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Virginia 2021 Regular Session
Police and court records; expungement of records if granted a simple pardon for the crime. [HB-50]
Expungement of police and court records; pardons. Allows a person to petition for the expungement of the police and court records relating to such person's conviction if he has been granted a simple pardon for the crime. Under current law, police and court records relating to convictions are only expunged if a person received an absolute pardon for a crime he did not commit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/04/2020
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Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ned S. Creasey. [HR-529]
Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ned S. Creasey.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lee Ware
Engrossed By House on 04/17/2018
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Firearms; use or display during commission of a felony, killing or injuring police animals, penalty. [HB-1616]
Use or display of firearm during commission of a felony; killing or injuring police animals; penalty. Adds maliciously shooting, stabbing, wounding, or otherwise causing bodily injury to or administering poison to any animal used or trained by a law-enforcement agency, regional jail, or the Department of Corrections to the list of felonies for which a separate penalty is prescribed if a firearm is used during the commission of the offense.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Militia, Police And Public Safety on 02/05/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
School security officers; employment by private or religious schools, carrying a firearm. [HB-1656]
School security officers; employment by private or religious schools; carrying a firearm in performance of duties. Allows private or religious schools to employ a school security officer and to authorize a school security officer to carry a firearm in the performance of his duties, subject to the same criteria for carrying a firearm in the performance of his duties imposed on a school security officer employed by the local school board. The bill also updates the definition of school security officer in the assault and battery statute.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0120) on 02/21/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Public school building security enhancements; compliance with Uniform Statewide Building Code, etc. [HB-1725]
Public school building security enhancements; compliance with Uniform Statewide Building Code and Statewide Fire Prevention Code. Requires each school board, in consultation with the local building official and the state or local fire marshal, to develop a procurement plan to ensure that all security enhancements to public school buildings are in compliance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code and Statewide Fire Prevention Code.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0121) on 02/21/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Guidance counselors; changes name to school counselors, staff time. [HB-1729]
School counselors; nomenclature; staff time. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school to spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0139) on 02/22/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
School safety procedures; emergency situations, annual training. [HB-1732]
School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training. Requires each school board to develop training on safety procedures in the event of an emergency situation on school property. The bill requires such training to be delivered to each student and employee in each school at least once each school year. This bill is identical to SB 1215.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0140) on 02/22/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
School boards; local law-enforcement agencies, memorandums of understanding. [HB-1733]
School boards; local law-enforcement agencies; memorandums of understanding. Requires (i) the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety to develop a model memorandum of understanding and (ii) the school board in each school division in which the local law-enforcement agency employs school resource officers to enter into a memorandum of understanding with such local law-enforcement agency that is based on such model and sets forth the powers and duties of the school resource officers. The bill requires each such school board and local law-enforcement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0455) on 03/18/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Student Behavioral Health, Commission on; established, report. [HB-1735]
Commission on Student Behavioral Health created. Establishes the Commission on Student Behavioral Health as a legislative branch commission. The purpose of the Commission shall be to (i) assess the efficacy of developing and implementing a statewide behavioral health and suicide prevention hotline that students may use to report threats of violence or receive real-time counseling services; (ii) review the current school counselor-to-student ratio, and whether the realignment of counseling responsibilities proposed by the House Select Committee on
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Failed To Pass In House on 02/24/2019
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Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Income tax, state; subtraction for military veterans with a permanent service-connected disability. [HB-1756]
Income tax; subtraction for military veterans with a permanent service-connected disability. Establishes for taxable years beginning January 1, 2019, an individual income tax subtraction for the military retirement income of veterans with a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability. The bill provides that the subtraction is available only for taxpayers whose federal adjusted gross income is no greater than 150 percent of the federal poverty level for a four-person household.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Miyares
Left In Appropriations on 02/05/2019