Patron - Armstrong

P HB 2229

Consolidation of reports. Consolidates the Tributary Strategy Implementation Report, the Watershed Planning and Permitting Report, and the Water Quality Improvement Fund Annual Report into the Impaired Waters Clean-up Plan Report.
Patron - Lewis

P HB 2240

Virginia War Memorial. Requires the State Treasurer to advance a loan of $3.5 million to the Department of General Services for the state share of the construction of an educational wing for the Virginia War Memorial in the form of a short-term treasury loan, with no interest, upon certification by the Secretary of Administration that $2 million in private funds have been raised, are available, and will be used to support construction.
Patron - Cox

P HB 2259

Freedom of Information Act; records of regional and local park authorities. Expands the current record exemption for state or local park and recreation departments to include local and regional park authorities. As a result, certain records of such authorities are not subject to mandatory public disclosure.
Patron - Rust

P HB 2304

Emergency management and preparedness; mutual aid agreements. Specifies that personnel, equipment, or supplies of the Commonwealth or a political subdivision may be used to assist another state that has declared a state of emergency upon written request of the chief executive of the other state. In addition, the bill authorizes the Governor to provide financial assistance to Virginia state agencies and political subdivisions that provide emergency aid to another state and authorizes the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority police department to assist the National Capital Region and abutting localities and entities in the case of emergency. The bill also increases from 29 to 34 the membership of the Secure Commonwealth Panel by adding the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia and four members from the business or industry sector. The bill is identical to SB 1202.
Patron - Sherwood

P HB 2307

Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority; board of directors; membership. Increases the members of the board of directors for the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority from 16 to 17 by adding the Adjutant General of Virginia. The bill provides that the Adjutant General shall serve a term on the board of directors coincident with his term of office.
Patron - Lingamfelter

P HB 2391

Virginia Public Procurement Act; Virginia Retirement System; disability determination services. Exempts the procurement of disability determination services by the Virginia Retirement System from the Virginia Public Procurement Act.
Patron - Ingram

P HB 2392

Virginia Public Funds Act; Virginia Retirement System. Amends the Virginia Public Funds Act to authorize the Virginia Retirement System to provide for the investment of funds as authorized by law, including the pooling of assets for investment.
Patron - Ingram

P HB 2468

Governor's Development Opportunity Fund. Adjusts eligibility for grants or loans from the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund for projects that are in a city or county whose annual average unemployment rate for the most recent calendar year is one and a half times or more the state average. In such cases, the minimum amount of private investment is lowered from $10,000,000 to $7,500,000 and the number of new jobs that must be created from 100 to 75. For localities with a population between 50,000 and 100,000 the minimums are lowered from $5,000,000 in private investment to $3,500,000 and from 50 new jobs to 35. For localities with less than 50,000 in population, minimums are lowered from $2,500,000 in private investment to $1,500,000 and from 25 new jobs to 15. In addition, the bill provides that localities that have created Regional Industrial Facilities Authorities shall be eligible at the lowest investment and job creation threshold of any locality in that Authority.
Patron - Marshall, D.W.

P HB 2527

Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; rights of data subjects. Requires agencies covered by the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act to respond to a data subject for inspection of his record in five working days after receiving the request or within a time period as may be mutually agreed upon by the agency and the data subject. The bill references the pertinent section of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) so as to treat requests made under the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act in the same manner as requests under FOIA, in terms of response time and invoking applicable exemptions, etc. The bill also clarifies that charges for document production shall be in accordance with FOIA provisions.
Patron - Iaquinto

P HB 2537

Administrative Process Act. Amends the Administrative Process Act by renumbering provisions relating to the promulgation of regulations by state agencies including public notice and participation and use of the Regulatory Town Hall throughout the process. In addition the bill clarifies the process for promulgating emergency regulations and provides for such regulations to be adopted, in certain instances, upon consultation with the Attorney General and approval of the Governor. Under the bill, the duration of an emergency regulation may be extended for up to six months beyond the initial one year effective period if approved by the Governor. The bill also (i) changes the venue for informal fact finding proceedings and formal hearings to the city or county where the administrative agency maintains its principal office or as the parties may otherwise agree, (ii) authorizes agencies using the fast track rulemaking process to provide for a public comment period of 30 days after the publication of the regulation in the Virginia Register and requires the Department of Planning and Budget to provide economic impact analysis within 30 days for such regulations, and (iii) authorizes an additional 30 days for the Department of Planning and Budget to complete fiscal impact statements under certain circumstances. The bill makes technical amendments and removes an obsolete provision. This bill is identical to SB 1139.
Patron - Landes

P HB 2558

Freedom of Information Act; certain information in rabies vaccination certificates. Exempts the identification of breed of a vaccinated animal and any personal identifying information relating to the animal owner that is not made a part of an animal license application from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.
Patron - Brink

P HB 2624

Government Performance and Results Act; effect of the aging population on state agencies. Requires each agency to report by November 15 of each year to the Department for the Aging its progress in addressing the impact of the aging of the population, according to guidance established by the Secretary of Health and Human Resources. The bill also requires the Department for the Aging to prepare a report summarizing the progress made by the agencies and submit such report to the Governor and the General Assembly by June 30 of the following year.
Patron - Reid

P HB 2669

Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings; Governor-declared state of emergency. Allows state public bodies to meet by electronic communication means without a quorum of the public body physically assembled at one location when (i) the Governor has declared a state of emergency in accordance with § 44-146.17, (ii) the meeting is necessary to take action to address the emergency, and (iii) the public body otherwise complies with the electronic communication meetings law.
Patron - Sherwood

P HB 2690

Virginia Military Advisory Council; membership. Increases from 25 to 27 the membership of the Virginia Military Advisory Council by adding the Secretary of Public Safety and one member who shall be a representative of a major military command and installation located in Virginia or an adjacent jurisdiction.
Patron - Suit

P HB 2758

Freedom of Information Act; posting of meeting notices and minutes. Clarifies where meeting notices and minutes of state public bodies must be posted. The bill also specifies that only notices of public hearings on regulations need be published in the Virginia Register. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Code Commission.
Patron - Hurt

P HB 2835

Attorney General; compromise and settlement of disputes. In addition to making clarifying changes, increases from $50,000 to $250,000 the amount arising in a dispute, claim, or controversy involving the interests of the Commonwealth that the Attorney General may compromise and settle.
Patron - Peace

