| Bills |
Committee |
Last action |
Date |
| HB
1579 - Oder
- Transportation funding, etc; certain revenues attributable
to economic growth in Hampton Roads, etc. |
(H) Committee
on Appropriations
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(S) Referred to Committee on Finance |
02/11/09 |
notes:
Provides funds for transportation in Hampton Roads, Northern
Virginia, the Richmond Highway Construction District, and the
Staunton Highway Construction District by capturing a portion
of economic growth attributable to or facilitated by the
marine terminal for Hampton Roads, by Dulles International
Airport and the Ronald Reagan National Airport for Northern
Virginia, by the Port of Richmond for the Richmond Highway
Construction District, and by the Inland Port at Front Royal
for the Staunton Highway Construction District.
The
bill repeals the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority and
repeals certain fees and taxes authorized pursuant to Chapter
896 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007 that are within the ambit
of the Supreme Court of Virginia's decision on February 29,
2008, that they are unconstitutional.
|
| HB
1580 - Oder
- Hampton Roads Transportation Authority; abolished,
disposition of revenues, etc. |
(H) Committee
on Transportation
(S) Committee
on Transportation |
(S) Referred to Committee on Transportation |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Abolishes the Authority and the taxes, fees, and charges
dedicated to financing its operation and programs. The bill
also makes several technical changes. |
| HB
1703 - Cosgrove
- Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibits smoking in public building,
restaurants, etc., exceptions. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(S) Referred to Committee on Local Government |
02/11/09 |
notes:
Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to smoke in
any establishment built and operated after July 1, 2010, as a
restaurant, unless such establishment is constructed in such a
manner that areas where smoking may be permitted are
structurally separated from the portion of the restaurant in
which smoking is prohibited and such areas contain
structurally separated ventilation systems. Additionally, the
bill provides that no wait staff or busboys in such
restaurants shall be required by the proprietors or person who
manages or otherwise controls any such restaurant to work in
smoking areas mandated by this section without consent of such
employees. The bill prohibits smoking in any building owned or
leased by the Commonwealth or agency thereof or any locality.
The bill contains technical amendments. T
The following
House bills were rolled into
HB1703,HB1692,1704,1833,2007,2067,2246,2483. |
| HB
1709 - Oder
- Payday lenders; prohibited from making an unsecured loan,
etc., with interest rate in excess of 36%. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Prohibits any person licensed as a lender under the Payday
Loan Act from making an extension of credit under an open-end
credit or similar plan. Any loan made in violation of this
prohibition will be unenforceable against the borrower.
Currently, any seller or lender who extends credit under such
a plan may impose finance charges and such other charges and
fees at such rates and in such amounts and manner as the
parties may agree, if the plan provides a 25-day billing
cycle. |
| HB
1803 - Loupassi
- Retail Sales and Use Tax; revenues generated on premises of
new stadium to be used to pay bonds. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1803ER) |
02/16/09 |
| HB
1819 - Kilgore
- Electric rates; any distribution electric cooperative,
without SCC approval, to make adjustment. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Authorizes any distribution electric cooperative, without
State Corporation Commission approval, to make any adjustment
to its rates reasonably calculated to collect any or all of
the fixed costs of owning and operating its electric
distribution system through a new or modified fixed monthly
charge. Such monthly charge would be in lieu of charges that
are based on the volume of use of electric energy. Such
changes in rates may be adopted upon an affirmative resolution
of the cooperative's board of directors and shall be revenue
neutral based on the cooperative's most recent cost-of-service
study. Adjustments may be phased in over a three-year period,
and revised tariffs are required to be filed with the State
Corporation Commission for information purposes. |
| HB
1828 - Fralin
- Green roof construction; localities and water authorities to
offer rate incentives therefor. |
(H) Committee
on Counties, Cities and Towns
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(S) Referred to Committee on Local Government |
02/06/09 |
| notes:
Allows localities and water authorities to offer rate
incentives for green roof construction. |
| HB
1856 - Shannon
- Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of
stormwater detention facilities. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on General Laws and Technology |
(S) Referred to Committee on General Laws and
Technology |
01/29/09 |
| notes:
Provides that an owner of real property makes no
representations with respect to the presence of any stormwater
detention facilities located on the property and that
purchasers are advised to exercise whatever due diligence they
deem necessary to determine the presence of any stormwater
detention facilities on the property, in accordance with terms
and conditions as may be contained in the real estate purchase
contract, but in any event, prior to settlement pursuant to
that contract. |
| HB
1872 - Cosgrove
- Hampton Roads area; requirements for refuse collection and
