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2020 SESSION
Delegate Joshua G. Cole (D) - House District 28
In-session address:
- Pocahontas Building, Room E218
- 900 East Main Street
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-1028
- email: DelJCole@house.virginia.gov
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- HB 3 Va. Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices, sexual orientation and gender, etc.
- HB 6 Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices, sources of funds.
- HB 7 Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices.
- HB 40 Public schools; mental health break spaces, regulations.
- HB 43 Provisional voting; persons voting in split precincts.
- HB 49 Students with disabilities, certain; feasibility of educational placement transition.
- HB 55 Worker cooperatives; establishes as a category of cooperative associations.
- HB 66 Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs.
- HB 77 Green New Deal Act; fossil fuel projects moratorium, clean energy mandates, civil penalties.
- HB 80 Income tax, state; deduction for veterans with a 100 percent service-connected disability.
- HB 99 Va. Fair Housing Law; status as a victim of family abuse, etc.
- HB 113 Protected information; newspersons engaged in journalism, definitions.
- HB 122 Project labor agreements; public procurement.
- HB 124 Virginia Minority Business Commission; established, report, sunset provision.
- HB 145 Public elementary and secondary schools; treatment of transgender students, policies.
- HB 151 Accessory dwelling units; development and use.
- HB 153 Right to work; repeals provisions of Code that refers to denial or abridgement.
- HB 165 Teledentistry; definitions, establishes requirements for practice, digital scans, etc.
- HB 182 General Assembly; streaming and recording of meetings.
- HB 187 Elections; same-day registration, in-person absentee and election day voting.
- HB 199 Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact.
- HB 201 Elections; same-day registration.
- HB 218 Constitutional offices; candidates to be nominated by petition process.
- HB 233 Teachers; required to be compensated at or above national average.
- HB 286 Grand larceny; increases threshold amount.
- HB 361 Family caregiver; tax credit.
- HB 363 Disabled veterans and surviving spouses; state subsidy of property tax exemptions.
- HB 395 Minimum wage; increases to $9.50 per hour effective May 1, 2021.
- HB 580 Child abuse and neglect; gender identity or sexual orientation.
- HB 582 Employees of local governments; collective bargaining.
- HB 658 Virginia Beach mass shooting; independent commission to investigate.
- HB 789 Consumer lending; replaces references to payday loans with term "short-term loans."
- HB 833 Virginia Public Procurement Act; public works contracts, prevailing wage rate, penalty.
- HB 1257 Drinking water supplies and waterworks; maximum contaminant levels, effective date, report.
- HB 1316 Standards of Quality; work-based learning, teacher leaders and mentors, principal mentors.
- HB 1490 Same-sex marriages; civil unions.
- HB 1519 Slavery & Subsequent De Jure & De Facto Racial & Economic Discrimination, Com. to Study; created.
- HB 1537 War memorials for veterans; removal, relocation, etc.
- HB 1547 Higher educational institutions, public; eligibility for in-state tuition.
- HB 1625 Veterans; war memorials.
- HB 1641 Coal ash ponds; definitions, testing private wells and public water supply wells, etc.
- HB 1663 Discrimination; prohibited in public accommodations, etc., causes of action.
- HJ 1 United States Constitution; ratifies and affirms Equal Rights Amendment.
- HJ 4 Celebrating the life of Alan Arnold Diamonstein.
- HJ 10 Gun Violence Awareness Day; designating as June 1, 2020, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 17 Commending The American Legion Auxiliary.
- HJ 38 Gun violence in communities; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study effects.
- HJ 42 Honor and Sacrifice Flag; emblem for honoring fallen public safety personnel.
- HJ 60 Celebrating the life of Dorcas Ruth Hardy.
- HJ 108 Year of the Eye Exam; designating 2020 as The Year of the Eye Exam.
- HJ 128 Commuter rail systems; DRPT to study and develop best practices for constructing, etc.
- HJ 162 Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
- HJ 165 Commending the Washington Nationals.
- HJ 195 Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Robert Russa Moton.
- HJ 210 Celebrating the life of Samuel Hughes Melton, M.D.
- HJ 231 Commending the Virginia Department of State Police.
- HJ 232 Commending the Richmond Police Department.
- HJ 233 Commending Bud Foster.
- HJ 254 Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
- HJ 301 Commending Edwin L. Allen, Jr.
- HJ 318 Commending Germanna Community College.
- HJ 353 Commending the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- HJ 375 Commending Rich Serbay.
- HJ 454 Celebrating the life of Maria Bonazzoli Bourne.
- HR 6 Day of Women; designating as January 22, 2020, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HR 47 Commending the Lake Taylor High School football team.
- HR 48 Commending the Maury High School football team.
- HR 122 Commending the Honorable Rosalyn Randolph Dance.
- HR 132 Commending the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, USA.
- HR 133 Commemorating the legacy of the Negro National League.
- HR 172 Commending the Dochiki Civic and Social Club, Inc.
- HR 173 Commending Rosa B. Price.
- HR 185 Commending Kim Cummings.
- HR 190 Celebrating the life of Lorine Bernice Allen Jordan.
- SB 93 Taxes on income, wills, and administrations; exemption for victims of the Va. Beach mass shooting.
- SB 106 Hydraulic fracturing; drilling through any portion of a groundwater management area, prohibition.
- SB 225 Removal of dangerous roadside vegetation; local option.
- SB 423 Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors and services.
- SB 635 Right to reproductive choice; right to refuse contraception.
- SB 722 Institutional racial segregation and discrimination; repeals several Acts.
- SB 841 George Mason University; encouraged to establish a school of medicine.
- SJ 20 Celebrating the life of Dorcas Ruth Hardy.
- SJ 55 Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment.
- SJ 62 Commending the Washington Nationals.
- SJ 67 Marijuana; JLARC to study legalization of growth, sale, and possession.
- SJ 78 African American legislators; commemorating 150th anniv. of swearing in to serve General Assembly.
- SJ 88 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Gerald L. Baliles.
- SJ 103 Commending the University of Virginia men's basketball team.
- SJ 119 Commending the Division of Capitol Police.
- SJ 123 Commending Bud Foster.
- SJ 159 Celebrating the life of Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr.
- SJ 160 Celebrating the life of Bittle Wilson Porterfield III.
- SJ 161 Commending the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke.
- SJ 162 Celebrating the life of Lessie Lula Jones Polk.