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2005 SESSION
HB 2777 Retail Sales and Use Tax; increased, creates Water Quality Improvement Restricted Use Fund.
Introduced by: Allen L. Louderback | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Capitalizing the Water Quality Improvement Fund. Appropriates $50 million from the general fund to the Water Improvement Quality Fund on July 1, 2005. The money is to be used solely to finance the costs of design and installation of biological nutrient removal facilities or other nutrient removal technologies at publicly-owned sewage systems. In addition, beginning July 1, 2005, the annual appropriations to the Fund provided from the 10 percent general fund surplus and the 10 percent of any unreserved general fund year-end balance will have a different distribution formula. Seventy percent of these moneys will be allocated to the Department of Conservation and Recreation to be used for the implementation of best management practices that reduce nitrogen and phosphorous nonpoint source pollution, and 30 percent will be allocated to the Department of Environmental Quality to make grants to significant dischargers and to treatment works that utilize the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act, to design and install state-of-the-art nutrient removal technology. The amount of financing available to the treatment facility for point source nutrient removal technologies, whether the source of funding is the 10 percent surplus and 10 percent unexpended balance, or the $50 million appropriation, will depend on the financial need of the community, which will be determined by comparing the annual sewer charges expended within the service area to the reasonable sewer costs established for the community.
The bill also directs the chairman of the committees of oversight to develop recommendations for a permanent source of funding that will clean up the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, as well as other impaired waters outside the Bay watershed. This bill is identical to SB 810 and SB 1235.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/05 House: Presented & ordered printed 051666468 pdf | impact statement
- 02/05/05 House: Committee substitute printed 051687384-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/16/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 051698384-S1 pdf
- 02/16/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 054691384-S2 pdf
- 02/26/05 House: Conference substitute printed 050006384-H2 pdf
- 03/07/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2777ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/04/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/05 House: Presented & ordered printed 051666468
- 01/14/05 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/18/05 House: Assigned to App. sub-committee: Natural Resources
- 02/04/05 House: Reported from Appropriations with sub (23-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/05 House: Committee substitute printed 051687384-H1
- 02/05/05 House: Read first time
- 02/07/05 House: Read second time
- 02/07/05 House: Committee substitute agreed to 051687384-H1
- 02/07/05 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2777H1
- 02/08/05 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/05 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/14/05 Senate: Reported from A. C. & N. R. w/sub (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/05 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/16/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 051698384-S1
- 02/16/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 054691384-S2
- 02/16/05 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/18/05 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 051698384-S1
- 02/18/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/18/05 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 054691384-S2
- 02/18/05 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/18/05 Senate: Amendment by Sen. Quayle agreed to
- 02/18/05 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/21/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/05 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/21/05 Senate: Amendment by Sen. Williams withdrawn
- 02/21/05 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/21/05 Senate: Amendment #1 by Sen. Williams agreed to
- 02/21/05 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/21/05 Senate: Amendment #2 by Sen. Williams agreed to
- 02/21/05 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - com. sub. w/amds HB2777S2
- 02/21/05 Senate: Passed Senate with sub. w/amds. (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/05 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/05 House: Senate sub. w/amds. rejected by House (3-Y 94-N)
- 02/23/05 House: VOTE: REJECTED (3-Y 94-N)
- 02/24/05 Senate: Senate insisted on sub. w/amds. (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/05 Senate: VOTE: INSIST & REQUEST (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/05 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/24/05 House: House acceded to request
- 02/24/05 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/24/05 House: Delegates: Louderback, Cox, Pollard
- 02/24/05 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/24/05 Senate: Senators: Quayle, Williams, Whipple
- 02/26/05 House: Conference substitute printed 050006384-H2
- 02/26/05 House: Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/05 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/05 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/05 Senate: VOTE: CONF. COMMITTEE RPT. (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2777ER)
- 03/09/05 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/24/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 709 (effective 7/1/05)
- 04/04/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709)