Criminal sexual assault; definition of intimate parts. [HB-323]
Criminal sexual assault; definition of intimate parts. Includes in the definition of "intimate parts," for the purposes of criminal sexual assault, the chest of a child under the age of 15.
HB-323: Criminal sexual assault; definition of intimate parts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Hala Ayala
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/04/2020
Va. Public Procurement Act; contract clause requiring subcontractor reporting of certain payments. [HB-1741]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract clause requiring subcontractor reporting of payments to employees and independent contractors. Requires any contract awarded by a state agency or an agency of local government to require the contractor to include in each of its subcontracts a provision requiring the subcontractor to report to the contractor on a monthly basis (i) payroll records for all of the subcontractor's employees; (ii) records of all payments made by the subcontractor to individuals classified as independent contractors; and (iii)
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HB-1741: Va. Public Procurement Act; contract clause requiring subcontractor reporting of certain payments.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ronnie Campbell
Left In General Laws on 02/05/2021
Animal care; zoos and petting zoos, seizure of animals. [HB-1744]
Animal care; zoos and petting zoos; seizure of animals. Raises from reasonable cause to probable cause the standard for a belief that animal cruelty laws are being violated for purposes of an application for a search warrant. The bill adds animals located at a zoo or petting zoo, defined in the bill, to agricultural animals as exceptions to the standards for seizure or impoundment of companion animals. The bill also requires that before a seizure can take place at a zoo or petting zoo, a direct and immediate threat to an animal must exist that cannot
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HB-1744: Animal care; zoos and petting zoos, seizure of animals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ronnie Campbell
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/05/2021
United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states. [HJR-516]
United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.
HJR-516: United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
Left In Rules on 02/05/2021
Electric utilities; fuel cost recovery. [HB-1718]
Electric utilities; fuel cost recovery. Requires an electric utility, as a condition of approval of any request by an electric utility for recovery through its fuel factor of costs incurred under a natural gas capacity contract not previously subject to review in a fuel factor case, to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that, at the time the contract giving rise to the costs for which recovery is sought was executed, the utility had (i) identified and determined the date and amount of new fueling resource it needed; (ii) objectively studied
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HB-1718: Electric utilities; fuel cost recovery.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Heretick
Passed By Indefinitely In Commerce And Labor With Letter (10-y 3-n) on 02/11/2019
Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Programs Fund; created. [HB-1724]
Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Programs Fund. Establishes the Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Programs Fund and permits the Department of Education to award grants from such fund to local school boards to establish Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Programs whereby the local school board provides scholarships not to exceed $7,500 per academic year for attendance at a baccalaureate institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to any individual who (i) graduated from a public high school in the local school division, (ii) was eligible for free or reduced
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HB-1724: Grow Your Own Teacher Pilot Programs Fund; created.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
Left In Appropriations on 02/05/2019
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.
HB-1729: Guidance counselors; changes name to school counselors, staff time.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0139) on 02/22/2019
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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HB-1733: School boards; local law-enforcement agencies, memorandums of understanding.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0455) on 03/18/2019
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases, review of program. [HB-1804]
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testes to the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational disease covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefighters and certain employees develop the cancer. The measure will become effective if reenacted by the 2020 Session of the General Assembly. The measure also directs the 2020 Session of the General Assembly, in considering and enacting any legislation relating to workers' compensation and the presumption
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HB-1804: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases, review of program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0415) on 03/18/2019
Prostitution; promoting travel, penalty. [HB-1817]
Promoting travel for prostitution; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any travel agent to knowingly promote travel services for the purposes of prostitution or certain offenses involving minors that require registration on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry.
HB-1817: Prostitution; promoting travel, penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cole
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0458) on 03/18/2019