| Bills |
Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 1634 - Marshall, D.W. - Minimum wage; increase amount thereof. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 11/13/06 |
notes:
The RMA will oppose any increase in the minimum wage at the State level. There is federal legislation introduced that would increase the minimum wage.
The Legislation increases the minimum wage for persons age 19 or older from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $6.00 per hour effective July 1, 2007, to $6.45 per hour effective July 1, 2008, and to $7.00 per hour effective July 1, 2009, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| HB 1650 - Callahan - Budget Bill. |
(H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Referred to Committee on Appropriations | 12/15/06 |
| HB 1651 - Eisenberg - Minimum wage; increase per hour. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 11/30/06 |
| notes:
Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour effective July 1, 2007, and to $7.15 per hour effective July 1, 2008, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| HB 1653 - Armstrong - Smoking; guilty of a misdemeanor if in certain proximity to gas pumps. |
(H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law | 01/11/07 |
| notes:
The RMA will support the legislation. This legislation provides that any person who smokes or uses an open flame within 25 feet of a pump used to fuel motor vehicles is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. |
| HB 1654 - Toscano - Minimum wage; increase from its current federally mandated level. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 12/01/06 |
| notes:
The RMA opposes any increase in the minimum wage at the State Level. This legislation increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $6.25 per hour effective July 1, 2007, and to $7.00 per hour effective July 1, 2008, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| HB 1657 - Kilgore - Banks; financial activities. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor
(S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
The legislation prohibits a bank from establishing or maintaining a branch in Virginia on the premises or property of an affiliate if the affiliate engages in commercial activities, which are defined as activities in which a bank holding company, a financial holding company, a national bank, or a national bank financial subsidiary may not engage under federal law. The measure repeals provisions regarding the commercial activities of industrial loan associations and industrial loan companies. The measure will be effective upon passage. |
| HB 1659 - McClellan - Retail Sales and Use Tax; limited exemption on computers and related peripheral equipment. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Purkey) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
It is extremely unlikely that Senate Finance will support an expansion of the existing Sales Tax Holiday to include Computers. The Department of Taxation has been unable to provide the information needed to determine how much loss or gain of tax revenue exist from the 2006 event, |
| HB 1672 - Marshall, R.G. - Real property; establishes separate classes for purposes of taxation rates. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Purkey) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Establishes as separate classes of real property for purposes of real property taxation rates the following: (i) residential property and (ii) real estate devoted to agricultural use, horticultural use, forest use, or open-space use. The governing body of any county, city, or town may establish rates of taxation on each of these classes of property different from each other and different from the tax rate levied on all other real property. |
| HB 1675 - Scott, E.T. - Revenue-sharing funds; may be used to construct, etc. highway system located between localities. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | 12/06/06 |
| notes:
Provides that revenue-sharing funds may be used to construct, maintain, or improve a highway system located between two or more localities. The bill also removes certain language setting priorities for distribution of revenue-sharing funds: (i) the requirement that the governing body commit more than $1 million in general funds and (ii) the requirement that the project be administered by the city, county, or town. In addition, the bill specifies that if proffers are accepted, they shall not be used to finance the activities or improvements for which the proffer was accepted and a permit issued but used to finance construction, maintenance, or improvement to highway systems within the locality under the revenue-sharing program. Lastly, the bill provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall allocate $50 million each fiscal year to satisfy all requests for matching funds under the revenue-sharing program. |
| HB 1678 - Cosgrove - Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include energy-efficient products. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1678H1 | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
This legislation provides a sales tax exemption for purchases of certain energy-efficient products with a sales price of $2,500 or less made during the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in October of each year. The bill also authorizes dealers to absorb the sales and use tax on all other items sold during the same time period and thereby relieve the purchasers of the obligation to pay such tax. Dealers who absorb such taxes are liable for payment of the same to the Tax Commissioner. |
| HB 1695 - Purkey - Business, professional, and occupational license (BPOL) tax; motor fuels tax exemption. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Engrossed by House as amended HB1695E | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
The RMA will support this legislation. The concept of levying a tax on Gross Receipts in unfair and the unfairness is made worse when you add the burden of being tax on a tax. The RMA will work to have the legistion require that any locality which has required gasoline retailers to pay the BPOL tax on the gross receipts that include state and fedeal excise tax shall refund all over collection to the retailer. |
| HB 1699 - Lingamfelter - Motor vehicle license fees and taxes, local; repeals authority of imposition and collection thereof. |
(H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Assigned CC & T sub: #1 (Marshall. R.G.) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Repeals authority of imposition and collection of local vehicle license fees and taxes. This does not affect the ability of localities to impose personal property taxes on vehicles. |
| HB 1703 - Lingamfelter - Retail Sales and Use Tax; increases amount of revenue dedicated to Transportation Trust Fund. |
(H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Referred to Committee on Appropriations | 12/15/06 |
| notes:
Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.50 percent sales and use tax, to an amount generated by a 0.75 percent sales and use tax. |
| HB 1716 - Marshall, R.G. - Trucks & combination vehicles; Transp. Bd. to impose fee thereon for use of maintaining hwys. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #1 (Welch) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
This legislation requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to impose a fee on trucks and combination vehicles for use in maintaining state highways. The Board is to calculate, impose, and collect a fee for damage done to highways by certain vehicles. The amount of the fee is to be based on the difference between the amount received annually by the Commonwealth from the federal government for highway maintenance and the annual cost to the Commonwealth of repairing damage done to the highways of the Commonwealth by vehicles subject to the fee. The amount of the fee and the method of payment are to be determined by the Board. The fee is to be imposed on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, and no vehicle upon which a fee is assessed is to be operated on any highway of the Commonwealth if the fee is not paid in full on or before the date upon which payment of the fee is due. |
| HB 1728 - Lohr - Novelty cigarette lighters; sale or purchase by persons under age 18 years of age, penalty. |
(H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | 12/20/06 |
| notes:
This legislation provides that any person who sells to, distributes to, purchases for or knowingly permits the purchase by any person less than 18 years of age, knowing or having reason to believe that such person is less than 18 years of age, any cigarette lighter that is not readily identifiable as such, is punishable by a civil penalty of no more than $100 and that any person less than 18 years of age who attempts to purchase a cigarette lighter that is not readily identifiable as such is likewise punishable by a civil penalty of no more than $100. |
| HB 1730 - Alexander - Real property; establishes separate classes for purposes of taxation rates. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Purkey) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Permits localities to tax residential property at a lower tax rate than that imposed on the general class of real property by creating a separate classification for taxation purposes. If a locality imposes a lower tax rate on residential property, then thereafter the locality shall not increase the rate of taxation on the general class of real property |
