Rep Joshua G. Cole (HD-028)
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HB426 - Professional counselors; Board of Counseling to recognize NCE as a valid examination for licensure.
Joshua G. Cole
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Directs the Board of Counseling to recognize the National Counselor Examination as a valid examination for licensure as a professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Directs the Board of Counseling to recognize the National Counselor Examination as a valid examination for licensure as a professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
HB537 - Home Visiting Program; established, report.
Joshua G. Cole, Debra D. Gardner, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Home Visiting Program established; report. Establishes the Home Visiting Program within the Department of Social Services to support pregnant people and parents with young children who face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal and child health outcomes. The bill directs the Department to operate in accordance with the Virginia Plan for Home Visiting established by Early Impact Virginia, a consortium of government and private entities. The purpose of the Program is to (i) promote the health and well-being of pregnant people and parents, (ii) improve infant and child health and development, (iii) strengthen family functioning, (iv) promote school readiness, (v) reduce child maltreatment, (vi) promote economic mobility, and (vii) cultivate strong communities. The bill requires the Department to report biennially to the Governor and the General Assembly on outcomes for Program participants. Home Visiting Program established; report. Establishes the Home Visiting Program within the Department of Social Services to support pregnant people and parents with young children who face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal and child health outcomes. The bill directs the Department to operate in accordance with the Virginia Plan for Home Visiting established by Early Impact Virginia, a consortium of government and private entities. The purpose of the Program is to (i) promote the health and well-being of pregnant people and parents, (ii) improve infant and child health and development, (iii) strengthen family functioning, (iv) promote school readiness, (v) reduce child maltreatment, (vi) promote economic mobility, and (vii) cultivate strong communities. The bill requires the Department to report biennially to the Governor and the General Assembly on outcomes for Program participants.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1490 - Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices, days and hours of operation.
Atoosa R. Reaser, Bonita Grace Anthony, Alex Q. Askew
Last updated 9 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of operation for such offices. The bill prohibits any reduction in the dates or hours of operation of such offices to be enacted within 60 days of any general election. Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of operation for such offices. The bill prohibits any reduction in the dates or hours of operation of such offices to be enacted within 60 days of any general election.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB719 - Public high schools; SOL curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction.
Atoosa R. Reaser, Irene Shin, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Last updated 8 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Public high schools; research-based hazing prevention instruction. Requires the Board of Education to develop Standards of Learning and curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction to be provided as a part of physical or health education instruction provided to students in grade nine or 10. The bill requires such hazing prevention instruction to include age-appropriate, extensive, and current education about hazing, including (i) examples of hazing; (ii) the dangers of hazing, including the consequences of alcohol intoxication; and (iii) school policies and laws related to hazing, including criminal penalties and bystander intervention. The bill requires such research-based hazing prevention instruction to be offered in-person but requires each school board to provide options for virtual participation for any student who is enrolled in an online or virtual physical or health education program. Finally, the bill requires each school board to provide such research-based hazing prevention instruction beginning with the school year following the Board's adoption of revised Standards of Learning for physical and health education for grades nine and 10 incorporating such research-based hazing prevention instruction and directs the Board to, in the intermediary time, develop and post on its website guidance documents for the purpose of making such research-based hazing prevention instruction available to local school boards.
STATUS
Passed
HB680 - Human Resource Management, Department of; recruitment policy, direct work experience.
James A. Leftwich, Mark L. Earley, Joshua G. Cole
Last updated 10 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Department of Human Resource Management; recruitment policy; direct work experience. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to develop a statewide recruitment policy designed to provide guidance to state agencies on how to remove postsecondary degree requirements from hiring considerations and recruit qualified employees utilizing appropriate baseline requirements, the specifics of which are outlined in the bill.
STATUS
Engrossed
HJR13 - Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness.
Richard C. Sullivan, Bonita Grace Anthony, Jonathan Arnold
Last updated 9 months ago
100 Co-Sponsors
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness in Virginia. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness. Designates May, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness in Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
HR76 - Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Patterson Epps.
Joshua G. Cole
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
STATUS
Passed
HR77 - Commending the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce.
Joshua G. Cole, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 9 months ago
35 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
HB1383 - Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records, disclosure of information in court.
Paul V. Milde, Joshua G. Cole
Last updated 10 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the disposition in a delinquency case concerning a student who is not enrolled in such school division, forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division where such student is enrolled or where such student intends to enroll, as evidenced by the receipt of a request from the other school division for such student's scholastic records. Current law only permits the superintendent of any such school division to forward such notification to the superintendent of the school division in which the student is currently enrolled. The bill also requires a copy of the complete student disciplinary records of any student transferring from one school division to another to be transferred to the school division to which such student is transferring, upon request from such school division.
STATUS
Introduced
HB721 - Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty.
Nadarius E. Clark, Adele Y. McClure, Irene Shin
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlords who are under the ordinance may be required to give at least two months' written notice of a rent increase and cannot increase the rent by more than the locality's calculated allowance, described in the bill as the maximum amount a landlord can increase a tenant's rent during any 12-month period, in effect at the time of the increase. The bill sets such allowance as equal to the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index or seven percent, whichever is less, states that such allowance is effective for a 12-month period beginning July 1 each year, and requires the locality to publish such allowance on its website by June 1 of each year. Certain facilities, as outlined in the bill, are exempt from such ordinance. The bill also allows a locality to establish an anti-rent gouging board that will develop and implement rules and procedures by which landlords may apply for and be granted exemptions from the rent increase limits set by the ordinance. Finally, the bill provides that a locality may establish a civil penalty for failure to comply with the requirements set out in the ordinance.
STATUS
Introduced
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