Commending Blake Corum.
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Celebrating the life of Laura Kirk Fletcher.
Celebrating the life of Linda B. Jones.
Commending Frances M. Boswell.
Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Commending Trinity United Methodist Church.
Commending the Honorable Shirley F. Cooper.
Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction while a prisoner. Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearmfrom eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and restricts any person convicted of a felony for an offense that occurred whilea prisoner in a local, state, or community correctional facilityfrom receiving any further earned sentence credits.
Virginia Social Media Regulation Act established;penalties. Establishes the Virginia Social Media Regulation Actfor the purpose of prohibiting minors in Virginia from possessingan account on any social media platform, defined in the bill, withoutthe express consent of a parent or guardian. The bill requires asocial media company to provide a minor's parent or guardian withaccess to the minor's account and all posts and information on suchaccount. The bill also places prohibitions on the type of data andpersonal information a social media platform may collect from a minoraccount holder and prohibits the use of any practice, design, or feature on a social media company's platform that the company knows,or should reasonably know, could cause a minor account holder tohave an addiction to the social media platform. Lastly, the billprovides that any violation of the Virginia Social Media RegulationAct shall constitute a prohibited practice and be subject to theenforcement provisions of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
Elected officials; Internet publication ofpersonal information; definition of public official. Adds to the definition of "public official" any elected official for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet thepersonal information of any public official if a court has ordered that such official's personal information is prohibited from publication and the official has made a demand in writing to the Commonwealth,accompanied by the order of the court, that the Commonwealth notpublish such information. The bill provides that such written demandmade by an elected official is effective for four years if such electedofficial continuously serves throughout the four-year period.