Virginia Bills

Commission on Civil Rights and Policing established;report. Establishes the Commission on Civil Rights and Policingfor the purpose of reviewing civil justice, civil liberties, and policing in the Commonwealth and making policy recommendations tothe General Assembly. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2023.

Child care providers; personal protective equipmentduring certain declared states of emergency; essential workers; emergency. Provides that during any case in which the Governor has declareda state of emergency related to a communicable disease of publichealth threat, persons operating or working or volunteering at achild day center or family day home shall be considered essentialworkers and shall be included in any group afforded priority withregard to access to personal protective equipment during such emergency.The bill contains an emergency clause.

Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 1289 of the2020 Acts of Assembly.

Commending Delby Huff.

Celebrating the life of Charles C. Woods.

Commending Hilton Elementary School.

Monuments and memorials for war veterans; authorityof localities. Changes the authority of a locality from the authorityto "contextualize or cover" to the authority to "alter" a monumentor memorial for war veterans located within the geographical limitsof the locality, with the result that the locality has the authorityto remove, relocate, or alter such monument or memorial. The billremoves the current prohibition against a locality removing, relocating,contextualizing, or covering a monument or memorial in a publiclyowned cemetery. The bill also removes the current requirement thatthe locality publish notice of its intent to remove, relocate, contextualize,or cover such monument or memorial in a newspaper having generalcirculation in the locality, allow a public hearing on the matter,and, if the governing body votes to remove the monument or memorial,offer, for a period of at least 30 days, the monument or memorialfor relocation and placement to any museum, historical society, government,or military battlefield. In addition, an existing enactment clausethat excludes "a monument or memorial located on the property ofa public institution of higher education within the City of Lexington"from the application of this law is repealed.

Celebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.

Celebrating the life of Nancy Lewey Spigle.

Celebrating the life of Oliver White Hill, Jr.

Celebrating the life of Richard Rigney.

Appointments by the Speaker of the House ofDelegates. Confirms appointments made by the Speaker of the Houseof Delegates to the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission, theVirginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority Board ofDirectors, and the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics AdvisoryCouncil.