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HB1308 - Tangible personal property; removes $950 million cap on amount of tax relief reimbursed to locality.
William Chad Green, Aijalon C. Cordoza, Baxter Ennis
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Tangible personal property tax relief; rate of taxation. Removes the $950 million cap, beginning in tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter, on the amount of tangible personal property tax relief reimbursed to localities by the Commonwealth. The bill requires, for tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter, each county, city, or town to reduce its local tax rate on qualifying vehicles to no greater than $0.000001 per $100 of assessed value of the qualifying vehicle.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1168 - Children's Ombudsman, Office of the; powers.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Office of the Children's Ombudsman; powers. Grants the Children's Ombudsman with regard to children receiving child-protective services, in foster care, or placed for adoption and children who may have died as a result of alleged abuse or neglect the power to directly oversee local departments of social services, reverse the decisions of local departments of social services, and petition a court to reverse any custody or visitation changes made as a result of the error of a local department of social services.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1169 - Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program; created.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Alert for missing or endangered children; Virginia Critical Operation for a Disappeared Child Initiative (Codi) Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a missing or endangered child. The bill defines a missing or endangered child as a child (i) who is 17 years of age or younger or is currently enrolled in a secondary school in the Commonwealth, regardless of age; (ii) whose whereabouts are unknown; and (iii) whose disappearance is under suspicious circumstances or poses a credible threat as determined by law enforcement to the safety and health of the child and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1145 - Arrest, summons, etc.; formal and informal quotas, prohibition, civil penalty.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Arrest, summons, etc., quotas; prohibition; civil penalty. Provides that any person employed by a law-enforcement agency or any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers who implements a formal or informal quota for arrests made, summonses issued, traffic stops conducted, warnings given, or commercial motor vehicle safety inspections performed is subject to a $10,000 civil penalty for each offense and if such formal or informal quota involves threats, intimidation, coercion, or modification of working conditions to subordinate officers, such employee is subject to a $25,000 civil penalty for each offense. The bill also prohibits a law-enforcement agency or any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers from posting data regarding the number of arrests, summonses, traffic stops, warnings, or commercial motor vehicle safety inspections for the purpose of creating competition between officers with respect to arrests, summonses, traffic stops, warnings given, or commercial motor vehicle safety inspections. Current law prohibits formal and informal quotas for the number of arrests made and summonses issued within a designated period of time and allows agencies to use such information for any purpose other than as a quota.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1144 - Children alleged to be abused or neglected; preliminary removal hearing.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Children alleged to be abused or neglected; preliminary removal hearing; appointment of counsel for parent of such child. Provides that at a preliminary removal hearing in cases in which a child is alleged to have been abused or neglected, the court shall appoint an attorney-at-law to represent such child's parent, guardian, or other adult standing in loco parentis if the court determines that such parent, guardian, or other adult standing in loco parentis is indigent, unless he has waived his right to representation or otherwise employed counsel. Under current law, any such appointment is made at an adjudicatory hearing on such removal after a preliminary removal order is issued.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1147 - General Assembly; threats to members, obstruction of justice, penalties.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Threats to members of the General Assembly; obstruction of justice; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony to knowingly and willfully send, deliver or convey, or cause to be sent, delivered, or conveyed, to a current member of the General Assembly or his immediate family any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon a current member of the General Assembly or his immediate family, whether such threat be oral or written. The bill also provides that any person who without just cause knowingly obstructs any elected official in the performance of his duties as such or fails or refuses without just cause to cease such obstruction when requested to do so by such elected official is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
STATUS
Introduced
HB155 - Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; claims.
William Chad Green, Aijalon C. Cordoza, Wendell Scott Walker
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; claims. Provides that in claims for an award under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund involving claims of sexual abuse of a minor where the conduct constitutes a felony, the passage of time shall not be a barrier to when the victim can file a claim. Under current law, such claim involving sexual abuse of a minor shall be filed within 10 years after the minor's eighteenth birthday.
STATUS
Passed
HB1152 - Teachers; compensation at or above national average, various annual salary adjustments.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Teacher compensation; at or above national average; various annual salary adjustments. Requires that public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average for each step or level on a years of experience-based pay scale. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational, and such aspirational rate is silent on compensation variations based on experience. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. The bill also provides that (i) effective for the 2024-2025 school year, each teacher in each school division, Academic Year Governor's School, and Regional Alternative Education Program shall be awarded a cost-of-living compensation adjustment in an amount or percentage to be determined in the general appropriation act and (ii) effective beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, state funding shall be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum sufficient to fund a 12 percent annual increase for teacher salaries in each school division, Academic Year Governor's School, and Regional Alternative Education Program.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1148 - School boards; employment of counsel.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
School boards; employment of counsel. Clarifies that any school board, whether elected or appointed, may employ the attorney for the Commonwealth or other counsel to advise it concerning any legal matter or to represent it, any member thereof, or any school official in any legal proceeding to which the school board, member, or official may be a party when such proceeding is instituted by or against it or against the member or official by virtue of his actions in connection with his duties as such member or official.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1140 - Medicaid eligibility; asset limits.
Aijalon C. Cordoza
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid eligibility; asset limits. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to (i) submit an amendment to the state plan for medical assistance services to remove or lower any asset limits related to Medicaid eligibility and (ii) to the extent permitted under federal laws and regulations, remove or lower any asset caps that may be removed or lowered without an amendment to the state plan.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Virginia district HD-091
COMMITTEES
Virginia House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Aijalon C. Cordoza graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 2005. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Willamette University in 2009. After college, he joined Teach for America and taught middle school social studies and language arts in North Carolina. In 2013, Cordoza returned to Hawaii and taught at his alma mater, Kamehameha Schools. He recently earned his Master's in Education from Chaminade University. Outside of work, Cordoza enjoys paddleboarding, hiking, camping, and serving his community.read less
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