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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Sales & Use Tax Fund; established, etc. [HB-1892]
Transportation funding and administration. Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a motor fuels sales tax rate of four percent, phased in over four years, for highway maintenance, (ii) increasing the state sales tax in Northern Virginia by 0.5 percent for transportation projects in Northern Virginia, and (iii) increasing the recordation tax in Northern Virginia at a rate of $0.40 per $100 valuation. The motor fuels tax is not effective until the unemployment rate in the Commonwealth decreases for four consecutive quarters
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
House: Left In Finance on 02/08/2011
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VHDA Act; terms and conditions of purchases from and sales to lenders of mortgage loans. [HB-1887]
Virginia Housing Development Authority Act; terms and conditions of purchases from and sales to mortgage lenders of mortgage loans. Removes requirement that a lender reinvest sales proceeds and make certification of prudent investment in the case of single family loans that when made by the lender will be purchased by a housing development authority. The bill has an emergency clause. The bill is identical to
Sponsored by: Rep. David Bulova
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0218) on 03/16/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
VEDPA; reports by businesses receiving development subsidies. [HB-1870]
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; reports by businesses receiving development subsidies. Requires any business entity that receives a development subsidy to file an annual report with the granting agency or the Authority no later than 60 days before the end of the fiscal year during which the development subsidy was received. The bill sets out the requirements for the annual report. The bill defines development subsidy as any expenditure of public funds with a value of at least $25,000 expended for the purposes of stimulating
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
House: Left In General Laws on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Housing Development Authority; loan servicing agreements. [HB-1826]
Virginia Housing Development Authority; loan servicing agreements. Authorizes the Virginia Housing Development Authority to make contracts and enter into agreements to act as the loan servicer to a housing lender for loans on properties located in or outside of the Commonwealth to persons and families of any income.
Sponsored by: Rep. G. Glenn Oder
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0690) on 03/26/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption for certain police officers. [HB-1812]
Workers' compensation; infectious disease presumption; police officers of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Norfolk Airport Authority. Adds police officers of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the Norfolk Airport Authority to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to the presumption that certain infectious diseases are occupational diseases compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. This presumption applies with respect to police officers of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority only for
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paula Miller
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0211) on 03/16/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Nanotechnology Authority; created, report. [HB-1639]
Virginia Nanotechnology Authority; established. .Establishes the Virginia Nanotechnology Authority to promote development of nanotechnology in Virginia. The Authority will be responsible for administering a fund to provide industry and institutions of higher education with discovery grants, collaboration grants, and prototype grants. The Authority will be governed by a board of directors and managed by a president at the direction of the Board. The president is responsible for creating a virtual Virginia Nanotechnology Users Network to facilitate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Harry Purkey
House: Incorporated By Appropriations (hb2324-lingamfelter) By Voice Vote on 02/04/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority; increases membership. [HB-1620]
Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority; membership. Increases the membership on the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority from 18 to 19 members by adding an additional gubernatorial appointee. In addition to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade being a named member of the Authority, the Governor would be given the power to appoint an Assistant to the Governor or other Cabinet member.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barry Knight
House: Left In General Laws on 02/08/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Water and waste authorities; eminent domain powers. [HB-1522]
Water and Waste Authorities; eminent domain powers. Amends the current law so that water and waste authorities have the power to exercise eminent domain as set out in Chapter 2 (§25.1-200 et seq.) or Chapter 3 (§25.1-300 et seq.) of Title 25.1 of the Code of Virginia, rather than with the same authority as is vested in the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner.
Sponsored by: Rep. R. Steven Landes
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0653) on 03/26/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Water authorities, sewer authorities, etc.; specified as political subdivisions of State. [HB-1521]
Authorities as political subdivisions. Specifies that water authorities, sewer authorities, sewage disposal authorities, stormwater control authorities, and refuse collection and disposal authorities are political subdivisions of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. R. Steven Landes
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0199) on 03/16/2011
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Nanotechnology Authority Act; created, report. [HB-123]
Virginia Nanotechnology Authority; established. Establishes the Virginia Nanotechnology Authority to promote development of nanotechnology in Virginia. The Authority will be responsible for administering a fund to be used to provide industry and institutions of higher education with discovery grants, collaboration grants, and prototype grants. The Authority will be governed by a board of directors and managed by a president at the direction of the Board. The president is responsible for creating a virtual Virginia Nanotechnology Users Network to
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Nutter
House: Left In Science And Technology on 12/03/2010
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
College Building Authority; acquire credit enhancements to secure payment of bonds issued. [HB-1205]
Private institutions of higher education; credit enhancement. Allows the Virginia College Building Authority to issue or acquire credit enhancements to secure payment of bonds issued by the Authority. Credit enhancements include, without limitation, surety bonds, insurance policies, letters of credit, guarantees and other forms of collateral or security as well as capital reserve funds for private institutions of higher education.
