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Chesterfield County 2004 Legislative Program
Legislative Priorities
- To protect local revenues as the General Assembly considers
various tax restructuring and telecommunications tax reform
proposals.
- To protect current cash proffer
authority.
- To protect local government
land use and zoning authority.
Legislative
Requests
Strategic Goal: To be the employer of choice
- A. Sponsor legislation that would add Chesterfield
County to the list of counties cited in
Section 15.2-1508.3 allowed to supplement Health Department salaries.
(SB45)
- B. Allow localities to decide if
the locality or the individual pays the cost of
fingerprinting for criminal records checks. (SB90)
Strategic Goal: To be exemplary stewards of the public trust
- Require a locality which places a student with
disabilities in another locality, pursuant to the Comprehensive
Services Act, to be responsible for funding the student's individualized
education program until the age of 22. (HB1047)
Strategic Goal: To be acknowledged
for extraordinary quality of life
- Sponsor legislation to allow any county granted
a charter by the General Assembly to assess transportation impact
fees on new development. (SB123)
- Amend Section 37.1-180 of the Code of Virginia
to require that regulations promulgated by the State Board of Mental
Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse for group homes
provide for monthly inspections, and other requirements to protect
surrounding residential neighborhoods.
(The Board has decided not to proceed with this
item..)
- Amend the county charter to allow for the deferral
of payments within residential water or sewer assessment districts
for owners 65 years of age and older until the property is no longer
occupied by a property owner who is 65 years of age or older.
(HB559)
- Amend §15.2-953 to allow localities to appropriate
public funds to any non-profit organization providing recreational
or day care services to persons 65 years of age or older. (HB300)
Support/Oppose
- Support restoration of full share of state
funding for locally operated juvenile detention homes.
- Support the extension of Adequate Public Facilities
authority to localities as an additional local growth
management tool. (SB393) (HB893)
- Ensure the state share for reimbursement of
the county jail replacement is included in FY05 state budget.
- Support a language amendment to the Appropriations
Act allowing jail expansion planning study submittals
to Department of Corrections in other than odd numbered years.
- Support a language amendment to the Appropriation
Act granting Riverside Regional Jail an exception
to the moratorium on approval of jail construction projects.
- Support extension of the VA Sickness and Disability Plan to
localities. (HB491)
Legislative Programs 2000-2007
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