Trade and Commerce
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- P HB507
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Fingerprinting in connection with business, commercial and financial transactions. Stipulates that persons requiring a fingerprint or fingerprints to be given in conjunction with any business, commercial or financial transaction must destroy or return the original prints to the person giving such prints within 21 days of the transaction's completion or termination, unless the parties otherwise agree.
- Patron - Hull
- P HB1953
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Enterprise zone designations. Increases the maximum number of enterprise zones from 50 to 55. Five of the zones designated after July 1, 1999, shall be located in localities that (i) have annual average unemployment rates that are 50 percent higher than the statewide average or (ii) are within planning districts that have average unemployment rates at least one percent greater than the statewide average.
- Patron - Morgan
- P HB2091
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Purchase of handguns of certain officers. Allows Hanover's sheriff to sell to certain auxiliary or volunteer deputies their service handguns. The bill also allows other weapons issued by the Department of State Police for personal duty use of an officer to be sold to the officer, subject to the qualifications of § 59.1-148.3, and if the weapon is a type and configuration that can be purchased at a regular hardware or sporting goods store by a private citizen without restrictions other than the instant background check.
- Patron - Hargrove
- P HB2233
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Virginia Export Loan Guarantee Fund. Permits the Virginia Export Loan Guarantee Fund to be used to provide direct loans to exporters. Currently, the Fund is only authorized to provide loan guarantees. The bill also changes the title of the Fund to the Virginia Export Fund.
- Patron - Howell
- P HB2484
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Motor Vehicle Warranty Enforcement Act; limitations of action. Modifies the motor vehicle "lemon law" statute of limitations as follows: (i) establishes a flat, 18-month period following the original delivery of the motor vehicle as the general rule and (ii) limits the application of an alternate limitations period to 12 months following a manufacturer's action under its informal dispute settlement procedures. The consumer would have the longer of either period to file an action. The bill provides, however, that the alternate 12-month limitations period is applicable only if the dispute settlement procedure was properly resorted to within 18 months of the motor vehicle's delivery, and the matter was not satisfactorily resolved. Under current law, the consumer may bring a civil action against the manufacturer within the longer of (i) the "lemon law rights period" (an 18-month period following delivery that can be extended if the defect has not been repaired within the initial 18-month period) or (ii) an alternate period of 12 months following the manufacturer's final action under its dispute settlement procedures.
- Patron - Tata
- P SB1073
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Virginia Racing Commission; consideration of application. Requires the Virginia Racing Commission to deny the application and refuse to issue a permit to any applicant who has been convicted of a crime involving (i) unlawful wagering, (ii) fraudulent use of a credential, (iii) unlawful transmission or possession of drugs or (iv) any felony considered by the Commission to be detrimental to horse racing in the Commonwealth, within the five years preceding the date of the application. The bill provides the Commission with the discretion to deny or grant waivers to applicants if the conviction occurred more than five years before the application date.
- Patron - Stolle
- P SB1187
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Enterprise zone designations. Increases the maximum number of enterprise zones from 50 to 55. Five of the zones designated after July 1, 1999, shall be located in localities that (i) have annual average unemployment rates that are 50 percent higher than the statewide average or (ii) are within planning districts that have average unemployment rates at least one percent greater than the statewide average.
- Patron - Wampler
- P SB1188
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Information Technology Employment Performance Grant Program. Provides a grant to any electronics equipment or computer and data processing services firm that after July 1, 1999, creates at least 50 permanent full-time positions within (i) the planning district with the highest rate of unemployment or (ii) an adjacent planning district. If such a firm employs the workers for 36 consecutive months, it becomes entitled to a grant of $1,000 per employee per year, not to exceed $150,000. A firm is eligible for one grant. Grants are payable from a special fund, comprised of appropriated funds and any other sums made available to it from any public or private source and all interest and income from fund investments. If sufficient funds are not available in the fund in any year to pay all claims, they will be paid on a pro rata basis and the shortfall will be carried over to succeeding years.
