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2016 SESSION
Senator A. Benton "Ben" Chafin (R) - Senate District 38
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 428
- 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 21 Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval.
- SB 181 Augmented estate; elective share of surviving spouse.
- SB 182 Local gas road improvement & Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority tax; use of revenues.
- SB 268 Animal disease violations; criminal and civil penalties.
- SB 269 Social Services, State Board of; amends requirements governing composition of membership.
- SB 362 Virginia Public Procurement Act; small purchase procedures; transportation-related construction.
- SB 364 Health insurance plan; Department of Human Resource Management to consider all participants.
- SB 365 Prioritization of statewide transportation projects; exceptions.
- SB 366 Real property tax; exemption for disabled veterans and spouse of a service member killed in action.
- SB 374 Financial institutions; references to federal law.
- SB 674 Tazewell, Town of, charter; filling vacancies for mayor or town council, etc.
- SB 675 Health insurance for local employees.
- SB 691 Industrial hemp; lawful for a person with a license to manufacture products or engage in research.
- SB 706 FOIA; record exclusion for trade secrets submitted to Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.
- SB 707 Failure to appear; service of process.
- SB 718 Coal tax; limits aggregate amount of credits.
- SJ 83 Medicaid fraud cases; DMAS, et al., to study conferral of authority to local departments.
- SJ 108 Commending Harry Taft Rutherford, Jr.
- SJ 135 Commending the Town of Tazewell.
- SJ 175 Celebrating the life of Lydia Marie Kiser.
- SJ 209 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Thomas Jack Bondurant, Sr.