SR617 - Commending Dennis M. Ellmer.

11 Co-Sponsors

SR622 - Commending Mark Palmer.

1 Co-Sponsor

SB6006 - Va. Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program, etc.; repeal of modifications, report.

20 Co-Sponsors

General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers; stakeholder work group. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers. The bill also directs the Secretary of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs and the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of evaluating the history, current structure, and utilization trends of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers and making recommendations on legislative actions and budgetary modifications that could improve the long-term viability of the Program. The bill requires the Secretary of Finance to submit the work group's recommendations to the Governor and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations by November 1, 2024.

SB6003 - Va. Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program, etc.; repeal of modifications, report.

21 Co-Sponsors

General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers; stakeholder work group. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers. The bill also directs the Secretary of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs and the Secretary of Education, to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of evaluating the history, current structure, and utilization trends of the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related financial aid waivers and making recommendations on legislative actions and budgetary modifications that could improve the long-term viability of the Program. The bill requires the Secretary of Finance to submit the work group's recommendations to the Governor and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations by November 1, 2025.

SB6010 - Va. Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program & related programs; repeal of modifications.

21 Co-Sponsors

General appropriation act; repeal of modifications to waiver programs. Removes language in the appropriation act imposing additional requirements on financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related programs.

SR626 - Commending the Honorable Robert F. McDonnell.

23 Co-Sponsors

SR630 - Celebrating the life of Randolph Nicklas Reynolds, Sr.

16 Co-Sponsors

SB6012 - Va. Military Survivors & Dependents Ed. Program & related programs; modifications, surplus revenues.

30 Co-Sponsors

General appropriation act; designation of additional surplus; repeal of modifications to certain waiver programs. Designates certain additional surplus revenues in the amount of $90 million to offset the impact of financial aid waivers and stipends for the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program and related programs and removes language in the appropriation act that imposes additional requirements for such programs.

SB575 - Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools.

1 Co-Sponsor

Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deems (a) such discharge poses a threat of violence or physical harm to self and others or (b) additional educational services are needed, such facility is required to provide to the school's mental health professional or school counselor the portions of such discharge plan relevant to the threat of violence or harm or the necessary additional educational services. The bill requires such facility to, prior to providing any such portions of any minor's discharge plan, provide to the parent of such minor student reasonable notice of the types of information that would be included in any portions of the discharge plan being provided and of the parent's right to, upon written request, refuse the provision of any such information.

SB468 - Bath County and Augusta County School Boards; cost-savings agreements, requirements.

1 Co-Sponsor

Certain school divisions; cost-savings agreements; requirements. Removes the limitation on any school board that enters into certain cost-savings agreements with a school board that governs a contiguous school division for the consolidation or sharing of educational, administrative, or support services and thus qualifies for adjustment of state share of basic aid computed annually on the basis of the composite index of local ability-to-pay of such contiguous school division that caps such adjusted basic aid payment at an amount equal to the basic aid payment appropriated to such locality by the 2007 Session of the General Assembly. The bill also permits, notwithstanding the requirement set forth in relevant law that a school division has 65 percent or more of its local taxes coming from real estate taxes in order for the school board that governs such school division to be eligible to enter into such cost-savings agreements with a contiguous school division, the Bath County School Board to enter into such cost-savings agreements with the Augusta County School Board, provided that all other conditions and limitations set forth in relevant law apply to any such agreement.