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2007 SESSION
Delegate Vivian E. Watts (D) - House District 39
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 406
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-1039
- email: DelVWatts@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- 8717 Mary Lee Lane
- Annandale, Virginia 22003
- (703) 978-2989
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1651 Minimum wage; increase per hour.
- HB 1678 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include energy-efficient products.
- HB 1681 Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; created.
- HB 1721 Home accessibility features for disabled; broadens current tax credit.
- HB 1916 Family life education; requires Bd. of Education to incorporate instruction on dating violence, etc.
- HB 2004 Minimum wage; increase per hour.
- HB 2215 Urban county executive form of government; wage requirements for certain employees.
- HB 2218 Charitable organizations; those engaged in food distribution to needy are exempt from regulations.
- HB 2221 Birth control; definition thereof.
- HB 2240 War Memorial; State Treasurer to advance loan for construction of wing.
- HB 2258 Charitable organizations; exceptions for those that engage in food distribution to needy.
- HB 2261 Zoning violations; overcrowding of residential dwellings.
- HB 2263 Hospital or health center commissions; membership.
- HB 2266 Driver's license, restricted; person may drive for health care service for person residing in house.
- HB 2307 National Defense Industrial Authority; adds Adjutant General to membership.
- HB 2361 Court-appointed counsel; compensation for services.
- HB 2431 Reversion of federal lands; State to take title to lands in NoVa with environmental contamination.
- HB 2484 Photo-monitoring systems; certain counties and cities may establish to enforce traffic light signal.
- HB 2485 Public Procurement Act; procurement of environmentally preferable products.
- HB 2487 Low-flow protections; authorizing withdrawal of water from Potomac River.
- HB 2488 Civilian surveillance; Class 1 misdemeanor if person engages in without legal authority.
- HB 2490 Regional strategic plan; removes exemption for Planning District 8 with regard thereto.
- HB 2550 Discrimination; prohibited in public employment.
- HB 2598 Urban county executive form of government; commission on human rights.
- HB 2600 Protection of disposed records; businesses to take measures to protect against unauthorized access.
- HB 2601 Veterans Day; Board of Education to provide information for commemoration thereof.
- HB 2602 Voluntary contributions of tax refunds; adds public library foundations, etc to list.
- HB 2654 Military Affairs, Department of; establishes specific duties and functions to be carried out.
- HB 2738 Minimum Wage Act; repeals exclusion for persons who are 65 thereunder.
- HB 2743 Rental assistance pilot project; Department of Housing & Community Development to establish, report.
- HB 2809 National Guard; employment protection.
- HB 2813 Transportation Trust Fund; dedication of certain surplus revenue.
- HB 2837 George Washington's birthday; Department of Education to provide schools information thereon.
- HB 2838 Transportation infrastructure; VDOT to submit biennial report on maintenance and operation thereof.
- HB 2848 Retirement System; benefits for certain state and local public safety officers.
- HB 2849 Minimum wage; increase per hour.
- HB 2850 Intermodal Planning and Investment, Office of; change of name, and additional duties of Office.
- HB 2857 Stem cell research; authorizes research involving derivation & use of human embryonic cells, etc.
- HB 2920 Income tax, personal and corporate; statute of limitations for abuse tax avoidance transactions.
- HB 2921 Legislative efficiency review program; directs JLARC to review each house and legislative agencies.
- HB 2922 VDOT; annual statistical report concerning highway and arterial roadway levels of service.
- HB 2988 Income tax, state; filing threshold amounts.
- HB 2997 Motor fuels tax; modifies rates of taxation.
- HB 2998 Handguns; possession by certain persons who had parental rights terminated.
- HB 2999 Electoral College; votes to be allocated by popular vote for presidential elections.
- HB 3002 Affordable housing; investment of funds.
- HB 3004 Animals; euthanizing by use of gas chambers prohibited.
- HB 3048 Emergency management plans; local and interjurisdictional agency to review.
- HB 3051 Private attorney or collection agency; may collect fines, etc., and have access to DMV records.
- HB 3064 Suicidal students; higher educational institutions to develop policies to identify.
- HB 3085 Children; expands scope of rape shield statute to include prosecution for taking indecent liberties.
- HB 3086 Driving under influence of alcohol; admissibility of breath test certificate.
- HB 3102 City of Lynchburg Combined Sewer Overflow Fund; created.
- HJ 575 Energy Conservation Awareness Week; designating as first week in October 2007, and each succeeding.
- HJ 632 Korean American Day; designating as January 13, 2007, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 655 Constitutional amendment; excludes privately owned motor vehicles from property taxation (1st ref).
- HJ 662 Celebrating the life of William Peters Robinson, Jr., former member Virginia House of Delegates.
- HJ 666 Commending Leadership Fairfax, Inc. on the occasionof its 20th anniversary.
- HJ 686 Electricity; Commission on Electric Utility Restructuring's feasibility of voluntary program.
- HJ 687 Electronic waste (eCycling); Joint Commission on Technology & Science to study collection, etc.
- HJ 688 Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport; JCOTS to study enhanced development of cargo, etc.