| HB 1732 - Purkey - Escheat funds; requirement to report and remit to State Treasurer. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #4 Prof./Occup./Admin. (Cosgrove) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Yhis legislation states that any account or property valued at $15 or less is exempt from being reported and remitted to the State Treasurer (administrator). |
| HB 1761 - Purkey - Income tax, state; worker retraining tax credit. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislaion increases from 30% to 65% the percentage of the expenditures spent for worker retraining that an employer may take as an income tax credit. It also raises the maximum amount of credit per qualified employee from $100 to $1000. |
| HB 1764 - Purkey - Moist snuff; included in tobacco products tax definitions. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation adds a definition for "moist snuff" to the tobacco products definitions and taxes it at a rate of $0.25 per ounce based on net weight |
| HB 1784 - Cosgrove - Wine and beer; delivery thereof, permits. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation restores to certain Virginia retailers the privilege of delivering wine and beer to their customers. Such privilege was removed as a result of recent federal litigation challenging the constitutionality of Virginia's ABC law. The bill contains technical amendments, including relocating the existing provisions concerning direct shipment of wine and beer (§ 4.1-112.1) to the administration of licenses portion of ABC law. |
| HB 1815 - Suit - Alcoholic beverage control; adds a meal-assembly kitchen license. |
(H) Committee on General Laws
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
This legislation adds a new license for meal-assembly kitchens, defined as any commercial establishment that offers to its customers, for off-premises consumption, ingredients for the preparation of meals and entrees in professional kitchen facilities located at the establishment. Under the terms of the license, a licensee is authorized to permit the consumption of lawfully acquired wine or beer on the premises of the licensee by any bona fide customer of the licensee and to serve wine or beer on the premises of the licensee to any such bona fide customer; however, the licensee shall not give more than two five-ounce glasses of wine or one 12-ounce glass of beer to any such customer, nor shall it sell or otherwise charge a fee to such customer for the wine or beer served or consumed. The privileges of this license shall be limited to the premises of the meal-assembly kitchen regularly occupied and utilized as such. The bill provides for state and local license taxes. |
| HB 1829 - Putney - Alcoholic beverage control; small wine producer distribution license. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation creates a new small producer distribution license that authorizes the licensee to sell and deliver the wine produced by the licensee, in accordance with Board regulations, in closed containers, to (i) persons licensed to sell the wine at retail for the purpose of resale, § 4.1-326 notwithstanding, (ii) the Board, and (iii) persons in Virginia to whom alcoholic beverages may be lawfully sold. All deliveries of such wine by the licensee to persons in Virginia to whom alcoholic beverages may be lawfully sold shall be performed by the owner, or any agent, director, shareholder or employee of the licensee. The bill provides that, for purposes of § 4.1-234 and Chapter 6 (§ 58.1-600 et seq.) of Title 58.1, each delivery of wine by such licensee to a consumer or a retail licensee shall constitute a sale in Virginia. Licensees are required to collect the taxes due to the Commonwealth and remit any excise taxes monthly to the Board and any sales tax to the Department of Taxation. The bill defines "small wine producer" as any winery located outside the Commonwealth and licensed as such in the state where the winery is located and that is eligible for the federal tax credit pursuant to 27 CFR 24.278 and distributes no more than 10,000 cases of wine during any calendar year. The bill also grants these same privileges to certain winery and farm winery licensees. The bill sets the state license tax for this new license and requires the ABC Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. |
| HB 1877 - Caputo - Credit report; individual who is victim of identity theft may freeze access thereto. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor | 01/16/07 |
| notes:
This legislation authorizes an individual who is a victim of identity theft to freeze access to his credit report. If an identity theft victim has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information in it, without the identity theft victim%92s express authorization. The measure provides a means by which an identity theft victim can release his report, permanently, temporarily, or to a specific third party. Certain disclosures are exempt from the freeze. A consumer reporting agency shall not charge a fee for establishing a freeze, removing a freeze, or temporarily lifting a freeze. Violations are a prohibited practice under the Consumer Protection Act. |
| HB 1878 - Caputo - Income tax, state; energy-efficient equipment deduction. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Provides an income tax deduction for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2007, to individuals who purchase energy-efficient equipment used for heating, cooling, and providing electricity to their residences. The amount of the deduction equals 50% of such equipment expenditures, but not more than $7,500 total. |
| HB 1889 - Albo - Alcoholic beverage control; refusal to grant and revocation or suspension of licenses. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation updates the various business ownership types of applicants for an ABC license, as well as those who already are licensees of the ABC Board, in the context of conducting background checks for granting a license or revoking or suspending a license. |
| HB 1952 - Morgan - Smoke Free Air Act; created. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation moves the law restricting smoking in buildings and other enclosed areas from the title relating to local government (15.2) to the title relating to health (32.1) and prohibits smoking indoors in most buildings or enclosed areas frequented by the public. Exceptions are provided for (i) private homes, private residences, and private automobiles, and home-based businesses, unless used in conjunction with a licensed child care, adult day care, or health care facility; (ii) certain private functions held in public facilities; (iii) hotel or motel rooms not clearly designated as "nonsmoking" rooms that are offered for lease or rent to the public; (iv) specialty tobacco stores; and (v) tobacco manufacturers. Signs stating "Warning: Smoking Permitted" must be posted by the proprietor of any exempt building or area when smoking is allowed. Any person who continues to smoke in an area in which smoking is prohibited will be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100 for the first offense, and $250 for subsequent offenses. Failure to comply with the smoking restrictions will subject proprietors to a $200 civil penalty for the first offense and $500 for subsequent offenses. |
| HB 1976 - Fralin - Hotel liability; personal injury claims based on intentional conduct. |
(H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law | 01/11/07 |
| notes:
States that in any personal injury claim brought against a hotel by a guest or invitee for the intentional conduct of another shall be determined in the same manner as if the hotel were any other business. |
| HB 1980 - Lohr - Alcoholic beverage control; creates a mixed beverage limited caterer's license. |
(H) Committee on General Laws
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Creates a new mixed beverage limited caterer's license, which may be granted only to a person regularly engaged in the business of providing food and beverages to others for service at private gatherings or at special events, not to exceed 12 gatherings or events per year. The bill authorizes the licensee to sell and serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, and the licensee must meet the required food sale ratio. The bill sets forth the state and local license taxes for this new license. The bill contains technical amendments. |
| HB 1984 - Lohr - Alcoholic beverage control; definition of public place. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Includes in the definition of public place any sidewalk adjoining highways, streets, or lanes. |
| HB 1995 - Suit - Alcoholic beverage sale nuisances; locality by its mayor, etc. may file complaint to enjoin, etc. |
(H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law | 01/16/07 |
| notes:
Any locality by or through its mayor, executive, or attorney may file a complaint in a circuit court to enjoin the sale of alcohol at any establishment licensed by the Alcohol Beverage Control Board. The basis for such complaint shall be that the continued sale of alcohol at the establishment presents a threat to public safety as a result of frequent criminal acts occurring on or near the premises. The injunction would be automatically lifted upon final disposition of a mandatory ABC Board hearing into the matter. |
| HB 2004 - Callahan - Minimum wage; increase per hour. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/08/07 |
| notes:
Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour effective July 1, 2007; to $7.15 per hour effective July 1, 2008; and to $8.15 per hour effective July 1, 2009. For subsequent years, the minimum wage will be adjusted annually on July 1 to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year, as determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry. |
| HB 2005 - Callahan - Smoke Free Air Act; created. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
Moves the law restricting smoking in buildings and other enclosed areas from the title relating to local government (15.2) to the title relating to health (32.1) and prohibits smoking indoors in most buildings or enclosed areas frequented by the public. Exceptions are provided for (i) private homes, private residences, and private automobiles, and home-based businesses, unless used in conjunction with a licensed child care, adult day care, or health care facility; (ii) certain private functions held in public facilities; (iii) hotel or motel rooms not clearly designated as "nonsmoking" rooms that are offered for lease or rent to the public; (iv) specialty tobacco stores; and (v) tobacco manufacturers. Signs stating "Warning: Smoking Permitted" must be posted by the proprietor of any exempt building or area when smoking is allowed. Any person who continues to smoke in an area in which smoking is prohibited will be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100 for the first offense, and $250 for subsequent offenses. Failure to comply with the smoking restrictions will subject proprietors to a $200 civil penalty for the first offense and $500 for subsequent offenses. |
| HB 2060 - McQuigg - Social security numbers; penalty for intentionally communicating to general public. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Tabled in General Laws | 01/16/07 |
| notes:
Proscribes under the Personal Information Privacy Act and the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act the intentional communication to the general public of another's social security number regardless of whether the social security number was obtained from a public record or from a private source. The bill adds a punishment for violation of the Personal Information Privacy Act subjecting a violator to civil penalties of $1,000 per day, with each day being a separate violation. |
| HB 2066 - Nixon - Unemployment compensation; increases maximum weekly benefit. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) VOTE: PASSAGE (96-Y 0-N) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Increases the maximum weekly benefit from $347 to $363 for claims effective on or after July 1, 2007 |
| HB 2067 - Cosgrove - Indoor Clean Air Act; provides unlawful for any person to smoke in certain establishments. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to smoke in any establishment built and operated after July 1, 2008 as a restaurant, unless such establishment is constructed in such a manner that areas where smoking may be permitted are structurally separated from the portion of the restaurant in which smoking is prohibited and such areas contain structurally separated ventilation systems. Additionally, the bill provides that no wait staff or busboys in such restaurants shall be required by the proprietors or person who manages or otherwise controls any such restaurant to work in smoking areas mandated by this section without consent of such employees. The bill prohibits smoking in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or agency thereof or any locality. The bill contains technical amendments. |
| HB 2071 - Brink - Vehicle Sales and Use Tax; increase for transportation purposes. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Increases the motor vehicle sales and use tax from 3% to 5% and dedicates the revenue generated for various transportation purposes. The authority to impose the additional tax ceases on December 31 of any year in which any of the additional revenue is not used for transportation purposes. The bill also requires the Department of Transportation to report in each odd year on the condition and needs for maintaining and operating the existing transportation infrastructure for all asset management and maintenance based on an asset management methodology. |
| HB 2116 - Hugo - Alcoholic beverage control; adds a meal-assembly kitchen license. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
Adds a new license for meal-assembly kitchens, defined as any commercial establishment that offers to its customers, for off-premises consumption, ingredients for the preparation of meals and entrees in professional kitchen facilities located at the establishment. Under the terms of the license, a licensee is authorized to permit the consumption of lawfully acquired wine or beer on the premises of the licensee by any bona fide customer of the licensee and to serve wine or beer on the premises of the licensee to any such bona fide customer; however, the licensee shall not give more than two five-ounce glasses of wine or one 12-ounce glass of beer to any such customer, nor shall it sell or otherwise charge a fee to such customer for the wine or beer served or consumed. The privileges of this license shall be limited to the premises of the meal-assembly kitchen regularly occupied and utilized as such. The bill provides for state and local license taxes. |
| HB 2120 - Marshall, R.G. - Small Employer Health Insurance Exchange Act; created. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Assigned C & L sub: Insurance (Hargrove) | 01/19/07 |
| notes:
Creates the Small Employer Health Insurance Exchange as a nonprofit legal entity and charges it with providing a single, centralized market, analogous to a stock exchange, to facilitate the buying and selling of health insurance for employers with 100 or fewer employees. Employers may designate the exchange as their group health insurance plan for purposes of federal law and may allow employees to purchase health insurance coverage through the Exchange. The Exchange will offer an annual open season during which participants could select or switch coverage. After the first day of the plan year following the first regular open season conducted by the Exchange, no carrier may issue or renew a group health benefit plan for employers with 100 or fewer employees, other than through the Exchange. |
| HB 2121 - Marshall, R.G. - Health Insurance Exchange Act; created. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Assigned C & L sub: Insurance (Hargrove) | 01/19/07 |
| notes:
Creates the Virginia Health Insurance Exchange as a nonprofit legal entity and charges it with providing a single, centralized system to facilitate the buying and selling of health insurance. Employers may designate the exchange as their group health insurance plan for purposes of federal regulation and tax law and allow employees to purchase health insurance coverage through the Exchange. The Exchange would offer an annual open season during which participants could select or switch coverage. The Commonwealth is directed to enter into an agreement with the Exchange to be the sponsor of a participating employer plan on behalf of current and retired state employees. After the first day of the plan year following the first regular open season conducted by the Exchange, no carrier may issue or renew an individual or small employer group health benefit plan, other than through the Exchange. Effective January 1, 2009, individuals are required to shall offer proof of their ability to pay for medical care for themselves and their dependents by either having insurance overage or posting a $10,000 bond or letter of credit |
| HB 2122 - Marshall, R.G. - Health Insurance Risk Transfer Plan; created. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Assigned C & L sub: Insurance (Hargrove) | 01/19/07 |
| notes:
Establishes the Virginia Health Insurance Risk Transfer Plan as a nonstock corporation, and every health insurance carrier writing health insurance in the Commonwealth, except Medicaid-only health maintenance organizations and certain other carriers, shall be a member. Self-funded health insurance plans may also become members, provided that, if they join the pool, they are required to remain liable for Pool assessments for three years after withdrawing from the Plan. Voting power is allocated based on the number of covered individuals, provided members will have no more than 49 percent of the voting power. The Plan is directed to submit to the Commissioner of Insurance a proposed plan of operation that provides for the creation of a reinsurance pool. Members may cede risk to the reinsurance pool. Plan members ceding a risk to the Pool shall pay the Pool a premium determined by the rules governing the Pool. |
| HB 2145 - Albo - Alcoholic beverage control; authorizes ABC Board to grant mixed beverage license to Rimland Resort. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
Authorizes the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to grant a mixed beverage license to any establishment located on property consisting of at least 10,000 acres and operated as a resort located in any county with a population between 19,200 and 19,500 (Primland Resort in Patrick County). |
| HB 2156 - O'Bannon - Health insurance; mandated coverage for evaluations of brain tumors. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Tabled in Commerce and Labor | 01/16/07 |
notes:
Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing healthcare coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for a second opinion evaluation, at a medical center designated by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center, of a brain tumor that has been diagnosed as a primary malignant brain tumor.
