Rep. Jason Miyares
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District HD-082
Party Republican
Bills Introduced 21
Sponsored Legislation
Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Virginia Minority Business Commission; established, report, sunset provision. [HB-124]
Virginia Minority Business Commission; report. Establishes a 13-member legislative Commission to promote the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned businesses. The bill provides that the Commission sunsets on July 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Plum
Left In Appropriations on 12/04/2020
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Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction and Bond Rating Protection Act of 2020; established, report. [HB-389]
Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction and Bond Rating Protection Act of 2020; report. Establishes the Hurricane and Flooding Risk Reduction and Bond Rating Protection Act of 2020, which establishes the Commonwealth of Virginia as a nonfederal sponsor of hurricane and flooding risk reduction projects. There is also established the Virginia Hurricane and Flood Risk Reduction Authority (the Authority) and a board of directors (the Board) of the Authority. The Board shall exercise for the Governor executive authority over all phases of hurricane and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Miyares
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; bystander claims for emotional distress. [HB-127]
Bystander claims for intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; emotional distress. Provides that a bystander who witnesses, live and in-person, an event during which the intentional or negligent infliction of injury to or death of a victim occurs may recover damages for resulting emotional distress, proven by a preponderance of the evidence, with or without a physical impact or physical injury to the bystander, if (i) the bystander is related to the victim or (ii) although not related to the victim, the bystander is in close proximity
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Miyares
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Geriatric prisoners; conditional release, exceptions. [HB-1224]
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners; exceptions. Prohibits persons serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction of murder in the first degree or a sexually violent offense, if the offense resulting in such conviction occurred on or after July 1, 2020, from petitioning the Parole Board for conditional release. Under current law, such persons may petition the Parole Board when such persons reach age 65 and have served at least five years of their sentence or reach age 60 and have served at least 10 years of their sentence. The prohibition does
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Miyares
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Prostitution; expungement of convictions. [HB-128]
Expungement of prostitution convictions. Allows a person to petition for expungement of convictions for prostitution when the person was induced to engage in prostitution through the use of force, intimidation, or deception by another.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Miyares
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Power of attorney; witness or notary public. [HB-96]
Power of attorney; witness or notary public. Requires that a power of attorney signed on or after July 1, 2020, be signed before at least one witness or a notary public. Power of attorney; witness or notary public. Requires that a power of attorney signed on or after July 1, 2020, be signed before at least one witness or a notary public.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Miyares
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Limitations period; previously time-barred actions, sexual abuse, two-year time period to file. [HB-610]
Limitations period; previously time-barred actions; sexual abuse; two-year time period to file. Creates a two-year time period, on or after July 1, 2020, but before July 1, 2022, within which persons previously time-barred from filing an action for injury to such person for sexual abuse occurring during the infancy or incapacity of such person due to the expiration of the statute of limitations may file such an action.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Miyares
Left In Judiciary on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Income tax, state; subtraction for low-income military veterans with a service-connected disability. [HB-1619]
Income tax; subtraction for low-income military veterans with a permanent service-connected disability. Provides an income tax subtraction for the military retirement income received by a veteran who has been rated with a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability. The bill provides that the subtraction is available only to those taxpayers whose federal adjusted gross income is not greater than 150 percent of the federal poverty level for a four-person household.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2016 Regular Session
Protective order; violation of order, possession of a firearm or other deadly weapon, penalty. [HB-1087]
Violation of protective order; firearm or other deadly weapon; penalty. Provides that any person who violates a protective order with which he has been served while knowingly armed with a firearm or other deadly weapon is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0585) on 03/29/2016
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Virginia 2016 Regular Session
Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; distribution of moneys. [HB-1111]
Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission. Allows an elected official of any of the four counties embraced by the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission (the Commission) who serves on the county's governing body and has been appointed by resolution of such governing body to represent the county on the Commission to serve on the Commission. Currently, only the chief elected officer of such county may serve on the Commission. The bill allows a chief elected officer to designate a current elected officer of the same governing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Taylor Mason
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0603) on 04/01/2016