Computer Services And Uses
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Telework expenses tax credit; extended for employers through December 31, 2016. [HB-551]
Telework expenses tax credit. Extends the telework expenses tax credit for employers through December 31, 2016. The credit currently expires on December 31, 2013. The bill also makes other clarifying changes concerning expenses eligible for the credit.
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Agency reports; submission in written or electronic format. [HB-550]
Submission of agency reports; electronic format. Allows agency reports to be submitted in written or electronic format.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Driver's license holders; transmssions of medical examinations to DMV electronically. [HB-524]
Medical examinations required of driver's license holders. Allows transmission to DMV of the results of required medical examinations of driver's license holders to be by fax or other electronic means. The bill also provides that if any such transmission is lost or incomplete and, as a consequence, a licensee's license is suspended or revoked, such license shall be restored if it is discovered that the examination was performed as required and that the licensee was found to be competent to be licensed, and any record of the suspension or revocation
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Court records; secure remote access to records includes locating technology to offsite facility. [HB-484]
Court records; secure remote access; interfacing computer systems. Provides that the operational expenses associated with providing secure remote access to land records includes locating technology in an offsite facility for purposes of improving public access or for the implementation of a disaster recovery plan. The bill extends the prohibition on selling or posting data accessed by secure remote access to include land records. The bill further requires the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to establish security and data standards for
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Circuit court clerks; technology fee. [HB-482]
Circuit court clerks; technology fee. Replaces the $5 Technology Trust Fund Fee with a $4 Local Technology Trust Fund Fee and a $1 State Technology Trust Fund Fee. The $4 local fee will be deposited into the circuit court clerk's nonreverting fund to be used for the operational expenses associated with providing secure remote access to land records. The $1 state fee is paid to a state trust fund and may be allocated by the State Compensation Board to those clerks' offices whose deposits from the local fund are not sufficient for modernizing access
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Alcoholic beverage control; retail licensee advertising Happy Hour on its website. [HB-470]
Alcoholic beverage control; advertising "Happy Hour." Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations to allow a retail on-premises licensee to post on a website or social media site maintained or administered by the licensee or his agent information about the time periods during which alcoholic beverages are being sold at reduced prices and to include in connection therewith the terms "Happy Hour" or "Drink Specials," provided (i) such information is not sent or otherwise disseminated electronically by the licensee and (ii) the licensee complies with
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Education, Department of; shall annually publish disciplinary offense and outcome data. [HB-367]
Board of Education; publication of disciplinary offense and outcome data. Requires the Board of Education to annually publish disciplinary offense and outcome data by race, ethnicity, gender, and disability for each public school in the Commonwealth on its website.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia All-Payer Claims Database; created, report. [HB-343]
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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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Uniform Statewide Building Code; online submission of building permit applications. [HB-328]
Uniform Statewide Building Code; online submission of building permit applications. Requires local building departments to establish a system to allow any person applying for a building permit to (i) submit his permit application by electronic means and to affix thereto his electronic signature, (ii) check on the status of his application online and to receive information from the building department electronically, and (iii) submit electronic payment for his permit application.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes computers and related computer equipment. [HB-247]
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.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Time-share estates; advertisement of foreclosure sales, information to be hard copy and electonic. [HB-234]
Time-Share Act; advertising foreclosed time-share properties. Provides the option of a more streamlined advertisement of the time-shares being foreclosed by requiring publication of the time, place, and date of sale; identification of the time-share being sold; contact information for obtaining further information about the sale; and a website address where more complete information and documentation can be obtained.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Legal notices; allows localities to meet notice requirements by utilizing their websites, etc. [HB-222]
Legal notices. Allows localities to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio or television rather than a newspaper of general circulation.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes certain computer equipment and enabling software. [HB-216]
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.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Search warrant affidavits; allows for electronic filing by means other than electronic facsimile. [HB-17]
Electronic filing of search warrant affidavits. Allows for the electronic filing of search warrant affidavits by means other than the currently authorized electronic facsimile.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Insurance information; posting on insurer's website. [HB-133]
Insurance information; posting on insurer's website. Authorizes any property and casualty insurer to post property and casualty insurance forms and endorsements on the insurer's publicly available website in lieu of any other method of delivery upon complying with conditions, including a requirement that the insurer gives written notice, at time of the issuance of the initial policy and any renewal, of a method by which policyholders may obtain a paper or electronic copy of their policy or contract. This provision does not apply to forms and endorsements
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Affidavits; allows for electronic filing of search warrant. [HB-132]
Electronic filing of search warrant affidavits. Allows for the electronic filing of search warrant affidavits by use of portable document format (PDF) in addition to the currently authorized electronic facsimile submission.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings by local and regional public bodies. [HB-1149]
Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings by local and regional public bodies. Expands the authority for the conduct of electronic communication meetings to all public bodies. Currently, local public bodies are prohibited from conducting public meetings in this manner, except when the Governor declares a state of emergency. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Telework expenses tax credit; raises cap on aggregate amount available in years 2012 and 2013. [HB-1000]
Telework expenses tax credit. Raises the cap on the aggregate amount of tax credits available in calendar years 2012 and 2013 for telework expenses from $1 million to $1.5 million. The bill also raises the cap on the amount of credits that can be claimed by an employer from $50,000 per employer to $75,000 per employer.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. [SB-938]
Absentee voting; application by electronic mail or other electronic means. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall implement a system to accept absentee ballot applications electronically. Currently, an applicant may request and receive, but not submit, an absentee ballot application electronically.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; notice to policy owners. [SB-916]
Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; advertisements. Requires that the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association's summary document be posted on the Association's website.