P HB 2840

Virginia Personnel Act; personnel administration; preference for veterans for employment with the Commonwealth. Provides a veteran who applies for employment with the Commonwealth a preference during the selection process, if the veteran has received (i) an honorable discharge and served more than 180 consecutive days of full-time active duty in the armed forces of the United States or reserve components thereof, including the National Guard, or (ii) has a service-connected disability rating. The bill directs the Department of Human Resource Management to develop and distribute guidelines on this issue. This bill is identical to SB 1033.
Patron - Hall

P HB 2850

Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment. Amends the name of the "Intermodal Office" to the "Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment" and provides for additional duties of the Office.
Patron - Moran

P HB 2906

Community Action Act; designation of community action agencies; rescission of designation. Revises the process for the designation of a community action agency and for the rescission of such a designation.
Patron - Spruill

P HB 2928

Population brackets. Replaces population brackets and other descriptions found in the Code of Virginia with locality names. This bill is a recommendation of the Code Commission.
Patron - Landes

P HB 2946

Electronics recycling; security of state confidential data and personal information. Requires the Department of General Services to develop guidelines, with the advice of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to ensure that the transfer or other disposition of computers or information technology assets are consistent with data and information security policies developed by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency.
Patron - Plum

P HB 2982

Compensation of special counsel. States that special counsel is to be paid out of funds appropriated for the administration of the board, commission, division or department to be represented. Changes "defended" language to "represented" language.
Patron - Janis

P HB 3002

Investment of funds; affordable housing. Allows localities to consider the investment activities of qualifying institutions that enhance the accessibility of affordable housing to local employees in determining the award of any contract for time deposits or investment of their funds.
Patron - Scott, J.M.

P HB 3017

Youth Internet Safety Fund; established. Establishes the Youth Internet Safety Fund for the purposes of education, public awareness, and other activities to promote the safe and secure use of the Internet. The bill contains an emergency clause and provides that the Virginia Public Procurement Act does not apply to expenditures from the fund.
Patron - Callahan

P HB 3114

Aerospace Advisory Council; created. Creates the Aerospace Advisory Council within the executive branch to advise the Governor on policy and funding priorities to promote the aerospace and space exploration industry in the Commonwealth.
Patron - Cosgrove

P HB 3131

Secretary of Health and Human Resources; duties. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to coordinate the disease prevention activities of agencies in the Secretariat to ensure efficient, effective delivery of health related services and financing. The bill is identical to SB 1374.
Patron - Moran

P HB 3164

One-stop small business permitting program. Establishes a one-stop permitting program for small businesses. The program is to be administered by a business registration and permitting center in the Department of Business Assistance. Owners of small businesses, defined as establishments with no more than 100 full-time employees, will be able to complete a master application online to register their businesses with the state.
Patron - Moran

P HB 3171

Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority. Provides that the General Assembly may appropriate grants to the Authority for use by a nonprofit, public benefit research institute that (i) conducts research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations and (ii) commercializes technology. The Authority is authorized to create a nonprofit, nonstock corporation to administer the payment of such grants.
Patron - Landes

P SB 824

Freedom of Information Act; Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; land records. Provides that the Freedom of Information Act does not apply to land records available via secure remote access but that such access is governed by certain provisions of the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (see § 2.2-3800 et seq.). The bill provides requirements for posting land records via secure remote access to the Internet and requires, beginning July 1, 2010, that social security numbers not be contained in such documents. Judgments, however, will contain the last four digits of a social security number for identification purposes. The clerk is given the authority to reject documents that contain social security numbers and also is allowed to perform a global redaction of social security numbers from those documents filed before the 2010 deadline. The bill also allows the use of the Technology Trust Fund to pay for redaction. The bill clarifies that the clerk is to charge $0.50 per electronic image for transmitting "papers or records" to go out of his office in the same manner that he charges $0.50 per page for copying. This bill is identical to HB 2062.
Patron - Devolites Davis

P SB 845

Security of confidential state data. Requires the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth to develop policies, procedures, and standards relating to the security data maintained and used by state agencies. The policies, procedures, and standards must include requirements that a user be required to provide a password or other means of authentication to access a computer and to access a state-owned or operated computer network or database through the computer, and that a digital rights management system be used to control access to electronic records containing confidential information.
Patron - Devolites Davis

P SB 894

Office of the Attorney General; Department of Conservation and Recreation; representation in civil matters; special counsel for certain proceedings. Provides for the Attorney General to represent conservation officers of the Department in civil actions. The bill also provides for the Director of the Department of Conservation to employ special counsel to defend any conservation officer of the Department who is brought before any regulatory body, grand jury or investigated, arrested, indicted or prosecuted on any criminal charge arising out of any act committed in performing his official duties.
Patron - Deeds

P SB 938

Address Confidentiality Program; victims of domestic violence. Requires the Statewide Facilitator for Victims of Domestic Violence in the Office of the Attorney General to establish the "Address Confidentiality Program" to protect victims of domestic violence by authorizing the use of designated addresses for such victims. The bill limits its application to Arlington County with a report from the Office of the Attorney General on evaluation of the program by December 31, 2007.
Patron - Ticer

P SB 971

Department of Treasury; Division of Risk Management; supplement liability coverage for city and county sheriff's departments and regional jails. Provides that a sheriff's department of any city or county or a regional jail shall not be precluded from securing excess liability insurance coverage beyond the coverage provided by the Division.
Patron - Howell

P SB 987

Secure Commonwealth Panel; membership. Increases from 29 to 30 the membership of the Secure Commonwealth Panel by adding the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia and makes technical amendments.
Patron - Deeds

P SB 1001

Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings. Reduces the notice requirement for electronic communication meetings from seven to three working days and clarifies that political subdivisions, other than units of local government, may conduct electronic communication meetings. The bill also allows an individual member of a public body to participate in a meeting through electronic communication means from a remote location that is not open to the public in the event of an emergency, temporary or permanent disability or other medical condition, or when a member of a regional public body's principal residence is more than 60 miles from the primary meeting location. For a member to participate in the above described manner, the bill requires that a quorum of the public body be physically assembled at the primary or central meeting location and that the public body make arrangements for the voice of the remote participant to be heard by all persons at the primary or central meeting location. The bill defines "regional public body." The bill also contains technical amendments and is a recommendation of the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council.
Patron - Houck

