Rep. Joshua Cole
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District HD-028
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 32
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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
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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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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
Public schools; mental health break spaces, regulations. [HB-40]
Board of Education; mental health break spaces; regulations. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require that each public school create and maintain a mental health break space within the public school building. The bill requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in the creation of regulations for the mental health break spaces. Board of Education; mental health break spaces; regulations. Requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Children's Services Act; special education programs. [HB-762]
Children's Services Act; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program established and funded jointly by a local governing body and school division located within Planning District 16 for the purpose of providing special education and related services when (i) the public school special education program is able to provide services comparable to those of an approved private
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Students with disabilities, certain; feasibility of educational placement transition. [HB-49]
Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility of Department of Education; pilot program; feasibility of educational placement transition of certain students with disabilities. Requires the Department of Education and relevant local school boards to develop and implement a pilot program for the transition of students who are educated in private school settings pursuant to Individualized Education Programs to the appropriate public school setting in the relevant local school division for up to four years in two to eight local school divisions
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lashrecse Aird
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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
Trees; conservation during land development process. [HB-1624]
Conservation of trees during land development process. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for either the conservation of or the planting and replacement of trees during the land development process. Currently, only a locality within Planning District 8 with a population density of 75 persons per square mile and which is classified as an eight-hour nonattainment area for ozone under the federal Clean Air Act and Amendments of 1990, in effect as of July 1, 2008, may adopt such an ordinance for the conservation of trees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
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Public elementary and secondary school students; suspension and expulsion, sufficient cause. [HB-109]
Public elementary and secondary school students; suspension and expulsion; sufficient cause. Provides that in no case shall sufficient cause for the suspension or expulsion of a student from attendance at a public elementary or secondary school include only instances of truancy or nonviolent behavior. Current law provides that in no cases may sufficient cause for suspensions include only instances of truancy. Public elementary and secondary school students; suspension and expulsion; sufficient cause. Provides that in no case shall sufficient cause
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
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