Bill Text: VA HB1510 | 2015 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; population estimates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-17 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232) [HB1510 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2015-HB1510-Engrossed.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1510 House Amendments in [ ] – January 30, 2015 A BILL to amend and reenact § 33.2-2604 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of population [ projections estimates ] in connection with decisions of the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission. ---------- Patron Prior to Engrossment--Delegate Ward ---------- Referred to Committee on Transportation ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33.2-2604 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§33.2-2604. Decisions of Commission.

A majority of the Commission, which majority shall include at least a majority of the chief elected officers of the counties and cities embraced by the Commission, shall constitute a quorum. Decisions of the Commission shall require a quorum and shall be in accordance with voting procedures established by the Commission. In all cases, decisions of the Commission shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the Commission present and voting, and two-thirds of the chief elected officers of the counties and cities embraced by Planning District 23 who are present and voting and whose counties and cities include at least two-thirds of the population embraced by the Commission; however, no motion to fund a specific facility or service shall fail because of this population criterion if such facility or service is not located or to be located or provided or to be provided within the county or city whose chief elected officer's sole negative vote caused the facility or service to fail to meet the population criterion. The population of counties and cities embraced by the Commission shall be the population as determined by [ the most recently preceding decennial census, except that on July 1 of the fifth year following such census, the population of each county and city shall be adjusted, based on ] population [ projections estimates ] made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia.