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2016 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Local Government

Chairman: William M. Stanley, Jr.

Clerk: John Garrett
Staff: Jeffrey Sharp, Scott Meacham
Date of Meeting: February 9, 2016
Time and Place: 1/2 hour after adjournment / Senate Room B

S.B. 231 Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; e-cigarettes.

Patron: Miller

Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; e-cigarettes. Expands the definition of "smoking" in the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act to include vapor products. Vapor stores are excluded from the scope of Act.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 15.2-2820 and 15.2-2821 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act.

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S.B. 468 Local stormwater utility; waiver of charges to real property, retention of water on site.

Patron: Wagner

Local stormwater utility; waiver of charges; retention of water on site. Provides that a locality establishing a stormwater utility or service charge system shall waive charges to any real property that retains its stormwater on site and thereby permanently produces no stormwater flow or pollutant loading.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2114 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local stormwater utility; waiver of charges where stormwater retained on site.

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S.B. 469 Local stormwater utility; payment to best management practice (BMP) operator accepting runoff.

Patron: Wagner

Local stormwater utility; payment to BMP operator accepting runoff. Requires any locality that operates a local stormwater management program to pay the private operator of a nutrient-reducing best management practice (BMP) if it requires such operator to accept stormwater runoff from an upstream property. The BMP operator is to be paid 50 percent of the stormwater utility charge assessed to the upstream owner.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2114 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local stormwater utility; payment to BMP operator accepting runoff.

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S.B. 481 Vacant building; registration with cities and towns.

Patron: Ebbin

Vacant building registration. Requires either that a vacant building be vacant for 12 months or that it meet the definition of "derelict building" under § 15.2-907.1 before cities and certain towns may require the building's owner to register it and pay an annual registration fee. Current law requires that such a building comply with both the vacancy period and the definition of "derelict building."

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-1127 of the Code of Virginia, relating to vacant building registration.

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S.B. 530 Cable franchises; service availability in certain areas.

Patron: Stuart

Cable franchises. Provides that local ordinances to adopt a cable franchise shall require that a cable operator make service available in areas where the average occupied residential household density is not less than 20 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the physical address of the nearest dwelling or building at which service from the provider is available. The current statute requires a standard of not less than 30 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the nearest technically feasible point on the cable operator's active cable system.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2108.22 of the Code of Virginia, relating to cable franchises.

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S.B. 542 Delinquent sewer charges; lien on property, unlimited time.

Patron: Obenshain

Delinquent sewer charges; lien; unlimited time. Allows a sewer authority that provides only sewer service to place a lien on the property receiving the service in the amount of any number of months of delinquent charges. Current law allows the placement of liens in the amount of up to three months of delinquent water and sewer charges.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2119 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sewer authorities; liens for delinquent charges.

16102424D

S.B. 720 Environmental cleanup programs; localities may by ordinance establish.

Patron: Lewis

Local environmental cleanup programs. Allows localities to establish a voluntary environmental cleanup program to provide recognition to retailers that establish practices such as credit to consumers who use reusable bags or the recycling of plastic bags. The bill allows for imposition of a fee on retailers that do not participate in the program and allows the locality to use collected fees for environmental cleanup.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 9 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-939.1, relating to local environmental cleanup programs.

16104267D

S.B. 735 Local planning commission; action on proposed plat, commercial real estate.

Patron: Obenshain

Local planning commission; action on proposed plat; commercial real estate. Shortens the period within which a local planning commission or other agent must act on a proposed plat, site plan, or plan of development that solely involves parcels of commercial real estate. The bill shortens from 60 days to 30 days the period within which the commission shall act on a plat that has been officially submitted for approval and reduces from 45 days to 20 days the period for action on a plat that the commission has previously disapproved. The bill reduces from 10 business days to seven business days the period within which the commission is required to forward the plat to a state agency if a review by the agency is required, and the agency's initial review period is reduced from 45 days to 20 days. The agency's second review period, for a plat that has previously been disapproved, is reduced from 45 days to 15 days. Once a plat receives all state agency approvals, the period for planning commission action on it is reduced from 35 days to 15 days. Finally, the bill reduces the periods of time that must pass before the subdivider is allowed to petition the circuit court for a decision on the plat from 60 days to 30 days after official submission for approval, from 45 days to 20 days after official resubmission following a previous disapproval, and from 35 days to 15 days from receipt of any state agency response. The bill also reduces the notice period required for the subdivider's petition to the court from 10 days to five days.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2259 of the Code of Virginia, relating to site plans; planning commission action; time limits.

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