Senator Frank Wagner (R-Virginia Beach)
- Party
- Republican
- District
- 7: Virginia Beach City (Part), Norfolk City (Part) [map]
- Took Office
- January 2001
- Next Election
- November 2015
- Committees
- Commerce and Labor, Finance, Rehabilitation and Social Services (Chair), Rules, Transportation
- Age
- 57
- Website
- wagnervasenate.com
- Copatroning Habits
- 62% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 70% of them are Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 57% of them are Republicans.
- Partisanship
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- Tag Cloud

- Bills Passed
- 41.7% in 2013
- Bio
Senate Republican party whip, sharing the duty with Sen. Mark Obenshain.
| Donor | Sector | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Verizon | Telecommunications | $11,000 |
| Dominion | Energy production & distribution | $7,000 |
| Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association | Telecommunications | $6,000 |
| Hall Automotive | Auto dealers, new & used | $5,845 |
| Northrop Grumman | Defense areospace contractors | $5,150 |
| Alpha Natural Resources | Coal mining | $5,000 |
| Travel Outlet | Uncoded | $5,000 |
| Virginia Natural Gas | Natural gas transmission & distribution | $4,650 |
| Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Association | Auto dealers, new & used | $4,500 |
| Virginia Wine Wholesalers Association | Liquor wholesalers | $3,500 |
Data provided by The National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Virginia Business - General Assemble Blog RollMay 18, 2013 |
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Virginia Business - General Assemble Blog RollMay 13, 2013 |
Sen. Blevins to Retire in August; Dems Whisper They Can Win. Hell ...April 3, 2013 |
Senator Frank W. Wagner – Getting Business Done in Hampton RoadsMay 1, 2012 |
Patch.com: Del. Albo Recognized with Three Service Awards By Virginia Chamber of ...May 19, 2013 |
Daily Press: Anchors await restoration; Newport News shipyard steps upMay 17, 2013 |
Daily Press: Chopra airs first TV adMay 17, 2013 |
Daily Press: HRTPO looks to leverage transportation moneyMay 16, 2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform: ATR Urges Virginia Candidates to Support Repeal of Gov. McDonnell's Tax HikeMay 16, 2013 |
These are all of the video clips of Frank Wagner’s remarks on the floor of the Senate since 2009. There are 285 video clips in all.
Index
Bills
- SB505: Combined heat and power facilities; incentives.
- SB516: Motor vehicle insurance; medical expense benefits, assignments.
- SB518: Mandated health insurance; not applicable if exceed essential benefits package.
- SB766: Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption includes hurricane preparedness equipment.
- SB767: Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes; taxes on room rentals based upon charges for use, etc.
- SB768: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan; directs state agencies to remove Lynnhaven River.
- SB769: Credit unions; limit on authorized investments in certain property, retained earnings.
- SB770: Driver improvement clinics; increases fee that clinics may charge for courses.
- SB771: License plates; display of a single plate on registered vehicles.
- SB772: Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; developer control in time-share estate program, etc.
- SB814: Nursing education programs; minimum examination passage rates.
- SB815: Driver training schools; length of daily instruction.
- SB946: Public beaches; sand dredging and beach replenishment.
- SB1053: Boating safety education; exempts certain U.S. Navy surface warfare officers, etc.
- SB1059: Dental and optometric services plans; applicability of certain provisions.
- SB1117: Virginia Uniform Certificate of Title for Watercraft Act; adoption of Act, technical amendments.
- SB1260: Candidates in elections; party nominating methods for statewide or General Assembly district office.
- SB1305: Virginia Port Authority; reform by adding Chief Executive Officer to Board of Commissioners, etc.
- SB1306: Neighborhood Assistance Act; tax credits to eligible neighborhood organizations.
- SB1307: DPOR; Director authorized to purchase information technology and telecommunication goods & services.
- SB1328: Revenues and appropriations of State; changes to revenues collected and distribution.
- SB1329: Medicaid; expands class of recipients in State.
- SB1365: Tax administration; monetary awards for detection of tax underpayments, development of guidelines.
- SJ359: Commending Boys Home, Inc.
