Local Authority
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 22 - Cole - Firearms; disposition thereof acquired by localities. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211) | 03/10/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Disposition of firearms. Provides that no locality may participate in any program in which individuals are given a thing of value in exchange for surrendering a firearm to the locality unless the governing body of the locality has enacted an ordinance authorizing the participation of the locality. The ordinance shall require that such firearms shall be offered for sale by public auction or sealed bids to a person licensed as a dealer before otherwise disposing of, which may include destruction or sale to a dealer. |
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| HB 58 - Cole - Urban county executive form; filling vacancy on board of supervisors. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0396) | 03/30/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Urban county executive form; board of supervisors. Provides that in a county with the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) a special election to fill a vacancy on the board shall be called no fewer than 45 days, rather than 30 days, after the vacancy occurs to allow sufficient time to prepare for the election. This change is also applicable to urban county executive form school board vacancies through a cross-reference in § 22.1-57.3. |
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| HB 76 - Habeeb - Teachers; date changes for contract renewal for those without continuing contract status. | (H) Committee on Education (S) Committee on Education and Health | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) | 04/09/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Teachers without continuing contract status. Shifts the date of effective contract renewal for those teachers without continuing contract status from April 15 to June 15. This bill is identical to SB 278. |
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| HB 185 - Gilbert - Criminal cases; fines collected upon conviction shall be credited to Literary Fund. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0749) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED: Manner of enforcement of state criminal offenses. Provides that when a law-enforcement officer of the Department of State Police or any other division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a violation of a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or summoned must be charged with a violation of that Code provision and not with a substantially similar local ordinance. All fines and forfeitures collected upon conviction are to be credited to the Literary Fund. |
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| HB 186 - Gilbert - Sewage sludge; authorizes a locality to prohibit land application. | (H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources | (H) Continued to 2013 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources | 02/01/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Authority to prohibit land application of sewage sludge. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to prohibit the land application of sewage sludge within its boundaries; makes clarifying amendments. |
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| HB 187 - Gilbert - Police check-points; prohibits establishment of motorcycle only check-points. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) | 02/28/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Police check-points. Prohibits the establishment of "motorcycle only" police check-points. |
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| HB 217 - Bell, Richard P. - Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; not applicable to certain records. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) | 03/13/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; not applicable to certain records of the Department of Social Services. Provides that the provisions of the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act do not apply to personal information systems maintained by the Department of Social Services related to child welfare, adult services or adult protective services, or public assistance programs when requests for personal information are made to the Department of Social Services. Such personal information requests are required to be made to the appropriate local department of social services. |
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| HB 255 - Stolle - Warrants; those maintained by treasurers shall not disclose certain information. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088) | 03/06/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Warrants maintained by treasurers. Specifies that the information regarding warrants that shall not be disclosed includes any invoice that has been presented to a locality for payment, which the locality has attempted to pay, but the payment has not been completed because electronic payment has failed or a check was mailed but not cashed. |
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| HB 277 - Peace - Cigarette tax stamps, local; same technology used or required by State. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) | 03/06/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Local cigarette tax stamps. Requires that beginning January 1, 2013, any local tax stamp or meter impression required to be used to evidence payment of the local cigarette tax shall be of the same stamp technology that is used or required by the Commonwealth for the state cigarette tax stamp. This bill is identical to SB 394. |
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| HB 288 - Sherwood - Courthouses; exception from prohibition against carrying weapon for city and county treasurers. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) | 03/21/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Carrying weapons into courthouses; exception. Provides an exception from the prohibition against carrying a weapon into courthouses in the Commonwealth for city and county treasurers. |
