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2016 SESSION
Delegate Vivian E. Watts (D) - House District 39
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 514
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: DelVWatts@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- 8717 Mary Lee Lane
- Annandale, Virginia 22003
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 5 Same-sex marriages; civil unions.
- HB 16 Health insurance; payment for services by dentists and oral surgeons.
- HB 50 Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons to owner of vehicle.
- HB 56 Elections; absentee voting by persons age 70 or older.
- 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 373 Victims of certain crimes; confidentiality of information.
- HB 392 Family and Children's Trust Fund; revenue matching for special license plates for supporters.
- HB 400 Virginia Student Loan Refinancing Authority established.
- HB 401 Student loan servicers; student loan ombudsman.
- HB 422 Firearms dealers; local regulation of dealers in proximity of schools.
- HB 423 Firearms; possession in school zone, penalty.
- HB 427 Conversion therapy; prohibited, no state funds shall be expended for purpose of therapy.
- HB 477 Veterans care centers; issuance of bonds for certain projects.
- HB 575 Energy efficiency programs; total resource cost test.
- HB 599 Transfer of firearms; criminal history record information check, penalties.
- HB 603 Veterans Services Foundation; Department of Veterans Services to provide support.
- HB 618 Distributed electric generation; establishment of community solar gardens.
- HB 655 Sexual assault; physical evidence recovery kits collection by Department of State Police, etc.
- HB 658 Protective orders; possession of firearms; penalty.
- HB 659 High school family life education curriculum; programs on prevention of dating violence, etc.
- HB 676 Financial exploitation of adults; DARS work group to study.
- HB 678 Human trafficking training; DCJS to establish for law-enforcement, etc.
- HB 681 Trafficking in persons; civil action.
- HB 795 Chesapeake, City of; pilot program for problem-solving docket, report.
- HB 808 Outdoor lighting fixtures; governmental agencies to use light-emitting diode (LED) lighting.
- HB 834 Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board and Fund; established, report.
- HB 915 Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons.
- HB 959 Women's Right to Vote, Commission for Commemoration of Centennial of; established.
- HB 971 Small businesses; implementation of certification programs, report.
- HB 1035 Elderly care savings trust accounts; established, administered by the Virginia College Savings Plan.
- HB 1102 Trauma-informed sexual assault investigation; DCJS to establish.
- HB 1103 ABLE savings trust accounts; exclusion from determination of state means-tested assistance, etc.
- HB 1160 Physical evidence recovery kits.
- HB 1213 Minors; certain education records as evidence.
- HB 1225 Essential health benefits; abortion coverage.
- HB 1299 U. S. of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia; purchase of flags by public bodies.
- HB 1391 Protective orders; possession of firearms, penalty.
- HJ 4 Celebrating the life of Emily Elizabeth Selke.
- HJ 5 Celebrating the life of Yvonne Marie Ciarlo Selke.
- HJ 33 Commending Friends of Falls Church Homeless Shelter.
- HJ 41 Commending Pamela L. Michell.
- HJ 44 Commending the Honorable John C. Watkins.
- HJ 71 Commending Temple Emanuel.
- HJ 83 Student nutrition; Office of School Nutrition Programs in the Department of Education to study.
- 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 202 Commending Richmond International Raceway.
- HJ 205 Constitutional amendment; congressional and legislative districts.
- HJ 209 Commending the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
- HJ 259 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Franklin P. Hall.
- HJ 306 Commending the Washington Redskins.
- HJ 312 Commending Robert O. Chase.
- HJ 317 Commending the Honorable Mamye E. BaCote.
- HJ 322 Commending Chris Mamalis.
- HJ 346 Commending Just Neighbors.
- HJ 347 Indigenous Peoples Day.
- HJ 351 Commending the Honorable James Martin Scott.
- HJ 352 Commending the American Association of University Women of Falls Church.
- 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 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 413 Commending the 2015 World Police and Fire Games.
- HJ 414 Commending the Lake Braddock Secondary School coed cross country team.
- HJ 423 Celebrating the life of Horace Julian Bond.
- HJ 431 Celebrating the life of David V. Burds.
- HJ 458 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Antonin Gregory Scalia.
- HR 75 Commending religious liberty and freedom from political persecution.
- HR 95 Commending the United States Colored Troops Descendants.
- HR 134 Commending Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers.
- HR 149 Commending the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic.
- HR 206 Commending the Honorable Thomas Davis Rust.
- SB 49 Protective orders; possession of firearms, penalty.
- SB 57 Judges; increases number in 19th and 25th Judicial Districts.
- SB 229 U. S. of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia; purchase of flags by public bodies.
- SB 311 Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value contracting, construction & professional service.
- SB 360 Teachers; Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide a model exit questionnaire.
- SB 435 Immigrant Assistance, Office of; created.
- SB 477 Motor vehicle fuels; sales tax in certain transportation districts, price floor.
- SJ 10 Celebrating the life of Richard Langley Settle, Jr.
- 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 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 137 Commending Brian O'Connor.
- SJ 139 Commending the 30th anniversary of elementary school counseling in Virginia.
- SJ 159 Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Leedstown Resolutions.
- SJ 160 Celebrating the life of Peggy Ann Tyree-Wells.
- SJ 196 Celebrating the life of Officer Ashley Marie Guindon.
- SJ 210 Commending Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers.