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1998 SESSION
HB 38 Tax on hunting, fishing and wildlife equipment.
Introduced by: A. Victor Thomas | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Dedication of tax on outdoor equipment. Dedicates, beginning July 1, 2000, two percent of the proceeds from the state sales and use tax on hunting, fishing and wildlife-watching equipment to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries' Game Protection Fund, up to an annual amount of $13 million. The amount that will be deposited in the Fund will be based on the most recent equipment sales figures reported in the "National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation" for Virginia. The bill specifies that a portion of the dedicated revenue has to be used to defray the cost of law enforcement. A special, nonreverting fund, the Capital Improvement Fund, is also created to be used to purchase, construct, maintain, or repair the capital assets of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. No deposits will be made to the Capital Improvement Fund at any time the balance in this fund exceeds $35 million. The Board of Game and Inland Fisheries is authorized to transfer up to 50 percent of the dedicated sales tax revenue from the Game Protection Fund to the Capital Improvement Fund to finance the agency's capital needs.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/98 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/22/97 981660468 pdf
- 02/05/98 House: Printed as engrossed 981660468-E pdf
- 03/16/98 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB38ER) pdf
- 04/14/98 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/98 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/22/97 981660468
- 01/14/98 House: Referred to Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/21/98 House: Reported from Cons. & Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/98 House: Read first time
- 01/23/98 House: Read second time
- 01/23/98 House: Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 01/23/98 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 01/29/98 House: Assigned to Finance sub-committee: 1
- 02/03/98 House: Reported from Finance with amds. (23-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/98 House: Read first time
- 02/05/98 House: Read second time
- 02/05/98 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/05/98 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/05/98 House: Printed as engrossed 981660468-E
- 02/06/98 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/98 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/98 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/98 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/98 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/23/98 Senate: Reported from A. C. & N. R. (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/98 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 03/03/98 Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/98 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/98 Senate: VOTE: (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/98 Senate: Read third time
- 03/05/98 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/98 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/16/98 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB38ER)
- 03/24/98 House: Enrolled
- 03/25/98 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/26/98 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/09/98 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 320 (effective 7/1/98)
- 04/14/98 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320)