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HB1028 - Affordable housing; assisted living facilities.
Atoosa R. Reaser, Adele Y. McClure, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 6 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed development of an assisted living facility. Such ordinance shall apply to newly licensed assisted living facilities and permit applications approved on or after January 1, 2025. Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed development of an assisted living facility. Such ordinance shall apply to newly licensed assisted living facilities and permit applications approved on or after January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB173 - Plastic firearms & unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, etc. prohibited, penalties.
Marcus B. Simon, Marcia S. Price, Irene Shin
Last updated 4 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purchases, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports, government buildings, schools, correctional facilities, and other locations for security screening. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at such locations for detecting plastic firearms. Under current law, it is unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, transfer, or possess any plastic firearm and a violation is punishable as a Class 5 felony. The bill also creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to knowingly possess a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number or to knowingly import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any completed or unfinished frame or receiver, unless the completed or unfinished frame or receiver (i) is deemed to be a firearm pursuant to federal law and (ii) is imprinted with a valid serial number. The bill creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to manufacture or assemble, cause to be manufactured or assembled, import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any firearm that is not imprinted with a valid serial number. The portions of the bill prohibiting unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025; however, the portions of the bill prohibiting the knowing possession of a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB1492 - Trauma-informed training and education; work group to study.
Rae C. Cousins, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 8 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
HB736 - Veterans; examining practice of persons receiving compensation for providing certain services, etc.
Briana D. Sewell, Jackie H. Glass, Dan I. Helmer
Last updated 6 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, advising, consulting, or assisting any individual regarding any veterans' benefits matter, as defined in the bill. Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, advising, consulting, or assisting any individual regarding any veterans' benefits matter, as defined in the bill.
STATUS
Passed
HB1264 - Traffic infractions; discretionary juvenile fines, costs, and fees.
Irene Shin, Phil M. Hernandez, Rae C. Cousins
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to prosecutions of traffic infractions are discretionary. Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to prosecutions of traffic infractions are discretionary.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB158 - Firearm locking device; required for sale or transfer of firearm.
Adele Y. McClure, Michael J. Jones, Alfonso H. Lopez
Last updated 8 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any firearm to any person other than a licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer unless the transferee is provided with a locking device for that firearm and the firearm is accompanied by a warning, in conspicuous and legible type in capital letters printed on a separate sheet of paper included within the packaging enclosing the firearm, that firearms should be locked and kept away from children and that there may be civil and criminal liability for failing to do so. The bill provides exceptions for law-enforcement and governmental agencies.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB22 - Auto sears and trigger activators; prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale, etc., penalty.
Michael J. Jones, Dan I. Helmer, Bonita Grace Anthony
Last updated 6 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger activator, for use in converting a semi-automatic firearm to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for the forfeiture of any auto sear concealed, possessed, transported, or carried in violation of the prohibition.
STATUS
Passed
HJR83 - Burn Awareness Week; first full week of February 2024 and each succeeding year thereafter.
Rae C. Cousins, Betsy B. Carr, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 7 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Burn Awareness Week. Designates the first full week of February, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Burn Awareness Week in Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
HJR13 - Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness.
Richard C. Sullivan, Bonita Grace Anthony, Jonathan Arnold
Last updated 7 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
HB398 - Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc.
Delores L. McQuinn, Bonita Grace Anthony, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintendent or his designee finds that aggravating circumstances, as defined by the Department of Education, exist, any public elementary or secondary school student from being suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school without first considering at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary practice such as community conferencing, community service, mentoring, a peer jury, peer mediation, positive behavioral interventions and supports, a restorative circle, or the Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports. The bill also requires the Department to add as part of the student behavior and administrative response collection required pursuant to relevant law the use of evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices as a behavioral intervention in order to evaluate the use and effectiveness of such practices.
STATUS
Vetoed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Virginia district HD-079
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Virginia House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Rae C. Cousins is from Leland Grove, Illinois. He attended Springfield High School and received his diploma. After graduation, he went on to Illinois College before transferring to Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1997. After college, Rae began working for the Department of Corrections as a youth supervisor at Illinois Youth Center in Harrisburg. He was then promoted to youth counselor in 1999. In 2001, he moved to the Illinois Department of Human Services as a child welfare specialist.read less
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