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| HB 2167 - Cline - Retail Sales and Use Tax; limited exemption on computers and related peripheral equipment. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Provides a sales and use tax exemption, during a three-day period each year beginning on the first Friday in August, for (i) computer systems where the selling price for each system is $1,500 or less and (ii) computers, computer hardware, computer software, and portable calculators where the selling price for each item is $500 or less. |
| HB 2190 - Hull - Motor fuel tax; rate increase. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Increases the tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and alternative fuel by $0.055 per gallon; increases the motor carrier road tax by an equivalent of $0.055 per gallon of fuel used in the Commonwealth; and increases the alternative use fee for certain motor carriers from $100 to $150 (the fee is an alternative to paying the motor carrier road tax). The revenue generated is used for transportation purposes as required by existing law. |
| HB 2192 - Hull - Retail Sales & Use Tax; retailers to report total sales exempt therefrom. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
The RMA will oppose this legislation. The legislation would requires retailers to report the total sales that are exempt from the retail sales and use tax as a result of the annual sales tax holiday in August when filing their monthly sales and use tax returns beginning in 2007. |
| HB 2193 - Hull - Local government; equalizes municipal and county taxing authorities. |
(H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Assigned CC & T sub: #2 (Dudley) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
The RMA opposes any changes to the taxing authority granted by the General Assembly to Counties. This legislation would equalizes municipal and county taxing authority by granting a county the same authority available to a municipality through the uniform charter powers if such county contributes two percent or more toward the costs of construction or improvement of the urban system highway or street construction projects within the county. |
| HB 2224 - Wardrup - Business, professional and occupational license (BPOL) tax; media exemption. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
The RMA supports the repeal of the BPOL Tax. This legislation would take away the exemption from BPOL for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, or other publications issued daily or regularly at average intervals not exceeding three months. |
| HB 2245 - Howell, A.T. - Smoke Free Air Act; created. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
This legislation moves the law restricting smoking in buildings and other enclosed areas from the title relating to local government (15.2) to the title relating to health (32.1) and prohibits smoking indoors in most buildings or enclosed areas frequented by the public. Exceptions are provided for (i) private homes, private residences, and private automobiles, and home-based businesses, unless used in conjunction with a licensed child care, adult day care, or health care facility; (ii) certain private functions held in public facilities; (iii) hotel or motel rooms not clearly designated as "nonsmoking" rooms that are offered for lease or rent to the public; (iv) specialty tobacco stores; and (v) tobacco manufacturers. Signs stating "Warning: Smoking Permitted" must be posted by the proprietor of any exempt building or area when smoking is allowed. Any person who continues to smoke in an area in which smoking is prohibited will be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100 for the first offense, and $250 for subsequent offenses. Failure to comply with the smoking restrictions will subject proprietors to a $200 civil penalty for the first offense and $500 for subsequent offenses. |
| HB 2286 - Watts - Loitering; prohibited in the rights-of-way of certain highways. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #2 (Saxman) | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
Prohibits loitering in the right-of-way of any highway on which the Commissioner has posted signs prohibiting such activity. |
| HB 2315 - Welch - Meals tax; referendum required in certain cities. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Reported from Finance (17-Y 4-N) | 01/22/07 |
notes:
The RMA supports this legislation, it would restrict the imposition in any city having a population of 100,000 or more of any new meals tax or tax rate increase without approval by referendum
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| HB 2338 - Gilbert - Transient occupancy tax; gives each town authority to preempt within town. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
notes:
This legislation gives each town the authority to preempt a county's transient occupancy tax within the town, whether the county's tax is pursuant to the authority under § 58.1-3819 or to authority under other previous law. Under current law such preemption applies only to a county's transient occupancy tax imposed pursuant to § 58.1-3819. |
| HB 2388 - May - License tax; exempt business providing electronic payment services for financial institutions. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation permits any locality to exempt in whole or in part from local license taxes businesses that are primarily engaged in providing electronic payments processing services for financial institutions, that first have a definite place of business within a Multicounty Transportation Improvement District on or after July 1, 2008, and upon whose property a special improvements tax is being levied under § 15.2-4607. The bill also authorizes any locality to provide the same businesses with grants or contractual payments or benefits when warranted by the economic or other benefit the locality will receive. The provisions of the bill expire on June 30, 2016 |
| HB 2422 - Griffith - Smoking; prohibited in restaurants, penalty. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
This legislation prohibits smoking in restaurants in the Commonwealth unless a restaurant posts signs stating "Smoking Permitted" conspicuous to ordinary public view at each public entrance. Any person who continues to smoke in any prohibited area after having been asked to refrain from smoking shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $250 for the first offense, and $500 for a second offense; any subsequent offense shall be punishable as a Class 2 misdemeanor. Any proprietor of any restaurant who fails to comply with these restrictions shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first offense and $1000 for a second offense; any subsequent offense shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. |
| HB 2443 - Frederick - License taxes; repeals those that are local. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation repeals local license (BPOL) taxes. The RMA will support this legislation. |
| HB 2450 - Saxman - Alcoholic beverage control; creates new nonresident winery distributor license. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
This legislation creates a new nonresident winery distributor license that authorizes the licensee to sell and deliver the wine produced by the licensee, in accordance with ABC Board regulations, in closed containers, to (i) persons licensed to sell the wine at retail for the purpose of resale, § 4.1-326 notwithstanding, (ii) the Board, and (iii) persons in Virginia to whom alcoholic beverages may be lawfully sold. The bill provides that, for purposes of § 4.1-234 and Chapter 6 (§ 58.1-600 et seq.) of Title 58.1, each delivery of wine by such licensee to a consumer or a retail licensee shall constitute a sale in Virginia. Licensees are required to collect the taxes due to the Commonwealth and remit any excise taxes monthly to the Board and any sales tax to the Department of Taxation. The bill defines "nonresident winery distributor" as any winery located outside the Commonwealth and licensed as such in the state where the winery is located and whose total wine distribution to all Virginia licensees does not exceed 3,000 cases in any calendar year. The bill also grants these same privileges to certain winery and farm winery licensees. The bill also requires the ABC Board to quarterly audit and inspect all licensees with the privilege of self-distribution to ensure they meet the requirements for the license. The bill sets the state license tax for this new license and requires the ABC Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. |
| HB 2463 - Oder - Regional transportation authorities; created. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | 01/09/07 |
| notes:
Provides a mechanism for the establishment of regional transportation authorities embracing three or more contiguous localities. |
| HB 2464 - Marshall, D.W. - Motor fuels and road taxes; rates and refunds. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation increases the motor fuels tax rate by $0.05 per gallon from $0.175 to $0.225 for gasoline and from $0.16 to $0.21 for diesel, effective January 1, 2008, and ending February 1, 2009. Effective February 1, 2009, the rates increase an additional $0.05 to $0.275 and $0.26, respectively, if a constitutional amendment making the Transportation Trust Fund a permanent fund is approved by the voters during the 2008 general election. The road tax is maintained at the current additional three cents per gallon. It also provides a $50 refund in 2008 through 2010 to households in which the total income is $25,000 or less annually. |
| HB 2491 - Albo - Alcoholic beverage control; certain conditions for interior advertising. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
This legisaltion authorizes licensed retailers of alcoholic beverages to display, and manufacturers, their authorized vendors, and wholesale wine and beer distributors to provide or sell to such retailers, alcoholic beverage point of sale advertising materials for use in the interior of licensed retail establishments. The bill specifies the conditions under which such advertising may be used and provides that persons found in violation shall be subject to civil penalties |
| HB 2493 - Albo - Farm wineries; establishes criteria for local regulation thereof. |
(H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Assigned CC & T sub: #2 (Dudley) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Establishes criteria for the local regulation of farm wineries, including provisions prohibiting localities from requiring that a special exception or special use permit be obtained for the processing, production, harvesting of fruit and other agricultural products, and manufacturing and production of wine by licensed farm wineries. Other provisions relate to farm winery activities, noise, and outdoor events. |
