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HB859 - Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Wren M. Williams, Karrie K. Delaney, Shelly Anne Simonds
Last updated 9 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Department of Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for human trafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human trafficking investigator is a private investigator who is GSA compliant and engages in the business of, or accepts employment to make, investigations to obtain information on sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking as defined in the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1092 - Uniform Statewide Building Code; amending Code, local building officials.
Delores Oates
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Board of Housing and Community Development; Uniform Statewide Building Code; local building officials. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to amend the Uniform Statewide Building Code and corresponding regulations to remove any authority for local building departments to appoint local building officials for permanent terms. The bill requires the Board to require local building departments to appoint such officials for a term not to exceed 10 years and to only reappoint such officials after holding a performance evaluation.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Virginia district HD-031
COMMITTEES
Virginia House
BIRTH
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Delores Oates was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned her B.S. degree in Engineering from the University of Alabama in 1995. After college, Ms. Oates began working at a civil engineering firm where she designed bridges and roads. In 2002, Ms. Oates decided to go to law school at Yale University. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale Law in 2005. After law school, she clerked for a federal judge before joining a law firm in Washington D.C. She specialized in civil rights law. In 2018, Ms. Oates moved back to Birmingham and ran for a seat in the state legislature. She campaigned on increasing infrastructure spending and equal rights for all. Ms. Oates now serves on the infrastructure and judiciary committees in the legislature.read less
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