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New state laws take effect today 7/1/2014
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Tax and Spend
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Date: July 01, 2014 06:45AM
New state laws take effect today
http://www.insidenova.com/headlines/new-state-laws-take-effect-today/article_5448bb88-00cf-11e4-95a4-001a4bcf887a.html
Students will have fewer tests, cyclists will get more room on the road and hunters can now get that four-point buck on a Sunday. Starting today hundreds of new laws will go into effect in Virginia.
Here’s a list of the legislation that will most impact you:
•SOL reform: Virginia students will be required to take fewer Standards of Learning exams, and a committee was created to continually review and make recommendations to improve the commonwealth’s assessment practices.
•Moped and scooters: Drivers of the motorized bikes no longer need to be licensed but are required to carry government-issued photo identification. Drivers and passengers must wear a helmet, as well as a face shield or safety glasses or goggles. Mopeds and scooters operated in Virginia also need to be titled and registered.
•Bicyclists: A new law extends the clearance motorists must give cyclists on the road from 2 feet to 3 feet.
•Voter ID: Voters must present a photo ID to vote. Acceptable forms include driver’s license, a U.S. passport or any other U.S. government-issued photo ID; a student ID issued by any Virginia college or university; or any employee ID card. Voters without one of these forms of identification can apply for a free, state-issued photo ID card with registrars in any locality.
•Sunday hunting: Hunters can now enjoy the sport on Sundays. Under the new law, a landowner and his immediate family or a person with written permission from the landowner may hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal, including any nuisance species, on the landowner’s property on Sunday.
•Mental health: Lawmakers made several changes to improve the care of mental health patience in Virginia, nudged by the stabbing of state Sen. Creigh Deeds by his son after he was sent home because no psychiatric bed was available at a local hospital. The duration of emergency custody orders has been increased from six to eight hours and the state now must find a bed for further temporary detention at one of its mental hospitals. The state will then have an additional four hours to find a bed at a hospital closer to the patient’s home. New legislation also requires the length of temporary detention orders be increased from 48 to 72 hours.
•Ethics reform: Elected officials have a cumulative cap of $250 on the amount of gifts they can accept. The new ethics reform bill also requires disclosure of gifts given to spouses and immediate family members and increases transparency of financial disclosure forms by posting them online. It also lowers the threshold for reporting of stock holdings and investments on financial disclosure forms from $10,000 to $5,000.
•Illegal images: A new law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to disseminate or sell an unauthorized nude or sexually explicit image of another person with the intent to harass, coerce or intimidate the person depicted.
•Fox penning: Virginia’s more than 30 pens in which dogs chase captive foxes will be allowed to keep operating for up to 40 years, but new pens are prohibited.
•Child support: Parents’ monthly child support obligation is now based on monthly income in increments of $35,000, with an additional amount calculated as a percentage of monthly income above $35,000. The bill also removes the $250 threshold on reasonable and necessary unreimbursed medical or dental expenses that are required to be paid by each parent in proportion to their gross incomes. Under the previous law, the custodial parent paid for any such cost below $250. By removing this threshold, parents split the cost.
•Hybrid car tax: The $64 annual license tax on hybrid vehicles goes away.
http://www.insidenova.com/headlines/new-state-laws-take-effect-today/article_5448bb88-00cf-11e4-95a4-001a4bcf887a.html
Students will have fewer tests, cyclists will get more room on the road and hunters can now get that four-point buck on a Sunday. Starting today hundreds of new laws will go into effect in Virginia.
Here’s a list of the legislation that will most impact you:
•SOL reform: Virginia students will be required to take fewer Standards of Learning exams, and a committee was created to continually review and make recommendations to improve the commonwealth’s assessment practices.
•Moped and scooters: Drivers of the motorized bikes no longer need to be licensed but are required to carry government-issued photo identification. Drivers and passengers must wear a helmet, as well as a face shield or safety glasses or goggles. Mopeds and scooters operated in Virginia also need to be titled and registered.
