1997 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 534

File Code: Municipal Corporations Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 489
Sponsored By:
Delegates Conroy, Workman, Kagan, Gordon, Morgan, Snodgrass, Barve, Healey, Hubbard, Conway, Hecht, Howard, Menes, B. Hughes, Pitkin, Guns, Hixson, Bonsack, Rudolph, and Benson
Entitled:
Municipal Corporations - Incorporation Process

Synopsis:

Altering the process by which an organizing community reflecting a qualifying area can seek to become a municipal corporation; requiring the Office of the Attorney General to develop a standard petition form for use by an organizing community and to provide the form to the boards of supervisors of elections of each county; altering the requirements for a valid petition for incorporation; authorizing a county governing body to appoint specified officials to serve as liaisons with the organizing committee; etc.

Legislative History

House Action
1/29
First Reading Commerce and Government Matters
2/5
Hearing 2/20 at 1:15 p.m.
3/11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Commerce and Government Matters
3/12
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/17
Third Reading Passed (122-11)
Senate Action
3/17
First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
3/31
Unfavorable Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored by:
Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
Delegate Cheryl C. Kagan, District 17
Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
Delegate John S. Morgan, District 13B
Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
ATTORNEY GENERAL
CHARTERS
COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COUNTY COUNCILS
ELECTION SUPERVISORS
FORMS
HEARINGS
INCOME TAX
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
PETITIONS
REFERENDUM
VETO
ZONING AND PLANNING
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Article - 23A Corporations - Municipal
( 20 , 21 , 22 , 22 , 23 , 23 , 24 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 29 , 30 )

Documents:

Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments:
House
Number: 126356/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 12, 1997 at: 10:13 Status: Adopted