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HB 807 Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; planning, coordination, and implementation of 400th anniversary.

Introduced by: M. Kirkland Cox | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; 400th anniversary of landmark events in Virginia's history; planning, coordination, and implementation. Requires all agencies and institutions of the Commonwealth, upon request, to designate liaisons and provide advice and assistance to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation for the planning, coordination, and implementation of the 400th anniversary of landmark events in Virginia's history in 2019. The bill permits the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, with the prior written approval of the Governor, to perform the following actions directly relating to the planning, coordination, and implementation of the 400th anniversary of landmark events in Virginia's history in 2019: (i) solicit and accept grants, donations, contributions, gifts, fees, sales, or other funds received, collected, or undertaken by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation for the 400th anniversary commemoration, which nongeneral funds shall be retained and not reverted back to the general fund at the end of any fiscal year; (ii) hire employees up to the Maximum Employment Level for the Foundation as provided in the general appropriation act, despite any potential suspension on hiring that may be mandated for the state agencies; and (iii) contact international, national, interstate, state, regional, and local elected and appointed officials. The year 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the meeting of the first representative legislative assembly in the New World, known then as the House of Burgesses and being the antecedent of today's Virginia General Assembly, the oldest legislative body in the Western Hemisphere, and marks the 400th anniversary of other milestones in Virginia's and the nation's history, including the arrival of the first Africans to British America, the Virginia Company of London's attempt to expand the colony by recruiting a group of single women to send to Virginia, and observance of a service of Thanksgiving held at Berkeley Plantation. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2020.


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