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| HB 294 - Scott, E.T. - Public libraries; qualifications of librarian, use of state funds. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0296) | 03/21/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Public libraries; qualifications of librarian; use of state funds. Increases from 13,000 to 15,000 the population of any locality that must meet the qualifications established by the State Library Board in order to use state funds to pay for the position of professional librarian. |
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| HB 327 - Peace - Historic structures; demolition. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Approved by Governor-Chapter 494 (effective 7/1/12) | 04/04/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Historic structures; demolition. Provides that a locality may require by ordinance that certain structures within a historic district not be demolished until approved by the review board or, on appeal, the governing body after consultation with the review board. The bill provides, however, that if the local maintenance code official, in accordance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code, Part III Maintenance, determines that the structure constitutes a hazard, the historic structure shall be razed and removed. The bill defines contributing landmark, building, or structure. |
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| HB 329 - Villanueva - Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemptions. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) | 03/20/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemptions. Exempts personal information systems maintained by auditors appointed by the local governing body of any county, city, or town or a school board that deals with local investigations. |
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| HB 352 - Cox, J.A. - Emergency management plans; victims' rights. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) | 03/30/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Emergency management plans; victims' rights. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund to be the lead coordinating agencies for individuals determined to be victims during critical events and emergencies under emergency management plans developed by school boards, institutions of higher education, the Board of Health, the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board, the Department of Emergency Management, and political subdivisions. |
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| HB 375 - Pogge - Firearms; workplace rule by locality that prevents storing in locked motor vehicle, exceptions. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0757) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Control of firearms by localities; workplace rules. Prohibits localities from adopting a workplace rule that prevents an employee from storing a lawfully possessed firearm and ammunition in his locked motor vehicle. The firearm must be in a secured container or compartment in the vehicle. |
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| HB 428 - Bulova - Virginia Retirement System; benefits for certain local employees. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Continued to 2013 in Appropriations | 02/10/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees because the locality's annual retirement allowance for such employees exceeds the statutory amount to provide all of the other statutory benefits except the statutory annual retirement allowance (i) to all employees eligible for such benefits or (ii) only to eligible employees hired on or after July 1, 2010. The additional costs of providing the benefits would be borne by the locality making the election. |
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| HB 430 - Bulova - Inter-local service delivery; expands scope of Regional Cooperation Incentive Fund to foster. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) | 04/04/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Incentives for inter-local service delivery. Expands the scope of the Regional Cooperation Incentive Fund to foster inter-local service delivery consolidation or coordination where such consolidation or coordination will result in the more efficient use of local funds. |
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| HB 438 - Tata - Virginia Retirement System; benefits for certain local law-enforcement employees. | (H) Committee on Appropriations (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) | 03/30/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Virginia Retirement System; benefits for certain local law-enforcement employees. Provides that if an employee who has at least five years in a position covered by the higher retirement benefits plan authorized for certain local law-enforcement employees becomes disabled and is unable to return to such position but eventually accepts another position with the same employer that is not covered by such higher benefits plan, he may, at the sole discretion of his employer, continue to be covered under such benefits plan even if the new position would not otherwise be eligible for such benefits. |
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| HB 483 - Iaquinto - Real property tax; concerning validity of valuation of property, etc. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Continued to 2013 in Finance (11-Y 4-N) | 02/29/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Real property tax; collection of certain taxes. Provides that the current authority to increase the assessment of real property taxes for three preceding tax years by increasing the amount of the valuation of the property applies only to errors related to (i) new construction or improvements to the property, (ii) a change in the use of the property, or (iii) fraud on the part of the taxpayer. |
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| HB 484 - Iaquinto - Court records; secure remote access to records includes locating technology to offsite facility. | (H) Committee for Courts of Justice (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0234) | 03/13/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: 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 interfacing between a circuit court's case management or financial management system and the systems of the Supreme Court. |
