Sen. Tammy Brankley Mulchi
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Primary elections; candidates for nomination, withdrawal of candidacy. [SB-131]
Primary elections; candidates for nomination; withdrawal of candidacy resulting in unopposed primary; primary cancellation and nomination procedure. Provides that if a person who is a candidate for nomination by a political party at a primary election and who appears on the ballot for such election withdraws his candidacy on or after the forty-fourth day before but prior to the Tuesday immediately preceding the primary election, and the result of such withdrawal is one remaining candidate who is now unopposed, the remaining candidate will be declared
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Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0230) on 03/28/2024
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Sales tax, local; Prince Edward County added to list of localities that are authorized to impose. [SB-146]
Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; Prince Edward County. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for the construction or renovation of schools.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Incorporated By Finance on 02/21/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public school teachers; licensure requirements, issuance of a one-year local eligibility license. [SB-142]
Public school teachers; licensure requirements; one-year local eligibility license; alternate routes and flexibility. Requires the Board of Education to include in its teacher licensure regulations provisions authorizing each school board, upon recommendation of the division superintendent or the school board and in accordance with the criteria set forth in the bill, to issue a one-year, nonrenewable local eligibility license that is only valid within the issuing school division to any individual who (i) received a baccalaureate degree from a regionally
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Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0845) on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Organizations, certain; State Department of Health's regulation on sale of food. [SB-141]
State Department of Health; regulation of certain organizations; sale of food. Expands a current exemption to allow churches, fraternal or school organizations, organizations that are exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and volunteer fire departments and volunteer emergency medical services agencies that not only hold, as provided for in current law, but also participate in occasional dinners, bazaars, and other fundraisers of one or two days' duration, at which food (i) prepared in the homes of members; (ii) prepared
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Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Left In Education And Health on 02/14/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, etc.; approval process. [SB-721]
Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, local planning commissions, subdivision plats and site plans, and zoning ordinances; approval process. Makes several changes to local government land use approval processes, including (i) prohibiting use of the comprehensive plan as the basis, in whole or in part, for the disapproval of a site plan that is otherwise in conformity with duly adopted standards, ordinances, and statutes and (ii) allowing automatic approval of certain land use applications rather than a right to petition the circuit
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Continued To 2025 In Local Government (15-y 0-n) on 01/29/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Enterprise zones; renewal periods. [SB-722]
Enterprise zones; renewal periods. Authorizes the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, to renew enterprise zones for up to four five-year renewal periods for zones designated on or after July 1, 2005, and for up to two five-year renewal periods for zones designated before July 1, 2005. Under current law, zones designated on or after July 1, 2005, may be renewed for up to three such periods and zones designated before July 1, 2005, may be renew for up to one such period.
Sponsored by: Sen. Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Incorporated By Local Government on 01/29/2024
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K-12 schools and higher educational institutions; student participation in women's sports, etc. [SB-723]
K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other school that is a member of the Virginia High School League, or by a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on the biological sex of the students who participate on the team or in the sport: (i) males, men, or boys; (ii) females, women, or girls;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 5-n) on 02/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prostitution; increases penalties for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation from an adult. [SB-700]
Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to solicit prostitution from any minor. Under current law, any person who solicits prostitution from a minor is guilty of a Class 6 felony if the minor is 16 years of age or older or a Class 5 felony if the minor is younger than 16 years of age. Finally, the bill increases the fines for certain offenses related to sex trafficking
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice (8-y 7-n) on 01/31/2024
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Rights of women; affirming biological differences between the sexes. [SJR-49]
Recognizing rights of women; affirming biological differences between the sexes for purposes of laws of the Commonwealth. Recognizes the rights of women by affirming that for purposes of the laws of the Commonwealth, a person's sex is defined as his or her biological sex, either male or female, at birth. Recognizing rights of women; affirming biological differences between the sexes for purposes of laws of the Commonwealth. Recognizes the rights of women by affirming that for purposes of the laws of the Commonwealth, a person's sex is defined as
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tammy Brankley Mulchi
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/02/2024
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Rural Virginia, Center for; renames Center the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia. [SB-704]
Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0133) on 03/26/2024