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HB52 - Alkaline hydrolysis; establishes registration requirement, regulations.
Kim A. Taylor, William Chad Green, Ian T. Lovejoy
Last updated 10 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Alkaline hydrolysis; registration; regulations. Establishes a registration requirement for alkaline hydrolysis providers. The bill defines alkaline hydrolysis and adds alkaline hydrolysis and hydrolyzed remains to statutes dealing with cremation and cremains. The bill grants the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers the power to regulate and inspect alkaline hydrolysis providers and their operations. The bill requires the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to consult with the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Health, and representatives of wastewater treatment facilities and funeral service associations to promulgate regulations related to alkaline hydrolysis. Alkaline hydrolysis; registration; regulations. Establishes a registration requirement for alkaline hydrolysis providers. The bill defines alkaline hydrolysis and adds alkaline hydrolysis and hydrolyzed remains to statutes dealing with cremation and cremains. The bill grants the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers the power to regulate and inspect alkaline hydrolysis providers and their operations. The bill requires the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to consult with the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Health, and representatives of wastewater treatment facilities and funeral service associations to promulgate regulations related to alkaline hydrolysis.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB62 - Local animal cruelty registries; any locality may establish, etc., a computerized registry.
Ellen H. Campbell, Baxter Ennis, Hyland F. Fowler
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant information of persons convicted of certain felony offenses for animal cruelty and that a person on such registry may request removal of his name after 15 years, provided that he has no additional felony convictions of an animal cruelty offense. The bill directs that all costs relating to a locality's animal cruelty registry shall be borne by such locality.
STATUS
Passed
HB1325 - Firearms, certain; criminal history record information check required for transfer.
Kim A. Taylor
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Criminal history record information check required for the transfer of certain firearms. Eliminates the requirement that firearms dealers must mail or deliver the written criminal history information record check consent to the Department of State Police on the last day of the week following the sale or transfer of any firearm.
STATUS
Introduced
HB233 - Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant.
Ellen H. Campbell, Ian T. Lovejoy, Kim A. Taylor
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Provides that the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority may determine a site of at least 50 contiguous acres to be an eligible site if such site meets certain criteria provided in the bill to receive a site development grant from the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program Fund.
STATUS
Passed
HB99 - Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers.
William Chad Green, Jason S. Ballard, Ellen H. Campbell
Last updated 11 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such person shall be required to have a break in service of at least six calendar months before reemployment. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such person shall be required to have a break in service of at least six calendar months before reemployment. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB156 - Jury service; increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from service upon request.
William Chad Green, Nadarius E. Clark, Rozia A. Henson
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Exemptions from jury service upon request; age. Increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from jury service upon request.
STATUS
Passed
HB49 - Window tint; emergency vehicles.
Kim A. Taylor, Ellen H. Campbell, Mike A. Cherry
Last updated 11 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Window tint; emergency vehicles. Authorizes window tinting on all emergency medical services vehicles and vehicles used to fight fire, including publicly owned state forest warden vehicles. Current law authorizes tinting on the rear and rear side windows of emergency medical services vehicles used to transport patients.
STATUS
Introduced
HB555 - Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, annual report.
Patrick A. Hope, Kim A. Taylor
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates, within the Office of the State Inspector General, the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office) headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by the State Inspector General. The bill creates the Corrections Oversight Committee (the Committee) made up of four members of the General Assembly, nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, subject to criteria described in the bill, and two nonvoting members, appointed as described in the bill, who monitor the activities of the Ombudsman and the Department of Corrections (the Department). The bill provides the Office with authority to conduct inspections at least once every three years and more often when warranted of Department facilities and requires the Office to establish a statewide toll-free telephone number, website, mailing address, and paper and electronic forms for inmates, family members, friends, and advocates to submit complaints and inquiries. In addition, the bill requires the Committee to hold at least two public hearings per year and requires the Office to submit an annual report to be made available online and to be delivered to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, the House Committee on Public Safety, the Committee, and the Director of the Department. The bill directs the Office to develop a short-term and long-term strategic plan and to provide a report on its initial activities and strategic plan to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before November 15, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HJR33 - Distressed localities; JLARC to study potential effects of revising distribution of 599 funding.
Kim A. Taylor
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Study; JLARC; potential effects of revising the distribution of 599 funding to distressed localities with high crime and poverty rates; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential effects of revising the distribution of 599 funding to distressed localities with high crime and poverty rates.
STATUS
Introduced
HB51 - Prostitution; increases penalties for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation from an adult.
Kim A. Taylor
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to solicit prostitution from any minor. Under current law, any person who solicits prostitution from a minor is guilty of a Class 6 felony if the minor is 16 years of age or older or a Class 5 felony if the minor is younger than 16 years of age. Finally, the bill increases the fines for certain offenses related to sex trafficking from $100 to $1,000 and from $500 to $2,500, respectively.
STATUS
Introduced
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