Rep. Baxter Ennis

Motor vehicle safety inspection approval sticker;persons on active duty. Authorizes motor vehicles owned and operatedby persons on active duty with the United States Armed Forces stationedoutside the Commonwealth at the time the inspection expires to be operated on the highways of the Commonwealth while such persons areon leave. Existing law only authorizes the operation of any suchvehicle by active duty Virginia residents when such vehicle displaysa valid inspection sticker issued by another state.

Timing of local elections. Allows a cityor town by majority vote of the local governing body to hold itsmunicipal elections on the first Tuesday in May for terms to commenceJuly 1, in which case the terms of council members shall be extendedby six months in order to implement the transition. Currently, citiesand towns must hold their municipal elections at the time of theNovember general election.

Real property taxes; notice by mail of proposedincrease. Requires localities, after conducting a reassessment of real estate, to provide notice to property owners by mail of certaininformation prior to adopting a tax rate that would increase theamount of real property tax collected above 101 percent of the prioryear's tax collections. The bill requires the notice to include (i)the dollar and percentage amount of increase that the proposed tax rate would levy on the owner's particular property compared to theprevious year's tax levy, (ii) the tax levy on the owner's particularproperty for the previous tax year and the proposed levy for thecurrent tax year, and (iii) all of the information regarding theproposed tax rate that under current law is required to be postedin a newspaper and a prominent public location.

Absentee voting; absentee voting in person;available beginning 30 days prior to election. Limits the availabilityof absentee voting in person to 30 days before the election. Undercurrent law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 days prior to the election.

Adoption tax credit. Creates a tax creditfor taxable years 2024 through 2028 that may be claimed by an individualor married couple filing jointly for qualified adoption expenses,as defined in the bill. The bill imposes certain limitations onwho may claim this credit and how much credit may be claimed basedon a taxpayer's Virginia adjusted gross income.

Tangible personal property tax relief; rateof taxation. Removes the $950 million cap, beginning in tax year2025 and all tax years thereafter, on the amount of tangible personalproperty tax relief reimbursed to localities by the Commonwealth.The bill requires, for tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter,each county, city, or town to reduce its local tax rate on qualifyingvehicles to no greater than $0.000001 per $100 of assessed value of the qualifying vehicle.

Law-enforcement officers; Internet publicationof personal information; exemption. Prohibits publication ofthe personal information of active and retired law-enforcement officerson the statewide geographic information system (GIS) if a requestto redact such information is made by the officer to the entity that manages the GIS in the officer's locality. Current law prohibitsthe Commonwealth from publishing personal information on the Internetof public officials only if a petition has been granted by the circuitcourt.

Personal property tax; classification; sunsetdate. Removes the sunset date from the provision of law that authorizes localities to classify most motor vehicles as a class ofproperty subject to a different rate of tax or rate of assessmentfrom the rate applicable to the general class of tangible personalproperty. Under current law, such classification would expire beginningwith taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.

Sexual extortion; penalty. Makes it a Class5 felony for any person to maliciously threaten eviction, loss ofhousing, property damage, or any financial loss with the intent tocause the complaining witness to engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingus,fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexual abuse and thereby engagein sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse,inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexualabuse. The bill also creates an unclassified felony punishable bynot less than one nor more than 20 years and a fine of not more than$100,000 for any adult who violates the provisions of the bill witha person younger than 18 years of age.

State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicleemissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State AirPollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissionsvehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 andlater. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing anymodel year standards related to control of emissions from new motorvehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicleand zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal CleanAir Act and prohibits the Commonwealth from requiring any new motorvehicle or new motor vehicle engine to be certified as compliantwith model year standards related to the control of emissions adoptedby California for which a waiver has been granted pursuant to thefederal Clean Air Act.