Commending the Virginia Department of MotorVehicles.
Sponsored bills
Commending Marie Ridder.
Commending the Honorable Jennifer Wexton.
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, defined in the bill, unless such social media platform obtains verifiable parental consent.
Commending Claudia Flores.
Celebrating the life of Commander Edward S.Stolle, Jr., USN, Ret.
Celebrating the life of John Oliver Wynne.
Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Penalties for failure to appear; contempt.Provides that any person (i) charged with a felony offense or misdemeanoroffense or (ii) convicted of a felony offense or misdemeanor offenseand execution of sentence is suspended who willfully fails to appearbefore any court or judicial officer as required may be punishedfor contempt. Under current law, such person is guilty of a Class6 felony, if charged with a felony, or a Class 1 misdemeanor, ifcharged with a misdemeanor, for such a violation. The bill excludesfrom such penalty persons who are incarcerated or in the custodyof a law-enforcement officer at the time such person is requiredto appear. The bill also eliminates a court's authority to punishsummarily a contempt of court for willful failure to appear.
Study; Board of Workforce Development; adequacyof the funding model for noncredit workforce credential programs;work group; report. Requests the Virginia Board of WorkforceDevelopment to study the current funding model for noncredit workforcecredential programs offered at comprehensive community colleges inorder to identify areas of inadequacy and make recommendations on options for reforming the funding model to address those inadequaciesand improve the sustainability of offering and providing noncreditworkforce credential programs to ensure that the Virginia CommunityCollege System as a whole is capable of continuing to meet the increasingdemand for highly skilled credentialed workers in the Commonwealth.