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Committee advances bill letting municipalities charge Commonwealth for stormwater fees; amendment strips findings
Summary
The House Local Government Committee voted to report House Bill 1308, which would allow municipalities and municipal authorities to charge stormwater planning and management fees to the Commonwealth and entities otherwise tax‑exempt; the committee adopted an amendment removing the bill’s legislative findings before reporting it 18‑8 to the floor.
At a meeting of the House Local Government Committee, members voted 18-8 to report House Bill 1308, Representative Fleming’s stormwater management measure, which would allow municipal corporations and municipal authorities to charge or impose fees for stormwater planning, management and implementation on the Commonwealth and on otherwise tax‑exempt entities.
The bill would amend Title 27 (Environmental Resources) and Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the consolidated statutes to: clarify that an authority performing stormwater work may charge reasonable and uniform rates to owners of property that benefit from those services; allow rates to be based on impervious surface or…
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