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1996 SESSION
Delegate Watkins M. Abbitt, Jr. (D) - House District 59
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 805
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- Richmond, Virginia 23219
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- HB 53 Driver improvement clinics.
- HB 87 Insurance; hospital stay for mothers and newborn children.
- HB 251 Serious juvenile offenders.
- HB 279 Education funding; appeals of local ability to pay or composite index.
- HB 280 Education funding; appeals of local ability to pay or composite index.
- HB 321 Deer kill permits.
- HB 348 A. L. Philpott Southside Economic Development Commission; continued.
- HB 456 Judicial Nominations Commission.
- HB 458 State lottery.
- HB 494 Farm machinery; operation on highways.
- HB 504 Right to bail; creation of a rebuttable presumption.
- HB 592 Department of Forestry regulation of railroad rights-of-way.
- HB 593 Soil and Water Conservation Board.
- HB 612 Seed tree law.
- HB 618 Alcoholic beverage control; wine and beer franchise acts.
- HB 662 Water transfers from Lake Gaston.
- HB 668 Income tax, state; subtraction for Bosnia military service pay.
- HB 669 Handicapped parking; fines for illegal use.
- HB 691 Alcoholic beverage licenses; grounds for suspension or revocation.
- HB 737 Reforestation of timberlands.
- HB 802 Elections; campaign finance disclosure reports.
- HB 812 Practice of Optometry.
- HB 826 Dental hygienists; continuing education.
- HB 827 Dental hygienists; continuing education.
- HB 865 Limitation on certain wine and beer licensees.
- HB 881 Housing; development of economically mixed project.
- HB 882 Preservation of historical sites.
- HB 883 Blight removal and maintenance.
- HB 902 Emergency medical services.
- HB 903 Appointment of State Office of Emergency Medical Services Director.
- HB 904 Financial Assistance and Review Committee; emergency services.
- HB 916 Secretary of Finance; agencies to pay by electronic transfer.
- HB 922 Motor vehicle dealers; actions before hearing officers.
- HB 1048 Unemployment compensation; disqualification.
- HB 1118 Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.
- HB 1159 Transfer of mineral mining permits.
- HB 1219 Handgun purchase limit.
- HB 1392 Medicaid.
- HB 1393 Health insurance; health care provider panels.
- HB 1412 Appeals of Water Control & Air Pollution Control Boards action.
- HB 1505 Fertilizer Act.
- HB 1506 Local authority to regulate agricultural land use.
- HB 1515 Regional Competitiveness Act; created.
- HB 1516 Economic growth sharing agreements.
- HB 1522 Comprehensive planning; mineral resources.
- HB 1532 Administrative Process Act; guidance documents.
- HB 1534 Department of Environmental Quality; Citizens' Advisory Board.
- HB 1537 Virginia-Israel Partnership Council; created.
- HJ 14 Study; retirement fund for volunteer personnel.
- HJ 15 Poet Laureate.
- HJ 34 Study; capital access to financing agriculture enterprises.
- HJ 43 Commending Lynchburg Habitat for Humanity.
- HJ 87 Study; spectator safety at racing events.
- HJ 90 Study; educational needs of underserved gifted students.
- HJ 101 Study; A. L. Philpott Southside Economic Development Commission.
- HJ 139 Study; emergency medical services joint subcommittee continued.
- HJ 140 Emergency medical services issues; implementation.
- HJ 179 State and local government employees' deferred compensation plans.
- HJ 196 Study; Commission on the Future of Public Education.
- HJ 197 Cooperative Extension; restoration of needs.
- HJ 221 Study; environmental future.
- HJ 239 Constitutional amendment; local debt.
- HJ 263 Commending Dana B. Hamel.
- HJ 267 Commending James River Association.
- HJ 281 Commending City of Newport News.
- HJ 294 On the death of Judge John D. Gray.
- HJ 300 On the death of Marion Virginia Engle Hazel.
- HJ 313 Commending Charles H. Bowens II.
- HJ 317 Commending Ruritan on its 68th anniversary.
- HJ 319 Commending Maurice 'Mo' Vaughn.
- HJ 324 Commending Virginia Power employees.
- HJ 328 SAVE Month and SAVE Today for Tomorrow Day.
- HJ 354 National Infant Immunization Week.
- HJ 355 Retired Teachers Day in Virginia.
- HJ 358 Commending George W. Johnson.
- HJ 364 Commending Virginia's Olympic torch bearers.
- HJ 371 Commending Susan D. McHenry.
- HR 14 Commending George Albert Williams, Jr.
- HR 15 Commending Margaret Louise Hawkins Leynes.
- HR 16 Commending Barbara Jean Hurt Hanback.
- HR 17 Commending Sharon Alice Boggess Woodson.
- SB 74 Property tax exemption; Jefferson Area Board for the Aging, Inc.
- SB 264 Alcoholic beverage control; wine and beer franchise acts.
- SB 285 Coal and Energy Commission; members.
- SB 330 Practice of optometry.
- SB 397 Workers' compensation; obligations of persons compensation.
- SB 398 Workers' compensation; temporary payments.
- SB 400 Workers' compensation; employee report of address change.
- SB 475 Comprehensive planning; mineral resources.
- SB 476 Gas and Oil Act.
- SB 489 Community criminal justice services boards.
- SB 552 Transfer of mineral mining permits.
- SB 586 Residential Property Disclosure Act.
- SB 592 Silvicultural activities.
- SB 633 Cumberland County water and sewer system.
- SJ 3 On the death of Carter DeWitt Martin.
- SJ 82 Commending Judge Preston Caperton Shannon.
- SJ 106 Commending Virginia Girls State.
- SJ 133 On the death of Lewis W. Hurst.
- SJ 134 Commending Jack Hodge.
- SJ 135 Commending Charles H. Bowens II.
- SJ 146 United States Constitution, balanced budget amendment.
- SJ 152 Commending Frank Beamer.
- SJ 156 Commending the Winchester Star.