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HB469 - Electric utilities; retail competition, aggregated competitive purchasers.
Joseph P. McNamara
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Electric utilities; retail competition; aggregated competitive purchasers. Creates a limited exception to the requirement that the State Corporation Commission must find that a petition for certain competitive purchasers to aggregate their demands to become qualified to purchase retail electric energy is consistent with the public interest in order for the Commission to approve such petition. The bill provides that a customer seeking such approval may remunerate the utility for any adverse effects to the incumbent utility or its remaining utility customers contrary to the public interest as determined by the Commission. The bill also provides that such customers shall not be denied permission to procure retail electric energy from a competitive supplier and that such remuneration fee shall be recalculated by the Commission on a triennial basis from when a customer commences a competitive service agreement.
STATUS
Introduced
HB468 - Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund; established.
Joseph P. McNamara
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund. Creates the Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund to make grant payments to an eligible financial services company that makes a capital investment of at least $87 million at a facility in Roanoke County and creates at least 1,100 new full-time jobs at the facility. The eligible financial services company would be eligible for an aggregate of $15 million in grants paid out over a 10-year period if it meets such performance parameters.
STATUS
Passed
HB809 - Electric utilities; federal funding resources.
Sam Rasoul, Joseph P. McNamara, Tony O. Wilt
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Department of Energy; State Corporation Commission; federal funding resources for electric utilities; report. Directs the Department of Energy, in collaboration with the State Corporation Commission, to estimate and analyze total and discrete federal funding resources available to electric utilities in the Commonwealth for transmission, generation, distribution, or grid transformation projects. The bill directs the Department to develop a benchmarking and tracking system to encourage the maximum leveraging of federal funding resources by electric utilities no later than October 1, 2025. The bill requires the Department and the Commission to complete their meetings by November 30, 2024, and to submit an executive summary and report of their findings to the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation.
STATUS
Introduced
HB633 - Forced labor or service; civil action for trafficking, penalties.
Mike A. Cherry, Karrie K. Delaney, Joseph P. McNamara
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Forced labor or service; penalties. Expands the offense of abduction to penalize any person who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, obtains the labor or services of another, or seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes another person or threatens to do so. The bill also expands the offense of receiving money for procuring a person to penalize any person who causes another to engage in forced labor or services or provides or obtains labor or services by any act as described in the offense of abduction. Lastly, the bill allows any person injured as a result of an abduction for the purposes of forced labor or services to commence a civil action for recovery of compensatory damages, punitive damages, and reasonable attorney fees and costs. Forced labor or service; penalties. Expands the offense of abduction to penalize any person who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, obtains the labor or services of another, or seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes another person or threatens to do so. The bill also expands the offense of receiving money for procuring a person to penalize any person who causes another to engage in forced labor or services or provides or obtains labor or services by any act as described in the offense of abduction. Lastly, the bill allows any person injured as a result of an abduction for the purposes of forced labor or services to commence a civil action for recovery of compensatory damages, punitive damages, and reasonable attorney fees and costs.
STATUS
Passed
HB40 - Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
Marcus B. Simon, Mike A. Cherry, Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 9 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to publish an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.
STATUS
Introduced
HB39 - Sex offenders; contributing to the delinquency of a minor, penalty.
Lee Ware, Joseph P. McNamara
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor; sex offenders; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person 18 years of age or older who engages in consensual sexual intercourse or anal intercourse with or performs cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus upon or by a child 15 or older not his spouse, child, or grandchild while such person is required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry.
STATUS
Introduced
HB15 - Warning light units, certain; increases number of units person may equip on one vehicle, etc.
Joseph P. McNamara
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him.
STATUS
Passed
HB88 - Income tax, state; removes sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts.
Joseph P. McNamara, Vivian E. Watts
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Virginia taxable income; standard deduction. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that was scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026.
STATUS
Introduced
HB6 - Eastern Daylight Time; Commonwealth shall observe year-round upon enactment by Congress, etc.
Joseph P. McNamara
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Time zone of the Commonwealth. Provides that the Commonwealth shall observe Eastern Daylight Time (Eastern Standard Time, advanced one hour) year-round upon the enactment by Congress of a law allowing states to observe Eastern Daylight Time year-round.
STATUS
Introduced
HB541 - Income tax, state; deduction for qualified business income.
Joseph P. McNamara
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Income tax; deduction for qualified business income. Establishes, beginning with tax year 2024, an individual income tax deduction in an amount equal to 50 percent of certain federal qualified business income deductions, excluding qualified real estate investment trust dividends.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Virginia district HD-008
COMMITTEES
Virginia House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Joseph P. McNamara is the Chief of Police for the city of San Jose, California. He was first elected to the nonpartisan office in 1976. Chief McNamara graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in social science and later attended the FBI National Academy. Chief McNamara has worked to implement community-oriented policing strategies in San Jose. He helped establish neighborhood watch programs and has focused efforts on crime prevention. Chief McNamara has also been a proponent of gun control legislation in California.read less
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