Rep. Rae Cousins
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters, right to vote, persons not entitled to vote. [HJR-2]
Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental right to vote in the Commonwealth and that such right shall not be abridged by law, except for persons who have been convicted of a felony and persons who have been adjudicated to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting. A person who has been convicted of a felony shall not be entitled to vote
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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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Unlawful detainer; bifurcation of case. [HB-740]
Unlawful detainer; bifurcation of case; contested rent and damages. Provides that, at an initial hearing on an unlawful detainer, if the defendant contests the amount of rent and damages alleged to be due and owing to the plaintiff, the court shall not bifurcate the unlawful detainer case. Under current law, at the initial hearing, upon request of the plaintiff, the court is required to bifurcate the unlawful detainer case and set a continuance date no later than 120 days from the date of the initial hearing to determine final rent and damages.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
At-Risk Program; established, public school funding. [HB-825]
Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at risk, including prevention, intervention, or remediation activities required pursuant to Standard 1 (§ 22.1-253.13:1); teacher recruitment programs and incentives; Dropout Prevention; community and school-based truancy officer programs; Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID); Project Discovery; programs for English language learners; the hiring of additional school
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 03/09/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public schools; staffing ratios of teachers for English language learner students. [HB-828]
Public school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwide ratios of English language learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions as follows: (i) for each English language learner identified as proficiency level one, one position per 25 students; (ii) for each English language learner identified as proficiency level two, one position per 30 students; (iii) for each English language learner
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Incorporated By Education on 01/31/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities; trusts, certain nonvested property interests. [HB-836]
Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities; trusts; certain nonvested property interests or powers of appointment over property or property interests. Extends from 90 years to 1,000 years the period for which a nonvested property interest held in trust may vest or terminate, or for which a power of appointment over property or property interests may be exercised. The bill clarifies that such extension applies only to such interests or powers that were created on or after July 1, 2024, and that such extension does not apply to real property held
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nadarius Clark
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0052) on 03/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Maternal Mortality Review Team, et al.; expanding composition and scope of work. [HB-831]
Chief Medical Examiner; Maternal Mortality Review Team; work group; expansion plan; report. Directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Maternal Mortality Review Team to convene a work group to expand the work of the Maternal Mortality Review Team. The bill directs the work group to develop criteria and procedures related to the collection of maternal morbidity data. The bill specifies that the Maternal Mortality Review Team's expansion plan shall include certain plans for data collection, data review, and development and implementation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0457) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Farm to School Program Task Force; Department of Education to establish. [HB-830]
Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of increasing student access throughout the Commonwealth to high-quality farm to school programs, defined in the bill as programs (i) whereby public schools purchase and feature prominently in school meals locally produced food or (ii) that involve experiential student learning opportunities relating to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0398) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; appointment of counsel or guardian ad litem. [HB-835]
Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; appointment of counsel or guardian ad litem; removal or appeal. Specifies that any attorney appointed to represent a child or parent, guardian, or other adult at a hearing in the juvenile and domestic relations district court shall continue representation upon removal or appeal to the circuit court and upon the juvenile and domestic relations court being divested of the right to enter any further decrees or orders to determine custody, guardianship, visitation, or support. Under current law, such
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rae Cousins
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Juvenile and domestic relations district court; recording of proceedings. [HB-837]
Recording of proceedings in district courts; juvenile and domestic relations district court. Allows an audio recording of proceedings in a juvenile and domestic relations district court to be made by a party or his counsel. Recording of proceedings in district courts; juvenile and domestic relations district court. Allows an audio recording of proceedings in a juvenile and domestic relations district court to be made by a party or his counsel.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rae Cousins
Continued To 2025 In Courts Of Justice By Voice Vote on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
On-campus food insecurity; SCHEV to survey institutions to determine how they are addressing issue. [HB-827]
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is addressing on-campus food insecurity, including specific methods, programs, sources of funding, expenditures, communications strategies, and staffing; (ii) compile and make available to each such institution a guidance document containing best practices for leveraging all available resources and opportunities,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0644) on 04/08/2024