School boards; unexpended local funds; capitalprojects. Permits any school board to finance capital projectswith any funds appropriated to it by the local governing body thatare unexpended by the school board in any year. The bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Construction and Modernization.
Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Interventionand Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and PreventionFund; creation. Establishes the Virginia Center for Firearm ViolenceIntervention and Prevention (the Center) within the Department ofCriminal Justice Services and transfers to the Center the administrationof the existing Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and PreventionFund.
Additional local sales and use tax; use ofrevenues for construction or renovation of schools. Allows anycounty or city to levy a local general retail sales tax and a localuse tax at a rate not to exceed one percent as determined by itsgoverning body to provide revenues solely for capital projects forthe construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approvedin a voter referendum. Under current law, the power to levy suchlocal sales and use taxes for the construction or renovation of schoolsis limited to the qualifying localities of Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and PittsylvaniaCounties and the City of Danville.
Commending Jesse Waltz.
Commending Virginia Polytechnic Institute andState University.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable HarryRussell Potts, Jr.
Commending health care workers in Virginia.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable JohnHowson Rust, Jr.
Commending Rita Carter Forrester.
Commending the Richmond Free Press.
