Rep. Debra Gardner
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
School boards; enrolled students present at meetings, public comment or citizen participation. [HB-253]
School boards; meetings; public comment or citizen participation; enrolled students. Requires each school board to permit any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division who provides acceptable proof of identification, if requested, and who signs up in accordance with the sign-up procedures for the respective school board meeting to submit oral comments during any public comment portion of such meeting, subject to the same reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions imposed by such school board on
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0689) on 04/08/2024
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Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program; established, report. [HB-1216]
Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees. The Program shall be administered by the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (the Foundation). To participate in the Program, an employer shall agree to make child care contributions to the eligible mixed-delivery provider on behalf of the employee and shall provide any other information deemed necessary
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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
Omitted taxes; installment agreements. [HB-1503]
Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed with omitted taxes. Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed with omitted taxes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Convirs-Fowler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0488) on 04/04/2024
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Attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; qualifications and performance. [HB-893]
Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, beginning July 1, 2026, to adopt standards for the qualification and performance of attorneys appointed to represent a parent or guardian of a child when such child is the subject of a child dependency case, as defined in the bill. The bill also requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, beginning July 1,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0428) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction on mental health education. [HB-603]
Public elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enumerated in the bill, including (i) general themes of social and emotional learning, including self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, relationship skills, and social awareness; (ii) signs and symptoms of common mental health challenges; and (iii) mental health wellness and healthy
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0812) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Treatment with opioids; Board of Medicine, et al., to amend their regulations. [HB-699]
Board of Medicine; Board of Dentistry; Board of Optometry; Boards of Medicine and Nursing; patient counseling; treatment with opioids. Directs the Board of Medicine, the Board of Dentistry, the Board of Optometry, and the Boards of Medicine and Nursing to amend their regulations to require the provision of certain information to patients being prescribed an opioid for the treatment of acute or chronic pain. The bill requires that the regulations include an exception to the required provision of such information for patients who are (i) in active
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text Reprinted (chap0448) on 04/04/2024
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Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. [HB-1028]
Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed development of an assisted living facility. Such ordinance shall apply to newly licensed assisted living facilities and permit applications approved on or after January 1, 2025. Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Tran
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Plastic firearms & unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, etc. prohibited, penalties. [HB-173]
Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purchases, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports, government buildings,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Assault firearms & certain ammunition, etc.; purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., prohibited. [HB-2]
Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction. The bill provides that an assault firearm does not include any firearm that is an antique firearm, has
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, nondiscrimination in employment, etc., penalties. [HB-18]
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0266) on 04/02/2024