HB 2500 Omnibus Citizen Bill of Rights
HB 2500 Omnibus Citizen Bill of Rights (2011 Legislative Session)
 
02/08/11  House: Left in Courts of Justice

 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Omnibus Citizen Bill of Rights.  Creates the Citizen Bill of Rights designed to secure rights guaranteed to citizens of the Commonwealth by the Constitution of Virginia and achieves this goal by (i) providing a trial de novo for appeals from state agency decisions under the Administrative Process Act and local zoning and land development decisions, (ii) removing the presumption of official regularity and correctness in such appeals, (iii) increasing the cap on damages recoverable against the Commonwealth under the Virginia Tort Claims Act to $1 million from $100,000, (iv) increasing the statute of limitations in inverse condemnation cases to five years from three years, and (v) requiring the payment of reasonable costs and expert witness fees, and in certain cases attorney fees, to the property owner in condemnation cases where the amount awarded to the owner at trial exceeds the amount offered by the condemnor.

HB 2415 Hunting licenses for partially disabled veterans
HB 2415 Hunting licenses for partially disabled veterans (2011 Legislative Session)
 
02/03/11  House: Committee substitute printed 11104417D-H1
02/04/11  House: Read first time
02/07/11  House: Read second time
02/07/11  House: Committee substitute agreed to 11104417D-H1
02/07/11  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2415H1
02/08/11  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
02/09/11  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
02/16/11  Senate: Read third time
02/22/11  House: Enrolled
02/22/11  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2415ER)
02/22/11  House: Signed by Speaker
02/23/11  Senate: Signed by President
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Hunting licenses for partially disabled veterans.  Establishes a special hunting license for resident and nonresident veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least 70 percent as rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The resident veterans will pay $8.50 to obtain the annual state basic hunting license and the nonresident veterans will pay $12.

HB 2118 Electric utility regulation
HB 2118 Electric utility regulation (2011 Legislative Session)
 
01/25/11  House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote
02/08/11  House: Left in Commerce and Labor
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Electric utility regulation.  Rebundles charges for the transmission, distribution, and generation services into the base rates of investor-owned electric utilities and revises the system enacted in 2007 by which rates of investor-owned electric utilities are to be set. The measure restores the State Corporation Commission's authority to set the utility's authorized rate of return on equity at a level that reflects the utility's risk, allows the utility to attract capital, and will be fair to ratepayers. Existing provisions of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act that establish floors on a utility's rate of return based on returns reported by peer group utilities in other Southeastern states are repealed. 

HB 2117 Electric utility regulation
HB 2117 Electric utility regulation (2011 Legislative Session)
 
01/25/11  House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote
02/08/11  House: Left in Commerce and Labor
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Electric utility regulation.  Reinstates much of the system under which investor-owned electric utilities were regulated prior to 1999. The measure repeals the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act and reenacts provisions relating to State Corporation Commission (SCC) ratemaking, including provisions addressing the recovery of fuel and purchased power costs, that existed prior to the 2007 legislation that re-regulated most of Virginia's investor-owned electric utilities. Existing provisions of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act pertaining to ratemaking for electric cooperatives, to net energy metering, to consumer education programs, and to interconnections by farms are relocated to other chapters in Title 56. Rate adjustment clauses approved by the SCC will remain in effect as set forth in an enactment clause.

HB 2106 GPS tracking
HB 2106 GPS tracking (2011 Legislative Session)
 
02/04/11  House: Committee substitute printed 11105169D-H1
02/06/11  House: Read first time
02/07/11  House: Read second time
02/07/11  House: Committee substitute agreed to 11105169D-H1
02/07/11  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2106H1
02/08/11  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
02/09/11  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
02/21/11  Senate: Read third time
02/21/11  Senate: Reading of amendment waived
02/21/11  Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
02/21/11  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
02/22/11  House: Placed on Calendar
02/23/11  House: Senate amendment rejected by House (3-Y 94-N)
02/24/11  Senate: Senate requested conference committee
02/24/11  House: House acceded to request
02/24/11  House: Conferees appointed by House
02/24/11  House: Delegates: Armstrong, Albo, Iaquinto
02/24/11  Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
02/24/11  Senate: Senators: Puckett, Marsden, Stuart
02/25/11  House: Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

GPS tracking.  Allows GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking for persons on bond or as a condition of probation.

HB 2107 Reduced electricity rates for low-income residential customers; tax credit
HB 2107 Reduced electricity rates for low-income residential customers; tax credit (2011 Legislative Session)
 
01/27/11  House: Referred from Commerce and Labor by voice vote
02/02/11  House: Passed by in Finance with letter by voice vote
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Reduced electricity rates for low-income residential customers; tax credit.  Requires investor-owned electric utilities to offer eligible residential customers a reduced rate for electric service during December through April of each year. The reduced rate is 20 percent less than the rate that would be applicable to the customer if the customer was  ineligible for the special rate. To be eligible for the special rate, a customer must be receiving (i) supplemental security income, (ii) aid to families with dependent children, (iii) aid to families with dependent children—unemployed, or (iv) food stamps, if the food stamp recipients are 60 years of age or older. The State Corporation Commission is required to certify each utility's revenue deficiency resulting from the special reduced rates, and the utility will receive an income tax credit calculated at 1.45 percent of the revenue deficiency. The Department of Social Services is required to adopt regulations establishing procedures to inform persons about the availability of the special reduced rates, assist applicants for the special reduced rates in proving their eligibility therefor, and assist utilities in determining the eligibility of persons for such rates. The Commission and the Department are required to adopt temporary emergency regulations implementing the program by October 1, 2011.

HB 2108 Humane investigators
HB 2108 Humane investigators (2011 Legislative Session)
 
01/31/11  House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote
02/08/11  House: Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Humane investigators.  Allows the appointment of new humane investigators. Currently, existing humane investigators may be reappointed, but the program is no longer open to new participants. The administrative entity that oversees animal control will be required to (i) supervise humane investigators and (ii) maintain and annually update a list of persons eligible for appointment as humane investigators. Circuit courts that appoint a humane investigator must notify the administrative entity that oversees animal control in the locality where the humane investigator serves if a humane investigator's term expires and he is not appointed to a succeeding term before or within 30 days.

HB 2109 Income tax; credit for diesel power to natural gas power truck conversion
HB 2109 Income tax; credit for diesel power to natural gas power truck conversion (2011 Legislative Session)
 
01/24/11  House: Tabled in Finance by voice vote
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Income tax; credit for diesel power to natural gas power truck conversion.  Provides an income tax credit to individual truck owners who convert or have converted their diesel-powered trucks to natural gas power for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2011. The amount of the credit shall not exceed $3,500 or the cost of the conversion, whichever is less.

HB 2110 Eminent domain; just compensation; restricted access
HB 2110 Eminent domain; just compensation; restricted access (2011 Legislative Session)
 
02/08/11  House: Left in Courts of Justice
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Eminent domain; just compensation; restricted access.  Provides that any restriction, change, or loss of access to or from property taken under the power of eminent domain shall be considered as an element in assessing the damages to residue for the purposes of determining just compensation.

HB 2111 Enterprise zone job creation grants
HB 2111 Enterprise zone job creation grants (2011 Legislative Session)
 
02/08/11  House: Left in General Laws
 

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Enterprise zone job creation grants.  Provides that a business firm in a locality with an unemployment rate two percent or higher than the statewide average is eligible for an enterprise zone job creation grant of $500 per year for up to five years for each grant eligible position that during such year is paid at least 150 percent of the federal minimum wage.