Virginia Bills

Requires that all beverage containers, as defined in the bill, sold in Virginia have a redemption value of five cents. Dealers and redemption centers are required to pay redeemers who return such containers to them the five-cent redemption value. Distributors are required to accept these redeemed containers from dealers and redemption centers and pay them the five-cent redemption value plus a handling fee of two cents per container. By March 1, 2019, and by March 1 of each year thereafter, distributors are required to (i) file annual reports with the Department of Taxation indicating the total value of redemption fees collected and the total amount of redemptions paid out during the previous calendar year and (ii) forward to the Department of Taxation that amount of money by which redemption fees collected exceeded redemptions paid out. After deducting the expenses incurred in administering the reporting and collecting procedures of this program, the Department of Taxation is required to pay the remaining revenues collected into the state treasury to the credit of the newly established Unredeemed Container Fund. The bill requires the revenues remaining in the Unredeemed Container Fund minus expenses incurred by the Department of Taxation in monitoring the redemption fee reports of distributors to be released annually and deposited in the existing Litter Control and Recycling Fund. Violations of the bill's provisions are punishable by civil penalties of not less than $100 or more than $1,000. All civil penalties collected are to be placed in the Litter Control and Recycling Fund. The bill also allows the recycled beverage containers to be included in the localities' calculation of their state-mandated recycling rate. The provisions of the bill become effective January 1, 2018.

in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 7, 2017

HB 2043: Law-enforcement officer; public release of identifying information, etc.

Prohibits any public official, public employee, or person acting on behalf of a public official or public employee from releasing to the public any identifying information of a law-enforcement officer who is the subject of an official investigation that involves the discharge of a firearm or use of force by such law-enforcement officer during the performance of his official duties prior to the conclusion of such official investigation or the conclusion of the first six months of such investigation. The bill requires that such law-enforcement officer's name be released to the public if he is charged with a criminal offense as a result of the official investigation. The bill authorizes the law-enforcement officer's name to be withheld if the law-enforcement officer is not charged with a criminal offense as a result of the official investigation and the release of his name would create a risk of harm to such law-enforcement officer or his family. A violation is a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill makes corresponding changes in the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.

in committee · Virginia · House of Delegates Feb 7, 2017

HB 1828: School attendance officer; powers and duties.

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