| HB 2499 - Orrock - Transient occupancy tax; grants authority to impose extra for local transportation needs. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation grants authority to most counties to impose an extra two percent transient occupancy tax to be used solely for local transportation needs. |
| HB 2508 - Jones, D.C. - Minimum wage; increase per hour. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/09/07 |
| notes:
This legislation increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $5.85 per hour effective July 1, 2007, to $6.55 per hour effective July 1, 2008, and to $7.25 per hour effective July 1, 2009, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| HB 2543 - Lingamfelter - Motor vehicle repair labor rates; SCC to conduct quarterly surveys of operators of repair facility. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/09/07 |
| notes:
This legislation requires the State Corporation Commission to conduct quarterly surveys of a sample of motor vehicle repair facilities in the Commonwealth to collect information regarding their hourly labor rates for body repair work. The results, including information for each Department of Transportation Regional Districts, shall be available to the public and posted to the Bureau of Insurance website. No person shall be required to pay rates for body repair work based on the results of the surveys |
| HB 2548 - Ebbin - Retail Sales and Use Tax; increase authorized in Northern Virginia localities. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation authorizes Arlington County, Fairfax County, the City of Alexandria, the City of Fairfax, and the City of Falls Church to impose an additional 0.25% local sales and use tax. The revenue is to be used solely for each locality's financial obligations to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The authority to impose the additional tax is contingent on matching federal funds being appropriated and distributed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
| HB 2552 - Ebbin - Gift certificates; prohibit issuer thereof from charging maintenance fee, etc. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/09/07 |
| notes:
This legislation expands the existing provisions regarding gift certificate disclosures to prohibit the issuer of a gift certificate from charging a maintenance fee, service fee, inactivity fee, or other fee on the gift certificate. Gift certificate issuers are also prohibited from placing an expiration date or otherwise limiting the time for the redemption of a gift certificate and from issuing a gift certificate that diminishes in value over time unless the gift certificate was issued pursuant to an awards or loyalty program where no money or thing of value exchanged or was donated to a charitable organization. The definition of a gift certificate is expanded to include any record that contains a microprocessor chip, magnetic strip, or other storage medium that is prefunded and for which the value is adjusted upon each use. The definition also includes card-activated prepaid long distance telephone service. The measures apply to all issuers of gift certificates in the Commonwealth; currently, the gift certificate disclosure requirements apply only to merchants. |
| HB 2559 - Brink - BPOL tax; commissioner of revenue to accept estimated payments thereof based on preceding year. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation authorizes the local commissioner of the revenue to accept estimated payments of BPOL tax based on the amount paid by the taxpayer in the immediately preceding taxable year. |
| HB 2562 - Ware, R.L. - Health insurance claims; joint payment thereof. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation requires every health insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization, when paying a claim for services rendered by a health care provider that does not participate in the provider panel, to pay the claim by sending a check made payable to both the insured, subscriber, or member and to the nonparticipating health services provider. The RMA opposes any attempt to pay out of network providers directly. |
| HB 2600 - Plum - Protection of disposed records; businesses to take measures to protect against unauthorized access. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Requires businesses to take all reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of personal information in connection with or after its disposal. Reasonable measures include policies and procedures requiring the burning, pulverizing or shredding of papers containing personal information so that the information cannot be read or reconstructed and the destruction or erasure of electronic media so that the information cannot be read or reconstructed. A violation constitutes a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. |
| HB 2606 - Watts - Motor fuel tax; rate increase. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation increases the tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and alternative fuel by $0.10 per gallon; increases the motor carrier road tax by an equivalent of $0.10 per gallon of fuel used in the Commonwealth; and increases the alternative use fee for certain motor carriers from $100 to $150 (the fee is an alternative to paying the motor carrier road tax). All motor fuels taxes will be indexed every two years beginning July 1, 2008, by an amount equal to the percentage change in the U.S. Department of Labor's Producer Price Index for Highway and Street Construction. The revenue generated is used for transportation purposes as required by existing law. |
| HB 2614 - May - Electrical utility facilities; review of construction applications by State Corporation Commission. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation requires the State Corporation Commission to consider certain external costs associated with the construction of electrical utility facilities, such as the monetary effect the facility will have on the value of land and structures along the proposed location or corridor. The Commission must also conduct an independent analysis of the facility applicant's assessment of need, load flow analysis, and method of installation. Finally, the bill will require a public utility to provide a GIS map of any proposed improvement or extension that the Commission shall make publicly available on its website. The utilities are currently required to provide a map, but the Code does not specify that it must be a GIS map. The bill also requires the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to convene a workgroup to develop recommendations as to the factors that should be considered by the State Corporation Commission in reviewing applications for the construction of electrical utility facilities. |
| HB 2634 - Reid - Tax legislation; requires a sunset date of no more than four years thereon. |
(H) Committee on Rules | (H) Referred to Committee on Rules | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation requires a sunset date of no more than four years on all taxation bills that add new taxes or increase tax rates. |
| HB 2637 - Gear - Alcoholic beverage control; creates a limited mixed beverage licenses. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
This legislation creates a new limited mixed beverage restaurant license that authorizes the licensee to sell and serve no more than six varieties of liqueurs, which liqueurs shall be combined with coffee or other nonalcoholic beverages for consumption in dining areas of the restaurant. Such license may be granted only to persons who operate a restaurant and in no event shall the sale of such liqueur-based drinks exceed 10 percent of the total annual gross sales. The bill defines liqueur and sets the state and local license taxes for this new license. |
| HB 2638 - Gear - Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses; designated areas. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
This legislation vlarifies that outdoor dining areas for a mixed beverage restaurant license include such areas that have more than one means of ingress and egress to an adjacent public thoroughfare. |
| HB 2675 - Ware, O. - Business licenses, beginning; all taxes owed to locality to be paid before issuance. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation provides that the governing body of any county, city, or town may require that no beginning business license for a beginning business shall be issued until the applicant has produced satisfactory evidence that all properly assessed delinquent business license, personal property, meals, transient occupancy, severance, and admissions taxes owed by the business to the county, city, or town have been paid. |
| HB 2681 - Frederick - Credit reports; authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information in it, without the consumer%92s express authorization. The measure provides a means by which a consumer can release his report permanently, temporarily, or to a specific third party. Consumer reporting agencies may charge a consumer up to $20 for each freeze, removal of the freeze, or temporary lift of the freeze. A violation is a prohibited practice under the Consumer Protection Act. |
| HB 2687 - Reid - Unfair employment practices; discharging employees when unauthorized aliens are employed. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Assigned C & L sub: Utilities/Employment (Byron) | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
This legislation states that it is an unfair employment practice for an employer to discharge any United States citizen or legally authorized worker if the employer, on the date of the discharge, employed an unauthorized alien within the Commonwealth. Employers that are enrolled and participate in the federal Basic Pilot Program, or are exempt from compliance with federal employment verification procedures under federal law, are not subject to this measure. Someone discharged in violation of this unfair employment practice is entitled to recover treble damages, including lost wages from the date of the discharge until the date the employee has procured new employment, or 120 days, whichever occurs earlier, and reasonable attorney%92s fees and costs. |
| HB 2689 - Oder - Smoke Free Air Act; created. |
(H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #3 ABC/Gaming (Gear) | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
This legislation moves the law restricting smoking in buildings and other enclosed areas from the title relating to local government (15.2) to the title relating to health (32.1) and prohibits smoking indoors in most buildings or enclosed areas frequented by the public. Exceptions are provided for (i) private homes, private residences, and private automobiles, and home-based businesses, unless used in conjunction with a licensed child care, adult day care, or health care facility; (ii) certain private functions held in public facilities; (iii) hotel or motel rooms not clearly designated as "nonsmoking" rooms that are offered for lease or rent to the public; (iv) specialty tobacco stores; and (v) tobacco manufacturers. Signs stating "Warning: Smoking Permitted" must be posted by the proprietor of any exempt building or area when smoking is allowed. Any person who continues to smoke in an area in which smoking is prohibited will be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100 for the first offense, and $250 for subsequent offenses. Failure to comply with the smoking restrictions will subject proprietors to a $200 civil penalty for the first offense and $500 for subsequent offenses. |
