Authorities
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Tourist Train Development Authority; reinstates Authority and its board. [SB-72]
Tourist Train Development Authority. Reinstates the Authority and its board, repealed by the General Assembly in 2011, which consists of representatives from the governing bodies of Tazewell County, the Town of Bluefield, and the Town of Pocahontas; four citizen members from Tazewell County; and two legislators. The Authority's powers are similar to those of other authorities. The bill authorizes the Authority to cooperate with any private or governmental entity in the state of West Virginia in the development of a tourist train.
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Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; length of term of Board of Directors. [SB-595]
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; Board of Directors. Provides that nonlegislative citizen members of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority shall serve no more than four consecutive two-year terms. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Jobs Investment Program; changes in administration. [SB-492]
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Changes the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; chairman of the Board of Directors. [SB-341]
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Requires the President of Virginia Commonwealth University to serve as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority. The bill also provides that in the event that the majority of the Board of Directors of the Authority and the Board of Visitors of the University disagree upon the selection, removal, or conditions of employment, including salary, of the Chief Executive
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Economic development authorities; appointment. [SB-311]
Appointment to industrial development authorities. Provides that in Frederick County the board of supervisors may appoint one of its members to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Frederick, Virginia. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; export of Virginia products and services. [SB-28]
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; export of Virginia products and services. Authorizes the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to undertake whatever activities the Authority deems appropriate to provide bridge loans and shipment insurance for Virginia exporters. This bill may be known as the Virginia Export Assistance Act.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; certified industrial parks. [SB-267]
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; certified industrial parks. Provides that the Authority shall develop a program by which local industrial parks may become certified by the Commonwealth. In developing such a program, the Authority shall consider factors such as planning, zoning, engineering, title ownership, and general development readiness. The program shall also certify developments in various categories of industry.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Tourism Authority; designating Blue Ridge Highlands region to enhance tourism development. [SB-243]
Virginia Tourism Authority; Blue Ridge Highlands region. Requires the Virginia Tourism Authority to designate the Blue Ridge Highlands region to enhance tourism development efforts.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties, land and utility ownership. [SB-166]
Fort Monroe Authority; powers and duties; land and utility ownership. Removes the power of the Fort Monroe Authority to exercise the powers of the Commonwealth over its Area of Operation, which consists of land acquired or to be acquired from the federal government by the Authority or the Commonwealth. The bill expands the power of the Authority's Board to adopt regulations concerning the use of properties under Authority control and provides that a violation of such regulations is punishable by a civil penalty, paid to the Authority, of up to $100
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Dulles Access Highway; memorializing MWAA to impose & collect tolls for use, etc. [HJR-85]
MWAA; tolls on Dulles Access Highway. Memorializes the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority to impose and collect tolls for use of the Dulles Access Highway in order to reduce tolls for use of the Dulles Toll Road.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; report. [HJR-101]
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; report. Directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to work with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to recommend strategies to enhance and stimulate economic development through technology transfer. The bill requires the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to make a report of its findings and recommendations to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Jobs Investment Program; changes in administration. [HB-932]
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Changes the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Port Authority; changes composition of Board of Commissioners. [HB-876]
Virginia Port Authority Board of Commissioners. Changes the composition of the Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Port Authority by adding a member from Greater Hampton Roads. The bill also requires that one member have maritime shipping experience.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; definition of eligible business & business enterprise. [HB-864]
Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; definition of eligible business and business enterprise. Expands the definition of an eligible business under the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority to include any for-profit enterprise that exists for the primary purpose of developing or operating a qualified energy project or is required by state or federal law to develop or operate a qualified pollution control project. The definition of a business enterprise is expanded to include any entity acquiring, constructing, improving, maintaining,
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Eastern Shore Water Access Authority; created. [HB-844]
Eastern Shore Water Access Authority Act. Allows the Counties of Accomack and Northampton by resolution to declare that there is a need for a public access authority. If an operating agreement is developed, the counties may form the Eastern Shore Water Access Authority. The Authority's duties shall include identifying land that can be secured for use by the general public as a public access site, researching all identified sites, determining appropriate public use levels of identified access sites, developing appropriate mechanisms for transferring
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; change in membership. [HB-84]
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. Removes the three legislative members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; bonding authority not effective until July 1, 2018. [HB-824]
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Provides that the Authority's bonding authority shall not be effective until July 1, 2018. After such date, the Authority, prior to issuance of bonds, shall demonstrate in the context of a bond validation lawsuit that the transportation projects proposed for funding with the sought bond proceeds have been thoroughly analyzed and provide the greatest degree of congestion reduction relative to cost.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Riverside Regional Jail Authority; sheriffs allowed to appoint their alternates to vote at meetings. [HB-699]
Riverside Regional Jail Authority. Allows sheriff members of the Riverside Regional Jail Authority to appoint alternates to vote when sheriff members are not present at a meeting.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; allocations. [HB-653]
Allocations by Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Limits allocations by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority for transit, rail, and public transportation projects to no more than 25 percent of its total allocations.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
MWAA; limits use of Commonwelth revenues to support Phase II of Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. [HB-647]
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Places limits and conditions on use of Commonwealth revenues to support Phase II of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project.