Celebrating the life of the Honorable JohnHowson Rust, Jr.
Sponsored bills
Commending Rita Carter Forrester.
Commending the Richmond Free Press.
Celebrating the life of Firefighter ChristopherGeorge Griffin.
Juvenile offenders; parole eligibility. Providesthat any person who has active sentences that total more than 20years for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committedwhile that person was a juvenile and who has served the lesser ofat least 20 years of such sentences or 30 percent of the term ofimprisonment imposed for such sentences shall be eligible for parole.Under current law, such person must have served at least 20 yearsbefore becoming parole eligible.
Commending Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons.
Celebrating the life of Donn Casserly Hart,Jr.
Powers of local governments; additional powers; energy efficiency of buildings. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt optional building energy efficiency standards and allows localities to adopt and enforce these standards. The bill allows localities to require disclosure of energy use intensity (EUI) information to prospective buyers, lessees, and lenders at the point of sale, and to require an energy audit for the building prior to the completion of the sale if there is insufficient available data or upon request. The bill allows localities to implement energy benchmarking, requiring utilities to collect and report energy use data for covered buildings to owners, and to require utilities to maintain 12 months of aggregated data for any building with an active utility account. The bill permits localities to create a scorecard program using Energy Star Portfolio Manager and require owners to disclose data to it, subject to program guidelines. The bill allows localities to incentivize owners, operators, and agents of certain buildings to report EUI information and reduce EUI amounts. The bill allows localities to set EUI requirements for certain buildings and develop local incentive programs.
Larceny of a catalytic converter; penalty. Provides that any person who conspires, confederates, or combines with another to commit larceny or counsels, assists, aids, or abets another in the performance of a larceny of a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle where the value of such catalytic converter is less than $1,000 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This bill was incorporated into SB 729.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.