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| HB 487 - Ware, O. - Prisoners; allows localities to charge persons for costs of transporting them to jail. | (H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Continued to 2013 with amendment(s) in Courts of Justice | 02/10/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Allows localities to charge persons convicted of violations of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting them to jail or other holding facility. |
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| HB 491 - Dance - Derelict and blighted buildings; authorizes locality to serve as receiver to repair. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Approved by Governor-Chapter 761 (effective 7/1/12) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Receivership of derelict and blighted buildings. Authorizes a locality to serve as a receiver, appointed by the circuit court, to repair blighted and derelict buildings. Buildings must previously have been determined to be blighted under current spot blight provisions. The owner of the property may redeem the property subject to receivership during the receivership process or prior to sale and will be awarded any profits gained through sale at public auction. This bill was recommended by the Virginia Housing Commission and is identical to SB 122. |
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| HB 553 - Knight - Airports, privately owned; duty of care and liability of landowners. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) | 03/21/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED: Privately owned airports; duty of care of landowners. Limits the liability of owners of private, unlicensed airports that are not open to the public and for use of which no fee is charged to gross negligence or willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity. Owners are liable for ordinary negligence related to conditions on the premises that proximately cause damage to property or injury to occupants of an aircraft or ultralight vehicle landing on or taking off from such premises. |
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| HB 554 - Knight - Political subdivisions; Department of Aviation lease approval requirement. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028) | 02/28/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED: Department of Aviation lease approval requirement. Replaces "city, town, or county" with "political subdivision" and includes "privately owned, licensed, public use airports," thereby expanding the scope of entities that abide by the DOAV's lease approval requirements. |
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| HB 567 - Marshall, D.W. - Water and sewer authorities; may put lien on property for delinquent rates, etc., on real estate. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Water and sewer services; deposit, lien. Authorizes (i) an owner of property who is the occupant or where a single meter serves multiple units or (ii) a lessee or tenant, provided he has written authorization from the owner, to establish water and sewer services in his own name. The bill provides for a locality or water authority to require a deposit of not more than five months of water and sewer charges. A lien may also be placed on the property under circumstances outlined when charges are delinquent. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. |
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| HB 586 - Merricks - Corrections, Department of; confinement of local inmates in state correctional facilities. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety | 02/03/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Department of Corrections; confinement of local inmates in state correctional facilities. Allows sheriffs and regional jail administrators to sign agreements with the Department of Corrections for the housing of local inmates in state prisons. |
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| HB 637 - Iaquinto - Grievance procedure; eliminates certain steps. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056) | 03/01/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: State Grievance Procedure. Eliminates certain steps in the grievance procedure by mandating that grievances following terminations due to formal discipline or unsatisfactory job performance proceed directly to a hearing. The bill also (i) allows either party to petition the circuit court to order only the implementation of the final decision of the hearing officer and not any recommendations of the hearing officer, (ii) reduces from 60 to 30 days the administrative review of the hearing decision by the Director of the Department of Human Resource Management, and (iii) removes the ability of the employee filing the grievance to have judicial review of the decision of the Director of the Department of Employment Dispute Resolution on whether the grievance qualifies for a hearing. The bill contains a technical amendment. |
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| HB 658 - Toscano - Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local; definition of personal interest in a transaction. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: State and Local Conflict of Interests Act; definition of personal interest in a transaction. Clarifies that there is no personal interest in a transaction where an officer or employee of a local governing body is appointed by the local governing body to serve on a governmental agency and the personal interest in the transaction of the governmental agency is a result of the salary, other compensation, fringe benefits, or benefits provided by the local governing body to the officer or employee, or a member of his immediate family. |
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| HB 754 - Cline - Concealed handgun permit applications; removes option for locality to require fingerprints. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0175) | 03/08/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Concealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints. Removes the option for a locality to require that an applicant for a concealed handgun permit submit fingerprints as part of the application. This bill is identical to SB 67. |
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| HB 792 - Tata - Virginia Retirement System; deferred compensation for local employees. | (H) Committee on Appropriations (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) | 04/06/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Virginia Retirement System; deferred compensation for local employees. Permits localities that choose to allow employees to participate in a deferred compensation plan to require new employees to join the plan on an opt-out basis. |
