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R Virginia House of Delegates · District 59

Del. Matt Fariss

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Total votes
9,196
all sessions
Attendance
94%
487 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
94%
of cast votes
Lower than 87% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 85% of chamber peers
Sponsored
408
bills & resolutions
Lower than 82% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
408 bills and resolutions

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Total
408
Primary
100
Co-sponsor
308
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Primary HB 844
Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor
Burn ban; definition of "orchard" and "vineyard."

Defines the terms "orchard" and "vineyard" for the purposes of the exception to the ban on burning brush where such burning is done to prevent frost damage to orchards or vineyards.

Signed into law Mar 5, 2018 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor HB 635
Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor
Fishing; free day due to inclement weather.

Permits the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to designate a substitute free day in the event that a free day is canceled as a result of inclement weather. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 987
Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor
Agricultural operations; nuisance.

Requires agricultural operations to be in substantial compliance, defined in the bill, with applicable laws, regulations, and best management practices in order to be exempt from becoming a public or private nuisance. The bill prohibits a person from bringing a nuisance action against any agricultural operation the existence of which was known or reasonably knowable when that person's use or occupancy of his property began. The bill also prohibits anyone other than a person with an ownership interest in the affected property from bringing an action for private nuisance and sets out certain limitations on recovery for compensatory damages. This bill is identical to

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 842
Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor
Controlled paraphernalia; possession or distribution, hypodermic needles and syringes, naloxone.

Provides that a person who is authorized by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to train individuals on the administration of naloxone for use in opioid overdose reversal and who is acting on behalf of an organization that provides services to individuals at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose or training in the administration of naloxone for overdose reversal and that has obtained a controlled substances registration from the Board of Pharmacy may dispense or distribute hypodermic needles and syringes in conjunction with such dispensing of naloxone and that a person to whom naloxone has been distributed by such individual may possess hypodermic needles and syringes in conjunction with such possession of naloxone. The bill also allows the dispensing or distributing of hypodermic needles and syringes by persons authorized to dispense naloxone. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 875
Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor
Veterinarians; compounding of drugs.

Increases the quantity, from a 72-hour supply to a seven-day supply, of a compounded drug that a veterinarian may dispense to the owner of a companion animal for which the veterinarian is providing treatment.

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor
Primary HB 1354
Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor
Motor vehicles; covered & unlit lighting devices.

Provides that if certain lighting devices are unlit, have a clear lens, and have a clear reflector if the lighting device has a reflector, then a vehicle equipped with such lighting device may be operated on the highways without covering the lighting device.

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 0 co-sponsors
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