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2013 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Finance

Chairman: Walter A. Stosch

Clerk: Patty Lung, Cheryl Law
Staff: Nicole Brenner, L. Wallmeyer
Date of Meeting: February 5, 2013
Time and Place: 9:00 a.m. - Senate Room B
Revised to add HB2110

H.B. 1320

Patron: Morris


Excise tax on peanuts. Extends the $0.30 per 100 pounds excise tax on all peanuts grown in and sold in Virginia until July 1, 2016. The proceeds from the tax will be used for promoting the sales and use of Virginia peanuts. This bill is identical to SB 698.

 

H.B. 1392

Patron: Putney

Revenue bond bills for higher education; modifications. Modifies revenue bond bills for institutions of higher education enacted in 2008 by changing a project at Radford University from "construct residence halls" to "renovate residence halls." The bill also modifies revenue bond bills for institutions of higher education enacted in 2012 by (i) changing a project at the College of William and Mary from "renovate dormitory" to "renovate dormitories," (ii) increasing the amount allocated for such project from $5,000,000 to $14,650,000, and (iii) increasing the maximum aggregate amount of bonds that may be issued from $125,594,000 to $135,244,000. The bill states that an emergency exists and that the bill is in force from its passage.

EMERGENCY

H.B. 1399

Patron: Ware, R.L.

Sales and use tax exemption; pollution control equipment and facilities. Deletes that portion of the sales and use tax exemption for pollution control equipment and facilities that expired July 1, 2006, related to coal, oil, and gas production, to clarify that such exemption did not expire in 2006, and continues because of a cross-reference to another statute.

H.B. 1400

Patron: Ransone

Oyster replenishment tax; penalties. Reorganizes, clarifies, and renames the oyster replenishment tax system as a system of oyster resource user fees. In addition to repealing four Code sections, the bill replaces the former price-based replenishment tax with a volume-based oyster resource user fee, specifying that no harvester shall pay more than one such fee per year. The bill removes the exemption from licensing requirements for an oyster grounds leaseholder, distinguishes from other fees the license fee to be paid by a person who buys from the catcher oysters caught from the public grounds, simplifies the description of the fisheries data that harvesters and others are required to record, simplifies the prohibition on carrying oysters out of state without a permit, and removes certain oyster inspection tax provisions. The bill also makes technical amendments.

H.B. 1797

Patron: Tyler

Transient occupancy tax; Greensville County. Adds Greensville County to the list of counties that may impose a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent, rather than the two percent rate available to all counties. Any revenue attributable to any rate over two percent shall be spent solely for tourism and travel purposes.

H.B. 2039

Patron: Webert

Voluntary contributions of taxpayer refunds; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Adds the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan, as an option under the Voluntary Chesapeake Bay Restoration Contribution, to the list of organizations that may receive contributions of taxpayer refunds.

H.B. 2059

Patron: McClellan

Income tax credit; landlords participating in housing choice voucher programs. Reduces from $450,000 to $250,000 the amount of income tax credits that may be issued each fiscal year by the Department of Housing and Community Development to landlords participating in housing choice voucher programs.

H.B. 2110

Patron: Morefield

Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund; construction of natural gas service lines. Allows a locality in the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority to apply a portion of its Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund tax revenue to the construction of natural gas service lines. The section formerly permitted the locality to apply a portion of the revenue to the construction or enhancement of water or sewer systems or lines. The amendments add natural gas systems or lines as authorized by § 15.2-2109.3 to the permitted uses of that portion of the fund.

H.B. 2145

Patron: O'Bannon

Virginia College Savings Plan; deposit of income tax refunds. Permits taxpayers to direct the Department of Taxation to deposit all or any part of an income tax refund into their Virginia College Savings Plan accounts. The provisions of the bill shall be effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014.

H.B. 2155

Patron: Byron

Technical corrections for administration of the insurance premiums license tax. Makes technical corrections to facilitate the transfer of the administration of the state insurance premiums license tax from the State Corporation Commission to the Department of Taxation pursuant to legislation passed by the 2011 Session of the General Assembly.

H.B. 2175

Patron: Cox, M.K.

Veterans care center; construction in Northern Virginia. Authorizes the Governor to request federal funds to construct a new veterans' care center in Northern Virginia, and requires the State Treasurer to issue a short-term treasury loan in an amount up to $20 million for the state share of construction costs, once the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has determined that federal funds will be allocated for the new center.

H.B. 2249

Patron: Cox, M.K.

Management agreement between the Commonwealth and College of William and Mary; responsibilities of Building Official. Removes the responsibility for building code compliance at Richard Bland College from the designated Building Official at the College of William and Mary.