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| HB 809 - May - Insurance; employees of political subdivisions of State may receive from a locality. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) | 04/04/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Provision of insurance for employees of boards working closely with a locality. Adds the employees of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth such as boards, commissions, agencies, or authorities to the list of employees who may receive insurance from a locality. The political subdivision must be working in close cooperation with the locality before the insurance may be provided. Current law limits the provision of such insurance to the members of boards that were created or controlled by the locality. This bill is identical to SB 235. |
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| HB 837 - Hope - District court employees; local salary supplements may be paid wholly out of local funds. | (H) Committee for Courts of Justice (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0062) | 03/01/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Local salary supplements for district court employees. Clarifies that local salary supplements may be paid to clerks and other local district court employees, excepting district court judges and substitute judges, wholly out of local funds. |
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| HB 842 - James - Business license or land use authorization, local; conditions of issuance. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) | 03/21/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Applications for local business license or land use authorization; conditions. Permits localities to condition issuance of a local business license or land use authorization on payment of certain delinquent taxes, fees, or other charges owed by the applicant to the locality. This bill is identical to SB 308. |
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| HB 848 - Johnson - Methamphetamine lab cleanup costs; localities may charge for reimbursement. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0517) | 04/04/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Methamphetamine lab clean-up costs; reimbursement of localities. Allows localities to provide by ordinance that any person who is convicted of an offense for manufacture of methamphetamine shall be liable to the locality for the locality%92s expense in cleaning up any methamphetamine lab. |
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| HB 856 - Yost - Critical incident stress management teams; privileged information regarding criminal acts, etc. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) | 03/07/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Critical incident stress management teams; privileged information. Provides that information communicated to critical incident stress management team members by public safety personnel who are the subjects of peer support services shall not be disclosed. The bill allows the public safety personnel to waive the privilege. This bill is identical to SB 362. |
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| HB 860 - Rust - Towing ordinances; localities in Northern Virginia to require companies to submit to inspection. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) | 03/07/12 |
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| HB 865 - Rust - Taxicabs; local regulation. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) | 02/28/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Local regulation of taxicabs. Disallows counties, cities, and towns from reducing the number of taxicabs that are permitted or authorized under the local ordinance, except for non-use or cause as defined by the ordinance. This bill is identical to SB 231. |
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| HB 914 - Minchew - Children at play signs; allows county or town governments to install. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179) | 03/08/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: "Children at play" signs. Allows counties and towns, pursuant to an agreement with the Commissioner of Highways, to install "Children at play" signs on highways within their boundaries. The cost of the signs and installation will be borne by the county or town. |
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| HB 919 - Brink - Personal property tax; vehicle distrained and sold for delinquent taxes, penalty & accrued interest. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) | 04/05/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Personal property tax; distraint and sale of personal property for delinquent taxes. Provides that a locality is not required to obtain a certificate of title when motor vehicles are distrained for sale to satisfy delinquent taxes. The bill also clarifies that the costs of the distress, along with penalty and interest, are added to what the taxpayer owes and paid out of the proceeds of the sale. |
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| HB 975 - Bell, Robert B. - Governmental utility corporation; acting as public service corporation or public service company. | (H) Committee for Courts of Justice (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0626) | 04/05/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Public service corporations and companies; governmental utility corporation. Clarifies that a government utility corporation (a county or municipality, or entity or agency thereof, that provides or operates specified authorized utility services) shall be considered to be acting as a public service corporation or public service company with regard to the provision of such authorized utility services for the purposes of any taking of private property by eminent domain in accordance with the Constitution of Virginia. |
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| HB 1029 - Englin - Real property; removes requirement that certain planning commissioners own. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) VOTE: ENGROSSMENT REFUSED (36-Y 61-N) | 02/13/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Requirement that certain planning commissioners own real property. Removes the requirement that at least one-half of the members of a local planning commission be owners of real property. |
