Rep Joshua E. Thomas (HD-021)
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HJR44 - Black Maternal Health Week; designating as April 11-17, 2024, and each succeeding year thereafter.
Destiny LeVere Bolling, Bonita Grace Anthony, Alex Q. Askew
Last updated 9 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Black Maternal Health Week. Designates April 11 through April 17, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Black Maternal Health Week in Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
HB585 - Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools, penalties.
Candi Mundon King, Alfonso H. Lopez, Michelle E. Lopes-Maldonado
Last updated 8 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools; penalties. Provides that no home-based firearms dealer, as defined in the bill, shall be engaged in the business of selling, trading, or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail within 1.5 miles of any elementary or middle school, including buildings and grounds. The bill provides that any person who willfully violates such prohibition is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor for a first offense and guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense.
STATUS
Vetoed
HR295 - Commending the Oakton High School marching band.
Holly M. Seibold, David L. Bulova, Bonita Grace Anthony
Last updated 9 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
HR151 - Celebrating the life of Mary Clyde James Carruth.
Nadarius E. Clark, Bonita Grace Anthony, Alex Q. Askew
Last updated 9 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
HB509 - Students with disabilities; SCHEV to study process used to determine eligibility for accommodations.
Laura Jane Cohen, Irene Shin, Amy J. Laufer
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; public institutions of higher education; policies for establishing eligibility for accommodations; report. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with representatives of public institutions of higher education, disability advocacy organizations, students enrolled at public institutions of higher education, higher education disability accommodation professionals, and a subject matter expert, to (i) study the processes by which each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth determines the eligibility for accommodations of an admitted or enrolled student with a temporary or permanent disability, (ii) identify in such processes any potential barriers to establishing eligibility, and (iii) make recommendations on reducing any such barriers and on the development and establishment of a uniform accommodations eligibility determination in the Commonwealth.
STATUS
Passed
HR96 - Commending the Suffolk Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Nadarius E. Clark, Debra D. Gardner, Candi Mundon King
Last updated 10 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
HB1473 - Fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; Department of Education shall develop.
Nadarius E. Clark, Joshua E. Thomas, Ian T. Lovejoy
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Department of Education; development and distribution of fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; requirements. Requires the Department of Education to develop, in collaboration with the Department of Health, a fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet designed to promote awareness of the dangers associated with and the prevalence of fentanyl and provide essential information on fentanyl overdose prevention and preparedness among high school-age students. The bill requires the Department of Education to make available to each school board and post in a publicly accessible location on its website such informational one-sheet and to annually review and update such informational one-sheet in collaboration with the Department of Health to ensure its currency and accuracy. The bill requires each public high school or secondary school that includes grades nine through 12 to annually distribute such informational one-sheet to each student in grades nine through 12 within the first two weeks of the school year.
STATUS
Passed
HB150 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; new participants not required to appear in person.
Dan I. Helmer, Joshua E. Thomas, Rae C. Cousins
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to appear in person. The bill also codifies the Department of Health's authority to implement a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program), which is currently authorized by regulation. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to appear in person. The bill also codifies the Department of Health's authority to implement a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program), which is currently authorized by regulation.
STATUS
Passed
HB374 - Virginia Minority Business Commission; established, membership, report, sunset date.
Michael B. Feggans, Phil M. Hernandez, Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 8 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Minority Business Commission; report; sunset. Establishes the 13-member Virginia Minority Business Commission in the legislative branch of government for the purpose of promoting the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned businesses. The bill provides that the Commission sunsets on July 1, 2028. Virginia Minority Business Commission; report; sunset. Establishes the 13-member Virginia Minority Business Commission in the legislative branch of government for the purpose of promoting the growth and competitiveness of Virginia minority-owned businesses. The bill provides that the Commission sunsets on July 1, 2028.
STATUS
Passed
HR341 - Commending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
Carrie Emerson Coyner, Bonita Grace Anthony, Jonathan Arnold
Last updated 9 months ago
90 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
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