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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Firefighters employed by localities; entitlement to continued compensation. [HB-1104]
Firefighters employed by localities; entitlement to continued compensation during period of quarantine or isolation. Provides that a firefighter who is the subject of an order of quarantine or an order of isolation as a result of potential exposure that occurred in the line of duty is entitled to the continued payment of compensation from his local employer during the period of such quarantine or isolation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
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Local government; publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, and public hearings, etc. [HB-129]
Local government; publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, and public hearings, etc.; alternatives. Gives localities alternatives to publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality for legal ads and other notices of proposed action. These alternatives include publication in at least two of the following forms of publication: (i) in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality, including such newspaper's online publication, if any; (ii) on the locality's website; (iii) on any public access channel operated by
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Bell Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 12/01/2016
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Line of Duty Act; probation and parole officers. [HB-1193]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
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Meals and food and beverage taxes, local; exemption for sales of meals for fundraising purposes. [HB-165]
Local meals and food and beverage taxes; exemption. Provides that the exemption from local meals taxes for sales of meals for fundraising purposes by certain organizations applies when the revenues are used by an entity exempt from income tax pursuant to ? 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code for nonprofit fraternal purposes. Under current law the organizations are exempt on such sales if the revenue is used for nonprofit educational, charitable, benevolent, or religious purposes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Peter Farrell
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Solid waste disposal fee; removes Pittsylvania County from list of counties authorized to levy. [HB-790]
Solid waste disposal fee; Pittsylvania County. Removes Pittsylvania County from the list of counties authorized to levy certain fees for the disposal of solid waste.
Sponsored by: Rep. Les Adams
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Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; DOE to study effect of local use value assessment [HJR-50]
Study; Department of Education; effect of local use value assessment of certain real estate on the Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Requests the Department of Education to (i) determine, for each of the 95 localities that have adopted ordinances to provide for the use value assessment and taxation of certain real estate, the use value of all applicable (a) real estate devoted to agricultural use, (b) real estate devoted to horticultural use, (c) real estate devoted to forest use, and (d) real estate devoted to open-space use, as
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
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Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes. [SB-669]
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 3% of the municipality's total number of moving-lane-miles, whichever is less. Municipalities will not receive additional funds and cannot reduce their funding of road and street maintenance
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
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Line of Duty Act; includes firefighters and emergency medical services trainees in Act. [SB-523]
Line of Duty Act; firefighters and emergency medical services trainees. Includes persons enrolled in a Fire Service Training course offered by the Virginia Department of Fire Programs under the Line of Duty Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Saslaw
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Bridge structures; attachment to locality, annual service fee. [SB-702]
Bridge structures; attachment to locality; annual service fee. Provides that a bridge constructed and operated in accordance with Chapter 581 of the Acts of Assembly of 2009, known as the Jordan Bridge, is not within either locality to which it is attached. The bill requires the owners of such bridge to pay each such locality, the Cities of Chesapeake and Portsmouth, an annual service fee of five cents per toll paid on the bridge, divided equally between the two localities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Louise Lucas
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Legal notices; advertisement by locality. [HB-286]
Legal notices; advertisement by locality. Allows localities with a population of 50,000 or greater to meet certain legal notice requirements by advertising on local radio or television stations or publishing on the locality's website instead of publishing in a newspaper of general circulation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
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Legal notices; advertisement by certain towns. [HB-956]
Advertisement of legal notices by certain towns. Provides that in any town within the Counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William, legal notices may be published on the locality's website instead of in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
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Economic development, local; transfer of taxes to qualified locality. [SB-15]
Local economic development. Provides that the Virginia income tax net revenue and sales and use tax generated by certain corporations or limited liability companies within a qualified locality be transferred to the qualified locality under certain conditions. A qualified locality is one that (i) has made application to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority for a Major Employment and Investment Project Site Planning Grant and has been rejected for such grant and (ii) has expended local funds for the economic development purposes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
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Cable franchises; service availability in certain areas. [SB-530]
Cable franchises. Provides that local ordinances to adopt a cable franchise shall require that a cable operator make service available in areas where the average occupied residential household density is not less than 20 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the physical address of the nearest dwelling or building at which service from the provider is available. The current statute requires a standard of not less than 30 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the nearest technically feasible point on
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
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Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund; disbursement of moneys. [SB-698]
Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to disburse moneys from the Fund in the form of grants to private entities that own dams in order to protect public safety and welfare. The grants can be used for the design, repair, and the safety modifications of dams identified in safety reports. The bill specifies homeowners' associations and planned unit developments among those private entities owning dams
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Wexton
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Legal notices; advertisement of by certain towns. [HB-1078]
Advertisement of legal notices by certain towns. Provides that in any town within the Counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William that does not have a newspaper of general circulation located within its boundary, legal notices may be published on the locality's website instead of in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
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Public employment; prohibits discrimination on basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. [SB-783]
Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in the bill. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current prohibitions on discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, or status as a veteran.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
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Wireless communications; infrastructure established. [HB-1347]
Wireless communications infrastructure. Prohibits a locality from charging an application fee, consulting fee, or other fee associated with the submission, review, processing and approval of an application to construct a new wireless support structure, for the substantial modification of a wireless support structure, or for collocation of a wireless facility or replacement of a wireless facility on an existing structure or utility pole that is not required for similar types of commercial development within the locality’s jurisdiction. The measure
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Heretick
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