Computer Services And Uses
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
State Law Library Database; created, Supreme Court of Virginia to oversee. [SB-581]
State Law Library; access; database. Requires the Supreme Court to require and oversee the State Law Library's creation of the Commonwealth Law Library Database (the database). The database shall include a list of resources contained in the law libraries located at the George Mason University School of Law, the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia, and all other public law libraries located in the Commonwealth. The bill requires that the database be maintained on the website of the Supreme
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Senate: Left In General Laws And Technology on 12/02/2010
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Criminal street gangs; any person who by telephone solicits another is guilty of a Class 6 felony. [SB-530]
Solicitation to become a gang member; 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 6 felony. Currently, such solicitation by any method of communication is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan McDougle
Senate: Left In Finance on 12/02/2010
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Behavioral health services; posting of certain information to be available on its website. [SB-1451]
Licensure of behavioral health services; posting of information. Provides that the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall make certain information about behavioral health services providers licensed by the Department, including reports of reviews or inspections of services and facilities, available on its website and requires service providers to make such information available to the public in any waiting room or public area of the provider.
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
House: Left In Appropriations on 02/22/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Fillable tax forms; Tax Commissioner to ensure all are in a portable document format, etc. [SB-1450]
Taxation; fillable tax forms. Requires the Tax Commissioner to ensure that all state tax forms are fillable forms in a portable document format for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012, and made available on the Department's website. The Tax Commissioner must develop guidelines for using the forms and publish them on the website. Finally, such forms shall not replace, supersede, modify, duplicate, or compete with the Virginia Free File program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0680) on 03/26/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Clerks; may provide official certificates and certified records in digital form, etc. [SB-1369]
Electronic filing in civil or criminal proceedings. Clarifies that clerks may provide official certificates and certified records in digital form of any document maintained by the clerk. The bill also confirms the clerks' authority to perform notarial acts. The bill also makes various changes to clerks' duties regarding electronic filing.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0715) on 03/26/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Electronic transfer of funds; required approval to transfer into consumer deposit account. [SB-1304]
Electronic transfer of funds; required approval. Requires a financial institution to give a depositor two weeks notice prior to honoring instructions directing the financial institution to electronically transfer funds in the consumer deposit account if the instructions do not include or contain the signature of a party to the consumer deposit account consenting to or approving the transfer. If the depositor does not notify the financial institution that he has not authorized the transfer, the financial institution may honor the instructions. If
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Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Senate: Stricken At Request Of Patron In Commerce And Labor (15-y 0-n) on 02/07/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Special meeting notification; member of local governing body to be notified via electronic mail. [SB-1302]
Special meeting notification. Allows a member of a local governing body to be notified of special meetings via electronic mail or facsimile, in lieu of in writing delivered to his home or business, if he so requests.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0180) on 03/15/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; changes requirement that data be reviewed every three years. [SB-1259]
Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; review of databases. Changes the requirement that data in the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center databases be reviewed every year to a requirement that it be reviewed every three years. Information that is determined to not be related to terrorist activity shall be removed from the database.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Vogel
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0556) on 03/25/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commonwealth, Secretary of the; acceptance of certain electronic signatures. [SB-1247]
Secretary of the Commonwealth; acceptance of certain electronic signatures. Provides that nonsalaried citizen members of policy and supervisory boards, commissions, and councils in the executive branch of state government, and local boards, commissions, and councils, may sign their disclosure forms using electronic signatures. In addition, the bill authorizes the Secretary of the Commonwealth to accept electronic signatures on applications for recommissioning a notary or electronic notary.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Vogel
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0177) on 03/15/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners; sheriffs, etc., to charge fee for use. [SB-1227]
Jails; electronic visitation and messaging. Allows sheriffs and jail superintendents who operate correctional facilities to charge a fee for the use of an electronic visitation system or electronic messaging system. The fee may not exceed the actual costs of establishing and operating the system and the proceeds are to be used only to offset those costs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Janet Howell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0532) on 03/25/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for certain computer equipment and enabling software. [SB-1045]
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. There is no longer a requirement for the creation of 50 new jobs, but rather the data center must have a creation of 25 new jobs provided that such jobs pay at least one and one-half times the prevailing average wage, pay any wage rate provided the data center is located in a locality that has an unemployment rate for the preceding year of at least
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Barker
Senate: Left In Finance on 02/08/2011
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Local governments; procurement and sharing of technology applications, report. [HJR-645]
Study; procurement and sharing of technology applications for local governments; report. Requests the Secretary of Technology to study opportunities to facilitate cooperative procurement and sharing of custom technology applications to leverage buying power and create efficiencies for local government.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Poindexter
House: Bill Text As Passed House And Senate (hj645er) on 02/22/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Internet; urging Congress to recognize importance of unfettered access and limit regulation by FCC. [HJR-577]
Memorializes Congress to recognize the importance of unfettered access to the Internet. Urges Congress to limit the Federal Communications Commission's authority over regulation of the Internet.