disposal system authorities. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(S) Referred to Committee on Local Government |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Sets forth the requirements that shall be followed by any
authority created to collect and dispose of refuse with member
localities consisting of the Cities of Norfolk, Virginia
Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Franklin, and the Counties
of Isle of Wight, Southampton, and Suffolk. The list of
requirements sets forth rules for selecting a board of
directors, maintaining a strategic plan, setting fees and
operating costs, tracking costs, revenues, and capital
projects, maintaining a financing plan, and voting. |
| HB
1883 - Nixon
- Commonwealth, Secretary of; redesigns Lobbyist Disclosure
Statement to clarify information. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on General Laws and Technology |
(S) Referred to Committee on General Laws and
Technology |
02/09/09 |
| notes:
Redesigns the Lobbyist Disclosure Statement to clarify
information requested and increase compliance. Among other
things, the redesigned form requires a lobbyist to include a
list of all House of Delegates or Senate bills for which he
has lobbied and changes the manner in which entertainment and
gift expenses are reported. The bill also provides that a
lobbyist who files the statement electronically is not
required to provide a paper copy. In addition, the bill
provides that the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall review
the lobbyist disclosure statements for completeness and
accuracy and if a statement is not properly completed, the
entire filing will be rejected and returned to the lobbyist.
The lobbyist must submit a revised statement within 10 working
days from receipt of the returned statement. |
| HB
1884 - Nixon
- Credit reports; consumer reporting agency's duty to place
security freeze thereon. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Provides that a consumer reporting agency's duty to place a
security freeze on a consumer's credit report within one
business day after receiving such a request, which is
scheduled to become effective July 1, 2009, will apply only if
the consumer's request is made electronically at an address
designated by the consumer reporting agency to receive such
requests. For requests not made electronically at such
address, the current obligation that the freeze be imposed
within three business days after receiving the consumer's
request will continue to apply. |
| HB
1886 - Nixon
- Money order sales and transmission services; expands
existing authority of SCC to regulate. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Expands the existing authority of the State Corporation
Commission to regulate money order sellers and money
transmitters. The measure includes provisions that, among
other things, mandate examinations of licensees every three
years; increase the license application fee from $500 to
$1,000; require annual renewal of licenses with a $750 license
renewal fee and an assessment to defray examination and
supervision costs; increase minimum net worth requirements
from $100,000 to $200,000; establish procedures for license
revocation; authorize the Commission to issue cease and desist
orders; establish requirements for agreements between a
licensee and its authorized delegates; provide that licensees
are liable for the acts and omissions of their authorized
delegates; increase the maximum penalty that the Commission
may assess for violations from $1,000 to $2,500; establish
record retention requirements; establish additional reporting
requirements; and require licensees to maintain permissible
investments that have a market value of not less than the
aggregate dollar amount of all of its outstanding money orders
and money transmission transactions. |
| HB
1889 - Nixon
- Unemployment benefits; minimum earnings requirement. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Postpones the scheduled increase, from $2,700 to $3,000, in
the minimum amount of wages an employee must have earned in
the two highest earnings quarters of his base period in order
to be eligible for unemployment benefits. The increase will
apply to claims filed on or after July 4, 2010; it is
currently scheduled to apply to claims filed on or after July
5, 2009. |
| HB
1917 - Crockett-Stark
- Transient occupancy tax; Giles County may impose at rate not
to exceed 5% to promote tourism. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1917ER) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Adds Giles County to the list of counties that may impose a
transient occupancy tax at a rate of five percent with the
revenue collected in excess of the two percent rate going to
promote tourism. |
| HB
1930 - Plum
- Certification of stormwater development property; Dept. of
Conservation & Recreation to certify. |
(H) Committee
on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
(S) Committee
on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
(S) Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural
Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to
certify stormwater management development properties as being
designed, constructed, or reconstructed for the primary
purpose of abating or preventing pollution. Such a
certification allows the local government to tax the property
at a different rate from other classifications of real
property. This technical change is necessary because
responsibility for administering the stormwater program was
moved from DEQ to the Department of Conservation and
Recreation. |
| HB
1947 - Shuler
- Transient occupancy tax; Bath County to impose additional
