Celebrating the life of the Honorable GeraldL. Baliles.
Del. Bobby Orrock
Sponsored bills
Commending Camille Thomasina Schrier.
Commending the Virginia Wing, Civil Air Patrol.
Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. RobertRussa Moton.
Study; Virginia Housing Commission; definitionof "affordable housing"; report. Directs the Virginia HousingCommission (the Commission) to study the definition of affordablehousing. In conducting the study, the Commission shall examine thecurrent usage of "affordable housing" in the Commonwealth and amongits political subdivisions and the meaning or criteria associatedwith the phrase. The Commission shall make any recommendations regardinguniformity or statewide standards as appropriate.
Killing or injuring police animals; penalty.Provides that the punishment for any person who maliciously killsor injures an animal owned, used, or trained by a law-enforcementagency, regional jail, or the Department of Corrections, while suchanimal is performing its lawful duties or is being kept in a kennel,pen, or stable while off duty, shall be separate and apart from,and shall be made to run consecutively with, any other sentence.
Study; Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; companion animals; temperature extremes; report. Requests the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study the need for regulations addressing temperature extremes in relation to companion animal care.
Department of Education; financial literacyobjectives; mathematics Standards of Learning; report. Requiresthe Department of Education to determine and report to the GeneralAssembly no later than December 1, 2020, the feasibility of incorporatingthe Board of Education's student financial literacy objectives intothe appropriate pre-high school mathematics Standards of Learning.
Constitutional amendment (voter referendum);reapportionment; technical adjustments permitted. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or rejectan amendment that would allow the General Assembly to make technicaladjustments to legislative election district boundaries in the periodbetween decennial reapportionments, provided that the adjustment'ssole purpose is to align legislative election district boundarieswith the boundaries of voting precincts established in counties andcities.
Virginia National Guard; state active duty for emergency response; pay and allowances for members. Establishes rates of pay and allowances for members of the Virginia National Guard and Virginia Defense Force.