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2018 SESSION
Chairman: Ryan T. McDougle
Clerk: Susan Clarke Schaar, H. Lehman
Staff: Ginny Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 9, 2018
Time and Place: 8 AM / Senate Room 3, The Capitol
updated to remove SBs 166,189,401,660,781,790,801,864,971 and 975
Patron: Petersen
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; post-service restrictions. Extends the "revolving door" prohibition applicable to state officers and employees and members of the General Assembly. State officers and employees, as defined in § 2.2-3104, are currently prohibited from lobbying the agency of which they were an officer or employee for one year after the termination of public employment or service; the bill extends that prohibition to three years and further prohibits lobbying before the General Assembly during that period. Members of the General Assembly are currently prohibited from lobbying the General Assembly or any legislative agency for one year after the termination of public service; the bill extends that prohibition to three years.
Patron: Petersen
Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; reorganize as Virginia-Israel Advisory Authority. Reorganizes the existing Virginia-Israel Advisory Board, renamed the Virginia-Israel Advisory Authority, as an independent authority. The bill provides that the current members of the Virginia-Israel Advisory Board shall serve the remainder of their unexpired terms as members of the board of directors of the Virginia-Israel Advisory Authority. The Virginia-Israel Advisory Board is currently an advisory board in the executive branch of government staffed by the Office of the Governor.
Patron: Chase
Red Tape Reduction Commission; review of regulatory requirements; report. Creates the Red Tape Reduction Commission (the Commission) to develop and maintain a state regulatory baseline of all current state regulatory requirements, with the initial baseline to be completed by January 1, 2020. The bill defines a regulatory requirement as any action required to be taken or information required to be provided in accordance with a statute or regulation in order to access government services or operate and conduct business and excludes requirements that are necessary to conform to changes in Virginia statutory law or the appropriation act where no agency discretion is involved or to meet requirements of federal law or regulations. The bill also provides that after the regulatory baseline has been established, any subsequent regulatory requirement proposed by an agency that is not included in the initial state regulatory baseline is considered a new regulatory requirement and requires the approval of the Commission before it may be enacted. The bill prohibits the Commission from approving a new regulation unless it replaces or repeals at least two existing regulations, until the total baseline has been reduced by 35 percent. Thereafter, approvals and corresponding replacement or repeal by the Commission shall be on a one-for-one basis. In addition, the bill provides for the Commission to review current state regulatory requirements and provide recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly on measures to reduce the baseline regulatory requirements. The bill requires the Commission to submit a report to the Governor and General Assembly by November 1, 2018, on (i) the organizational structure of the Commission, (ii) duties of staff, and (iii) guidelines for determining what constitutes a regulatory requirement.
Patron: Favola
School Health Advisory Board. Establishes the School Health Advisory Board in the executive branch to advise the General Assembly and the Governor on pending or proposed legislation concerning the role of employees in public elementary or secondary schools in providing health care services at such schools and provide guidance on any associated training requirements.
Patron: Black
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; prohibition on hiring relatives of school board members; exception. Provides that the prohibition on the employment of certain relatives of members of a school board does not apply to school districts located in Planning District 8, provided that (i) the school board member certifies that he had no involvement with the hiring decision of the relative and (ii) the superintendent certifies to the remaining members of the school board in writing that the employment is based upon merit and fitness and the competitive rating of the qualifications of the individual and that no member of the board had any involvement with the hiring decision.
Patron: Stanley
Henrietta Lacks Commission; report; sunset. Creates the Henrietta Lacks Commission to establish, through a public-private partnership, the Henrietta Lacks Life Sciences Center in Halifax County as a cancer research and treatment center designed to (i) transform and accelerate cancer research and treatment through the use of biodata tools, (ii) provide tailored cancer treatment medicine to an underserved portion of rural Southern Virginia, and (iii) incubate new biotech businesses across the Southside Virginia region. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2021.
