Authorizing the painting of a portrait of formerSpeaker of the House of Delegates M. Kirkland Cox and allocating funding therefor.
Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuanapossession; penalty. Eliminates criminal penalties for possessionof marijuana for persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill also decriminalizes marijuana possession for persons under 21 yearsof age and provides a civil penalty of no more than $50 for a firstviolation, $100 for a second violation, and $250 for a third or subsequentviolation. Under current law, a first offense is punishable by amaximum fine of $500 and a maximum jail sentence of 30 days, and subsequent offenses are a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also modifies severalother criminal penalties related to marijuana. The bill establishesa regulatory scheme for the regulation of marijuana cultivation facilities,marijuana manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities,and retail marijuana stores by the Board of Agriculture and ConsumerServices. The bill imposes a tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuanaproducts sold by a retail marijuana store at a rate of 9.7 percent(for a total sales tax of 15 percent) and provides that 67 percentof the revenues collected from the tax be deposited into the generalfund and 33 percent of the revenues be deposited into a "Retail MarijuanaEducation Support Fund" to be used solely for purposes of public education.
Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictionsand police and court records of human trafficking victims. Allowsany person who was a human trafficking victim at the time of an offensethat led to a criminal charge or conviction of certain crimes topetition the court to vacate such conviction and expunge the policeand court records related to such conviction or to expunge the policeand court records related to such charge. The bill provides thatthere is a rebuttable presumption that a person's participation inan offense was a result of having been a victim of human traffickingif there is official government documentation, defined in the bill, of the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking at thetime of the offense.
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.
Income tax credits for housing choice vouchers; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include the City of Alexandria. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to certain areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area. This bill was incorporated into HB 590.
Providing for a Joint Assembly, establishing a schedule for the conduct of business coming before the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia, and providing for legislative continuity between the 2020 and 2021 Regular Sessions of the General Assembly.
Establishing the Rules of the House of Delegates for the 2020 - 2021 Sessions of the General Assembly of Virginia.
Establishing Rules of the House of Delegates for the period beginning the first day of the 2020 Session of the General Assembly, January 8, 2020, and ending at noon on the second day of the 2020 Session of the General Assembly, January 9, 2020.
Providing for a Joint Assembly.
