Del. Rob Bloxom

Commending the Women's Tidewater Golf Association.

Commending Margaret L. Sanner.

Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Celebrating the life of Laura Belle Gordy.

Photo speed monitoring device; civil penalty;default process. Establishes a default process for the collectionof civil penalties from residents of the Commonwealth who fail torespond to a summons for a speed violation issued based on evidencecollected from a photo speed monitoring device. Current law requirespersonal service on such person who fails to respond.

Additional local sales and use tax to supportschools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to imposean additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed onepercent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the constructionor renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum.Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg,Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danvilleare authorized to impose such a tax.

Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance; short-term rentals. Allows any locality to adopt a uniform scheduleof civil penalties for the violation of provisions of the zoningordinance related to short-term rentals. The schedule of civil penaltiesshall not exceed (i) $500 for the initial violation, (ii) $1,000 for the second violation, or (iii) $1,500 for the third or subsequentviolation, with each day during which the violation is found to haveexisted constituting a separate offense. The bill provides that designationof a particular zoning ordinance violation for a civil penalty shallbe in lieu of criminal sanctions, and except for any violation resultingin injury to persons, such designation shall preclude the prosecutionof a violation as a criminal misdemeanor, unless such civil penaltiestotal $5,000 or more.

Interference with commercial fishing vessel;penalties. Provides that a person who comes within 50 feet ofa commercial fishing vessel without the consent of the owner or personin charge of such vessel with the intent to coerce, intimidate, orharass the captain or crew of such vessel or interfere with the operationsof such vessel is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill makesit a Class 6 felony to communicate to another person by any meansany threat to (i) kill or do bodily injury to a person or personsengaged in the activity of commercial fishing on the waters of the Commonwealth or (ii) bomb, burn, destroy, or in any manner damageany commercial fishing vessel, and increases this penalty to a Class5 felony if such threat places the captain or crew in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury. The bill makes it a Class6 felony to intentionally or recklessly damage, injure, tamper with,deface, or destroy a commercial fishing vessel or any associatedgear. The bill provides that a law-enforcement officer may, withor without a warrant, arrest any person for an alleged violation of these offenses and seize any motorboat, personal watercraft, or vesselused or employed in violation of these offenses and that such propertyseized is subject to forfeiture proceedings. The bill also deems a person to be ineligible for any hunting or fishing license for acertain period of time if such person is found guilty of an offenseset out in the bill.

Local tax authority; nicotine vapor products.Authorizes localities by ordinance to impose a sales and usetax on nicotine vapor products, defined in the bill to include liquidnicotine in closed and open systems, as such terms are defined inthe bill, and includes directives for the administration and enforcementof any such ordinance. The bill also directs the Department of Taxationto consult with localities, the Virginia Association of Counties,and the Virginia Municipal League for implementing and administering such local taxation of nicotine vapor products.

Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.