Rep. J. Randall Minchew
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting and determining opening of school year. [HB-15]
School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education may grant waivers of this requirement.
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Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes certain computer equipment and enabling software. [HB-216]
Sales and use tax exemption; certain computer equipment and enabling software. Expands the sales and use tax exemption for the purchase or lease of computer equipment or enabling software by data centers by extending it to tenants of the centers, and by including jobs created not only by the data center operator but also by the tenants of the data center in collectively meeting the level of new jobs required for eligibility for the exemption.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Gang-free zones; expansion of zone areas. [HB-287]
Expansion of gang-free zones. Adds school bus stops and publicly owned parks, libraries, and hospitals to the list of places denoted "gang-free zones." Criminal gang activity that occurs in gang-free zones receives additional punishment.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Income tax, corporate; tax credits for donations to non-profit organizations, etc. [HB-321]
Tax credits; assistance to low-income families, scholarships for K through 12 students attending private schools. Establishes a credit beginning in taxable year 2013 for individuals, business entities, and corporations making monetary donations to nonprofit organizations providing education improvement scholarships to students whose family's annual household income is not in excess of 300 percent of the current poverty guidelines and certain students with disabilities, in order for them to attend nonpublic elementary or secondary schools. Nonprofit
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Public procurement; state agency agreements with labor organizations. [HB-33]
Public procurement; agreements with labor organizations. Requires state agencies to ensure that neither the state agency nor any construction manager acting on behalf of the state agency shall, in its bid specifications, project agreements, or other controlling documents relating to the operation, erection, construction, alteration, improvement, maintenance, or repair of any public facility of public works, (i) require or prohibit bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors to enter into or adhere to agreements with one or more labor organizations,
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; modifies disability benefits provided to state employees. [HB-350]
Virginia Retirement System; disability benefits. Modifies the disability benefits provided to state employees by (i) no longer reducing such benefit by the amount of military disability benefits received and (ii) reflecting changes made in 2009 by the General Assembly limiting new employees to disability payments in an amount of 60 percent of their creditable compensation for the first 60 months of employment. The bill also makes some technical changes. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
State Inspector General, Office of; performance review of state agencies. [HB-520]
Performance review of state agencies. Requires that the Office of the State Inspector General conduct a performance review of each executive branch agency at least every four years. The effective date of the bill is July 1, 2014.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Statewide system of trails; use of wheelchairs or other power-driven mobility devices permitted. [HB-522]
Statewide system of trails; wheelchairs or other power-driven mobility devices. Permits the Department of Conservation and Recreation to allow the use of wheelchairs or other power-driven mobility devices on the statewide system of trails in accordance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Gang crimes; includes definition of predicate criminal act. [HB-546]
Crimes by gangs. Includes within the definition of "predicate criminal act" the offenses of the taking or detaining of any person into a place for the purpose of prostitution and the receiving of money from earnings of any person engaged in prostitution.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
School divisions, local; may use unexpended state funds to provide one-time bonus to teachers. [HB-547]
Local school divisions; unexpended state funds. Provides that local school divisions may elect to use any unexpended state funds to provide a one-time bonus to all teachers of up to three percent of the annual base salary.