Rep. Rick L. Morris

Co-sponsor HJ 910

Introduced · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Frank Medico.

Introduced Feb 16, 2017 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 378

Introduced · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Commending the Honorable Mamye E. BaCote.

Introduced Feb 10, 2017 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 2402

Passed · Virginia House · Lead sponsor

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; willful violations, grounds for termination.

Provides that if the court finds that any officer or employee of a public body (i) receives a request for records that was sent by a requester by certified mail, return receipt requested, and (ii) without legal excuse or justification deliberately, willfully, and knowingly fails to make a response to such request, such officer or employee may be terminated for cause by his appointing authority or agency head.

Passed Feb 10, 2017 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor SJ 369

Introduced · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Trooper Chad Phillip Dermyer.

Introduced Feb 10, 2017 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 2007

Passed · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Students who receive home instruction; dual enrollment courses.

Requires each school board to permit any student who receives home instruction and resides in the local school division to apply for enrollment as a part-time student, as defined in the general appropriation act, of the local school division in any dual enrollment course offered pursuant to an agreement for postsecondary degree attainment at a public high school in the local school division or at the comprehensive community college. The bill specifies that no such student shall be required to pay more in tuition or fees than the tuition or fees paid by public school students or the school division of residence on behalf of such students to enroll in such course.

Passed Feb 9, 2017 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HB 1612

In committee · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Physical Privacy Act; created.

In committee Feb 8, 2017 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 2401

In committee · Virginia House · Lead sponsor

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; minutes of closed meetings required, audio recordings.

In committee Feb 8, 2017 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2452

In committee · Virginia House · Lead sponsor

Discovery in criminal cases; duty to provide.

Provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth, upon written notice by an accused to the court and to the attorney for the Commonwealth, must permit the accused to inspect, copy, or photograph (i) any relevant written or recorded statements or confessions made by the accused and the substance of any oral statements or confessions made by the accused to any law-enforcement officer; (ii) any relevant written reports of autopsies, ballistic tests, fingerprint analyses, handwriting analyses, blood, urine, and breath tests, other scientific reports, and written reports of a physical or mental examination of the accused or the alleged victim; (iii) designated books, papers, documents, tangible objects, buildings, or places, or copies or portions thereof, that are within the possession, custody, or control of the Commonwealth; and (iv) any relevant police reports. The bill provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth may withhold or redact certain information from such disclosures made and that the accused

In committee Feb 7, 2017 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HB 1473

In committee · Virginia House · Co-sponsor

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty.

Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (the Act). The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks' gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20 weeks' gestation, and if the woman elects to have an abortion, the physician is required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would provide the unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes performance of an abortion in violation of the Act as a Class 4 felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physician who performs an abortion in violation of the Act.

In committee Feb 7, 2017 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 2368

In committee · Virginia House · Lead sponsor

Milk production; exemption from oversight of Milk Commission, etc.

In committee Feb 7, 2017 0 co-sponsors Track