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| HB 1167 - Jones - High Performance Buildings Act; created. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Department of General Services; High Performance Buildings Act. Provides that any executive branch agency or institution entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size or the renovation of a building where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building, shall conform to Virginia Energy Conservation and Environmental Standards (VEES) and the building shall be designed, constructed, verified, and operated to comply with the high performance building certification program. The bill defines "VEES" and "high performance building certification program." The bill allows the Director of the Department of General Services to grant an exemption from this requirement due to impracticability. The bill incorporates HB 788. |
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| HB 1286 - Dudenhefer - Capital projects, local; planning commission to study impact of public facilities, etc. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) | 04/04/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Local capital projects; utility relocation. Provides that certain utilities companies shall cooperate and coordinate in the relocation of certain utilities so as to avoid unnecessary delays in the construction of local capital projects. |
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| HB 1293 - Spruill - Statewide Fire Prevention Code; local inspection fee in City of Chesapeake. | (H) Committee on General Laws (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0635) | 04/05/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Statewide Fire Prevention Code; local inspection fee. Provides that no fee charged for the inspection of any religious institution shall exceed $50. |
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| HB 1294 - Spruill - Churches, synagogues, etc.; localities shall not charge any fee unless authorized by general law. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: Prohibition of certain local fees. Provides that localities shall not charge an assembly fee, or any similar fee to any church, synagogue, or other place of worship. |
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| SB 33 - Locke - Hampton, City of; special commissioner to execute title to real estate with delinquent taxes, etc. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0610) | 04/04/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Real estate with delinquent taxes or liens; City of Hampton. Adds the City of Hampton to a list of localities authorized to have a special commissioner appointed to execute the necessary deeds to convey certain real estate to the locality when the delinquent taxes or liens, including penalties and interest, exceed 35 percent of the assessed value or when the taxes alone exceed 15 percent of the assessed value. This bill is identical to HB 202. |
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| SB 122 - Watkins - Derelict and blighted buildings; authorizes locality to serve as receiver to repair. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) | 03/10/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: Receivership of derelict and blighted buildings. Authorizes a locality to serve as a receiver, appointed by the circuit court, to repair blighted and derelict buildings. Buildings must previously have been determined to be blighted under current spot blight provisions. The owner of the property may redeem the property subject to receivership during the receivership process or prior to sale and will be awarded any profits gained through sale at public auction. This bill was recommended by the Virginia Housing Commission and is identical to HB 491. |
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| SB 125 - Watkins - Line of Duty Act; political subdivision, etc., irrevocable election to self-fund benefits. | (H) Committee on Appropriations (S) Committee on Finance | (H) Left in Appropriations | 03/10/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: Line of Duty Act. Allows a political subdivision with employees eligible for coverage under the Line of Duty Act to make an irrevocable election, on or before July 1, 2013, to self-fund the benefits available under the Line of Duty Act. The bill contains a reenactment clause. |
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| SB 133 - Stanley - Fire investigation warrant; State Police arson investigators may obtain. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279) | 03/20/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Issuance of fire investigation warrant; State Police arson investigators. Authorizes State Police arson investigators to obtain administrative warrants to investigate fires. Current law only authorizes fire marshals to obtain such warrants. This bill is identical to HB 941. |
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| SB 171 - Petersen - Virginia Retirement System; benefits for firefighter, emergency medical technician, etc. | (H) Committee on Appropriations (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED: Virginia Retirement System; certain local employees. Permits localities to exempt firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law-enforcement officers from the higher age and service requirements for normal and early retirement applicable to employees hired on or after July 1, 2010. |
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| SB 195 - Marsden - Towing ordinances; localities in Northern Virginia to require companies to submit to inspection. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) | 04/18/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: Local towing ordinances. Allows localities in Northern Virginia by ordinance to require towing companies that tow trespassing vehicles within 10 miles of the tow origin from one locality to another to submit to inspection of their facilities by the locality from which such vehicles are towed. This bill is identical to HB 860. |
