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Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote Bill Text
Department of Environmental Quality. Amends legislationpassed during the 2007 Session of the General Assembly to consolidate theexisting three citizen boards—the State Air Pollution Control Board, the StateWater Control Board, and the Waste Management Board—into one 11-member citizenboard. The existing three citizen boards would retain authority over anyapplications for permits and amendments pending before the end of 2007 untilthe earlier of the resolution of the application or June 30, 2010.
Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote Bill Text
Department of Environmental Quality. Repeals legislationpassed during the 2007 Session of the General Assembly to consolidate theexisting three citizen boards—the State Air Pollution Control Board, the StateWater Control Board, and the Waste Management Board—into one 11-member citizenboard.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Commerce and Labor Bill Text
Utility easements. Provides that any conveyance of aneasement for the location, construction, or installation of facilities to beused to provide utility services shall be subject to the condition that it is voidif the easement has not been used within 20 years.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Soil and Water Conservation Districts. Requires theAttorney General to represent Soil and Water Conservation Districts in anysuits or actions brought by the districts or district directors, upon requestof such districts or directors. Currently, attorneys for the Commonwealth arecharged with the responsibility of representing districts and districtdirectors.
Latest Action: 02/08/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote Bill Text
Machinery and tools taxation. Exempts certified pollutioncontrol equipment and facilities, placed in service on or after January 1, 2010,from state and local taxation pursuant to Article X, Section 6 (d) of theConstitution of Virginia. The measure also provides that certain machinery andtools placed in service on or after January 1, 2010, are taxable as intangiblepersonal property, thereby excluding such property from local taxation.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Highways; littering unsightly matter. Provides when thematter illegally dumped or disposed of was ejected from a motor vehicle ortransported to the disposal site in a motor vehicle, the court, in addition tothe criminal penalty provided, may suspend the defendant's license to operate amotor vehicle for a period not to exceed 30 days.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in General Laws Bill Text
Department of General Services; Division of Engineering;use of compact fluorescent light bulbs in state-owned and occupied buildings.Requires the use of compact fluorescent light bulbs in state-owned andoccupied buildings by January 1, 2011. Under the bill, all state-owned andoccupied buildings shall discontinue the use of incandescent light bulbs byDecember 31, 2010, and in the intervening period replace them with compactfluorescent bulbs. Savings derived from the replacement implementation planshall be used by the Division to study the appropriate means for disposing ofcompact fluorescent bulbs that have reached the end of their useful life.
Latest Action: 02/15/2008 - Enrolled Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Phosphorus prohibition; dishwashing detergents. Bansthe use of phosphorus in detergents for household dishwashing machines.Phosphorus is one of the primary sources of water pollution. The bill containsa delayed effective date of July 1, 2010. This bill incorporates HB 822(Delegate Morgan) and HB 341 (Delegate Plum).
Latest Action: 01/16/2008 - Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote Bill Text
Department of Conservation and Recreation. Allows theDepartment to acquire abandoned railroad corridors for use as greenways, linearparks, or potential transportation corridors.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Housing loans and grants in designated conservation orrehabilitation districts. Grants authority to localities to make loans orgrants of local funds to certain individuals for the purpose of rehabilitatingowner-occupied residences or assisting in the purchase of an owner-occupiedresidence in designated conservation or rehabilitation districts.
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Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Enrolled Bill Text
Water safety enforcement. Requires the Department ofGame and Inland Fisheries to provide an enhanced enforcement effort on SmithMountain Lake during the summer months.
Latest Action: 02/07/2008 - Committee substitute printed 083278240-S1 Bill Text
Brownfields; public notice of voluntary remediation plans.Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to provide written notice ofan application for a voluntary remediation plan to any person who owns aproperty that abuts or lies within 100 feet of the boundary lines of thesubject property or who owns a property that is identified as contaminated by arelease on the subject property. Notice must also be published in a newspaperof general circulation. A public comment period of at least 30 days shallfollow the issuance of notice.
Latest Action: 02/18/2008 - Committee substitute printed 082957232-S1 Bill TextLand preservation tax credit. Establishes a process bywhich properties are to be registered with the Department of Taxation prior toany tax credit being allowed for a donation. The registration process requiresa written certification by a licensed reviewer certifying that the property, orinterest therein, is in compliance with pre-registration standards establishedby the Department. The pre-registration standards would include standards forthe public benefit derived from the donation and standards for the use of theproperty by the donee.The Department would be authorized to license qualifiedapplicants to perform the review for certification. The Department would beallowed to levy and collect fees for licensure to cover the direct expenses forthe administration of the registration program.The Department would be required to implement a limited appealsprocess by which prospective credit claimants could seek to register with theDepartment notwithstanding the lack of a written certification [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: Fossil fuel combustion products permit. Requires asolid waste permit to authorize the placement of unamended coal combustionbyproduct as structural fill in a 100-year flood plain.
Latest Action: 01/23/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Finance Bill Text
Land preservation tax credit; conveyance for public parks,recreational areas, or trails. Provides that the land preservation taxcredit would equal 60 percent of the fair market value of any land that isconveyed for the purpose of a public park, public recreational facility, orpublic trail access easement. The board of supervisors of the county or thecouncil of the city in which such land is located would be required to pass aduly adopted resolution that states (i) its approval of the conveyance, and(ii) that the conveyance is in accordance with the comprehensive plan in effectfor the county or city.
Latest Action: 02/26/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: Nonpoint source reduction funding. Authorizes theGovernor and General Assembly to provide additional funding in excess of theamount deposited in the Water Quality Improvement Fund from a budget surplus tofund nonpoint source pollution reduction activities. This bill is identical toHB 360 (Bulova).
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government Bill Text
Single lot development; stormwater management. Provides that the developer of a single lot shall provide stormwater management where substantial redevelopment of such lot is proposed.Substantial redevelopment" shall be deemed to occur when land-disturbingactivities occur on more than 15 percent of the square footage ofany single lot.
Latest Action: 02/11/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice Bill Text
Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure ofstorm water detention facilities. Requires the owner to disclose to thepurchaser prior to settlement the presence of any storm water detentionfacilities on the property.
Latest Action: 02/26/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: Easement in state park. Authorizes the Department ofConservation and Recreation to grant a 30-foot-wide easement across a portionof Lake Anna State Park in exchange for the extinguishment of an existingright-of-way easement across Lake Anne State Park.
Latest Action: 01/21/2008 - Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Bill Text
Storage of hazardous materials. Permits localities toprohibit the initiation of storage of hazardous materials in floodplains fivestream miles upstream of an intake for a public water supply. However, theprovisions of this bill shall not apply to: (i) operations of the VirginiaDepartment of Transportation or its contractors concerning the construction,reconstruction, or maintenance of highways; or (ii) all Department of Defensefacilities and operations.
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