Sen. Frank Wagner
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Income tax, state; long-term care insurance tax credit. [SB-310]
Long-term care insurance tax credit. Increases the amount of the long-term care insurance tax credit from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount paid by the individual during the taxable year in long-term care insurance premiums for long-term care insurance coverage for himself.
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Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation; created. [SB-326]
Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation. Creates the Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation as a body corporate and a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Foundation shall identify, obtain, disburse, and administer funding for (i) research and development of alternative fuels, clean energy production, and related technologies; (ii) support of economic development projects in disadvantaged rural areas; and (iii) the provision of assistance in the commercialization
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for production of electricity from offshore winds. [SB-392]
Sales and use tax exemption; production of electricity from offshore winds. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for certain tangible personal property used directly in generating electricity from offshore winds.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Offshore Wind Project Development Commission; established. [SB-393]
Virginia Offshore Wind Project Development Commission. Creates the Virginia Offshore Wind Project Development Commission to facilitate the development of wind-powered electric energy facilities located off the coast of the Commonwealth beyond the Commonwealth's three-mile jurisdictional limit. The Commission is charged, among other tasks, with applying to the U.S. Minerals Management Service for leases or easements for sites for such projects and applying to the U.S. Department of Energy for up to $4 billion in loan guarantees for such projects.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Offshore energy resources; production and development permitted 50 miles off Atlantic shoreline. [SB-394]
Offshore energy resources. States that it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth to support oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production 50 miles or more off Virginia's coast, taking into account the impact on affected localities, armed forces, and the mid-Atlantic regional spaceport. Currently, the policy is limited to supporting exploration for natural gas resources 50 miles or more offshore.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Stormwater management regulations; changes effective date that establishes local program criteria. [SB-395]
Stormwater management regulations; effective date. Delays the regulation that establishes local program criteria and delegation procedures and the water quality and water quantity criteria. The regulation, however, shall be adopted within 280 days after the establishment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay-wide Total Maximum Daily Load, but no later than December 1, 2011. The bill also directs the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board to establish an advisory panel to review the regulation and make recommendations on
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Courthouse assessments; localities may raise fee for construction, etc., above current amount. [SB-396]
Courthouse assessments. Allows localities to raise the fee assessed for courthouse construction, renovation, or maintenance above the current authorized amount of $2 once every two years based upon the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Misdemeanor fines; maximum fine is raised each July 1 by amount approximately equal to inflation. [SB-397]
Misdemeanor fines. Provides that the maximum fine for a misdemeanor is raised each July 1, starting July 1, 2011, by an amount approximately equal to the annual rate of inflation for the previous calendar year.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Water safety zones; authorizes marine patrol divisions of police in Tidewater localities to patrol. [SB-398]
Water safety zones. Authorizes marine patrol divisions of police departments in Tidewater localities and conservation police officers of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to patrol those tidal waters that have been designated as federal safety zones and federal restricted areas.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information. [SB-399]
Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information. Prohibits insurers from setting rates for motor vehicle insurance on the basis of a person's credit history or credit score.