Rep. Jeffrey Bourne
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District HD-071
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 57
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Marijuana; possession. [HB-1507]
Possession of marijuana. Allows for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Possession of marijuana. Allows for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
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Corrections, Department of; earned sentence credits. [HB-1532]
Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits. Establishes a four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits. The bill requires the calculation of earned sentence credits to apply retroactively to the entire sentence of any inmate who is confined in a state correctional facility and participating in the earned sentence credit system on July 1, 2020.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Wage or salary history; inquiries prohibited, civil penalty. [HB-416]
Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits a prospective employer with 25 employees or more from (i) requiring as a condition of employment that a prospective employee provide or disclose the prospective employee's wage or salary history, (ii) attempting to obtain the wage or salary history of a prospective employee from the prospective employee's current or former employers, (iii) requesting a prospective employee to complete an application for employment that includes a question inquiring about the prospective employee's
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
General Assembly; streaming and recording of meetings. [HB-182]
General Assembly meetings; streaming and recording. Requires the Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate to ensure that every (i) subcommittee or committee meeting of a standing committee of the General Assembly, regardless of meeting date, and (ii) floor session of the House of Delegates or the Senate, including any joint session of the houses, is streamed with closed captioning, recorded and archived. The bill defines "stream" and specifies that a qualifying meeting is one the date and time of which have been scheduled on a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Virginia Minimum Wage Act; removes exemption for persons employed in domestic service, etc. [HB-338]
Virginia Minimum Wage Act; exemption. Removes the exemption from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons employed in domestic service or in or about a private home or in an eleemosynary institution primarily supported by public funds.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; real property tax exemption for affordable housing (first reference). [HJR-2]
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption; affordable housing. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize a locality to fully or partially exempt affordable housing, as such term may be defined by statute, from real property taxation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
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Public defender or any deputies or employees; proportionally supplementing compensation. [HB-869]
Supplementing compensation of public defender. Requires the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of their deputies or employees, above the salary of any such officer, deputy, or employee, to supplement the compensation of the public defender, or any of his deputies or employees, in the same amount as the supplement to the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of his deputies or employees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Resilience hub pilot program; established. [HB-959]
Establishing a resilience hub pilot program to assist vulnerable communities during emergency situations. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to establish a two-year resilience hub pilot program to assist vulnerable communities during emergency situations. The bill defines a "resilience hub" as a simple combination of solar panels and batteries that ensures continuous power to a publicly accessible building when severe weather events or other grid disruptions cause an electrical outage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jeffrey Bourne
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. [HB-7]
Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Prohibits any locality, its employees, or its appointed commissions from discriminating (i) in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines, or in the permitting of housing developments, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, elderliness, familial status, or handicap or (ii) in the permitting of housing developments because the housing development contains or is expected to contain affordable housing units
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Robbery; definition, penalty. [HB-871]
Robbery; penalty. Defines "robbery" and creates degrees of punishment corresponding to the severity of a robbery offense. Any person who commits a robbery by causing serious bodily injury is guilty of robbery in the first degree, which is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for a maximum term of life. Any person who commits robbery by displaying a firearm in a threatening manner is guilty of robbery in the second degree, which is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for a maximum term of 20 years. Any
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
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