Rep. Lee Ware
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Fusion Intelligence Center; confidentiality and immunity from service of process. [HB-1007]
Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; confidentiality; immunity. Provides that papers, records, documents, reports, materials, databases or other evidence or information relative to criminal intelligence or any terrorism investigation in the possession of the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center within the Department of State Police is confidential and not subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act or the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act. The Department must conduct an annual review of such information and remove
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0792) on 04/14/2008
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Home instruction of children; requirements. [HB-1183]
Requirements for home instruction of children. Provides that an appropriate evaluation that a parent may submit to the division superintendent in order to indicate an adequate level of educational growth and progress includes: (i) an evaluation letter from a person licensed to teach in any state, or a person with a master's degree or higher in the field of education, having knowledge of the child’s academic progress, stating that the child is achieving an adequate level of educational growth and progress; or (ii) a report card or transcript from
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0553) on 03/17/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Credit reports; authorizes consumer to freeze access thereto. [HB-1311]
Freezing access to credit reports. Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information in it, without the consumer's express authorization. The measure provides a means by which a consumer can release his report, permanently, temporarily, or to a specific third party. Certain disclosures are exempt from the freeze. A fee of up to $10 may be charged for establishing a freeze, except identity
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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0496) on 03/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Taxpayer Surplus Relief Fund; established to provide tax relief. [HB-1318]
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 must equal at least $50 million and will be deposited in a special nonreverting fund titled the Virginia Taxpayer Surplus Relief Fund and must be used by the next session of the General Assembly to provide tax relief to Virginia taxpayers. This bill incorporates
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon Senate: Continued To 2009 In Finance (16-y 0-n) on 02/27/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Natural Resources Commitment Fund; created. [HB-1335]
Natural resources funding. Establishes the Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Fund. The Fund would be capitalized with appropriated funds and moneys from public and private sources. Beginning July 1, 2008, and for the next 10 years, moneys in the Fund would be distributed to the Department of Conservation and Recreation's Agricultural Best Management Practices Cost-Share Program for the implementation of agricultural best management practices (BMP). Fifty-seven percent of the moneys are to be used for matching grants to implement BMPs on agricultural
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0643) on 03/18/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Payday Loan Act; requires SCC to contract with one or more parties to develop, etc. database. [HB-1351]
Payday Loan Act. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by July 1, 2009, to certify and contract with one or more third parties to develop, implement, and maintain an Internet-accessible database, and requires payday lenders to query the database prior to making any loan to determine whether an applicant is eligible for the loan. A payday lender is prohibited from making a payday loan if the loan would cause the borrower to have more than two payday loans outstanding at the same time. Payday lenders are prohibited from knowingly making loans
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron House: Left In Commerce And Labor on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Game and Inland Fisheries, Board of; membership. [HB-1352]
Board of Game and Inland Fisheries. Reconstitutes the membership of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries. Each of the current members would be replaced as their terms of office expired. The new appointments would be made by the Speaker of the House, Senate Committee on Rules and the Governor. As a qualification for appointment, each Board member must have held a resident hunting or fishing license for three years.
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon House: Read Third Time And Defeated By House (48-y 50-n) on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; aliens unlawfully present not eligible for admission thereto. [HB-14]
Admission of illegal aliens to public institutions of higher education. Provides that an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for admission to any public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. This bill incorporates
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter Senate: Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 02/28/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
No Child Left Behind Act; Board of Education to make recommendation in regard to participation. [HB-1425]
No Child Left Behind; withdrawal. Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, unless reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides the necessary revisions in the NCLB Act that allow Virginia's existing educational accountability system, as set forth in the Standards of Quality, Standards of Learning, and Standards of Accreditation, to substantially meet the accountability requirements of the federal
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0826) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Real estate tax; Powhatan County may use higher income limits for exemptions for elderly, etc. [HB-1428]
Real property tax; exemptions for elderly and handicapped. Adds Powhatan County to the list of localities that may use higher income limits ($62,000 rather than $50,000) and net worth limits ($350,000 rather than $200,000) in determining eligibility for real property tax exemptions for the elderly and handicapped. This bill was incorporated into
Sponsored by: Rep. Lee Ware House: Incorporated By Finance (hb698-bacote) By Voice Vote on 02/04/2008