Patron: Hanger
Autism Advisory Council; sunset. Extends the sunset provision of the Autism Advisory Council from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2020.
Patron: McClellan
Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; public documents; redactions. Specifies that the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council shall not redact from any document or form made available to the public any business name.
Patron: Norment
Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; deadline extensions. Clarifies that the authority of the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council (Council) to grant extensions from the deadline for filing disclosure forms does not extend to filings made by a candidate for public office, as such candidate filings are not filed with the Council.
Patron: Favola
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Excludes Planning District 8 from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school division employee who is related to a member of the school board.
Patron: Stuart
Commission on Autism. Establishes the Commission on Autism as an advisory commission in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the Commission is to review and make recommendations for the improvement of services and programs for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Patron: Peake
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Allows any school district to invoke the current exemption from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school district employee who is related to a member of the school board. Current law limits use of the exemption to only those school districts located in Planning Districts 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, and 17.
Patron: McDougle
Disposal of unclaimed personal property in possession of the Division of Capitol Police. Provides that in addition to its existing authority to destroy unclaimed firearms and other weapons, the Division of Capitol Police may lawfully dispose of other unclaimed personal property, as defined in the bill, that has been in the possession of the Division for a period of more than 120 days.
Patron: McDougle
Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; exemption for the Division of Capitol Police. Exempts personal information systems maintained by the Division of Capitol Police that deal with investigations and intelligence gathering relating to criminal activity from the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (§ 2.2-3800 et seq.).
Patron: McDougle
Capitol Square Preservation Council. Changes the title of the chief officer of the Capitol Square Preservation Council from the Executive Director to the Chief Administrative Officer and authorizes the Council to enter into partnerships, joint ventures, and other collaborative relationships. The bill authorizes the Chief Administrative Officer to employ an Architectural Historian who will serve as curator for the architectural, historical, archeological, and landscape features of Capitol Square. The bill also makes a technical change.
Patron: McDougle
Temporary General Assembly Building; Pocahontas Building. Designates the Pocahontas Building as the temporary General Assembly Building and a part of the Capitol Square complex until reconstruction is completed on the General Assembly Building. The bill contains an emergency clause.
EMERGENCY
Patron: DeSteph
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund and Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund Advisory Committee. Clarifies the purposes for which grants from the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund (the Fund) are to be used and clarifies that guidelines for the use of such grants shall be developed by the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund Advisory Committee (the Committee) in accordance with such purposes. The bill shifts the date by which the Committee is required to present a plan for expenditure of any amounts in the Fund. The bill contains technical amendments.
Patron: Dunnavant
Auditor of Public Accounts; Commonwealth Data Point; employee compensation information. Adds state employee bonuses, total compensation, and the name of the employee associated with each position for which the annual rate of pay is more than $10,000 to the list of data that must be maintained on the Auditor of Public Accounts online database.
Patron: Newman
Commission on the Future of Public Elementary and Secondary Education established. Establishes the 20-member Commission on the Future of Public Elementary and Secondary Education (the Commission), consisting of seven members of the House Committee on Education, six members of the Senate, five nonlegislative citizen members, the Superintendent of Public Instruction or his designee, and the Secretary of Education or his designee, for the purpose of ensuring a deliberate, thoughtful, coordinated, and year-round approach to legislative education reform in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Commission to (i) collaborate with the Board of Education, the Department of Education, the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee, and other interested stakeholders to study (a) the need for revisions to or reorganization of the Standards of Quality with a particular emphasis on the effective use of educational technology, (b) emerging education issues in the Commonwealth, and (c) the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth and (ii) establish and appoint members from a variety of stakeholder organizations to subcommittees in distinct subject matter areas. The provisions of the bill sunset on July 1, 2021.
Patron: Peake
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Provides that school divisions located in Planning District 14, Commonwealth, are not subject to the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school division employee who is related to a member of the school board.
