Virginia Delegate Shelly Simonds [D]

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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
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ192ER)
VAHB84Engross
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Mineral mining and exploration; public notification. Requires an explorer conducting any mineral exploration activities, as those terms are defined in the bill, prior to the start of such activities, to (i) publish a notice in a newspaper having a ge...
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2024-02-20
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 5-N)
VAHR119PassCommending Blake Corum.
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2024-02-19
Bill text as passed House (HR119ER)
VAHR110PassCommending Dr. Ben Fitzgerald III.
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2024-02-19
Bill text as passed House (HR110ER)
VAHJR120PassCommending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
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2024-02-15
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ120ER)
VAHJR136PassCommending Margaret L. Sanner.
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2024-02-15
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ136ER)
VAHR117PassCommending the Honorable Shirley F. Cooper.
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2024-02-14
Bill text as passed House (HR117ER)
VAHB241Intro
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Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers. The bill establishes the scope of services offered by such centers and requirements for operation...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
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
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
VAHB579Intro
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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; records of federal animal welfare violations; limitation on fees. Prohibits any public body in custody of records that pertain to or were generated as a result of a violation of federal animal welfare regulations,...
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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB1478Intro
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Casino gaming; cruise ships. Authorizes the conduct of cruise ship casino gaming in the offshore waters of the Commonwealth by a cruise ship operator that applies for and receives a permit from the Virginia Lottery. The bill sets an annual permit fee...
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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB686Intro
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School meals; availability at no cost to students. Provides that each school board shall require each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division to participate in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal Scho...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB367Intro
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Parking Lot Solar Development Program and Fund; report. Directs Parking Lot Solar Development Program and Fund; report. Directs the Department of Energy, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish by January 1, 2025, a...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB737Intro
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Paid 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, 2027. Und...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB968Intro
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Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank; created. Creates the Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank, an authority to promote and catalyze investment in qualified projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, assist climate-impacted communities, and promote ...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB708Intro
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National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund,...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB537Intro
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Home Visiting Program established; report. Establishes the Home Visiting Program within the Department of Social Services to support pregnant people and parents with young children who face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal an...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHJR50Intro
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Study; JLARC; Department of Juvenile Justice; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Huma...
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2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB506Intro
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Teachers for Tomorrow Grant Program established. Requires the Department of Education, with such funds as may be appropriate for such purpose pursuant to the general appropriation act, to establish and administer the Teachers for Tomorrow Grant Progr...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1509Intro
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Restrictions on the sale of nicotine vapor products containing liquid nicotine and hemp products intended for smoking; civil penalties. Provides restrictions and prohibitions on certain retail sales that include (i) restrictions on the number of nico...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB841Intro
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Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
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2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB513Intro
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State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce 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
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
VAHB859Intro
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Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Department of Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for human trafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traff...
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2024-02-09
To House Public Safety 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
VAHB1320Intro
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Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB359Intro
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Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories; federal fund deduction methodology; support services. Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs ass...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB582Intro
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Public high schools; personnel; career coach required. Requires each school board to employ at least one career coach in each public high school in the local school division whose duties are required to include assisting students with securing intern...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations 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
VAHB284Intro
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Board of Education; criteria for initial renewable teacher licensure for certain individuals. Requires the Board of Education to issue an initial renewable license as a teacher to any applicant who (i) is enrolled in an accredited education preparati...
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2024-02-07
Incorporated by Education
VAHB948Intro
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Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; Advisory Review Committees. Requires the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to convene an Advisory Review Committee to assist in the distribution of...
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2024-02-07
Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
VAHB230Intro
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Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insu...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB38Intro
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Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHR51PassCommending the John J. Wright Educational and Cultural Center.
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2024-02-05
Bill text as passed House (HR51ER)
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
VAHB170Intro
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Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning Di...
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2024-02-02
Incorporated by Counties, Cities and Towns
VAHB33Intro
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Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB357Intro
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Department of Environmental Quality; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; work group; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a work group to develop (i) strategies for pro...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
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
VAHJR29Intro
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Study; Board of Workforce Development; adequacy of the funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs; work group; report. Requests the Virginia Board of Workforce Development to study the current funding model for noncredit workforce cred...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR39Intro
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Study; JLARC; waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at certain comprehensive community colleges; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of waiving tuition and mandatory fees for Virginia students who...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR51Intro
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Study; procuring goods and services from employment service organizations; report. Requests the Department of General Services, in tandem with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, to examine the current process for procurement, poten...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR21Intro
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Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; guaranteed first-year admission; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of imple...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR25Intro
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Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and univ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1494Intro
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Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of S...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1537Intro
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JLARC; Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to conduct a review of the Department of Human Resource Management's Grievance Procedure Manual as i...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
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