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2024 SESSION
Delegate Rae Cousins (D) - House District 79
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 917
- 201 North 9th Street
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-1079
- email: DelRCousins@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- General Assembly Building
- P.O. Box 406
- Richmond, Virginia 23218
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 14 Unemployment compensation; employer's failure to respond to requests for information, etc.
- 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 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 36 Abuse and neglect of children; causing or enabling child to gain possession of a firearm, penalty.
- HB 40 Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
- 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 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 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 187 Teachers; process and timeline for increasing salary.
- HB 224 Public schools; mental health awareness training.
- HB 253 School boards; enrolled students present at meetings, public comment or citizen participation.
- HB 281 Child day programs; use of office buildings, waiver of zoning requirements.
- HB 285 Uniform Statewide Building Code; construction of bus shelters.
- HB 327 Affordable and inclusive housing; DBHDS to develop plan to ensure people w/disabilities have access.
- HB 335 Tipped employees; DOLI to study increasing wages and address wage theft by employers.
- 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 398 Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc.
- HB 407 Child Care Subsidy Program; categorical eligibility for certain families.
- HB 459 Trees; conservation during land development process in certain localities.
- HB 466 Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states.
- HB 498 School bd. policy; parental notification of responsibility of safe storage of firearms in household.
- HB 570 Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report.
- HB 598 Virginia Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement.
- HB 603 Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction on mental health education.
- HB 609 Contraception; establishes right to obtain, applicability, enforcement.
- HB 611 Civilian deaths in custody; report.
- HB 614 Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated.
- HB 617 High school student-athletes; use of name, image, or likeness.
- HB 624 English language learner students; ratios of instructional positions, At-Risk Program established.
- HB 625 Community Schools, Office of; established within Department of Education.
- HB 691 Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; DVS to establish pilot program, report.
- HB 699 Treatment with opioids; Board of Medicine, et al., to amend their regulations.
- HB 721 Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty.
- 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 805 Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in counties & cities to support schools.
- HB 893 Attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; qualifications and performance.
- HB 937 Innovative alternative school transportation; school boards to implement low/no-cost alternatives.
- HB 948 VA Community Flood Preparedness Fund; Advisory Review Committee to assist in distribution of loans.
- HB 996 VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, etc.; definitions, notice of tenant screening criteria.
- HB 1001 Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation.
- HB 1028 Affordable housing; assisted living facilities.
- HB 1085 PFAS Expert Advisory Committee; established, monitoring sources.
- HB 1100 Trees; Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), conservation during land development process.
- HB 1167 English ivy; local prohibition on sale, civil penalty.
- HB 1216 Employee Child Care Assistance Pilot Program; established, report.
- HB 1269 Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health services, exception.
- HB 1284 Firefighters and emergency medical services; collective bargaining by providers, definitions.
- HB 1345 High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of elective course credits.
- HB 1381 Rural Virginia, Center for; renames Center the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
- HB 1446 Real property tax; assessment of real property used for affordable housing.
- HB 1472 Water certificates or permits; compliance with water quality standards.
- HB 1483 Meals tax; statute of limitations, penalties and interest.
- HB 1531 Cruelty to elephants; pain-inflicting training tools prohibited, civil penalty.
- HB 1539 Abortion or other reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes.
- HJ 2 Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters, right to vote, persons not entitled to vote.
- 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 14 Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia; General Assembly to extend state recognition.
- HJ 21 Higher educational institutions, public; SCHEV to study guaranteed first-year admission policy.
- HJ 25 Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc.
- HJ 41 Fentanyl crisis; Joint Commission on Health Care to study policy solutions.
- HJ 44 Black Maternal Health Week; designating as April 11-17, 2024, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 69 Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
- HJ 76 Gun violence; JLARC to study effects on communities.
- HJ 101 Commending Peter A. Blake.
- HJ 120 Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
- 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 187 Commending Tilth & Oak.
- HJ 188 Commending Senior Airman Kostiantyn Khymchenko, USAF.
- HJ 189 Commending Master Sergeant Stephen Drakes, VA ANG.
- HJ 190 Commending Technical Sergeant Jacquelyn N. Montoya, VA ANG.
- HJ 191 Commending Staff Sergeant Britney Phillips, VA ANG.
- HJ 192 Commending Bishop Kim W. Brown.
- HJ 196 Commending Voodoo Brewing Company Virginia Beach.
- HJ 199 Commending Jennifer DeBruhl.
- HJ 222 Commending AbbyCakes.
- HJ 223 Commending Michael W. Keyes.
- HJ 224 Commending Glory’s Bakery.
- 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 248 Commending Dyrri McCain.
- HJ 249 Commending the Maury High School football team.
- HJ 250 Commending the Norfolk Tides.
- HJ 254 Commending Amy Burchuk.
- HJ 255 Commending Tina Garfield.
- HJ 258 Commending Kelly Boyd.
- HJ 280 Commending the Honorable L. Kaye Kory.
- HJ 286 Commending the Virginia Beach Medical Reserve Corps.
- HJ 287 Celebrating the life of Emily Beer.
- HJ 291 Celebrating the life of Shawn Soares.
- HJ 292 Commending John Shinholser.
- HJ 293 Commending The Shepherd's Center of Richmond.
- HJ 294 Commending Dementi Studio.
- HJ 295 Celebrating the life of Agnes Wilder Nicholson.
- HJ 296 Commending the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- HJ 297 Commending Joseph F. Damico.
- HJ 302 Commending the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University women's basketball team.
- HJ 315 Commending Barry Nelson.
- HJ 319 Celebrating the life of Lawrence Bussey.
- HJ 334 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Robison Brown James.
- HJ 346 Commending Julian C. Deck.
- HJ 365 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Onzlee Ware.
- HJ 406 Commending Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.
- HR 68 Commending the S. Delois Mayes Scholarship Foundation.
- HR 77 Commending the Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce.
- HR 89 Commending Dr. Willis L. Lonzer III.
- HR 96 Commending the Suffolk Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- HR 102 Commending Olive Chamblin Brown.
- HR 110 Commending Dr. Ben Fitzgerald, III.
- HR 119 Commending Blake Corum.
- HR 144 Commending Women of Grace, Strength, and Dignity.
- HR 145 Commending Brothers Keepers.
- HR 151 Celebrating the life of Mary Clyde James Carruth.
- 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 297 Commending The Women's Center.
- HR 336 Celebrating the life of Larry Donnell Winkler, Sr.
- 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 395 Commending In My Humble Opinion Radio Show.
- HR 407 Commending Jonathan Rigolo.
- HR 408 Commending New Light Full Gospel Baptist Church.
- HR 412 Commending the Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington.
- HR 420 Commending the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail.
- HR 430 Commending Vinegar Hill Magazine.
- HR 431 Commending Charlottesville Tomorrow.
- HR 432 Commending The Cavalier Daily.
- HR 433 Commending Charlottesville Community Engagement.
- HR 434 Commending Terri Allard.
- HR 437 Commending Sandy Hausman.
- SJ 43 Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
- SJ 63 Commending Peter A. Blake.
- SJ 69 Commending Scott McGeary.
- SJ 86 Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.
- SJ 124 Commending George Teague, Jr.
- SJ 151 Commending Mark E. Smith.
- SJ 174 Commending John Shinholser.
- SJ 175 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Richard Samuel Reynolds III.
- SJ 213 Celebrating the life of Richard A. Stewart.
- SJ 217 Celebrating the life of Neverett Alexander Eggleston, Jr.
- SJ 218 Celebrating the life of Emily Beer.
- SJ 227 Commending Daniel G. "Bud" Oakey.