Rep. Rick Morris
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [HB-1001]
Enforcement of immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police shall seek to enter into a memorandum of agreement with United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as authorized under 8 U.S.C. §1357(g), to permit the State Police to perform federal immigration law-enforcement functions in the Commonwealth after arrest of an alien.
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Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for State businesses. [HB-1015]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides, for contracts not expected to exceed $5 million, a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder if the bid of a Virginia business is within five percent or $10,000, whichever is less, of the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder. The bill also provides that to be deemed a resident of Virginia, a Virginia person, firm, or corporation must have paid unemployment
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Behavior and assistant behavior analysts; licensure by Board of Medicine. [HB-1106]
Behavior analysts; licensure by Board of Medicine. Gives the Board of Medicine authority to license behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts. The bill also requires the Board to promulgate emergency regulations within 280 days of enactment and contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Human papillomavirus vaccine; eliminates requirement of vaccination for female children. [HB-1112]
Human papillomavirus vaccination; eliminates requirement. Eliminates the requirement for vaccination against human papillomavirus for female children.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Sport shooting ranges, certain; applicability of local ordinaces. [HB-1114]
Sport shooting range. Provides that no local ordinance shall subject a sport shooting range to any regulation or land use requirement more stringent than those in effect at the time the sport shooting range was approved.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Line of Duty Act; definition of deceased person. [HB-1134]
Line of Duty Act; definition of deceased person; DMV. Includes any full-time sworn member of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles in the definition of "deceased person" for the purposes of the Line of Duty Act.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Churches, synagogues, etc.; localities shall not charge any fee unless authorized by general law. [HB-1294]
Prohibition of certain local fees. Provides that localities shall not charge any fee to any church, synagogue, or other place of worship unless authorized by general law or special act of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Persons acting in defense of property; civil immunity provided for an occupant of dwelling, etc. [HB-14]
Immunity for persons acting in defense of property. Provides civil immunity for an occupant of a dwelling who uses any degree of physical force while engaged in the defense of his dwelling when (i) the other person has unlawfully entered the dwelling and committed an overt act toward the occupant or another person in the dwelling and (ii) the occupant reasonably believes that he or another person in the dwelling is in imminent danger of bodily injury.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Child-placing agency; shall not be required to participate in placement of child for foster care. [HB-189]
Child-placing agency; conscience clause. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, no private child-placing agency shall be required to perform, assist, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any placement of a child for foster care or adoption when the proposed placement would violate the agency's written religious or moral convictions or policies. In addition, the bill provides that (i) the Commissioner of Social Services shall not deny an application for an initial license or renewal of a license, nor revoke a license,
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Unemployment benefits; volunteer service requirement, report. [HB-219]
Unemployment benefits; volunteer service requirement; study; report. Provides that eligibility for unemployment benefits is contingent upon the claimant's performance of at least 24 hours per week of volunteer service with a nonprofit charitable organization. This requirement does not apply during the first eight weeks of eligibility. The Virginia Employment Commission may waive or alter the requirement in certain cases or situations. The measure also directs the Commission on Unemployment Compensation to conduct a study of changes to the existing
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