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2012 Virginia General Assembly Bill Tracking


The following list has links to the Virginia Legislative Information System that provide additional information such as the bill's patron, committee actions, and Adobe Acrobat files of each bill. Generally, the bills listed are related to issues that the Commission is directly involved with including economic development, community development, and transportation. The General Assembly adjourned on March 10, 2012. A Special Budget Session is scheduled to begin on March 21, 2012.


BUDGET INFORMATION

The General Assembly State Budget is available online. Additional information, including amendments from the House and Senate, will be available later in the session.

HB 29 Budget Bill, 2011-2012.
HB 30 Budget Bill, 2013-2014.
SB 29 Budget Bill.
SB 30 Budget Bill.  


ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM

HB 24 BPOL tax; certain localities required to assess on Virginia taxable income.
HB 111 Small business job creation tax credit; creates credit for those creating new full-time jobs.
HB 169 Enterprise zones; criteria for designation.
HB 335 Income tax, state and corporate; deduction for investors in small businesses.
HB 403 Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria.
HB 248 Income tax, corporate; eliminates tax for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2013.
HB 551 Telework expenses tax credit; extends for employers through December 31, 2015.
HB 714 Major business facility job tax credit; extends credit to December 31, 2014.
HB 766 Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund; established, report.
HB 767 Small Business Jobs Grant Fund; requirements.
HB 768 Business Assistance, Department of; Virginia Jobs Investment Plan.
HB 841 Major business facility job tax credits and enterprise zone job creation grants.
HB 1024 Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; use of Fund.  
HB 1194 Farm wineries and vineyards tax credit; raises credit beginning on or after January 1, 2012.
HB 1220 Industrial development authorities; allows Roanoke County to expand board.
HJ 4 License tax business classifications and tax rates, local; Department of Taxation to study.
HJ 85 Study; JLARC; multipliers for current economic development programs; report.
HJ 144 Small Business Day (September 21).
SB 103 Transient occupancy tax; Roanoke County.
SB 130 Building Revitalization Grant Fund.
SB 368 Major business facility job tax credit.
SB 546 Industrial development authorities; allows Roanoke County to expand board.   


ENVIRONMENT

HB 70 Energy conservation; establishes statewide goal of reducing consumption of electric energy.
HB 124 Plastic bags; imposes a tax of 20 cents on those used by purchasers.
HB 787 Sales and use tax exemption; renewable energy equipment.
HB 788 Green Public Buildings Act; created.
HB 913 Solid waste management plan; optional.
HB 1065 Erosion & Sediment Control, Stormwater, & Chesapeake Bay Preservation Acts; integration of programs.
HJ 129 TMDL; Attorney General to explore challenge to constitutionality of regulations by USEPA.  
HJ 137 Study; land-disturbing activities regulations; report.
SB 174 Stormwater program assistance.
SB 403 Land preservation tax credit; increased for working farmers.
SB 407 Erosion & Sediment Control, Stormwater, & Chesapeake Bay Preservation Acts; integration of programs.
SB 494 Wastewater treatment facilities; Virginia Public Building Authority to issue an additional bond.   
    

HOUSING

HB 27 Residential energy efficiency standards; exempts certain homes from federal cap & trade legislation.
HB 121 Virginia Housing Trust Fund Authority; created, report.
HB 571 Housing crisis; extends sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals, etc.
HB 790 Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund.
HB 1100 Virginia Housing Trust Fund Authority, creation.
HB 1122 Derelict and blighted buildings; authorizes locality to serve as receiver to repair.
SJ 71 Foreclosure procedures; Virginia Housing Commission to study.   
 

GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION

HB 13 Redistricting local districts; local government may exclude prison populations from its calculation.
HB 222 Legal notices; allows localities to meet notice requirements by utilizing their web sites, etc.
HB 1157 Local government; equalizes city and county taxing authority.
HJ 2 Taxation of local government property physically located in a different locality; JLARC to study.
HJ 52 Study; reforming Virginia's state and local tax structure; report.
HJ 93 Local Government Education Week; designating as first week in April 2012, and each succeeding year.
HJ 203 Commending the Honorable Lacey E. Putney for 50 years of service.   
 

