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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Conditional rezoning; certain conditional rezoning proffers, floor area ratio. [SB-857]
Conditional rezoning; certain conditional rezoning proffers; floor area ratio. Reduces from 3.0 to 2.0 the minimum floor area ratio necessary for a new residential development to be exempted from provisions applicable to certain proffers as a condition for rezoning.
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Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Memorial Bridge; designating as Rt. 143 bridge over Interstate 64. [SB-855]
Designating the Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Memorial Bridge. Designates the State Route 143 bridge in the City of Newport News at exit 255 over Interstate 64 the "Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Memorial Bridge." This bill is identical to HB 1405.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Cats and dogs; authorizes local government to provide for lifetime licenses. [SB-856]
Cats and dogs; lifetime licenses. Authorizes the governing body of a county or city to provide for a lifetime dog or cat license. The bill also removes the minimum annual tax for a dog or cat, sets the maximum tax for a lifetime license at $50, and limits the fee for a duplicate dog or cat tag to $1. This bill is identical to HB 1477.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Part-time deputy sheriffs; compensation. [HB-1457]
Part-time deputies; compensation. Includes like rank and experience as a factor in setting the maximum allowable hourly equivalent compensation paid to part-time deputy sheriffs performing like duties of full-time deputy sheriffs.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Private wells; Stafford County authorized to regulate. [HB-1460]
Regulation of private wells. Adds Stafford County to the list of counties and cities authorized to establish standards for the construction and abandonment of private wells that are more stringent than those standards adopted by the Board of Health.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Law enforcement, local; fees for concealed handgun permits, courthouse and courtroom security. [HB-1458]
Local law enforcement; fees for concealed handgun permits; courthouse and courtroom security; assessment. Eliminates (i) the fee, under current law up to $35, that a local law-enforcement agency is permitted to charge for conducting the background investigation for a concealed handgun permit and (ii) the requirement that the local law-enforcement agency forward to the State Police any amount assessed by the FBI for providing criminal history record information in the background investigation. The bill makes discretionary the current mandatory fee
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
James River; designation portion a component of Scenic Rivers System. [HB-1454]
James River State Scenic River designation. Extends the scenic river designation of a portion of the James River located in Botetourt and Rockbridge Counties from 14 miles to 59 miles. This bill is identical to SB 1196.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
License taxes; if locality imposes tax upon business, tax shall be based upon Va. taxable income. [SB-836]
License taxes; Virginia taxable income. Provides that if a locality imposes a license tax upon a business, the tax shall be based upon the Virginia taxable income of the business. Current law allows a locality to impose the tax upon gross receipts or Virginia taxable income.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Alexandria, City of; Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) system permit, Potomac River outfall. [SB-819]
City of Alexandria; Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) system permit; Potomac River outfall. Directs the State Water Control Board to include in the next renewal of the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) system of the City of Alexandria (City) a requirement that the City complete by January 1, 2029, an assessment of the discharges from Combined Sewer Outfall Number 001 into the Potomac River. The bill requires the assessment to incorporate any improvements meant to address discharges from any
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Firearms; libraries owned or operated by localities. [HB-1418]
Control of firearms; libraries owned or operated by localities. Allows a locality to adopt an ordinance that prohibits firearms, ammunition, or components or a combination thereof in libraries owned or operated by the locality.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. [HB-1416]
Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Increases from $100,000 to $125,000 the sum payable out of the general fund to the beneficiary of a deceased law-enforcement officer or other person covered by the Line of Duty Act whose death occurred on or after January 1, 2006, while in the line of duty as the direct or proximate result of the performance of his duty.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Camping in tent or recreational vehicle; special use permit. [SB-802]
Special use permit; camping in tent or recreational vehicle. Prohibits any locality from barring or requiring a special use permit for camping by a landowner and his family or nonpaying guests in a tent or recreational vehicle on the landowner's property for a total of no more than two months per year.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Transient occupancy tax; Goochland, Powhatan, and Warren Counties authorized to impose. [HB-1415]
Transient occupancy tax; Goochland, Powhatan, Transient occupancy tax; Goochland, Powhatan, and Warren Counties. Adds the Counties of Goochland, Powhatan, and Warren to the list of counties authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed five percent, provided that any excess over two percent is designated and spent solely for tourism purposes. Under current law, all counties are authorized to impose such tax at a rate not to exceed two percent, and specified counties may impose the tax at a rate not to exceed five percent.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
City of Chesapeake; pilot program for problem-solving docket. [SB-794]
City of Chesapeake; pilot program for problem-solving docket. Authorizes the City of Chesapeake to establish a pilot program to promote public safety and reduce recidivism by creating a problem-solving docket to address substance abuse, mental illness, issues unique to military service experienced by veterans, and issues related to previously incarcerated persons. The bill directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, and the Department of Veterans Services to provide
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Register of funds expended; required posting by localities & school divisions on public gov website. [SB-795]
Register of funds expended; required posting by localities and school divisions. Requires every locality and each school division located within the locality to post on the public government website of the locality a register of all funds expended, showing vendor name, date of payment, amount, and a description of the type of expense, including credit card purchases with the same information. A locality and school division may exclude from such posting any information that is exempt from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Memorial Bridge; designating as Rt. 143 bridge over Interstate 64. [HB-1405]
Designating the Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Memorial Designating the Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Memorial Bridge. Designates the State Route 143 bridge in the City of Newport News at exit 255 over Interstate 64 the "Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer Memorial Bridge." This bill is identical to SB 855.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Line of Duty Act; probation and parole officers. [SB-619]
Line of Duty Act; probation and parole officers. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Line of Duty Act to include probation and parole officers whose death occurs as a direct or proximate result of the performance of their duty.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Line of Duty Act; certain employees of DOC included in definition of deceased person under Act. [SB-297]
Line of Duty Act; certain employees of the Department of Corrections. Expands the definition of a deceased person under the Line of Duty Act to include employees of the Department of Corrections with internal investigations authority whose death occurs as a direct or proximate result of the performance of their duty.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Taxicab services; regulation by localities, background checks. [SB-591]
Regulation of taxicab services by localities; background checks. Requires localities to adopt ordinances requiring that a criminal history background check be performed before an individual is authorized as a driver and at least once every two years thereafter. The background check shall require individuals to submit fingerprints and personal identifying information to be provided directly to the Central Criminal Records Exchange, which shall forward the results of the state and national records search to the local government or chief law-enforcement
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Local officers; petition requirements for removal of county supervisor, etc. [HB-1363]
Removal of certain local officers; petition requirements. Clarifies that the petition to remove a county supervisor, city council member, or member of a school board shall contain the signatures of a number of registered voters who reside within the jurisdiction of such officer equal to 10 percent of the amount that results when the total number of votes cast at the last election for the board or council is divided by the number of officers elected to the board or council at that election.