School counselors and social workers; student to position ratio; certain schools. Requires school boards to employ one school counselor and one social worker for every 250 students in each elementary school, middle school, and high school in which at least 50 percent of the students are eligible for federal free lunch. This bill was incorporated into HB 1508.
Sponsored bills
Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; eligibility; fictive kin. Expands eligibility for the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they had been the foster parent. This bill was incorporated into HB 933.
Health insurance; coverage for infertility treatments. Requires health insurance policies, subscription contracts, and healthcare plans to provide coverage for embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, gamete intrafallopian tube transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, zygote intrafallopian transfer, and low tubal ovumtransfer when performed on a covered individual who is less than50 years old and infertile.
Commending the Washington Nationals.
Constitution of the United States; Equal RightsAmendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitutionof the United States that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The jointresolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendmentremains viable and may be ratified notwithstanding the expirationof the 10-year ratification period set out in the resolving clause,as amended, in the proposal adopted by Congress.
Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; residential building energy analysis. Specifies residential building energy analysis as a method of due diligence that a prospective homeowner may choose to perform when purchasing a residential property. Currently, the residential property disclosure statement provided to purchasers by the Real Estate Board advises purchasers to perform due diligence and specifies only home inspection as one such method. This bill was incorporated into HB 518.
Commending the Washington Nationals.
Celebrating the life of Clarene Helen Vickery.
Commending The American Legion Auxiliary.
Commending the United States Women's NationalSoccer Team.