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2007 SESSION
Delegate John A. Cosgrove (R) - House District 78
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 416
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: district14@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 15483
- Chesapeake, Virginia 23328
Legislation as Chief Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1624 Menhaden; limits on amount harvested annually.
- HB 1678 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include energy-efficient products.
- HB 1679 Overweight permits; exempts fire & emergency apparatus from weight limits on bridges & culverts.
- HB 1680 Domestic assault case; unavailability of deferred proceedings for previously convicted felons.
- HB 1770 Juveniles; destruction of fingerprints and photographs.
- HB 1771 Real Estate Time-Share Act; purchaser's right to surrender time-share.
- HB 1772 Law-enforcement officer; uniform requirement for arrests for speeding.
- HB 1773 Warrants; those issued against law-enforcement officers or public school employees.
- HB 1774 Disorderly house; unlawful for any person to keep, maintain, operate or to visit.
- HB 1775 Street gangs; add to list predicate acts for determination of membership status.
- HB 1776 Bond or recognizance; appeal from order denying bail or fixing terms thereof.
- HB 1777 Concealment of dead body; prohibition against, penalty.
- HB 1778 Photo-monitoring systems; counties and cities may establish to enforce traffic light signals.
- HB 1779 Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund; provides riteria for awarding of attorney fees.
- HB 1780 Real estate tax; requires each locality to lower its rate for forthcoming tax year.
- HB 1781 Surplus materials; band uniforms retained by publ. institutions of higher ed. not considered.
- HB 1782 License plates, special; issuance to members of Fraternal Order of Police.
- HB 1783 Traffic warning systems; VDOT to implement.
- HB 1784 Wine and beer; delivery thereof, permits.
- HB 1785 Puncturing motor vehicle tires; allows law-enforcement officer to utilize devices designed therefor.
- HB 1798 Professional Boxing, Wrestling and Martial Arts Advisory Board; created.
- HB 1799 Payday lending charges; establishing maximum annual interest rate.
- HB 1800 Condemnation cases; jury selection.
- HB 1801 Architects, Professional Engineers, etc., Bd of; cease and desist orders for unlicensed activity.
- HB 1802 Law-enforcement officer; increases penalty for impersonating.
- HB 2030 Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council; created.
- HB 2031 Parasail operators; Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to promulgate regulations applicable thereto.
- HB 2067 Indoor Clean Air Act; provides unlawful for any person to smoke in certain establishments.
- HB 2068 Children; penalty for sexual abuse against a child.
- HB 2352 Sale of secondhand articles; repeals requirement dealers get permit from local chief of police, etc.
- HB 2353 Computer trespass; adds spyware to crimes.
- HB 2354 Recount procedures; securing of ballots and election materials pending a recount.
- HB 2355 Modeling and Simulation Advisory Council; created.
- HB 2356 Fire Marshal, Office of; transfers enforcement of Fire Prevention Code thereto.
- HB 2357 Speed determination devices; repeals provision allowing law-enforcement to show motorist readings.
- HB 2358 Southeastern Public Service Authority; special committee to investigate operations and finances.
- HB 2359 Southeastern Public Service Authority; withdrawal of member locality.
- HB 2360 Southeastern Public Service Authority; commission to investigate acceptance of out-of-area waste.
- HB 2950 Architects, professional engineers, land surveyors, and landscape architects; definitions.
- HB 2951 Tolls; VDOT to impose and collect for use of Route 17 in City of Chesapeake.
- HB 3114 Aerospace Advisory Council; created.
- HJ 575 Energy Conservation Awareness Week; designating as first week in October 2007, and each succeeding.
- HJ 592 Commending Project Lifesaver.
- HJ 789 Commending Pennsylvania Senator Noah Wenger for outstanding service to Chesapeake Bay Commission.
- HJ 870 Commending William R. Shepherd, Jr.
- HJ 895 Celebrating the life of Electronics Technician Senior Chief Thomas K. Higgins.
- HJ 962 Commending David J. Skewes.
- HJ 979 Commending Jean R. Jensen.
- HJ 980 Commending The First Tee of Hampton Roads.