Sen. Frank Wagner
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of government employment. [SB-4]
General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of salary paid by government. Requires a member of the General Assembly to disclose in his annual disclosure of personal interests any salary and wages in excess of $10,000 paid to him or his immediate family for employment with a state or local government or advisory agency. This bill was incorporated into
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Administrative Rules, Joint Commission on; authority to suspend regulation with concurrence of GOV. [SB-442]
Joint Commission on Administrative Rules; authority to suspend a regulation with the concurrence of the Governor. Allows for the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules to suspend a rule or regulation with the concurrence of the Governor whether or not the rule or regulation has become effective.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
One-stop small business permitting program; exemption of handling fee for veterans. [SB-455]
Permit fees; veterans exemption. Exempts veterans from the handling fee charged by the Department of Business Assistance in connection with the establishment and operation of a small business.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Major business facility job tax credit; reduces number of qualified full-time jobs required. [SB-472]
Major business facility job tax credit. Amends the Major Business Facility Job Tax Credit. Current law provides a $1,000 tax credit for major business facilities that create at least 100 qualified full-time jobs. The legislation reduces the number of qualified full-time jobs required to be created to 50. In enterprise zones or economically distressed areas, the base or threshold is lowered from 50 newly created jobs to 25. The changes also allow the credit to be taken over a two-year period for taxable years beginning January 1, 2009, through December
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. [SB-473]
Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. Adds the Lieutenant Governor and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade or their designees to the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Rural Virginia.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Professional and Occupational Regulation, Department of; issuance of temporary licenses, etc. [SB-474]
Temporary licenses and certificates. Authorizes the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to issue a temporary license or certification to an applicant who holds a comparable license or certification issued by another state. A temporary license or certification shall be valid for not more than 45 days.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for awarding grants and loans. [SB-475]
Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for awarding grants and loans. Provides that criteria to be used in awarding grants and loans from the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund shall include (i) job creation, (ii) private capital investment, and (iii) anticipated additional state tax revenue expected to accrue to the state and affected localities as a result of the capital investment and jobs created.
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Transportation Capital Projects Revenue Bonds; used for new road or highway construction projects. [SB-541]
Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Capital Projects Revenue Bonds. Provides that at least 50 percent of the proceeds of Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Capital Projects Revenue Bonds would be used for new road or highway construction projects. The bill defines a new road or highway construction project as the construction of, enhancement of, or addition to a road or highway (or a portion or segment of a road or highway), which construction, enhancement, or addition did not commence prior to January 1, 2010. Commonwealth of Virginia
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority; created. [SB-577]
Virginia Offshore Wind Project Development Authority. Creates the Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority to facilitate and support the development of the offshore wind industry and wind-powered electric energy facilities located off the coast of the Commonwealth beyond the Commonwealth's three-mile jurisdictional limit. The Authority is charged with, among other tasks, (i) identifying existing state and regulatory or administrative barriers to the development of the offshore wind industry, (ii) collecting metocean and environmental data, (iii)
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Virginia 2010 Regular Session
Transportation Trust Fund; increases amount of general fund surplus. [SB-600]
Designation of annual surplus to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases from two-thirds to 75 percent the amount of the general fund surplus designated to the Transportation Trust Fund within the Comptroller's annual report following the close of each fiscal year. The governor would include in his budget bill an amount for deposit into the Transportation Trust Fund equivalent to the amount designated by the Comptroller.