Del. Matt Fariss

Co-sponsor HJ 566

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending Nancy Howell Agee.

Introduced Mar 9, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 1419

Failed · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Public schools; instructional time.

Requires local school boards to provide (i) a minimum of 680 hours of instructional time to students in elementary, except for students in half-day kindergarten, in the four academic disciplines of English, mathematics, science, and history and social science and (ii) a minimum of 375 hours of instructional time to students in half-day kindergarten in the four academic disciplines of English, mathematics, science, and history and social science. The bill authorizes local school boards to include and requires the Board of Education to accept, elementary school, unstructured recreational time that is intended to develop teamwork, social skills, and overall physical fitness in any calculation of total instructional time or teaching hours.

Failed Mar 8, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 483

Failed · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; restitution owed to victims.

Adds to the duties of the Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) in its role as administrator of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund (Fund) the obligation to (i) identify and locate victims for whom restitution owed to such victims has been deposited into the Fund and (ii) collect and disburse such unclaimed restitution to such victims. The bill directs the Commission to include in its annual report information on all unclaimed restitution that it disburses. The bill provides that clerks shall deposit into the Fund by November 1 of each year restitution collected for victims who can no longer be identified or located, or state that there is no such restitution to be deposited. The bill requires that clerks record the receipt of restitution payments in the automated information system operated by the Supreme Court or a system established and maintained by a circuit court. The bill also provides that the restitution form used by the court shall include the victim's contact information, including address, telephone number, and email address.

Failed Mar 8, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 170

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending Sonnie P. Penn Elementary School.

Introduced Mar 8, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 179

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Robert C. King, Sr.

Introduced Mar 8, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 1460

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Land preservation tax credits; transfer to a designated beneficiary.

Provides that a person who has unused land preservation tax credits may provide that such credits be transferred to a designated beneficiary upon his death, so long as such person with unused credits is the person who originally earned them. The bill provides that if a person dies without a will, his unused credit shall be transferred according to the rules of intestacy. The bill provides that such transfers are not subject to any fees and retain the same carryover period as if held by their original owner.

Passed Mar 7, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HB 1382

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Agricultural best management practices tax credit; refundability for corporations.

Allows taxpayers to apply for a refund of corporate income tax credits received for expenditures for agricultural best management practices. Under current law, corporate income tax credits that exceed the taxpayer's tax liability are not refundable but may be carried forward for up to five years. Furthermore, under current law, individual income tax credits for expenditures related to agricultural best management practices are refundable.

Passed Mar 7, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SJ 20

In committee · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Commemorating its 150th anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States.

The resolution is a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission

In committee Mar 7, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SJ 210

Introduced · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Suzanne Davis Miller.

Introduced Mar 7, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SJ 215

Introduced · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Commending the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association.

Introduced Mar 7, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track