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2000 SESSION
HB 198 Use of explosives; issuance of permits, DMME to study.
Introduced by: Beverly J. Sherwood | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Use of explosives; issuance of permits; penalty. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to consider all permit applications for manufacturing, storing, handling, using or selling explosives, including a background examination to include a criminal history record information check of all applicants and those designated persons representing corporate applicants. The bill also (i) requires the Board to deny a permit application of anyone convicted of a felony in Virginia, any other state, the District of Columbia, or the United States, unless the civil rights of the applicant have been restored; (ii) exempts from the permit requirements those persons holding a permit under Virginia mining laws; and (iii) requires the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, to study application of this law to coal and mineral mining industries.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/00 House: Presented & ordered printed 000185932 pdf
- 02/10/00 House: Committee substitute printed 008229932-H1 pdf
- 03/08/00 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB198ER) pdf
- 05/04/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0951) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/12/00 House: Presented & ordered printed 000185932
- 01/12/00 House: Printing on hold - awaiting fiscal impact statement
- 01/12/00 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/20/00 House: Assigned to General Laws sub-committee: 4
- 02/09/00 House: Reported from General Laws with sub (25-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/00 House: Committee substitute printed 008229932-H1
- 02/11/00 House: Read first time
- 02/12/00 House: Read second time
- 02/12/00 House: Committee substitute agreed to 008229932-H1
- 02/12/00 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 008229932-H1
- 02/14/00 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/00 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/15/00 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/15/00 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/23/00 Senate: Reported from General Laws (12-Y 3-N)
- 02/24/00 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/00 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/00 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/00 Senate: Passed Senate (32-Y 5-N)
- 02/25/00 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (32-Y 5-N)
- 03/08/00 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB198ER)
- 03/13/00 House: Enrolled
- 03/13/00 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/00 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/09/00 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 951 (effective 7/1/00)
- 05/04/00 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0951)