P SB 1002

Freedom of Information Act; exemptions for PPTA and PPEA projects. Allows memoranda, staff evaluations, or other records prepared by the responsible public entity, its staff, outside advisors, or consultants exclusively for the evaluation and negotiation of proposals filed under the PPTA (Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995) and PPEA (Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002) to be withheld from public disclosure, where if such records were made public prior to or after the execution an interim or a comprehensive agreement, the financial interest or bargaining position of the public entity would be adversely affected. The bill allows any independent review panel appointed to review PPTA proposals and advise the responsible public entity concerning such records to meet in a closed meeting. The bill also contains technical amendments and is a recommendation of the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council.
Patron - Houck

P SB 1003

Freedom of Information Act; venue for enforcement actions. Clarifies that venue for the enforcement of FOIA rights and privileges against state public bodies, including state institutions, may be brought in general district court or the circuit court of the residence of the aggrieved party or of the City of Richmond. The bill addresses a recent Supreme Court of Virginia case of William F. Shaw v. John T. Casteen, et al, where the Supreme Court upheld the trial court's decision that a FOIA action against the University of Virginia could not be brought where the aggrieved party lived. The bill contains technical amendments and is a recommendation of the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council.
Patron - Houck

P SB 1004

Telecommuting; use of personal computers. Authorizes a state agency to allow eligible employees to use computer equipment not owned or leased by the Commonwealth to telecommute, if such use is technically and economically practical, and so long as such use meets information security standards as established by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, or the employee receives an exception from such standards approved by the CIO of the Commonwealth or his designee.
Patron - Devolites Davis

P SB 1012

Administrative Process Act; Department of Planning and Budget; fiscal impact analysis. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to include the costs of development of real estate for commercial or residential purposes in its fiscal impact analysis of proposed regulations. The bill also requires the Department to provide a copy of the economic impact analysis to the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules.
Patron - Saslaw

P SB 1024

Secretary of Health and Human Resources; powers. Clarifies that the Secretary of Health and Human Resources is responsible for coordinating the work of state agencies to implement the long-term care policy of the Commonwealth, including services that would ordinarily fall under another secretariat, such as transportation, commerce and trade, and education. This bill is identical to HB 2033.
Patron - Puller

P SB 1029

Powers of the Chief Information Officer (CIO); information security. Clarifies that policies, procedures, and standards developed for information security will apply to the Commonwealth's executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and independent agencies and institutions of higher education. The CIO shall work with representatives of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Joint Rules Committee of the General Assembly to identify their needs and address the scope and frequency of security audits. The CIO will coordinate these audits with the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Joint Rules Committee of the General Assembly shall determine the most appropriate methods to review the protection of electronic information within their branches.
Patron - O'Brien

P SB 1033

Virginia Personnel Act; personnel administration; preference for veterans for employment with the Commonwealth. Provides a veteran who applies for employment with the Commonwealth a preference during the selection process. Under the bill, the Department of Human Resource Management shall develop and distribute guidelines as an addendum to the Hiring Policy for Executive Branch agencies to provide guidance to agencies to comply with the veterans' preference requirement. This bill is identical to HB 2840.
Patron - O'Brien

P SB 1078

Virginia Tourism Authority; powers and duties of the Executive Director. Provides that the powers conferred upon the Virginia Tourism Authority are exercised by the Executive Director with the advice and counsel of the board of directors of the Authority. The bill designates the board as an advisory board and provides that the Executive Director shall not be a member of the board.
Patron - Ruff

P SB 1089

Virginia Public Procurement Act; prequalification for certain transportation contracts. Removes the reference to the Commonwealth Transportation Board from the exemption from prequalification provisions for contracts let pursuant to § 33.1-12, which details the power vested in the Board.
Patron - Puckett

P SB 1111

Freedom of Information Act; closed meetings; security of public buildings. Adds a closed meeting exemption for the discussion of reports or plans related to the security of any governmental facility, building or structure, or the safety of persons using such facility, building or structure.
Patron - Houck

P SB 1136

Council on Indians. Changes the membership of the Council on Indians to consist of the chiefs of the Virginia tribes officially recognized by the Commonwealth, two at large members appointed by the Governor from the Indian population residing in the state, and a member of the Governor's senior staff. The bill also authorizes the Council to establish an advisory committee consisting of members of recognized and nonrecognized Indian tribes. The bill contains technical amendments.
Patron - McDougle

P SB 1139

Administrative Process Act. Amends the Administrative Process Act by renumbering provisions relating to the promulgation of regulations by state agencies including public notice and participation and use of the Regulatory Town Hall throughout the process. In addition the bill clarifies the process for promulgating emergency regulations and provides for such regulations to be adopted, in certain instances, upon consultation with the Attorney General and approval of the Governor. Under the bill, the duration of an emergency regulation may be extended for up to six months beyond the initial one year effective period if approved by the Governor. The bill also (i) changes the venue for informal fact finding proceedings and formal hearings to the city or county where the administrative agency maintains its principal office or as the parties may otherwise agree, (ii) authorizes agencies using the fast track rulemaking process to provide for a public comment period of 30 days after the publication of the regulation in the Virginia Register and requires the Department of Planning and Budget to provide economic impact analysis within 30 days for such regulations, and (iii) authorizes an additional 30 days for the Department of Planning and Budget to complete fiscal impact statements under certain circumstances. The bill makes technical amendments and removes an obsolete provision. This bill is identical to HB 2537.
Patron - Wagner

P SB 1145

Department of Veterans Services; certification of businesses owned by special disabled veterans. Prohibits discrimination by public bodies in the solicitation and awarding of contracts and requires public bodies to establish a program to facilitate the participation of businesses owned by special disabled veterans in procurement transactions. The bill also requires the Department of Veterans Services to establish a program to certify businesses owned by special disabled veterans upon requests of owners of such businesses. The bill defines "service disabled veteran" and "service disabled veteran business."
Patron - Wagner

P SB 1199

Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment. Amends the name of the "Intermodal Office" to the "Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment" and provides for additional duties of the Office.
Patron - Houck

P SB 1202

Emergency management and preparedness; mutual aid agreements. Specifies that personnel, equipment, or supplies of the Commonwealth or a political subdivision may be used to assist another state that has declared a state of emergency upon written request of the chief executive of the other state. In addition, the bill authorizes the Governor to provide financial assistance to Virginia state agencies and political subdivisions that provide emergency aid to another state and authorizes the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority police department to assist the National Capital Region and abutting localities and entities in the case of emergency. The bill also increases from 29 to 34 the membership of the Secure Commonwealth Panel by adding the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia and four members from the business or industry sector. This bill is identical to HB 2304.
Patron - Wampler

