Computer Services And Uses
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes certain computer equipment and enabling software. [SB-232]
Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase or lease of computer equipment or enabling software by data centers by extending it to tenants of the centers, and by including jobs created not only by the data center operator but also by the tenants of the data center in collectively meeting the level of new jobs required for eligibility for the exemption.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Herring
Senate: Incorporated By Finance on 02/01/2012
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Methamphetamine precursors; sale and tracking, penalties. [SB-14]
Methamphetamine precursors; sale and tracking; penalties. Requires the Department of State Police to enter into a memorandum of understanding to establish the Commonwealth's participation in a real-time electronic recordkeeping and monitoring system for the nonprescription sale of ephedrine or related compounds. Most pharmacies and retail distributors will be required to enter nonprescription sales of ephedrine or related compounds into the electronic system. The bill retains the existing sales limit of no more than 3.6 grams of ephedrine or related
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Senate: Incorporated By Courts Of Justice on 01/18/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia All Payer Claims Database; created, report. [SB-135]
Virginia All-Payer Claims Database; creation. Establishes the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database system, in order to facilitate data-driven, evidence-based improvements in access, quality, and cost of health care and to improve the public health through understanding of health care expenditure patterns and operation and performance of the health care system. Entities that choose to submit claims data to the database shall do so pursuant to data use and submission agreements executed with the nonprofit organization that contracts with the Commissioner
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Saslaw
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0709) on 04/09/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes certain computer equipment and enabling software. [SB-112]
Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase or lease of computer equipment or enabling software by data centers by extending it to tenants of the centers, and by including jobs created not only by the data center operator but also by the tenants of the data center in collectively meeting the level of new jobs required for eligibility for the exemption.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan McDougle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0613) on 04/04/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
House of Delegates; recording of standing committee and subcommittee meetings. [HR-4]
House of Delegates; recording of standing committee and subcommittee meetings. Directs the Clerk of the House of Delegates to provide for the digital recording of meetings of the standing committees and subcommittees of the House of Delegates and make the recordings available for download on the legislative electronic information system. The Clerk must make publication of this information available on the LIS and report his progress in meeting the objectives of this resolution to the House Rules Committee by the first day of the 2013 Regular Session.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
House: Passed By Indefinitely In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/07/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Teleworks tax credit; for individual who teleworks a minimum of 20 hours per week. [HB-999]
Tax credit for individual who teleworks. Creates a $500 credit for an individual who teleworks a minimum of 20 hours per week during at least 45 weeks of the year. The credit is available for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, but before January 1, 2017.
Sponsored by: Rep. Larry Rush
House: Continued To 2013 In Finance By Voice Vote on 02/06/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Minority Business Enterprise, Department of; authorizes electronic certification process. [HB-996]
Department of Minority Business Enterprise; electronic certification process. Authorizes the Department of Minority Business Enterprise to accept applications for certification as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business through electronic means.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0529) on 04/04/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Department of State Police; establishment of cold case searchable database. [HB-984]
Department of State Police; establishment of cold case searchable database. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police may establish and maintain a cold case searchable database including unsolved homicide, missing person, and unidentified person cases. The searchable database may include interactive elements consisting of (i) the type of case, (ii) the location of where the crime was committed, (iii) the law-enforcement agency name, and (iv) the year the crime occurred.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Scott
House: Left In Appropriations on 02/20/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Child pornography; possession, distribution, solicitation, etc., penalty. [HB-963]
Solicitation of child pornography. Provides that any person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to persuade another person to send, submit, transfer, or provide to him any child pornography in order to gain entry into a group, association, or assembly of persons engaged in trading or sharing child pornography shall be punished by not less than five years nor more than 20 years in a state correctional facility, with a five-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for a second or subsequent violation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0369) on 03/23/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Circuit court; Prince William County authorizing clerk to charge convenience fee for land records. [HB-926]
Circuit court clerks; remote access to land records; fees collected by clerks; debit cards. Provides for the acceptance of debit cards in addition to credit cards and allows the clerk to outsource the processing of credit and debit card transactions. The bill also provides that the clerk may charge a convenience fee for processing credit or debit cards of up to $2 per transaction or four percent of the amount paid. Currently, such fee may not exceed four percent of the amount paid. The bill also provides that certain court fees collected by the
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0780) on 04/18/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Prisoners; harassment by use of computer, penalty. [HB-916]
Harassment by computer by prisoners; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a prisoner or a person acting on behalf of a prisoner to use a computer, computer network, or social networking site to harass, intimidate, or threaten a crime victim.
Sponsored by: Rep. J. Randall Minchew
House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/14/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia Immunization Information System; linkages to other VDH databases. [HB-829]
Virginia Immunization Information System; linkages to other VDH databases. Allows the Commissioner of Health to allow health care providers authorized to access the Virginia Immunization Information System to also access other information maintained by the Department of Health, including newborn screening records, newborn hearing screening records, and blood-lead level records.
Sponsored by: Rep. Peter Farrell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0147) on 03/07/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Criminal street gang; recruitment of persons by telephone or electronic communication, penalty. [HB-751]
Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty. Provides that any person who, by telephone or by any electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause another to actively participate in or become a member of what he knows to be a criminal street gang is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin Cline
House: Subcommittee Recommends Laying On The Table By Voice Vote on 02/10/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; posting of documents on association website. [HB-668]
Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; posting of documents on association website. Requires the board of directors to post on any website maintained by the association a copy of the declaration, any articles of incorporation, and all rules and regulations adopted by the board of directors.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
House: Passed By Indefinitely In General Laws By Voice Vote on 02/02/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Tax credits, state; publication of names on Department of Taxation's website. [HB-664]
Publication of names of taxpayers claiming state tax credits. Requires the Tax Commissioner to annually report on and publish on the Department of Taxation's website the following for certain state tax credits: a brief description of the tax credit, the name of each taxpayer claiming at least $1,000 of the respective credit, the dollar amount of the credit claimed by such taxpayer, and a reference to the Code of Virginia section (referenced with specificity) that establishes the credit.
Sponsored by: Sen. Scott Surovell
House: Left In Finance on 02/14/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; graduation rates. [HB-655]
Public institutions of higher education; graduation rates. Requires each four-year public institution of higher education to report annually its four-year graduation rate to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and requires SCHEV to publish this information on its website.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
House: Left In Education on 02/14/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Higher Education, State Council of; publication of graduate employment rates on its website. [HB-639]
Higher education; publication of graduate employment rates. Requires public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education to publish data on the proportion of graduates with employment at 18 months and five years after the date of graduation. The data shall include the major and degree program, percentage of employment in the Commonwealth, average salary, and average higher education-related debt of graduates. The provisions of this bill will expire on June 30, 2017.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Stolle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0694) on 04/09/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Applications for public assistance; may be made electronically. [HB-579]
Electronic application for public assistance. Provides that applications for public assistance may be made electronically.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0240) on 03/13/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes computers and related computer equipment. [HB-565]
Sales and use tax exemption; computers. Adds computers and related computer equipment with an aggregate sales price of $3,500 or less to the school supplies and clothing that are exempt from sales and use tax each year for a three-day period in August.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
House: Left In Finance on 02/14/2012
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Internet; publication of personal information of certain public officials prohibited. [HB-556]
Internet publication of personal information of certain public officials prohibited. Adds various public officials to the current provision prohibiting a state or local agency from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet the home address or personal telephone numbers of a law-enforcement officer if the officer has made a written demand and obtains a court order. The bill also deletes the requirement for a hearing and adds personal email addresses to the personal information subject to protection.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0143) on 03/07/2012