Rep. Christopher Peace
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District HD-097
Party Republican
Bills Introduced 0
Sponsored Legislation
Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Guidance counselors; changes name to school counselors, staff time. [HB-1729]
School counselors; nomenclature; staff time. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school to spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0139) on 02/22/2019
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School safety procedures; emergency situations, annual training. [HB-1732]
School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training. Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each student and employee in each school at least once each school year. This bill is identical to SB 1215.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0140) on 02/22/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
School boards; local law-enforcement agencies, memorandums of understanding. [HB-1733]
School boards; local law-enforcement agencies; memorandums of understanding. Requires (i) the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to develop a model memorandum of understanding and (ii) the school board in each school division in which the local law-enforcement agency employs school resource officers to enter into a memorandum of understanding with such local law-enforcement agency that is based on such model and sets forth the powers and duties of the school resource officers. The bill requires each such school board and local law-enforcement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0455) on 03/18/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Student Behavioral Health, Commission on; established, report. [HB-1735]
Commission on Student Behavioral Health created. Establishes the Commission on Student Behavioral Health as a legislative branch commission. The purpose of the Commission shall be to (i) assess the efficacy of developing and implementing a statewide behavioral health and suicide prevention hotline that students may use to report threats of violence or receive real-time counseling services; (ii) review the current school counselor-to-student ratio, and whether the realignment of counseling responsibilities proposed by the House Select Committee on
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Failed To Pass In House on 02/24/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
School buildings; plans to be reviewed by a professional trained & experienced in crime prevention. [HB-1738]
School buildings; plans to be reviewed by an individual or entity experienced in crime prevention through environmental design. Requires the plans and specifications for new or remodeled public school building construction to be reviewed by an individual or entity with professional expertise in crime prevention through environmental design. All comments by such reviewer shall be submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction along with the final plans and specifications.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0226) on 03/05/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Election day; school holiday. [HB-1752]
Election day; school holiday. Prohibits local school boards from requiring students to attend school on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (11-y 4-n) on 02/14/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Menhaden; VMRC to adopt regulations for managing the Commonwealth's fishery. [HB-1769]
Management of menhaden. Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) to adopt regulations to implement the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden and authorizes the Commission to adopt regulations for managing the Commonwealth's menhaden fishery. The bill also requires that any moratorium on the fishery be subject to legislative review. The bill repeals several Code sections relating to quotas, allocation of allowable landings, and administrative procedures that will be included
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/05/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act; prevention of juvenile crime prior to intake. [HB-1771]
Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act; prevention of juvenile crime prior to intake. Provides that juveniles who have been screened for needing community-based services using an evidence-based assessment protocol are eligible to receive community-based services as provided by the Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act (?§16.1-309.2 et seq.). The bill also requires the total number of children who have been screened for needing community diversion or community-based services using an evidence-based assessment protocol to be factored
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0105) on 02/21/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases, review of program. [HB-1804]
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefighters and certain employees develop the cancer. The measure will become effective if reenacted by the 2020 Session of the General Assembly. The measure also directs the 2020 Session of the General Assembly, in considering and enacting any legislation relating to workers' compensation and the presumption
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0415) on 03/18/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Handheld personal communications devices; prohibition on holding while driving. [HB-1811]
Use of handheld personal communications devices while driving. Prohibits any person from holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle. Current law prohibits only the reading of any email or text message and manually entering letters or text in such a device as a means of communicating. The bill expands the exemptions to include handheld personal communications devices that are being held and used (i) as an amateur radio or a citizens band radio or (ii) for official Department of Transportation or traffic incident
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace
Failed To Pass In House on 02/24/2019