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HOUSE BILL NO. 2310 Offered January 17, 1997 A BILL to create a pilot program for certain commissioners of the revenue and treasurers to administer certain sales and use tax and motor vehicle registration functions. ---------- Patrons-- Wilkins and Bryant ---------- Referred to Committee on Finance ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of Titles 46.2 and 58.1 of the Code of Virginia, there is hereby established a two-year pilot program whereby certain local commissioners of the revenue and treasurers are authorized, as agents of the Commonwealth, to enter into agreements with (i) the Virginia Department of Taxation to collect sales and use tax revenue and register businesses as dealers, as defined in the Sales and Use Tax Regulations, within their localities and (ii) the Department of Motor Vehicles to register motor vehicles which have situs in their localities and collect fees associated therewith. The registration of motor vehicles shall include the issuance and collection of fees for license plates and decals, and disabled parking indicia which shall include, but not be limited to, farm use plates, commercial motor vehicle plates, special license plates, disabled parking plates and any form of disabled parking placard.

The commissioners of the revenue and treasurers for the Counties of Chesterfield, Roanoke, and Warren and the Cities of Chesapeake, Lynchburg, Newport News and Staunton shall enter into the program beginning January 1, 1998, and ending December 31, 1999. All authority for the collection of sales and use taxes, registration of businesses as dealers, registration of motor vehicles, and the collection of fees associated therewith, are hereby also extended to the local commissioners of the revenue and treasurers for the term of the pilot program. At the end of each year of the program, the Department of Taxation, Department of Motor Vehicles, commissioners of the revenue and treasurers shall jointly issue a report to the Governor and the General Assembly, due on or before the first day of the following session of the General Assembly, which report shall provide the results of the program including the benefits and problems in the pilot program and whether this pilot program has improved the delivery of these services to the citizens of Virginia while reducing the costs of providing such services. The report shall include information about the costs of the programs, the rate of delinquencies, the efficiency of providing these services and the impact on the Department of Taxation, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the offices of the local commissioners of the revenue and treasurers.