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Commissions, Boards and Institutions Generally

P Passed

P HB1652

Criminal Justice Services; school resource officers. Provides that the Board may disburse annually up to five percent of the School Resource Officer Grants Fund for the training of the school resource officers.
Patron - Hamilton

P HB1745

Thermal Imaging Camera Advisory Board and Fund. Establishes the Thermal Imaging Camera Fund administered by the Department of Fire Programs to assist local fire departments, other fire services organizations and local governments to purchase thermal imaging cameras. The provisions of the bill will only become effective if an appropriation of General Funds effectuating the purposes of the bill is included in the 2001 Appropriations Act.
Patron - Thomas

P HB1840

Compilation and publication of compacts to which the Commonwealth is a party. Provides that the Virginia Code Commission will annually codify and arrange for publication of all compacts and will forward a copy of each new, amended or repealed compact to the Secretary of the Commonwealth for her use in the appointment process of compact members. Currently the Secretary compiles the compacts and periodically publishes them in volume form.
Patron - Howell

P HB1926

Virginia Information Providers Network Authority; powers and duties; financing and operations. Clarifies that state agencies and local governments, whom already had statutory authority to contract with the Virginia Information Providers Network Authority (Authority) for use of the Authority's facilities and Authority's services, may pay for such use and services. Provides that the Authority may fix and collect fees for such use and services, and further clarifies that state funds may not be used for the Authority's purposes except as provided by the Code of Virginia. This bill is identical to SB 1023.
Patron - May

P HB2023

Community policing. Specifies activities that the Department and Board of Criminal Justice Services must undertake to promote community policing philosophy and practice throughout the Commonwealth.
Patron - Callahan

P HB2137

Council on Human Resources. Merges the Personnel Advisory Board, the State Health Benefits Advisory Council, the Virginia Equal Employment Opportunity Council and consolidates their functions in the Virginia Council on Human Resources. The Council shall consist of 17 members appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the House and the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. The Council is authorized to advise the Governor, the Director of the Department of Human Resource Management and the Director of the Department of Employment Dispute Resolution on all matters relating to human resource management, including but not limited to (i) the Department of Employment Dispute Resolution's program of employee management relations, including the improvement of communications between employees and agencies and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth; (ii) the Department of Human Resource Management's training and management programs, compensation and classification practices, health and other benefit programs, recruitment practices, and equal employment opportunity; (iii) the Department of Human Resource Management plan or plans, subject to approval by the Governor, for providing health insurance coverage for employees of local governments, local officers, teachers, and retirees, and the dependents of such employees, officers, teachers and retirees; and (iv) any additional functions as the Governor deems appropriate.
Patron - Suit

P HB2168

Center for Innovative Technology. Requires the president of the Center for Innovative Technology to report annually to the Joint Commission on Technology and Science regarding the Center's initiatives, projects and work plans.
Patron - Nixon

P HB2180

Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. Amends the definition of active tobacco producer and quota holder and clarifies that obligations of the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission shall not be a debt or grant or loan of credit of the Commonwealth. The bill also authorizes the Commission to make payments from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund to (i) quota holders to the extent such individuals are not being otherwise compensated by a federal loss assistance program based on substantially the same distribution criteria as established by the Commission, and (ii) tobacco dependent communities to assist in finding alternative uses for tobacco and tobacco-related business. Finally, the bill requires that the Commission appoint and employ an executive director and determine his compensation. The bill has an emergency enactment clause.
Patron - Dudley

P HB2181

Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission; administration of indemnification and economic development payments. Provides that payments made to tobacco farmers from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund (Fund) shall not be transferable or assignable, except in certain circumstances. The bill also (i) prohibits grants, loans or other distributions paid from the Fund to promote economic growth and development from being subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment or other legal process, (ii) authorizes the Commission to recover payments erroneously made from the Fund, (iii) provides time limitations regarding applications for indemnification payments, and (iv) adds confidentiality provisions relating to certain personal and financial information provided to the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. The bill has an emergency enactment clause.
Patron - Dudley

P HB2502

Cultural diversity competency training and exemptions of law-enforcement officers. Clarifies that the Department of Criminal Justice Services must establish compulsory training standards in cultural diversity competency for basic training and the recertification of law-enforcement officers. Also provides that law-enforcement officers must have cultural diversity sensitivity, in addition to basic training in previous capacities as a law-enforcement officer, as a condition of exemption from certain mandatory training requirements. This bill is a recommendation of the Special Subcommittee on Racial Profiling and Pretextual Traffic Stops of the House Committee on Transportation.
Patron - Robinson

