Del. James Edmunds

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 HR 100

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel.

Introduced Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 279

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Lacey E. Putney.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HJ 276

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Commending the Virginia Children's Book Festival.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HJ 277

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Commending Machelle J. Eppes.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HJ 309

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen III.

Introduced Mar 1, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 306

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending the Honorable William J. Howell.

Introduced Feb 26, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 230

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending the XXIII Olympic Winter Games.

Introduced Feb 22, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 1414

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Bear; increases special license fee.

Directs the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to create a special license for hunting bear, deer, and turkey, to cost $23 for a resident age 16 or older and $150 for a nonresident age 16 or older. Current law provides for a license for hunting deer and turkey, at a cost of $12 and $60, respectively, and a separate license for hunting bear, at a cost of $25 for residents and $150 for nonresidents.

Passed Feb 22, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track