Rep. William Wiley
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Local electoral boards and general registrar; disclosure of certain gifts and funding. [HB-2267]
Local electoral boards and general registrar; disclosure of certain gifts and funding. Requires the disclosure of any gift, including money or services, given by a private individual, corporation, partnership, trust, or other third party to a local electoral board or an office of the general registrar. Such disclosure is required to be made to the clerk of the governing body within five days of receipt and shall include the amount or value of the gift, the date of receipt, and the name and address of the donor. The disclosed information shall be
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
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Public hearings; notice submitted by localities to newspapers. [HB-2114]
Hearing notice by localities. Expands from only localities in Planning District 23 to all localities a provision that provides that in any instance in which a locality has submitted a timely notice of public hearing to a newspaper published or having general circulation in the locality and the newspaper fails to publish the notice, such locality shall be deemed to have met certain notice requirements so long as the notice was published in the next available edition. Under current law, this provision that was created by the 2020 Regular Session and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
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Absentee voting; definition of postmark, legibility requirement. [HB-2115]
Absentee voting; definition of postmark; legibility requirement. Requires an absentee ballot returned to the general registrar after the closing of the polls on election day to be legibly postmarked on or before the date of the election in order to be counted. Current law does not specify that the postmark must be legible. The bill defines postmark, for purposes of absentee ballots returned after the closing of the polls on election day, to mean (i) an official United States Postal Service imprint indicating the date of mailing or any other official
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
License plates, special; bearing legend NOT FORGOTTEN. [HB-2096]
Special license plates; NOT FORGOTTEN. Authorizes Special license plates; NOT FORGOTTEN. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of Americans listed as prisoners of war or missing in action bearing the legend NOT FORGOTTEN. The bill requires that the design of such plate incorporate the POW/MIA Flag as designated by the federal National POW/MIA Flag Act. The bill exempts these special license plates from the requirement to obtain 450 prepaid applications for such plate. The bill provides that some of the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Income tax, state; late payment penalty. [HB-1956]
Individual income tax; late payment penalty. Provides that the Department of Taxation shall not assess a late payment penalty to the entire tax or to any unpaid balance of the income tax owed by an individual unless and until the taxpayer fails to file his return by the time fixed by law for filing a return or by the time prescribed pursuant to a filing extension, as applicable. Under current law, the late payment penalty is assessed at the time a return is received by the Department if payment is not made in full when due.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
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Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. [HB-1970]
Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, such voter would be entitled to cast a provisional ballot.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
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License plates, special; fees for certain military declarations. [HB-1797]
Special license plates; certain military declarations; fees. Removes the fee for one special license plate for one motor vehicle owned and used by an applicant who has been awarded the Bronze Star, Bronze Star with a "V" for valor, or the Silver Star. The bill provides that the applicant will be charged the typical fee for state license plates for any such additional special license plates.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Tangible personal property taxes;classification of certain motor vehicles, trailers, & semitrailers. [HB-1774]
Tangible personal property taxes; classification of certain motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers. Provides that the separate class of property for rate purposes that includes motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers with a gross vehicle weight of 10,000 pounds or more used by a motor carrier engaged in interstate commerce on a for-hire basis shall also include such vehicles used to transport passengers. Under current law, this class of property only includes such vehicles if they are used to transport property.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
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In-person instruction; education vouchers, etc. [HB-1742]
In-person instruction; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that any school board does not provide the option of in-person instruction as the sole method of instruction for any enrolled student, the parent of any such student who withdraws his child from attendance to receive, upon request, an education voucher in an amount equal to a prorated share of the applicable Standards of Quality per-pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division, including the per-pupil share of state sales
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
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Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for personal protective equipment. [HB-2185]
Sales tax; exemption for personal protective equipment; emergency. Establishes a retail sales and use tax exemption for personal protective equipment, defined in the bill. The exemption would be available to any business that has in place a COVID-19 safety protocol that complies with the Emergency Temporary Standard promulgated by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry and that meets other criteria. The exemption would sunset one day after the first day following the expiration of the last executive order issued by the Governor related to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Read Third Time And Passed House Block Vote (100-y 0-n) on 02/05/2021