P HB2519

Department of Criminal Justice Services; private security services businesses. Adds definitions for the terms "employed," "general public," and "natural person." The bill also clarifies the exemption from licensure, certification or registration for (i) claims adjusters, (ii) employees of a business that is not a private security services business, and (iii) persons engaged exclusively in the business of furnishing information regarding an individual's financial rating. The bill also expands the authority of the Department to deny applications for licensure/certification/registration based on convictions of certain enumerated misdemeanors in addition to current law that is limited to misdemeanors involving moral turpitude.
Patron - Reid

P HB2693

Virginia Workforce Council; membership. Adds a representative of health care employers to the Virginia Workforce Council. This bill incorporates HB 1865 and HB 2234.
Patron - Welch

P HB2743

Creation of the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission. Creates the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission ("Commission"), which is to be an advisory commission under the executive branch. The Commission will consist of 27 members, which include three legislative members, 20 citizen members, and the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, and Technology, or their designees; and the Director of the State Council of Higher Education or her designee, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, and the Governor. Legislative members will be appointed to serve terms coincident with their terms of office, and citizen members will be appointed for terms of four years. The Commission shall study and advise the Governor on appropriate research and technology strategies for the Commonwealth with emphasis on policy recommendations that will enhance the global competitive advantage of both research institutions and technology-based commercial endeavors within the Commonwealth. In addition, the Commission must make recommendations to the allocation committee of the Commonwealth Technology Research Fund regarding disbursements from the fund.
Patron - May

P HB2790

Natural Gas Consumption Tax and local license tax on public utilities. Allows any utility that has not collected the local license tax on a current basis to pay the tax in three annual installments beginning July 1, 2001, and to recover the taxes paid on natural gas sales by amortizing the amount over three years.
Patron - Rust

P HB2859

Virginia-Asian Advisory Board. Creates the Virginia-Asian Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve economic and cultural links between the Commonwealth and Pacific Rim nations, with a focus on the areas of commerce and trade, art and education, and general government. The bill provides for the membership of the Board and its powers and duties.
Patron - Wardrup

P HB2860

Establishes a Law-Enforcement Accreditation Center within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The Center may, in cooperation within Virginia law-enforcement agencies, provide technical assistance and administrative support, including staffing, for the establishment of voluntary accreditation standards. The Center may provide accreditation assistance and training, resource material, and research methods and procedures that will assist the Virginia law-enforcement community in efforts to obtain accreditation status. Any state funding for such Center shall be subject to approval of the General Assembly.
Patron - Weatherholtz

P HB2871

Exceptions to certain private security licensing requirements. Provides that a law-enforcement officer who receives compensation under the terms of a contract, express or implied, as a security officer, is exempted from the licensing requirements of the Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Patron - Robinson

P SB960

Citizens' Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion. Exempts purchases, exchanges, gifts and sales of the Citizens' Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion from the requirements of the Virginia Public Procurement Act. The bill also provides that the Mansion Director and/or the Department of General Services assist the Council in keeping record of all such transactions. This bill is identical to HB 1930.
Patron - Potts

P SB1023

Virginia Information Providers Network Authority; powers and duties; financing and operations. Clarifies that state agencies and local governments, which already had statutory authority to contract with the Virginia Information Providers Network Authority (Authority) for use of the Authority's facilities and Authority's services, may pay for such use and services. Provides that the Authority may fix and collect fees for such use and services, and further clarifies that state funds may not be used for the Authority's purposes except as provided by the Code of Virginia. This bill is identical to HB 1926.
Patron - Newman

P SB1031

Virginia State Crime Commission. Provides that the Commission is a criminal justice agency.
Patron - Stolle

P SB1085

Joint Commission on Health Care. Extends the sunset provision for the Joint Commission on Health Care from July 1, 2002, to July 1, 2007.
Patron - Bolling

P SB1154

P SB1162

Recycling Markets Development Council. Staggers the terms of the 15 appointed members of the Virginia Recycling Markets Development Council who will be appointed July 1, 2001. The bill also changes the standard for a quorum from 10 members of the Council to a majority of the appointed members of the Council.
Patron - Hanger

P SB1245

Department of Technology Planning; Virginia Geographic Information Network. Authorizes the Department of Technology Planning to establish a nonstock corporation as an instrumentality to assist the Department and its Geographic Information Network Division in the development and acquisition of geographic data and statewide base map data. The bill requires the Department to annually report to the Governor and General Assembly on the activities of the nonstock corporation.
Patron - Watkins

P SB1347

Department of Criminal Justice Service; private security services businesses; exceptions. Deletes the exception to the requirement for licensure or registration for persons engaged in the business of a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. This bill is identical to HB 2696 (May).
Patron - Reynolds

