Commending the Spotsylvania American LegionPost 320.
Sponsored bills
Commending Dawn Harman.
Public institutions of higher education; foreign governments; programs and grants. Prohibits employees at publicinstitutions of higher education in the Commonwealth from participatingin Chinese-sponsored talent recruitment programs or receiving Chinese-fundedgrants. The bill also requires each employee at such institutionsto disclose to the Council all financial payments received from foreigngovernments.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable HarryRussell Potts, Jr.
Horse racing tax. Provides that 0.01 percentof the amount that a horse racing licensee retains from wagering on historical horse racing pools shall be deposited in the Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund. The bill reduces from 0.75 percent to0.74 percent the percentage of such retained amount that accrues to the general fund.
Commending Trooper Jonathan R. Davis.
Study; JLARC;whether a stand-alone gaming oversight agency would allow for morefocused oversight of all types of legal gaming in the Commonwealthand alleviate potential conflicts of interest; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study whethera stand-alone gaming oversight agency would allow for more focusedoversight of all types of legal gaming in the Commonwealth and alleviatepotential conflicts of interest by (i) evaluating whether the currentoversight and regulatory structure of the different types of legalgaming result in varying compliance standards with regard to similargaming devices which could unintentionally cause a competitive advantageto one industry over another; (ii) reporting on the current costsfor each existing gaming oversight agency to regulate the gaming forwhich it is responsible; (iii) determining whether the overall coststo oversee, regulate, and enforce violations of legal gaming in theCommonwealth would be lower if all such types of gaming were housedunder a stand-alone gaming oversight agency; (iv) conducting researchto determine potential methods of housing, and the steps necessaryto house, all legalized gaming under a stand-alone gaming oversightagency; and (v) determining the potential necessity for and specific composition of a centralized gaming oversight board that would best ensure compliance with ethical requirements and a substantial decreasein the number of potential conflicts of interest.
Study; necessity for and feasibility of creationof a unified gaming commission; report. Establishes an eight-member,one-year joint subcommittee to study the necessity for and feasibilityof the creation of a unified gaming commission to oversee, regulate,and enforce violations of all types of legal gaming in the Commonwealth.
Commending Michael Cherry.