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2009 SESSION
Delegate Vivian E. Watts (D) - House District 39
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 514
- 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
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- HB 1603 Schools, middle and secondary; requires local school boards to establish uniform grading policy.
- HB 1608 Higher educational institutions; automatic acceptance of certain students applying for admission.
- HB 1694 Parking; allows certain counties and towns to prohibit parking of certain vehicles on streets.
- HB 1727 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; created, report.
- HB 1732 Veterans Services, Department of; processing of disability claims.
- HB 1767 Honorary diplomas; requires Board of Education award to certain veterans of Vietnam War.
- HB 1778 Motor vehicle dealers; revises & clarifies responsibilities of manufacturers.
- HB 1912 Grass and weeds; permits City of Newport News to require property owner to cut if excessively high.
- HB 1933 Urban county executive form of government; adds sexual orientation as prohibited discrimination.
- HB 1980 Family life education; right of parents to review certain materials.
- HB 1990 George Mason University; board of visitors to enter in memorandum of agreement with Fairfax.
- HB 1997 Line of Duty Act; includes local employees disabled on or after January 1, 1966, in definition.
- HB 2200 Every Woman's Life Breast and Cervical Cancer Fund; established.
- HB 2279 Benefit claims assistance; requires Commissioner Dept. of Veterans Services to ensure assistance.
- HB 2373 Birth control prescriptions; pharmacist who refuses to fill ensure patient treated nonjudgmentally.
- HB 2385 Discrimination; prohibited in public employment based on race, color, religion, etc.
- HB 2386 Pedestrians and drivers; responsibilities thereof at marked & unmarked crosswalks.
- HB 2392 License plates, special; issuance to veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom.
- HB 2414 Military Family Relief Fund; provides calculating taxable income for individuals receiving benefits.
- HB 2433 Eastern Virginia Medical School; alters manner in which Board of Visitors is appointed.
- HB 2482 Prescription donation; clarifies hospital and clinic may redispense donation medication to indigent.
- HB 2500 'A Place of My Own' Program; Department of Social Services to develop.
- HB 2538 Virginia Advisory Redistricting Commission; created.
- HB 2571 Restricted driver's license; court to provide during period of suspension.
- HB 2574 Line of Duty Act; amends definition of deceased person thereunder, payment to beneficiaries.
- HB 2589 Students; assessment of those limited English proficient.
- HB 2594 Vietnam Human Rights Day.
- HB 2631 Firearms show; Fairfax County may require criminal history record information from promoter thereof.
- HB 2652 Campaign contributions; limits thereon for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, etc.
- HB 2672 Minority Business Enterprise, Dept. of; definitions to include individual who is U.S. citizen, etc.
- HJ 620 Constitutional amendment; Transportation Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, etc.
- HJ 629 Celebrating the life of Sally Braun Ormsby.
- HJ 648 Constitutional amendment; property tax exemption for certain veterans (first reference).
- HJ 674 Older Virginians Mental Health Month; designating as September, 2009 and each year thereafter.
- HJ 683 Retailers for Life Month; designating as April 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 685 Commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
- HJ 688 Constitutional amendment; real property tax relief for persons 65 years old, etc. (first reference).
- HJ 727 Veterans; JLARC to study ways to reduce homelessness among those in State.
- HJ 745 Celebrating the life of Frederick Wayne Hutchins, Jr.
- HJ 763 Commending Virginia's Olympic athletes of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
- HJ 774 Celebrating the life of Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Emmanuel McNeal.
- HJ 781 Commending the Virginia Credit Union League.
- HJ 785 Commending Cadet Gregory E. Lippiatt.
- HJ 804 Commending the Virginia Association of Governmental Purchasing on its 50th anniversary.
- HJ 806 Commending the shipbuilders of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding.
- HJ 808 Celebrating the life of James Marshall Smith.
- HJ 809 Celebrating the life of Jean Claire Smith.
- HJ 825 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Charles Wesley Gunn, Jr.
- HJ 829 Commending Virginia Catholic Schools.
- HJ 845 Commending Beth El Hebrew Congregation on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.
- HJ 859 Celebrating the life of Shelton L. Darden, Sr.
- HJ 861 Celebrating the life of Master Sergeant, USA Ret., Robert Lee Smith.
- HJ 866 Commending Daisaku Ikeda.
- HJ 884 Commemorating the life of Charles Darwin on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
- HJ 892 Celebrating the life of Thomas Vander Woude.
- HJ 904 Celebrating the life of Johnny Earl Morphew, Jr.
- HJ 926 Celebrating the life of Albert J. Boudreau.
- HJ 933 Commending Maud Robinson.
- HJ 968 Commending Team Fairfax.
- HJ 971 Commending the Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Conference.
- HJ 974 Commending Robert S. Bowers, Jr.
- HJ 994 Commending Equality Virginia on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
- HJ 995 Celebrating the life of Clay T. Whitehead.
- HJ 1002 Commending Michael Hershman.
- HJ 1029 Commending Gerry Connolly.
- HJ 1034 Celebrating the life of Flora M. Crater.
- HJ 1035 Celebrating the life of Sue Edmondson Wilder.
- HR 59 Celebrating the life of Mary Austin Campbell Hughes.
- SB 1054 License plates, special; issuance to supporters of Washington Capitals hockey team.
- SB 1055 Housing Trust Fund; dedicating revenues to provide affordable housing.
- SB 1056 Retirement System; retirees hired as nurses without interrupting their benefits.
- SB 1057 Smoke Free Air Act; smoking in public places, civil penalties.
- SB 1058 Green roofs; authorizes counties, cities, and towns, by ordinance, to grant incentives, etc.
- SB 1118 Community College Scholarship Match Program; created.
- SB 1133 Estate tax; reinstates federal credit amount State would receive payments from estates.
- SB 1135 Parole Board; ensure each person eligible for parole receives a timely and thorough review.
- SB 1436 Crime victims; no law-enforcement officer shall inquire into immigration status of victim of crime.
- SJ 319 Home energy consumption; Housing Commission to study.
- SJ 357 Rapid transit service network; continues mandate of study.
- SJ 391 Celebrating the life of Leslie Funk Herdegen Rohrer.
- SJ 398 Celebrating the life of Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr.
- SJ 403 Celebrating the life of Ashley McIntosh.
- SJ 448 Commending the Virginia Economic Bridge on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
- SJ 467 Commending Terri Hobson.