Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries

Passed

P HB162

Access to private or family cemeteries. Allows members of a deceased's family, cemetery plot owners, or persons engaged in genealogy research to enter upon the land of a private or family cemetery where such deceased is interred after notice to the property owner. The bill grants certain rights to the property owner to set frequency and duration of access. The bill also limits a property owner's liability for any claim that may arise out of the access except willful conduct or gross negligence.
Patron - Putney

P HB1432

Lovettsville Union Cemetery Company. Updates the 1879 Act of Assembly that incorporated the cemetery company.
Patron - May

P SB61

Exemption from consumer affairs registration requirements for regional emergency medical services councils. Provides an exemption for regional emergency medical services councils from the registration requirements that charitable organizations that solicit contributions must satisfy. Such organizations will still be subject to the remaining provisions concerning solicitation found in Chapter 5 of Title 57 of the Code of Virginia.
Patron - Edwards

P SB73

Churches; recordation taxes on incorporated churches or religious bodies. The bill exempts from state and local recordation taxes deeds conveying real estate to an incorporated church or religious body, deeds of trust or mortgages given by an incorporated church or religious body, and deeds conveying real estate from an incorporated church or religious body. The bill contains an emergency clause with an effective date of January 1, 2004.
Patron - Howell

P SB447

Appropriation of glebe lands and church property. Authorizes Northampton County to appropriate moneys from the Glebe Fund for improvements to the courthouse and related facilities provided such funds are used exclusively for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA) at the courthouse or related facilities. The bill limits, prospectively, the use of such funds for ADA compliance. Currently the Counties of Essex, Middlesex and Lancaster are authorized to make appropriations for such uses.
Patron - Rerras

Carried Over

C HB1343

Virginia's veterans. Conveys veterans' land to the Commonwealth as a perpetual memorial park, and war memorial to remember fallen Veterans' gallantry and valor, who were conscripted or volunteered and were ordered into battle by the Virginia General Assembly.
Patron - Councill

C HB1365

Solicitation of contributions; definition of charitable organization. Exempts from the definition of "charitable organization" any nonprofit organization submitting grant proposals to specifically targeted corporations or foundations, and not to the general public, for funding for study or research on medical, rehabilitative, scientific, technical or scholarly issues produced or collected by such organization.
Patron - Petersen

C HB1466

Churches; incorporation. Provides that churches may incorporate and hold legal title to real or personal property. In general, any legitimate business transaction or act of an incorporated church may be made without the appointment or use of trustees, to include the conveyance of any real or personal property owned by the incorporated church. A trustee of a church would be permitted to convey real or personal property to an incorporated church without the filing of an application or petition or other action in circuit court. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Patron - Scott, J.M.

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