Virginia Delegate Thomas Garrett [R]

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VAHB2051Intro
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School safety audit committees; duties; annual meetings on school grounds with local law enforcement. Requires the school safety audit committee established by each division superintendent to meet annually on the grounds of each public school in the ...
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2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 8:00 am]

Committee substitute printed 25105584D-H1
VAHB1809Intro
25%
K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; student participation in women's sports; civil cause of action. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public school, or any other s...
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2025-01-22
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1809)
VAHB2062Intro
25%
Income tax exclusion; veteran student loan forgiveness. Eliminates the sunset date and expands eligibility for the income tax exclusion for any income received by a disabled veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States from the discharge of feder...
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2025-01-21
To House Finance Committee
VAHB2073Intro
25%
Financial institutions; discrimination prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a financial institution from denying or cancelling its services to or otherwise discriminating against a person in making available services on the basis of factors including the p...
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2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (4-Y 3-N)
VAHB2072Intro
25%
Board of Education; Standards of Quality; Standards of School Safety. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to establish pursuant t...
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2025-01-21
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
VAHB2069Intro
25%
Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes; Aid to Localities Grant Program. Increases the assessment on certain insurance companies from one percent to 1.5 percent. The bill provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities ma...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23]

Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N)
VAHB1815Intro
25%
Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill, with the ...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:00 am]
To House Public Safety: Public Safety Committee
VAHB2633Intro
25%
Misbranded food; manufactured-protein food products. Provides that a food is misbranded if it purports to be or is represented as a meat food product and such food product (i) bears or contains a manufactured-protein food product, as defined in the b...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Agriculture Committee
VAHJR490Engross
50%
Celebrating the life of John Lee Orrock.
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2025-01-21
Laid on Clerk's Desk
VASB1493Intro
25%
Contraception; right to access.
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Committee
VAHJR494Engross
50%
Commending the Historic St. John's Church.
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2025-01-21
Laid on Clerk's Desk
VAHB2066Intro
25%
School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen...
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2025-01-20
To House Education: K-12 Committee
VAHB2070Intro
25%
Virginia Retirement System; service credit for career and technical education teachers. Provides that a member of the Virginia Retirement System shall be eligible for additional years of service credit for service earned as a teacher in the field of ...
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2025-01-20
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
VAHB2067Intro
25%
Statewide Fire Prevention Code; State Fire Marshal; consumer fireworks; penalties. Authorizes the use of consumer fireworks in the Commonwealth and distinguishes by definition consumer fireworks from display fireworks and permissible fireworks. The b...
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 23]
To House General Laws: Housing/Consumer Protection Committee
VAHB2063Intro
25%
Reports of certain arrests and convictions of school employees; timing; method. Requires any probation and parole officer who is supervising a person employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth, upon discovering that such supervised perso...
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2025-01-20
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
VAHB1566Intro
25%
Elections; absentee ballot security measures; watermark. Requires that any ballot mailed to an absentee voter must be printed on security paper that incorporates a visible watermark that identifies the ballot as an official ballot in a manner that pr...
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2025-01-20
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N)
VAHB1549Intro
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Vehicle operation; unlicensed minor; penalty. Prohibits any person from knowingly authorizing the operation of a motor vehicle by a minor who such person knows has no operator's license or who has a learner's permit but who such person knows would op...
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2025-01-18
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1549)
VAHB2068Intro
25%
Local land use decision authority. Provides that the authority for a locality's planning and land use decisions belong solely to the locality and shall not be ceded to any state agency or state-sanctioned body.
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2025-01-17
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
VAHB1558Intro
25%
Possession of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by a person younger than 21 years of age prohibited; penalty. Prohibits any person younger than 21 years of age from possessing any retail tobacco product or hemp product in...
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2025-01-17
Subcommittee recommends incorporating into HB1946-Hope (Voice Vote)
VAHB2770Intro
25%
School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training; safety grants.
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2025-01-17
Committee Referral Pending
VAHB2771Intro
25%
All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; penalty.
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2025-01-17
Committee Referral Pending
