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2015 SESSION
Senator A. Benton "Ben" Chafin (R) - Senate District 38
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 307
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: district38@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 1210
- Lebanon, Virginia 24266
Legislation as Chief Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- SB 858 Breaks Interstate Park; employees being commissioned as conservation officers.
- SB 859 Open-end lending by banks, savings institutions, etc.; determining grace period.
- SB 860 Creditor; satisfaction of judgment required to be noted.
- SB 861 Nurse practitioners.
- SB 862 Medical malpractice proceedings; health care providers, expert testimony.
- SB 863 Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchase procedure for construction.
- SB 864 Cemeteries; access when located on private property.
- SB 865 Intestate estate; administration by person convicted of fraud, misrepresentation, robbery, etc.
- SB 866 Health insurance; school board allowed to elect to have employees & retirees to receive state plan.
- SB 867 Battery against certain local social services workers; penalty.
- SB 868 Water or sewer systems; delinquent payment of rates and charges.
- SB 1240 Transient occupancy tax; Bland & Russell Counties added to list of counties authorized to impose.
- SB 1308 Gas severance tax; extends sunset provision to December 31, 2018.
- SB 1334 Electric utilities; cost recovery.
- SB 1343 Joint Rules Committee of General Assembly; employment of legal counsel.
- SB 1348 Motorcycles, off-road, and all-terrain vehicles; fees collected by DMV to be deposited in a fund.
- SB 1366 Coal mine safety; wide tracking and electric equipment shall maintain safe operating conditions.
- SB 1367 Trails; allocation of federal funds for establishment and maintenance.
- SB 1452 Creation of the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.
- SJ 254 Clean Water Act; opposition.
- SJ 294 Carbon dioxide emissions; regulation of existing power plants, withdrawal of federal guidelines.
- SJ 317 NASA's Wallops Flight Facility; environmental impact statement.
- SR 57 Commending Haysi High School football team.
- SR 58 Commending Honaker High School football team.
- SR 59 Commending Castlewood High School.
- SR 60 Commending John I. Burton High School.
- SR 61 Commending Eastside High School.
- SR 67 Commending Jill Branham.
- SR 68 Commending the Richlands High School football team.
- SR 83 Celebrating the life of Robert Barns Brittain.
- SR 129 Commending the Washington County Victim/Witness Assistance Program.