P SB 1209

Virginia Economic Development Partnership; Virginia Investment Performance Grants. Allows an eligible manufacturer or research and development service to begin receiving incentive payments under the Virginia Investment Performance Grants subfund in the third year instead of the fourth year. In addition, the bill allows such payments to be made in the second year instead of the third year for distressed areas.
Patron - Hanger

P SB 1278

Virginia Public Broadcasting Board; membership. Decreases the membership of the Virginia Public Broadcasting Board from 15 to 14 members by removing the chairman of the State Council of Higher Education. This bill is identical to HB 2153.
Patron - Whipple

P SB 1281

Virginia Economic Development Partnership; Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grants. Reduces the waiting period for payments under the Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grant subfund from four to three years. The bill also (i) raises the aggregate amount of grants payable in any fiscal year from $3 million to $6 million, (ii) raises the aggregate amounts outstanding at any time from $15 million to $30 million, and (iii) removes the limit on incentive grants that may be awarded in any single biennium.
Patron - Stosch

P SB 1282

Public records; protection of law-enforcement officers; penalty. Includes identification of the person's primary residence address in the statute prohibiting the publishing of a person's name or photograph as well as their identifying information. Also states that if any person violates the statute (§ 18.2-186.3), and he knew or had reason to know that the person he was identifying was a law-enforcement officer, then he is guilty of a Class 6 felony instead of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Patron - Stosch

P SB 1332

State pool of funds for community policy and management teams. Expands the target population for receipt of state funds to include children requiring mental health services, provided that (i) the child is eligible for funding pursuant to subdivision A1 of § 2.2-5212; (ii) sufficient facts exist for a licensed mental health professional designated by the Family Assessment and Planning Team (FAPT) or by a juvenile court services intake officer to conclude that the child's behavior, conduct or condition presents or results in a serious threat to his well-being and physical safety, or, if he is under the age of 14, in a serious threat to the well-being and physical safety of another person; (iii) mental health services are required to prevent placement in foster care as determined and recommended by a licensed mental health professional designated by the FAPT; (iv) the FAPT indicates as a goal in the individualized family services plan that, absent the referenced mental health services, foster care is the planned arrangement for the child; (v) the mental health services are not covered by private insurance, and (iv) the child is not eligible for Medicaid upon initial evaluation of the listed criteria. This bill expands eligibility for state pool funds to include children requiring mental health services to avoid placement in foster care. This bill shall become effective only if reenacted by the 2008 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Patron - Devolites Davis

P SB 1352

Virginia War Memorial. Requires the State Treasurer to advance a loan of $3.5 million to the Department of General Services for the state share of the construction of an educational wing for the Virginia War Memorial in the form of a short-term treasury loan, with no interest, upon certification by the Secretary of Administration that $2 million in private funds have been raised, are available, and will be used to support construction. This bill incorporates SB 1343.
Patron - Stosch

P SB 1369

Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Retirement System. Provides an exemption for the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) and a local retirement system for trade secrets provided by a private entity to the extent that the disclosure of such records would have an adverse impact on the financial interest of the VRS or local retirement system. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Patron - Bell

P SB 1374

Secretary of Health and Human Resources; duties. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to coordinate the disease prevention activities of agencies in the Secretariat to ensure efficient, effective delivery of health related services and financing. This bill is identical to HB 3131.
Patron - Miller

P SB 1400

State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act. Provides that if the disqualification of a state or local government officer or employee who has a personal interest in a transaction leaves fewer than the number required by law to act, the remaining member or members shall constitute a quorum for the conduct of business and have authority to act for the agency by majority vote.
Patron - Colgan

P SB 1408

Commonwealth Competition Council; powers and duties. Requires the Commonwealth Competition Council to review the procurement process under the Public-Private Transportation and the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Acts.
Patron - Hanger

Failed

F HB 1658

Purchase of real property by public bodies; survey of property required. Requires state and local public bodies whenever acquiring by purchase a fee simple interest in real property that exceeds $100,000 to have a survey of the subject property completed prior to the purchase. Certain types of property are exempted.
Patron - Alexander

F HB 1697

Venture capital investments, investment return guarantees. Creates a program under which the Commonwealth makes investment return guarantees for certain investments made between January 1, 2007, and January 1, 2012, in venture capital funds that invest in technology firms located in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority shall administer the program. A venture capital fund eligible under the program must have an office in the Commonwealth, an established history of investing in businesses or industries that are in the early stages of development, and must enter into a contract with the Authority under which it promises to use its best efforts to invest three times the amount of principal it receives in technology firms located in Virginia. Pension funds, endowments, and other institutions investing in eligible venture capital funds shall receive investment return guarantees from the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth guarantees a 10% average annual rate of return over a 10-year horizon to such institutions incorporated or having administrative headquarters located in the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth guarantees to all other institutions that they will not lose any of their principal investment over the 10-year period. The financial guarantees are in the form of supplemental appropriations to such institutions such that the guaranteed rates of return are realized.
Patron - Purkey

F HB 1705

Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority; employees. Clarifies that employees of the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority are eligible to participate in the Virginia Retirement System, and in all other benefits available to classified state employees.
Patron - Lingamfelter

F HB 1781

Surplus materials; definition. Provides that band uniforms retained by public institutions of higher education shall not be considered "surplus materials."
Patron - Cosgrove

F HB 1809

Department of General Services; state purchase of clean alternative fuel or hybrid passenger-type vehicles. Provides that vehicles purchased for the centralized fleet shall be clean alternative fuel or hybrid passenger-type vehicles and that the purchase shall follow annual percentage rate targets resulting in a target of 100% of purchases being clean alternative fuel or hybrid vehicles by 2012, provided such vehicles are available commercially and have a total life-cycle cost that is comparable to similar conventional fuel passenger-type vehicles. The bill defines life-cycle cost and requires the Director of General Services to ensure that a life-cycle cost analysis is done before awarding a purchase contract.
Patron - Poisson

F HB 1845

Commonwealth Realignment Commission. Creates the Commonwealth Realignment Commission as an independent agency of state government. The purpose of the Commission shall be to review the performance, relevance, and management efficiency of the programs, activities, and agencies of state government. The bill sets out the membership of the Commission and its duties.
Patron - Saxman

