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Commissions, Boards and Institutions Generally

P Passed

P HB8

Code Commission; obsolete provisions. Directs to the Virginia Code Commission the ongoing responsibility for the amendment or repeal of obsolete provisions in the Code of Virginia and the Virginia Acts of Assembly.

Patron - Landes

P HB9

Code Commission; evaluation of unfunded laws. Requires the Code Commission, in its recodification and title revision bills, to evaluate the need for and recommend in a separate report, the possible repeal of any section or provision of or relating to the revised title that has not been implemented during any of the previous five years because sufficient funds were not appropriated by the General Assembly. The House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance shall assist the Commission in identifying those Code sections and provisions that meet these conditions.

Patron - Landes

P HB59

Virginia War Memorial Foundation; board of trustees. Increases the membership of the board of trustees from 15 to 17, excluding the Secretary of Administration who serves ex officio, by increasing the appointments from the House of Delegates from three to four and the Senate from two to three. The bill provides that current members of the board of trustees whose terms have not expired as of July 1, 2000, shall not be affected.

Patron - Hargrove

P HB479

Department of Criminal Justice Services; private security services. Excepts an out-of-state central station dispatcher employed by a private security services business licensed by the Department of Criminal Justice Services from training requirements if he has a valid license, registration or certification as a central station dispatcher in the state where the monitoring duties are performed and has submitted his fingerprints to such regulating authority for a national criminal history records search.

Patron - Reid

P HB528

Virginia Arts Foundation; use of funds. Extends the moratorium on use of funds by the Virginia Arts Foundation from June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2001.

Patron - Diamonstein

P HB1048

Virginia Small Business Growth Fund. Increases the maximum amount of funds from the Virginia Small Business Growth Fund that can be used to match any loan from seven percent to 14 percent of the principal amount of the loan. The bill also clarifies that the amount of the deposit that the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority is required to make into any loan loss reserve account at a participating bank or lending institution can exceed the total of the deposits made to the account by the institution and the individual borrower.

Patron - Cantor

P HB1106

Definition of "criminal justice agency." Defines "criminal justice agency" to include any program certified by the Commission on VASAP pursuant to § 18.2-271.2, thus granting such programs all the privileges and powers available under the law to criminal justice agencies.

Patron - Moran

P HB1300

Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission. Allows members of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission to take their oath of office either before a judge of a court of record (as provided by current law), or before a clerk or deputy clerk of a court of record, a district court judge, the Secretary of the Commonwealth or his deputy, or a member of the State Corporation Commission. This bill is a duplicate of SB 689.

Patron - Wardrup

P HB1321

Specialized Transportation Council. Designates the Chairman of the Disability Commission and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources as co-chairmen of the Council and provides for staffing by the Disability Commission and, upon request, by the offices of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources and the Secretary of the Transportation.

Patron - Van Landingham

P HJ11

Appointments; Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Confirms appointments to the Commission by the Speaker of the House: Delegates Whittington W. Clement, Joseph P. Johnson, Jr., William W. Bennett, Jr., Allen W. Dudley, Terry G. Kilgore, and Kathy J. Byron, each for a four-year term, beginning July 1, 1999.

Patron - Moss

P SB87

Live In Our Community Police Housing Program and Fund. Establishes the Live In Our Community Police Housing Program to encourage law-enforcement officers to become homeowners and residents in communities covered by community-policing programs through subsidies and/or grants. The program shall be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in cooperation with the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Housing Development Authority. The bill requires DHCD to promulgate regulations for the implementation of the program including the criteria for (i) eligible law-enforcement officers, (ii) selecting participating community policing programs, and (iii) home ownership or other suitable initiatives under the Program. The bill also establishes the Live In Our Community Housing Fund to provide financial support for the program and its administration.

Patron - Edwards

P SB332

Joint Commission on Behavioral Health Care. Establishes the Joint Commission on Behavioral Health Care to study, report and make recommendations for continuous improvement in all areas of publicly funded behavioral health care policy, management, financing, service delivery, regulation and evaluation. The Commission will sunset on July 1, 2003.

Patron - Martin

P SB589

School resource officers. Clarifies that school resource officers are employed to enforce school board rules and codes of student conduct.

Patron - Norment

P SJ1

Appointments; Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Confirms appointments by the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections of Senators Richard J. Holland, William C. Wampler, Jr., Charles R. Hawkins, and Phillip P. Puckett to the Commission, each for a four-year term, beginning July 1, 1999.

Patron - Miller, K.G.

