Introduced Feb 22, 2017
1 co-sponsor
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 83% of chamber peers
Sponsored
408
bills & resolutions
Lower than 83% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
408 bills and resolutions
Sponsored bills
Total
408
Primary
100
Co-sponsor
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Introduced Feb 22, 2017
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Feb 22, 2017
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Feb 22, 2017
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Feb 22, 2017
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Feb 22, 2017
1 co-sponsor
Voter registration; proof of citizenship required to register to vote in certain elections.
Requires persons applying to register to vote to provide proof of United States citizenship in a form enumerated in the bill. An applicant who does not provide such proof of citizenship shall be registered to vote in federal elections only. An applicant who does provide such proof of citizenship shall be registered to vote in federal, state, and local elections. The bill provides that any person who is registered in the Commonwealth on January 1, 2018, will be deemed to have provided proof of citizenship. The bill directs the general registrars to indicate on each registered voter's registration record whether such voter is registered to vote in federal, state, and local elections or in federal elections only.
Passed Feb 21, 2017
1 co-sponsor
In committee Feb 21, 2017
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Feb 20, 2017
1 co-sponsor
Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty.
Removes the condition that a building must be for public use in order for the Class 1 misdemeanor for maliciously activating a building's fire alarm to apply. The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of maliciously activating a fire alarm shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such a fire alarm. Current law allows such an ordinance to impose liability for the reasonable expense of an emergency response to an imitation version of a weapon of terrorism, fire bomb, other explosive device, bomb threat, or incitement of a bomb threat. The bill increases the maximum amount that a locality or volunteer emergency medical services agency may recover under such an ordinance from $1,000 to $2,500. This bill is identical to
Signed into law Feb 20, 2017
1 co-sponsor
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