Charter; Town of New Market. Establishes a new charter for the Town of New Market in Shenandoah County and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1972. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the town's government and contains powers typically granted to towns. This bill is identical to SB 375.
Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; dissemination and availability of online transition resources. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, in partnership with relevant entities, to ensure that online resources are readily available and disseminated to all individuals of age to transition from school to post-school activities and their families. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Disability Commission.
Conversion of manufactured home to real property. Establishes a process whereby a manufactured home owner who is notlisted as the owner of such manufactured home on its title may detitlesuch manufactured home in order to convert the home to real property.
Line of Duty Act; eligible dependent. Provides that for purposes of continued health insurance pursuant to the Line of Duty Act, an eligible dependent means the natural or adopted child or children of a deceased person or disabled person or of a deceased or disabled person's eligible spouse, provided that any such natural child is born as the result of a pregnancy that occurred prior to, or no later than six months after, the time of the employee's death or disability and that any such adopted child is (i) adopted prior to, or no later than six months after, the time of the employee's death or disability or (ii) adopted more than six months after the employee's death or disability if the adoption is pursuant to a preadoptive agreement entered into prior to, or no later than six months after, the death or disability. Under current law, an eligible dependent includes a child born or adopted prior to the time of the employee's death or disability. The bill's provisions only apply to an eligible dependent of a deceased person or disabled person when such death or disability occurred on or after July 1, 2017, and the bill specifies that any new health insurance coverage for those qualifying as an eligible dependent is only prospective from July 1, 2024.
Proton radiation therapy; clinical evidencefor decisions on coverage. Requires that a health insurance carrierconsider (i) coverage of a proton radiation therapy treatment by Medicare,Medicaid, or any other governmental health care coverage for any typeof cancer or (ii) a recommendation of proton radiation therapy bya patient's treating physician or radiation oncologist as a sufficientstandard of clinical evidence to justify coverage of proton radiationtherapy.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Departmentof Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home andCommunity-Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments;program rule modifications. Directs the Department of MedicalAssistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and DevelopmentalServices to seek to modify the program rules for certain 1915(c) Homeand Community-Based Services Medicaid Waivers to eliminate the requirementthat in order for a legally responsible individual to receive reimbursementfor personal care services, no one else be available to provide suchservices to the Medicaid member. This bill incorporates HB 1282.
Kinship foster care; barrier crimes. Allowslocal boards of social services or child-placing agencies to approvekinship foster care parent applicants who have been convicted ofcertain felony drug offenses if five years have elapsed since thedate of the conviction, where under current law 10 years must have elapsed in order to be eligible for approval as a kinship fostercare parent. The bill also adds exceptions for certain misdemeanorassault and battery convictions not involving the abuse, neglect,or moral turpitude of a minor if five years have elapsed since thedate of the conviction. The bill directs the State Board of SocialServices to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of thebill to be effective no later than September 1, 2024.
State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board; guidelines for the provision of emergency treatment of fire, police, and search and rescue dogs. Requires the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board, in consultation with the Board of Veterinary Medicine, to develop guidelines and guidance for the provision of emergency treatment of fire, police, and search and rescue dogs injured in the line of duty and the transportation of such dogs by an emergency medical services vehicle to a veterinary care facility equipped to provide emergency treatment to such dog.
Department of real estate assessment; Orange County. Authorizes Orange County to establish a department of real estate assessment and to enter into an agreement with a contiguous county or city to establish a joint department of real estate assessment. Under current law, real estate assessments are made by the commissioner of the revenue, except in Accomack, Goochland, James City, and Powhatan Counties, and among those, only James City and Powhatan Counties may enter into an agreement to establish a joint department of real estate assessment.
Wills and trusts; tangible personal property;nonexoneration. Provides that if a trust instrument that was revocable,as defined in relevant law, immediately before the settlor's deathrefers to a written statement or list of items of tangible personalproperty and their intended recipients with reasonable certainty andis signed by the settlor, such written statement or list shall begiven the effect of a specific bequest although it does not satisfythe requirements for a trust instrument. The bill also provides thatreal or personal property that is the subject of a specific deviseor bequest in a trust instrument that was revocable immediatelybefore the settlor's death shall be passed without the right of exoneration.Under current law, the provisions that govern separate writing identifyingrecipients of tangible personal property apply only to wills, andthe provisions that govern the nonexoneration of a specific deviseor bequest of real or personal property apply only to wills and transferon death deeds.
School boards; state funding for public education;student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses.Provides that no school board that implements innovative low-costor no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from schoolon school buses, including organizing or otherwise facilitating,encouraging, or supporting bike buses whereby groups of studentsride bicycles to and from school, shall be penalized in the calculationof the prevailing costs of student transportation for the purposeof providing state funding to support the cost of public education.
Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is not otherwise entitled to participate, provided that such non-benefitted employees reimburse the locality for the full cost of their participation. The bill provides that reimbursement may include forgoing all or a part of a local government salary.