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Senate: Left In Rules on 02/21/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Income tax, state; telework expenses tax credit. [HB-47]
Income tax; telework expenses tax credit. Provides a tax credit to employers for expenses incurred in allowing employees to telework pursuant to a signed telework agreement for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, but before January 1, 2013. An employer would be eligible for a credit of up to $1,200 per teleworking employee, depending on the number of days per month an employee will telework and whether the employer's primary place of business is located in a nonattainment area under the federal Clean Air Act. There is also a 100
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter
House: Left In Finance on 12/03/2010
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Portable electronics insurance; provides coverage for repair or replacement of such devices. [HB-2480]
Portable electronics insurance. Establishes a procedure for vendors of portable electronics to sell insurance that provides coverage for the repair or replacement of such devices. The vendor will be required to hold a limited lines property and casualty insurance agent license to sell or offer coverage under such policies. The vendor's employees and authorized representatives are not subject to licensure as producers if, among other requirements, the vendor is licensed, maintains a training program, and does not compensate its employees or authorized
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0222) on 03/16/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Health records; electronic access. [HB-2292]
Health records; electronic access. Provides that health records, disclosure of which has been authorized by a patient or as otherwise allowed by state law, shall be made available electronically but only to the extent and in the manner authorized by federal law, except that a health care entity shall not be obligated to provide records in the electronic format requested if (i) the electronic format is not reasonably available without additional cost to the health care entity, (ii) the records would be subject to modification in the format requested,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0499) on 03/24/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Computer and digital forensic services; exempt from regulation as private security service business. [HB-2271]
Computer and digital forensic services; exempt from regulation as a private security service business. Exempts from regulation as a private security service business any individual engaged in (i) computer or digital forensic services or in the acquisition, review, or analysis of digital or computer-based information, whether for purposes of obtaining or furnishing information for evidentiary or other purposes or for providing expert testimony before a court, or (ii) network or system vulnerability testing, including network scans and risk assessment
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0263) on 03/18/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; identity credentials. [HB-2259]
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; identity credentials. Provides for the liability or immunity of both providers and licensees of digital identity credentials in the provisioning, providing, and commercially reasonable reliance upon digital identity credentials. The bill also includes technical amendments.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joe May
House: Left In Science And Technology on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Surreptitious photographs; person who publishes is in violation of prohibiting upskirting. [HB-2257]
Publication of surreptitious photographs. Provides that any person who publishes a photograph or video made in violation of the provision prohibiting "upskirting," etc., for financial gain, or on the web, or for mass distribution, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Nutter
House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Pollbooks; when electronic version fails to operate, officers shall maintain a written list. [HB-2251]
Elections; pollbooks. Provides that when the electronic pollbooks fail to operate and no alternative voter list or pollbook is available, the officers of election shall maintain a written list of the persons voting and provide provisional ballots to those persons.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Nutter
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0810) on 04/06/2011