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2016 SESSION
Delegate Patrick A. Hope (D) - House District 47
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 712
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: DelPHope@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 3148
- Arlington, Virginia 22203
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 5 Same-sex marriages; civil unions.
- HB 7 Sick leave; certain private employers to provide employees with paid benefits.
- HB 35 Hate crimes; reporting to State Police.
- HB 144 Indigenous Peoples Day; designating as fourth Wednesday in November and each succeeding year.
- HB 149 Concealed handgun permits; individuals on federal Terrorist Screening Database.
- HB 152 Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; investigative authority.
- HB 166 Visually impaired students; each student to be evaluated and receive instruction in Braille.
- HB 248 Financial exploitation of adults; documentation referred to local law-enforcement agency.
- HB 300 Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discrimination, definition of sexual orientation, etc.
- HB 391 Motor vehicle title loan offices; distance from military base.
- HB 400 Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority established.
- HB 422 Firearms dealers; local regulation of dealers in proximity of schools.
- HB 423 Firearms; possession in school zone, penalty.
- HB 425 Firearms; prohibits person in Terrorist Screening Database to purchase, etc.
- HB 477 Veterans care centers; issuance of bonds for certain projects.
- HB 599 Transfer of firearms; criminal history record information check, penalties.
- HB 603 Veterans Services Foundation; Department of Veterans Services to provide support.
- HB 702 Health benefit plans; prescription drugs, tiers.
- HB 812 Limited Residential Lodging Act; established, penalty.
- HB 834 Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board and Fund; established, report.
- HB 842 Teachers; preparation and licensure, professional development in indicators of dyslexia.
- HB 913 Discrimination; prohibited in employment and housing.
- HB 915 Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons.
- HB 927 Flamethrowers; criminalizes purchase, possession, or transportation, penalty.
- HB 959 Women's Right to Vote, Commission for Commemoration of Centennial of; established.
- HB 1041 Marijuana offenses; driver's license forfeiture.
- HB 1083 Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program; changes to Program, report.
- HB 1093 Income tax, state and corporate; tax credits for food crop donations to nonprofit food bank.
- HB 1129 DSS; annual review of payments made to TANF recipients, report.
- HB 1225 Essential health benefits; abortion coverage.
- HB 1323 Civil immunity; forcible entry of motor vehicle to remove unattended companion animal.
- HB 1324 Loans; maximum amount of interest and fees permitted.
- HJ 8 Celebrating the life of George Albert Williams.
- HJ 44 Commending the Honorable John C. Watkins.
- HJ 54 Commending Mary Ann Moran.
- HJ 60 Celebrating the life of Charles Rinker.
- HJ 71 Commending Temple Emanuel.
- HJ 83 Student nutrition; Office of School Nutrition Programs in the Department of Education to study.
- HJ 89 Celebrating the life of Ernestine K. Middleton.
- HJ 117 Constitutional amendment; Virginia Redistricting Commission established, apportionment.
- HJ 118 Celebrating the life of Alphonzo LaSalle Holland, Sr.
- HJ 158 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Thomas W. Moss, Jr.
- HJ 172 Celebrating the life of Caroline Jean Stalker.
- HJ 191 Commending Kim Snead.
- HJ 202 Commending Richmond International Raceway.
- HJ 205 Constitutional amendment; congressional and legislative districts.
- HJ 217 Celebrating the life of Charles Wesley Day.
- HJ 218 Commending Angela West.
- HJ 237 Commending Apostolos Dallas, M.D.
- HJ 259 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Franklin P. Hall.
- HJ 262 Celebrating the life of Ashby B. Allen.
- HJ 274 Commending Arlington Thrive.
- HJ 302 Celebrating the life of William J. Wilde.
- HJ 304 Commending Michael Burnett.
- HJ 310 Commending Geanina Poff.
- HJ 311 Celebrating the life of Ray Wayne Gandee, M.D.
- HJ 317 Commending the Honorable Mamye E. BaCote.
- HJ 322 Commending Chris Mamalis.
- HJ 341 Commending the Tuskegee Airmen Motorcycle Club of Richmond.
- HJ 346 Commending Just Neighbors.
- HJ 347 Indigenous Peoples Day.
- HJ 351 Commending the Honorable James Martin Scott.
- HJ 353 Commending the Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke.
