Study Commissions Committees And Reports
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Building Revitalization Grant Fund; created, report. [SB-3]
Building Revitalization Grant Fund. Establishes the Building Revitalization Grant Fund, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to award grants of up to $100,000 to businesses that make a capital investment of at least $1 million in revitalizing or retrofitting an existing building in the Commonwealth to serve as a new place of business. This bill is a recommendation of the Housing Commission.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Left In General Laws And Technology on 12/02/2016
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Private animal shelters; reporting euthanasia. [SB-6]
Private animal shelters; reporting; euthanasia. Requires any private animal shelter that euthanizes animals to submit to the State Veterinarian an annual report listing each animal euthanized; the dates of initial confinement, holding, and euthanasia; the shelter's efforts, if any, to dispose of the animal by nonlethal means; and the basis for the decision to euthanize the animal.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Left In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 12/02/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Mixed beverage restaurant licensees; food-to-beverage ratio. [SB-488]
Pilot project for mixed beverage licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; alternative calculation for the 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio based on price paid by the licensee. Creates a two-year pilot project that directs participating mixed beverage restaurant licensees to calculate the required food-to-beverage ratio (i) on the basis of the price such licensee paid for the food, nonalcoholic beverages, and mixed beverages sold and (ii) on the basis of the price such licensee sold such food, nonalcoholic beverages, and mixed beverages
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Left In General Laws on 12/01/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Electronic Communications Privacy Act; established, report. [HB-1332]
Virginia Electronic Communications Privacy Act; report. Prohibits a state or local government agency from taking certain actions relating to access to electronic communication information from a service provider, access to electronic device information from any person other than the authorized possessor of the device, or access to electronic device information by means of physical interaction or electronic communication with the electronic device. Exceptions allow access to electronic communication information or access to electronic device information
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Anderson
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Veterans Docket Act; established, report. [SB-317]
Veterans Dockets; established. Establishes, by the Veterans Docket Act (the Act), problem-solving courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering judicial monitoring of intensive treatment and supervision of offenders who have special conditions and needs based on military service. The bill establishes a state veterans docket advisory committee and requires localities intending to establish such dockets to establish local veterans docket advisory committees. The bill gives the Supreme Court
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Sponsored by: Sen. Kenneth Alexander
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
STEM programs; grants for donations to programs at qualified schools. [SB-17]
Grants for donations to science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) programs at qualified schools. Establishes a grant program administered by the Board of Education beginning in 2017 for donations made by STEM organizations to qualified schools. The donations must be used by qualified schools to support STEM programs. The bill defines qualified schools as those public elementary and secondary schools at which at least 40 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Grants are capped at $50,000 per organization per year.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Left In Appropriations on 12/01/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Income tax, corporate; apportionment of income to Virginia. [HB-966]
Apportionment of income; corporate income tax. Makes Apportionment of income; corporate income tax. Makes several changes to the current method used by multistate corporations to apportion income to Virginia for purposes of the corporate income tax, including (i) establishing sales as the sole factor to be used in apportioning income, with such single sales factor apportionment phased in and first effective beginning with taxable year 2019; (ii) adopting market-based sourcing as the approach for sourcing sales of services and nontangible personal
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Problem-Solving Docket Act; established, report. [SB-26]
Problem-Solving Dockets; established. Establishes, by the Problem-Solving Docket Act (the Act), problem-solving courts as specialized court dockets within the existing structure of Virginia's court system, offering judicial monitoring of intensive treatment and supervision of offenders who have special conditions and needs based on military service, mental illness, or societal reentry. The bill establishes a state problem-solving docket advisory committee and requires localities intending to establish such dockets to establish local problem-solving
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; SCHEV to study feasibility of implementing. [SJR-86]
Study; SCHEV; Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of implementing a "Pay It Forward, Pay It Back" higher education tuition financing model to increase access to educational opportunities and to decrease the debt burden on students in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Veterans Recovery Grant Program; established, etc. [SB-550]
Virginia Veterans Recovery Program. Creates the Virginia Veterans Recovery Program for the purpose of providing diagnostic services, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, and support services to eligible veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder or a traumatic brain injury. The program reimburses eligible facilities that provide hyperbaric oxygen treatment to an eligible veteran at no cost to the veteran and reimburses the eligible veteran for any necessary travel and living expenses required to receive treatment.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Left In Education And Health on 12/02/2016