F HB 1907

State Auditor. Creates the Office of State Auditor as of January 1, 2009, and provides for the election of the State Auditor for an eight-year term beginning with the November 2008 election. Repeals the provisions establishing the Auditor of Public Accounts effective January 1, 2009.
Patron - Albo

F HB 1917

Virginia Public Procurement Act; required disclosure of the location where services are to be performed under the contract. Requires prospective vendors for state service contracts to disclose the location where services will be performed under the contract, including any subcontracts, and whether any services under the contract, including any subcontracts, are anticipated to be performed outside of the United States. In addition, the bill provides that the state public body may consider the disclosure of the prospective vendor and the economic impact to the Commonwealth and its citizens in awarding the contract or evaluating the bid or offer. Under the bill, if the vendor subsequently changes the location where the services are performed to a location outside of the Untied States, then the vendor will be in breach of the contract unless the public body makes a written determination that circumstances required the change in location or termination of the contract would not be in the best interest of the Commonwealth. The bill also provides for the Department of General Services to submit to the Governor and General Assembly by September 30 of each year a report detailing the impact of outsourcing services on the procurement cost of the Commonwealth.
Patron - Ward

F HB 1928

Lighting standards for public buildings. Requests that the Division of Engineering and Building propagate standards for the lighting of public buildings, communications towers, and antennae to minimize adverse impacts to migratory birds.
Patron - Griffith

F HB 1939

Virginia Technology and Biotechnology Research and Development Fund created. Creates the Virginia Technology and Biotechnology Research and Development Fund to attract technology or biotechnology companies to, or assist those companies located in, the Commonwealth. Moneys in the Fund shall only be applied to qualified research expenses and basic research payments (as defined by § 41 of the Internal Revenue Code) for research conducted in the Commonwealth. Qualified research expenses are defined as in-house expenses or contract research expenses, paid by a technology or biotechnology company. Basic research payments are defined as payments made to companies and nonprofit research institutions and organizations located in the Commonwealth for research in technology and biotechnology. No grant to a company from the Fund is to exceed $500,000 per year. The Innovative Technology Authority shall administer this fund.
Patron - Purkey

F HB 1940

Designation of budget surplus for transportation. Requires one-half of any budget surplus remaining at the end of each fiscal year to be designated for deposit into the Transportation Trust Fund by the Comptroller after certain other reserves and designations have been made.
Patron - Purkey

F HB 2117

Community Investment Corporation Development Act. Provides for the creation of community investment corporations as a for-profit, citizen-owned managed real estate planning and development corporation. Such corporations may (i) receive title to land, natural resources, or physical infrastructure donated by a not-for-profit organization or government entity, (ii) borrow money on behalf of its shareholders, who are the registered voters in a local or regional area, to purchase land, plan its use, and develop the land for productive purposes, and (iii) enable the citizen-shareholders to gain a definable ownership interest in local real estate, share in appreciated land values and profit from the lease and sale of real estate. The bill also creates the Community Investment Corporation Development Commission to assist state and local entities regarding the development and use of community investment corporations and the Community Investment Corporation Fund to support the development and maintenance of community investment corporations.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 2136

Department of the Treasury; excess funds in the Revenue Stabilization Fund. Establishes a mechanism to provide tax relief to Virginia taxpayers when the Auditor of Public Accounts determines the Revenue Stabilization Fund has reached its maximum size as provided in the Constitution of Virginia. The excess funds will be deposited in a special nonreverting fund titled the "Virginia Taxpayer Surplus Relief Fund" to be used by the next session of the General Assembly to provide tax relief to Virginia taxpayers.
Patron - Cline

F HB 2138

Department of Planning and Budget; submissions to the General Assembly. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget, in addition to providing copies of all agency budget estimates, to prepare an analysis of such estimates for the deliberative use of the Governor and the General Assembly, such analysis to include, but not be limited to, (i) appropriations requested as compared to the prior year, (ii) a brief description of each agency's priorities for receiving funding, and (iii) a discussion of major changes or initiatives recommended for the ensuing fiscal year. The Department is required to submit the estimates and analysis to the Governor and, within 30 days thereof, submit the same to the chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance.
Patron - Cline

F HB 2171

Governor; establishes the Secretary of Urban Affairs. Creates the position of Secretary of Urban Affairs as one of the Governor's Secretaries. The Secretary of Urban Affairs shall be responsible to the Governor for the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Virginia Housing Development Authority.
Patron - BaCote

F HB 2275

Virginia Nanotechnology Authority; established. Establishes the Virginia Nanotechnology Authority to promote development of nanotechnology in Virginia. The Authority will be responsible for administering a fund to be used to provide industry and institutions of higher education with discovery grants, collaboration grants, and prototype grants. The Authority will be governed by a board of directors and managed by a president at the direction of the Board. The president is responsible for creating a virtual Nanotechnology Users Network to facilitate research and development of nanotechnology at the Commonwealth's institutions of higher education.
Patron - Purkey

F HB 2293

Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings; electronic communication meetings by local governing bodies. Allows a local governing body, school board, or any subcommittee thereof to meet by electronic communication means provided (i) no purpose of the meeting is to take action on any matter before the governing body, school board, or subcommittee, or to otherwise transact any business of the governing body, school board, or subcommittee; (ii) the meeting is not called or prearranged with any purpose of transacting any business of the local governing body, school board, or subcommittee; and (iii) the local governing body, school board, or subcommittee otherwise complies with the electronic communication meetings law.
Patron - McClellan

F HB 2300

Regulation of firearms. Prohibits a state agency, council, commission, or other entity or a state institution of higher education from adopting any rules, regulations, or policies governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, storage, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combinations thereof, unless expressly authorized by statute. The prohibition does not apply to state, local, and regional correctional facilities, nor is it to be construed to prohibit a law-enforcement officer from acting within the scope of his duties. Any rule, regulation, or policy adopted prior to July 1, 2007, except for those specifically authorized by statute, will be invalid.
Patron - Cole

F HB 2312

Financial and management review of all state agencies. Directs the Governor to initiate, within 120 days of taking office, a financial and management review of governor-selected executive branch state agencies, except public institutions of higher education, with total agency appropriations of two percent or more of the total state-appropriated funds. The review shall be conducted by a private management consulting firm. The bill identifies areas to be reviewed.
Patron - Lingamfelter

