Commending Adonis Lattimore.
Sponsored bills
Commending Dana Lawhorne.
Celebrating the life of Gilbert K. Davis.
Commending Virginia Housing.
Campaign finance; mandatory electronic filingfor all candidates. Requires all candidates to file their campaignfinance reports electronically with the State Board of Elections.
School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds; school maintenance, renovation, and construction. Encourages each local governing body and local school board to enter into a collaborative agreement to set aside in a separate fund any sums, exclusive of the required local effort and required local match as stated in the general appropriation act, appropriated to the school board by the local governing body that are unexpended by the school board in any year in order to use such sums to finance school maintenance, renovation, or construction in the local school division. The bill provides that any such agreement may permit the local school board to retain and make authorized expenditures from such separate fund. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Construction and Modernization and incorporates SB 276.
Additional local sales and use tax; use of revenuesfor construction or renovation of schools. Allows any countyor city to levy a local general retail sales tax and a local usetax at a rate not to exceed one percent as determined by its governingbody to provide revenues solely for capital projects for the constructionor renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum.Under current law, the power to levy such local sales and use taxesfor the construction or renovation of schools is limited to the qualifyinglocalities of Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville.
Workers' compensation; notice to employees. Requires each employer subject to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to provide notice to covered employees of the employees' right to dispute a claim through the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. Such notice must include specific text as included in the bill. The bill also provides that an employer who fails to provide such notice may be subject to the civil penalty provisions of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.
Celebrating the life of J. Kenneth Klinge.
Celebrating the life of Naval Air Crewman 2ndClass James P. Buriak, USN.