Virginia Delegate Laura Jane Cohen [D]

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VAHB1678VetoSchool board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enroll...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB1716VetoContraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as such terms are defined in the bill. The bill clarifies that none of its provisions shall be construed to p...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB1844PassBaby Food Protection Act; testing and labeling requirements for toxic heavy metals. Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a baby food product that contains certain toxic heavy metals that exceed the limits established by...
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2025-05-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)
VAHB1699VetoTax exemptions; Confederacy organizations. Eliminates the exemption from state recordation taxes for the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and eliminates the tax-exempt designation for real and personal property owned by th...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2002VetoVoter registration; cancellation of registration; sources of data. Requires that, except for a written request from the voter to have his registration cancelled, the general registrar may not cancel the registration of any voter based on data or repo...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2520VetoVirginia military forces; Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program established. Establishes the Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Program (the Program) within the Department of Military Affairs. The bill also establishes the Sexual Offense...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2158VetoDepartment of Corrections; functional literacy program for inmates; data sharing and tracking; salary schedules for teachers; Virginia Prison Education Task Force established; report. Requires the Superintendent employed by the Director of Correction...
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2025-05-02
Vetoed by Governor
VAHB2746VetoIncapacitated persons; finding of lack of capacity to understand act of voting. Provides that a finding that a person is incapacitated in a proceeding for guardianship or conservatorship shall not be synonymous with a finding that such person is "men...
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2025-04-03
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHR872PassCommending David S. Widzer.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR872ER)
VAHR876PassCommending Greg Duncan.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR876ER)
VAHR856PassCelebrating the life of Clarice Lorine Jordan.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR856ER)
VAHR853PassCommending Khadijeh Aslankhani.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR853ER)
VAHR861PassCommending McKinley L. Price, D.D.S.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR861ER)
VAHR874PassCommending Emily Burrell.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR874ER)
VAHR875PassCommending the Ideaventions Academy Daedalus robotics team.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR875ER)
VAHR873PassCommending Liz Noto, Ph.D.
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2025-04-03
Bill text as passed House (HR873ER)
VAHB1803VetoDepartment of Human Resource Management; stakeholder advisory group; establishing a career group for licensed behavior analysts; report. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to convene a stakeholder advisory group to provide advice to ...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1802VetoDepartment of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; employment services organizations. Amends provisions related to the powers and duties of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to allow the Department to implement any remediation...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1718VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1621VetoPublic institutions of higher education; governing boards; nonvoting, advisory representatives. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, and each local commun...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB2501PassDepartment of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers diagnosed with autism s...
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2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665)
VAHB2094VetoHigh-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties. Creates requirements for the development, deployment, and use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems, defined in the bill, and civil penalties for noncomplian...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1610VetoDepartment of Taxation; accounts receivable; collection. Directs the Department of Taxation, Department of Accounts, and Office of the Attorney General to analyze the pervasiveness of outstanding accounts receivable due to the Commonwealth and collec...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1973VetoPreservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localitie...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1736VetoVirginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; creation. Creates the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention within the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill states that the Center will serve a...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1607VetoImportation, sale, manufacture, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that...
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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB2485VetoCannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB2769VetoLife insurance; health insurance; unfair discrimination; pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of human immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits any person from refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure, or limiting the amount or extent of life i...
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2025-04-02
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1977VetoWeapons; possession prohibited in a hospital that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and intentionally possess in the building of any hospital that provides m...
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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB1876VetoCarrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Permits the governing board of a public institution of higher education to a...
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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB2531VetoPaid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB2764VetoCollective bargaining by public employees; exclusive bargaining representatives. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate ba...
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2025-04-02
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
VAHB2783PassPlacing Nazi swastika on certain property with intent to intimidate; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any person who, with intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, places a Hakenkreuz, hooked cross, or Nazi symbol or emblem, some...
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2025-04-02
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673)
VAHR749PassCelebrating the life of Clarence Stewart Preston.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR749ER)
VAHR754PassCommending Curtis O. Porter.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR754ER)
VAHR753PassCommending Penelope Nowell-Shortt.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR753ER)
VAHR751PassCommending the Omicron Chi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR751ER)
VAHR750PassCommending Virginia Union University.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR750ER)
VAHR752PassCommending Shaboozey.
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2025-04-01
Bill text as passed House (HR752ER)
VAHR674PassCommending Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard.
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2025-03-31
Bill text as passed House (HR674ER)
VAHR686PassCommending the Honorable Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
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2025-03-31
Bill text as passed House (HR686ER)
VAHR585PassCommending Grant Holloway.
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2025-03-28
Bill text as passed House (HR585ER)
VAHJR9PassConstitutional 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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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602)
VAHJR2PassConstitutional 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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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601)
VAHB1804PassDepartment of Medical Assistance Services; application for medical assistance; eligibility for Medicaid Works. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek the necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services t...
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484)
VAHB1800PassRights of persons with disabilities; public places; playgrounds. Clarifies that persons with disabilities have the same rights as other persons to the full and free use of public playgrounds.
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378)
VAHJR1PassConstitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0600)
VAHB1726PassTrespass with an unmanned aircraft system; contracted defense facility; penalty. Creates a Class 4 felony for any person who knowingly, intentionally, and without authorization causes an unmanned aircraft system to enter the property of and obtains o...
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374)
VAHB1868PassReal property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty; clarification for deaths resulting from suicide. Clarifies that the real property tax exemption currently available to the surviving spouse of...
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486)
VAHB1694PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; Department of Veterans Services; Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program; enrollment and eligibility data; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in coo...
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2025-03-24
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371)
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