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A list of legislation carried by David Toscano during the 2013 General Assembly session.

2012

HB 146 Virginia’s tax preferenes; Commission to review the effectiveness of: Establishes the Commission to oversee the evaluation of Virginia’s tax preferences. (TABLED)
HB 147 Statewide fraud control program; medical assistance overpayment moneys to be paid into Fund. Provides that all overpayment moneys collected or recovered from recipients of medical assistance by local departments of social services shall be paid into the Fraud Recovery Special Fund and made available to local departments for fraud control activities. (TABLED)
HB 444 Public Procurement Act; certain payments under state plan for medical assistance services exempted. Exempts payments to providers of medical assistance services from the prompt payment provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act in cases in which the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) has initiated an investigation for fraud or abuse or a review of the claim for medical necessity. (TABLED)
HB445 Adoption; various changes to procedures.(PASSED)
HB 446 Coal tax credits; termination of certain credits. Repeals the Virginia coal employment and production incentive tax credit and the coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. (TABLED)
HB 447 Appropriation bills; House Appropriations and Senate Finance issue reports with budget conference. (TABLED)
HB 448 Net energy metering program; standby charges. Revises the requirement, enacted in 2011, that a customer-generator pay a monthly standby charge that allows its supplier to recover a portion of its infrastructure costs. (TABLED)
HB 449 Virginia Public Procurement Act; preferences by localities, etc. Allows a locality to give a procurement preference for goods, services, and construction produced in the locality or by persons, firms, or corporations having principal places of business in the locality (TABLED)
HB 450 Parental rights; procedure for restoration. Creates a procedure for restoring the parental rights to a child’s parent whose rights as to that child had previously been terminated, provided certain conditions exist. (CONTINUED TO 2013 SESSION)
HB 451 Adoption; appointment of counsel if parent is determined to be indigent. Provides that a parent who does not consent to the adoption of the parent’s child, but whose consent to the adoption is required, shall be appointed counsel upon the parent’s request if such parent is determined to be indigent. (PASSED)
HB 658 Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local; definition of personal interest in a transaction. Clarifies that there is no personal interest in a transaction where an officer or employee of a local governing body is appointed by the local governing body to serve on a governmental agency and the personal interest in the transaction of the governmental agency is a result of the salary, other compensation, fringe benefits, or benefits provided by the local governing body to the officer or employee or a member of his immediate family. (PASSED)
HB 1113 Biscuit Run; DCR to negotiate land exchange of certain acres in Albemarle County. Establishes a procedure that authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to exchange parcels of land it owns for interest in property owned by a private company near Biscuit Run in Charlottesville. (PASSED)
HB 1264 Income tax, state; extension of time to file tax return. Provides that for individual income tax returns filed electronically under an extension of time allowed or elected, no late payment penalty would be imposed if the full amount of tax due is paid by the last day by which the taxpayer would have been required to file the return under the extension, regardless of whether the income tax return was filed prior to the full amount of the tax being paid. (TABLED)

2011

HB 1529 Pendente lite support orders; payment of debts: Provides that a pendente lite spousal support order may include ordering that a party pay secured or unsecured debts incurred jointly by the parties or in either party’s name.(PASSED)
HB 1682 Subordinate mortgage; increases maximum amount upon refinancing of primary mortgage: makes it easier for homeowners with a second (subordinate) mortgage to refinance by increasing from $50,000 to $150,000 the maximum amount of the subordinate mortgage that retains its subordinate status upon the refinancing of the primary mortgage. (PASSED)
HB1683 Motor vehicles; passing of bicycles, etc: prohibits following too closely behind a bicycle and increases the required passing distance around bikes from 2 feet to 3 feet. (TABLED)

https://fabb-bikes.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-feet-passing-bill-hb-1683.html

HB 1684 Voter registration; identification requirements for first-time voters who register by mail: Revises the current requirement for first-time voters who register by mail. The bill replaces the requirement to vote in person with a requirement to show a form of voter identification. (TABLED)
HB 1685 Agricultural net energy metering; creates a category of eligible customer-generators: allows agricultural customers engaging in “net metering” to aggregate multiple meters on their property and across property lines to adjacent agricultural customers for the purpose of making it easier for farms to self-generate electricity with alternative energies. (TABLED; being studied by the SCC)
HB 1686 Distributed solar generation demonstration programs; SCC to consider approval of facilities: Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to approve petitions filed by a utility to own and operate distributed solar generation facilities and to offer special tariffs to facilitate customer-owned distributed solar generation as alternatives to net energy metering. These pilot programs are designed to test out a rate structure for self-generating customers and a system of distributed solar power. (PASSED)

https://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/cdp-news/2011/feb/12/toscano-bell-see-bills-advance-ar-839022/
https://www.pecva.org/anx/index.cfm/1,714,3663,-1,html

