Del. David Bulova

Commending Blake Corum.

Commending Margaret L. Sanner.

Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits;civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution,or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to anyone candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General,or the Senate of Virginia or $10,000 to any one candidate for theHouse of Delegates in any one election cycle. The bill does not place any limits on in-kind contributions to such candidates frompolitical party committees. The bill establishes thresholds for anycandidates making contributions to their own campaign in excess of$400,000 in a race for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General,or the Senate of Virginia or $200,000 in a race for House of Delegates.The bill also prohibits persons from making any single contribution,or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $10,000 to anyone political committee in any calendar year. Civil penalties forviolations of the limits established by the bill may equal up totwo times the excess contribution amounts.

Tangible personal property tax; indoor agriculture equipment and machinery. Specifies that farm machinery, farmequipment, and farm implements used by an indoor, closed, controlled-environmentcommercial agricultural facility are a class of farm machinery andfarm implements that a locality may exempt from personal property taxation.

Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program to address student hunger at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the Program shall be managed by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and available for participation by public institutions of higher education; however, participation in the Program shall be optional for such institutions. Under the bill, if a public institution of higher education satisfies certain criteria set out in the bill, including creating initiatives on campus to address student hunger, it shall be designated as a "Hunger-Free Campus" and the Council shall award a grant to such institution. A public institution of higher education that receives a grant under the bill shall utilize the funds to support on-campus efforts and initiatives to eliminate student hunger at such institution. The bill requires the Council to submit a report to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education no later than two years after the establishment of the Program that shall include (i) the total number and amounts of grant awards, (ii) information about the impact that the Program has had on establishing additional hunger-free campuses at public institutions of higher education and reducing the number of students experiencing food insecurity, and (iii) recommendations regarding the potential establishment of an annual appropriation for the Program.

Commending Major General Timothy P. Williams,VNG.

Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.

Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.

Celebrating the life of Richard Carlton Griffin,Sr.