Rep. Debra Gardner
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Imprisonment; consecutive terms. [HB-179]
Consecutive terms of imprisonment. Eliminates the required imposition of mandatory consecutive sentences of imprisonment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nadarius Clark
Failed To Pass In House on 02/13/2024
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Radar detectors; use and sale of devices to detect radar, etc. [HB-180]
Radar detectors. Authorizes the use and sale of devices and mechanisms to detect a radar, laser, or other device or mechanism employed by law-enforcement personnel to measure the speed of motor vehicles on the highways of the Commonwealth for law-enforcement purposes, commonly known as radar detectors. The bill retains the prohibition on the use of such devices in a commercial motor vehicle.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nadarius Clark
Left In Transportation on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Federal Early Intervention Program for Infants & Toddlers w/Disabilities; reimbursement rates. [HB-177]
Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to assess and make recommendations related to reimbursement rates for the federal Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities. The bill requires the work group to report its recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Social Work Advisory Board; established, report, sunset date. [HB-178]
Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its activities and recommendations. The bill contains an expiration date of June 30, 2027.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Continued To 2025 With Substitute In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Elections; form of ballot, party identification of candidates, constitutional offices. [HB-176]
Elections; form of ballot; party identification of candidates; constitutional offices. Provides that any candidate for a constitutional office who is nominated by a political party or at a primary election shall be identified on the ballot by the name of his political party. Currently, only candidates for federal, statewide, and General Assembly offices are so identified. The constitutional offices are those of the treasurer, sheriff, attorney for the Commonwealth, clerk of court, and commissioner of the revenue.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Failed To Report (defeated) In Privileges And Elections (9-y 13-n) on 02/09/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Rental conveyances; relocates certain provisions related to assignments of rent. [HB-312]
Rental conveyances; leases; assignments. Relocates certain provisions of Title 55.1 (Property and Conveyances) of the Code of Virginia related to assignments of rent from a chapter related to nonresidential tenancies to a chapter related to leases. The bill corrects a technical error from the 2019 recodification of Title 55 of the Code of Virginia.
Sponsored by: Rep. Holly Seibold
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0027) on 03/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Children's residential facility; Off. of Children's Ombudsman to interview children in foster care. [HB-317]
Office of the Children's Ombudsman; children's residential facility. Authorizes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to request that the Department of Social Services, the local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or a child-placing agency grant access and provide consent to interview children in foster care who are the subject of or the complainant in an investigation. The bill also contains technical amendments. Office of the Children's Ombudsman; children's residential facility. Authorizes the Office of the Children's
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Sponsored by: Rep. Holly Seibold
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0280) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Tipped employees; DOLI to study increasing wages and address wage theft by employers. [HB-335]
Department of Labor and Industry; tipped employee wages; work group. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group to study (i) options for increasing tipped employee minimum cash wages, (ii) circumstances related to wage theft or payment inequities by employers of tipped wage employees, and (iii) amending the penalty provisions related to employee remedies and employer penalties for violations of minimum wage requirements. The bill directs the work group to submit a report of its findings no later than December 1, 2024.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
TANF; repeals provision relating to child care services, reporting. [HB-472]
TANF; child care services; reporting; repeal. Repeals the requirement that the Department of Social Services (i) identify strategies for Virginia to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds available for child care services for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program recipients and families whose incomes are at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level and (ii) provide an annual report on these strategies to the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0102) on 03/20/2024
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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