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2024 SESSION
Delegate Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D) - House District 5
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 1105
- 201 North 9th Street
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-1005
- email: DelEBennett-Parker@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- 107 South West Street
- #152
- Alexandria, Virginia 22314
- (703) 239-3155
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- HB 1 Minimum wage; increases wage to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025.
- HB 12 Handguns; firearm locking device required for sale or transfer, child safety warning required.
- HB 14 Unemployment compensation; employer's failure to respond to requests for information, etc.
- HB 18 Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, penalties.
- HB 22 Auto sears and trigger activators; prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale, etc., penalty.
- HB 25 Retail Sales and Use Tax; establishes an annual tax holiday that takes place in August.
- HB 32 Medicine, Board of; continuing ed. related to implicit bias and cultural competency in health care.
- HB 33 Public drinking water; Commissioner of Health's work group to study occurrence of microplastics.
- HB 34 Contract actions; collection of medical debt, definition.
- HB 40 Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
- HB 48 Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications, legacy admissions, etc.
- HB 68 Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by dispatchers.
- HB 78 Search warrants, subpoenas, court orders, or other process; menstrual health data prohibited.
- HB 100 Child labor offenses; increases civil penalties.
- HB 102 Court-appointed counsel; raises the limitation of fees.
- HB 106 Shared solar programs; amends existing program provisions to apply to Dominion Energy Virginia.
- HB 108 Shared solar programs; SCC to establish by regulation, etc.
- HB 131 Learning needs dashboard; Department of Education shall continue to maintain, sunset date.
- HB 157 Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees, temporary foreign workers.
- HB 158 Firearm locking device; required for sale or transfer of firearm.
- HB 159 State correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; use of canines, prohibited acts.
- HB 164 Procurement; preference for local products and firms by localities.
- HB 170 Trees; conservation during land development process.
- HB 173 Plastic firearms & unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, etc. prohibited, penalties.
- HB 174 Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license.
- HB 177 Federal Early Intervention Program for Infants & Toddlers w/Disabilities; reimbursement rates.
- HB 187 Teachers; process and timeline for increasing salary.
- HB 224 Public schools; mental health awareness training.
- HB 238 Health insurance; coverage for colorectal cancer screening.
- HB 245 PFAS; facilities that have engaged in manufacture, etc., to produce report on use of chemicals.
- HB 253 School boards; enrolled students present at meetings, public comment or citizen participation.
- HB 256 Health care providers & grocery store workers; employers to provide paid sick leave, effective date.
- HB 281 Child day programs; use of office buildings, waiver of zoning requirements.
- HB 285 Uniform Statewide Building Code; construction of bus shelters.
- HB 286 Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures, Task Force on.
- HB 321 Line of Duty Act; increases payment of benefits.
- HB 358 Voluntary Registration Health and Safety Checklist; DOE to update.
- HB 362 Firearms; purchase, etc., following an assault and battery of a family or household member, etc.
- HB 374 Virginia Minority Business Commission; established, membership, report, sunset date.
- HB 386 Public schools; increase staffing ratios for specialized student support positions.
- HB 398 Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc.
- HB 405 Electric vehicle charging facilities; infrastructure necessary to support installation.
- HB 407 Child Care Subsidy Program; categorical eligibility for certain families.
- HB 408 Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis for periodic reimbursement.
- HB 419 Early childhood care and education system; need- and demand-based funding.
- HB 454 Firearm/explosive material; carrying w/in Capitol Square or bldg. owned or leased by Commonwealth.
- HB 456 City council salaries; permitted salaries.
- HB 466 Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states.
- HB 472 TANF; repeals provision relating to child care services, reporting.
- HB 498 School bd. policy; parental notification of responsibility of safe storage of firearms in household.
- HB 501 School building evacuation plans, policies, and protocols; students with mobility impairments.
- HB 502 Nonbinary sex or gender; all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option to designate.
- HB 508 Child day program employees and volunteers; background checks, dissemination of information.
- HB 511 Out-of-state health care practitioners; temp. authorization to practice in assisted living fac.
- HB 513 Medical assistance services and health insurance; state plan for payment for PANDAS and PANS.
- HB 516 Prescription drugs; labels provided for blind and disabled users.
- HB 529 Trees; conservation and replacement during development process.
- HB 537 Home Visiting Program; established, report.
- HB 558 Constitutional amendment; property tax exemption for certain surviving spouses (voter referendum).
