Sen. Monty Mason (D-Williamsburg)

- Party
- Democratic
- District
- 1: Hampton City (Part), Newport News City (Part), York County (Part), Williamsburg City (All), James City County (Part), Suffolk City (Part) [map]
- Took Office
- January 2014
- Next Election
- November 2019
- Committees
- Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, Commerce and Labor, General Laws and Technology, Privileges and Elections, Rehabilitation and Social Services
- Website
- masonforvirginia.com
- @SenMMason
- Copatroning Habits
- 55% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 60% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 58% of them are Democrats.
- Partisanship
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- Tag Cloud
- Bills Passed
- 71.9% in 2020
- Bio
Mason served just one and a half terms in the House of Delegates before being elected to the Senate.
The Flat Hat: Virginia General Assembly creates new scholarship program for descendants of enslaved individualsFebruary 22, 2021 | 6:27 pm |
Richmond.com: PHOTOS: Friday, February 19 at the Virginia General AssemblyFebruary 19, 2021 | 3:26 pm |
Virginia Mercury: Electric utility rate reform efforts quashed by Senate committeeFebruary 15, 2021 | 3:00 am |
Virginia Mercury: Virginia lawmakers move to cut state funding for adoption agencies that refuse LGBTQ couplesFebruary 15, 2021 | 3:00 am |
CBS17.com: Private prison company gave money to Virginia senators who killed bill to end for-profit prisonsJanuary 26, 2021 | 3:00 am |
These are all of the video clips of Monty Mason’s remarks on the floor of the Senate since 2017. There are 2 video clips in all.
Bills
- SB681: Criminal cases; compensation of experts, effective clause.
- SB1255: SCC; issuance or renewal of insurance licenses or registrations during an emergency.
- SB1255: SCC; issuance or renewal of insurance licenses or registrations during an emergency.
- SB1272: Unrestorably incompetent defendant; disposition, capital murder charge, inpatient custody.
- SB1272: Unrestorably incompetent defendant; disposition, capital murder charge, inpatient custody.
- SB1290: ConserveVirginia program; established.
- SB1290: ConserveVirginia program; established.
- SB1291: Va. Water Protection Permit; withdrawal of surface water or ground water, plans for water auditing.
- SB1291: Va. Water Protection Permit; withdrawal of surface water or ground water, plans for water auditing.
- SB1312: Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund; assessment on distillers.
- SB1313: Children's Services Act; funds expended special education programs.
- SB1313: Children's Services Act; funds expended special education programs.
- SB1328: State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created.
- SB1328: State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created.
- SB1329: Summons; promises to appear after issuance.
- SB1329: Summons; promises to appear after issuance.
- SB1431: Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report.
- SB1431: Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report.
- SB1462: Virginia Digital Equity Pilot Program and Fund; established, report, sunset date.
- SB1462: Virginia Digital Equity Pilot Program and Fund; established, report, sunset date.
- SJ289: Constitutional amendment; authority to grant perpetual easements to units of government.
- SJ289: Constitutional amendment; authority to grant perpetual easements to units of government.
- SJ335: Celebrating the life of Roy L. Pearson.
- SJ336: Commending Frank Shatz.
- SJ337: Celebrating the life of Mary Esterine Hundley Moyler.
- SJ339: Celebrating the life of Edward A. Chappell, Jr.
- SJ341: Commending Carl Hershner.
- SJ343: Celebrating the life of Charles Wallace Nuttycombe, Sr.
- SJ344: Commending Raymond O. Anderson.
- SR508: Celebrating the life of Edward Paul Crapol.
- SB570: State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created.
- SB572: Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; early detection and diagnosis, risk reduction and care.
- SB574: Protective orders; petitioning court on behalf of incapacitated persons.
- SB583: Virginia Spirits Board and Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund; established, report.
- SB584: Common interest communities; Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act.
- SB670: Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report.
- SB671: Virginia Retirement System; return to employment by certain retired employees.
- SB672: Property Owners' Association Act and Virginia Condominium Act; contract disclosure statement.
- SB673: Nonagricultural irrigation wells; prohibited outside surficial aquifer.
- SB674: Voluntary forest mitigation; agreements.
- SB675: Child care providers; fingerprint-based criminal background checks, repeals sunset.
- SB676: Hampton, City of; alcoholic beverage control licensees.
- SB677: Records of financial institutions; reimbursement of costs for production.
- SB678: Central registry; electronic requests and responses.
- SB679: Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee; established, report, sunset provision.
- SB680: Teachers in certain schools for students with disabilities; extension of provisional licenses.
- SB681: Criminal cases; compensation of experts, effective clause.
- SB682: Food and beverage tax; county imposing a tax greater than four percent.
- SB683: Competency to stand trial; outpatient treatment may occur.
- SB684: Firearms; mental health as disqualifier for possession, etc.
- SB685: Certified pollution control equipment and facilities; tax exemption, timing of certification.
