SEARCH SITE
VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL
- Code of Virginia
- Virginia Administrative Code
- Constitution of Virginia
- Charters
- Authorities
- Compacts
- Uncodified Acts
- RIS Users (account required)
SEARCHABLE DATABASES
- Bills & Resolutions
session legislation - Bill Summaries
session summaries - Reports to the General Assembly
House and Senate documents - Legislative Liaisons
State agency contacts
ACROSS SESSIONS
- Subject Index: Since 1995
- Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
- Summaries: Since 1994
Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
Delegate Joshua G. Cole (D) - House District 28
In-session address:
- Pocahontas Building, Room E218
- 900 East Main Street
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
Mailing address:
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1828 Commissioner of DMV; powers and duties during a declared state of emergency.
- HB 1848 Virginia Human Rights Act; adds discrimination on the basis of disability.
- HB 1864 Virginia Human Rights Act; expands definition of employer.
- HB 1889 Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement.
- HB 1890 Discrimination; prohibited in voting and elections administration, etc.
- HB 1908 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement, etc.
- HB 1921 Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting.
- HB 1930 Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications criminal history questions.
- HB 1940 Students; guidelines on excused student absences, civic engagement.
- HB 1980 Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program; established, report.
- HB 1985 Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
- HB 1993 State agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans.
- HB 2013 School boards; board policy for students unable to pay for a meal at school.
- HB 2040 Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits, repayment of overpayments.
- HB 2053 Affordable and market-rate housing; DHCD to evaluate growing demand.
- HB 2054 Comprehensive plan; provision for transit-oriented development.
- HB 2082 Virginia Redistricting Commission; transparency in redistricting process.
- HB 2113 Criminal records; sealing of records, Sealing Fee Fund created, penalties, report.
- HB 2130 Virginia LGBTQ+ Advisory Board; established, report.
- HB 2132 Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses.
- HB 2135 School boards, certain; participation in the Afterschool Meal Program.
- HB 2137 Paid sick leave; employers to provide to certain employees.
- HB 2203 Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program and Fund; established and created.
- HB 2204 Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; created and established, report.
- HB 2208 Harry F. Byrd, Sr., statue; removal from Capitol Square.
- HB 2213 Gold; Secretary of Natural Resources, et al., to study mining and processing.
- HB 2216 Va. Missing Child w/ Autism Alert Program; renamed Va. Missing Person w/ Autism Program.
- HB 2221 Environmental permits; community and environmental justice outreach.
- HB 2263 Death penalty; abolition of current penalty.
- HB 2291 Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs.
- HB 2312 Marijuana; legalization of simple possession, etc.
- HB 2324 Virginia Redistricting Commission; removing a citizen commissioner for neglect, etc.
- HB 5002 Small Business & Women-owned & Minority-owned Business Procurement Enhancement Programs; establish.
- HJ 525 National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol; Barbara Rose Johns.
- HJ 537 Racism; General Assembly to recognize as a public health crisis.
- HJ 538 Access to water; human right.
- HJ 555 Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters and the right to vote (first reference).
- HJ 606 Equal Citizens Month; designating as November 2021 and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 651 Celebrating the life of Katherine Bridgforth Hooker.
- HJ 666 Commending the City of Fredericksburg.
- HJ 675 Commending the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
- HJ 676 Commending the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond.
- HJ 682 Commending Bobby Hill.
- HJ 716 Celebrating the life of Thomas Henry Francis.
- HJ 5002 Celebrating the life of Michel Margosis.
- HR 509 Commending supermarket employees.
- HR 510 Commending EnJewel.
- HR 515 Celebrating the life of Adeline Mae Stathis Tetreault.
- HR 527 Commending Thomas Kim.
- HR 530 Commending the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin University.
- HR 534 Celebrating the life of Herman Augustus Arrington.
- HR 535 Celebrating the life of James Michael Wilson.
- HR 543 Commending Pamela Brandon Croom.
- HR 544 Commending John E. Smith.
- HR 545 Commending Franklin Sherman Elementary School.
- HR 546 Commending the Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
- HR 560 Celebrating the life of Roger Allan Saunders, Jr.
- HR 569 Commending the 100 Black Men of the Virginia Peninsula, Inc.
- HR 571 Commending the Reverend Dr. Alfred Jones, Jr.
- HR 572 Commending Grace Church.
- HR 573 Commending Aquia Episcopal Church.
- HR 574 Commending the Fredericksburg Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- HR 576 Commending Bishop Lyle Dukes and Pastor Deborah Dukes.
- HR 577 Commending Bishop Dr. Leonard B. Lacey.
- HR 578 Commending the Prince William County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- HR 584 Commending Ebenezer Baptist Church.
- HR 588 Celebrating the life of Richard Pitts, Sr.
- HR 602 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Kenneth E. Dennis, Sr.
- HR 604 Celebrating the life of Maybelle Rutland Campbell.
- HR 606 Celebrating the life of Ernest George Minns.
- HR 608 Celebrating the lives of Melvin Gaddis Green, Jr., M.D., and Helen Selena Green.
- HR 618 Commending Grant Holloway.
- HR 622 Celebrating the life of Officer Howard Charles Liebengood.
- HR 628 Commemorating the life and legacy of Giles Beecher Jackson.
- HR 634 Commending long-term caregivers.
- HR 637 Commending Matthew Savage.
- HR 639 Celebrating the life of Anna Mae Washington.
- HR 640 Commending educators and school support staff in Virginia.
- HR 641 Commending the Virginia Young Democrats Teen Caucus and the Teenage Republican Federation of Va.
- SB 1301 Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement.
- SB 1395 Discrimination; prohibited in voting and elections administration, etc.