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HB424 - Toll facilities; free use by certain disabled veterans.
William Chad Green, Nadarius E. Clark, Baxter Ennis
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Free use of toll facilities; certain disabled veterans. Authorizes the free use of all toll bridges, toll roads, and other toll facilities in the Commonwealth for drivers who have been rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as having a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability. The bill also replaces the current window sticker for certain persons exempted from tolls due to a disability with a specialized electronic toll collection device identifying such person as eligible for free passage.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1446 - Real property tax; assessment of real property used for affordable housing.
Carrie Emerson Coyner, Chris S. Runion, Rae C. Cousins
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Real property tax; assessment of real property used for affordable housing. Requires the duly authorized real estate assessor of a locality to appraise affordable rental housing in accordance with the income approach, as described by the bill. The bill provides that, should the duly authorized real estate assessor fail to follow generally accepted appraisal practices, the assessment will not be entitled to a presumption of correctness, and if the owner then successfully appeals such assessment, the locality shall reimburse the owner for attorney fees and costs incurred.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1380 - Real property tax; assessment of real property used for affordable housing.
Chris S. Runion
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Real property tax; assessment of real property used for affordable housing. Requires the duly authorized real estate assessor of a locality to appraise affordable rental housing in accordance with the income approach, as described by the bill. The bill provides that, should the duly authorized real estate assessor fail to follow generally accepted appraisal practices, the assessment will not be entitled to a presumption of correctness, and if the owner then successfully appeals such assessment, the locality shall reimburse the owner for attorney fees and costs incurred.
STATUS
Introduced
HB577 - Slot-retention requests; Developmental Disability waiver slots, sunset date.
Chris S. Runion, Amy J. Laufer
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; slot-retention requests; Developmental Disability waivers; sunset. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend their regulations to allow for support coordinators to request and subsequently obtain approval of consecutive waiver slot-retention requests for a period of up to 365 calendar days for individuals who have been assigned a Developmental Disability waiver slot. Current regulations allow for four consecutive 30-day slot-retention extensions. The bill sunsets on June 30, 2026, and is identical to
STATUS
Passed
HB675 - VA School for the Deaf & the Blind, Board of Visitors of the; authority to establish campus police.
Chris S. Runion
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus police department. Permits the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish a campus police department, in compliance with the provisions of law relating to campus police departments established by institutions of higher education, and to employ campus police officers therein.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1295 - Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels, water treatment systems.
Ellen H. Campbell, Terry G. Kilgore, Chris S. Runion
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtration to remove or significantly reduce concentrations of contaminants of concern that meet or exceed any maximum contaminant level or health advisory for the same contaminant adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The bill also establishes the Rural Water Supply Program and Fund to allow the Department of Health's Office of Drinking Water to test and treat contaminated drinking water for individuals on private wells and small rural public water systems.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1044 - Higher Education for Virginia, State Council of; membership, effective date.
Sam Rasoul, Israel D. O'Quinn, William P. Davis
Last updated 7 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; membership. Requires the membership of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to include at least one nonlegislative citizen member who has served as a chief executive officer of an accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026, and is identical to
STATUS
Passed
HJR61 - Higher ed. institutions, baccalaureate public; SCHEV to study $10,000 tuition per year degree.
Chris S. Runion
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; $10,000 per year baccalaureate degree; report. Requests that the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (i) study the feasibility of implementing the option for students to pay $10,000 annually for tuition and mandatory fees to earn a degree at a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth by surveying each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to determine the likely impact of such an option on enrollment, revenue, costs, services, staffing, and such other factors as the institution deems relevant and (ii) report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1029 - Bath County and Augusta County School Boards; cost-savings agreements, requirements.
Chris S. Runion
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharing of educational, administrative, or support services and thus qualifies for adjustment of state share of basic aid computed annually on the basis of the composite index of local ability-to-pay of such contiguous school division that caps such adjusted basic aid payment at an amount equal to the basic aid payment appropriated to such locality by the 2007 Session of the General Assembly. The bill also permits, notwithstanding the requirement set forth in relevant law that a school division has 65 percent or more of its local taxes coming from real estate taxes in order for the school board that governs such school division to be eligible to enter into such cost-savings agreements with a contiguous school division, the Bath County School Board to enter into such cost-savings agreements with the Augusta County School Board, provided that all other conditions and limitations set forth in relevant law apply to any such agreement.
STATUS
Introduced
HB462 - School Construction Fund and Program; definitions.
Chris S. Runion, Ian T. Lovejoy
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
School Construction Program and Fund; career and technical education programs eligible. Clarifies that, for the purposes of eligibility to receive grants through the School Construction Fund and Program, "local school division" includes any joint or regional school established in accordance with relevant law and "public school buildings and facilities" or "public school buildings" include any building or facility used for career and technical education programs provided at any such joint or regional school.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Virginia district HD-025
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Virginia House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Chris S. Runion is seeking election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 38. Runion currently serves on the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors. He is a business development manager and former intelligence analyst. Runion is a graduate of James Madison University. He and his wife Courtney have one daughter. They reside in Spotsylvania County. Runion serves on several boards and commissions for the community.read less
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