Virginia Delegate Thomas Garrett [R] | House | Introduced

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VAHJR616Intro
25%
Commending Colonel Gary T. Settle.
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2025-02-07
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25101169D
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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2025-02-05
To House Labor and Commerce 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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2025-02-05
To House General Laws Committee
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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2025-02-05
To House General Laws 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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2025-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
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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2025-02-05
To House Public Safety 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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2025-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
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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2025-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
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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2025-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections 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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2025-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHJR452Intro
25%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); right to food choice. Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that declares the right of the people to acquire the food of their choice from the source of their choice shall not be infringed.
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2025-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections 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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2025-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
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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2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
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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2025-02-04
To House Education Committee
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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2025-02-04
To House Finance 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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2025-02-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee
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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2025-02-04
To House Finance 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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2025-02-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee
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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2025-02-04
To House Education 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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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
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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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
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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2025-02-04
To House Rules 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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2025-02-04
To House Rules Committee
VAHB2770Intro
25%
School safety procedures; emergency situations; annual training; safety grants.
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2025-02-04
To House Education Committee
VAHB2771Intro
25%
All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; penalty. Authorizes the use of all-terrain vehicles on secondary state highways if (i) such operation is approved by action of the governing body of a locality for operation on the secondary state highwa...
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2025-02-04
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1551Intro
25%
Virginia taxable income; standard deduction; sunset. Removes the sunset on elevated standard deduction amounts for single individuals and married persons that is scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2026.
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2025-02-04
To House Finance Committee
VAHJR593Intro
25%
Celebrating the life of Diana Lee Creasey.
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2025-02-04
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 25106338D
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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2025-02-04
To House Education Committee
VAHB1619Intro
25%
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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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations 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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2025-01-29
Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (12-Y 10-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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2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 10]
Tabled in Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
VAHB485Intro
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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2024-11-18
To House Education Committee
VAHB492Intro
25%
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
25%
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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