Virginia Delegate Joshua Cole [D]

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
VAHJR192PassCommending Bishop Kim W. Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-21
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ192ER)
VAHR119PassCommending Blake Corum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-19
Bill text as passed House (HR119ER)
VAHJR144PassCelebrating the life of Forrest A. Parker, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-15
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ144ER)
VAHJR120PassCommending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-15
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ120ER)
VAHB135Intro

Sine Die
High-occupancy toll lanes; disabled veteran license plates. Provides that, on Interstate 95, vehicles displaying a disabled veteran license plate meet the high-occupancy requirement for high-occupancy toll lanes, regardless of the number of occupants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB190Intro

Sine Die
Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB193Intro

Sine Die
Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; Stafford County. Adds Stafford County to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for the construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
VAHB239Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB537Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB538Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Student Environmental Literacy Plan Grant Fund and Program established. Requires the Office of Environmental Education within the Department of Conservation and Recreation, in conjunction with the Department of Education and any other stakeh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHJR50Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB177Intro

Sine Die
Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group of relevant st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB689Intro

Sine Die
Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB180Intro

Sine Die
Radar detectors. Authorizes the use and sale of devices and mechanisms to detect a radar, laser, or other device or mechanism employed by law-enforcement personnel to measure the speed of motor vehicles on the highways of the Commonwealth for law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1066Intro

Sine Die
Commission to Study the History of the Uprooting of Black Communities by Public Institutions of Higher Education in the Commonwealth established; report. Establishes the 19-member legislative Commission to Study the History of the Uprooting of Black ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB513Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB737Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB841Intro

Sine Die
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHR76PassCelebrating the life of Elizabeth Patterson Epps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR76ER)
VAHR77PassCommending the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR77ER)
VAHR102PassCommending Olive Chamblin Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR102ER)
VAHR101PassCelebrating the life of Richard Carlton Griffin, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR101ER)
VAHR96PassCommending the Suffolk Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-12
Bill text as passed House (HR96ER)
VAHJR2Intro

Sine Die
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHJR9Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB375Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHJR9Intro

Prefile
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHJR2Intro

Prefile
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB375Intro

Prefile
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1390Intro

Sine Die
Department of Human Resource Management; disclosure of certain information. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to provide any recognized public employee association, upon the request of such association, a list containing the name a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-08
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB1390Intro

Prefile
Department of Human Resource Management; disclosure of certain information. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to provide any recognized public employee association, upon the request of such association, a list containing the name a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-08
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB386Intro

Sine Die
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1384Intro

Sine Die
School boards; teachers; terms of employment; employment verification; requirement. Requires each school board to provide written verification of employment within 10 days of receipt of any request for employment verification from a former employee o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 2-N)
VAHB1383Intro

Sine Die
Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
Stricken from docket by Education (19-Y 2-N)
VAHB721Intro

Sine Die
Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB386Intro

Prefile
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB721Intro

Prefile
Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB662Intro

Sine Die
Towing; registration for tow truck drivers; Driver Authorization Document; penalty. Requires tow truck drivers, prior to registration or the first renewal on or after January 1, 2025, with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to obtain a Driv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee
VAHR89PassCommending Dr. Willis L. Lonzer III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
Bill text as passed House (HR89ER)
VAHB662Intro

Prefile
Towing; registration for tow truck drivers; Driver Authorization Document; penalty. Requires tow truck drivers, prior to registration or the first renewal on or after January 1, 2025, with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to obtain a Driv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee
VAHR52PassCommending House of Victory Fredericksburg Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-05
Bill text as passed House (HR52ER)
VAHR51PassCommending the John J. Wright Educational and Cultural Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-05
Bill text as passed House (HR51ER)
VAHR62PassCommending Masjid Aliya.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-05
Bill text as passed House (HR62ER)
VAHR67PassCommending the Liberty Christian Academy football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-05
Bill text as passed House (HR67ER)
VAHR53PassCommending the Liberty University football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-05
Bill text as passed House (HR53ER)
VAHB440Intro

Sine Die
Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. Requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1314Intro

Sine Die
Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1314Intro

Prefile
Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB440Intro

Prefile
Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. Requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHJR14Intro

Sine Die
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
Syndicate content
feedback