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HB1360 - Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, etc.
Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to publish an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections. Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to publish an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.
STATUS
Introduced
HB571 - Sexually explicit content; policies on parental notification of instructional material.
Karrie K. Delaney, Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 8 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB1304 - Elections; required voting districts in certain cities.
Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Required voting districts in certain cities. Requires every city with a population of 250,000 or greater to elect its council members by individual districts or wards, beginning with municipal elections held after January 1, 2025. The provisions of this bill supersede any contrary provisions of a city charter or any other provision of law.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1359 - Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited, definition.
Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1311 - Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
Nadarius E. Clark, Bonita Grace Anthony, Katrina E. Callsen
Last updated 11 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment by either party. The bill also repeals the provision allowing for a divorce from bed and board on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment. The provisions of the bill apply to suits for divorce filed on or after July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1540 - The Virginia African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, etc., Advisory Board; established.
Irene Shin, Nadarius E. Clark, Alfonso H. Lopez
Last updated 10 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
The Virginia African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous Education Advisory Board; establishment.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR42 - Nepali American Heritage Day; designating as April 15, 2024 and each succeeding year thereafter.
Irene Shin, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker, Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Nepali American Heritage Day. Designates April 15, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Nepali American Heritage Day in Virginia.
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
HB130 - Constitutional officers; dual office holding, prohibited for deputies and other persons.
Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any persons serving in such officer's absence until a special election to fill the vacancy is held.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1492 - Trauma-informed training and education; work group to study.
Rae C. Cousins, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 10 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia; work group to study trauma-informed training and education; report. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary to convene a work group to make recommendations on the development, adoption, and implementation of trauma-informed training and education for judges, magistrates, and court personnel. The bill requires the work group to submit its recommendations by December 1, 2024, to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice.
STATUS
Introduced
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Representative from Virginia district HD-021
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