| HB 2705 - Hugo - Recordation tax; dedicated for transportation. |
(H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Referred to Committee on Appropriations | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Dedicates state recordation tax revenues not already dedicated for transportation projects in each highway construction district throughout the Commonwealth on a pro rata basis pursuant to the amount of the recordation tax collected in the localities in each such district. The bill also creates a transportation program for each highway construction district (similar to the Northern Virginia Transportation Program) as the means by which the revenues are distributed. In addition, the revenues may be used to issue bonds annually with a face value up to two-thirds of the amount of revenue estimated to be dedicated for each respective fiscal year, with the bond proceeds distributed to each transportation program on the same pro rata basis. For all the transportation programs other than that for Northern Virginia and that for Hampton Roads, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall determine the transportation projects to be funded. The transportation projects to be funded in Northern Virginia shall be as determined by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. The transportation projects to be funded in Hampton Roads shall be as determined by the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Planning Organization with the advice and consent of the members of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees residing in Planning District 23. |
| HB 2719 - Barlow - Cigarette tax; authorizes any county to impose. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation authorizes any county to impose a local cigarette tax at a rate not to exceed $0.05 per pack or the amount levied under state law, whichever is greater. |
| HB 2738 - Englin - Minimum wage Act; repeals exclusion for persons who are 65 thereunder. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation repeals the existing exclusion for persons who have reached age 65 from the definition of an employee under the Virginia Minimum Wage Act. |
| HB 2739 - Englin - Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include Energy Star certified products. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation exempts certain energy-efficient products from sales and use tax. |
| HB 2746 - Englin - Real estate tax; assessment of real property by localities. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation allows localities to impose a local income tax if they freeze the amount of real estate tax collections as of the date the local income tax is adopted. Prior to adopting the tax, there must be a referendum approving it, and the local governing body must adopt an ordinance. Localities will continue to assess real property as they normally would. The purpose of the local income tax is to make up the revenues that would have been collected from the real property tax if the collections amount had not been frozen. |
| HB 2771 - Hurt - Larceny; charging of crime. |
(H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
This legislation provides that any charge of larceny or an offense deemed to be larceny (e.g., embezzlement) may be charged under the larceny statute and need not be charged with absolute specificity (e.g., larceny of banknotes pursuant to § 18.2-98). |
| HB 2772 - Hurt - Fraudulent credit card application; false statements to obtain property or credit. |
(H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
This legislation raises penalty for making a false statement to obtain credit from a Class 2 to a Class 1 misdemeanor. Characterizes the crime of fraudulently obtaining less than $200 worth of goods, services, etc. as petit larceny rather than a Class 1 misdemeanor. (Obtaining $200 or more is already described as grand larceny.) Defines a written false statement to include information transmitted, other than by voice transmission, by computer, facsimile, e-mail, Internet, or any other electronic or optical medium. |
| HB 2775 - Janis - Larceny, aggravated; person who commits assault or assault & battery while in commission thereof. |
(H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
This legislation was introduced at the request of the RMA's Security and Loss Prevention Association. For this legislation to pass there will be a need for real examples of retail employees being assualted when a person is committing shoplifting (larceny). The legislation provides that any person who commits assault or assault and battery while in the commission of, or in furtherance of, a larceny not from the person of another is guilty of aggravated larceny. |
| HB 2784 - Morgan - Electric utility restructuring; rates for customers receiving default service rates. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
The RMA is following closely legislation addressing the restructuring act. This legislation provides that effective January 1, 2008, the rates for customers receiving default service will be determined by the State Corporation Commission based on the cost of service under the provisions of Chapter 10 of Title 56. The measure also clarifies that the Electric Utility Restructuring Act's provisions do not modify or impair the terms of orders approving the divestiture of an electric utility's generation assets. Currently the Act provides that through December 31, 2010, default service rates are a utility's capped rates, and that thereafter default service rates for utilities (other than distribution cooperatives) will be based on prices in competitive regional markets. |
| HB 2786 - Joannou - Retail Franchising Act; requirement of SCC for franchise registration. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Read first time | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
This legislation authorizes the State Corporation Commission to require, as a condition of franchise registration, that the franchise fees and other funds paid by a franchisee to the franchisor be escrowed or deferred until the franchisor's preopening obligations are fulfilled, if the liabilities of the franchisor or any controlling person exceed the franchisor's liabilities. The measure also clarifies that it is not unlawful for a person to grant an unregistered franchise if the franchise is exempted from registration by the Commission by rule or order. |
| HB 2804 - Byron - Credit reports; authorizes an individual over age 65 to freeze thereto. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
This legislation authorizes an individual who is over the age of 65 to freeze access to his credit report. If such a person has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information in it, without the person%92s express authorization. The measure provides a means by which a consumer can release his report permanently, temporarily, or to a specific third party. Consumer reporting agencies may charge a fee not to exceed $20 for each freeze, removal of the freeze, or temporary lift of the freeze. A violation of this measure is a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act |
| HB 2806 - Byron - Commissioners of revenue, local; duties and powers. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
This legislation grants local commissioners of the revenue the power to deny or revoke business licenses of persons who are aliens and who cannot provide legal documents proving they are legally eligible to be employed in the United States |
| HB 2807 - Byron - Enterprise zone grants; allows businesses to apply for additional appropriations. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Allows businesses to apply for additional enterprise zone grant moneys when grant requests exceed original appropriations and additional funds are appropriated by the General Assembly. |
| HB 2816 - Sickles - Weights and measures; allows Commissioner to establish a schedule for examination thereof. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources | (H) Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Allows the Commissioner to establish a schedule for the examination of weights and measures by service agencies. Also requires service agencies to destroy out-of-service tags after corrective action and extends the deadline for reporting to the Commissioner from 48 hours to 5 days. |
| HB 2842 - Hall - Pharmacist; requirement that sell and dispense drugs. |
(H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions | (H) Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Requires a licensed pharmacy to sell and dispense drugs and devices regardless of any owners' or employees' religious or other personal beliefs. Requires that where a drug or device is not in stock at a pharmacy, a pharmacy shall (i) attempt to obtain the drug or device pursuant to standard reordering procedures or (ii) attempt to locate the drug or device at a pharmacy of the patient's choice and, if the drug or device is by prescription, transfer the prescription to that pharmacy. Creates an exception where there is a valid medical reason to refuse to sell or dispense a drug or device. |
| HB 2849 - Moran - Minimum wage; increase per hour. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour effective July 1, 2007, and to $7.25 per hour effective July 1, 2008, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| HB 2865 - McEachin - Unemployment compensation; exclusion for temporary staffing services. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Excludes services provided by an individual in the employ of a temporary staffing service from the definition of "employment" for purposes of unemployment compensation. |
| HB 2873 - McEachin - Minimum wage; increase per hour. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour effective July 1, 2007, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| HB 2874 - McEachin - Retail Sales and Use Tax; distribution of local use tax revenues. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Provides that the Tax Commissioner shall use a method to distribute local use tax revenues that provides more accuracy than the use of zip codes for distributing the local use tax to the actual city or county in which the tangible personal property is used. |
| HB 2877 - McEachin - Human papillomavirus vaccinations; requires health insurers to provide coverage thereof. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Requires health insurers, healthcare subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the cost of human papillomavirus vaccinations for women in accordance with recommendations of the Center for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices |
| HB 2881 - Phillips - Priority Transportation Fund; dedicates revenues from motor vehicle insurance license tax thereto. |
(H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Assigned App. sub: Transportation (May) | 01/16/07 |
| notes:
Dedicates the revenues from the motor vehicle insurance license tax in each fiscal year to the Priority Transportation Fund and repeals the current dedication to the Fund of one-third of the estimated revenues from all insurance license taxes |
| HB 2925 - Rust - Retail Sales and Use Tax; limited exemption on computers and related peripheral equipment. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Adds computers and related peripheral equipment to the list of items that are exempt from the sales and use tax during a three-day period the first weekend in August, beginning in 2007. The exemption shall only apply to a selling price of $1,500 or less for such computers and equipment. |
| HB 2929 - Miller, J.H. - License fees; authorizes local body to charge according to gross receipts of business. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Authorizes any county, city, or town to impose a business license fee in an amount not to exceed $1,000 and to vary the amount of the fee according to the amount of the gross receipts of the business. Under current law, the maximum fee is $50 for localities having a population of 25,000 or more and $30 for localities having a population of less than 25,000. The bill does not alter current law that permits localities to impose a license tax on any business on which a license fee is not imposed. |
| HB 2930 - Miller, J.H. - Business and state licenses, local; denied or suspended if business employs unlawful workers. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Provides that local business licenses and state licenses shall be denied or suspended if the business employes or uses unlawful workers. |
| HB 2940 - Miller, J.H. - Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include personal computers and computer printers. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Provides an exemption from sales and use tax on personal computers and computer printing equipment with a selling price of $2,000 or less purchased during the three-day period beginning each year on the first Friday of August and ending on the first Sunday in August |
| HB 2949 - Wittman - Health insurance; mandated coverage for treatment by intensity modulated radiation therapy. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for the treatment by intensity modulated radiation therapy of tumors when such treatment is performed pursuant to protocol dose volume constraints approved by the institutional review board of any United States medical teaching college or the National Cancer Institute. The requirement for coverage applies only if the patient resides within a medically underserved area of the Commonwealth. |
| HB 2960 - Bell - Hotel or restaurant services; failure to pay charges, penalty. |
(H) Committee for Courts of Justice | (H) Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
Provides that failure to pay charges at a hotel, motel, campground, boardinghouse, restaurant, eating house, or amusement park for food, entertainment or accommodation is larceny, making the offense subject to the provision that a third larceny conviction, regardless of the amount, is a Class 6 felony. If the value of the service received is $200 or less, the penalty will remain a Class 1 misdemeanor; if it is $200 or more, the offense will be grand larceny, punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not less than one nor more than 20 years or, in the discretion of the jury or of court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jail not exceeding 12 months or a fine not more than $2,500, either or both. |
| HB 2963 - Bell - Credit reports; authorizes any consumer to freeze access thereto. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Authorizes any consumer to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report or any information in it without the consumer%92s express authorization. The measure provides a means by which a consumer may release his report, permanently, temporarily, or to a specific third party. Consumer reporting agencies may charge a consumer up to $10 for each freeze, removal of the freeze, or temporary lift of the freeze; however, no charge shall be assessed to victims of identity theft. A violation is a prohibited practice under the Consumer Protection Act. |
| HB 2997 - Scott, J.M. - Motor fuels tax; modifies rates of taxation. |
(H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 (Ware, R.L.) | 01/18/07 |
| notes:
Modifies the rates of taxation on motor fuels to be the greater of (i) the current specific cents-per-gallon rates or (ii) percentage rates, 7.3% for gasoline and gasohol, and 6.5% for diesel. The percentage rates would be applied against the average price per gallon of the fuel, less federal and state taxes, as determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles over rolling six-month periods. |
| HB 3040 - BaCote - Motor fuel; failure to pay. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
Provides that for the purposes of the $250 civil penalty for driving off and failing to pay for motor fuel, there is a rebuttable presumption that the owner, lessee, or renter of the vehicle that was involved was the operator of the vehicle. |
| HB 3050 - Morgan - Electric utilities; repeals provisions of Electric Utility Restructuring Act. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
Repeals provisions of the Virginia Electric Utility Restructuring Act effective January 1, 2008. The measure authorizes the State Corporation Commission to provide for recovery of the costs of new generation facilities through the utility's rate base or through rate surcharges, adders, or other recovery mechanisms as are in the public interest. The Commission is also authorized to approve a performance-based rate-making methodology for electric utilities, which tracks the current provision for gas utilities. Provisions of the Restructuring Act that are not repealed by this measure include those that address the construction of a coal-fired plant in Southwest Virginia, net energy metering, electric energy emergencies, and permitting for electrical generating facilities. |
| HB 3054 - Jones, D.C. - Minimum wage; increases from its current federally mandated level. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour effective July 1, 2007, and to $7.25 per hour effective July 1, 2008, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The measure also repeals the existing exclusion for persons who have reached age 65 from the definition of an employee under the Virginia Minimum Wage Act. |
| HB 3055 - Purkey - Casualty, burglary and theft insurances; policies to include certain provisions. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/15/07 |
| notes:
Authorizes miscellaneous casualty insurance and burglary and theft insurance policies to include appropriate provisions obligating the insurer to pay medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral expenses arising out of the death, dismemberment, sickness, or injury of any person, and death and dismemberment benefits in the event of death or dismemberment, if the death, dismemberment, sickness, or injury is caused by or is incidental to a cause of loss insured under the policy. |
| HB 3056 - Callahan - Credit report; authorizes an individual to freeze access to his. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/15/07 |
| HB 3068 - Hogan - Electric Utility Restructuring Act; when SCC has to establish post-capped rate period rates. |
(H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/16/07 |
| notes:
Provides that if the State Corporation Commission is unable to identify regional electricity markets where competition is an effective regulator of rates, it shall establish the post-capped rate period rates for a distributor's generation component of default service at rates that are in the public interest, do not prejudice or disadvantage any class of customers, provide incentives for improved performance, are not excessive, are adequate and seek to ensure the safe and reliable provision of default service. If a distributor asserts that these default service generation rates do not allow it to recover its prudently incurred costs and an adequate return, the Commission shall establish the rates in a cost-of-service rate case proceeding. |
| HB 3072 - Orrock - Local vehicle license taxes and fees; counties to charge additional annual fee. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #3 (Carrico) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Allows counties that assume responsibility for maintenance of certain subdivision streets to charge an additional annual local vehicle license fee of no more than $10 per motor vehicle. |
| HB 3074 - Fralin - Integral Directional Signing Program; VDOT to erect attraction signs on interstates. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #3 (Carrico) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Directs the Department of Transportation to erect attraction signs on interstates directing travelers to the attraction using a connecting interstate when the distance to the attraction using the connecting interstate is within 15 miles of the attraction sign. |
| HB 3092 - Johnson - Driver's license numbers; nonissuance thereof to persons with bona fide religious objections. |
(H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #1 (Welch) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Provides for nonissuance of driver's license numbers to persons with bona fide religious objections to issuance of such numbers. |
| HB 3155 - Lewis - Electric power generation assets; State Corporation Commission's approval of divestiture. |
(H) Referral Pending | (H) Committee Referral Pending | 01/19/07 |
| notes:
Provides that nothing in Title 56 shall modify or impair the terms of a State Corporation Commission order that approved the divestiture of generation assets of an electric utility. |
| HB 3160 - Marshall, D.W. - Health insurance; policies to protect uninsured. |
(H) Referral Pending | (H) Committee Referral Pending | 01/19/07 |
| notes:
Authorizes health insurers, health plans, and health maintenance organizations to offer "Protect the Uninsured" (PTU) policies. PTU polices may be sold to small employers with no more than 50 employees, to provide coverage for their employees who have been uninsured for the preceding six months. The coverage provided under a PTU policy will be determined at the discretion of the health insurer issuing the policy, and specifically is not required to include state-mandated health benefits. |
| HJ 624 - Brink - Constitutional amendment; localities to exempt from taxation percentage of value of prop. (1st ref). |
(H) Committee on Privileges and Elections | (H) Assigned P & E sub: #1 (Marshall, R.G.) | 01/11/07 |