- SB686: Assisted living facilities; regulations governing individualized service plans.
- SB696: Absentee voting; no excuse required when voting in person.
- SB698: Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses, monthly revenue transfers.
- SB702: Marine Resources Commission; permit fees, pier application, oyster fund.
- SB704: Chesapeake Bay watershed implementation plan initiatives; nutrient management plans for cropland.
- SB844: Computer trespass; expands the crime.
- SB849: Lawn fertilizer; contractor-applicators.
- SB860: Electric utilities; offshore wind development.
- SB861: Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations, benefits consortium.
- SB1029: Alcoholic beverage control; gourmet shop license, distiller participation in tastings.
- SB1072: Guardian or conservator; prohibition against appointing certain persons.
- SJ206: Commending Lackey Clinic.
- SJ207: Commending Temple Beth El of Williamsburg.
- SJ208: Commending Dr. Jeffery O. Smith.
- SJ209: Commending Williamsburg Parent Cooperative Preschool.
- SB453: Absentee voting; persons age 65 or older.
- SB1061: Real Estate Board; real estate licensees.
- SB1407: Child care providers; fingerprint background checks, forwarding fingerprints and other information.
- SB1408: James City County; amending charter, inoperable vehicles.
- SB1409: Assisted living facilities; requirement for licensed administrator.
- SB1410: Assisted living facilities; staffing during overnight hours.
- SB1411: Burn buildings; change in terminology.
- SB1412: Virginia National Guard; education grants, effective clause.
- SB1413: Oyster planting grounds; lease assignments.
- SB1414: Potomac Aquifer recharge monitoring; creates advisory board, laboratory established, SWIFT Project.
- SB1415: Public adjusters; regulation.
- SB1416: Child abuse or neglect; appeals from founded complaints, concurrent criminal investigations.
- SB1417: Competency report; unrestorably incompetent defendant.
- SB1418: Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; reregistration schedule.
- SB1678: Family First Prevention Services Act, federal; statutory alignment.
- SB1679: Family First Prevention Services Act; statutory alignment.
- SB1680: Mass transit providers; loss of certain operating funds.
- SB1681: DGS; surplus property, opportunity for economic development entities to purchase.
- SB1682: Employment records; written request from employee, subpoena duces tecum.
- SB1720: Kinship foster care; notice to relatives.
- SB1768: Handheld personal communications devices; use while driving, etc.
- SJ414: Commending The Apprentice School.
- SJ421: Celebrating the life of Thomas Pierce Power.
- SJ431: Commending the Peninsula Agency on Aging, Inc.
- SJ432: Commending Braxton-Perkins American Legion Post 25.
- SR155: Commending Bertram Aaron.
- SR156: Commending George T. Rublein.
- SB453: Absentee voting; persons age 65 or older.
- SB454: Inoperable vehicles; James City County authorized to prohibit any person from keeping, etc.
- SB517: False and fraudulent insurance claims; civil penalties and damages.
- SB518: Neighborhood assistance tax credits; value of credit.
- SB519: Case management system; public accessibility.
- SB520: Nonagricultural irrigation wells; prohibited outside surficial aquifer.
- SB527: County food and beverage tax; increases maximum tax that any county is authorized to impose.
- SB528: Real Estate Board; licensees may assist in translation of real estate documents.
- SB529: Contractors, Board for; prerequisites to obtaining a building permit.
- SB530: Breweries, wineries, and distilleries; regulations to qualify for an attraction sign.
- SB531: Accelerated refund program; Department of Taxation shall reestablish.
- SB532: Display or parking of used motor vehicles for sale; penalty.
- SB533: Computer trespass; expands crime, monitoring location of a minor, etc., by parent or legal guardian.
- SB534: Voter referendum; independent redistricting commission.
- SB543: Adult protective services; emergency order, temporary conservator.
- SB552: Crab pots and peeler pots; marine-biodegradable escape panels, penalty.
- SB555: Barrier crimes; adult substance abuse and mental health treatment providers.
- SB556: General registrars; residency requirement, exemption for counties or cities.
- SB858: Va. FOIA; excludes certain information held by board of visitors of The College of William & Mary.
- SB875: Assisted living facilities; regulations governing staff.
- SB876: Virginia Freedom of Information Act; transfer of public records, definition of 'custodian.'
- SB877: Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads; membership.
- SB961: Public schools; homeless children.
- SJ193: Commending George D. Greenia.
- SJ195: Commending Hilton Village.
- SJ196: Commending The College of William and Mary.
- SJ197: Celebrating the life of Thaddeus Wilbur Tate, Jr.
- SJ198: Celebrating the life of Ludwell Harrison Johnson III.
- SJ199: Celebrating the life of Louise Ann Hutchinson.
- SJ200: Commending Fort Eustis.
- SJ202: Celebrating the life of the Reverend Frederick Risdon Miles Carter.
