Computer Services And Uses
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
School board policies; adopt policies which certain electronic records and signatures are accepted. [HB-2243]
Local school board policies; electronic records and signatures. Authorizes local school boards to adopt and implement policies pursuant to which electronic records and electronic signatures may be accepted from any parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child enrolled in the relevant school division.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Torian
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0261) on 03/18/2011
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School divisions, local; annual notification of estimated average per pupil cost to put on website. [HB-2242]
Local school divisions; annual notification of the estimated average per pupil cost. Authorizes the annual notification of the estimated average per pupil cost for public education in the school division for the next school year to be posted to the division's website instead of distributing it separately or with any other materials being currently transmitted to the parents, guardians or other persons having control or charge of students. This bill was incorporated into
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Torian
House: Incorporated By Education (hb1885-bell, Richard P.) By Voice Vote on 01/19/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exempts certain computer equipment and enabling software. [HB-2239]
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: Rep. Luke Torian
House: Left In Finance on 02/08/2011
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Law-Enforcement Pursuit Database; State Police to develop and maintain. [HB-2212]
State Police vehicular pursuit database. Provides that the Department of State Police shall develop and maintain a Law-Enforcement Pursuit Database compiling incident reports of vehicular pursuits occurring statewide The database is to be made available to the Governor and General Assembly upon request and to any other entity so directed by the Governor or General Assembly. The bill requires law-enforcement agencies with law-enforcement duties to submit vehicular pursuit incident reports for each calendar year to the State Police annually on March
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
House: Left In Militia, Police And Public Safety on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commonwealth, Secretary of the; acceptance of certain electronic signatures. [HB-2205]
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. The bill is identical to
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0123) on 03/15/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Computers; facilitating certain offenses involving children. [HB-2200]
Computers; facilitating certain offenses involving children. Revises for clarity the terms used to describe offenders and victims in the section criminalizing use of a communications system to solicit sexual activity with children. The bill states that it is declarative of existing law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock
House: Stricken From Docket By Courts Of Justice By Voice Vote on 01/31/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Government Transparency Advisory Council; established, searchable database website established. [HB-2196]
Government Transparency Act. Establishes a searchable database website that would allow persons to search and aggregate information including but not limited to (i) individual or specific appropriations or budget items, (ii) state agency spending and procurement data, (iii) financial disclosure statements, (iv) audit and state agency performance reports, and (v) contact information for public records access purposes. Under the bill, the searchable database website will be developed and maintained by the Department of Planning and Budget and is required
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock
House: Left In Appropriations on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Information Technologies Agency; assist in determining rules for distribution of electronic records. [HB-2189]
Virginia Information Technologies Agency; electronic government services. Provides for the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to assist public bodies of the Commonwealth to determine the rules and standards applicable to the acceptance and distribution of electronic records and electronic signatures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
House: Stricken From Docket By Science And Technology By Voice Vote on 01/26/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for certain computer equipment and enabling software. [HB-2122]
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 if new jobs are created by not only the data center operator but also collectively by the tenants of the data center.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Greason
House: Left In Finance on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Motor Vehicle Dealer Board; motor vehicle dealers to have Internet connections, etc. [HB-2011]
Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. Allows the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to designate someone to serve in his place on the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. The bill also requires motor vehicle dealers, T&M vehicle dealers, trailer dealers, and motorcycle dealers to have Internet connections and email addresses and sets fees for reprinting licenses, certificates, and registrations and for reinstating licenses, certificates, and registrations that have been suspended. Further, it requires dealers to keep records of safety inspections performed
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Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Carrico
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0791) on 04/06/2011
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Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; changes requirement that data be reviewed every three years. [HB-1948]
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: Rep. Ron Villanueva
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0467) on 03/24/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Legal notices; locality to meet notice requirements by utilizing their websites, radio, etc. [HB-1935]
Legal notices. Allows localities to meet certain notice requirements by utilizing their web sites, radio or television rather than a newspaper of general circulation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Onzlee Ware
House: Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Landlord and tenant laws; service of process may be accomplished by a sheriff, etc. [HB-1611]
Landlord and tenant laws. Provides that localities must have a uniform set of standards as provided in the Statewide Building Code for smoke detectors, and tenants must maintain smoke detectors; prohibits tenants from painting or altering a dwelling unit without the prior written approval of the landlord; and allows a private process server to serve process. The bill also allows a landlord to take legal action against a relocated tenant for noncompliance during the relocation; and in cases involving a deceased tenant, authorizes the landlord to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rosalyn Dance
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0766) on 04/06/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Court-ordered disclosure of electronic communication service records; sealing of order. [HB-1593]
Sealing of order; court-ordered disclosure of electronic communication service records. Provides that when a court orders the disclosure of records of a provider of electronic communication services or remote computing services, the order and any written application or statement of facts may be sealed for 90 days for good cause shown upon application of the attorney for the Commonwealth in an ex parte proceeding and that the attorney for the Commonwealth can apply to have the sealing continue for additional 90-day periods.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sal Iaquinto
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0392) on 03/23/2011
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Public procurement; state agencies to put requests for bids, etc., on DGS' website. [HB-1592]
Public procurement; posting on website. Requires all state authorities, agencies, institutions, departments, and other units of state government to put requests for proposal and invitations to bid on the Department of General Services' website. The bill encourages, but does not require, local public bodies to likewise.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0332) on 03/22/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
House and Senate voting records; publication on legislative electronic information system. [HB-1566]
Publication of House and Senate voting records. Provides that, beginning with the 2012 Regular Session of the General Assembly, the Legislative Support Commission, through the Division of Legislative Automated Systems, from information and data provided by the Clerk of the House and the Clerk of the Senate, must post on the legislative electronic information system (LIS) the recorded committee, subcommittee, and floor votes of each member of the General Assembly on legislation acted upon in each house. The information pertaining to the voting records
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
House: Left In Rules on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Cold case searchable database; Superintendent of State Police may establish. [HB-1511]
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 Militia, Police And Public Safety on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Pawnbrokers & precious metals dealers; records required to be maintained, daily electronic reports. [HB-1510]
Pawnbrokers and Precious Metals Dealers; records required to be maintained; electronic reports. Requires pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers to take a photograph or digital image of (i) the person pawning or pledging or selling an article, precious metal or gem taken at the time of the transaction and (ii) the article, precious metal or gem pawned or pledged or sold. The bill also requires the pawnbrokers and precious metals dealers to submit a daily report containing information on transactions to law-enforcement officials by electronic means.
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Scott
House: Left In General Laws on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Computer & digital forensic services; exempt from regulation as a private security service business. [HB-1361]
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
House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/02/2010
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine; Board of Pharmacy to establish program to implement tracking sales. [HB-1343]
Tracking of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine; pilot program. Requires the Board of Pharmacy, in conjunction with local law-enforcement officials, to establish a mandatory pilot program in the Counties of Page, Clarke, Frederick, Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren to implement an electronic recordkeeping system of the transactions involving the distribution of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine as required by state law. This bill is contingent upon funds being provided by a third party or agency, such that there will be no cost to participating pharmacies.
Sponsored by: Rep. C. Todd Gilbert
House: Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/02/2010