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HB1216 - Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program; established, report.
Adele Y. McClure, Carrie Emerson Coyner, Michael B. Feggans
Last updated 8 months ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees. The Program shall be administered by the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (the Foundation). To participate in the Program, an employer shall agree to make child care contributions to the eligible mixed-delivery provider on behalf of the employee and shall provide any other information deemed necessary by the Foundation. To the extent funds are available, the Foundation shall issue a state match directly to such eligible mixed-delivery provider or to a third-party administrator. Program funds shall be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis; however, the Foundation is encouraged to prioritize awards to small businesses. Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program. Establishes the Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program (the Program) to provide matching funds to employers in order to incentivize employers to contribute to the child care costs of their employees. The Program shall be administered by the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (the Foundation). To participate in the Program, an employer shall agree to make child care contributions to the eligible mixed-delivery provider on behalf of the employee and shall provide any other information deemed necessary by the Foundation. To the extent funds are available, the Foundation shall issue a state match directly to such eligible mixed-delivery provider or to a third-party administrator. Program funds shall be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis; however, the Foundation is encouraged to prioritize awards to small businesses.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB475 - Child care; background checks for applicants for employment, etc.
Carrie Emerson Coyner, Terry Lee Austin
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the applicant has received qualifying results on a fingerprint-based background check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange or the Federal Bureau of Investigation and (ii) the applicant is supervised at all times by a person who received a qualifying result on a full background check within the past five years.
STATUS
Introduced
HB226 - Omitted taxes; installment agreements.
Mike A. Cherry, Carrie Emerson Coyner, Mark L. Earley
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed with omitted taxes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB99 - Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers.
William Chad Green, Jason S. Ballard, Ellen H. Campbell
Last updated 9 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such person shall be required to have a break in service of at least six calendar months before reemployment. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such person shall be required to have a break in service of at least six calendar months before reemployment. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB574 - Recordation tax; value of interest conveyed.
Joshua E. Thomas, Carrie Emerson Coyner
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Recordation tax; value of interest conveyed. Provides that for purposes of recordation taxes, the value of a property interest conveyed shall be the most recent property tax assessment for such property at the time the property is conveyed. Recordation tax; value of interest conveyed. Provides that for purposes of recordation taxes, the value of a property interest conveyed shall be the most recent property tax assessment for such property at the time the property is conveyed.
STATUS
Passed
HB653 - Adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints; violent felony offenses.
Carrie Emerson Coyner
Last updated 4 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints; violent felony offenses. Removes certain felony offenses from the list of violent felony offenses for the adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB239 - Sickle Cell Disease, Advisory Council on; established, report.
Delores L. McQuinn, Alex Q. Askew, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 9 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease to advise the State Health Commissioner on the efforts to improve awareness of sickle cell disease and the needs of individuals with sickle cell disease. The bill requires the Board of Health to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its activities and recommendations.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1079 - Early College Model Program; established.
Carrie Emerson Coyner
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
College partnership laboratory schools; Early College Model Program established. Establishes the Early College Model Program whereby any public institution of higher education may establish a college partnership laboratory school in which each enrolled high school student earns, at no cost to the student, an associate degree or a bachelor's degree concurrently with a high school diploma. Under the bill, provisions of existing law relating to the establishment of college partnership laboratory schools apply to such schools established pursuant to the Program but with certain conditions and exceptions, including (i) requiring a college partnership laboratory school established pursuant to the Program to be administered and governed by the Department of Education and (ii) prohibiting any enrolled student from being charged tuition for the college courses in which the student is dually enrolled and requiring the college partnership laboratory school to receive the statewide average share of Standards of Quality per pupil state funding, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid, for each student enrolled in such school to support the instruction of each such student in the fall and spring semesters.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR77 - Designating Monday, January 22, 2024 as Recovery Day in Virginia.
Carrie Emerson Coyner
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Designating Monday, January 22, 2024, as Recovery Day in Virginia. Designating Monday, January 22, 2024, as Recovery Day in Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
HB479 - Prisoner; physical examination by licensed nurse practitioner.
Carrie Emerson Coyner
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Physical examination of prisoner; licensed nurse practitioner; licensed physician assistant. Provides that each person received by the Department of Corrections shall be examined by a licensed physician, licensed nurse practitioner, or licensed physician assistant upon his arrival, within 30 days prior to any work assignment in food services, medical services, or cosmetological services or a change in work assignment, and at such other times thereafter as may be deemed necessary. Under current law, such examination may be performed only by a licensed physician. Physical examination of prisoner; licensed nurse practitioner; licensed physician assistant. Provides that each person received by the Department of Corrections shall be examined by a licensed physician, licensed nurse practitioner, or licensed physician assistant upon his arrival, within 30 days prior to any work assignment in food services, medical services, or cosmetological services or a change in work assignment, and at such other times thereafter as may be deemed necessary. Under current law, such examination may be performed only by a licensed physician.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Virginia district HD-062
COMMITTEES
Virginia House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Carrie Emerson Coyner has been active in politics since childhood. After graduating with a bachelor degree at Lynchburg College in 1989, she has had a career in banking, law, and fraud investigation. Coyner was elected to the Board of Supervisors in Chesterfield County in 2017 and won re-election in 2021. She has focused on education, economic growth, public safety, transportation, and fiscal responsibility issues.read less
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