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HB230 - Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations.
Shelly Anne Simonds, Delores L. McQuinn, Jeion A. Ward
Last updated 11 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Health insurance; cost sharing for breast examinations. Prohibits health insurance carriers from imposing cost sharing for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill, under certain insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health care plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in the Commonwealth on and after January 1, 2025. The bill provides that such examinations include examinations using diagnostic mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging, or breast ultrasound.
STATUS
Introduced
HB208 - Comprehensive plan; locality may consider adopting a healthy communities strategy.
Shelly Anne Simonds
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's strategy may include identifying (i) major sources of pollution or hazardous waste sites within the locality, (ii) policies to mitigate the unique or compounded health risks to residents that may be caused by such pollution sources or hazardous waste sites, (iii) objectives and policies to promote civic engagement in public decision-making processes by residents, (iv) objectives and policies that prioritize improvements and programs that promote healthy communities, and (v) objectives and policies that encourage linking public transit with community and health services and siting or co-locating health services in unconventional settings to ensure convenient access for all community members.
STATUS
Vetoed
HJR8 - Black Women's History Month; designating as April 2024 and each succeeding year thereafter.
Joshua G. Cole, Bonita Grace Anthony, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Last updated 9 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Black Women's History Month. Designates April, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Black Women's History Month in Virginia. Black Women's History Month. Designates April, in 2024 and in each succeeding year, as Black Women's History Month in Virginia.
STATUS
Passed
HB40 - Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
Marcus B. Simon, Mike A. Cherry, Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Last updated 11 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign 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
HB805 - Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in counties & cities to support schools.
Sam Rasoul, Shelly Anne Simonds, Joshua G. Cole
Last updated 8 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. The bill removes the requirement that such a tax must have an expiration date on either (i) the date of the repayment of any bonds or loans used for such capital projects or (ii) a date chosen by the governing body. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax.
STATUS
Vetoed
HB38 - Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers.
Nadarius E. Clark, Bonita Grace Anthony, Alex Q. Askew
Last updated 11 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB321 - Line of Duty Act; increases payment of benefits.
Delores L. McQuinn, Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker, Ellen H. Campbell
Last updated 8 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Line of Duty Act; payment of benefits. Increases from $25,000 to $75,000 the death benefit payout under the Virginia Line of Duty Act for a death caused by occupational cancer, respiratory disease, or hypertension or heart disease for those deaths that will occur on or after January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB859 - Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Wren M. Williams, Karrie K. Delaney, Shelly Anne Simonds
Last updated 11 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Human trafficking investigators; licensing by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Department of Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for human trafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human trafficking investigator is a private investigator who is GSA compliant and engages in the business of, or accepts employment to make, investigations to obtain information on sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking as defined in the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
STATUS
Introduced
HB258 - Nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent real properties; unimproved properties w/in urban redevelopment.
Shelly Anne Simonds
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent real properties; unimproved properties within urban redevelopment or revitalization zone. Allows the nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent property when such property is (i) unimproved, (ii) one-half acre or less in size, and (iii) located within a designated urban redevelopment or revitalization zone.
STATUS
Passed
HB239 - Sickle Cell Disease, Advisory Council on; established, report.
Delores L. McQuinn, Alex Q. Askew, Nadarius E. Clark
Last updated 11 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease; established; report. Establishes the Advisory Council on Sickle Cell Disease to advise the State Health Commissioner on the efforts to improve awareness of sickle cell disease and the needs of individuals with sickle cell disease. The bill requires the Board of Health to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its activities and recommendations.
STATUS
Introduced
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