Rep. Fernando Martinez
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District HD-029
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 66
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia; General Assembly to extend state recognition. [HJR-14]
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure, regulation. [HB-241]
Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers. The bill establishes the scope of services offered by such centers and requirements for operation, management, staffing, facilities, and maintenance and directs the Board to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; marriage between two individuals. [HJR-9]
Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related provisions that are no longer valid as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015). The amendment provides that the right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of persons and prohibits the Commonwealth and its
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Continued To 2025 In Privileges And Elections By Voice Vote on 02/09/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. [HB-174]
Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the basis of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill also requires that such lawful marriages be recognized in the Commonwealth regardless of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill provides that religious organizations or members of the clergy acting in their religious capacity shall
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0021) on 03/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Protective orders; prohibits parent of a minor from filing a petition for family abuse, etc. [HB-295]
Protective order in case of family abuse; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, or from filing as next friend on behalf of his minor child against another of his minor children, provided that the minor has not otherwise been emancipated pursuant to law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Fernando Martinez
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Uniform Statewide Building Code; construction of bus shelters. [HB-285]
Uniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official for bus shelters that do not exceed 256 square feet that are to be constructed for transit agencies receiving state money. The bill exempts the state from liability for any such bus shelter constructed on state-owned property. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027. Uniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0806) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Provisional (Career Switcher) License; special education. [HB-269]
Board of Education; Provisional (Career Switcher) License; special education. Requires the Board of Education to amend its relevant regulation to permit any career switcher who seeks a teaching endorsement preK through grade 12, including any career switcher who seeks a teaching endorsement in special education, to pursue a Provisional (Career Switcher) License through the career switcher alternate route to licensure program in accordance with all of the requirements set forth in such regulation, provided that the individual completes at least 60
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0183) on 03/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanide or a cyanide compound prohibited. [HB-85]
Mineral mining and processing; use of cyanide or a cyanide compound prohibited. Prohibits any miner or other person from using cyanide or a cyanide compound in any mineral mining or processing operation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0135) on 03/26/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Mineral mining and exploration; public notification. [HB-84]
Mineral mining and exploration; public notification. Requires an explorer conducting any mineral exploration activities, as those terms are defined in the bill, prior to the start of such activities, to (i) publish a notice in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality where the exploration activity will occur at least once a week for two successive weeks, (ii) notify the governing body of such locality at least 15 days in advance of such activity, and (iii) notify all individual residences and properties within 500 yards of the property
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Passed By Indefinitely In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (10-y 5-n) on 02/20/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Regional workforce development and child care initiative; implementation in Southwest Va. [HB-365]
Department of Education and Department of Workforce Development and Advancement; work group; regional workforce development and child care initiative in Southwest Virginia; report. Requires the Department of Education and the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement to jointly establish and appoint such members as such departments deem appropriate to a work group to monitor the implementation of the regional workforce development and child care initiative being implemented by the United Way of Southwest Virginia, the Wellspring Foundation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024