- Patron - Wampler
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Failed
- F HB2161
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Personal Privacy Information Act; sale or release of certain electronic information prohibited; damages. Requires providers of electronic mail or message services to obtain consent from their subscribers prior to selling or otherwise releasing subscribers' names or electronic mail or message addresses. The bill also requires providers to determine those types or categories of unsolicited electronic mail or messages the subscriber does not wish to receive. Violators are liable for damages of $100, plus reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
- Patron - Marshall
- F HB2227
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Enterprise zone designations. Increases the number of permitted enterprise zones from 50 to 55, and requires that the five zones designated to be established after July 1, 1999, be in a rural area of a county that meets three additional criteria. First, the county unemployment rate must be at least 150 percent of the statewide unemployment rate. Second, the county median household income must be 75 percent or less of the statewide median household income. Finally, the percentage of people in the county in poverty must be at least 150 percent of the statewide percentage of people in poverty.
- Patron - Kilgore
- F HB2244
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Enterprise zone designation. Provides for five additional enterprise zones with preference given to contiguous counties joining together to form an enterprise zone.
- Patron - Phillips
- F HB2368
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Motor fuels and lubricating oils. Requires all motor fuel retailers to register annually with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services or his designated representative. After July 1, 2000, no person may sell or offer to sell motor fuel unless a registration certificate has been issued. The bill prohibits a retailer of motor fuel from defining, describing, or promoting a motor fuel as "premium", "super", "high test" or any other similar words denoting high octane performance unless referring to motor fuel with an octane rating of 93 or above. The bill also requires that all motor fuel retail outlets have at least one person located in line of sight of the pumps or fuel dispensers at any time that fuel is being sold to the general public. Such person shall be properly trained in the safe operation of the pumps or dispensers and must be familiar with appropriate emergency procedures. Finally, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services will promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of this bill within 280 days of enactment.
- Patron - Rust
- F HB2618
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Unsolicited telephonic sales calls. Creates the Telephone Privacy Act, which (i) requires telephone solicitors to properly identify themselves, (ii) requires the Consumer Affairs Division of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish a registry of individuals who do not wish to receive unsolicited telephone calls, (iii) prohibits telephone solicitors from making telephonic sales calls to persons listed on the registry, (iv) requires telephone companies to notify customers about the registry and their rights under this chapter, and (v) authorizes the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to prescribe regulations to implement the provisions of the legislation. The registry must also be available in an accessible electronic database format This bill provides that violations are subject to the enforcement provisions of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
- Patron - Grayson
- F HB2662
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Virginia Consumer Protection Act; motor vehicle rental companies. Makes punishable under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, the misrepresentation of a motor vehicle rental company or its agents or employees, concerning the availability, in fact, of makes and models of motor vehicles advertised or otherwise represented to be available for rental by members of the public (i) at specific times or (ii) at specific rental locations. A motor vehicle rental company is defined as an entity that is in the business of providing primarily private motor vehicles to the public under a rental agreement for a period of less than six months.
- Patron - O'Brien
- F SB1061
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Petroleum Products Franchising Act. Provides that the prohibition against the operation of retail outlets by refiners of petroleum products shall not apply to the sale and subsequent operation of a retail outlet owned by a private brand dealer in operation on July 1, 1979, provided the retail outlet has been in operation for more than one year. The bill defines private brand dealer as a dealer (i) who has never entered into a franchise agreement with a refiner for any retail outlet and (ii) whose retail outlets have, at all times, been operated by the dealer or his employees. The bill also contains technical amendments.
- Patron - Watkins
- F SB1167
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Virginia Racing Commission; retainage. Provides that in the absence of a contract with the majority horsemen's group that specifies the percentage to be distributed to the purses for horsemen racing at the racetrack from pari-mutuel pools generated at the racetrack and from each Virginia satellite facility on simulcast horse racing transmitted from jurisdictions outside the Commonwealth, the licensee shall retain eight percent of such pool to be distributed to the thoroughbred horsemen's purse account.
- Patron - Stolle
- F SB1317
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Trade and commerce; enterprise zones. Increases the maximum number of enterprise zones from 50 to 55. Five of the zones designated after July 1, 1999, shall be located in localities that (i) have annual average unemployment rates that are 50 percent higher than the statewide average or (ii) are within planning districts that have average unemployment rates are at least one percent greater than the statewide average.
- Patron - Hawkins
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