Rep. Larry Rush
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Income tax, state & corporate; extends subtraction for capital gains from investments in businesses. [HB-1013]
Income tax; capital gains subtraction. Extends the subtraction from individual and corporate taxable income of capital gains from investments in qualified businesses from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2015.
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Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for State businesses. [HB-1015]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides, for contracts not expected to exceed $5 million, a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder if the bid of a Virginia business is within five percent or $10,000, whichever is less, of the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder. The bill also provides that to be deemed a resident of Virginia, a Virginia person, firm, or corporation must have paid unemployment
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Renewable energy portfolio standard program; eliminates Performance Incentive provision. [HB-1017]
Renewable energy portfolio standard program. Eliminates the Performance Incentive provision in the renewable energy portfolio standard program that entitles any investor-owned electric utility to a 50 basis point increase in its authorized combined rate of return on common equity if it meets the program's RPS Goals. The measure retains provisions that allow a utility to recover its costs associated with meeting the RPS Goals, but provides that a utility that exceeds the RPS Goals shall not recover the incremental costs associated with exceeding
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Absentee voting; procedures for military and overseas voters. [HB-1057]
Elections; military and overseas voters. Improves registration and absentee voting procedures for military and overseas voters; includes authorization for pilot programs for secure electronic ballot delivery and other reforms.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting and determining opening of school year. [HB-1063]
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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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Behavior and assistant behavior analysts; licensure by Board of Medicine. [HB-1106]
Behavior analysts; licensure by Board of Medicine. Gives the Board of Medicine authority to license behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts. The bill also requires the Board to promulgate emergency regulations within 280 days of enactment and contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Veterans Services, Department of; ratio of claims agents to number of veterans in State. [HB-1121]
Department of Veterans Services; personnel. Provides that a ratio of claims agents with the Department of Veterans Services to the number of veterans in the Commonwealth shall be one agent for every 23,000 veterans. Current law requires sufficient staff to maintain a ratio of one claims agent for every 26,212 veterans.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; created, penalty. [HB-1285]
Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, created in new Article 9.1 of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2, prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. The prohibition is predicated on the assertion that
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Statewide Fire Prevention Code; grandfathering certain kitchens. [HB-1292]
Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code; grandfathering certain kitchens. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt regulations to amend the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code for the purpose of allowing certain kitchens located in religious institutions. The bill provides that any kitchen located in a religious institution shall be deemed to comply with the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code so long as it complies with the regulations that were in effect at the time of construction. Any such kitchen that undergoes
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Statewide Fire Prevention Code; local inspection fee in City of Chesapeake. [HB-1293]
Statewide Fire Prevention Code; local inspection fee. Provides that in the City of Chesapeake no fee charged for the inspection of any place of religious worship designated as Assembly Group A-3 under the Fire Prevention Code shall exceed $50.