Virginia Delegate Karen Keys-Gamarra [D]

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VAHB2204Intro
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Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Provides that if a deceased person, as that term is defined in the Line of Duty Act, died as a result of certain cancers within 10 years from his date of retirement, his beneficiary shall be entitled to th...
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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB2490Intro
25%
Study; Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; small business set-asides; report. Directs the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to study small business set-asides and their effectiveness in promoting the growth and econ...
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2025-02-04
To House Rules Committee
VAHB2049Intro
25%
Retail sales and use tax exemption; motor vehicle child restraint device. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for the purchase of a child restraint device for personal use in a passenger car beginning July 1, 2025.
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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1944Intro
25%
Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on its website rather than in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality.
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2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VAHB2208Intro
25%
Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors...
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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB2017Intro
25%
Public schools; student support services; student personal information and data security; registration; requirements; grants; report. Requires any student support agency, as defined by the bill, to register with the Department of Education in order t...
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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHJR453Intro
25%
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
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2025-02-04
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR444Intro
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Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; independent agency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws. In its study, JLARC is directed to (i) identify any legal, techni...
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2025-02-04
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1709Intro
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord obligations; access of tenant to broadband services. Prohibits the landlord of a multifamily dwelling unit from accepting payment from a provider of broadband service for granting such provider m...
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2025-02-04
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB1708Intro
25%
Access to Housing Task Force; report. Establishes the Access to Housing Task Force for the purpose of evaluating short-term and long-term access to housing in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the Task Force to report its findings and conclusions to...
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2025-02-04
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB1710Intro
25%
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...
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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
VASJR303PassCommending Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia.
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2025-02-04
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ303ER)
VAHB2175Intro
25%
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...
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2025-02-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHR567PassCommending the Greater Rappahannock (VA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.
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2025-02-03
Agreed to by House by voice vote
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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2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N)
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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2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N)
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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2025-01-31
Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N)
VAHB2025Intro
25%
Wildlife corridors or crossings; action plan and programs; Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan; Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; wildlife carcass removal tracking; report. Requires the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan created by the Department of Wildli...
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2025-01-31
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
VAHB2545Intro
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Gas pipeline safety; regulations. Requires that for pipeline facilities used in the interstate transport of gas, as defined in federal regulations, any gas transported in transmission lines in the Commonwealth shall be adequately odorized, with an ex...
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2025-01-30
Failed to report (defeated) in Labor and Commerce (7-Y 15-N)
VAHJR511PassCelebrating the life of Nikki Giovanni.
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2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate
VAHJR512PassCommending the Roanoke Star.
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2025-01-30
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VAHB1658Intro
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Board of Housing and Community Development; USBC; stakeholder group to evaluate temperature regulation. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to convene a stakeholder advisory group to evaluate changes to the Uniform Statewide Buildi...
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2025-01-29
Tabled in Rules (14-Y 0-N)
VAHB2526Intro
25%
Board of Housing and Community Development; members. Expands from 14 to 15 the number of members serving on the Board of Housing and Community Development by adding another Director of Regulatory Compliance of the Virginia Building and Code Officials...
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2025-01-28
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
VAHB1689Intro
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Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; Real Estate Board; residential property disclosure statement form. Requires the residential property disclosure statement form developed by the Real Estate Board and maintained on its website to include a...
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2025-01-21
Stricken from docket by General Laws (21-Y 0-N)
VAHB158Engross
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Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any...
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2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
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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2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB1013Intro
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Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Permits electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents, defined in the bill as certain enumerated records relating to estate planning that are readable as text at the time of signing and are not...
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2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee
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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2024-11-18
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB406Intro
25%
Department of Environmental Quality; enforcement of regulations; Clean Water Act; cooling water intakes at power plants. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to promptly enforce federal regulations implementing a provision of the federal ...
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2024-11-18
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
VAHB386Intro
25%
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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2024-11-18
To House Appropriations 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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2024-11-18
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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2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee
VAHJR14Intro
25%
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
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2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee
VAHB33Intro
25%
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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2024-11-18
To House Rules 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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2024-11-18
To House Appropriations 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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2024-11-18
To House Education Committee
VAHB977Intro
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Expeditious resolution of complaints relating to certain student transportation safety issues. Requires each locality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, to expeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to the maximum ext...
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2024-11-18
To House Education Committee
VAHB1470Intro
25%
Income tax deduction; union dues. Provides an income tax deduction beginning in taxable year 2024 for the amount paid by an individual for union dues for participation in a labor organization.
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2024-11-18
To House Finance 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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2024-11-18
To House Rules 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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2024-11-18
To House Appropriations 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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2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee
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