not to exceed two percent. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1947ER) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Permits Bath County to impose an additional transient
occupancy tax not to exceed three percent with the revenue
from such tax to be allocated as follows: (i) one-third for
tourism and travel, marketing of tourism, or other initiatives
that attract travelers; (ii) one-third for the design,
operation, construction and improvement, acquisition, and debt
service for such expenses on debt incurred after June 30,
2009, of tourism facilities, historic sites, beautification
projects, promotion of the arts, regional tourism marketing
efforts, capital costs related to travel and transportation
including air service, public parks, and information centers;
and (iii) one-third for emergency services including training
and equipment for fire and rescue, police, and delivery of
acute medical care to serve the community and help respond to
tourism-related emergencies. |
| HB
1972 - Ware,
R.L. - Credit insurance; require that debtors be provided
with notice disclosing right to refund premium. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Requires that debtors under credit property insurance, credit
involuntary unemployment insurance, credit life insurance, and
credit accident and sickness insurance paid by a single
premium be provided with a notice disclosing the right to a
refund of premium if the insurance is terminated prior to its
scheduled maturity date or the insured debt is terminated or
paid off early, and of the debtor's obligation to notify the
insurer of certain events. The minimum amount of a refund is
increased from $1 to $5. Policies and certificates are
required to include a notice advising the debtor of his rights
and the insurer's obligations regarding premium refunds. |
| HB
1973 - Ware,
R.L. - Litter Control and Recycling Fund; limits awarding
of grants to localities. |
(H) Committee
on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
(S) Committee
on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
(S) Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural
Resources (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Limits the awarding of grants to localities whose litter
prevention and recycling grant applications meet the criteria
established by the Department of Environmental Quality in its
Guidelines for Litter Prevention and Recycling Grants. |
| HB
1991 - Bulova
- Stormwater management programs; establishment by
localities. |
(H) Committee
on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
(S) Committee
on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
(H) Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1991ER) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Extends the period of time that localities have to adopt a
local stormwater management program. Currently, they are
required to adopt a program no sooner than 12 months and no
later than 18 months after state regulations have become
effective. This bill would extend the time for adoption from
no sooner than 15 months to no later than 21 months. The
Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board can grant an
extension to the locality of an additional 12 months if the
Department of Conservation and Recreation finds that such an
extension is warranted. A locality can adopt a program earlier
than the minimum time frame with the consent of the Board. The
bill also requires that the regulation that establishes local
program criteria and delegation procedures not become
effective until after July 1, 2010. |
| HB
2017 - Rust
- Transient occupancy tax; Fairfax County limitations. |
(H) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Requires a two-thirds affirmative vote of members
elected |
02/02/09 |
| notes:
Clarifies that the additional transient occupancy tax does not
apply within the limits of any town located in Fairfax
County. |
| HB
2019 - Rust
- Transportation corridors; Transportation Board to establish
connection with Transportation Plan . |
(H) Committee
on Transportation
(S) Committee
on Transportation |
(S) Referred to Committee on Transportation |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish
transportation corridors in connection with the establishment
of the Statewide Transportation Plan. |
| HB
2024 - Marshall,
D.W. - Health insurance, basic; allows insurers to offer
& sell group policies to those without coverage. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Allows health insurers to offer and sell group health
insurance policies or contracts that do not include state
mandated health insurance benefits to employers with 50 or
fewer employees if the employer has not offered health
insurance coverage to its employees during the preceding six
months. Such a group policy or contract may include any, or
none, of the state-mandated health benefits as the health
insurer and the qualified small employer agree. The measure
also provides that a person that obtained a certificate of
public need for a medical care facility subject to an
agreement to provide charity care may satisfy such conditions
by making direct payments to an entity that is authorized to
receive payments satisfying charity care conditions or to a
private nonprofit foundation that funds basic health insurance
coverage to indigents pursuant to a memorandum of
understanding with the Department of Health. Finally, the
measure states that a health insurance policy or subscription
contract may include caps or limits on the total annual or
lifetime benefits provided thereunder at specified dollar
amounts. |
| HB
2039 - Iaquinto
- Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practice to sell, offer
for sale, etc., recalled product. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Provides that it is a prohibited practice under the Virginia
