Celebrating the life of the Honorable LinwoodA. Holton, Jr.
Sponsored bills
Treatment of transgender students; model policies.Eliminates the requirement that each school board adopt policiesthat are consistent with the model policies developed by the Departmentof Education concerning the treatment of transgender students in publicelementary and secondary schools. The bill also removes the requirement for such model policies to include information, guidance, procedures,and standards relating to the use of school facilities, requiresthe Department to amend its model policies to remove any such information,guidance, procedures, or standards, and requires the Department tomake such amended model policies available to each school board nolater than the beginning of the 2022 - 2023 school year.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.
Transportation funding; statewide prioritization process. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board, when administering SMART SCALE, to ensure that projects are evaluated for district grant program funds and high-priority funds separately, and that the projects selected in one program do not impact the other program. The bill requires the Board to weight congestion mitigation at at least 55 percent in the Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads highway construction districts. The bill requires that projects eligible for district grant program funds receive a district-specific score and an overall score.
Campaign finance; prohibited contributionsto candidates. Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, andpolitical committees from soliciting or accepting contributions fromany public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any publicutility or any political committee established by such public utilityfrom making any such contribution.
Commending the Honorable Mark Cole.
Celebrating the life of Sally Lamb.
Celebrating the life of Officer Michael D. Chandler.
Virginia Human Rights Act; employee safety;definition changes. Amends the definitions of "domestic worker"to exclude babysitters, nannies, caretakers, home health aides, andpersonal care aids; "employer" to one who employs at least three persons; and "domestic service" to exclude services performed bycompanions.
Public employees; independent bargaining.Permits independent bargaining by public employees who are employedby a county, city, or town that has adopted an ordinance or resolutionproviding for collective bargaining by public employees. The billprevents agreements between employee associations and employers fromapplying to employees who are not members of the association andstates that there shall be only one designated bargaining representativefor each collective bargaining unit in a county, city, or town thathas adopted an ordinance or resolution providing for collective bargainingby public employees.