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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Drug treatment courts; Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Loudoun. [HB-2125]
Drug treatment court for Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Loudoun. Authorizes the establishment of drug treatment courts in the Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Loudoun.
Sponsored by: Rep. J. Randall Minchew
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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Wireless communications infrastructure; procedure for approved by localities. [HB-2196]
Wireless communications infrastructure. Provides Wireless communications infrastructure. Provides a uniform procedure for the way in which wireless communications infrastructure is approved by localities and approved and installed in public rights-of-way.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Heretick
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Local Government, Commission on; estimated fiscal impact on a locality of relocated refugees. [HB-2093]
Commission on Local Government; estimated fiscal impact on a locality of relocated refugees. Provides for the Commission on Local Government to provide, upon the request of any locality, an estimated fiscal impact of the relocation to the requesting locality of individuals admitted to the United States as refugees on the delivery of core services.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter
Failed To Report (defeated) In Counties, Cities And Towns (5-y 15-n) on 02/03/2017
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Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional transportation plan. [HB-2137]
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional transportation plan. Requires the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (the Authority) to annually publish on its website any land use or transportation elements of a locality's comprehensive plan that each locality embraced by the Authority is currently required to report when such locality's plan is inconsistent with the Authority's regional transportation plan. Additionally, the bill requires the Authority to consider for revision and revise as necessary its regional transportation plan
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Sponsored by: Rep. James LeMunyon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0351) on 03/13/2017
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Law-enforcement agencies, local; body-worn cameras. [HB-2117]
Local law-enforcement agencies; body-worn cameras. Requires localities to adopt and establish a written policy for the operation of a body-worn camera system, as defined in the bill, that conforms to the model policy established by the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) prior to purchasing or deploying a body-worn camera system. The bill requires the Department to establish a model policy for the operation of body-worn camera systems and the storage and maintenance of body-worn camera system records.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
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Minimum city population required to enforce certain ordinance violations. [SB-1169]
Minimum city population required to enforce certain ordinance violations. Decreases from 90,000 to 40,000 the minimum population of cities whose parking, stopping, and standing ordinances may provide that summonses and tickets for violations of such ordinances or regulations may be issued by law-enforcement officers, other uniformed city employees, or uniformed personnel under contract with the city.
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0490) on 03/13/2017
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Courthouses; relocation or expansion of courthouse to another location within city. [HB-2192]
Relocation of courthouse. Provides that in the case of a county courthouse located in a city, the relocation or expansion of the courthouse to any other location within such city is not such a removal as to require authorization by the electorate.
Sponsored by: Rep. R. Steven Landes
Stricken From Docket By Counties, Cities And Towns By Voice Vote on 01/27/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Study; local government fiscal stress; report. [SJR-278]
Study; local government fiscal stress; report. Establishes a 15-member joint subcommittee to study local government fiscal stress. The two-year joint subcommittee shall review (i) the taxing authorities of local governments, including the disparity between city and county tax authority; (ii) local responsibilities for service delivery of state-mandated or high priority programs, (iii) causes of fiscal stress among local governments, (iv) the current state tax system, including the future of the car tax; and (v) potential financial incentives and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Vested property rights; nonconforming uses. [SB-1173]
Vested property rights. Provides that if a structure is one that requires no permit, and an authorized local government official informs the property owner that the structure will comply with the zoning ordinance, and the improvement was thereafter constructed, a zoning ordinance may provide that the structure is nonconforming but shall not provide that such structure is illegal and subject to removal solely due to such nonconformity. The bill provides that in any proceeding when the authorized local government official is deceased or is otherwise
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0404) on 03/13/2017
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Working waterfront development areas; establishment. [SB-1203]
Working waterfront development areas; establishment. Authorizes localities, by ordinance, to establish a working waterfront development area and grant certain incentives and regulatory flexibility to private entities for the development of working waterfronts in such area.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0216) on 02/23/2017
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); tangible personal property tax; exemption. [HJR-706]
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); tangible personal property tax; exemption. Provides that any locality may, by ordinance, exempt from taxation the first $5,000 of value of tangible personal property used in a business.
