Del. Kathleen Murphy

Co-sponsor HB 2287

Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Lease agreements; requirements, emergency.

Specifies that a lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land is not invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed. Current law requires a lease for a term of more than five years to be in the form of a deed. The bill further replaces all references throughout the Code to "deed of lease" with the term "lease." This bill is in response to

Signed into law Feb 13, 2019 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SB 1718

In committee · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Standards of Quality; reading diagnostic tests.

Requires that the first reading diagnostic test administered in the school year to a student in kindergarten through grade three include age-normed and evidence-based phonological processing measures, including phonemic awareness and rapid automatized naming.

In committee Feb 11, 2019 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SB 1715

Passed · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for menstrual supplies.

Exempts menstrual supplies, specifically pads, tampons, and menstrual cups, from sales and use tax. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2020, and is contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Passed Feb 11, 2019 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 2113

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Higher educational institutions, public; withdrawal of veteran student.

Requires each public institution of higher education to provide a refund of the tuition and mandatory fees paid by any veteran student for any course from which he is forced to withdraw, for the first time, due to a service-connected medical condition during a semester, as certified in writing to the institution by a physician licensed to practice medicine who treated the veteran student for such medical condition.

Passed Feb 7, 2019 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HB 1827

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Tethering animals; adequate space.

Provides that a tether meets the requirement that an animal be given adequate space if the tether is four times the length of the animal or 15 feet long, whichever is greater, and does not cause injury or pain or weigh more than one-tenth of the animal's body weight. The bill provides that the walking of an animal on a leash by its owner shall not constitute tethering for the purpose of the definition of "adequate space."

Passed Feb 7, 2019 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 748

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending Virginia State University.

Introduced Feb 7, 2019 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 2276

In committee · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Conditional rezoning proffers; changes to provisions.

In committee Feb 5, 2019 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HJ 656

In committee · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Virginia Resources Authority; transitioning Virginia's workforce.

In committee Feb 5, 2019 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 2387

In committee · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Student discipline; alternative education programs.

Requires local school boards to provide alternative education programs for suspended students and assign licensed instructional personnel for such programs in a manner that produces divisionwide ratios of students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions that are not greater than 10 to one. The bill also requires the Board of Education to establish quality standards for such alternative education programs. The bill provides that the above-mentioned provisions shall become effective after the rebenchmarking of direct aid to the public education budget for the 2020-2022 biennium.

In committee Feb 5, 2019 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 2277

In committee · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Driver's license; suspensions for certain non-driving related offenses.

In committee Feb 5, 2019 1 co-sponsor Track