- HJ 361 Commending the Virginia members of Team USA at the 2015 Pan American Maccabi Games.
- HJ 363 Commending the Great Falls Grange.
- HJ 364 Commending Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
- HJ 366 Commending McLean Orchestra.
- HJ 367 Commending McLean Little League.
- HJ 368 Commending 100WomenStrong.
- HJ 371 Commending Patrick Henry Elementary School.
- HJ 389 Commending Drew Hunter.
- HJ 391 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Frederick Hillary Creekmore, Sr.
- HJ 397 Commending Rock Ridge Performing Arts.
- HJ 398 Commending Freedom High School.
- HJ 409 Commending Sergeant First Class Charles Martland, USA.
- HJ 411 Commending the Rural Retreat High School wrestling team.
- HJ 423 Celebrating the life of Horace Julian Bond.
- HJ 432 Commending the Shirlington Employment and Education Center.
- HJ 433 Commending the Yorktown High School gymnastics team.
- HJ 437 Commending the Carroll County High School girls' basketball team.
- HJ 447 Commending the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization.
- HJ 451 Commending Chris Perkins.
- HJ 457 Celebrating the life of Sheila Sachs Strauss.
- HJ 458 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Antonin Gregory Scalia.
- HJ 485 Commending Virginia Capitol Connections.
- HJ 487 Celebrating the life of Carl William Cardwell.
- HJ 491 Commending the Carroll County High School softball team.
- HJ 492 Celebrating the life of James Douglas Owens.
- HJ 493 Commending Dr. Emma Violand-Sanchez.
- HJ 505 Commending Denny Hamlin.
- HJ 509 Commending Kieran Sharpe.
- HJ 514 Commending the Hall's Hill/High View Park neighborhood.
- HJ 525 Commending Boy Scout Troop 956.
- HJ 527 Commending the Loudoun County Public Schools Student Records Department.
- HJ 528 Commending Everybody Code Now!
- HR 95 Commending the United States Colored Troops Descendants.
- HR 134 Commending Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers.
- HR 206 Commending the Honorable Thomas Davis Rust.
- SB 53 Ultrasound prior to abortion.
- SB 155 Cigarette taxes; increase of tax in Fairfax and Arlington Counties.
- SB 221 Discrimination between employees on the basis of sex; payment of wages.
- SB 222 Voter registration; automatic voter registration.
- SB 223 New sentencing hearing; abolition of parole.
- SB 229 U. S. of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia; purchase of flags by public bodies.
- SB 322 Telephone systems within local, etc., correctional facilities; rates and commissions or fees.
- SJ 9 Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage.
- SJ 10 Celebrating the life of Richard Langley Settle, Jr.
- SJ 17 Commending M. Douglas Scott.
- SJ 18 Commending Barbara Donnellan.
- SJ 19 Commending Susanne Eisner.
- SJ 33 Commending the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
- SJ 39 Commending the Henrico High School boys' basketball team.
- SJ 40 Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia.
- SJ 55 Celebrating the life of Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Bernard Wisniewski, Jr., USA, Ret.
- SJ 56 Celebrating the life of George Burke.
- SJ 72 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Thomas W. Moss, Jr.
- SJ 98 Commending Richmond International Raceway.
- SJ 99 Commending Frank Beamer.
- SJ 101 Purple Heart State; designating as the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- SJ 102 Purple Heart Day; designating as August 7, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 109 Commending the Highland Springs High School football team.
- SJ 116 Commending Colonel Wesley L. Fox, USMC, Ret.
- SJ 137 Commending Brian O'Connor.
- SJ 139 Commending the 30th anniversary of elementary school counseling in Virginia.
- SJ 160 Celebrating the life of Peggy Ann Tyree-Wells.
- SJ 172 Commending Community Residences, Inc.
- SJ 176 Commending Gulf Branch Nature Center.
- SJ 186 Commending the Arlington County Civic Federation.
- SJ 196 Celebrating the life of Officer Ashley Marie Guindon.
- SJ 199 Celebrating the life of Crystal Sheree Hamilton.
- SJ 202 Commending the Virginia State University men's basketball team.
- SJ 210 Commending Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers.
- SJ 213 Commending Carl Lum.
- SJ 215 Celebrating the life of Tiffany May Joslyn.