Virginia Delegate Vivian Watts [D]

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VAHJR166PassCelebrating the life of Michelle Antonette Leete.
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2024-02-29
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ166ER)
VAHB1284Engross
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Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
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2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHJR8PassBlack Women's History Month. Designates April, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Black Women's History Month in Virginia. Black Women's History Month. Designates April, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Black Women's History Month in Vir...
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2024-02-27
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ8ER)
VAHB884Engross
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Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger car exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on any highway; driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, o...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHJR13PassProgressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness in Virginia. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and ...
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2024-02-27
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ13ER)
VAHJR78PassFIRST Robotics Day. Designates March 31, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as FIRST Robotics Day in Virginia.
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2024-02-27
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ78ER)
VAHB1490Engross
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Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB261Engross
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Income tax; rolling conformity. Provides that when Virginia does not conform on a rolling basis to federal tax laws due to any changes in a single act of Congress with an impact of more than $15 million on revenues in the year in which the amendment ...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHR177PassCommending the Honorable Michael P. Mullin.
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2024-02-26
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR55PassCommending the Virginia Union University football team.
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2024-02-22
Bill text as passed House (HR55ER)
VAHJR165PassCelebrating the life of Harold Martin Gross.
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2024-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ165ER)
VAHJR172PassCommending Marie Ridder.
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2024-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ172ER)
VAHJR180PassCommending the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.
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2024-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ180ER)
VAHJR192PassCommending Bishop Kim W. Brown.
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2024-02-21
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VAHR119PassCommending Blake Corum.
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2024-02-19
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHJR120PassCommending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
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2024-02-15
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ120ER)
VAHR117PassCommending the Honorable Shirley F. Cooper.
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2024-02-14
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHB239Intro
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Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease to advise the State Health Commissioner on the efforts to improve awareness of sickle cell disease and the needs of individuals with...
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2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB127Intro
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Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical As...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VAHB883Engross
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Vehicle exhaust systems; operation in certain locations. Expands the locations for which operation of a motor vehicle, moped, or motorized skateboard or foot-scooter that does not comply with requirements for mufflers and a vehicle that does not comp...
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2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee
VAHB37Intro
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Loan repayment programs; mental health professionals. Creates a loan repayment program for persons who have worked as mental health professionals in the Commonwealth for at least five years.
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB40Intro
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Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his ca...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB885Intro
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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 subs...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1394Intro
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Income tax subtraction; unlawful discrimination. Provides an income tax subtraction for any amount received by a claimant for noneconomic damages as a result of unlawful discrimination, defined in the bill, for taxable years beginning on and after Ja...
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
VAHB1444Intro
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Distribution of state sales and use tax based on the population of cities and counties ages five to 19 and for the state's share of Standards of Quality basic aid payments.
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1367Intro
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State parks; First Responder and Veteran Passport; discounted entry and parking. Establishes a First Responder and Veteran Passport that entitles a first responder or a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States or other military service to rec...
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2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
VAHB956Intro
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Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments.
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHR100PassCommending the Northern Virginia Mental Health Foundation.
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2024-02-12
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR77PassCommending the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce.
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2024-02-12
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR98PassCelebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
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2024-02-12
Agreed to by House
VAHR105PassCommending Karen Tefelski.
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2024-02-12
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR27PassCommending the Honorable Dr. Luke E. Torian.
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2024-02-12
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHJR9Intro
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Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHJR2Intro
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Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB375Intro
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Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB386Intro
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Public school staffing ratios; specialized student support positions. Increases the number of specialized student support positions required to be employed by each local school board from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 stude...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB88Intro
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Virginia taxable income; standard deduction. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that was scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026.
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
VAHB887Intro
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Income taxes. Creates a new income tax bracket for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2024, for income in excess of $600,000, which is to be taxed at seven percent. The bill also creates two new tax credits: a child and dependent care ta...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
VAHB1546Intro
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Sales and use tax; exemption for data centers. Sales and use tax; exemption for data centers.
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
VAHB889Intro
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Sales and use tax on services. Levies the retail sales and use tax on the following services: admissions; charges for recreation, fitness, or sports facilities; nonmedical personal services or counseling; dry cleaning and laundry services; companion ...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
VAHB886Intro
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Certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions; facilities subject to minimum standards. Amends the administrative sanctions that may be imposed on certified nursing facilities in relation to compliance with staffing requirements. The bill di...
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2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VAHB535Intro
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Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of ...
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2024-02-05
To House Education Committee
VAHB23Intro
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Weapons; possession or transportation; facility that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to possess in or transport into any facility that provides mental health services o...
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2024-02-02
Incorporated by Public Safety
VAHB286Intro
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Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures; report. Directs the State Health Commissioner to reestablish the Task Force on Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures for the purpose of evaluating maternal health data collection processes ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB32Intro
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Board of Medicine; continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. Requires the Board of Medicine to adopt and implement policies that require each practitioner licensed by the Board who has direct contact with persons who...
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2024-01-30
Incorporated by Health and Human Services
VAHJR69PassCommending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
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2024-01-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ69ER)
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