| SB 758 - Stosch - Minimum wage Act; repeals exclusion for persons who are 65 thereunder. |
(S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 12/11/06 |
| notes:
Repeals the existing exclusion for persons who have reached age 65 from the definition of an employee under the Virginia Minimum Wage Act. |
| SB 762 - Cuccinelli - Alcoholic beverage control; adds a meal-assembly kitchen license. |
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (4-Y 11-N) | 01/12/07 |
| notes:
Adds a new license for meal-assembly kitchens, defined as any commercial establishment that offers to its customers, for off-premises consumption, ingredients for the preparation of meals and entrees in professional kitchen facilities located at the establishment. Under the terms of the license, a licensee is authorized to permit the consumption of lawfully acquired wine or beer on the premises of the licensee by any bona fide customer of the licensee and to serve wine or beer on the premises of the licensee to any such bona fide customer; however, the licensee shall not give more than two five-ounce glasses of wine or one 12-ounce glass of beer to any such customer, nor shall it sell or otherwise charge a fee to such customer for the wine or beer served or consumed. The privileges of this license shall be limited to the premises of the meal-assembly kitchen regularly occupied and utilized as such. The bill provides for state and local license taxes. |
| SB 766 - Locke - Minimum wage; increase per hour. |
(S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 12/13/06 |
| notes:
Increases the minimum wage from its current federally mandated level of $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour effective July 1, 2007, unless a higher minimum wage is required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. |
| SB 772 - Watkins - Business, professional, occupational and license (BPOL) tax; motor fuels tax exemption. |
(S) Committee on Finance | (S) Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Clarifies that the motor fuels tax is exempt from gross receipts for purposes of the BPOL tax. |
| SB 807 - Puller - Alcoholic beverage control; operation of government stores by agents of the ABC Board. |
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Communicated to House | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
Provides that the ABC Board may appoint the holder of a distiller's license or its officers and employees as agents of the Board for the sale of spirits manufactured by the licensee at government stores established by the Board upon the distiller's licensed premises if such licensee is a duly organized nonprofit association holding title to real property, together with improvements thereon, that are significant in American history, under a charter from the Commonwealth to preserve such property, and which association accepts no federal, state, or local funds. Such agents must sell the spirits in accordance with ABC law, Board regulations, and the terms of the agency agreement between the Board and the distiller. |
| SB 910 - Obenshain - Alcoholic beverage control; definition of public place. |
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) | 01/19/07 |
| notes:
Includes in the definition of public place any sidewalk adjoining highways, streets, or lanes. |
| SB 946 - Quayle - Credit reports; authorizes an individual under age of 18 and over 65 to freeze access thereto. |
(S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (S) Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor | 01/09/07 |
| notes:
Authorizes an individual who is under the age of 18, over the age of 65 if living in a nursing facility or other institution, or a veteran to freeze access to his credit report. If a consumer has placed a freeze on his credit report, a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from releasing the credit report, or any information in it, without the consumer%92s express authorization. The measure provides a means by which a consumer can release his report permanently, temporarily, or to a specific third party. Consumer reporting agencies may charge a consumer up to $10 for each freeze, removal of the freeze, or temporary lift of the freeze. A person violating the requirements is liable to an injured person for the greater of actual damages or $1,000, and reasonable costs and attorney fees. |
| SB 978 - Edwards - Methamphetamine precursors; electronic log. |
(S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (S) Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice | 01/09/07 |
| notes:
Requires that the log currently required to be maintained by sellers of products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or any of their salts or isomers or any salts of isomers must be kept in electronic format. The Board of Pharmacy is required to establish and maintain the log and ensure that the log is capable of checking compliance against all state, local and federal laws, including interfacing with other states to ensure comprehensive compliance. |
| SB 984 - Edwards - Alcoholic beverage control; creates an internet wine retailer license. |
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) | 01/22/07 |
| notes:
Creates the internet wine retailer license and specifies the privileges of this license and the applicable state license tax. The bill defines an internet wine retailer as a person who owns or operates an establishment with adequate inventory, shelving, and storage facilities, where in consideration of payment, internet or telephone orders are taken and shipped directly to consumers and which establishment is not a retail store open to the public. |
| SB 991 - Blevins - Health insurance; coverage for bone marrow transplants. |
(S) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (S) Pursuant to Section 2.2-2504 of the Code of Virginia | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
Repeals the provision that requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to offer and make available coverage for the treatment of breast cancer by dose-intensive chemotherapy/autologous bone marrow transplants. The existing requirement that health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations offer and make available coverage for the treatment of breast cancer by stem cell transplants is unchanged. |
| SB 1011 - Saslaw - Business, professional, and occupational license tax (BPOL); motor fuels tax exemption. |
(S) Committee on Finance | (S) Incorporated by Finance (SB772-Watkins) (15-Y 0-N) | 01/17/07 |
| notes:
Clarifies that the motor fuels tax is exempt from gross receipts for purposes of the BPOL tax. |
| SB 1149 - Wagner - Alcoholic beverage control; removes authority of ABC Board to sell mixers at government stores. |
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | 01/10/07 |
| SB 1161 - Bell - Smoke Free Air Act; created. |
(S) Committee on Education and Health | (S) Referred to Committee on Education and Health | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Moves the law restricting smoking in buildings and other enclosed areas from the title relating to local government (15.2) to the title relating to health (32.1) and prohibits smoking indoors in most buildings or enclosed areas frequented by the public. Exceptions are provided for (i) private homes, private residences, and private automobiles, and home-based businesses, unless used in conjunction with a licensed child care, adult day care, or health care facility; (ii) certain private functions held in public facilities; (iii) hotel or motel rooms not clearly designated as "nonsmoking" rooms that are offered for lease or rent to the public; (iv) specialty tobacco stores; and (v) tobacco manufacturers. Signs stating "Warning: Smoking Permitted" must be posted by the proprietor of any exempt building or area when smoking is allowed. Any person who continues to smoke in an area in which smoking is prohibited will be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100 for the first offense, and $250 for subsequent offenses. Failure to comply with the smoking restrictions will subject proprietors to a $200 civil penalty for the first offense and $500 for subsequent offenses. |
| SB 1163 - Bell - Transportation Trust Fund; additional sources of revenues. |
(S) Committee on Finance | (S) Referred to Committee on Finance | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Dedicates for transportation purposes all insurance license tax revenues relating to automobile insurance policies. The bill also creates a new source of revenue for the transportation. Upon conviction of certain dangerous driving offenses and traffic infractions for which the Department of Motor Vehicles assigns six demerit points, a court shall order the offender to make a payment into the Transportation Trust Fund. The court shall collect the payments on behalf of the Commonwealth and remit the payments to the Fund. Finally, the bill dedicates the unallocated funds in the first year of the 2006-2008 budget to the Transportation Trust Fund. |
| SB 1164 - Bell - Alcoholic beverage control; small wine producer distribution license. |
(S) Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | (S) Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Creates a new small producer distributor license that authorizes the licensee to sell and deliver the wine produced by the licensee, in accordance with Board regulations, in closed containers, to (i) persons licensed to sell the wine at retail for the purpose of resale, § 4.1-326 notwithstanding, (ii) the Board, and (iii) persons in Virginia to whom alcoholic beverages may be lawfully sold. All deliveries of such wine by the licensee to persons in Virginia to whom alcoholic beverages may be lawfully sold shall be performed by the owner, or any agent, director, shareholder or employee of the licensee. The bill provides that, for purposes of § 4.1-234 and Chapter 6 (§ 58.1-600 et seq.) of Title 58.1, each delivery of wine by such licensee to a consumer or a retail licensee shall constitute a sale in Virginia. Licensees are required to collect the taxes due to the Commonwealth and remit any excise taxes monthly to the Board and any sales tax to the Department of Taxation. The bill defines "small wine producer" as any winery located outside the Commonwealth and licensed as such in the state where the winery is located and that produces no more than 2,500 cases of wine during any calendar year. The bill also grants these same privileges to certain winery and farm winery licensees under the same production restrictions. The bill sets the state license tax for this new license and requires the ABC Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. |
| SB 1176 - Stolle - Pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers; adds regulation thereof to current statutes regulating. |
(S) Committee on General Laws and Technology | (S) Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology | 01/10/07 |
| notes:
Adds the regulation of secondhand deal |