P SB1365

Commissions; repeal of inactive groups. Abolishes the Virginia Military Advisory Council, the Virginia Council on Coordinating Prevention, the Commission on Early Childhood and Child Day Care Programs, the Virginia Chesapeake Bay Partnership Council, the Joint Commission on Workforce Development, and the Indoor Air Quality Task Force. These groups have been relatively inactive during recent years.
Patron - Trumbo

P SB1378

Advisory Council on the Future of Nursing in Virginia. Establishes a 24-member advisory council to meet quarterly and to assist the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Resources in resolving the nursing shortage; and to recommend resolutions for issues pertaining to nurse education, recruitment, and retention.
Patron - Ticer

F Failed

F HB582

Natural Gas and Electric Consumption Tax. The bill makes two technical corrections regarding gas and electric utility consumption taxes.
Patron - Scott

F HB1846

Deaf and hard-of-hearing; Virginia Relay. Creates the Consumer Advisory Board for Virginia Relay within the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing to provide consumer advice on Virginia's telecommunications relay service to state agencies as to whether it is meeting the needs of its clients and to assist in providing information about access to services. Funding will come from a portion of the proceeds from the telecommunications relay service fund collected by the SCC. The bill contains a technical amendment.
Patron - Marshall

F HB1865

Virginia Workforce Council; membership. Adds a representative of health care employers to the Virginia Workforce Council. This bill was incorporated into HB 2693.
Patron - McDonnell

F HB2234

Virginia Workforce Council; membership. Adds a representative of health care employers to the Virginia Workforce Council. This bill has been incorporated into HB 2693.
Patron - Diamonstein

F HB2569

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 either 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 provides that no person shall be employed or act as a bail recovery agent in the Commonwealth without having first obtained a license from the Department on or before July 1, 2002.
Patron - Scott

F HB2680

Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS); renewal of registration for certain private security personnel; criminal history searches. Requires, as a condition for the renewal of registration, each registered private investigator and personal protection specialist to submit to an additional criminal records search to determine if he has been convicted of a crime since his initial registration. The bill requires DCJS to deny the application for renewal where there has been such a conviction.
Patron - May

F HB2696

Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS); private security businesses; exceptions from regulation. Clarifies the exemption from regulation for private investigators that are engaged exclusively in the business of obtaining and furnishing information regarding an individual's financial rating. This bill is identical to SB 1347.
Patron - May

F HB2808

Securitization of payments under the Master Settlement Agreement. Requires the Governor to sell 50 percent of the revenues derived from the Master Settlement Agreement. Proceeds from the sale shall be deposited into the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Endowment fund. The income of the Endowment and five percent of the corpus of the Endowment shall be paid annually to the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund.
Patron - Bennett

F HB2813

Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission; dispute resolution. Provides for the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission to develop an administrative process for resolving errors or omissions regarding any payments made to tobacco farmers and disputes regarding such payments between quota holders, growers, and sharecroppers.
Patron - Tate

F HB2851

F HB2872

Securitization of payments under the Master Settlement Agreement. Authorizes the Governor to sell 50 percent of the revenues derived from the Master Settlement Agreement. Proceeds from the sale shall be deposited into the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Endowment fund but shall be included in the general fund for car tax purposes. The income of the Endowment and up to five percent of the corpus of the Endowment shall be paid annually to the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund.
Patron - Byron

F SB1018

F SB1269

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

F SB1270

Preventing Crime in Minority Communities Initiative Program and Fund. Creates the Preventing Crime in Minority Communities Initiative Program and Fund, consisting of five projects located in urban minority communities with high crime rates and attendant social and economic problems, and a multi-disciplinary network of persons and organizations with expertise, experience, and interest in preventing and reducing crime in the minority community. The Board of Criminal Justice Services is required to develop the Program. An advisory board, whose members represent a broad spectrum of persons who must be appointed by and will serve at the pleasure of the Governor, is charged to assist the Department with the projects and advise the Board regarding crime prevention and reduction in minority communities. The Department of Criminal Justice Services must administer the Program and provide staff support for the advisory board. State-funded grants are to be awarded to eligible projects on a competitive basis through the issuance of a request for proposals. Such projects are required to engage in various activities and perform several tasks directed toward community involvement, consensus building, dispelling myths about minorities, and preventing and reducing crime in the minority community. Further, eligible projects must also promote the participation of minority persons in the community, and engage business and industry, minority community organizations and professional associations, the religious community, citizens, and local agencies in the community in fighting crime. This bill, substantially revised, was the recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Status and Needs of African-American Males in Virginia in 1999.
Patron - Edwards

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