Commending Marie Ridder.
Del. Kelly Fowler
Sponsored bills
Commending Bishop Kim W. Brown.
Commending Blake Corum.
Commending Dr. Ben Fitzgerald III.
Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Required voting districts in certain cities.Requires every city with a population of 250,000 or greater to electits council members by individual districts or wards, beginning withmunicipal elections held after January 1, 2025. The provisions ofthis bill supersede any contrary provisions of a city charter orany other provision of law.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers withDisabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of MedicalAssistance Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholdersto assess and make recommendations related to reimbursement ratesfor the federal Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlerswith Disabilities. The bill requires the work group to report itsrecommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health,Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education andHealth by November 1, 2024.
Loan repayment programs; mental health professionals. Creates a loan repayment program for persons who have worked as mentalhealth professionals in the Commonwealth for at least five years.
Election of certain governing bodies; conversionto single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a localitythat has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial electionsystem under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convertone or more at-large members of such body to single-member districts.The bill provides that members of such governing body in office onthe effective date of such ordinance shall complete their terms ofoffice.
The Virginia African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous Education Advisory Board; establishment.