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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking. [SJR-43]
Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Agreed To By House on 02/05/2024
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Celebrating the life of Charles Cragg Hines. [SJR-66]
Celebrating the life of Charles Cragg Hines.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Agreed To By House on 01/29/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in counties & cities to support schools. [SB-14]
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. The bill removes the requirement that such a tax must have an expiration date on either (i) the date of the repayment of any bonds or loans used for such capital projects or (ii) a date chosen by the governing body. Under current
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Commending Peter A. Blake. [SJR-63]
Commending Peter A. Blake.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Agreed To By House By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Unprofessional conduct; disciplinary action against doctor for providing abortion care, etc. [SB-716]
Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardless of where such abortion care was provided or received. The bill also specifies that grounds for refusal to issue a certificate or license to any applicant or to take disciplinary action for procuring or performing an abortion apply to such action only as it is prohibited by the laws of the Commonwealth.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy
Passed By For The Day on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Secretariat of Rural Affairs; JLARC to study need for and feasibility of creating position. [SJR-21]
Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Study; JLARC; creation of Secretariat of Rural Affairs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the need for and feasibility of creating a Secretariat of Rural Affairs in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lashrecse Aird
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/28/2024
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Community services boards; emergency services and core of services. [SB-590]
Community services boards; core of services. Adds to the list of the core services to be provided by community services boards (i) crisis services for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, (ii) outpatient mental health and substance abuse services, (iii) psychiatric rehabilitation services, (iv) peer support and family support services, (v) mental health services for members of the armed forces located 50 miles or more from a military treatment facility and veterans located 40 miles or more from a Veterans Health Administration
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Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/26/2024
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Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report. [SB-274]
Prescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products. The bill requires the Board to meet in open session at least four times annually, with certain exceptions and requirements enumerated in the bill. Members of the Board are required to disclose any conflicts of interest, as described in the bill. The
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, annual report. [SB-456]
Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector General. The bill creates the Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee) made up of four members of the General Assembly, nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, subject to criteria described in the bill, and two nonvoting members, appointed as described in the bill, who monitor
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0393) on 04/04/2024
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Military leaves of absence for employees of the Commonwealth, etc.; includes prof. firefighters. [SB-401]
Military leaves of absence for employees of Commonwealth or political subdivisions; professional firefighters. Provides that any person who is employed by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth as a professional firefighter shall receive paid leaves of absence for up to 388 work hours that a leave of absence is required, regardless of whether such amount of work hours exceeds 21 workdays per federal fiscal year, during which such person is engaged in federally funded military duty, to include training duty, or is called
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0239) on 03/28/2024