- SB504: Air quality, water quality or solid waste permits; facilities upgrading and requiring new permit.
- SB505: Combined heat and power facilities; incentives.
- SB506: Defined contribution retirement plan; permits any locality or school board to establish.
- SB507: Real Estate Appraiser Board; shall develop continuing education curriculum for licensees, report.
- SB508: Tuition, in-state; members of Virginia National Guard.
- SB509: State Water Control Board; powers and duties.
- SB510: Primary elections; allows write-in votes.
- SB511: Natural gas utilities; qualified projects.
- SB512: Hunting; allows person to hunt wild bird or wild animal on Sundays.
- SB513: Career and technical education; substitution for required credits.
- SB514: High school accreditation; Board of Education to adopt regulation adjusting formula for calculating.
- SB515: Alcoholic beverage control; no retail licensee shall employ as manager any unauthorized alien.
- SB516: Motor vehicle insurance; medical expense benefits, assignments.
- SB517: Nursing education programs; requires Board of Nursing to implement certain due process requirements.
- SB518: Mandated health insurance; not applicable if exceed essential benefits package.
- SB519: Consumer utility tax; exemption for public utilities, etc. on natural gas used to make electricity.
- SB520: Property and casualty insurance; provides for SCC licensing and regulation of public adjusters.
- SB521: Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage license for certain motor sports facilities.
- SB522: Group health insurance; small employer is one who employs between 2 and 50 employees.
- SB549: Machinery and Tools Investment Grant Program; created.
- SB576: Workers' compensation; uninsured employer's fund financing tax.
- SB577: VWC; majority of members constitutes a quorum for purposes of exercising functions of Commission.
- SB578: Virginia Port Authority; amends several provisions governing conduct of business.
- SB597: Retail Sales and Use Tax; presumption of sufficient activity to require dealer to register.
- SB639: Transportation; provides revenues for construction, maintenance, and funding.
- SB680: Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credits; at least 40 percent of those served are impoverished.
- SJ86: Machinery and tools, local; TAX to study impact of income tax credit for taxes paid by manufacturer.
- SJ87: Manufacturing sector; JLARC to study measures to eliminate disparity of tax burden on State.
- SJ158: Commending Joey Layton.
- SJ194: Commending Officer Candidate Joshua Moore and Midshipman Jason Benning.
- SJ223: Celebrating the life of J. Curtis Fruit.
- SJ253: Commending Steven G. Bowman.
- SB601: Offshore drilling; royalties to be deposited in Transportation Trust Fund, etc.
- SB854: Sales of secondhand building materials; police chief may refuse to issue permit if a felon.
- SB855: Courthouse assessments; localities to raise fee assessed for courthouse construction, etc.
- SB856: Patriots Crossing project; requires VDOT to accept unsolicited proposals for development, etc.
- SB857: Misdemeanor; maximum fine is raised each July 1, starting July 1, 2012.
- SB858: Vehicles; right turns by those facing left green arrow signals.
- SB859: Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Infrastructure Development Compact; repealing Compact.
- SB860: Real property tax; classification of certain historical buildings.
- SB861: Defined contribution retirement plan, local; locality to establish in lieu of other retirement plan.
- SB862: Commonwealth Energy Policy; local renewable energy facility siting ordinances.
- SB863: Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit; amends definition of impoverished people.
- SB1133: Filled subaqueous bottomlands; Marine Resources Commission to convey title if lawfully deposited.
- SB1134: Offshore Wind Development Authority; membership.
- SB1135: Transportation Board; powers and duties.
- SB1136: Income tax, state; international trade facility tax credit.
- SB1137: Virginia Fuels Tax Act; definition of commercial watercraft.
- SB1375: Contractors, Board for; regulation of building analysts.
- SB1376: Hunter safety education; requires 18 year old or younger to pass before obtaining hunting license.
- SB1404: Income tax, state; clean fuel vehicle job creation tax credit.
- SB1431: Retailers of motor vehicle tires; sufficient activity to require collection of certain state taxes.
- SB1481: Income tax, corporate; Virginia port volume increase tax credit.
