Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Landfills, large; local impact. [SB-409]
Local impact from large landfills. Requires the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to analyze and determine, in writing, what impacts to local water, soil, and air quality are expected from the construction and operation of a new municipal solid waste landfill that will accept 3,500 tons or more of municipal solid waste per day and to impose additional conditions or requirements, including facilities, maintenance, or operation or closure practices, as are necessary to adequately protect local water, soil, and air quality.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Left In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 12/04/2020
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Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention, definition. [SB-411]
Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness. The measure directs the standards to require employers to provide water, shade, rest periods, training, and emergency response procedures. The standards are also directed to require employers in certain industries to implement high-heat procedures when the temperature is 90 degrees Fahrenheit or warmer. The measure requires employers to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Left In Commerce And Labor on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Driver's license; suspension for nonpayment of fines or costs, reinstatement of privilege to drive. [SB-1]
Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended. The bill also removes a provision allowing the court to require a defendant to present a summary prepared by the Department of Motor Vehicles of the other courts in which the defendant also owes fines and costs. The bill requires the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to return or reinstate
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0965) on 04/09/2020
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Virginia 2020 Regular Session
CPL Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge; bridge over I-95. [SB-1005]
Corporal Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Guinea Station Road over Interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County the CPL Ryan C. McGhee Memorial Bridge.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0647) on 04/02/2020
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Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Collective bargaining for public employees; labor organization representation. [SB-1022]
Collective bargaining for public employees. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which will determine appropriate bargaining units and provide for certification and decertification elections for exclusive bargaining representatives of state employees and local government employees. The measure requires public employers and employee organizations that are exclusive bargaining representatives to meet at reasonable times to negotiate in good faith with respect
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Incorporated By Commerce And Labor on 02/03/2020
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Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Civil actions; determination of indigency. [SB-1032]
Civil actions; determination of indigency. Sets out the factors to be considered by the court in its determination of a person's indigency for the purpose of determining inability to pay fees or costs in a civil action. The bill also provides that a person is presumed unable to pay if he is a current recipient of a state or federally funded public assistance program or he is represented by a legal aid society. The bill provides that the presumption is rebuttable except in the case of a no-fault divorce.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0654) on 04/06/2020
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Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure. [SB-1044]
Funeral directors and embalmers; Board to promulgate regulations for licensure. Directs the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to promulgate regulations that establish requirements of licensure for funeral directors and embalmers.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0943) on 04/09/2020
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Cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil; sample testing. [SB-1045]
Cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil; sample testing. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to require that, after processing and before dispensing cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil, a pharmaceutical processor make a homogenized batch of product for testing at an independent laboratory located in Virginia.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0944) on 04/09/2020
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Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Handheld personal communications devices; holding devices while driving a motor vehicle, penalty. [SB-160]
Holding handheld personal communications devices while driving a motor vehicle. Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle. Current law prohibits (i) the reading of any email or text message and manually entering letters or text in such a device as a means of communicating and (ii) holding a personal communications device while driving in a work zone. The bill expands the exemptions to include handheld personal communications devices that are being held and used (a) as an amateur radio
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0543) on 03/31/2020
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Immunity of persons at public hearing; attorney fees and costs. [SB-401]
Immunity of persons at public hearing; attorney fees; costs. Allows for the award of reasonable attorney fees and costs to any person who has a subpoena against him quashed in an action for statements made at a public hearing before the governing body of a locality or other local entity when he is immune from liability for such statements. Current law provides for the award of attorney fees and costs upon the dismissal of such an action.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0824) on 04/07/2020