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HB1164 - Education Excellence for All Program; established, report.
Phillip A. Scott, Mark L. Earley, Thomas A. Garrett
Last updated 11 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Education Excellence for All Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All Savings Account, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain qualified expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to program and account administration by the Department of the Treasury and a third party that serves as program administrator pursuant to a contract with the Department.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1525 - AI-generated image; unauthorized creation of image of another, penalties.
Nicholas J. Freitas, Mike A. Cherry, William Chad Green
Last updated 10 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Unauthorized creation of image of another; AI-generated image; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly and intentionally creates any videographic or still image using artificial intelligence of any nonconsenting person if (i) that person is totally nude, performing sexual acts, clad in undergarments, or in a state of undress so as to expose the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast and (ii) such videographic or still image appears to be or is intended to appear to be such nonconsenting person. The bill provides that if such nonconsenting person is under the age of 18, the offender is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Unauthorized creation of image of another; AI-generated image; penalties. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly and intentionally creates any videographic or still image using artificial intelligence of any nonconsenting person if (i) that person is totally nude, performing sexual acts, clad in undergarments, or in a state of undress so as to expose the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast and (ii) such videographic or still image appears to be or is intended to appear to be such nonconsenting person. The bill provides that if such nonconsenting person is under the age of 18, the offender is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1189 - Elections; ascertainment of results, random hand count audits.
Phillip A. Scott
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Elections; conduct of election; ascertainment of results; random hand count audits. Requires the electoral board of each locality to randomly select one polling place within its jurisdiction in which votes were cast using a voting system for a full hand count audit.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1204 - Mobile food units; VDH to amend regulations and guidance documents.
Phillip A. Scott
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Health; mobile food units. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations and each local health department and health district to amend its regulations and guidance documents to allow a mobile food unit to conduct up to 20 percent of its sanitation and food preparation activities within a 50-foot radius of the mobile food unit.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1206 - Obscene materials; modifies restrictions on purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan.
Phillip A. Scott, Wendell Scott Walker, Eric R. Zehr
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Obscene materials; restrictions on purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan; exceptions; libraries and schools. Modifies the exceptions to restrictions on the purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan of obscene materials by providing that schools supported by public appropriation are not subject to the exceptions and limiting the exception applicable to libraries supported by public appropriation only to obscene material that is available exclusively in a section of the library to which access is restricted by age.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1188 - Certificate of public need program; phased elimination.
Phillip A. Scott
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a certificate of public need (i) for all medical care facilities other than nursing homes or specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of outpatient or ambulatory surgery, cardiac catheterization, computed tomographic (CT) scanning, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning, radiation therapy, certain stereotactic radiotherapy, or proton beam therapy effective July 1, 2024; (ii) for all such services as described in clause (i) at any existing medical care facility other than nursing homes or specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of outpatient or ambulatory surgery, cardiac catheterization, computed tomographic (CT) scanning, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning, radiation therapy, certain stereotactic radiotherapy, or proton beam therapy located outside of a metropolitan statistical area or in a rural census tract within a metropolitan statistical area effective July 1, 2025; and (iii) for all medical care facilities effective July 1, 2026.
STATUS
Introduced
HB759 - Food inspections; pickles and acidified vegetables, gross sales.
Nicholas J. Freitas, Mike A. Cherry, William Chad Green
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower and are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection as otherwise required to operate a food establishment. The bill expands the exemption for private homes where the resident processes and prepares certain food products to allow for such person to sell the food at a temporary event that operates for a period of no more than 14 consecutive days. The bill also clarifies that such person may advertise such food products over the Internet provided that the sale takes place in person and complies with certain restrictions. Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower and are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection as otherwise required to operate a food establishment. The bill expands the exemption for private homes where the resident processes and prepares certain food products to allow for such person to sell the food at a temporary event that operates for a period of no more than 14 consecutive days. The bill also clarifies that such person may advertise such food products over the Internet provided that the sale takes place in person and complies with certain restrictions.
STATUS
Passed
HR7 - Commending Culpeper Minute Men Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
Nicholas J. Freitas, William Chad Green, Phillip A. Scott
Last updated 10 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Commending the Culpeper Minute Men Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
STATUS
Passed
HB283 - Commonwealth, Secretary of the; ad hoc committee to evaluate executive bodies, etc.
Phillip A. Scott
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Secretary of the Commonwealth; ad hoc committee to evaluate executive and legislative collegial bodies. Requires the Secretary of the Commonwealth to convene an ad hoc committee for the purpose of studying and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of collegial bodies within the executive and legislative branches and to develop uniform standards for the establishment and operation of such bodies. The Governor shall appoint three nonlegislative citizen members who have previously served as gubernatorial appointees on executive branch collegial bodies. The Speaker of the House of Delegates shall appoint two Delegates and one nonlegislative citizen member who has previously served as a legislative appointee on a collegial body, and the Senate Committee on Rules shall appoint two Senators and one nonlegislative citizen member who has previously served as a legislative appointee on a collegial body. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall serve as the committee's chairman.
STATUS
Introduced
HB422 - Personal property tax; removes sunset date.
Phillip A. Scott, Mike A. Cherry, Baxter Ennis
Last updated 11 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Personal property tax; classification; sunset date. Removes the sunset date from the provision of law that authorizes localities to classify most motor vehicles as a class of property subject to a different rate of tax or rate of assessment from the rate applicable to the general class of tangible personal property. Under current law, such classification would expire beginning with taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
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