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BILL
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PATRON
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STATUS
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DESCRIPTION
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VPA POSITION
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HB 69
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R.G. Marshall
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Tabled by House Privileges & Elections Committee |
Before a PAC can run a print ad opposing a certain candidate for public office, it must obtain permission
from the political party's candidate who would benefit from such advertisement.
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Monitor
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HB 81
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R.G. Marshall
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Referred to House Rules Committee
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If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade abortion decision, then the Attorney General shall publish legal notice statewide that, in his opinion, the decision is overturned
and that Virginia's law is as it was prior to the decision in Roe v. Wade. The Attorney General shall publish
statewide notice of the change in law, along with the reinstated law governing the criminal offense of abortion.
The bill also states that any person who, by publication, lecture, advertisement, or by the sale or circulation of any publication, or in
any other manner, encourages or prompts the procuring of abortion or miscarriage, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Amend
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HB 372
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Charles W. Carrico
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Referred to House Transportation Committee's Subcomittee 3
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The bill allows a dealer to advertise a single vehicle, whether it is new or used, by stock number or vehicle
identification number in order to disclose a limitation of availability. |
Monitor
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HB 390 / HB 1504
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HB 390: David Bulova / HB 1504: Samuel A. Nixon Jr.
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Both bills have been referred to
House Science & Technology Committee's Subcommittee 1
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The bill creates the Compromised Data Notification Act, which, following discovery or notification of a breach of a security system, requires a state
agency that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information to provide notice of the breach to all residents of Virginia
whose unencrypted personal information was or is reasonably believed to have been acquired by an unauthorized person. |
Monitor
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HB 711
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William R. Janis
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Referred to House Finance Committee's Subcommittee 1
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The bill removes the sunset (July 1, 2009) from the sales and use tax exemptions for audio and video works. |
Monitor
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HB 1036
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Jeffrey M. Frederick
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Referred to House Finance Committee's Subcommittee 1
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The bill requires localities to fix tax rates for an ensuing year at least 30 days prior to approval of the budget for the ensuing year,
with separate public notices and separate public hearings. |
Monitor
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HB 1396
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Matthew J. Lohr
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Reported by House Agriculture, Chesapeake & Natural Resources Committee; referred to House Appropriations Committee's
Economic Development, Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee
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The bill charges the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services with the responsibility
of promoting Virginia agritourism both nationally and internationally. He is to develop a statewide
agritourism master plan and coordinate efforts to educate the public about the importance of Virginia's agriculture heritage and industry. |
Monitor
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HB 1410
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Riley E. Ingram
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Referred to House Privileges & Elections Committee's Elections Subcommittee
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The bill provides that the person who accepts a paid political advertisement for a newspaper or publication
must mail notice, before publishing the advertisement, to any candidate named in the advertisement of the
identity of the person who submitted the advertisement when the authorization statement on the advertisement
is made by an individual or entity other than a candidate, candidate campaign committee, political party committee,
or political action committee. |
Amend
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HB 1565
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Anne B. Crockett-Stark
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Referred to House Appropriations Committee's Transportation Subcommittee
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The bill creates multicounty/city transportation districts for the purpose of providing funding for transportation
projects. Each district member is authorized to advertise and hold public hearings on a local option fuel tax of $0.02 per gallon. |
Monitor
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SB 184
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Mark R. Herring
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Passed Senate
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(As amended) The bill provides that no person mailed written notice pursuant to certain zoning ordinance amendments may challenge the validity
of the plan or ordinance, or amendment thereof, due to the insufficiency of, or an error in, the advertisement. |
Monitor
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SB 505
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Ryan T. McDougle
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Passed Senate
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The bill states that the town of Bowling Green shall publish penal ordinances passed by Town Council once, at least, in one of the newspapers serving Bowling Green.
It also states that when Town Council codifies and prints the general ordinances in book or pamphlet form, then
it shall not be necessary to publish new or changed ordinances in a newspaper. |
Monitor
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SB 577
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Richard L. Saslaw
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Referred from Senate Commerce & Labor Committee to Senate Courts of Justice Committee
and assigned to CJ's Criminal Subcommittee
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The bill states that anyone who manufactures, distributes, transports, offers for sale, sells, or possesses with the intent to sell or distribute any
advertisements that are designed, marketed, or otherwise intended to be used on or in connection with any goods or services bearing a counterfeit mark shall be guilty of trademark infringement. |
Monitor
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SB 586
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Phillip P. Puckett
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Passed Senate
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(As amended)The bill requires the Virginia Gas & Oil Board to publish within 10 days of a public hearing hearing agendas on permits for gas or oil operations in a newspaper of general circulation and widely circulated
in the localities where the lands that are the subject of the hearing. Currently, the Board provides this public notice within 20 days of the hearing. Interested parties are still notified by certified mail as a condition of the application
process. However, interested parties that cannot be identified or located after reasonable effort may now be notified by publication in a newspaper of general circulation
widely circulated in the locality where the well is to be located within seven days of the hearing. |
Amended
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SB 717
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John S. Edwards
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Referred to Senate Agriculture, Conservation & Natural Resources Committee
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The bill requires any applicant seeking approval for the use of fossil fuel combustion products as structural fill to (i) publish a notice of
his intent to apply for approval for the project from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), (ii) hold a public meeting to answer
citizen's questions, and (iii) submit minutes of the meeting to DEQ. The DEQ is not to issue the permit until the applicant has fulfilled these requirements. |
Monitor
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SB 752
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Mark R. Herring
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Referred to Senate Agriculture, Conservation & Natural Resources Committee
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The bill requires the Department of Environmental Quality to notify the owners of neighboring properties when there is an application to participate
in the Voluntary Remediation Program. The owners of neighboring properties will be permitted to participate in a public comment process prior to the
adoption of a voluntary remediation plan and demand a public hearing on the Department's approval of a voluntary remediation plan or issuance of a certificate
of satisfactory completion of remediation. |
Monitor
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SB 783
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Stephen H. Martin
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Referred to Senate Finance Committee
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The bill requires each locality to fix tax rates for an ensuing year at least 30 days prior to approval of the budget
for the ensuing year, with separate public notices and separate public hearings. The bill also requires each locality
to lower its real estate tax rate for the forthcoming tax year to produce no more than the previous year's real property
tax levies when any annual assessment, biennial assessment, or general reassessment of real property by the locality
would result in an increase in the total real property tax levied. The locality may increase the rate above the reduced rate
after a public hearing held no sooner than 30 days after the rate reduction. |
Monitor
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