Consumer Protection Act to sell, offer for sale, or
manufacture for sale a product recalled by the U.S. Consumer
Product Safety Commission. |
| HB
2051 - Gear
- Alcoholic beverage control; ABC Board to establish schedule
of offenses which penalty may be waived. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
(S) Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Requires the ABC Board, by regulation, to establish a schedule
of offenses for which any penalty may be waived upon a showing
that the licensee has had no prior violations within three
years immediately preceding the date of the violation. |
| HB
2052 - Gear
- Alcoholic mixed beverages; exception for certain spirits
that licensee cannot deliver to consumer. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
(H) Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2052ER) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Makes an exception for certain spirits to the rule that a
mixed beverage licensee cannot deliver to a consumer alcoholic
beverages in the original bottle. To qualify for the
exception, the bill requires that (i) the original container
of spirits is no larger than 375 milliliters, (ii) the alcohol
content is no greater than 15 percent by volume, and (iii) the
contents of the container are carbonated and perishable. |
| HB
2059 - Hamilton
- Food and beverage taxes; provides numerous exemptions to
meals imposed by cities & towns. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(S) Referred to Committee on Finance |
02/06/09 |
| notes:
Provides numerous exemptions to meals taxes imposed by cities
and towns, and expands such exemptions from meals taxes
imposed by counties. |
| HB
2084 - Purkey
- Real and personal property taxes; exempts certain pollution
control equipment & facilities. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(S) Referred to Committee on Finance |
02/06/09 |
| notes:
Exempts certain pollution control equipment and facilities
from local property taxes. |
| HB
2086 - Purkey
- Retail Franchise Act; replaces references to grants of
franchises with sales of franchises. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Replaces references to "grants" of franchises with "sales" of
franchises in order to conform Virginia's forms with the
terminology used by the Federal Trade Commission and the North
American Securities Administrator's Association, Inc. The
provision stating that the Virginia Retail Franchise Act
applies to grants and offers to grant franchises on and after
July 1, 1972, is repealed. The measure is emergency
legislation to take effect upon passage. |
| HB
2136 - Miller,
J.H. - Misdemeanor arrest or summons; gives
law-enforcement officer choice of issuing summons &
releasing. |
(H) Committee
for Courts of Justice
(S) Committee
for Courts of Justice |
(S) Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Gives a law-enforcement officer the choice of issuing a
summons and releasing the person or arresting him for Class 1
and 2 misdemeanors. Under current law, the law-enforcement
officer must release the person on a summons for most Class 1
and 2 misdemeanors unless the person fails to stop the
unlawful act or indicates that he will not appear as directed
in the summons. The bill also requires the officer to arrest
the person if he fails to stop the unlawful act; currently
arrest is discretionary when the person fails to stop the
unlawful act. |
| HB
2138 - Miller,
J.H. - Graffiti abatement; permits localities to charge
property owner for cost thereof. |
(H) Committee
on Counties, Cities and Towns
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(S) Referred to Committee on Local Government |
02/11/09 |
notes:
Permits localities to charge a property owner for the cost or
expenses of abating graffiti that occurs on his vacant
property, and to collect such charges as taxes are collected.
If the charges remain unpaid, they shall constitute a lien and
become enforceable in the same manner as unpaid local taxes.
HB2120 was rolled into this bill. |
| HB
2155 - Toscano
- Electric utility service; net energy metering. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Requires an electric utility that purchases excess electricity
generated by an eligible customer-generator under the net
energy metering program pay for such electric power at a rate
that is at least equal to the retail tariff rate that the
customer-generator is charged for the electricity it buys from
the utility. The maximum generation capacity for a
nonresidential customer-generator is increased from 500
kilowatts to two megawatts. The measure also requires the
State Corporation Commission to establish a program that will
allow a customer with multiple, separately billed facilities
located within a utility's service territory, one or more of
which are eligible customer-generators, to aggregate the
electricity consumption and generation of its participating
facilities. |
| HB
2168 - Abbitt
- Stormwater offsets; authorizes permit-issuing authorities to
allow permit holders to comply. |
(H) Committee
on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
(S) Committee
on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
(S) Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural
Resources with amendments (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Authorizes permit-issuing authorities to allow stormwater
permit holders to comply with nonpoint nutrient runoff water
quality criteria by either (i) acquiring offsite nonpoint
nutrient offsets that have been certified under the Chesapeake
Bay Nutrient Exchange Program or (ii) through water quality
measures contained in a regional stormwater management plan.