- HB 561 Annual school safety audits; items to be reviewed.
- HB 564 Public schools; classified instructional support staff, competitive compensation, biennial review.
- HB 565 Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers, automatic update.
- HB 568 Tax exemptions; Confederacy organizations.
- HB 570 Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report.
- HB 572 Manufactured home parks; resident rights.
- HB 578 Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations, increases fines.
- HB 603 Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction on mental health education.
- HB 607 End Hunger, Virginia Commission to; established, report, sunset date.
- HB 609 Contraception; establishes right to obtain, applicability, enforcement.
- HB 611 Civilian deaths in custody; report.
- HB 612 Fines, costs, forfeitures, etc.; collection fees, assessment against incarcerated defendant.
- HB 614 Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated.
- HB 624 English language learner students; ratios of instructional positions, At-Risk Program established.
- HB 626 Public schools; youth and community violence prevention, report.
- HB 644 Gas-powered leaf blowers; local prohibition or regulation, civil penalty.
- HB 645 Electric vehicles; signs for parking spaces reserved for charging vehicles.
- HB 696 Recovery high schools; establishment, authorization in certain Superintendents' regions.
- HB 719 Public high schools; SOL curriculum guidelines for research-based hazing prevention instruction.
- HB 736 Veterans; examining practice of persons receiving compensation for providing certain services, etc.
- HB 737 Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements, civil action.
- HB 740 Unlawful detainer; bifurcation of case.
- HB 760 Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for insulin and diabetes equipment and supplies.
- HB 764 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination of rental agreement.
- HB 805 Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in counties & cities to support schools.
- HB 817 VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct.
- HB 819 Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices.
- HB 824 Indigent defendant; rate of fees for legal representation.
- HB 825 At-Risk Program; established, public school funding.
- HB 827 On-campus food insecurity; SCHEV to survey institutions to determine how they are addressing issue.
- HB 828 Public schools; staffing ratios of teachers for English language learner students.
- HB 830 Farm to School Program Task Force; Department of Education to establish.
- HB 831 Maternal Mortality Review Team, et al.; expanding composition and scope of work.
- HB 855 Home Energy Assistance Program; Bd. of Social Svcs. to allow applications to be submitted all year.
- HB 865 Income tax, state; establishes a new tax bracket beginning on and after January 1, 2024.
- HB 874 Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits, civil penalty.
- HB 878 Affordable housing; purchase of development rights.
- HB 893 Attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; qualifications and performance.
- HB 908 Individuals with developmental disabilities; financial eligibility.
- HB 926 Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty.
- HB 935 Health insurance; coverage for doula care services.
- HB 939 Elections administration; prohibits possession of firearm within 100 feet of certain locations.
- HB 940 Elections administration; change to location of polling place, additional notice requirement.
- HB 953 Local Environmental Impact Fund; localities to create a permanent and perpetual fund.
- HB 955 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; summary of rental agreement provisions.
- HB 959 Towing violations; enforcement.
- HB 967 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement.
- HB 968 Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank; created, report.
- HB 996 VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, etc.; definitions, notice of tenant screening criteria.
- HB 997 Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Team; created, penalty.
- HB 1000 Environmental Justice Task Force; establishes, report.
- HB 1002 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Division of; powers and duties.
- HB 1028 Affordable housing; assisted living facilities.
- HB 1085 PFAS Expert Advisory Committee; established, monitoring sources.
- HB 1088 Climate change and environmental literacy; instructional materials, model policies.
- HB 1098 Family bereavement leave; employee restoration of position, etc.
- HB 1100 Trees; Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), conservation during land development process.
- HB 1121 Online educational courses; DOC to establish, etc., an educational program for prisoners.
- HB 1124 Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth Act; construction of affordable housing.
- HB 1130 Unconscious bias and cultural competency; Bd. of Medicine shall require continuing education, etc.
- HB 1195 Firearms; waiting period for purchases, penalty.
- HB 1216 Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program; established, report.
- HB 1247 Public school funding; ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students.
- HB 1253 Affordable dwelling unit ordinances; accessible units for persons with a physical disability.
- HB 1261 Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits, repayment of overpayments.
- HB 1263 Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses.
- HB 1264 Traffic infractions; discretionary juvenile fines, costs, and fees.
- HB 1284 Firefighters and emergency medical services; collective bargaining by providers, definitions.
- HB 1287 Towing companies; provision of existing law authorizing localities in Planning District 8.