F Failed

F HB403

Advanced communications; localities. Allows localities, in addition to fiber-optic communication networks, to utilize satellite and wireless. Currently, a locality can lease its dark fiber (the medium used for fiber-optic networks) to its neighboring localities. The bill would allow a locality to lease satellite and wireless networks as well. The bill also allows the Advanced Communications Assistance Fund, and administered by the Innovative Technology Authority, to be used for financing the costs of satellite and wireless communication networks in addition to dark fiber. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science.

Patron - Bennett

F HB1475

Joint Commission on Behavioral Health Care. Establishes the Joint Commission on Behavioral Health Care to study, report and make recommendations for continuous improvement in all areas of publicly funded behavioral health care policy, management, financing, service delivery, regulation and evaluation. The Joint Commission is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Future Delivery of Publicly Funded Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services (HJR 225--1998). The Commission will sunset on July 1, 2005.

Patron - Hall

F HB1485

Gun Safety Lock Program and Fund. Establishes the Gun Safety Lock Program and Fund as a nonreverting fund administered by the Criminal Justice Services Board to provide funds to local law-enforcement agencies for the purchase and distribution of safety locks for guns of citizens in the locality.

Patron - Rhodes

F SB424

Joint Commission on Behavioral Health Care. Establishes the Joint Commission on Behavioral Health Care to study, report and make recommendations for continuous improvement in all areas of publicly funded behavioral health care policy, management, financing, service delivery, regulation and evaluation. The Joint Commission is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Future Delivery of Publicly Funded Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services (HJR 225--1998). The Commission will sunset on July 1, 2005.

Patron - Wampler

F SB736

Virginia Council on Minority Affairs. Creates the Virginia Council on Minority Affairs, which shall determine the status and needs of Virginia's minority populations. The Council is directed to identify the needs of Virginia's minority populations and develop a strategic plan for the overall implementation of recommendations and legislative initiatives that are designed to address their needs and move such persons into the mainstream of society. Recent population projections indicate that the demographics of Virginia's population are becoming more culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse. Such population shifts, composed of immigrants, persons of impoverished backgrounds, persons with limited English proficiency, and racial and ethnic minorities, indicate the need to plan and assess the impact on state resources, local infrastructures, economic development, education, health and social services, transportation, and other state services. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Status and Needs of African American Males in Virginia.

Patron - Edwards

C Carried Over

C HB582

Regulation of bail recovery agents aka bounty hunters. Defines a "bail recovery agent," also called a "bounty hunter," as any person employed for the purpose of apprehending the principal on a bail bond or any fugitive from justice who has been released on bail. The bill also sets forth the requirements, set by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, for licensure (including mandatory training and insurance or bond) of such agents and limits on their activities. Currently, bail recovery agents are unregulated. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2001.

Patron - Scott

C HB796

Asian-American and Pacific Islander Advisory Council. Creates the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Advisory Council to advise the Governor on the issues of concern to Asian-American and Pacific Islanders in the Commonwealth. The bill sets forth the membership, terms, and staff for this advisory council.

Patron - Wagner

C HB1146

Disaster Relief Board. Creates the Disaster Relief Board and a special nonreverting fund from which the Board distributes amounts to victims of any natural or man-made disaster occurring on or after January 1, 1999.

Patron - Barlow

C SB234

Advantage Virginia Electronic Procurement Program. Creates the Advantage Virginia Electronic Procurement (AVEP) Program and the AVEP Fund. The AVEP Program would make a one-time grant of $5,000 to (i) a small business located in the Commonwealth, (ii) which has been approved by the United States General Services Administration (GSA) to be listed on the Federal Supply Schedule ("the Schedule"), (iii) but is not listed on fedcenter.com website, (iv) provided that such business shall use the grant in order to be listed on the fedcenter.com website. The GSA maintains the Schedule, which consists of vendors. Any federal, state, or local government official may register with the GSA to conduct business with vendors listed on the Schedule. The vendors who are approved to be listed on the Schedule may be listed on the fedcenter.com website as well; however, to be listed on the website, the website operators charge a fee. Because electronic procurement tends to be easier, faster, and less costly than other methods of purchase, businesses that are listed on the website possess a competitive advantage over those businesses that are not. The AVEP Program would help small Virginia businesses not listed on the website to obtain the same competitive advantage as businesses that are. The Innovative Technology Authority is to implement the AVEP Program and report back to the Joint Commission on Technology and Science. The bill has a sunset of July 1, 2002. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science.

Patron - Ticer

C SB371

Regional Criminal Justice Academy Training Fund. Provides that a county or city responsible for training a total of 1,000 or more law-enforcement officers that does not participate in the Fund is entitled to all moneys generated by the county or city that would otherwise be forwarded to the State Treasurer for deposit in the Fund.

Patron - Stolle