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Leaders from the Mount Vernon-Lee Chamber of Commerce dropped by this morning to discuss with David development along the Route 1 corridor in Fairfax County. The Chamber is working to improve visibility of commercial zones along Route 1 to help increase commerce in the area. The program will lead motorists to attractions and shopping centers from the highway once approved by VDOT.
Virginians Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence visited to discuss their efforts to enhance protective orders and keep individuals under these directives from buying guns. The group is also working to help law enforcement officers draft written policies on responding to sexual violence in Virginia, helping these agencies be better prepared to assist victims and catch criminals.
Continue reading ‘Constituents visit to discuss business, domestic violence, youth issues’
Assembly Access has video from today’s House of Delegates floor session of David’s speech against House Bill 894, which would severely limit reproductive freedom by shutting down women’s health clinics around Virginia.
Today members of the Alexandria chapter of the Garden Club of Virginia visited David to discuss environmental legislation, including efforts to defeat legislation that would dismantle Virginia’s citizen environmental boards, which would set back our community’s fight against the Mirant Plant. The group also discussed concerns about Uranium Mining legislation, and efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay through runoff reduction programs.
David also met recently with the Retired Educators of Fairfax County and the Fairfax Education Association. Their legislative package aims to ensure that teachers are paid a fair and reasonable wage both during their service and upon retirement.
With the first full week of this year’s General Assembly session behind us, the pace is starting to pick up in Richmond. Once again, I have been assigned to the Health, Welfare, and Institutions Committee and the Privileges and Elections Committee, which will allow me to continue weighing in on health care, human services, and social justice issues and to continue working to open the elections process and make government more transparent and accountable.
The bills I am sponsoring this year are starting to be heard in various committees and subcommittees, and things are going quite well so far.
Continue reading ‘House passes bill to combat disease outbreaks, kills effort to close gun show loophole’
This year’s legislative session was in full swing by Tuesday. House Bill 806, which requires residential facilities to report infectious disease outbreaks to the Department of Mental Health, passed unanimously during the first full meeting of the Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee. This is the first of David’s bills to come up in committee, and it now heads to the House floor.
David also had meetings with Tenants and Workers United and the Virginia Organizing Project. Both groups have an impressive legislative agenda relating to immigrants and first generation Americans, including support for affordable housing along the Route 1 corridor in Fairfax, ensuring children the right to educational opportunities and parental involvement, and strengthening Virginia’s minimum wage laws. Continue reading ‘Legislative session already in full swing’
