Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
Del. Anne Ferrell Tata
Sponsored bills
Celebrating the life of Lisa Nelson Robertson.
Human trafficking investigators; licensing bythe Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Departmentof Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for humantrafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traffickinginvestigator is a private investigator who is GSA compliant and engagesin the business of, or accepts employment to make, investigationsto obtain information on sex trafficking or severe forms of traffickingas defined in the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000and in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
School Divisions of Innovation; regulatory exemptions; clock hours of instruction. Requires the Board of Education's regulations relating to the designation of School Divisions of Innovation to require the local school board in the local school division so designated to be exempted, pursuant to a plan of innovation, from the regulatory requirement for a student to successfully complete 140 clock hours of instruction in order to earn a standard or verified unit of credit. This bill was incorporated into HB 1477.
Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; exemption from licensure for certain child day programs. Excepts military child care fee assistance or any child care subsidy paid by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States from the federal funds that would otherwise render a child day program as a "publicly funded provider," as that term is defined and used in relevant law relating to early childhood care and education. The bill also exempts from licensure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction any child day program that (i) serves only dependent children of military personnel and (ii) (a) is located on a military base or federal property or (b) is certified as a family child care provider by a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and provides that any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States or its agent, including an installation commander of a military base on which a child day program is located, may assume responsibility for approving or determining which children may be served by the program that is so exempted from licensure. This bill was incorporated into HB 739.
Commending Peter A. Blake.
Commending Scott McGeary.
Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses. Allows the Board of Directorsof the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to issue annualmixed beverage performing arts facility licenses to persons operatingfood concessions at any performing arts amphitheater, arena, or similarfacility that has a total capacity in excess of 3,000 patrons andis located in the City of Virginia Beach.
Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.