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SB290 - Guardians and conservators; order of appointment and certificate of qualification, annual report.
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Guardians and conservators; order of appointment and certificate of qualification; annual report. Requires a petitioner to file with a petition for the appointment of a guardian, a conservator, or both a cover sheet on a form prepared by the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The bill requires a guardian to file an initial annual report reflecting the first four months of guardianship since qualification within six months of the date of qualification and to file the second and each subsequent annual report for each succeeding 12-month period within four months from the last day of the last 12-month period covered by the previous annual report. The bill also specifies which documents the clerk shall forward to certain entities upon the qualification of a guardian or conservator.
STATUS
Passed
SB325 - Vital records; birth certificates, adoption, members of the military.
Danica A. Roem, Tara A. Durant
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Vital records; birth certificates; adoption; members of the military. Directs the State Registrar to expedite issuance of a new birth certificate upon receipt of certain documentation for a person born in the Commonwealth if at least one adoptive parent is an active duty or retired member of the military or military reserves. The bill directs the court decreeing the adoption to deliver such records to the State Registrar no later than five business days from such decree.
STATUS
Passed
SB291 - Court-appointed guardians; training, powers and duties.
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; training; powers and duties of guardian; annual reports by guardians; information required. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to develop and provide training for court-appointed guardians by July 1, 2025. The bill requires a court-appointed guardian and any skilled professional retained by such guardian to perform guardianship duties to complete the initial training developed by the Department within four months after the date of qualification of such guardian. Under the bill, guardians appointed prior to July 1, 2025, must complete such training by January 1, 2027. The bill further requires a guardian to include in his annual report to the local department of social services a statement as to whether such training has been completed.
STATUS
Passed
SB321 - Administrative and civil proceedings; protected information, newspersons engaged in journalism.
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journalism shall not be compelled by the Commonwealth or a locality to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, with certain exceptions, in criminal proceedings only. Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journalism shall not be compelled by the Commonwealth or a locality to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, with certain exceptions, in criminal proceedings only.
STATUS
Passed
SB284 - Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites.
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a minimal impact on historic, agricultural, and cultural resources and (ii) not be within one mile of a national park, state park, or other historically significant site.
STATUS
Introduced
SB314 - Farm to School Program Task Force; Department of Education to establish.
Danica A. Roem, Christie New Craig
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of increasing student access throughout the Commonwealth to high-quality farm to school programs, defined in the bill as programs (i) whereby public schools purchase and feature prominently in school meals locally produced food or (ii) that involve experiential student learning opportunities relating to local food and agriculture, including school and community garden programs and local farm visits. The bill requires the Task Force to collaborate with local school boards, community-based organizations, farmers, relevant state and local agencies, and other relevant stakeholders to (a) assess existing farm to school programs within the Commonwealth to identify and disseminate to each local school board best practices for implementing and sustaining such programs, (b) establish and distribute to each local school board a guidance document for the establishment and operation of school garden programs, (c) provide information and resources to each local school board to assist it in leveraging grant funds to support farm to school programs, and (d) collect such data and make such policy recommendations to local school boards, the Board of Education, and the General Assembly as it deems appropriate.
STATUS
Passed
SB286 - Electric utilities; underground transmission lines.
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Electric utilities; underground transmission lines. Provides that the construction and reconstruction of any underground, in whole or in part, electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts and less than 500 kilovolts along a highway right-of-way under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation in Planning District 8 where a data center proposal is under construction in an area located within a half mile of a National Battlefield Park and within one mile of a state forest is in the public interest.
STATUS
Introduced
SB282 - Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program; use of surplus funds for Program.
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program; surplus funds. Provides that beginning in fiscal year 2025, in any fiscal year in which there is a surplus of general fund revenues, as that term is defined in the bill, the Governor shall include in his proposed budget an appropriation of 10 percent of such surplus for the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program for the purpose of funding projects consistent with the objectives of the Program.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR19 - Roadway & pedestrian improvements in Gainesville; VDOT to study implementation in Prince Wm. County.
Danica A. Roem, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Suhas Subramanyam
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Study; Department of Transportation; roadway and pedestrian improvements in Gainesville; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of implementing certain roadway and pedestrian improvements in Gainesville in Prince William County, particularly along Somerset Crossing Drive. Study; Department of Transportation; roadway and pedestrian improvements in Gainesville; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of implementing certain roadway and pedestrian improvements in Gainesville in Prince William County, particularly along Somerset Crossing Drive.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB292 - Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem.
Danica A. Roem
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem. Adds to the considerations regarding the suitability and propriety of a prospective guardian or conservator that a guardian ad litem is required to address in his report to the court following a petition for guardianship or conservatorship. The bill provides that the guardian ad litem shall consider the prospective guardian's or conservator's work as a professional guardian, including whether the person does so on a full-time basis, the prospective guardian's or conservator's expected capacity as a guardian, and whether the prospective guardian or conservator is named as a perpetrator in any substantiated adult protective services complaint involving the respondent following allegations of abuse or neglect. Guardianship and conservatorship; report of guardian ad litem. Adds to the considerations regarding the suitability and propriety of a prospective guardian or conservator that a guardian ad litem is required to address in his report to the court following a petition for guardianship or conservatorship. The bill provides that the guardian ad litem shall consider the prospective guardian's or conservator's work as a professional guardian, including whether the person does so on a full-time basis, the prospective guardian's or conservator's expected capacity as a guardian, and whether the prospective guardian or conservator is named as a perpetrator in any substantiated adult protective services complaint involving the respondent following allegations of abuse or neglect.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Virginia district SD-030
COMMITTEES
Virginia Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Danica Roem is currently serving her first term as Delegate in Virginia's House of Delegates. She represents District 13. Roem studied journalism at St. Bonaventure University. Prior to her election, Roem worked as a journalist for nine years reporting on Virginia state politics. In 2017, Roem defeated Republican incumbent Robert Marshall, who had held the seat since 1992. Roem is the first openly transgender candidate elected and seated in a state legislature.read less
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Virginia Senate from Virginia
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