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2004 SESSION
Chairman: Frederick M. Quayle
Date of Meeting: March 2, 2004
Time and Place: 2:00 p.m. Senate Room B. GAB
Patron: Athey
Affordable housing. Adds Fauquier County to those localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program under § 15.2-2304 rather than the general law provisions.
01/28/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
Patron: Lingamfelter
Ready access to proffer cash payments and expenditures reports. Requires the local Conditional Zoning Index to provide ready access to all proffered cash payments and expenditures disclosure reports prepared by the local governing body for the Commission on Local Government. The bill also requires the local zoning administrator to update the Conditional Zoning Index annually and no later than November 30 of each year.
01/28/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
Patron: Hugo
Urban County executive form of government; disclosures in land use proceedings. Amends provisions requiring certain disclosures in land use proceedings in any county with the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) by lowering the current $200 gift threshold to $100.
02/14/04 House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N)
Patron: McDonnell
Local government; control of firearms and ammunition. Prohibits a local government from adopting an ordinance governing the storage of firearms or ammunition. Currently, a local government is prohibited from adopting an ordinance governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, or transporting of firearms or ammunition.
02/04/04 House: Read third time and passed House (89-Y 11-N)
Patron: Hull
Urban county executive form of government; sanitary districts. Allows a county with the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) to create and amend sanitary districts by using a notice that uses a descriptive summary, rather than a full text notice, and to use a geographic description in place of the metes and bounds descriptions. Also, all proceedings held in the creation, amendment, or dissolution of any district created pursuant to former and existing general law are ratified, validated, and confirmed, and any and all such districts are declared to have been validly created, amended, or dissolved notwithstanding any defects or irregularities in the publication of any notice or the description of any boundaries.
02/04/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
Patron: Scott, J.M.
Duties of the Commission on Local Government. Transfers responsibility for oversight of certain Commission actions to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade.
02/14/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
Patron: Hall
Community development authorities. Provides that the revenue bonds issued by a development authority shall not be deemed to constitute a debt, liability, or obligation of a political subdivision and shall not impact upon the debt capacity of any other political subdivision.
02/14/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
Patron: Orrock
Cash proffers; issuance of bonds. Provides that localities that are authorized to accept voluntary cash proffers may also issue bonds under the provisions of the Public Finance Act to finance certain improvements to the extent that the costs of such improvements have been pledged by landowners as voluntary cash proffers.
02/14/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
Patron: Baskerville
City council salaries. Allows city council members to be paid in accordance with the payroll cycle of city employees.
02/04/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
Patron: Weatherholtz
Law-enforcement officer certification. Provides that the requirement for the successful completion of the law-enforcement certification examination may be waived by the Department of Criminal Justice Services based upon previous law-enforcement experience and training.
02/17/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
Patron: Hugo
Service districts; road construction. Adds "road construction" to the powers of service districts.
02/14/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
Patron: Weatherholtz
Reciprocal agreements. Allows private institutions of higher learning to enter into certain reciprocal agreements to the same extent as state-supported institutions of higher learning.
02/11/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
Patron: Keister
Regional Industrial Facility Authority. Grants localities in which a facility owned by an authority is located greater flexibility to direct that tax revenue collected with respect to the facility shall be remitted to the authority.
02/17/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
Patron: Jones, D.C.
Nuisance abatement. Makes various changes to facilitate the ability of localities to abate nuisances and dispose of tax delinquent properties, including (i) expansion of instances in which an unpaid charge may constitute a lien on property, (ii) decreasing the time period that a locality shall wait prior to taking action to sell certain tax delinquent properties, (iii) expanding the ability of localities to declare a property as abandoned, and (iv) expanding the instances in which a locality may petition for the conveyance of a deed in lieu of a sale at public auction for certain parcels.
02/17/04 House: Read third time and passed House (58-Y 41-N)
Patron: Ware, R.L.
Real Estate Assessments. Allows Powhatan Couty to establish its own real estate assessment department.
02/11/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
Patron: Sickles
Liability insurance for localities. Adds fire department operational medical directors, police department operational medical directors and certain physicians course directors to those persons that a locality may include in its liability insurance or self-insurance program.
02/17/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)