- SB1482: Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association; surplus funds.
- SJ92: Constitutional amendment; conference committee report for general appropriation bills.
- SJ308: Engineering curriculum; Department of Education to development in public schools, report.
- SB392: Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for production of electricity from offshore winds.
- SB393: Offshore Wind Project Development Commission; established.
- SB394: Offshore energy resources; production and development permitted 50 miles off Atlantic shoreline.
- SB395: Stormwater management regulations; changes effective date that establishes local program criteria.
- SB396: Courthouse assessments; localities may raise fee for construction, etc., above current amount.
- SB397: Misdemeanor fines; maximum fine is raised each July 1 by amount approximately equal to inflation.
- SB398: Water safety zones; authorizes marine patrol divisions of police in Tidewater localities to patrol.
- SB399: Motor vehicle insurance; premiums based on credit information.
- SB442: Administrative Rules, Joint Commission on; authority to suspend regulation with concurrence of GOV.
- SB600: Transportation Trust Fund; increases amount of general fund surplus.
- SB601: Offshore drilling; royalties to be deposited in Transportation Trust Fund, etc.
- SB612: Workers' Compensation Commission; repeals requirement of sending copies of awards by priority mail.
- SB627: Nutrient reduction credits; nonpoint nutrient offsets to be credited against a nutrient allocation.
- SB628: Mixed beverage licensees; ABC Board to prescribe terms under which licensees may infuse spirits.
- SB629: Standards of Quality; requirement for standard diploma.
- SB630: Standards of Quality; local school board to include in its annual report.
- SB659: Outer Continental Shelf; air pollution control regulations.
- SJ82: Commending Jacqueline and Frederick J. Napolitano, Sr.
- SJ92: Constitutional amendment; conference committee report for general appropriation bills.
- SJ125: Commending the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
- SB318: Wind Underwriting Association; established.
- SB323: Alcoholic mixed beverages; restaurant licensee food sale requirement.
- SB324: Utility Facilities Act; renewable energy facilities.
- SB712: Cap and trade system for NOx and SO2; nonattainment areas.
- SB980: Manufacturing Development Commission; repeals July 1, 2009, sunset date.
- SB981: Manufacturing Development Commission; increases size to 14 members by adding a representative.
- SB982: Stormwater; requires localities to regulate.
- SB983: Alcoholic mixed beverages; exception for certain spirits that licensee cannot deliver to consumer.
- SB984: Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act; stormwater regulations.
- SB1299: Administrative Process Act; certain requirement for agencies that submit documents or payments, etc.
- SB1345: Energy efficiency in state government; goal of reducing annual cost nonrenewable energy purchases.
- SB1346: Coastal Energy Research Consortium; makes certain technical corrections to membership.
- SB1347: Small renewable energy projects; DEQ to develop procedure permitting construction and operation.
- SB1348: Electricity; SCC to conduct proceeding to determine appropriate energy conservation, etc.
- SB1349: Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Infrastructure Development Compact; established.
- SB1350: Marine Resources Commission; authority to lease subaqueous lands for generating electrical energy.
- SB1351: Health insurance plan; insurance mandate for accident, etc. apply to plans for state employees.
- SB1352: Insurance holding companies; SCC to approve any ordinary dividend by a registered insurer.
- SB1353: Bank franchise tax; deductions from gross capital.
- SB1355: Trusts, state and local; created to fund costs for providing postemployment public benefits.
- SB1449: Towing and recovery licensure; extends date which a person engaging in, etc. towing needs license.
- SJ366: Commending Mary Russo.
- SJ437: Commending Bruce Smith.
- SB317: Income tax, state; Certified EarthCraft House tax credit.
- SB318: Wind Underwriting Association; established.
- SB319: Technology Research Fund; adds sensor sciences to eligible research programs.
- SB320: Solar energy collection devices; covenants restricting.
- SB321: Energy electric generating facilities; DEQ to consult with others to consider environmental impact.
- SB322: Electric Utility Restructuring Act; defines municipal solid waste as source of renewable energy.
- SB323: Alcoholic mixed beverages; restaurant licensee food sale requirement.
