Del. Lee Ware

Co-sponsor HB 215

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Teacher licensure; regulations governing licensure.

Declares eligible for a renewable one-year license to teach in public high schools in the Commonwealth any individual who has (i) received a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education; (ii) completed at least 30 credit hours of teaching experience as an instructor at a regionally accredited institution of higher education; (iii) received qualifying scores on the professional teacher's assessments prescribed by the Board, including the communication and literacy assessment and the content-area assessment for the endorsement sought; and (iv) completed certain other licensure requirements.

Passed Mar 6, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 395

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Tom Cain.

Introduced Mar 6, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HJ 302

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Heather Danielle Heyer.

Introduced Mar 6, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 1395

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Trooper Michael Walter Memorial Highway; designating as a portion of Route 13.

Designates the portion of Virginia Route 13 in Powhatan County between Virginia Route 1002 (Emmanuel Church Road) and Cumberland County the "Trooper Michael Walter Memorial Highway."

Passed Mar 6, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 60

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Goochland County; members to Board of Directors of Goochland County Economic Development Authority.

Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Goochland County to appoint five members to the Board of Directors of the Goochland County Economic Development Authority. Three members of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum of the board for the purposes of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes, except that no facilities owned by the authority shall be leased or disposed of in any manner without a majority vote of the members of the board of directors.

Passed Mar 5, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 22

Passed · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Water and sewer connections; mandatory in Powhatan County.

Adds Powhatan County and Smyth County to the list of counties that may require connection to their water and sewer systems by owners of property that can be served by the systems if the property, at the time of installation of such public system, or at a future time, does not have a then-existing, correctable, or replaceable domestic supply or source of potable water and a then-existing, correctable, or replaceable system for the disposal of sewage adequate to prevent the contraction or spread of infectious, contagious, and dangerous diseases. Smyth County is also added to those counties with authority to assume the obligations of a public service authority under the same terms and conditions as applicable to the public service authority.

Passed Mar 5, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 335

Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Lead sponsor

Yorktown Victory Center; renamed the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

Renames the Yorktown Victory Center, operated by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, as the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

Signed into law Mar 2, 2018 0 co-sponsors

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 HR 107

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Catherine deSales Corbett Jennings.

Introduced Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 108

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of Alexander William Allen.

Introduced Mar 2, 2018 1 co-sponsor Track