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Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources

Chairman: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr.

Clerk: Maribeth Turner
Staff: Martin Farber, Scott Meacham
Date of Meeting: January 15, 2015
Time and Place: Thursday, 1/2 hour upon adjournment, Senate Room B

S.B. 771 Toxic waste site; to inventory Department of Environmental Quality.

Patron: McEachin

Department of Environmental Quality; toxic waste site inventory. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to inventory by July 1, 2016, nonfederally managed toxic waste sites in Virginia and publish the inventory at that time and annually thereafter. The bill also makes technical amendments.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 10.1-1186.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Department of Environmental Quality; toxic waste site inventory.

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S.B. 811 Water Protection and Toxic Chemicals Advisory Committee; established, report, sunset provision.

Patron: Watkins

Water Protection and Toxic Chemicals Advisory Committee; established. Establishes the Water Protection and Toxic Chemicals Advisory Committee to make recommendations for the protection of state water resources from toxic chemical contamination. The bill contains a one-year sunset.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 3.1 of Chapter 3.1 of Title 62.1 a section numbered 62.1-44.17:5, relating to establishment of the Water Protection and Toxic Chemicals Advisory Committee.

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S.B. 838 State resident licenses; dependents of members of armed forces.

Patron: Alexander

State resident licenses; military dependents. Extends the entitlement to obtain a state resident license to hunt, trap, or fish to the dependents of members of the armed forces. Current law entitles members of the armed forces to obtain such a license.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 29.1-319 of the Code of Virginia, relating to state resident licenses; dependents of members of the armed forces.

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S.B. 858 Breaks Interstate Park; employees being commissioned as conservation officers.

Patron: Chafin

Conservation officers; Breaks Interstate Park. Establishes qualifications and procedures for the commissioning as conservation officers employees of Breaks Interstate Park, a park located in both Kentucky and Virginia and administered by the Breaks Interstate Park Commission. The bill gives all conservation officers jurisdiction over Virginia portions of the park, with the agreement of the Commission, and obligates conservation officers to uphold the rules and regulations of the Commission.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 10.1-115 through 10.1-119 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 4 of Chapter 1 of Title 10.1 a section numbered 10.1-120, relating to conservation officers; Breaks Interstate Park.

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S.B. 869 Carbon monoxide emissions; exempted from certain diesel-powered incinerators.

Patron: Cosgrove

Carbon monoxide emissions; diesel-powered incinerator; exemption. Exempts carbon monoxide emissions from certain diesel-powered incinerators from certain permitting regulations of the State Air Pollution Control Board. An incinerator whose emissions are exempted must be installed prior to July 1, 2015, owned by a locality, and used exclusively for the incineration of animal carcasses collected from public rights-of-way.

A BILL to exempt certain diesel-powered incinerators from certain carbon monoxide emissions regulations.

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S.B. 870 Charitable gaming; limits audit and administration fee, adjusted gross receipts.

Patron: Cosgrove

Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; charitable gaming; audit and administration fee; adjusted gross receipts. Limits the audit and administration fee to no more than one and one-quarter percent of the adjusted gross receipts of a charitable organization defined as the total amount of money received by the organization from charitable gaming before the deduction of expenses and excluding prizes paid out. Under current law, the fee is limited to one and one-quarter percent of the gross receipts, which include prizes.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 18.2-340.16 and 18.2-340.31 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; charitable gaming; audit and administration fee; adjusted gross receipts.

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S.B. 972 Buggs Island Lake; allowed to be referred to as John H. Kerr Reservoir or Kerr Lake.

Patron: Ruff

Buggs Island Lake. Allows state agencies and local governments to refer to Buggs Island Lake as John H. Kerr Reservoir or Kerr Lake, despite a previously passed House Joint Resolution requiring them to use the name Buggs Island Lake.

A BILL to allow agencies of the Commonwealth and local governments to refer to Buggs Island Lake by other names.

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S.B. 1006 Virginia Marine Resources Commission; submerged lands, permit fees.

Patron: Watkins

Virginia Marine Resources Commission; submerged lands; permit fees. Clarifies the requirement of a permit application to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (Commission) for the placement of certain piers and provides that certain applications for permits to use state-owned submerged lands shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable processing fee of $100. The bill raises the existing fees for the issuance of such a permit from $25 to $100 for small projects and from $100 to $300 for projects costing more than $10,000. The bill establishes a permit fee of $600 for projects costing $500,000 or more. The bill also increases the range of royalties for removal of each cubic yard of bottom material from $0.20-$0.60 to $0.40-$0.80. Finally, the bill authorizes the Commission to increase fees beginning in 2018 and once every three years thereafter.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 28.2-1203 and 28.2-1206 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of subaqueous beds; permit fees.

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S.B. 1079 Flood protection plan.

Patron: Locke

Flood protection plan. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to regularly update the flood protection plan for the Commonwealth and to make the plan accessible online. This is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Formulate Recommendations to Address Recurrent Flooding.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 10.1-602 of the Code of Virginia, relating to flood protection plan.

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S.B. 1115 Seizure of food and dairy products; sampling.

Patron: Lewis

Seizure of food and dairy products; sampling. Allows but does not require the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to sample goods that have been seized because they are believed to violate the law; current law makes such sampling mandatory. If the Commissioner determines that a sample requires laboratory analysis, the bill requires that the sample be forwarded to the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services of the Department of General Services (the Division) to be turned over to a qualified analyst. The bill provides that a certification of the results of the analysis by a qualified analyst employed by the Division shall constitute prima facie evidence of the facts certified to.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 3.2-5135 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the seizure of food and dairy products; sampling.

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