VA Committee | Senate Finance | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SB1355 | Revenues and appropriations of the Commonwealth. Makes several changes to the revenues collected by the Commonwealth, and the distribution of such revenues, as follows: The bill raises the registration fees for vehicles and trailers and designates th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB717 | Establishing and adjusting sources of revenue for appropriations of the Commonwealth and its localities. Makes several changes to sources of revenue of the Commonwealth: Establishes a five percent tax on motor fuels sales based on the statewide avera... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB1340 | Revenues and appropriations of the Commonwealth. Makes several changes to the revenues and appropriations of the Commonwealth, specifically relating to transportation funding, as follows: The bill raises the state sales and use tax rate from four per... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB1244 | Virginia Retirement System benefits. Provides for an increase, beginning July 1, 2013, of the monthly retirement allowance payable to any person who retired with at least 15 years of creditable service before January 1, 1990, under the Virginia Retir... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB855 | Transportation; funding and administration. Increases the base fuel tax rate in Virginia by 10 cents to $0.275 per gallon of gasoline, gasohol, and diesel fuel, and then increases or decreases the rate each year using a fuel efficiency index. The bil... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB859 | Taxable income; deduction for payment of certain tolls. Allows a qualified taxpayer to deduct from his Virginia adjusted gross income an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount paid by the taxpayer for tolls in a qualified locality. A qualified loca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB1328 | Revenues and appropriations of the Commonwealth. Makes several changes to the revenues collected by the Commonwealth, and the distribution of such revenues, as follows: The bill raises the state sales and use tax from 4% to 4.5%, and designates the i... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB1321 | Assignment of general fund balance; Transportation Trust Fund. Provides that after the full deposit is assigned to the Revenue Stabilization Fund from any general fund surplus at the end of the fiscal year, the Comptroller shall assign the remaining ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB691 | Sales and use tax exemption; bullion and currency. Exempts from sales and use tax (i) gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion, and (ii) currency. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB692 | Elimination of the corporate income tax. Eliminates the corporate income tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, by setting the rate of the tax at zero percent. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB733 | Fuels taxes; indexing of tax rates. Increases or decreases each year the rates of Virginia's fuels taxes using a fuel efficiency index. The bill defines the fuel efficiency index as the quotient that is obtained when using as the numerator the total ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB730 | Exemptions for nonprofit entities; veterans organizations. Adds veterans organizations to those nonprofit entities that can qualify for sales and use tax exemption. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB872 | Assignment of general fund balance; Transportation Trust Fund. Increases from 67 percent to 75 percent the portion of the general fund surplus remaining at the end of each fiscal year that is deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund. Such deposit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB925 | Sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.5 percent tax rate under current law to an amount gener... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB745 | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB700 | Taxes on fuels; issuance of bonds. Makes the retail sale of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels subject to the general 5% retail sales and use tax and reduces the fuels tax on such fuels by $0.05 per gallon from $0.175 per gallon to $0.125 per gal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | SB129 | State mandates on localities. Directs the Governor to temporarily suspend certain unfunded state mandates on localities pending a review of such mandates. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB178 | Satellite office expenses tax credit. Creates a $250,000 tax credit for a business that opens a satellite office or operation in a Virginia locality that reduces the commute of at least 10 current employees to five miles or less. The capital investme... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB181 | Sales and use tax; remittance of use tax. Provides that use tax be reported annually rather than every three months. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB184 | Interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for an interpreter for a non-English-speaking defendant shall be borne by the defendant if he is convicted of the criminal offense. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB211 | Assignment of general fund balance remaining at year end. Changes current law for the assignment of any year-end general fund surplus. The surplus would first be used for any Revenue Stabilization Fund deposit. Next, 30 percent of the remaining amou... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB220 | Assignment of year-end surplus. Changes the priority for assigning any year-end surplus by requiring that of any general fund balance remaining after funds are set aside for required deposits to the Revenue Stabilization Fund, 50 percent would be ass... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB272 | General Assembly; consideration of certain documents related to the budget bill or general appropriation act. Provides that no legislative action may be taken on (i) any committee amendment to the budget bill or general appropriation act, (ii) any c... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB312 | Four-for-Life; substantive review. Requires that a reallocation of moneys set aside from the Four-for-Life fees be made pursuant to legislation that has been reviewed by the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee and the Senate Committee on... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB327 | Workers' Compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB331 | Law-enforcement officers retirement; early retirement. Requires that all employers electing to provide benefits equivalent to the State Police Officers' Retirement System for employees in hazardous duty positions consider employees eligible for full ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB357 | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; membership. