Subject Trade and Commerce | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SB819 | Tourist Train Development Authority. Reinstates the Authority and its board, repealed by the General Assembly in 2011, which will consist of representatives from the governing bodies of Tazewell County, the Town of Bluefield, and the Town of Pocahont... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2304 | Commercial use of seals of the Commonwealth; commemorative coins. Specifies that commemorative coins minted at the direction of the Governor shall bear the seal of the Commonwealth on the obverse side of the coin and scenes of natural or historically... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0763) |
| VA | SB1236 | Personal property tax; advertising signs. Provides that outdoor advertising signs constitute a separate class of personal property for purposes of assessment, and requires localities to tax such signs as personal property, not as real property. The b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| VA | HB1327 | Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Zone Grant Fund. Adds the City of Franklin and the Counties of Page and Shenandoah to the list of localities in which certain businesses related to commerce through the Port of Virginia may loc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| VA | HB2273 | Enterprise Zone Grant Program; redesignation of certain joint enterprise zones. Provides that when a county or city was previously added to an existing enterprise zone to create a joint enterprise zone, the Department of Housing and Community Develop... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514) |
| VA | HB1363 | Private security services businesses; exemption. Exempts employees and sales representatives of an electronic security equipment retailer from training requirements when they (i) sell the equipment at a store location, online, or by telephone, but n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
| VA | HB1481 | Secondhand articles; scrap metal purchasers; penalty. Provides that any person or business that purchases scrap metal in excess of $20,000 during a 12-month period shall be subject to requirements regarding the purchase of nonferrous scrap, metal ar... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| VA | SB1350 | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity created. Creates the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity by consolidating the powers and duties of the Department of Business Assistance and the Department of Minority Business Enter... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| VA | SB904 | Motorcycle titling; purchase of new motorcycles for parts. Allows licensed motorcycle manufacturers with a salvage dealer license to purchase new motorcycles of a different line-make for parts without obtaining a certificate of title. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| VA | HB1475 | Motorcycle titling; purchase of new motorcycles for parts. Allows licensed motorcycle manufacturers with a salvage dealer license to purchase new motorcycles of a different line-make for parts without obtaining a certificate of title. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) |
| VA | HB1521 | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosures; tourism activity zones. Authorizes any locality to designate one or more tourism activity zones as areas that may be used for special events, including parades, events requiring temporary str... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0246) |
| VA | HB2200 | Property Owners' Association Act; home-based businesses permitted. Provides that, except to the extent the declaration or rules and regulations duly adopted pursuant thereto expressly provide otherwise, no association shall prohibit any lot owner fro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| VA | HB1860 | Personal property tax; advertising signs. Provides that outdoor advertising signs constitute a separate class of personal property for purposes of assessment, and requires localities to tax such signs as personal property, not as real property. The ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| VA | SB1137 | Virginia Business One Stop electronic portal program; participation by State Corporation Commission. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by June 30, 2018, to fully integrate processes and forms into the Business Permitting Center administered ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0155) |
| VA | SB891 | Joint Commission on Administrative Rules. Expands the powers and duties of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules to include review of proposed rules and regulations to ensure that they contain no mandate that improperly burdens businesses. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0140) |
| VA | HB2092 | Confidentiality of tax information. Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to provide the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services with the name and address of taxpayers who identify themselves as subject to Board of Agriculture and Consumer Servic... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| VA | HB1760 | Virginia Business One Stop electronic portal program; participation by State Corporation Commission. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by June 30, 2018, to fully integrate processes and forms into the Business Permitting Center administered ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) |
| VA | HB1506 | Purchase of service firearms; minimum years of service. Reduces from 15 years to 10 years the minimum number of years that certain officers must serve in order to qualify to purchase their service handguns. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0062) |
| VA | SB909 | State park master planning. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, in considering public comments on stage one and stage two master plans, to make a reasonable effort to solicit comments and to provide timely notice of the comment pe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0043) |
| VA | SB781 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; women-owned and minority-owned businesses; remedial measures. Provides that the Governor shall require state agencies to implement appropriate enhancement or remedial measures consistent with prevailing law when a per... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1134 | Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Moves the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department of Business Assistance to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1120 | Department of Business Assistance (DBA); Center for Innovative Technology (CIT); Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC); Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP); marketing campaign. Directs the DBA, CIT, VTC, and VEDP to develop a marketing camp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1274 | Tanning facilities; age limit; parental consent. Prohibits minors younger than 15 years of age from using tanning devices at tanning facilities. The measure also prohibits unemancipated minors age 15, 16, or 17 years from using tanning devices at tan... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | HJR755 | Tax restructuring; report. Requests the Virginia Municipal League, Virginia Association of Counties, Virginia Small Business Commission, and Virginia Manufacturing Development Commission to evaluate and develop a plan for implementing tax restructuri... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| 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 | HB1303 | Tax credit for small businesses hiring graduates of Virginia's public colleges. Establishes, beginning January 1, 2013, an individual and corporate income tax credit for certain small businesses creating new full-time jobs that are filled by persons ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1304 | Tax credit for contracting with small or minority-owned, veteran-owned, or women-owned businesses. Establishes a corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2013, for federal contractors with at least 250 full-time employees that subcontract wit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1370 | Small business job creation tax credit. Creates an individual and corporate income tax credit beginning January 1, 2013, for small businesses creating new full-time jobs in the Commonwealth. The credit would equal $1,000 for each new job created. A s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1375 | Customer access to restrooms; civil penalty. Requires a retail establishment that has a toilet facility for its employees to allow a customer who suffers from Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or other medical condition that requires immediate acc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1381 | Plastic bag tax. Imposes a tax of five cents ($0.05) beginning on July 1, 2014, on plastic bags used by purchasers to carry tangible personal property purchased in grocery stores, convenience stores, or drug stores. Durable, reusable plastic bags and... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR599 | Study; Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution and Virginia's ability to regulate commerce; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution and Virginia's ability to regulate commerce. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1659 | Private security services businesses; exceptions. Provides an exception from licensure requirements for private security services businesses from other states that are duly licensed in those states and that contract for a specific investigation with ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1738 | Invention development services; disclosure and civil penalty. Requires each contract for invention development services to include on its cover sheet a disclosure of the invention developer's rate of successful outcomes, measured as the percentage of... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1936 | Department of Minority Business Enterprise; definition of small business. Changes the definition of "small business" to be a business located in Virginia that meets the definition of a small business concern as defined in the federal Small Business A... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1722 | Assistance and documentation required from localities. Provides that in any instance in which a person is seeking a business permit, a license, or an application for any similar local government approval from a locality, the locality shall provide do... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2087 | Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Moves the administration of the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from the Department of Business Assistance to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1951 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder if the bid ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2003 | Income tax; commercial and industrial building rehabilitation tax credit. Creates a tax credit beginning in 2013 for new businesses that move into a locality and rehabilitate or retrofit a commercial or industrial building that is at least 25 years o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1831 | Tax incentives for beginning businesses. Exempts beginning businesses owned by disabled veterans with service-connected disabilities from certain fees imposed by the State Corporation Commission (SCC) and exempts all beginning businesses from the loc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1857 | Propane; discriminatory pricing. Prohibits dealers from engaging in discriminatory pricing by selling or offering to sell propane at different prices or rates when the difference is attributable to the ownership status of the storage tank into which ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1966 | Enterprise zones; criteria. Permits a locality to apply for enterprise zone status based on distress factors in the area of the proposed enterprise zone, rather than in the entire locality. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2233 | Enterprise zones. Provides that the expiration date of any enterprise zone located in a locality in which the monthly unemployment rate exceeded six percent in any of the 12 months immediately preceding January 1, 2013, shall be extended until the fi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2071 | Department of Business Assistance (DBA); Center for Innovative Technology (CIT); Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC); Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP); marketing campaign. Directs the DBA, CIT, VTC, and VEDP to develop a marketing camp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1986 | Open-end credit plan loans. Establishes requirements for open-end credit plan loans, which are revolving loans made under an open-end credit or similar plan under which a finance charge is imposed only if the obligor fails to repay the loan in full p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2323 | Local limitations as to number of certain businesses. Provides that a locality may by ordinance reasonably limit the number of motor vehicle title loan businesses, payday lenders, check cashers, and precious metals dealers that may be operated at any... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB1369 | Virginia Riverboat Gaming Commission; regulation of riverboat gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Riverboat Gaming Commission as the licensing body for riverboat gaming. The bill sets up the regulatory system for riverboat gaming and provides pen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-04 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2205 | Virginia Public Procurement Act; qualified Virginia businesses afforded opportunity to bid. Requires a public body to solicit bids directly from potential contractors who are residents of Virginia and have been prequalified or deemed qualified under ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| VA | HB2198 | Commercial credit reporting. Establishes a procedure through which a commercial enterprise operating in Virginia about whom a commercial credit report has been compiled may obtain a copy of the report upon request annually at no cost and, if the repo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | HB2135 | Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Makes the misleading, deceptive, or fraudulent use of a trademark, service mark, or mark a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The measure also (i) specifies that online advertising is a f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | SB687 | Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Casino Gaming Commission as the licensing body for casino gaming. The bill sets up the licensing scheme for casino gaming and provides penalties for viola... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
