Celebrating the life of the Honorable JohnHowson Rust, Jr.
Del. Betsy Carr
Sponsored bills
Inclusionary housing; zoning. Requirescities and towns in the Commonwealth to develop and promulgate housingplans that address the supply of safe, sanitary, and affordable shelter for all current and anticipated residents of their communities.Such plans must connect economic development efforts that bring newjobs to the supply of safe, sanitary, and affordable shelter for allwho will fill those jobs; the location of housing and the locationof mobility resources; and the availability of accredited high-quality affordable education, parks, indoor and outdoor recreation, libraries,health care, and healthy living resources, including the availabilityof fresh food. Such housing plans shall be reviewed and revised no less frequently than every five years. Cities and towns that promulgatea housing plan may create, implement, and enforce inclusionary housingprograms applicable to new housing development and conversions ofpreviously nonresidential uses into residential uses. Counties utilizingthe urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) orthe county manager plan of government (Arlington County) may alsofollow and use these provisions to provide inclusionary housing.
Celebrating the life of Mildred Fayette OdomGraves.
Commending the Richmond Free Press.
Celebrating the life of Firefighter ChristopherGeorge Griffin.
Commending Costella B. Williams.
Celebrating the life of Victor J. Kimm.
Commending Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons.
Exhaust systems; excessive noise. Prohibitsany individual from operating a motor vehicle with a gross weightof 6,500 pounds or less with an exhaust system that emits noise in excess of 85 decibels. The bill also allows the governing body ofany county, city, or town located within the Northern Virginia Planning District to provide by ordinance that no person shall operate anymotor vehicle on a highway or on public or private property within500 feet of any residential district unless such motor vehicle is equipped with an exhaust system of a type installed as standard equipment,or comparable to that designed for use on that particular vehicleor device as standard factory equipment, in good working order andin constant operation to prevent excessive noise.
Board of Medicine; implicit bias and culturalcompetency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Boardof Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in eachbiennium on topics related to implicit bias and cultural competency.