Sponsored by: Rep. Harvey Morgan
House: Left In Appropriations on 12/02/2010
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; board to establish ranger police division. [HB-1177]
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. Grants the board of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority the power to establish a ranger police division and appoint rangers who may exercise the powers and duties conferred by law upon local police officers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Clarence Phillips
House: Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 12/03/2010
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Southeastern Public Service Authority; Auditor of Public Accounts to collect, receive, etc. data. [SJR-65]
Study; Southeastern Public Service Authority; report. Directs the Auditor of Public Accounts to collect, receive, and analyze data and information relating to the operation and finances of the Southeastern Public Service Authority. The Auditor must submit his findings to the 2009 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frederick Quayle Senate: Bill Text As Passed Senate And House (sj65er) on 03/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Hampton Roads Transportation Authority; establishes certain state taxes and fees with revenues. [SB-798]
Revenues for the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority. Establishes certain state taxes and fees with the revenues therefrom to be used by the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority for transportation purposes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Wagner Senate: Left In Finance on 03/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
College Building Authority; certain projects financed thereby. [SB-795]
Bonds for Virginia facilities and other projects. Authorizes the issuance of bonds under the Virginia Public Building Authority in a principal amount not to exceed $1,103,600,000 , and under the Virginia College Building Authority with the principal amount of bonds issued for all such projects not to exceed $1,353,729,000. The bill also authorizes the State Treasurer to advance treasury loans in an amount not to exceed the costs of planning for certain capital projects with the total amount of treasury loans advanced for the costs of planning
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Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Colgan Senate: Failed To Pass In Senate on 03/13/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Richmond Metropolitan Authority; revises composition of Board of Directors. [SB-767]
Richmond Metropolitan Authority; composition of Board; revenue authority. Revises the composition of the Board of Directors of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority (RMA) and provides an opportunity for additional localities to join the Authority. The RMA is also granted additional revenue authority. However, the fees and taxes authorized by this Act by the Authority shall only be imposed or assessed by the Authority if (i) the member localities approve the restructuring of the Board of Directors of the Authority as proposed by this Act and (ii)
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Watkins Senate: Continued To 2009 In Finance (9-y 4-n 1-a) on 02/05/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Water and Waste Authorities Act; powers of political subdivision. [SB-755]
Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act. Provides that each political subdivision may adopt, after a public hearing, an ordinance requiring the delivery of all or any portion of the refuse generated or collected within such political subdivision to the refuse collection and disposal system of the authority. The bill also provides that the exercise of such aforementioned power or other certain powers shall not be deemed to cause displacement under the provisions of § 15.2-930, 15.2-934, or 15.2-5121.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frederick Quayle Senate: Stricken At Request Of Patron In Local Government (15-y 0-n) on 01/22/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; established. [SB-740]
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. Establishes an authority for Southwest Virginia to create a multi-purpose regional recreational area similar to, and potentially adjoining, such areas in West Virginia and Kentucky. The recreational area might consist of various trails and other amenities on private open-space lands where members of the public could, for example, hunt, fish, boat, camp, ride motorcycles or all-terrain vehicles, ride mountain bikes, or ride horses. The Southwest Regional Recreation Authority would have various powers to manage
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Puckett Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0648) on 03/18/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Retail Sales & Use Tax; Northern Virginia Transportation Authority authorized to impose. [SB-729]
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; revenues of the Authority. Authorizes the Authority to impose a 0.50 percent retail sales and use tax in the counties and cities embraced by the Authority with the revenues therefrom dedicated to the Authority. Any such tax imposed by the Authority shall not apply to “food purchased for human consumption. The bill provides that if the Authority imposes the retail sales and use tax, then, beginning at such time that the tax is first imposed, the Authority shall no longer be authorized to impose the (i)
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Saslaw Senate: Failed To Pass In Senate on 03/13/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Freedom of Information Act; exempts from public disclosure certain proprietary records. [SB-726]
Freedom of Information Act; records and meetings of Innovative Technology Authority. Exempts from public disclosure certain proprietary records submitted to the Innovative Technology Authority as part of a grant application. The bill also allows meetings of the Innovative Technology Authority to be closed when the exempt records are being discussed. This bill is identical to
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0633) on 03/18/2008