Rep. Christopher Peace
Stats
District HD-097
Party Republican
Bills Introduced 0
Sponsored Legislation
Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Animal protection and fighting; broadens penalty. [HB-656]
Animal protection and fighting; penalty. Provides that engaging in the fighting of any animals is a Class 1 misdemeanor, while dog fighting remains a Class 6 felony. Possession of any materials intended to enhance the ability of animals to fight, permitting a minor to become involved in animal fighting, or wagering on animal fighting raises any such offense to a Class 6 felony. Animals that are the subject of such criminal charges may be forfeited to the locality, but the owner may post bond to retain his ownership interest and repossess the animals
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0543) on 03/17/2008
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Involuntary commitment hearings; accessibility of results by colleges and universities. [HB-751]
Involuntary hearing results; accessibility by colleges and universities. Allows colleges and universities to access the outcome of an involuntary commitment hearing by making a motion to the court.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter House: Continued To 2009 In Health, Welfare And Institutions By Voice Vote on 01/29/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; mental health record release authorization when enrolling. [HB-752]
Enrollment in an institution of higher education; mental health record release authorization. Requires institutions of higher education to obtain a mental health record release authorization from students prior to enrollment.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter House: Continued To 2009 In Education By Voice Vote on 02/04/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN); protective order information sent thereto, expiration. [HB-753]
Protective orders; expiration; Virginia Criminal Information Network. Provides that when a protective order is issued, the district court must forthwith, but no later than the end of the business day on which the order was issued, enter and transfer identifying information to the Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN) system. If the order is issued by the circuit court, the primary law-enforcement agency to whom the order was forwarded by the clerk of the court must enter the name of the person subject to the order and other appropriate information
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0073) on 03/04/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Horse racing; local referendum. [HB-754]
Horse racing; local referendum; definition of town. Specifies that for the purposes of local referenda on pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing by a town with a population of 5,000 or more, population shall be calculated based upon the most recent population estimate by the United State Bureau of the Census or the most recent population update from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace Senate: Failed To Pass In Senate on 03/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Highway maintenance payments; Arlington and Henrico Counties receive payments for roads. [HB-788]
Highway maintenance payments to counties. Allows counties that maintain their own secondary highways (Henrico and Arlington) and are more than 100 square miles in size to receive the same per-lane-mile maintenance payments provided for roads within urban transportation service districts in other counties.
Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon Senate: Failed To Report (defeated) In Finance (7-y 9-n) on 02/26/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Teachers; provisional and local eligibility licenses if military personnel. [HB-809]
Provisional and local eligibility licenses; military personnel. Permits the Board of Education to extend a three-year provisional license an additional year for each school year or portion thereof for which a teacher is activated or deployed for military service. The bill provides that local school divisions may offer a similar extension to teachers holding three-year local eligibility licenses. This bill contains an emergency clause.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0051) on 03/04/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Inmates; officer of correctional facility to inquire of alien status. [HB-820]
Alien status of jail and correctional facility inmates. Requires an officer in charge of a jail or correctional facility to inquire of a person in his custody as to whether the person was born in or is a citizen of the United States and to make an immigration alien query to the Law Enforcement Support Center of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement for any person who was born in or is a citizen of another country, or if the answers to these questions are unknown. The jail officer shall communicate the results of this immigration
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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0180) on 03/05/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Foster care; require code of ethics agreement signed by head of every foster home, etc. [HB-850]
Foster care; Code of Ethics agreement. Requires Board of Social Services to approve, in foster care policy, the language of the written agreement to be entered into by local boards and licensed child-placing agencies. This bill also provides that such agreements shall include at a minimum a Code of Ethics and mutual responsibilities for all parties to the agreement. This bill is identical to
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0308) on 03/11/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
School divisions, local; requires 65% of each education dollar to be spent in classroom, report. [HB-878]
Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to allocate 65 percent of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their operating budgets allocated to instructional spending. Any school division that fails to meet the 65 percent requirement must present a plan to the Board of Education to increase instructional spending by 0.5 percent in the following fiscal year. School divisions failing to submit such a plan must be
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Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Peace House: Continued To 2009 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/06/2008