Sponsored by: Rep. Larry Rush
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Dogs and cats; regulation of sale. [HB-2116]
Sale of dog or cat not obtained from releasing agency or animal rescue. Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances prohibiting the sale in a business of any dog or cat that was not obtained from a Virginia releasing agency or a nonprofit animal rescue organization.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
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Law-enforcement officers; decertification, notification. [HB-2067]
Decertification of law-enforcement officers; notification. Requires persons obligated to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board when a law-enforcement officer or jail officer has committed an act or been convicted of a crime that requires decertification to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board within 48 hours of becoming aware of such act or conviction. The bill requires that, upon such notification, decertification be immediate. Any conviction of a misdemeanor that has been appealed to a court of record shall not be considered a conviction
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Mullin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0496) on 03/13/2017
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Pretrial appeal; expands appeal by an attorney for the Commonwealth. [HB-2063]
Pretrial appeal by the Commonwealth. Expands pretrial appeal by an attorney for the Commonwealth to include an appeal on the constitutionality of a ruling by a juvenile and domestic relations district court in a case in which a juvenile is to be tried for an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. The bill provides that such appeal shall be heard by the circuit court. If the juvenile and domestic relations district court's ruling is affirmed, the attorney for the Commonwealth may appeal the circuit court's decision to the Court
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Mullin
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Additional powers of certain counties. [HB-2070]
Additional powers of certain counties. Grants counties with a population density greater than 2,000 persons per square mile certain powers related to taxation, borrowing, and payments for highway maintenance. Such powers currently are generally granted to cities and towns.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
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Law-enforcement officer; definition, municipal park rangers training. [HB-2062]
Definition of law-enforcement officer; municipal park rangers. Requires sworn municipal park rangers to be certified through completion of training at an approved criminal justice training academy. The bill authorizes sworn municipal park rangers to access criminal history record information for the purposes of the administration of criminal justice and the screening of an employment application. The bill provides that any sworn municipal park ranger who is a conservator of the peace shall be considered a law-enforcement officer or member of a law-enforcement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Mullin
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Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes. [HB-2023]
Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes. Provides that cities and towns that receive highway maintenance payments from the Commonwealth based on moving-lane-miles of highway will not have such payments reduced if moving-lane-miles of highway are converted to bicycle-only lanes, provided that the number of moving-lane-miles is not more than 50 moving-lane-miles or three percent of the municipality's total number of moving-lane-miles, whichever is less, and that prior to such conversion the city or town certifies that the conversion design has
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Heretick
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0534) on 03/16/2017
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Vapor products; imposition of state tax on products, including electronic cigarettes. [HB-2056]
Vapor product taxes. Imposes a state tax on vapor products, defined in the bill, including electronic cigarettes or similar products or devices and the consumable liquid, vapor cartridge, or other container of solution or other form that is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device. The bill authorizes cities and towns and certain counties to impose a tax on vapor products. The state tax rate is $0.05 per fluid milliliter of consumable vapor product
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Rural Coastal Virginia Community Enhancement Authority; created, report. [HB-2055]
Rural Coastal Virginia Community Enhancement Authority. Establishes the Rural Coastal Virginia Community Enhancement Authority, consisting of the 12 counties within the Northern Neck, Middle Peninsula, and Accomack-Northampton planning districts, if approved by the respective governing bodies. The Authority is created for the purpose of serving as a regional economic development body and represents a partnership of the Commonwealth, the planning districts, and the 12 counties of the coastal region. The Authority shall be governed by a board of up
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0388) on 03/13/2017
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Discrimination; separation of the sexes. [HB-2011]
Discrimination; separation of the sexes. Provides that recognition by any entity of the inherent differences between males and females, including the biological characteristics or qualities that distinguish an individual as either male or female as determined at birth, and the mere separation of the sexes by such entity based on such differences shall not constitute discrimination, provided that such separation is consistent with Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution of Virginia. The bill also provides that any local ordinance that likewise
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Marshall
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