Rep. Rodney Willett
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District HD-073
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 137
Sponsored Legislation
Virginia 2021 Regular Session
State, regional, and local planning; climate change. [HB-672]
State, regional, and local planning; climate change. Establishes a policy of the Commonwealth to prevent and to minimize actions that contribute to the detrimental effects of climate change in the Commonwealth. The bill requires any state agency to examine any new regulation in furtherance of this policy. The bill requires local and regional planning commissions to consider the impacts from and causes of climate change in adopting a comprehensive plan, regional strategic plan, or zoning ordinance. State, regional, and local planning; climate change.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Left In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 12/04/2020
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"Virginia, the Home of My Heart" by Susan Greenbaum; designating as the official state folk song. [HB-98]
Official emblems and designations; state song. Designates "Virginia, the Home of My Heart" by Susan Greenbaum as the official state folk song.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Left In General Laws on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Workplace harassment; policies for legislative branch. [HB-553]
Policies against workplace harassment; legislative branch. Requires each legislative branch agency to adopt and implement the Commonwealth Workplace Harassment Policy established by the Department of Human Resource Management. The bill provides that the Policy applies to legislative branch employees, including General Assembly members and members-elect, when undertaking meetings with other state employees, contract employees, applicants for employment, customers, vendors, members of the media, members of the public, volunteers, or lobbyists or when
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Left In Rules on 12/04/2020
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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
Left In Labor And Commerce on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Virginia Minimum Wage Act; exclusions. [HB-333]
Virginia Minimum Wage Act; exclusions. Eliminates the exclusion in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons whose earning capacity is impaired by physical deficiency, mental illness, or intellectual disability. Virginia Minimum Wage Act; exclusions. Eliminates the exclusion in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons whose earning capacity is impaired by physical deficiency, mental illness, or intellectual disability.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
Left In Commerce And Labor on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
High school graduation requirements; English as a second language courses. [HB-1400]
Board of Education; graduation requirements; English as a second language courses. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit English as a second language (ESL) courses to satisfy credit requirements for graduation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Victim of human trafficking; petition for vacatur/expungement of convictions & police/court records. [HB-268]
Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictions and police and court records of victims of human trafficking. Allows any person who was a victim of human trafficking at the time of an offense that led to a criminal charge or conviction of certain crimes to petition the court to vacate such conviction and expunge the police and court records related to such conviction or to expunge the police and court records related to such charge. The bill provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a person's participation in an offense was a result
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/04/2020
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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. [HB-1594]
Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids and related services for children 18 years of age or younger when a licensed audiologist prescribes such hearing aids and related services. The coverage includes one hearing aid per hearing-impaired ear, up to a cost of $1,500, every 24 months. The measure applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
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Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Absentee voting; no excuse required, voting by absentee ballot. [HB-1]
Absentee voting; no excuse required. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap1149) on 04/11/2020
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Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Early childhood care and education; establishment of system, definitions, licensure. [HB-1012]
Early childhood care and education; licensing. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide unified public-private system for early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth to be administered by the Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Department of Education. The bill transfers the authority to license and regulate child day programs and other early child care agencies from the Board of Social Services and Department of Social Services to the Board of Education and Department of Education. The
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0860) on 04/08/2020