LAND USE/PLANNING/ZONING

HB 5 Constitutional amendment; taking or damaging of private property for public use (voter referendum).
HB 92 Urban development areas; incorporation of areas optional rather than mandatory, etc.
HB 166 Zoning administrator decisions; narrows instances in which administrator may modify certain orders.
HB 170 Zoning administrator; decisions reviewed by governing body shall be appealable to circuit court.
HB 383 Zoning; award of attorney fees.
HB 405 Planning commissions; appointments.
HB 426 Planning Districts; requires preparation of regional strategic plans for guidance of district.  
HB 526 Helicopters; local land use regulations.
HB 614 Comprehensive plan; controls future land use decisions of governing body.
HB 615 Zoning; clarifies that localities may approve by special exception all modifications to property.
HB 728 Transportation impact fees; when amount assessed and imposed.
HB 729 Urban development areas; increases population thresholds to determine applicability of requirements.
HB 794 Urban development areas.  
HB 812 Historic district, eliminates requirement for public hearing notices.
HB 823 Planning District Commissions, limits activities.
HB 830 Arts and cultural districts, allow creation of multiple districts.
HB 863 Zoning; civil penalties constitute liens on real property.
HB 869 Urban development areas.
HB 910 Cash proffers.
HB 1029 Requirement that certain planning commissioners own real property.
HB 1035 Eminent domain; lost profits and access.
HB 1117 Annexation Moratorium Statute; continuation of the moratorium on annexation by cities.
HB 1137 Historic districts; owner of buildings,etc., shall be given notice of public hearing.  
HB 1196 Zoning provisions for private schools and child day centers; religious institutions.
HJ 3 Constitutional amendment; taking or damaging of private property for public use (second reference).
SB 19 Cash proffers; changes sunset date on provisions that state collection or acceptance by locality.
SB 229 Zoning; civil penalties constitute liens on real property.
SB 274 Urban development areas; optional.
SB 291 Urban development areas; makes incorporation optional rather than mandatory for all localities.
SB 306 Tax increment financing; limited to blighted areas.
SB 418 Electric transmission lines; approval process.  
SJ 3 Constitutional amendment; taking or damaging of private property for public use (second reference).
SJ 117 Constitutional amendment; taking or damaging of private property for public use (second reference).  


TRANSPORTATION

HB 7 Bicycles; riders approaching intersection controlled by traffic lights need not wait two minutes.
HB 23 Transportation Trust Fund; increases amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to Fund.
HB 71 Integrated Directional Sign Program; adds term retail.
HB 262 Transportation Board; increases number of members and adds an urban at-large member.
HB 370 Highway median maintenance; VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments.
HB 393 Motor fuels tax; dedicates additional revenue to operation, etc., of transportation system.
HB 422 Transportation; additional funding by imposing and increasing certain taxes.
HB 427 Highway maintenance funds; requires CTB to allocate funds on basis of achieving level of disparity.
HB 477 Highway maintenance funds, disparity level.
HB 539 Private road maintenance required in deed language.
HB 542 Highway maintenance projects, use of revenue sharing funds.
HB 575 Transportation funding; Salem Highway Construction District.
HB 584 Highway median maintenance agreements.
HB 600 Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition.
HB 659 Composition of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
HB 699 Highway maintenance funds; allocation of funds, disparity level.
HB 802 Transportation funding and administration; Virginia Pump Toll ("FareShare").
HB 827 Transportation districts, repeals funding.
HB 864 Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition.
HB 898 Transportation funding.
HB 899 Transportation funding; motor fuels tax and sales and use tax revenue.
HB 909 Highway maintenance and construction; allocation of funds.
HB 983 Converts Motor fuels tax rate from cents to a percentage.
HB 1027 Local motor fuels tax to be used for tranist systems. 
HB 1039 Highway maintenance payments; increased by Commisioner where traffic volumes exceed certain average.
HB 1239 Retail Sales and Use Tax; increased from four percent to five percent, and distribution of revenues.
HB 1248 Transportation; provides for construction, operation, maintenance, and funding, report.
HJ 71 Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds.
HJ 90 Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds.
SB 101 Bicycles; Town Council of Blacksburg to permit operation in either direction on one-way streets.
SB 161 Transportation Board; increases number of membership.
SB 230 Administration of local highway projects.
SB 392 Composition of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
SB 633 Bicycles; makes hitherto local-option bicycle helmet law applicable statewide.
SB 639 Transportation; provides for construction, operation, maintenance, and funding, report.  
SJ 2 Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference).
SJ 6 Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference).
  


Last updated on March 15, 2012. Questions about this page should be sent to Eddie Wells.