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2008 SESSION
Delegate Onzlee Ware (D) - House District 11
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 816
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: DelOWare@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- 305 Jefferson Street
- Shenandoah Building
- Suite 410
- Roanoke, Virginia 24011
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1 Disabled veteran; definition thereof.
- HB 57 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include computers and computer-related peripheral equipment.
- HB 92 Standards of Quality; requires that average teacher salary not be less than annual national salary.
- HB 229 Veterans services; Dept. to establish guidelines for eligibility for domiciled veterans, etc.
- HB 242 Standards of Learning; physical education requirements.
- HB 319 Fishing permit, special; issued to patients from veterans or military hospitals.
- HB 474 Virginia War Memorial; State Treasurer to advance loan for construction of an educational wing.
- HB 475 Veterans; Commissioner et al., to establish comprehensive program to address mental health needs.
- HB 477 Veterans Services Foundation; established as body politic and to fund veteran services and programs.
- HB 482 Higher educational institutions; optional retirement plan for certain employees.
- HB 483 Higher educational institutions; retirement plan for teachers and administrative faculty.
- HB 511 Vacant building registration; increases annual fee.
- HB 512 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- HB 513 Virginia State University; increases number of members of Board of Visitors
- HB 556 Retirement System; investments related to Sudan.
- HB 617 Virginia Housing Trust Fund; creates dedicated source of funding via percentage of recordation tax.
- HB 711 Retail Sales and Use Tax; extends sunset provision for audio and video works.
- HB 1039 Regional jail authorities; capital costs.
- HB 1082 Virginia Housing Trust Fund; creates dedicated source of funding via percentage of recordation tax.
- HB 1272 School boards; financial literacy education.
- HB 1274 Real estate tax; exemptions for elderly and handicapped persons in certain cities and counties.
- HB 1275 Real estate tax; localities to grant higher percentages of tax relief to elderly.
- HB 1276 Absentee voting; adds persons age 65 and older to list of persons eligible.
- HB 1278 Voters; those registered may vote prior to election day.
- HB 1279 Transportation district commissioners; raises per diem.
- HB 1326 Retail Sales and Use Tax: exemptions for textbooks extended to students at institutions of learning.
- HB 1335 Natural Resources Commitment Fund; created.
- HB 1393 Motion picture production companies; expands tax incentives.
- HB 1493 Nondiscrimination; prohibits discrimination in state government employment based on race, etc.
- HB 1501 Firefighters; task force to develop training standards, report.
- HB 1507 Trooper Charles Mark Cosslett Memorial Highway; designating as portion of Fairfax County Parkway.
- HB 1516 Public-Private Transportation Act; prohibits private entity from imposing tolls on Interstate 81.
- HB 1547 21st Century Capital Improvement Program; created, report.
- HJ 57 Celebrating the life of George Robert Preas.
- HJ 58 Celebrating the life of Commander William Boyle Bagbey.
- HJ 59 Celebrating the life of Ann Weinstein.
- HJ 60 Commending the American Red Cross Roanoke Valley Chapter.
- HJ 86 Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America; U.S. to withdraw threrefrom.
- HJ 139 Commending Dr. William Ferguson Reid.
- HJ 175 School boards; JLARC to study implications of granting fiscal autonomy to those elected.
- HJ 215 Jails, local and regional; joint subcommittee to study mental health services.
- HJ 220 Philippine Independence Day; designating as June 12, 2008, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 223 Celebrating the life of Collins H. Howlett III.
- HJ 224 Memorial resolution; Dr. Francis Merrill Foster, Sr
- HJ 225 Commending The Lincoln Society of Virginia.
- HJ 229 Commending the Richmond Crusade for Voters.
- HJ 232 Memorial resolution; Edward Lee Andrews, Jr.
- HJ 251 Celebrating the life of Oliver White Hill, Sr.
- HJ 252 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Darrel Rollins.
- HJ 253 Celebrating the life of M. Ralph Page.
- HJ 254 Celebrating the life of Walter A. Bowry, Jr.
- HJ 255 Celebrating the life of Rhoda Brown Sisisky.
- HJ 256 Celebrating the life of Dr. Isabel Wood Rogers.
- HJ 257 Celebrating the lfe of Robert W. Speight, Sr.
- HJ 264 Celebrating the life of Travis William Rogers.
- HJ 265 Commending Lonnie Forest Craft.
- HJ 275 Commending Theodore V. Morrison, Jr.
- HJ 286 Celebrating the life of Jo Ann Davis.
- HJ 298 Commending William H. Leighty.
- HJ 336 Commending Barter Theatre on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
- HJ 341 Commending the State of Israel on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.
- HJ 346 Celebrating the life of Myron Boyd Jones.
- HJ 347 Celebrating the life of Jerry Laymon Falwell.
- HJ 350 Celebrating the life of Jane Maury Denton.
- HJ 360 Commending the Virginia National Guard.
- HJ 363 Celebrating the life of Richard G. Darman.
- HJ 370 Commending the Virginia Law Foundation.
- HJ 376 Celebrating the life of Erin Peterson.
- HJ 377 Celebrating the life of Reema Samaha.
- HJ 380 Commending the United States Army Reserve on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
- HJ 382 Commending Diana F. Cantor.
- HJ 395 Celebrating the life of Mitchell Van Yahres.
- HJ 400 Celebrating the life of Joseph A. Johnson.
- HJ 406 Commending Mount Calvary Baptist Church on the occasion of its 115th anniversary.
- HJ 407 Celebrating the life of D. Henry Almond.
- HJ 419 Celebrating the life of Thomas W. Farrell.
- HJ 420 Celebrating the life of Posey Glenn Oyler.
- HJ 424 Commending the Honorable Julian Hines Raney, Jr.
- HJ 443 Commending Forest G. Jones.
- HJ 444 Commending Vincent F. Callahan, Jr.
- HJ 466 Commending the rescue squads, police departments, fire departments, sheriff's offices, and agencies.
- HJ 485 Commending Montgomery Regional Hospital, Lewis-Gale Medical Center, Carilion New River Valley ...
- HJ 531 Commending Sharon Ann Crouch Steidel.
- HJ 554 Commending R. Michael Mohler.
- HR 13 Commending Mary Elizabeth McElroy Weil.
- HR 14 Commending Carmela Bills Putney.
- HR 15 Commending Lois Vivian Johnson.
- HR 21 Celebrating the life of John Ashby Bowden, Jr.
- SB 149 Surety bond; increases amount under CRESPA.
- SB 667 Motion picture production companies; expands tax incentives.
- SJ 33 Celebrating the life of Margie M. Jumper.
- SJ 35 Celebrating the life of F. Rodney Fitzpatrick.
- SJ 36 Celebrating the life of Thomas B. Mason.
- SJ 37 Celebrating the life of William Andrew Dickinson.
- SJ 38 Celebrating the life of Jack B. Coulter.
- SJ 39 Celebrating the life of Byron Adna Hicks.
- SJ 140 Commending Gordon Churchill Willis, Sr.
- SJ 144 Commending the Virginia Tech football team.