- HJ 693 Legislative efficiency; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study and recommend.
- HJ 699 Prescription drugs; Joint Commission on Health Care to study accuracy of discard dates.
- HJ 726 Healthy Virginians/Healthy Students Week.
- HJ 727 Childhood obesity; local school divisions encouraged to continue efforts to address.
- HJ 728 Discrimination & injustice; General Assembly to acknowledge & express regret for State's role in.
- HJ 735 Commending Virginia State University on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
- HJ 737 Commending The Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.
- HJ 749 Commending the Virginia Health Care Foundation on its 15 years of service to the Commonwealth.
- HJ 758 Commending Talmage Stanley.
- HJ 770 Commending Virginia's state employees for their charitable giving in 2006.
- HJ 775 Lunar New Year & other Asian observances; importance to Asian & Pacific American communities.
- HJ 777 Celebrating the life of Joel Thomas Broyhill.
- HJ 778 Celebrating the life of Corporal Eric Evine Sutphin.
- HJ 779 Celebrating the life of Derrick Lamont McFarland.
- HJ 796 Celebrating the life of Thomas A. Bralley, Jr.
- HJ 802 Celebrating the life of Augustus C. Johnson.
- HJ 816 Commending Thomas A. Edmonds.
- HJ 823 Commending the Virginia Department of State Police.
- HJ 829 Commending Walter R. T. Witschey.
- HJ 832 Celebrating the life of Jane Ross Francis Wagner.
- HJ 838 Celebrating the life of Allen Richard Ellis III.
- HJ 840 Celebrating the life of Clarence Charles Johnson.
- HJ 845 Celebrating the life of Senior Trooper Robert A. Hill, Sr.
- HJ 856 Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Kesler Williams.
- HJ 871 Commending the Hollins Communications Research Institute, Inc.
- HJ 895 Celebrating the life of Electronics Technician Senior Chief Thomas K. Higgins.
- HJ 900 Commending Lieutenant Colonel, USAF Ret., Howard L. Baugh.
- HJ 912 Commending ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia, Inc., on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
- HJ 918 Commending the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments on its 50th anniversary.
- HJ 943 Commending Wilbert D. Talley.
- HJ 948 Celebrating the life of De'Nora Hill.
- HJ 949 Celebrating the life of John A. Van de Walle.
- HJ 951 Celebrating the life of Bernard Zwinak.
- HJ 952 Celebrating the life of Adelard Lionel Brault.
- HJ 970 Commending the Northern Virginia Area Health Education Center.
- HJ 976 Commending J. Robert Bray.
- HJ 979 Commending Jean R. Jensen.
- HR 48 House of Delegates; amends and readopts Rule 18 pertaining to subcommittees and voting.
- HR 56 Designating the third Saturday of June, in 2007 and in each succeeding year, as 'Juneteenth' Freedom
- HR 58 Celebrating the life of Jennifer Lynne Judd St. Cyr.
- SB 738 Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act; certain judges, etc. authorized to perform hearings.
- SB 763 Outpatient treatment orders; changes criteria therefor.
- SB 776 Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; changes as to process and procedures.
- SB 782 Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; automated toll collections.
- SB 916 Voter registration procedures; application to register must contain a receipt given applicant.
- SB 917 Donation of food to charity organizations; regulations for food prepared in his private residence.
- SB 918 Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA); replaces current provisions in the code with this act.
- SB 920 Absentee voting; qualified voters may vote without a reason.
- SB 932 Protective orders; court may include for protection of companion animals and livestock.
- SB 935 Child or adult abuse or neglect; animal control officers required to report.
- SB 938 Address Confidentiality Program; created.
- SB 939 Trees; conservation thereof during development process for air quality improvement in certain.
- SB 940 Victims of domestic violence; post office box address to be shown on list of registered voters.
- SB 941 VDOT; prepare annual reports projecting three-year maintenance schedule for each district.
- SB 971 Insurance; supplemental liability coverage for sheriff's departments and regional jails.
- SB 993 Disabled parking placards; issuance by physician assistant, podiatrist, chiropractor, etc.
- SB 1007 Law-enforcement facilities; prohibits possession of weapons therein except by officers.
- SB 1039 Cellular telephones; prohibits use of for those under 18 years old while driving.
- SB 1040 Driver's license; makes violation of various restrictions primary offense if under 19 years old.
- SB 1123 Auditor of Public Accounts; review security governmental databases containing personal information.
- SB 1124 Driver's licenses, provisional; prohibits use of cellular phones for person under 18 years old.
- SB 1331 Retirement System; investments related to Sudan.
- SJ 317 Constitutional amendment; Transportation Trust Fund (first reference).
- SJ 358 Northern Virginia land preservation; Department of Conservation & Recreation & task force to study.
- SJ 452 Commending Chief Michael P. Neuhard.
- SJ 463 Commending the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments on its 50th anniversary.
- SJ 470 Commending the George Mason High School International Baccalaureate program.
- SJ 479 Commemorating the settlement of Jamestown on the occasion of its 400th anniversary.
- SJ 530 Celebrating the life of Adelard Lionel Brault.