Patron: Peake
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees. Excludes the Cumberland County School District from the prohibition against hiring, under certain circumstances, a school division employee who is related to a member of the school board.
Patron: Dunnavant
City of Richmond; Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) system permit; James River outfalls. Directs the State Water Control Board (Board) to include in the next renewal of the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) system of the City of Richmond (City) a requirement that the City complete by January 1, 2020, an assessment of the discharges from each of its Combined Sewer Outfalls into the James River. The bill requires the assessment to incorporate any improvements meant to address discharges from any part of the City's CSO system and to determine what control technologies may be required to meet applicable regulations. The bill requires copies of the completed assessment to be delivered to the Board and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources. The bill also directs the Board, to the extent necessary and with the consent of the City, to modify an existing consent order or issue a new consent order between itself and the City regarding the CSO system. The bill contains an emergency clause.
EMERGENCY
Patron: Lucas
Hampton Roads Transportation Commission; membership. Adds two legislative members, one from each house, to the Hampton Roads Transportation Commission. The bill provides that nonlegislative members shall have experience in at least one of the following fields: (i) transit planning, transportation planning, or land use planning; (ii) transit or transportation management or management of other public sector operations; (iii) public budgeting or finance; (iv) corporate communications; (v) government oversight; or (vi) local or state government.
Patron: Sturtevant
Sexual harassment training; legislative branch. Requires General Assembly members, full-time legislative staff of General Assembly members compensated with state appropriations, and full-time employees of each legislative branch agency to complete sexual harassment training once every two calendar years through the Commonwealth of Virginia Learning Center administered by the Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM). Persons elected to the General Assembly or commencing or recommencing full-time employment in the legislative branch will have 90 days from the election or their dates of hire to complete the training.
The bill requires DHRM to maintain electronic records for five years for each person successfully completing sexual harassment training. Each record will include the name of the person completing the training, the name of the state agency that employs him, the date on which the training was completed, and the name of the training course.
The bill directs that each agency head in the legislative branch be responsible for ensuring that the agency's full-time employees complete the training as required.
The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019.
Patron: Norment
Commission on Electric Utility Regulation. Postpones the scheduled expiration of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2020.
Patron: Black
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; disclosure by local government officers and employees. Provides that an officer or employee of local government who has a personal interest in a transaction but who is still eligible to participate in the transaction because he is a member of a business, profession, occupation, or group of three or more persons the members of which are affected by the transaction need only declare his interest in the transaction at the first meeting at which the transaction is discussed and at at least one subsequent meeting thereafter. Current law requires that such interest be disclosed at each meeting of the governmental or advisory agency at which the transaction is discussed.
Patron: Hanger
MEI Commission; report. Clarifies that the annual report of the MEI Commission concerning endorsed incentive packages need only report on those incentive packages for which an offer has been made and publicly announced.
Patron: Norment
Purple Heart State; Department of Transportation. Directs the Department of Transportation to place and maintain signs along certain highways reflecting the 2016 designation by the General Assembly of Virginia as a Purple Heart State.
Patron: Mason
State Board of Social Services; regulations related to staffing of assisted living facilities providing care for adults with serious cognitive impairments. Directs the State Board of Social Services to amend regulations governing staffing of assisted living facilities that provide care for adults with serious cognitive impairments to allow an exception to certain requirements for assisted living facilities that are licensed for 10 or fewer residents if no more than three of the residents have serious cognitive impairments.
Patron: McDougle
Capitol Police; concurrent jurisdiction. Clarifies that in any case involving the theft or misappropriation of the personal property of any member or employee of the General Assembly, the Capitol Police shall have concurrent jurisdiction with law-enforcement officers of any county contiguous to the City of Richmond.
Patron: Wexton
Sexual harassment training; legislative branch. Requires General Assembly members, full-time legislative staff of General Assembly members compensated with state appropriations, and full-time employees of each legislative branch agency to complete sexual harassment training once every calendar year through the Commonwealth of Virginia Learning Center administered by the Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM). Persons elected to the General Assembly or commencing or recommencing full-time employment in the legislative branch will have 90 days from the election or their dates of hire to complete the training.
