Rep. Wren Williams
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
School safety audits; law-enforcement officers. [HB-1129]
School safety audits; law-enforcement officers. Requires each local school board to require its schools to collaborate with the chief law-enforcement officer of the locality or his designee when conducting required school safety audits. Under current law, the division superintendent is required to make the results of such audits available to the chief law-enforcement officer upon request. The bill also requires that the completed walk-through checklist using the standardized checklist provided by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Referred To Committee On Education And Health on 03/11/2022
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Voter registration; registration permitted up to and including the day of the election. [HB-941]
Voter registration; registration permitted up to and including the day of the election. Repeals a provision that would permit any person who is qualified to register to vote to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election, notwithstanding any deadline for the close of registration records. The repeal will limit the persons who are entitled to register to vote after the close of registration records to (i) any member of a uniformed service of the United States who is on active duty, (ii) any person residing temporarily outside
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Public elementary or secondary school student; moral and character education, etc. [HB-787]
Teaching or promotion of certain concepts in public elementary and secondary education; declaration as unlawful and discriminatory practice. Declares it an unlawful and discriminatory practice for any local school board or employee or contractor thereof to teach any public elementary or secondary school student to believe or promote to any such student as valid the belief that (i) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; (ii) an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 03/03/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Collective bargaining; law enforcement, transparency and accountability. [HB-790]
Collective bargaining; law enforcement; transparency and accountability. Prohibits a county, city, or town from entering into a collective bargaining contract with a labor union or other employee association representing law-enforcement officers or employees of a law-enforcement agency that (i) prevents the Attorney General from seeking equitable relief against a law-enforcement agency engaging in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct; (ii) includes any stipulation that delays officer interviews or interrogations after alleged wrongdoing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Passed By Indefinitely In Commerce And Labor (12-y 3-n) on 02/28/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Va. Employment Commission; administrative reforms, reporting requirements, electronic submissions. [HB-270]
Virginia Employment Commission; administrative reforms; reporting requirements; electronic submissions; Unemployment Compensation Ombudsman established; emergency. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to calculate and report the (i) average unemployment insurance benefit levels, (ii) average income replacement of unemployment insurance benefits, and (iii) recipiency rate for unemployment insurance benefits in the Commonwealth as part of the Commission's annual balance sheet. The bill also requires the Commission, as part of its biennial strategic
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0754) on 04/27/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; transportation of minor, acceptance of custody. [HB-159]
Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; custody. Requires a facility or location to which a minor or adult who is subject to an emergency custody or temporary detention order is transported to accept custody of the minor or adult upon completion of transportation and arrival of the minor or adult at the facility and specifies that the primary law-enforcement agency shall provide transportation of a person who is involved in the involuntary commitment process, rather than a sheriff, as provided under current law. Emergency custody and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/15/2022
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Family life education instruction; school year time limit. [HB-1347]
Family life education instruction; school year time limit. Requires each school board that offers a family life education curriculum to limit instruction delivered to students pursuant to such curriculum to one hour per school year in each grade level.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Left In Education on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program; created. [HB-1241]
Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program. Authorizes the attorney for the Commonwealth for each judicial circuit of the Commonwealth to create and administer a Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program for the purpose of providing an alternative to prosecuting offenders in the criminal justice system. The bill provides that entry into such program shall be at the discretion of the attorney for the Commonwealth based upon written guidelines and that no attorney for the Commonwealth shall accept any offender into such program for an offense for
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Plum
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/15/2022
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Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the tenth day prior to election. [HB-945]
Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the tenth day prior to election. Limits absentee voting in person to the ten days immediately preceding an election.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/15/2022
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Election officials, state and local; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. [HB-1101]
State and local elections officials; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. Prohibits state and local elections officials from soliciting, accepting, using, or disposing of any moneys, grants, property, or services given by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education and outreach programs, voter registration programs, or any other expense incurred in the conduct of elections. The bill specifically provides that the operation of a polling place or voter satellite office in a facility furnished
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/15/2022