HB1868 Adult adopted person; access to identifying information: Makes it easier for adult adopted persons to obtain their original birth certificates.(PASSED)
HB 1869 General Assembly; reports to accompany general appropriation bills: Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i) any nonstate appropriation, (ii) any item in the conference report that was not included in a general appropriation bill as passed by either the House or the Senate, and (iii) any item that represents legislation that failed in either house during the regular or a special session. (TABLED)

https://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-charlottesville/delegate-david-toscano-discusses-transparency-and-eminent-domain-reform

HB 1870 VEDPA; reports by businesses receiving development subsidies: Requires any business entity that receives a government development subsidy (e.g. tax credits, exemptions, abatements, bonds, grants, etc) to file an annual report with the state to track whether the subsidy is achieving its stated job-creation goals. (TABLED)

https://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-charlottesville/delegate-david-toscano-discusses-transparency-and-eminent-domain-reform

HB 1871 Length of school term; minimum number of days or hours: Provides that, beginning in the 2012-2013 school year, the minimum length of the school term shall increase by 5.5 hours annually for a period of 10 years. (TABLED; incorporated into HJ 646, a study of year-round schooling and other educational reforms)

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/media/files/print-edition/CavalierDaily_012111.pdf
https://www.nbc29.com/story/13872023/toscano-proposes-extending-school-year

HB 1872 Public infrastructure maintenance bonds; City of Charlottesville may require from developers, etc: Allows localities to require public infrastructure maintenance bonds from developers and property owners in conjunction with the construction of single- and two-family homes to cover potential damage to public infrastructure like sidewalks, etc. (PASSED)
HB 1873 Converted vehicles; definition, certain vehicles need not be examined by DMV: Creates a definition for vehicles converted from gas to electric power and provides that such vehicles, when accompanied by certain documents, need not be examined by the Department of Motor Vehicles. (TABLED, being studied by DMV to see how best to define and regulate the permitting of these vehicles)

This bill was based on a constituent request relating to a great project at the UVA Engineering School converting standard internal-combustion automobiles to electric vehicles. More information here: https://www.seas.virginia.edu/pubs/enews/enews_july10/ride.php

HB 2421 Adoption procedures: Makes numerous changes to adoption procedures including (i) providing that venue for a parental placement adoption consent hearing lies in any city or county in the Commonwealth; (ii) providing that juvenile and domestic relations district courts have jurisdiction over petitions to review an adoption home study and petitions for the court to assist with the execution of another state’s or jurisdiction’s adoption consent or related document; (iii) under what conditions parental consent is not required for an adoption of a child from another country whose foreign placement will be finalized in the Commonwealth; and (iv) providing that procedures used in parental placement adoptions apply in all cases, except step-parent, relative, and agency placements. The bill also provides that a birth parent’s consent to an adoption is not required if he has not visited or contacted the child for six months immediately prior to the filing of the petition for adoption or prior to any adoption-related proceeding in the juvenile and domestic relations district court where the birth parent has been notified of the Putative Father Registry or other adoption-related proceeding or has been contacted for the purpose of seeking his cooperation in a future adoption proceeding. Current law only provides that the birth parent’s consent is not required if he had not visited or contacted the child for six months prior to the filing of the petition for adoption. (TABLED; working with group of adoption advocates and attorneys for reintroduction in 2012)
HB 2422 Protective orders; makes numerous changes to laws governing family abuse and stalking, penalty: incorporated into omnibus protective orders bill (HB 2063), the provisions of HB 2422 that were included require that the procedures for obtaining a protective order and the law enforcement response are consistent for those in dating relationships, too. (PASSED, HB 2063)

https://preventviolence.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/lobby-day-for-sexual-and-domestic-violence-victims/
https://acluva.org/6566/expanding-access-to-protective-orders-and-penalties-for-dating-violence/