F HB 2355

Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council; created. Creates the Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council to advise the Governor on policy and funding priorities for promoting the modeling and simulation industry in the Commonwealth.
Patron - Cosgrove

F HB 2485

Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of environmentally preferable products. Provides for the consideration of environmentally preferable products in the procurement of goods and services by state and local agencies. The bill defines environmentally preferable goods and services.
Patron - Bulova

F HB 2550

Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits employment discrimination.
Patron - Ebbin

F HB 2553

Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings by local governing bodies; declaration of local state of emergency. Allows a local governing body to meet by electronic communication means when a local state of emergency has been declared in accordance with § 44-146.21 provided (i) the meeting is necessary to take action to address the emergency, (ii) notice, reasonable under the circumstances, of the emergency meeting shall be given contemporaneously with the notice provided members of the local governing body conducting the meeting, (iii) the local governing body makes arrangements for public participation, and (iv) the local governing body otherwise complies with the requirements for electronic communication meetings.
Patron - Ebbin

F HB 2555

Department of General Services; Green Buildings Act. Requires all major facility projects of state agencies to be constructed to meet the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) silver certification standard, unless granted an exemption by the Director of the Department of General Services. Such projects will not be required to obtain official LEED certification. Application of the requirement will be phased in over the next three years based on the square footage of the project. The provisions of the bill do not apply to construction projects of public school districts.
Patron - Ebbin

F HB 2582

Virginia Public Procurement Act; modification of contracts. Clarifies that public bodies can include contract provisions allowing contract modifications for differing conditions or price escalations or de-escalations.
Patron - Janis

F HB 2620

State pool of funds for community policy and management teams. Adds children requiring mental health services not otherwise covered by private insurance or Medicaid, where services are necessary to prevent placement in foster care to the target population for whom state pool funds shall be expended. Expands eligibility for state pool funds to include children requiring mental health services to avoid placement in foster care.
Patron - Fralin

F HB 2651

Health insurance for state employees. Removes the reference to Milliman & Robertson's nationally recognized guidelines from the Code.
Patron - Jones, S.C.

F HB 2656

Department of General Services; capital outlay projects; green buildings. Requires all departments, agencies, and institutions of the Commonwealth to ensure that the design and construction of state-owned buildings comply with the LEED Silver standard established by the United States Green Building Council unless an exemption is granted by the Division of Engineering and Buildings of the Department of General Services. The bill provides for an appeal process to the Division that shall include a requirement that a department, agency, or institution demonstrate that the project requirements would result in a cost that is at least 15% higher than the desired design cost if the project were built to the LEED Silver Standard. This bill was incorporated into HB 2555.
Patron - Marsden

F HB 2664

Department of Planning and Budget, reestimate of agency needs. Provides that within five business days after the preliminary close of the Commonwealth's accounts at the end of each fiscal year, each of the several state agencies and other agencies and undertakings receiving financial aid from the Commonwealth shall report to the Department of Planning and Budget, in a format prescribed for such purpose, an estimate of cost reductions that may be accomplished by the agency without diminution of the services or programs provided by the agency. Of the reductions so identified, 50% shall be retained by the agency for its use; the remaining 50% shall be returned to the general fund to be directed first (i) to the revenue stabilization fund created in accordance with Article X, § 8 of the Constitution of Virginia and thereafter (ii) to debt relief. Any moneys retained by an agency which have not been spent at the end of three quarters of the next fiscal year shall revert to the general fund.
Patron - Marsden

F HB 2731

Rights of public employees to contact public officials. Provides that nothing in the Virginia Personnel Act or Chapter 12 (§ 2.2-1200 et seq.) of Title 2.2 shall be construed to prohibit or otherwise restrict the right of any state employee to express opinions to state or local public officials or officers on matters of public concern, nor shall a state employee be subject to acts of retaliation because the employee has expressed such opinions. The bill also provides the same protections for local employees. The bill defines matters of public concern.
Patron - Englin

F HB 2821

Freedom of Information Act; records containing social security numbers. Exempts from the mandatory disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act those portions of records containing an individual's social security number; except that access shall not be denied to the person who is the subject thereof. Any person who is the subject of any such record and who is 18 years of age or older may waive, in writing, these protections. If the protections are so waived, the public body shall open such records for inspection and copying.
Patron - Sickles

F HB 2826

Virginia Security and Immigration Compliance Act. Requires all public bodies and contractors who intend to contract with public bodies to register and participate in a federal work authorization program to verify information on all new employees. "Federal work authorization program" is defined as any of the electronic verification of work authorization programs operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security or any equivalent federal work authorization program operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security to verify information of newly hired employees pursuant to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The bill also expands the current definition of extortion to include situations in which a person knowingly destroys, conceals, removes, confiscates, or possesses any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of another person and thereby extorts money, property, or pecuniary benefit or any note, bond, or other evidence of debt from him or any other person. This manner of extortion shall be punishable as a Class 5 felony. The bill requires that a law-enforcement officer report to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency a person whom (i) he has arrested for a felony or for DUI and (ii) he has probable cause to believe is in the United States illegally. This bill also provides regulations for those who provide immigration assistance services. This includes all people who complete government agency forms, transcribe responses to government agency forms, translate information on government agency forms and translate responses to questions posed on the forms, secure supporting documents that may need to be submitted with government agency forms, translate documents from a foreign language into English, notarize signatures, make referrals to immigration attorneys, prepare photographs and fingerprinting, arrange for medical testing, and conduct English language and civics courses. This section does not apply to attorneys, law clerks, or those people certified to assist immigrants by the United States Board of Immigration Appeals. It also states that those providing services must clearly state in English and other languages that they are not attorneys and may not give legal advice or accept fees for legal advice. This section also regulates advertisements placed by providers of immigration services. It states that no person who provides immigration services who is not exempted under the section shall accept payment in exchange for providing legal advice, refuse to return documents supplied by, prepared on behalf of, or paid for by the customer, represent or advertise titles or credentials, or make any false statements to induce patronage. Any person who violates any provisions of the section is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 1 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense committed within five years of a previous conviction under this section. Finally, the bill requires taxpayers who take a deduction on their federal income tax returns for wages paid to employees who are aliens and who have not provided documents indicating that they are legally eligible for employment in the United States to add such wages back for purposes of calculating Virginia taxable income, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008.
Patron - Gilbert