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement benefits unde... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB377 | Construction projects using public funds; iron, steel, and manufactured goods must be produced in the United States. Prohibits use of state funds for construction projects, including any construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public bu... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB403 | Land preservation tax credit; working farmers. Increases the land preservation tax credit from 40 percent to 50 percent of the fair market value of the conveyance for working farmers, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB435 | Criminal history record information check; making false statements; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly makes a materially false statement on criminal history background check forms required for the purchase and transfer of firearms is g... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB439 | Medical Fraud Control Unit; appointment of investigators. Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint unit investigators to investigate fraud, abuse, or neglect in the provision of care under the plan for medical assistance. Such investigators would b... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB547 | Assault and battery a felony when certain classes of people are victimized; penalty. Expands the class of people for whom, when they are victims of an assault or assault and battery, the offense is punished as a Class 6 felony. The expanded class wou... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB553 | Local school divisions; unexpended state funds. Provides that local school divisions may elect to use any unexpended state funds to provide a one-time bonus to all teachers of up to three percent of the annual base salary. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB567 | Low-income and student toll tax credit. Establishes a tax credit for students and low-income persons who have an E-ZPass or who pay tolls. The amount of the credit is capped at $1,000 per qualified taxpayer. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB586 | Crimes by prisoners; penalties. Provides that a prisoner may be charged under the Code sections that apply to crimes by prisoners, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and possession of a firearm by a felon. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB605 | Eligibility for in-state tuition; military personnel. Provides that, for current and former military personnel and their dependents, the intent to attend a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth is sufficient for the purpose of e... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB621 | Department of General Services; energy efficiency data for state-owned buildings. Provides for the Department of General Services to establish a program requiring an energy analysis of each state-owned building containing more than 50,000 square feet... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB642 | Sales and use tax; lottery tickets. Amends the definition of "retail sale" to include lottery tickets, for purposes of the imposition of the sales and use tax. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB665 | Standards of Learning; method of administration. Allows a local school division to administer any Standards of Learning assessment for elementary school students online or by paper. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB668 | Felony punishment for subsequent misdemeanor sex offense; penalty. Provides that when a person is convicted of a specified misdemeanor sex offense and it is alleged in the warrant that he was convicted of two or more substantially similar offenses u... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB671 | Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals are computed based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB673 | Income Tax. Deconforms Virginia income tax laws from two provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that otherwise would increase the state income tax. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB677 | Performance review of state agencies. Requires that the Office of the State Inspector General conduct a performance review of each executive branch agency at least every four years. The effective date of the bill is July 1, 2014. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB10 | BPOL tax; maximum fee and tax rates established. Prohibits a locality from increasing its local license (BPOL) fees or taxes above the rates of its BPOL fees and taxes imposed for the 2011 license year. The prohibition on increasing BPOL fees and tax... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB173 | Interpreter appointed for non-English-speaking defendant. Provides that the cost for an interpreter for a non-English-speaking defendant shall be borne by the defendant if he is convicted of the criminal offense. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB207 | Sales and use tax exemption; gold, silver, and platinum bullion. Exempts from sales and use tax gold, silver, or platinum bullion whose sales price exceeds $1,000. The bill has a sunset date of June 30, 2015. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB18 | Fishery compact. Removes authorization for Virginia's membership in the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact. The purpose of the Compact is to promote better utilization of the marine, shell, and anadromous fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard thro... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB274 | Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits. Increases the number of circuit court judges in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit from eight to nine, and decreases the number of such judges in the Seventeeth Judicial Circui... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB24 | Welfare and other entitlement fraud; penalties. Requires a 180-day mandatory minimum sentence for misdemeanor entitlement fraud, a one year mandatory minimum sentence for felony entitlement fraud, a repayment of three times the benefits received, and... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB61 | Corporate income tax; lower rate for certain businesses. Reduces the corporate income tax rate from six percent to three percent for the first three years after a business located outside Virginia opens a satellite office in a Virginia locality with ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