•Bicyclists: A new law extends the clearance motorists must give cyclists on the road from 2 feet to 3 feet.
•Voter ID: Voters must present a photo ID to vote. Acceptable forms include driver’s license, a U.S. passport or any other U.S. government-issued photo ID; a student ID issued by any Virginia college or university; or any employee ID card. Voters without one of these forms of identification can apply for a free, state-issued photo ID card with registrars in any locality.
•Sunday hunting: Hunters can now enjoy the sport on Sundays. Under the new law, a landowner and his immediate family or a person with written permission from the landowner may hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal, including any nuisance species, on the landowner’s property on Sunday.
•Mental health: Lawmakers made several changes to improve the care of mental health patience in Virginia, nudged by the stabbing of state Sen. Creigh Deeds by his son after he was sent home because no psychiatric bed was available at a local hospital. The duration of emergency custody orders has been increased from six to eight hours and the state now must find a bed for further temporary detention at one of its mental hospitals. The state will then have an additional four hours to find a bed at a hospital closer to the patient’s home. New legislation also requires the length of temporary detention orders be increased from 48 to 72 hours.
•Ethics reform: Elected officials have a cumulative cap of $250 on the amount of gifts they can accept. The new ethics reform bill also requires disclosure of gifts given to spouses and immediate family members and increases transparency of financial disclosure forms by posting them online. It also lowers the threshold for reporting of stock holdings and investments on financial disclosure forms from $10,000 to $5,000.
•Illegal images: A new law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to disseminate or sell an unauthorized nude or sexually explicit image of another person with the intent to harass, coerce or intimidate the person depicted.
•Fox penning: Virginia’s more than 30 pens in which dogs chase captive foxes will be allowed to keep operating for up to 40 years, but new pens are prohibited.
•Child support: Parents’ monthly child support obligation is now based on monthly income in increments of $35,000, with an additional amount calculated as a percentage of monthly income above $35,000. The bill also removes the $250 threshold on reasonable and necessary unreimbursed medical or dental expenses that are required to be paid by each parent in proportion to their gross incomes. Under the previous law, the custodial parent paid for any such cost below $250. By removing this threshold, parents split the cost.
•Hybrid car tax: The $64 annual license tax on hybrid vehicles goes away.
Re: New state laws take effect today 7/1/2014
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3YVLU
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Date: July 02, 2014 09:34AM
Glad to see Richmond act on mental health. I don't often do this, but I must compliment former Gov. McDonnell for getting those changes passed.
Re: New state laws take effect today 7/1/2014
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Helicopter conspiracy
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Date: July 02, 2014 09:35AM
Nanny Government strikes again. Of course if a government surveillance helicopter flies around a suburban subdivision at night scaring everyone half to death that's completely legal and the sheeple must have been doing something illegal.
Re: New state laws take effect today 7/1/2014
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7kp3C
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Date: July 03, 2014 01:21AM
Creigh Deeds and emergency custody orders
screw you
and btw many people get in (and if they leave are arrested) because they are poor and the gov refuses to help them except to torture them and give their jobs to green cards
screw you Richmod. va facility ok here. fx facility is run by fucking foreigners. and they torture whites and bullova helps them.
THAT MEANS IMRPRISONMENT WITHOUT TRIAL to poor
screw you
and btw many people get in (and if they leave are arrested) because they are poor and the gov refuses to help them except to torture them and give their jobs to green cards
screw you Richmod. va facility ok here. fx facility is run by fucking foreigners. and they torture whites and bullova helps them.
Re: New state laws take effect today 7/1/2014
Posted by:
eNXxt
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Date: July 03, 2014 01:25AM
deeds and his california democrat friends fill the public with porn and have even done some of it on grant money
many of his fake political friends fuck women continually and have a rich home to hide it in
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fuck off deeds
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many of his fake political friends fuck women continually and have a rich home to hide it in
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fuck off deeds
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