HB882 - Students; Department of Education's model policy on cell phone use during instructional time.

6 Co-Sponsors

Department of Education; model policy on student cell phone use during instructional time; local adoption. Requires the Department of Education to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model policy whereby public elementary and secondary school students are prohibited from possessing or using personal cell phones or other personal handheld communication devices during instructional time at school. The bill requires the Department, in developing and adopting such model policy, to seek to balance the interests of students' academic achievement, cognitive development, safety, and general well-being and permits the Department to include appropriate exceptions in extraordinary circumstances such as emergency situations or situations involving the need to contact the student's parents. The bill requires each school board to develop and adopt a policy that is consistent with such model policy adopted by the Department.

HB1358 - Elections; requirements for precincts, waiver for split precinct or precinct below the minimum size.

1 Co-Sponsor

Elections; requirements for precincts; waiver for split precinct or precinct below the minimum size. Allows a governing body granted a waiver to administer a split precinct or directed to establish a precinct with fewer than the minimum number of registered voters to continue to use such a precinct for any election until such time as the governing body makes changes to any precinct boundaries within the locality or the waiver is withdrawn by the State Board. Under current law, such a waiver is limited to the year in which it is granted.

HB907 - Voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process, printed receipt for cast ballot.

4 Co-Sponsors

Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the date and time the voter's ballot was cast, the voter's number corresponding to the order in which ballots were cast, and a list of all the voter's selections on the ballot as recorded by the voting system.

HB879 - Land's End Wildlife Mgmt. Area; DWR to grant & convey an ingress-egress easement & right-of-way.

1 Co-Sponsor

Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Land's End Wildlife Management Area to Joseph C. Frank III, Betty J. Frank, Jacob C. Ackerman, and Crystal F. Ackerman. The easement will allow ingress and egress from State Route 625 (Salem Church Road) to the grantees' properties. Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Land's End Wildlife Management Area to Joseph C. Frank III, Betty J. Frank, Jacob C. Ackerman, and Crystal F. Ackerman. The easement will allow ingress and egress from State Route 625 (Salem Church Road) to the grantees' properties.

HB1319 - Disorderly conduct; penalty.

3 Co-Sponsors

Disorderly conduct; penalty. Removes the prohibition on the applicability of the offense of disorderly conduct in public place to any elementary or secondary school student if the disorderly conduct occurred on the property of any elementary or secondary school, on a school bus, or at any activity conducted or sponsored by any elementary or secondary school.

HB1197 - Planning districts; King George County.

1 Co-Sponsor

Planning districts; King George County. Moves King George County from Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional Commission) to Planning District 17 (Northern Neck Planning District Commission). The bill requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to assist with this transition.

HJR115 - Celebrating the life of Douglas Durrell Monroe, Jr.

1 Co-Sponsor

HR64 - Commending William A. Webb.

1 Co-Sponsor

HJR116 - Commending Ammon G. Dunton, Jr.

1 Co-Sponsor

HR63 - Commending Glenn Stuart Settle.

1 Co-Sponsor