The offsets have to be in the same tributary as the permitted
activity. The bill also requires an offset broker to pay the
permit-issuing authority a fee equal to six percent of the
amount paid by the permittee for the offsets. |
| HB
2292 - Cline
- Workers' Compensation Act; insurance notices. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Authorizes the Workers' Compensation Commission to designate
an agent for receipt of insurance-related notices that are
required to be given to the Commission by an employer,
insurance carrier, or group self-insurance association. The
measure will take effect upon passage. |
| HB
2293 - Albo
- Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; creates 2-year pilot
project for certain mixed beverage licensees. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
(S) Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social
Services |
02/09/09 |
| notes:
Creates a two-year pilot project for certain mixed beverage
licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. The bill
allows a participating mixed beverage restaurant licensee to
use alternative calculation for the food-to-beverage ratio
based on volume by proof gallon. The bill sets out the
parameters of the pilot project and requires the ABC Board to
report its findings and any recommendations based on the
results of the project to the chairs of the House Committee on
General Laws and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and
Social Services on or before July 1, 2011. The bill defines
proof gallon. |
| HB
2354 - Landes
- Suspension of mandates; requires Governor to temporarily
suspend on locality facing fiscal stress. |
(H) Committee
on Appropriations
(S) Committee
on General Laws and Technology |
(S) Referred to Committee on General Laws and
Technology |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Requires the Governor to temporarily suspend mandates on a
locality upon a finding that it faces fiscal stress and the
suspension of the mandate or portion thereof would help
alleviate the fiscal hardship. Currently, suspension of the
mandate is discretionary with the Governor. The bill provides
that its provisions will expire on July 1, 2010. |
| HB
2371 - Nutter
- Rates; SCC to conduct proceeding relating thereto for
certain sales of electric power to customers. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Directs the State Corporation Commission to promulgate
regulations requiring electric utilities to offer electric
service to non-residential customers under a tariff that
utilizes rates that vary in real time in accordance with
hourly changes in the utility's costs of providing
electricity. To be eligible to receive service under the
tariff, the customer shall operate a distributed generation
facility that produces electricity from renewable power. The
regulations shall also include provisions that require the
utility to purchase from such a customer electricity generated
at is distributed generation facility at a price that reflects
the utility's avoided costs as they vary hourly. To be
eligible for this part of the tariff, the facility's capacity
shall not exceed 200 megawatts. Up to 50 percent of the amount
of electricity for which the eligible customer is entitled to
receive payment under such tariff may be in the form of
reduced consumption through on-site efficiency measures. A
utility is not required to offer service under the tariff
after July 1, 2012, though customers receiving service under
the tariff may continue to do so. No more than one percent of
the utility's aggregate average monthly consumption is
eligible to take service under the tariff. The Commission is
required to report annually on the status of the measure and
the effectiveness of the tariff. |
| HB
2424 - May
- Graffiti; restitution for abatement costs. |
(H) Committee
on Counties, Cities and Towns
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(S) Referred to Committee on Local Government |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Permits courts to order any person convicted of unlawfully
defacing property to pay full or partial restitution to the
locality for costs incurred by the locality in removing or
repairing the defacement. Further provides that such order of
restitution shall be docketed as provided in § 8.01-446 when
and may be enforced by the locality in the same manner as a
judgment in a civil action. |
| HB
2446 - Sickles
- Motor fuels and lubricating oils; updates referenced
standard for testing thereof. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Rereferred to Commerce and Labor |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Updates the referenced standard for testing by the
Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services of motor
fuel or lubricating oil. The measure incorporates by reference
the specifications established by ASTM International and
incorporated into the ASTM specifications for motor fuels. The
measure revises the definitions of motor fuel and oxygenated
gasoline, and replaces several references to "gasoline" with
"motor fuel." |
| HB
2472 - Hugo
- Merchants' capital tax; gives lessor and lessee right to
terminate to be daily rental property. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(S) Referred to Committee on Finance |
02/06/09 |
notes:
Deems rented merchants' capital under contracts giving both
the lessor and the lessee the right to terminate at any time
to be daily rental property. Under current law, persons
engaged in the short-term rental business cannot be taxed in
an amount that exceeds one percent of the gross proceeds from
daily rental property.
