Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
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Commending Devotion to Children.
Commending Ilryong Moon.
Vehicles stopped at crosswalks; prohibitionon passing. Prohibits the driver of a vehicle from overtakingand passing a vehicle stopped at a marked crosswalk to permit a pedestrianto cross the highway.
Commending the South Lakes High School boys'soccer team.
Commending Matteo Lambert.
Commending Robert Eugene Foster, Jr.
Celebrating the life of Alan Arnold Diamonstein.
Transit funding. Raises the existing regional transportation fee, a grantor's tax, from $0.15 per $100 to $0.20 per $100 for localities in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority that are also members of the Northern Virginia Transportation District. The bill requires half of the revenues to be deposited in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Fund and half to be deposited in the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Capital Fund. The rate of tax in the other localities will remain at $0.15 per $100, with one-third of the revenues to be retained by the locality to be used for transportation purposes and the other two-thirds to be deposited in the Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund. The bill also raises the existing transient occupancy tax in the localities located in the Northern Virginia Transportation District from $2 to $3, with all of the revenues from the tax being used to support WMATA. This bill incorporates HB 977.
Virginia Urban Agriculture Advisory Councilcreated; report. Creates the Virginia Urban Agriculture AdvisoryCouncil as an advisory council in the legislative branch of stategovernment to encourage urban agriculture and contribute to buildinga local food economy. The bill has an expiration date of July 1,2023.