The bill requires DHRM to maintain electronic records for five years for each person successfully completing sexual harassment training. Each record will include the name of the person completing the training, the name of the state agency that employs him, the date on which the training was completed, and the name of the training course.
The bill directs that each agency head in the legislative branch be responsible for ensuring that the agency's full-time employees complete the training as required.
The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019.
Patron: Cosgrove
Standards for the display of the Honor and Remember Flag at state buildings and facilities outside of Capitol Square. Provides that in the absence of a directive from the Governor or the Director of the Department of General Services, the head of the state agency that controls any facility or building outside of Capitol Square may determine when to display the Honor and Remember Flag, provided that the Honor and Remember Flag that is displayed is (i) smaller in height and width than the flag of the United States that is officially displayed at the building or facility and (ii) made in the United States.
Patron: Lewis
State and Local Government Conflicts of Interest Act; prohibited conduct relating to contracts; exceptions; officer or immediate family member of an officer of Marine Resources Commission. Adds an officer or immediate family member of an officer of the Marine Resources Commission who enters into a contract for goods or services for shellfish replenishment to the list of exceptions to the prohibition against officers and employees having contracts other than their own contracts of employment with their employing agencies, provided that such officer or family member does not participate in (i) awarding the contract, (ii) authorizing the procurement, or (iii) authorizing the use of another procurement method as an alternative to competitive bidding or competitive negotiation. The bill contains technical amendments.
Patron: Edwards
Appointments to Broadband Advisory Council; expiration. Increase from 14 to 15 the total membership of the Broadband Advisory Council by adding an additional nonlegislative member, who shall be a representative of a municipal broadband authority, and extends the expiration of the council from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2028.
Patron: Surovell
United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains viable and may be ratified notwithstanding the expiration of the 10-year ratification period set out in the resolving clause, as amended, in the proposal adopted by Congress.
Patron: Locke
Study; Department of Education to study teacher licensing process; report. Requests to study the teacher licensure process and the assessment requirements therein for any inherent biases that may prevent minority teacher candidates from entering the profession.
Patron: Lucas
Study; JLARC; impact of state-owned ports on local governments; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review and update its 1999 study entitled "Review of the Impact of State-Owned Ports on Local Governments."
Patron: Cosgrove
United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; balancing the federal budget. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that pertains to the subject of balancing the federal budget.
Patron: Black
Study; joint committee to study the 2016 conditional rezoning proffer reform bill; report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee on Local Government and the House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns to study the 2016 conditional rezoning proffer reform bill. In conducting its study, the joint committee is directed to gather information and develop recommendations on the impact that the 2016 proffer reform bill has had on development, including: (i) data regarding the growth, decline, or stagnation in the number, size, scale, or monetary value of development projects in the Commonwealth; (ii) new or revised policies, guidance, and practices adopted by localities regarding negotiations with developers; (iii) litigation, decisions of local boards of appeals, and other justiciable matters that have arisen from, or been directed at the proffer reform bill; and (iv) any other result, consequence, or impact the proffer reform bill has had on development in the Commonwealth. The joint committee shall invite developers, localities, and other stakeholders to participate in the study.
Patron: Edwards
Study; alternative models of emergency custody and temporary detention; report. Directs the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century to study alternative models of emergency custody and temporary detention. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) identify alternative models of emergency custody and temporary detention, including Florida's Baker Act; (ii) evaluate such alternative models to identify the potential costs and benefits of such models; and (iii) make recommendations for changes to the Commonwealth's current model of emergency custody and temporary detention to improve outcomes for individuals in need of emergency custody and temporary detention and to improve public safety.
Patron: Black
Commending Pakistani Americans in Virginia.
