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Margi's Sponsored Legislation
- HJ1003 Commending the Potomac School forensics team.
- HJ995 Celebrating the life of Clay T. Whitehead.
- HJ1002 Commending Michael Hershman.
- HJ763 Commending Virginia's Olympic athletes of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
- HB2171 Agricultural waste; excludes any farm, etc., that owns & operates facilities within State.
- HB2200 Every Woman's Life Breast and Cervical Cancer Fund; established.
- HB2201 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority; created, responsible for research, etc.
- HB2202 Greenhouse gas emissions; State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulation requiring reporting.
- HJ682 Residential electric consumption tax; Department of Taxation to examine implementation thereof.
- HB1998 Retirement System; removes cap on number of years of creditable service member may purchase.
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Highlights of Margi's 2009 Legislative Agenda
Margi's legislation spans a variety of subject areas. Four are bills to promote energy conservation and efficiency; one will expand cancer treatment for low income women; another will improve state oversight of research and development in science and technology. Their summaries are below.
- View all of Margi's Legislation on Richmond Sunlight
- View all of Margi's Legislation on the General Assembly Legislative Information Services web site
Environmental Bills
HB 2000: Creating electric utility rate structures that advance conservation and efficiency
This bill allows electric utility customers to choose pricing structures that provide incentives to conserve energy and/or to use energy more efficiently by changing their consumption patterns to reflect time of day and seasonal considerations. It also requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC), which regulates the electric utilities, to develop consumer education programs that increase awareness of electricity rate structures and costs.
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HJ682: Calling for a study of the tax on electric consumption
This bill directs the Virginia Department of Taxation to study how the electric consumption tax could be restructured to promote energy efficiency while remaining revenue neutral.
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HB 2171: Permitting farmers to operate waste-to-energy facilities without being regulated as a public utility
This bill removes from regulation as a public utility by the SCC any farm that earns over half its income from its farming operations and uses its own agricultural waste to generate electricity. In addition, such operations could not be considered “manufacturers” under any section of the Code of Virginia. Farms using such waste-to-energy technology would also be permitted to connect to the electric grid in order to sell excess electricity back to their power supplier.
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HB2202: Establishing mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions
This bill establishes a system for the mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by sources such as utility companies and manufacturers that are already required to report emissions of other air pollutants. It also requires the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to establish a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for roads throughout Virginia. The State Air Pollution Control Board is authorized to establish a voluntary program to allow firms to register reductions in direct or indirect emission of such gases.
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Health
HB 2200: Creating the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund
Virginia currently loses over two million dollars a year in federal matching funds for cancer treatment because of the way it determines eligibility for low income women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer. This bill creates a fund into which private health care providers and foundations make voluntary contributions to be used toward capturing this lost funding. With additional matched funds we will more than double the number of Virginia women eligible for treatment under HB2000 Federal law.
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Technology
HB 2201: Merging two technology advisory commissions into a single Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (IEIA)
Virginia currently has two organizations charged with oversight of the Commonwealth’s technology research and development efforts. They are the Innovative Technology Authority (ITA) and the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission (VRTAC). Combining these two organizations into a single agency will eliminate duplication and make the oversight of Virginia’s research and development efforts more efficient and productive. The members of the new agency will include three Virginia college presidents, the Secretary of Technology, and private sector representatives of the entrepreneurial, investment, and science and technology communities. .
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