Regional Planning
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 426 - Bulova - Planning districts; requires preparation of regional strategic plans for guidance of district. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Assigned CC & T sub: #2 | 01/13/12 |
| notes: Requires all planning districts to prepare regional strategic plans for the guidance of the district. Currently, planning districts in which regional planning is conducted by multistate councils of government are excluded from such requirement. | |||
| HB 823 - Marshall, R.G. - Planning district commissions; functional areas warranting regional cooperation shall be limited. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Provides that the functional areas warranting regional cooperation for planning district commission purposes shall be limited to (i) solid waste, water supply, and other environmental management and (ii) transportation. | |||
| HB 1149 - Dudenhefer - Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings by local and regional public bodies. | (H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #2 FOIA/Procurement | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Expands the authority for the conduct of electronic communication meetings to all public bodies. Currently, local public bodies are prohibited from conducting public meetings in this manner, except when the Governor declares a state of emergency. The bill contains technical amendments. | |||
| HB 1291 - Gilbert - Governor's reorganization of executive branch of state government. | (H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #5 Special | 01/27/12 |
| notes:
Governor's reorganization of executive branch of state government. Upon introduction, this bill matches the reorganization plan of the Governor, and is not identical to the Senate's version (SB 678). Reorganizes the executive branch of state government as follows: Eliminates the Commonwealth Competition Council and transfers the responsibility of developing and maintaining the commercial activities list to the Department of Planning and Budget, [Enactments 1-2; Resolution #1]; Eliminates the Interagency Dispute Resolution Advisory Council, [Enactment 3; Resolution #2]; Eliminates the Virginia Public Buildings Board, [Enactments 4-5; Resolution #3]; Etc. |
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| HB 1295 - Byron - State mandates; eliminating on local and regional government entities relating to education, etc. | (H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Referred to Committee on General Laws | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Eliminates several statewide mandates on local and regional government entities relating to procurement procedures, education, and land use. | |||
| HJ 110 - Morris - School divisions; JLARC to study efficiency of regionalizing and consolidating personnel, etc. | (H) Committee on Rules | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Requests the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency of the use of public education funds and the possible gains from regionalizing school divisions. The Commission shall analyze the scale of administrative cost to pupils served across school divisions; the feasibility of consolidating certain programs, services, and school division functions; whether and to what extent the instructional, supervisory and administrative staff levels exceed need, particularly given the number of students enrolled in the public schools of the division; the organizations, planning, and budgetary structures of the school divisions to determine the need and ways in which such structures may be improved to maximize the utilization of personnel and funds between the school division and the governing body; and recommend such statutory, regulatory and policy changes as may be necessary to facilitate the efficient use of public education funds in accordance with the findings of the report. | |||
| SB 678 - McDougle - Governor's reorganization of executive branch of state government. | (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (S) Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology | 01/25/12 |
| notes:
This bill contains the provisions of SJR 66, and upon introduction, is not the same as the House version of the Governor's reorganization bill (HB 1291). Reorganizes the executive branch of state government as follows: Eliminates the Commonwealth Competition Council and transfers the responsibility of developing and maintaining the commercial activities list to the Department of Planning and Budget, [Enactments 1-2; SJR 66 #1]; Eliminates the Interagency Dispute Resolution Advisory Council, [Enactment 3; SJR 66 #2]; Eliminates the Virginia Public Buildings Board, [Enactments 4-5; SJR 66 #3]; Eliminates the Virginia Council on Human Resources. The bill also authorizes the Director of the Department of Human Resource Management to convene ad hoc working groups to address issues relating to the state workforce, [Enactments 6-7; SJR 66 #4]; And More |
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| SB 679 - Newman - State mandates; eliminates several of those on local and regional government entities. | (S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (S) Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Eliminates several statewide mandates on local and regional government entities relating to procurement procedures, education, and land use. | |||
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