Del. Keith Hodges

Celebrating the life of the Honorable AugustusBenton Chafin, Jr.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable AugustusBenton Chafin, Jr.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable RobertS. Bloxom, Sr.

Individual and corporate income tax credit;employers of National Guard members and self-employed National Guardmembers. Provides for taxable years 2020 through 2024 a nonrefundabletax credit against individual and corporate income taxes for (i) wages paid by an employer to an employee who is an active or reserveVirginia National Guard member or (ii) income of a self-employedactive or reserve Virginia National Guard member attributable to his business. The amount of the credit shall be 25 percent if such memberwas in a military pay status for 65 days or more during such taxableyear or 15 percent if such member was in a military pay status forat least 45 days but less than 65 days during such taxable year.The credit shall not be allowed if such member was in a military pay status for less than 45 days during such taxable year. The billallows a taxpayer to carry unused credits over for up to five taxableyears.

Department of Environmental Quality; administration of Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Programs. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to operate a required Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Program (VESCP) on behalf of any locality that notifies the Department of its intent to opt out of operating a VESCP.

Resource Protection Areas; improvement plans.Directs the State Water Control Board, in promulgating regulationsthat establish criteria for use by local governments to determinethe ecological and geographic extent of Chesapeake Bay PreservationAreas, to provide that any owner of land in a Resource ProtectionArea may improve such area using native plants and mixtures of organicmaterial. The bill requires that such criteria provide that priorto implementation of such improvement, a landowner obtain a waterquality impact assessment and an improvement plan with a professionalstamp from a qualified landscape architect, engineer, or other relevantprofessional. The bill also directs the Board to approve any improvementproject that has a net positive benefit to water quality.

Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area; provisional surface water withdrawal permit. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to issue a provisional surface water withdrawal permit within the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area to an applicant that has not identified an end user for the water. Such permit shall not allow the withdrawal of water until an end user has been identified and the permittee has provided a report containing information on the need for and proposed use of the surface water, a description of the raw water intake, and other information. The bill provides that once the Department of Environmental Quality approves the report, the permittee shall request a permit modification. Finally, the bill provides that no potential withdrawal amount of any provisional permit shall be used in the calculation of available water when assessing a subsequent surface water withdrawal application in the affected stream reach if the provisional permit has not been modified to reflect an end user, the Department and the subsequent applicant have found the provisional withdrawal to be inappropriate, and the provisional permit holder has failed to state that an end user will be secured within 12 months.

Flood Resiliency Clearing House Program.Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to developa Flood Resiliency Clearing House Program for coordinating floodmitigation solutions. The bill requires the Clearing House to solicitflood mitigation solutions from the public; coordinate with otheragencies to review submitted solutions; approve appropriate solutions,favoring those that manage both water quality and flooding and emphasizenature-based solutions; and disseminate approved flood mitigationsolutions.

Commissioner of Health and the Director ofthe Department of Environmental Quality; program to remediate septicsystems in recurrently flooded areas of Resource Protection Areas. Directs the Commissioner of Health and the Director of the Departmentof Environmental Quality to develop a program to remediate septicsystems in recurrently flooded areas of Resource Protection Areasby allowing owners of septic systems located in portions of ResourceProtection Areas that are subject to recurrent flooding to add soilover the septic system tank and to the septic system drainfield toimprove septic system drainfield absorption and protect the public health and safety.

Conveyance of right-of-way usage to certain nonpublic service companies. Allows a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to obtain a land use permit from the Department of Transportation to use rights-of-way to operate a wholesale open-access fiber network. This bill is identical to SB 792.