Patron: Black
Commending Indian Americans in Virginia.
Patron: Locke
Study; continuing the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding; report. Continues the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding for two additional years, through the 2019 interim.
Patron: Hanger
United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; balancing the federal budget. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that pertains to the subject of balancing the federal budget.
Patron: Surovell
Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; decrease in driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated convictions; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the causes of the decrease over the past five years in convictions for driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Patron: Spruill
Study; JLARC; costs of education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality.
Patron: Edwards
Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; free community college; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of providing Virginians the opportunity to attend comprehensive community college without paying tuition or fees.
Patron: Peake
Interstate conventions; selection of commissioners and committee procedures. Adopts procedures for selecting and replacing commissioners to represent the Virginia General Assembly at interstate conventions. The procedures clarify the scope of authority of commissioners and committees at such conventions, enforce limits on such authority, and prescribe an oath to be taken by interstate convention commissioners.
Patron: Peake
Study; Virginia Department of Transportation; feasibility of eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Charlottesville; report. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of an eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Charlottesville.
Patron: Peake
Study; VDOT; Route 60 Corridor; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to review and update its 1999 study entitled "Route 60 Corridor Study: Amherst, Nelson, Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland, and Powhatan Counties."
Patron: Wexton
Women Veterans Week. Designates the third full week of March, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as Women Veterans Week in Virginia.
Patron: McClellan
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The resolution is a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission.
Patron: Cosgrove
Study; aviation and aerospace certification of teachers and curriculum; report. Establishes a 13-member joint committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to study how Virginia can meet the future workforce development needs of the aviation and aerospace industries. In conducting the study, the joint committee shall (i) seek out and interview representatives of aviation and aerospace workforce development programs and hear recommendations for changes that can be made to state law to assist, expand, and support such programs; (ii) provide recommendations for changes to state law that will ease certification of teachers of K-12 aviation and aerospace courses when such teachers are qualified by other professional organizations, while maintaining the overall high quality of Virginia's public education system; and (iii) provide recommendations for changes to state law that will provide Virginia students opportunities to learn aviation and aerospace curricula in compliance with the Standards of Learning.
Patron: Cosgrove
Airport development; environmental approvals. Encourages the Federal Aviation Administration to delegate to the Virginia Secretary of Transportation and the Virginia Department of Aviation the administration of environmental approvals needed to develop in and around airports.
Patron: McClellan
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
Patron: Ebbin
Fall Prevention Awareness Week. Designates the third full week of September, in 2018 and in each succeeding year, as Fall Prevention Awareness Week in Virginia.
Patron: McPike
Study; school-based health care; report. Requests the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Education to study the integration of health care services into public schools in the Commonwealth.
Patron: Deeds
Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; rising health insurance premiums; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to identify options to address rising premiums for health benefit plans sold in the Commonwealth.
Patron: Deeds
Study; State Corporation Commission; health insurance rate reviews; report. Requests the State Corporation Commission to study the adequacy of the existing process for review and approval of accident and sickness insurance premiums.
Patron: Deeds
Recognizing need for four lanes of traffic on U.S. Route 220 through Botetourt and Alleghany Counties to connect Interstate 81 and Interstate 64. Expresses the support of the General Assembly in creating four lanes of traffic on U.S. Route 220 through Botetourt and Alleghany Counties to connect Interstate 81 and Interstate 64.
Patron: Deeds
Study; Virginia Housing Commission; accessory dwelling structures; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study accessory dwelling structures, defined as additional living quarters on single-family dwelling structures that are independent of the primary dwelling unit. In conducting the study, the Commission is to review (i) the prevalence and necessity for accessory dwelling structures, (ii) relevant provisions of the Uniform Statewide Building Code, and (iii) the feasibility of changing land use and zoning practices in order to facilitate their expanded use. The bill also directs the Commission to make recommendations concerning the use and placement of accessory dwelling structures.