|
| HB
2479 - Hugo
- Real property tax rate; reduces tax imposed on commercial
property in Northern Virginia. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(S) Referred to Committee on Finance |
02/09/09 |
| notes:
Reduces the rate of the additional real property tax that may
be imposed on commercial property by localities embraced by
the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority from $0.25 per
$100 to $0.125 per $100. |
| HB
2480 - Hugo
- Real property tax; commercial property in Northern Virginia
and Hampton Roads. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(S) Referred to Committee on Finance |
02/06/09 |
| notes:
Requires localities to use the revenue from the special real
property tax on commercial property in localities embraced by
the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority or the Hampton
Roads Transportation Authority solely for new road
construction and new public transit construction. Under
current law, the localities must use the revenue for
transportation purposes that benefit the special regional
transportation tax district to which the locality belongs. |
| HB
2515 - Tata
- Workers' Compensation Act; increases maximum tax rate that
may be assessed on uninsured, etc. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/05/09 |
| notes:
Increases the maximum tax rate that may be assessed on
uninsured or self-insured employers from 0.25 percent to 0.5
percent. The revenues from the tax fund workers' compensation
benefits that are awarded against such employers from the
uninsured employer's fund. The measure sunsets on July 1,
2012. |
| HB
2519 - Phillips
- Electric utilities; SCC to establish procedures regarding
refunds of moneys collected. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to establish
procedures regarding refunds by electric utilities of moneys
collected from fuel cost tariffs in excess of actual fuel
costs. The measure directs the SCC to continuously review fuel
costs of all electric utilities and, if the SCC finds that a
utility is in an over-recovery position, or likely to be so,
to reduce the fuel cost tariffs to correct the over-recovery
or require the utility to refund over-recoveries to customers.
Currently, the SCC is authorized to review the fuel costs only
of those utilities not bound by a rate case settlement that
extended in its application beyond January 1, 2002, and if it
finds that such a utility is in an over-recovery position, or
likely to be so, the SCC is authorized to reduce its fuel cost
tariffs to correct the over-recovery. |
| HB
2531 - Kilgore
- Electricity; SCC to conduct proceeding to determine
appropriate energy conservation, etc. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/11/09 |
| HB
2578 - Howell,
A.T. - Novelty cigarette lighters; prohibiting purchase,
distribution, etc. to persons under age of 18. |
(H) Committee
for Courts of Justice
(S) Committee
for Courts of Justice |
(S) Assigned Courts sub: Civil |
02/13/09 |
| notes:
Provides that any person who knowingly sells, distributes, or
gives a novelty lighter to a person he knows or has reason to
know is a juvenile, is subject to a fine of no more than $100
and that any juvenile who attempts to purchase a novelty
lighter is subject to a fine of no more than $100. |
| HB
2597 - Oder
- Alcoholic beverage control; ABC Board to adopt regulation
that require off-premise retail licensees. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
(S) Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Mandates the ABC Board to adopt regulations that require
off-premises retail licensees to place any premixed alcoholic
energy drinks containing one-half of one percent or more of
alcohol by volume in the same location where wine and beer are
available for sale within the licensed premises. |
| HJ
683 - Peace
- Retailers for Life Month; designating as April 2009, and
each succeeding year thereafter. |
(H) Committee
on Rules
(S) Committee
on Rules |
(S) Referred to Committee on Rules |
01/26/09 |
| notes:
Designates April, in 2009 and in each succeeding year, as
Retailers for Life Month in Virginia. |
| SB
920 - Reynolds
- Health insurance; policy offered to small employer with 50
or less employees to protect uninsured. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(H) Assigned C & L sub: 1 |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Authorizes health insurers, health plans, and health
maintenance organizations to offer "Protect the Uninsured"
(PTU) policies. PTU polices may be sold to small employers
with no more than 50 employees, to provide coverage for their
employees who have been uninsured for the preceding six
months. The coverage provided under a PTU policy will be
determined at the discretion of the health insurer issuing the
policy, and specifically is not required to include
state-mandated health benefits. This bill is a recommendation
of the Small Business Commission. |
| SB
922 - Reynolds
- Larceny of money; to be charged as grand larceny and petit
larceny statutes. |
(H) Committee
for Courts of Justice
(S) Committee
for Courts of Justice |
(H) Subcommittee recommends reporting |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Allows larceny of bank notes, checks, or other writing or
paper of value to be charged as larceny under the grand
larceny and petit larceny statutes. |
| SB
954 - McDougle
- Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practice to sell, offer
for sale, etc., recalled product. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on General Laws and Technology |
(H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/12/09 |
| SB
960 - Obenshain
- Credit cards; clarifies language allowing acceptance thereof
by clerks to make it clear. |
(H) Committee
for Courts of Justice
(S) Committee
for Courts of Justice |
(H) Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Clarifies the language allowing the acceptance of credit cards
by clerks to make it clear that the convenience fee collected
is to be collected from the person presenting the card as