- SJ213: Commending Michael F. Kuhns.
- SJ220: Commending William A. Hudgins.
- SB1131: Absentee voting; eligibility of certain persons.
- SB1132: Absentee voting; entitles persons age 65 or older on date of an election to vote absentee.
- SB1133: Voter referendum; independent redistricting commission.
- SB1134: Charter; City of Williamsburg.
- SB1135: Inoperable vehicles James City County.
- SB1136: Money order sellers and money transmitters; required investments.
- SB1137: Neighborhood assistance tax credits; reduces amount of credit of value for certain donations.
- SB1138: Computer trespass; government computers and computers used for public utilities, penalty.
- SB1377: Computer trespass; penalty.
- SB1378: Computer crimes; penalties.
- SB1381: Discontinued cases; court has discretion to reinstate case.
- SB1385: Law-enforcement officer; definition, municipal park rangers training.
- SB1389: Higher educational institutions; letter certifying good standing of certain students.
- SB1420: Incapacitated persons; abuse and neglect, financial exploitation, penalty.
- SB1421: Condemnation proceeding; interest on the amount of award.
- SB1523: Teachers turnover; exit questionnaire.
- SJ397: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of African American students in residence.
- SJ398: Commending Cliff Gauthier.
- SJ399: Commending David C. Sloggie.
- SJ426: Celebrating the life of Ivor No Hume.
- SJ431: Commending Mildred B. West.
- SR121: Celebrating the life of Charles C. Allen.
- SR140: Commending the National Education Association Read Across America program.
- SR145: Commending Ivy L. Mitchell.
- HB917: Neighborhood Assistance Act; reduces tax credit.
- HB918: Limited liability companies; members provided access as an electronic record on a network, etc.
- HB919: Water and sewer service; canceling service for nonpayment of charges.
- HB920: Barrier crimes; conviction or finding not guilty by reason of insanity.
- HB921: National Guard members of other states; employment protection.
- HB922: Computer trespass; increases penalty if government computer and computer used for public utilities.
- HB923: Computer trespass; penalty.
- HB924: Electronic communications; disclosure, verification and admissibility of contents.
- HB925: Virginia Preschool Initiative; student eligibility.
- HB926: Higher educational institutions; letter certifying good standing of certain students.
- HB1138: RICO; computer crimes, penalties.
- HB1336: Precincts; establishment based on number of registered voters with active status.
- HR149: Commending the Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic.
- HR151: Celebrating the life of James A. Bill.
- HR169: Celebrating the life of Robert P. Hunt.
- HR170: Commending Elise L. Emanuel.
- HR173: Commending the National Education Association Read Across America program.
- HR174: Commending Joe Agee.
- HB2113: Limited liability companies; access to records.
- HB2115: Computer and telephone fraud; penalty.
- HB2116: Passing stopped school bus; video-monitoring system.
- HB2117: Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes; room rentals, lodgings, etc.
- HB2121: Tuition, in-state; members of the Virginia National Guard.
- HB2122: Higher educational institutions; in-state tuition for certain students.
- HB2124: Neighborhood assistance; reduces amount of the tax credit.
- HB2126: Virginia Tourism Growth Incentive Fund.
- HB2129: Barriers to licensure or registration; certain DCJS regulated industries.
- HB2131: Child and adult care facilities; licensure determinations by Commissioner of State DSS.
- HB2132: State Board for Community Colleges; policy for the award of academic credit for military training.
- HB2133: Veterans Services, Department of; programs to create employment opportunities for veterans.
- HB2284: Uniformed services-connected students; Department of Education to establish process to identify.
- HB2338: Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited trade practices.
- HJ902: Commending Walnut Hills Baptist Church.
- HJ903: Commending Jim Golden.
- HR266: Commending the Sinfonicron Light Opera Company.
- HB618: A-to-F grading system; delays date for implementing individual school performance grading system.
- HB619: Computer fraud; increases penalty.
- HB620: Neighborhood assistance tax credits; changes program by decreasing value of donations, etc.
- HB621: Emergency custody orders; successive two-hour extensions of an order up to maximum of 48 hours.
- HB622: Absentee voting; allows qualified voters to vote absentee in person without an excuse.
- HB1218: Revenue Estimates, Advisory Council on; membership.
- HJ176: Celebrating the life of Stanley Eugene Brown.
- HJ450: Commending the Williamsburg Winery.
- HJ5158: Celebrating the life of Catherine Gantt Pack.
- HJ5233: Commending Karen Cottrell.
- HR146: Commending the League of Women Voters of the Williamsburg Area.
- HR147: Commending Williamsburg United Methodist Church.
- HR148: Commending the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists.
- HR154: Celebrating the life of the Reverend Hubert T. Alexander, Sr.
- HR569: Commending Le Cercle Charmant.
- HR570: Commending Dan Stimson.