- HB 1355 Information Technology Access Act; numerous organizational changes to Act.
- HB 1365 Higher educational institutions, public; release of student transcripts.
- HB 1375 Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers.
- HB 1381 Rural Virginia, Center for; renames Center the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
- HB 1458 Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth; moves position under the Governor, etc.
- HB 1475 Uniform Statewide Building Code; certain building owners and operators to supply cooling & heating.
- HB 1487 DHCD; translation of certain forms and documents into five non-English languages on website, etc.
- HB 1492 Trauma-informed training and education; work group to study.
- HJ 7 Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Awareness Day; designating as October 25, 2024.
- HJ 8 Black Women's History Month; designating as April 2024 and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 9 Constitutional amendment; marriage between two individuals.
- HJ 13 Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Month of Awareness.
- HJ 17 Disability Pride Month; designating as July 2024 and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 69 Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
- HJ 101 Commending Peter A. Blake.
- HJ 120 Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
- HJ 127 Commending Trinity United Methodist Church.
- HJ 136 Commending Margaret L. Sanner.
- HJ 166 Celebrating the life of Michelle Antonette Leete.
- HJ 172 Commending Marie Ridder.
- HJ 180 Commending the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.
- HJ 186 Commending Annie Ray.
- HJ 192 Commending Bishop Kim W. Brown.
- HJ 199 Commending Jennifer DeBruhl.
- HJ 200 Commending Neighborhood Health.
- HJ 226 Commending Lucy Addison High School.
- HJ 227 Commending Vale United Methodist Church.
- HJ 228 Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Burgoyne Knapp.
- HJ 229 Celebrating the life of Peter Lee McCandless.
- HJ 280 Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory.
- HJ 287 Celebrating the life of Emily Beer.
- HJ 302 Commending the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University women's basketball team.
- HJ 313 Commending Alexandria City Public Schools' recipients of scholarships.
- HJ 315 Commending Barry Nelson.
- HJ 319 Celebrating the life of Lawrence Bussey.
- HJ 328 Commending Noah Lyles.
- HJ 346 Commending Julian C. Deck.
- HJ 365 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
- HJ 385 Commending the Alexandria City High School Theatre program.
- HJ 387 Commending Yahney-Marie Sangaré.
- HJ 406 Commending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.
- HR 27 Commending the Honorable Dr. Luke E. Torian.
- HR 77 Commending the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce.
- HR 96 Commending the Suffolk Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- HR 100 Commending the Northern Virginia Mental Health Foundation.
- HR 101 Celebrating the life of Richard Carlton Griffin, Sr.
- HR 119 Commending Blake Corum.
- HR 170 Commending Liza Burrell-Aldana.
- HR 177 Commending the Honorable Michael P. Mullin.
- HR 186 Commending the Honorable Roxann Robinson.
- HR 223 Commending the Honorable Thomas K. Norment, Jr.
- HR 260 Commending the Honorable Dr. Dwight Clinton Jones.
- HR 281 Commending the Honorable Mark Lee Keam.
- HR 296 Commending Rustic Love.
- HR 297 Commending The Women's Center.
- HR 300 Commending the Norfolk State University women's basketball team.
- HR 338 Commending Megan Tucker.
- HR 339 Commending student-guitarists of Loudoun County Public Schools.
- HR 340 Commending the Loudoun County Public Schools Mobile Health Clinic.
- HR 341 Commending Vivian Rivera-Maysonet.
- HR 375 Commending the Honorable Kathleen J. Murphy.
- HR 384 Commending Ayana's Hope Cells.
- HR 420 Commending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
- SB 14 Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in counties & cities to support schools.
- SB 99 Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, penalty.
- SB 327 Assault firearms; age requirement for purchase, penalty.
- SB 381 Unemployment compensation; employer's failure to respond to requests for information, etc.
- SJ 43 Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
- SJ 63 Commending Peter A. Blake.
- SJ 69 Commending Scott McGeary.
- SJ 81 Commending the City of Alexandria.
- SJ 86 Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
- SJ 94 Commending Beulah Baptist Church.
- SJ 108 Commending Christ Church.
- SJ 109 Celebrating the life of Nelson Greene, Jr.
- SJ 110 Commending the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.
- SJ 126 Commending the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission.
- SJ 151 Commending Mark E. Smith.
- SJ 175 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Richard Samuel Reynolds III.
- SJ 176 Commending Neighborhood Health.
- SJ 207 Commemorating the legacy of the Alexandria Library sit-in.