R Virginia Senate · District 24

Sen. Emmett Hanger

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Total votes

15,412

all sessions

Attendance

100%

57 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

95%

of cast votes

Lower than 98% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 96% of chamber peers

Sponsored bills

Total

586

Primary

215

Co-sponsor

371

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Co-sponsor HB 1568

Signed into law · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Child care providers; applicant criminal history background checks, penalty.

Requires the following individuals to undergo a fingerprint-based national criminal history background check: (i) applicants for employment by, employees of, applicants to serve as volunteers with, and volunteers with any licensed family day system, child day center exempt from licensure pursuant to § 63.2-1716, registered family day home, or family day home approved by a family day system; (ii) applicants for licensure as a family day system, registration as a family day home, or approval as a family day home by a family day system, as well as their agents and any adult living in such family day home; and (iii) individuals who apply for or enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services under which a child day center, family day home, or child day program will provide child care services funded by the Child Care and Development Block Grant, as well as the applicant's current or prospective employees and volunteers, agents, and any adult living in the child day center or family day home. The bill also mandates that all background checks required pursuant to §§ 63.2-1720.1 and 63.2-1721.1 be completed by September 30, 2017, or by the date specified on any federal waiver obtained by the Commonwealth, and every five years thereafter. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2018. The bill further provides that if any provision of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 establishing a corresponding requirement is repealed prior to July 1, 2018, the provision of the bill establishing such requirement shall expire upon the date of such repeal. This bill is identical to

Signed into law Feb 23, 2017 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor HJ 1034

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Commending Arthur Jerry Benson.

Introduced Feb 23, 2017 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor HJ 1037

Introduced · Virginia House of Delegates · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Charles Weldon Wampler, Jr.

Introduced Feb 23, 2017 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SJ 421

Introduced · Virginia Senate · Co-sponsor

Celebrating the lives of those lost in the Virginia Tech tragedy.