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HB 465 - with Delegate Herring. Jury verdict; allows court to amend pleadings to conform to amount awarded.
Status:  Committee for Courts of Justice- Reported from Civil Subcommittee

Jury verdict; excess damages; amendment of pleadings. Allows a court, in the event a jury returns a verdict for damages in excess of the amount requested, to amend the pleadings to conform them to the amount awarded and enter a judgment for such damages.

HB 1044 - with Delegate Kory. Income tax, state; renewable energy property and energy audit tax credit.
Status:  Committee on Finance

Income tax; renewable energy property and energy audit tax credit. Grants an income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, to individuals for renewable energy property and residential energy audits as follows: Solar panels tax credits - $1.25/watt for first 2,000 watts; $0.75/watt for 2,001‐8,000 watts; $0.25/watt for 8,001‐20,000 watts; not to exceed $10,500. Solar hot water tax credit - up to $2,000. Geothermal heat pumps - 10 percent of installed cost up to $3,000 tax credit. Residential energy audits - 50 percent of cost up to $250 tax credit; one per five-year period. The bill also grants an income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, to commercial business taxpayers for renewable energy property and energy audits as follows: Solar panels tax credit - $1.25/watt for first 2,000 watts; $0.75/watt for 2,001‐8,000 watts; $0.25/watt for 8,001‐20,000 watts; not to exceed $2.5 million. Solar hot water tax credit - 25 percent of installed cost up to $10,000. Geothermal heat pumps tax credit - 10 percent of installed cost up to $10,000. Commercial building energy audit - 50 percent of cost up to $500 tax credit; one per five-year period.

HB 1046 - with Delegate Kory. Income tax, state; nonprofit charitable donations for Energy Star qualified products tax credit.
Status:  Committee on Finance

Income tax; nonprofit charitable donations for Energy Star qualified products tax credit. Grants an income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, to individual taxpayers and business taxpayers that make a cash donation to charitable nonprofit organizations that use the donation to construct, purchase, or lease Energy Star qualified products for their headquarters on or after January 1, 2010. The amount of the credit equals 50 percent of such equipment expenditures but not more than $25,000 total.

HB 1361 - with Delegate Keam. Computer and digital forensic services; exempt from regulation as a private security service business.
Status:  Committee on Science & Technology

Computer and digital forensic services; exempt from regulation as a private security service business. Exempts from regulation as a private security service business any individual engaged in (i) computer or digital forensic services or in the acquisition, review, or analysis of digital or computer-based information, whether for purposes of obtaining or furnishing information for evidentiary or other purposes or for providing expert testimony before a court or (ii) network or system vulnerability testing, including network scans and risk assessment and analysis of computers connected to a network.