Bill > HB1625

Introduced Session

War memorials for veterans. Removes a prohibition on (i) disturbing or interfering with any war monument or memorial erected by a locality or (ii) preventing citizens from maintaining such monument or memorial. The bill authorizes a locality to remove, relocate, or alter any such monument or memorial on the locality's public property upon the affirmative vote of its governing body, regardless of when the monument or memorial was erected, and removes certain criminal and civil penalties for such removal, relocation, or alteration. The bill also restricts bringing a cause of action pursuant to such penalties to the attorney for the locality in which the memorial or monument is located. Current law authorizes any person having an interest in the matter to bring such action if no action is brought within 60 days of the violation. The bill repeals an 1890 act of assembly related to the placement of a statue in the City of Alexandria.

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Sally Hudson (D)*,  Jay Jones (D)*,  Lashrecse Aird (D),  Lamont Bagby (D),  Jeffrey Bourne (D),  Jennifer Carroll Foy (D),  Lee Carter (D),  Joshua Cole (D),  Nancy Guy (D),  C.E. Hayes (D),  Patrick Hope (D),  Clinton Jenkins (D),  Mark Keam (D),  Kaye Kory (D),  Mark Levine (D),  Joseph Lindsey (D),  Alfonso Lopez (D),  Kenneth Plum (D),  Marcia Price (D),  Sam Rasoul (D),  Ibraheem Samirah (D),  Don Scott (D), 

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