Patron: Deeds
Study, Joint Commission on Health Care; access to Medicare supplement insurance policies for individuals under age 65; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study access to Medicare supplement insurance policies for individuals under age 65.
Patron: Lewis
Working waterfronts in Virginia. Recognizing the importance of working waterfronts in Virginia.
Patron: Sturtevant
Study; JLARC; costs of education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality.
Patron: Sturtevant
Study; JLARC; balance billing by out-of-network health care providers; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study balance billing by out-of-network health care providers. The resolution directs JLARC to (i) examine the practice by hospitals of independently contracting with out-of-network physicians to provide emergency care; (ii) identify the costs of balance billing in circumstances when consumers receive health care services at an in-network hospital's emergency care department network from an out-of-network provider; and (iii) identify ways to protect covered patients from balance billing in situations where a patient is not able to select the provider on the basis of whether the provider is in his plan's network.
Patron: Surovell
Study; use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product; report. Requests the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to study the use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product, including potential costs to the Commonwealth to provide funds for law clerks in all circuit courts.
Patron: Newman
Study; identification of and interventions for dyslexia; report. Establishes a one-year joint subcommittee consisting of seven members of the House Committee on Education and six members of the Senate to study the identification of and interventions for dyslexia in the public elementary and secondary schools of the Commonwealth.
Patron: Newman
Study; joint committee; the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth; report. Continues for one additional year the Joint Committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to Study the Future of Public Elementary and Secondary Education in the Commonwealth, consisting of six members of the Senate and seven members of the House Committee on Education.
Patron: Reeves
General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Day. Designates October 15, in 2018 and in each succeeding year, as General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Day in Virginia.
Patron: Marsden
Study; Department of Corrections; solitary confinement; report. Requests the Department of Corrections, in consultation with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to study the use of solitary confinement, including segregation and other forms of solitary confinement, by the Department of Corrections.
Patron: Black
Commemorating the anniversaries of the Hungarian Revolution and the establishment of the Third Republic of Hungary and recognizing the contributions of Hungarian Americans in the Commonwealth. Commemorates two key events in the history of modern Hungary that both happened on October 23—the 1956 uprising against the Soviet Union and the 1989 liberation and independence of the Third Republic of Hungary. The resolution also recognizes the contributions of the Hungarian Americans who have enriched the culture and economy of the Commonwealth.
Patron: Ebbin
Encouraging the creation of a consolidated application for state and federal services and the sharing of data. Encourages the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, the Secretary of Education, and their associated state agencies to analyze the feasibility of developing and implementing a consolidated application for state and federal services administered by the Commonwealth and to explore opportunities to share data among state agencies regarding applicants for and recipients of such services.
Patron: Norment
Study; ethics laws; report. Establishes a two-year joint subcommittee consisting of six legislative members and two nonlegislative citizen members to study the current ethics laws in the Commonwealth. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall study the disclosure requirements of the members of the General Assembly and lobbyists and identify those portions of the ethics laws that should be repealed, substantially amended, rewritten for clarity, or retained in their present form. In its review, the joint subcommittee shall examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the ethics laws in promoting public trust and confidence in the service of public officials.
Patron: McPike
World Hypnotism Day. Designates January 4, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as World Hypnotism Day in Virginia.
Patron: Dance
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Green v. County School Board of New Kent County. The resolution is a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission.
Patron: McDougle
Virginia Women's Monument Commission; membership and dedication. Reconstitutes the Virginia Women's Monument Commission by adding to the membership the Architectural Historian of the Capitol Square Preservation Council; allowing the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the Secretary of Administration, and the Librarian of Virginia to appoint a designee to serve in their place; and granting ex officio members voting rights privileges. The resolution also provides that the dedication of the monument will be coordinated by the Secretary of Administration, the Clerk of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Delegates.
Patron: Dance
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Green v. County School Board of New Kent County. The resolution is a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission.