Rep. Rozia Henson
Stats
District HD-019
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 44
Sponsored Legislation
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Health insurance; coverage for colorectal cancer screening. [HB-238]
Health insurance; coverage for colorectal cancer screening. Requires health insurers to provide coverage for examinations and laboratory tests related to colorectal cancer screening in accordance with the most recently published recommendations established by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for colorectal cancer screening for which a rating of A or B is in effect with respect to the individual involved. The bill requires such coverage to include coverage of a follow-up colonoscopy after a positive noninvasive stool-based screening test or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0181) on 03/28/2024
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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
Firearm; locking device required for purchase, households where minor resides, penalty. [HB-351]
Firearm locking device required for purchase of a firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Requires any person who purchases a firearm to either (i) obtain or purchase from a licensed dealer a locking device for such firearm if a minor is present in such person's residence for 14 days or more in a calendar month or (ii) complete a certification statement on a form provided by the Department of State Police certifying that a minor is not present in such person's residence for 14 days or more in a calendar month, with exceptions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures, Task Force on. [HB-286]
Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes to guide policies in the Commonwealth to improve maternal care, quality, and outcomes for all birthing people in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the Task Force to report its findings and conclusions to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1 of each year regarding its activities. This bill
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Health care providers & grocery store workers; employers to provide paid sick leave, effective date. [HB-256]
Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain home health workers. The bill removes requirements that workers work on average at least 20 hours per week or 90 hours per month to be eligible for paid sick leave. The bill provides that certain health care providers may waive their right to accrue and use paid sick leave and provides an exemption for
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
Incorporated By Labor And Commerce on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Adult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. [HB-255]
Adult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. Provides that every adult resident of the Commonwealth may be offered screening tests for sickle cell disease or the sickle cell trait and requires that the health care professional in charge of an adult's annual health examination provide education and appropriate counseling regarding the results of any such test that is performed. Adult wellness screening; sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait. Provides that every adult resident of the Commonwealth may be offered screening
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0182) on 03/28/2024
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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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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Teachers; process and timeline for increasing salary. [HB-187]
Average teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act enacted during any regular or special session of the General Assembly during 2025, 2026, or 2027 to fund, the Commonwealth's share of compensation supplement incentives for Standards of Quality-funded instructional and support positions sufficient to increase the average
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Sickle cell anemia; prescription of opioids for pain management. [HB-257]
Prescription of opioids; sickle cell anemia. Exempts prescribers from certain requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program related to prescribing opioids if the opioid is prescribed to a patient for pain management related to sickle cell anemia.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0635) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Salt and brine; use on certain highways located in watershed of Occoquan River. [HB-1352]
Use of salt and brine; certain highways. Prohibits the Department of Transportation from using salt or brine for stabilization or control of ice or snow on any highway that is part of the primary or secondary state highway system and located in the watershed of the Occoquan River.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rozia Henson
Left In Transportation on 02/13/2024