payment and not the credit card issuer. The bill also changes
the language calling this fee a service charge to a reasonable
convenience fee to mirror the language used in credit
contracts. |
| SB
978 - Stuart
- Income taxes, state; recognition of income from dealer
disposition of property under installment. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Reported from Finance with amendments (22-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Allows the income from dealer dispositions of property made on
or after January 1, 2009, to be recognized under the
installment method at the election of the taxpayer, provided
that (i) the election relating to the dealer disposition of
the property has been made on or before the due date
prescribed by law for filing the taxpayer's income tax return,
and (ii) the dealer disposition is in accordance with
restrictions and conditions established by the Department. |
| SB
979 - Stuart
- Fuel fee; allows authorities to pass an ordinance to impose
a fee on motor vehicle violations. |
(H) Committee
on Transportation
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(H) Referred to Committee on Transportation |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Allows authorities to pass an ordinance that would impose a
fee, not to exceed $10, on all motor vehicle violations. Such
fee shall go to the locality for the purpose of purchasing
fuel for local law-enforcement vehicles. |
| SB
982 - Wagner
- Stormwater; requires localities to regulate. |
(H) Committee
on Counties, Cities and Towns
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(H) Assigned CC & T sub: 2 |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Requires localities to provide full or partial waivers of
charges to any person who develops, redevelops or retrofits
outfalls, discharges or property so that there is a permanent
reduction in post-development stormwater flow and pollutant
loading. Under current law, localities have the option of
providing such waivers. |
| SB
983 - Wagner
- Alcoholic mixed beverages; exception for certain spirits
that licensee cannot deliver to consumer. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
(H) Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming |
02/09/09 |
| notes:
Makes an exception for certain spirits to the rule that a
mixed beverage licensee cannot deliver to a consumer alcoholic
beverages in the original bottle. To qualify for the
exception, the bill requires that (i) the original container
of spirits is no larger than 375 milliliters, (ii) the alcohol
content is no greater than 15 percent by volume, and (iii) the
contents of the container are carbonated and perishable. |
| SB
987 - Colgan
- Retail Sales and Use Tax; requirements for dealer or direct
permit holder discount. |
(H) Committee
on Appropriations
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Assigned App. sub: Technology Oversight &
Government Activities (Landes) |
02/13/09 |
| notes:
Eliminates dealer tax and fee discounts and allowances for the
retail sales and use tax, tire recycling fee, communications
sales and use tax, cigarette and tobacco products tax, E-911
service tax, and fuels taxes. |
| SB
1006 - Quayle
- Line of Duty Act; funding for Line of Duty Death and Health
Benefits Trust Fund. |
(H) Committee
on Appropriations
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement (Hogan,
Clarke N.) |
02/16/09 |
| SB
1018 - Miller,
J.C. - Hampton Roads Transportation Authority; taxes,
fees, etc. dedicated to financing its operation. |
(H) Committee
on Transportation
(S) Committee
on Transportation |
(H) Referred to Committee on Transportation |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Removes the Counties of James City and York and the Cities of
Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, and Williamsburg from the
Hampton Roads Transportation Authority. |
| SB
1021 - McEachin
- Retail Sales and Use Tax; revenues generated on premises of
new stadium to be used to pay bonds. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Reported from Finance (20-Y 2-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Sets aside certain sales tax revenues generated by
transactions occurring on the premises of a new stadium or
structures attached thereto with such revenues to be used to
repay any bonds issued to finance the construction of such
stadium. The bonds must be issued on or after July 1, 2009,
but before July 1, 2012. |
| SB
1033 - Hanger
- Licensed farm wineries; restrictions on activities. |
(H) Committee
on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(H) Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources |
02/02/09 |
| notes:
Amends the Commonwealth's policy regarding local restriction
on activities and events held at farm wineries by requiring
localities to take into account the agricultural nature of
such activities and events. |
| SB
1105 - Northam
- Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibits smoking in all indoor
restaurants and bar and lounge areas in State. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Education and Health |
(S) House amendments rejected by Senate (11-Y 28-N) |
02/16/09 |
| SB
1258 - McDougle
- Alcoholic beverage control; requires ABC Board to establish
a schedule of offenses. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
(H) Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming |
02/09/09 |
| notes:
Requires the ABC Board, by regulation, to establish a schedule
of offenses for which any penalty may be waived upon a showing
that the licensee has had no prior violations within three
years immediately preceding the date of the violation. |
| SB
1315 - Locke
- Machinery and tools; separate classification for local
taxation. |
(H) Committee
on Finance
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Declares machinery and tools used directly in the manufacture
of precision investment castings to be a separate
classification of machinery and tools for local taxation.