- SB324: Utility Facilities Act; renewable energy facilities.
- SB325: Credit reports; authorizes armed services members and spouses to freeze.
- SB326: Career and technical education; industry certification and State licensure.
- SB523: Ballots, paper & machine; write-in votes will be counted if last name is spelled correctly.
- SB524: Hunting on Sunday; allows hunting thereon.
- SB525: Uranium Mining Commission; established, report.
- SB680: Service-disabled veteran-owned small business programs; aligns state's requirements with federal.
- SB712: Cap and trade system for NOx and SO2; nonattainment areas.
- SB760: Veterans services; Dept. to establish guidelines for eligibility for domiciled veterans, etc.
- SB798: Hampton Roads Transportation Authority; establishes certain state taxes and fees with revenues.
- SB6011: Offshore Energy Revenue Fund.
- SJ243: Celebrating the life of Bishop John Gimenez.
- SB256: Motor vehicle dealers; transfer of dealerships.
- SB727: Disabled veterans, special; certification of businesses owned thereby.
- SB1139: Administrative Process Act; amends by renumbering provisions of various codes.
- SB1140: Scrap metal processors; establishes requirements regarding purchases of scrap metal thereby.
- SB1141: Charter; City of Virginia Beach.
- SB1142: Dealer's license plates; allowable uses thereof.
- SB1143: Utility Transfers Act; telephone companies.
- SB1144: Incident management; VDOT vehicles are exempt from certain provisions.
- SB1145: Veterans Services, Department of; implement program to certify business owner holds certain status.
- SB1146: Neighborhood Assistance Act; eligibility requirements.
- SB1147: Diploma, advanced technical; Board of Education to establish requirements therefor.
- SB1148: Standards of Quality; local school boards report number of career & technical education completers.
- SB1149: Alcoholic beverage control; ABC Board has authority to sell products with distilled spirits.
- SB1150: Electric utilities; collection of fines assessed by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
- SB1151: Machinery and tools tax; provides uniform statewide statutory classification for idle machinery.
- SB1152: Energy Policy Act of 2006; appropriations for certain funds.
- SB1351: Public utility facilities; approval thereof.
- SB1353: Child day-care regulations; establishes staff-to-child ratios thereof.
- SB1354: Occupational safety and health; civil penalties.
- SB1396: Offshore energy resources; exploratory, etc. activity of submerged lands off Atlantic shoreline.
- SB1418: First Landing State Park; Department of Conservation and Recreation to lease portion thereof.
- SJ385: Fuel-efficient vehicles and transportation funding; joint subcommittee to study.
- SJ386: Constitutional amendment; exempts real estate taxes for persons 65 or older, and totally disabled.
- SB255: Confidentiality of documents; establish protections for materials obtained by SCC.
- SB256: Motor vehicle dealers; transfer of dealerships.
- SB257: Child day program; exemption from licensure for programs of recreational activities.
- SB258: Machinery and tools tax; method of valuation for federal income tax purposes.
- SB259: Higher educational institutions; to report assignment of any intellectual property interests.
- SB260: Idle machinery and tools tax; certain exemptions.
- SB261: Manufacturing Development Commission; created, report.
- SB262: Virginia Energy Plan; created.
- SB326: Alcoholic beverage; sale of tastings of wine or beer.
- SB327: Alcoholic beverage; mixed beverage restaurant licenses.
- SB328: Alcoholic beverages; gift of samples by licensees.
- SB329: Transportation construction and maintenance; revises allocation system.
- SB487: Health insurance; State to support federal efforts to encourage pooling thereof.
- SB614: Interstate Transportation Compact; created.
- SB615: Child Day Care Regulations; establishes staff-to-child ratios.
- SB616: Electrical transmission facilities; satisfies local zoning requirements.
- SB720: Highway user fees; localities may establish.
- SB727: Disabled veterans, special; certification of businesses owned thereby.
- SJ184: Interstate Route 95; construction and operation of controlled access highway as alternative thereto.
- SJ5003: Commending the Virginia Wesleyan College men's basketball team.