Public elementary and secondary education; schoolboards and employees; promotion of diversity and respect. Requireseach local school board and employee thereof to promote (i) diversityand respect, with the understanding that all individuals are createdequal and diversity is a strength of the United States, and (ii)the concept that all cultures have contributed greatly to the richhistory of the United States and the way of life that Americans enjoytoday. The bill prohibits any local school board or employee thereoffrom training, teaching, or promoting to enrolled students or schoolboard employees the concept that (a) any race is inherently superioror inferior to any other race; (b) any individual, by virtue of hisrace or skin color, is inherently racist, privileged, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; (c) any individual, by virtueof his race or religion, bears responsibility for the actions committedby other members of his race or religion; (d) any individual's moralcharacter is determined by his race; (e) the United States is a fundamentallyor systemically racist country; or (f) capitalism is an inherentlyracist economic system.
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Search warrants; execution. Removes provisions requiring that search warrants for the search of any place of abodebe executed by initial entry of the abode only in the daytime hoursbetween 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Larceny and certain property crimes; penalties. Decreasesfrom $1,000 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods orchattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. Thebill decreases the threshold by the same amount for the classification ofcertain property crimes. The bill also provides that a person convicted ofpetit larceny, which is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor, shall be subjectto a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 10 days in jail if the larcenywas of a package delivered to a residence.The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to commitlarceny of a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle, regardless of theconverter's value. The bill makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to willfullybreak, injure, tamper with, or remove any part or parts of any vehicle,aircraft, boat, or vessel for the purpose of injuring, defacing, or destroyingsaid vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel, or temporarily or permanentlypreventing its useful operation, or for any purpose against the will or withoutthe consent of the owner, or to in any other manner willfully or maliciouslyinterfere with or prevent the running or operation of such vehicle, aircraft,boat, or vessel, when such violation causes damage to such vehicle, aircraft,boat, or vessel of $500 or more. Current law makes such violation a Class 1misdemeanor with no limit on the amount of damage. Under the bill, the penaltyfor damage of less than $500 remains a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Study; Department of Education; purpose and goals of public education; report. Requests that the Department of Education study the purpose and goals of public education by encouraging input from the citizens of the Commonwealth, including parents, teachers, school administrators, and local school board members, to clarify (i) the broader purpose of public education in light of the fundamental goal of public education, as expressed by the General Assembly and the Board of Education, and (ii) the specific measurable outcomes that education laws, regulations, policies, and practices should help to achieve in order to further such broader purpose and such fundamental goal.
Falun Gong; Persecution by Chinese CommunistParty. Condemns the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners bythe Chinese Communist Party.
Commending Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons.
Commending the Spotsylvania American LegionPost 320.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.
Commending the Honorable Mark Cole.
Commending George Mason University.