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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB1700: Defense Facility and Transportation Improvement Fund and Program; created.
Chief Patron
Del.
Scott Lingamfelter (R-31)
Scott Lingamfelter
(R-31)
Woodbridge, VA
Served: 2002–
Progress
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Status
Bill is Dead
Summary
Virginia Defense Facility and Transportation Improvement Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Defense Facility and Transportation Improvement Fund and Program. The Fund is to consist of $36 million of annual collections of state recordation taxes. Its proceeds are to be allocated by the Commonwealth Transportation Board to highway construction districts wherein federal defense facilities or bases are expanded as the result of actions of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, and are to be used for transportation infrastructure improvements. The bill requires that matching funds be provided by the locality or localities in which a project will be located as a prerequisite to allocations from the Fund. The provisions of the bill would expire on July 1, 2011. View Full Text »
Poll Results
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