F HB 2876

Council on Indians. Changes the membership of the Council on Indians to consist of the chiefs of the Virginia tribes officially recognized by the Commonwealth. Currently the membership includes legislative members. The bill also (i) provides for the chair and vice-chair to be elected from the membership annually, (ii) authorizes each tribal chief to appoint a designee to serve as his representative at meetings and other activities of the Council. In addition, the bill provides that it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth to recognize the sovereignty of Virginia tribes officially recognized by the Commonwealth and to operate with such tribes on a sovereign-to-sovereign basis.
Patron - McEachin

F HB 2934

Requirement of lawful immigration status for state determination of legal domicile. Provides that a person who is not a citizen or legal resident of the United States, or who is without lawful immigration status, shall not be entitled to classification as a resident of the Commonwealth. For all state determinations where legal residence or legal domicile is required by Virginia law, an individual must be a U.S. citizen, or an alien lawfully present within the United States. This bill was incorporated into HB 2435.
Patron - Miller, J.H.

F HB 2948

State employee health plan. Requires the health insurance plan for state employees to provide coverage for intensity modulated radiation therapy of cancers and tumors when such treatment is performed pursuant to protocol dose volume constraints approved by the institutional review board of any United States medical teaching college or the National Cancer Institute.
Patron - Wittman

F HB 2967

State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure requirements for local government officers and employees. Provides that a local government officer or employee who recuses himself from participating in a transaction because of a past personal interest in the matter shall disclose the nature of his personal interest. Present law requires disclosure in the case of a recusal based on a present personal interest in the transaction.
Patron - Bell

F HB 2993

Attorney General; compromise and settlement of disputes. Raises the threshold amount for compromises and settlements of disputes that require approval by the Governor from $50,000 to $100,000.
Patron - Melvin

F HB 3065

Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid, payment, and performance bonds; alternate forms of security. Expands the forms of alternate bid, payment, and performance security that may be used to include a bond provided or executed by an individual surety provided that (i) the person acting as the individual surety transacts business only through an insurance agency licensed by the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission; (ii) the person acting as the individual surety provides an affidavit of individual surety in a form acceptable to the Department of General Services; and (iii) the person pledges certain assets in the amount equal to 100% of the contract value for the total penal amount of the performance and payment bonds or the penal amount of the bid as required by the bid bond.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 3097

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); personal information in constituent correspondence. Provides an exemption for the name, physical address, telephone number, e-mail address, social security number, and bank or other financial account information contained in correspondence to and from an individual and a member of a local governing body, school board or other local public body in which the individual is a resident, unless the correspondence relates to a public matter before such public body. The bill also provides, however, that no record, which is otherwise open to inspection under FOIA, shall be deemed exempt by virtue of the fact that it has been attached to or incorporated within any such correspondence.
Patron - Cole

F HB 3118

Freedom of Information Act; exemption for certain records of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Grants a record exemption for personal information concerning individual applicants for or holders of any hunting, fishing, boating, or trapping license issued by an agent of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, including social security or other identification numbers appearing on a driver's license or other form of identification, credit card or bank account data, home address, phone number, and date of birth, provided the individual has requested in writing that the Department not release such information
Patron - Carrico

F HB 3139

Veterans Services Foundation. Eliminates the Veterans Services Foundation. The bill contains technical amendments.
Patron - Reid

F HB 3148

Compromised Data Disclosure Act. Creates the Compromised Data Disclosure Act, which requires state agencies to notify residents of Virginia when their personal information maintained by a state agency has been compromised through a breach of a security system or otherwise acquired by an unauthorized person. The bill requires the Virginia Information Technology Investment Board to establish policies and procedures to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill defines personal information.
Patron - Bulova

F HB 3161

Freedom of Information Act; exemption for complainant information. Provides that certain personal identifying information of a complainant with respect to an investigation of a violation of a local ordinance may be withheld. Currently, such information may only be withheld with respect to an investigation of an individual zoning enforcement complaint.
Patron - Marshall, D.W.

F HB 3175

Virginia-Africa Advisory Board. Creates the Virginia-Africa Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve economic and cultural links between the Commonwealth and African nations, with a focus on the areas of commerce and trade, art and education, and general government. The bill sets out the membership, staffing, and duties of this new board.
Patron - Hall

F SB 760

Use of year-end general fund balance. Provides that 50% of any fiscal year-end general fund balance that is not otherwise reserved or designated shall be designated by the Comptroller for deposit into the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund. The bill would provide that the Comptroller make such designation only after amounts have been reserved and set aside for the Revenue Stabilization Fund, the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund, and other required designations. The bill would require the Governor to recommend appropriations in the budget bill that would be consistent with the Comptroller's designations for nonrecurring, non-transportation expenditures and for deposits into the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund.
Patron - Stosch

F SB 768

Department of Minority Business Enterprise; definition of small business. Requires a business to have both 250 or fewer employees and average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years to fit the definition of "small business." Currently a business must have either 250 or fewer employees or average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years to fit the definition.
Patron - Locke

F SB 796

Virginia food products. Exempts local school boards from the competitive bidding process when purchasing Virginia food products from a Virginia farmer.
Patron - Potts

F SB 819

Freedom of Information Act; records containing social security numbers and other personally identifying information. Exempts from the mandatory disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act those portions of records containing personal information concerning an identifiable individual, including date of birth, social security number, driver's license number, bank account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, personal identification numbers, electronic identification codes, automated or electronic signatures, biometric data, or fingerprints; except that access shall not be denied to the person who is the subject thereof. Any person who is the subject of any such record and who is 18 years of age or older may waive, in writing, these protections. If the protections are so waived, the public body shall open such records for inspection and copying.
Patron - Cuccinelli

F SB 820

Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, marital status, sexual orientation, or status as a special disabled veteran or other veteran covered by the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974.
Patron - Devolites Davis

F SB 861

Virginia Public Procurement Act; required disclosure of the location where services are to be performed under the contract. Requires prospective vendors for state service contracts to disclose the location where services will be performed under the contract, including any subcontracts, and whether any services under the contract, including any subcontracts, are anticipated to be performed outside of the United States. In addition, the bill provides that the state public body may consider the disclosure of the prospective vendor and the economic impact to the Commonwealth and its citizens in awarding the contract or evaluating the bid or offer. Under the bill, if the vendor subsequently changes the location where the services are performed to a location outside of the Untied States, then the vendor will be in breach of the contract unless the public body makes a written determination that circumstances required the change in location or termination of the contract would not be in the best interest of the Commonwealth. The bill also provides for the Department of General Services to submit to the Governor and General Assembly by September 30 of each year a report detailing the impact of outsourcing services on the procurement cost of the Commonwealth.
Patron - Reynolds