VAHR481PassCommending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
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2025-01-16
Agreed to by House by voice vote
VAHB2015Intro
25%
Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentence; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentence for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.
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2025-01-15
To House Public Safety Committee
VAHB2478Intro
25%
Elections; absentee voting; drop-off locations for return of absentee ballots; 24-hour video surveillance requirement. Requires 24-hour video surveillance of all absentee ballot drop-off locations.
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2025-01-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB2061Intro
25%
Department of Forestry; Cumberland State Forest; boundary line agreement and quitclaim of interest; acceptance of conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to enter into a boundary line agreement and quitclaim of interest in and t...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:30 am]
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Natural Resources Committee
VAHB2075Intro
25%
Sexual abuse of certain children; penalty. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for sexual abuse of a child who is 13 or 14 years of age.
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2025-01-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB1573Intro
25%
Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 10 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 10 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
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2025-01-13
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
VAHB1574Intro
25%
Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 10 days prior to primary election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person in a primary election to 10 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person...
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2025-01-13
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
VAHB1583Intro
25%
Threats to discharge a firearm within or at buildings or means of transportation; penalties. Provides that any person (i) who makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, discharge a firearm within or at, or in an...
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2025-01-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB2279Intro
25%
Authority of Attorney General; criminal cases; human and sex trafficking. Authorizes the Attorney General to prosecute violations of criminal law relating to human and sex trafficking offenses in connection with racketeering.
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2025-01-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB2434Intro
25%
Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have ...
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2025-01-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB2297Intro
25%
School boards; employment of school resource officers in each public elementary and secondary school. Requires each school board to enter into a collaborative agreement with the local law-enforcement agency to employ at least one school resource offi...
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2025-01-08
To House Education Committee
VAHJR457Intro
25%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use. Requires the General Assembly to exempt from personal property taxes motor vehicles owned by an individual for pers...
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2025-01-08
Committee Referral Pending
VAHB2076Intro
25%
Virginia taxable income; subtractions; volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services personnel. Provides a state income tax subtraction of $2,000 beginning in taxable year 2026 for bona fide volunteers who perform qualifying service...
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2025-01-07
To House Finance Committee
VAHB2081Intro
25%
Virginia Human Rights Act; unlawful discrimination. Prohibits any state agency or political subdivision in the Commonwealth from supporting, implementing, recognizing, or utilizing any program, process, or procedure that conveys or denies a benefit, ...
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2025-01-07
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB1565Intro
25%
Governor; chief of staff and Governor's Secretaries. Provides that no chief of staff appointed by the Governor and no Secretary appointed by the Governor shall be members of each other's immediate family when each is serving in his appointed capacity...
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2024-12-16
Committee Referral Pending
VAHB842Engross
50%
Schools boards; pupil transportation; alternatives. Expands the availability of allowable alternatives to traditional school bus transportation services relating to the transportation of students to and from school or school-related activities, inclu...
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2024-11-19
To Senate Education and Health Committee
VAHB489Engross
50%
Insurance; Fire Programs Fund; purposes. Provides that the portion of the Fire Programs Fund allocated to localities may be used for the additional purposes of (i) constructing, improving, or expanding fire station facilities, (ii) providing mental h...
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2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB485Intro
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School boards; employee criminal history records checks and applications; penalty for noncompliance. Clarifies that certain school board employees who are (i) employed in an in-person or remote capacity or some combination thereof or (ii) fully licen...
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2024-11-18
To House Education Committee
VAHB492Intro
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Department of Fire Programs; statewide contract language for procurement of fire and emergency medical services apparatuses and equipment; work group; report. Directs the Department of Fire Programs, the Department of Health's Office of Emergency Med...
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2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee
VAHB486Intro
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Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic ye...
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2024-11-18
To House Education Committee
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