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Bills Committee Last action Date
HB 286 - Marshall, D.W. - Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of pending enforcement actions. (H) Committee on General Laws
 

(S) Committee on General Laws and Technology
(S) Signed by President 03/08/06
notes: Provides that disclosure and disclaimer forms under the Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act shall contain a notice to purchasers that the owner represents that there are no pending enforcement actions pursuant to the Uniform Statewide Building Code that affect the safe, decent, and sanitary living conditions of the property of which the owner has been notified by the locality.
SB 262 - Wagner - Virginia Energy Plan; created. (H) Committee on Commerce and Labor
 

(S) Committee on Finance
(S) Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB262ER) 03/15/06
notes: Establishes an energy policy of the Commonwealth and directs the Division of Energy of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, in consultation with the State Corporation Commission, Department of Environmental Quality, and Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, to prepare, by July 1, 2007, a ten-year comprehensive Virginia Energy Plan to implement the Commonwealth's energy policy.




See the bill for details.
SB 483 - Norment - Grass & weeds, high; Hampton Roads area to require by ordinance cutting thereof. (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
 

(S) Committee on Local Government
(H) Requires 67 affirmative votes for passage 02/28/06
notes: Allows localities within Planning District Number 23 (Hampton Roads) to require, by ordinance, the cutting of excessive weeds and grass on occupied properties.
SB 511 - Puckett - Regional industrial facilities authority; may create with two or more localities. (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
 

(S) Committee on Local Government
(S) Signed by President 03/08/06
notes: Adds Planning District 2 to those planning districts that may create a regional industrial facility authority with two or more localities rather than three or more localities.

 

 

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