F SB 883

Freedom of Information Act; exemption for certain records of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Grants a record exemption for personal information concerning individual applicants for or holders of any hunting, fishing, boating, or trapping license issued by an agent of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, including social security or other identification numbers appearing on a driver's license or other form of identification, credit card or bank account data, home address, phone number, and date of birth, provided the individual has requested in writing that the Department not release such information
Patron - Deeds

F SB 908

Technology; required protection measures; public libraries; exception. Requires the library board or governing body of a library that receives state funding for any purpose to include in its acceptable use policy for the Internet provisions requiring the selection, installation, and activation on those computers that have Internet access a technology protection measure, as selected by the Library of Virginia, to filter or block Internet access through such computers to child pornography as set out in § 18.2-374.1:1, obscenity as defined in § 18.2-372, and, with respect to minors, materials deemed harmful to juveniles as defined in § 18.2-390. The bill also requires the library board or governing body to select, install, and activate the technology protection measure. The bill provides an exception that allows a person authorized by the library to disable the technology protection measure at the request of the patron for bona fide research or other lawful purpose. This bill was incorporated into SB 1393.
Patron - Obenshain

F SB 914

Virginia Pubic Building Authority; prison construction. Authorizes the Virginia Public Building Authority to issue bonds in an amount not to exceed $99 million for the construction of a medium security prison in the Mt. Rogers Planning District.
Patron - Wampler

F SB 949

Virginia Commission on Incarceration and Reentry. Establishes the Virginia Commission on Incarceration and Reentry to study and make recommendations for dealing with the impact of incarceration and prisoner reentry on society and related policies of the Commonwealth. The provisions of this bill expire on July 1, 2010.
Patron - Quayle

F SB 1006

Commonwealth Innovations Incentive Fund. Establishes the Commonwealth Innovations Incentive Fund to provide funds to state agencies and public-private partnerships to foster productivity through process reengineering efforts and innovative approaches aimed at making state government more efficient. The Fund is administered by the Innovations Council, comprising the Secretaries of Administration, Finance, and Technology. The Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth and the Directors of the Department of Human Resource Management and the Department of Planning and Budget also serve on the Council as ex officio, nonvoting members.
Patron - Saslaw

F SB 1023

Department of General Services; Division of Engineering and Buildings; purchase of electricity generated from renewable energy sources. Requires that at least 15% of the total electricity purchased by state-owned buildings be electricity generated from renewable energy sources by 2020 pursuant to a phase-in schedule. The bill defines "renewable energy" as energy derived from sunlight, wind, falling water, sustainable biomass, energy from waste, wave motion, tides, and geothermal power and does not include energy derived from coal, oil, natural gas or nuclear power.
Patron - Whipple

F SB 1106

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); personal information in constituent correspondence. Provides an exemption for the name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address contained in correspondence from a constituent to his elected representative on a local governing body or school board and such information contained in correspondence responding to the constituent. The bill provides, however, that no record, which is otherwise open to inspection under FOIA, shall be deemed exempt by virtue of the fact that it has been attached to or incorporated within any such correspondence.
Patron - Chichester

F SB 1193

Substance Abuse Services Council; review of state agency substance abuse treatment programs. Changes the analysis for agency-administered substance abuse treatment programs required for the Comprehensive Interagency State Plan to focus on the extent to which state agency programs employ evidence-based practices. The bill also provides for the analysis to include the amount of funding expended in the most current fiscal year available rather than the prior fiscal year. The bill incorporates SB 1251.
Patron - Reynolds

F SB 1251

Substance Abuse Services Council; review of state agency substance abuse treatment programs. Changes the analysis for agency-administered substance abuse treatment programs required for the Comprehensive Interagency State Plan to focus on the extent to which state agency programs employ evidence-based practices. The bill also provides for the analysis to include the amount of funding expended in the most current fiscal year available rather than the prior fiscal year.
Patron - Herring

F SB 1271

Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings. Eliminates the requirement that a quorum of a state public body be physically assembled in one primary location in order for the public body to conduct a meeting through electronic communications means (i.e., teleconference). Instead of the quorum, the bill provides that at least two members of the public body be physically assembled at one location. The remainder of the members may teleconference.
Patron - Whipple

F SB 1273

Department of General Services; Green Buildings Act. Requires all major facility projects of state agencies to be constructed to meet United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) certification standards, unless granted an exemption by the Director of the Department of General Services. Such projects will not be required to obtain official LEED certification. Application of the requirement will be phased in over the next three years based on the square footage of the project. The provisions of the bill do not apply to construction projects of public school districts.
Patron - Whipple

F SB 1310

Nondiscrimination in state employment. Prohibits discrimination in state employment on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, marital status, sexual orientation, or status as a special disabled veteran or other veteran covered by the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974. This bill was incorporated into SB 820.
Patron - Lucas

F SB 1322

Governor's budget; proposed appropriations. Requires the Governor to include in his proposed budget for each of the next 10 fiscal years a $7 million appropriation for combined sewer overflow controls in the City of Lynchburg and the City of Richmond, $3.5 million for each city. The funding sources for the proposed appropriation would be any surplus revenues and unreserved general fund balance, which are otherwise designated for deposit into the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund.
Patron - Newman

F SB 1343

Virginia War Memorial. Requires the State Treasurer to advance a loan of $3.5 million to the Department of General Services for the state share of the construction of an educational wing for the Virginia War Memorial in the form of a short-term treasury loan, with no interest, upon certification by the Secretary of Administration that $2 million in private funds have been raised, are available, and will be used to support construction. This bill was incorporated into SB 1352.
Patron - Lambert

F SB 1404

Freedom of Information Act; exemption for complainant information. Provides that certain personal identifying information of a complainant with respect to an investigation of a violation of a local ordinance may be withheld. Currently, such information may only be withheld with respect to an investigation of an individual zoning enforcement complaint.
Patron - Hanger

F SB 1406

Virginia Public Procurement Act; design-build construction; use by local governing body. Increases from $1 million to $5 million the amount that localities may procure under a fixed price design-build basis.
Patron - Hanger

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