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| SB 228 - Herring - Vehicle and trailer immobilization; subject to removal for outstanding parking violations. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0104) | 03/06/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Vehicle and trailer immobilization. Makes all vehicles and trailers, in addition to motor vehicles, subject to removal or immobilization for outstanding parking violations. This bill is identical to HB 861. |
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| SB 231 - Herring - Taxicabs; local regulation. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0105) | 03/06/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: Local regulation of taxicabs. Disallows counties, cities, and towns from reducing the number of taxicabs that are permitted or authorized under the local ordinance, except for non-use or cause as defined by the ordinance. This bill is identical to HB 865. |
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| SB 235 - Herring - Insurance; employees of political subdivisions of State may receive from a locality. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0191) | 03/08/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: Provision of insurance for employees of boards working closely with a locality. Adds the employees of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth such as boards, commissions, agencies, or authorities to the list of employees who may receive insurance from a locality. The political subdivision must be working in close cooperation with the locality before the insurance may be provided. Current law limits the provision of such insurance to the members of boards that were created or controlled by the locality. |
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| SB 245 - Obenshain - Emergency Services and Disaster Law; constitutional rights of citizens to keep & bear arms. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0158) | 03/07/12 |
| notes:
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Emergency services and disasters; constitutional rights. Provides that nothing in the Emergency Services and Disaster Law shall be interpreted to limit or prohibit the possession, carrying, transportation, sale, or transfer of firearms. This bill is identical to HB 20. |
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| SB 253 - Reeves - Dam safety; consultation with Department of Emergency Management. | (H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070) | 03/01/12 |
| notes:
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Dam safety; consultation with Department of Emergency Management. Requires the Soil and Water Conservation Board to consult with the Department of Emergency Management in implementing the dam safety program, and makes clarifying amendments. This bill is identical to HB 293. |
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| SB 308 - Blevins - Business license or land use authorization, local; conditions of issuance. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) | 03/21/12 |
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SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: Business license or land use authorization; payment of delinquent charges as a condition. Permits a locality to condition the issuance of a local business license or land use authorization on the payment of any delinquent nuisance charges, stormwater management utility fees, or other charges owed by the applicant to the locality. This bill is identical to HB 842. |
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| SB 324 - Carrico - Limitation on Administrative Actions Relating to Firearms Act; established. | (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (S) Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) | 01/30/12 |
| notes:
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Limitation on administrative actions relating to Firearms Act. Establishes legislative preemption of any administrative action taken by an administrative body that has the direct or indirect effect of governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, storage, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof, unless the administrative body has express statutory authority. Under the bill, any administrative action taken prior to July 1, 2012, having a direct or indirect effect of governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof, other than those expressly authorized by statute, is invalid. The bill also requires administrative bodies to take appropriate action to bring any contrary administrative action into compliance. |
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| SB 339 - Newman - Advertising & advertisements; allows running animation on structures. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Continued to 2013 in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) | 01/25/12 |
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SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Advertisements and advertising structures. Allows running animation on advertisements and advertising structures. The bill also allows scrolling animation on on-premises advertisements and advertising structures. |
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| SB 658 - Puckett - License tax, local; ordinances for severance oil, coal, or gas from earth, report. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) | 04/09/12 |
| notes: Requires counties and cities that imposed or are imposing local severance taxes for the 2008 license year or any license year thereafter to amend their local ordinances to adopt or include certain local license tax uniform ordinance provisions into the local ordinance with an effective date retroactive to the 2008 license year. Each such county and city would be required to allow taxpayers upon whom local severance taxes were imposed to avail themselves of the appeal procedures included as part of the local license tax uniform ordinance provisions. In addition, each such county and city would be required to provide notice to such taxpayers by certified mail of their rights to use the appeal procedures for the 2008 license year and each license year thereafter. Each ordinance so amended with an effective date retroactive to the 2008 license year would be deemed to have met the uniform ordinance requirements, provided that the county or city meets the other requirements in the bill. The bill contains an emergency clause. | |||
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