Localities may tax property so classified at rates or
assessment ratios that are less than those for other machinery
and tools. |
| SB
1339 - Herring
- Electric utility regulation; directs SCC to require
utilities to offer service under tariffs. |
(H) Committee
on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/13/09 |
| notes:
Directs the State Corporation Commission to take into account,
when considering requests for a certificate, permit, or
approval for a generation facility, whether the facility is
consistent with the utility's integrated resource plan. The
measure also (i) establishes a fourth voluntary renewable
portfolio standard goal of 15 percent by 2025; (ii) allows
utilities to recover costs of designing and operating demand
management, conservation, energy efficiency, and load
management programs, including an enhanced rate of return on
capital invested in energy efficiency, including advanced
metering infrastructure, of 200 basis points for between three
and seven years; (iii) requires utilities to develop tariffs
offering real-time variable rates; and (iv) requires that
rates for utility payments to eligible customer-generators
under a net energy metering program be not less than the rate
the utility charges its customers for electricity provided 100
percent from renewable energy. |
| SB
1351 - Wagner
- Health insurance plan; insurance mandate for accident, etc.
apply to plans for state employees. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(H) Referred to Committee on General Laws |
02/13/09 |
| notes:
Provides that any law effective on or after July 1, 2009, that
provides for an insurance mandate for policies of accident and
health insurance shall also apply to health insurance plans
for state employees. The measure also requires the Department
of Human Resource Management to report to the Special Advisory
Commission on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits on cost and
utilization information for each of the mandated benefits. |
| SB
1355 - Wagner
- Trusts, state and local; created to fund costs for providing
postemployment public benefits. |
(H) Committee
on Appropriations
(S) Committee
on Finance |
(H) Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement (Hogan,
Clarke N.) |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Creates trusts or equivalent arrangements to fund the costs of
providing postemployment benefits other than pensions for the
Commonwealth and for counties, cities, towns, school
divisions, and other political subdivisions of the
Commonwealth. |
| SB
1369 - Barker
- Graffiti abatement; permits localities to charge property
owner for cost thereof. |
(H) Committee
on Counties, Cities and Towns
(S) Committee
on Local Government |
(H) Assigned CC & T sub: 2 |
02/16/09 |
| notes:
Permits localities to charge a property owner for the cost or
expenses of abating graffiti that occurs on his vacant
property, and to collect such charges as taxes are collected.
If the charges remain unpaid, they shall constitute a lien and
become enforceable in the same manner as unpaid local taxes.
|
| SB
1431 - Cuccinelli
- REAL ID Act of 2005; State will not comply with provision
thereof that compromises economic privacy. |
(H) Committee
on Transportation
(S) Committee
on Transportation |
(H) Referred to Committee on Transportation |
02/13/09 |
| notes:
Provides that the Commonwealth will not comply with any
provision of the federal REAL ID Act and with any other
federal law, regulation, or policy that would compromise the
economic privacy, biometric data, or biometric samples of any
resident of the Commonwealth. |
| SB
1445 - Deeds
- Alcoholic beverage control; location of sale for shipper's
license. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
(H) Referred to Committee on General Laws |
02/11/09 |
| notes:
Clarifies, for purposes of determining the location, premises,
or place of sale by a wine shipper licensee or a beer shipper
licensee pursuant to § 4.1-203, that a sale occurs when wine
or beer is delivered by the licensee to an approved common
carrier for shipment. |
| SB
1495 - Locke
- Unemployment compensation; voluntarily leaving employment to
accompany military spouse. |
(H) Committee
on General Laws
(S) Committee
on Commerce and Labor |
(H) Referred to Committee on General Laws |
02/13/09 |
| notes:
Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an
employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany the employee's
spouse, who is on active duty in the military or naval
services of the United States, to a new military-related
assignment established pursuant to a permanent change of duty
order from which the employee's place of employment is not
reasonably accessible. The measure applies only if the state
to which the spouse is transferred has a similar provision.
Benefits paid to qualifying claimants shall be charged against
the pool rather than against the claimant's
employer. |