Virginia Delegate Rae Cousins [D]

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VAHB6004PassGeneral appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; repeal of modifications to certain waiver programs. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount of $90 million to offset the impact of financial aid waivers and stipends f...
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2024-07-18
VOTE: Passage (82-Y 0-N)
VAHB6003Engross
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General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to waiver programs. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Progr...
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2024-07-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHR713PassCommending Eddie L. Radden, Jr.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR783PassCommending Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and the Virginia Association of Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR772PassCelebrating the life of Christine L. Marrow.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House
VAHR769PassCommending Brynn Van Brunt.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR750PassCelebrating the life of Joseph Henry Seipel.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House
VAHR738PassCelebrating the life of Gregory Maurice Beckwith, Sr.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House
VAHR705PassCommending the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHR773PassCelebrating the life of Lois D. McClellan.
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2024-06-28
Agreed to by House
VAHB824VetoRate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB740VetoUnlawful detainer; bifurcation of case; contested rent and damages. Provides that, at an initial hearing on an unlawful detainer, if the defendant contests the amount of rent and damages alleged to be due and owing to the plaintiff, the court shall n...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB781VetoTask 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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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB187VetoAverage teacher salary in the Commonwealth; national average. Requires the Governor's introduced budget bills for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly to propose funding for, and state funding to be provided pursuant to t...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB609VetoContraception; right to contraception; applicability; enforcement. Establishes a right to obtain contraceptives and engage in contraception, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a cause of action that may be instituted against anyone who infringe...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB498VetoSchool board policies; parental notification; safe storage of 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 enrolled in the local school ...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB224VetoPublic schools; teachers and other relevant personnel; mental health awareness training. Requires each teacher and other relevant personnel, as determined by the applicable school board, employed on a full-time basis to complete mental health awarene...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB173VetoManufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purch...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB996VetoDepartment of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; notice of tenant screening criteria. Requires landlords governed by the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act or M...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB624VetoPublic school staffing and funding; National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; At-Risk Program; English language learner students. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Boa...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHR652PassCommending the Valentine.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR652ER)
VAHR643PassCommending the Virginia First Cities Coalition.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR643ER)
VAHR648PassCelebrating the life of Albert Lester Simmons.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR648ER)
VAHR638PassCommending Dawn Michelle Staley.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR638ER)
VAHR647PassCommending William J. Martin.
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2024-05-13
Bill text as passed House (HR647ER)
VAHB1100VetoConservation of trees during land development process. Expands current provisions that provide that certain localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the land development process by ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1167VetoLocal prohibition on the sale of English ivy; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of English ivy, with violations punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $50 for a first violation and not to exceed $2...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB157VetoMinimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1264VetoJuvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB833VetoChild abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1251VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental ag...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB805VetoAdditional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB466VetoConcealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states. Provides that the Superintendent of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, shall determine whether states meet the statutory qualifications for Virginia to reco...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB34PassContract actions; medical debt. Provides that in any action, including those brought by the Commonwealth, upon any contract to collect medical debt, as defined in the bill, such an action is barred if not commenced within three years from the due dat...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800)
VAHB570VetoPrescription Drug Affordability Board established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health care syst...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB398VetoPublic elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintende...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB285PassUniform Statewide Building Code; bus shelters. Delegates enforcement of the Uniform Statewide Building Code to the local building official for bus shelters that do not exceed 256 square feet that are to be constructed for transit agencies receiving s...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806)
VAHB625PassPublic education; community schools; Office of Community Schools at Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to establish the Office of Community Schools as an office within the Department for the purpose of supporting the develo...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
VAHB603PassPublic elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enume...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)
VAHB1028VetoAffordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed dev...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB362VetoPurchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill a...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB335VetoDepartment of Labor and Industry; tipped employee wages; work group. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group to study (i) options for increasing tipped employee minimum cash wages, (ii) circumstances related to wage theft...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB598VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB614VetoCommunity service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. Requires a court to establish a program and allow any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs b...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB611PassCivilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional adult correctional facility to report to the St...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813)
VAHB1539VetoAbortion or other reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; prohibited practices under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB827PassState Council of Higher Education for Virginia; survey on campus food insecurity; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to (i) survey each public institution of higher education to determine how each such institution is ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644)
VAHB25PassAnnual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0628)
VAHB1247PassPublic school staffing ratios; teachers; English language learner students. Requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to support ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students based on eac...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743)
VAHB102PassCompensation of court-appointed counsel. Raises the limitation of fees that court-appointed counsel can receive for representation on various offenses in district and circuit courts. The bill also limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appoint...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714)
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