Consumer Data Protection Act; protections forchildren. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiableparental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any childwith the operator's product or service or before collecting, using,or disclosing such child's personal data and prohibits a controllerfrom knowingly processing the personal data of a child for purposesof (i) targeted advertising, (ii) the sale of such personal data,or (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legalor similarly significant effects concerning a consumer. The billalso amends the definition of child for purposes of the ConsumerData Protection Act to include any natural person younger than 18 years of age.
Land preservation tax credit; maximum amountincrease. Increases from $75 million to $100 million, beginningin 2024, the maximum amount of land preservation tax credits thatmay be issued in a calendar year.
Rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel.Lowers the rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel on July 1, 2024,from 26.2 cents per gallon to 21.2 cents per gallon on gasoline andfrom 27 cents per gallon to 20.2 cents per gallon on diesel fuel,which are the rates that were in effect before July 1, 2021. Thebill provides that the rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel willreturn to 26.2 and 27 cents per gallon, respectively, on July 1,2025, and will be indexed based on the change in the United StatesAverage Consumer Price Index occurring between 2021 and 2024; thereafter,the rate will be indexed annually.
Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allowsthe governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or othercollecting official to enter into an installment agreement lastingup to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessedwith omitted taxes.
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; recordsof federal animal welfare violations; limitation on fees. Prohibits any public body in custody of records that pertain to or were generatedas a result of a violation of federal animal welfare regulations,policies, or guidelines from charging more than $25 for the productionof such records regarding any one incident or one animal testing facility.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; establishmentof neurobehavioral science unit; waiver services for individualswith traumatic brain injury and neurocognitive diagnoses; work group.Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek authoritythrough the state plan for medical assistance services to implementa neurobehavioral science unit and to submit an amendment to thestate plan for medical assistance services to the Centers for Medicareand Medicaid Services to receive federal approval to administer neurorestorative and rehabilitative services for qualifying individualswith traumatic brain injury and neurocognitive diagnoses. The billauthorizes the Department to promulgate emergency regulations toimplement the neurobehavioral science unit and the traumatic braininjury and neurocognitive diagnoses services waiver upon approvaland directs the Department to convene a work group of relevant stakeholdersto provide updates on the progress and the implementation of theneurobehavioral science unit and the traumatic brain injury and neurocognitivediagnoses services waiver.
Early childhood care and education; expansionof Head Start program availability at comprehensive community colleges; work group. Requires the Department of Education and the VirginiaCommunity College System to convene a stakeholder work group to evaluateand provide recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committeeon Education and Health and the House Committee on Education by October1, 2024, on expanding the availability of Head Start programs atcomprehensive community colleges.
Motor vehicle sales and use tax; definitionof sale price. Excludes from the sale price for determining motorvehicle sales and use tax the amount of any credit given by the sellerfor any motor vehicle taken as a trade-in.
Official emblems and designations; cat; domesticshorthair. Designates the domestic shorthair as the officialcat of the Commonwealth.
Use of canines in correctional and juvenilecorrectional facilities; prohibited acts. Provides that it is unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a statecorrectional facility or juvenile correctional facility who is permittedto handle canines to use a canine to (i) extract a prisoner from his cell or (ii) intervene in an altercation, fight, or other incidentbetween three or fewer prisoners. The bill provides that the Departmentof Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice shall makepublic any policies and regulations relating to (a) the use of canines,(b) training requirements for both canines and the handlers of suchcanines, and (c) the supervision of the officers or employees whoare permitted to handle such canines. The bill requires the Departmentof Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice to track allcanine uses of force and all incidents in which canines were presentor requested for assistance but no canine use of force occurred andto make such information available on the Departments' websites.
Transportation projects; highway safety.Prohibits the initiation of any transportation project in an establishedschool crossing zone unless a pedestrian safety-focused road safetyaudit is conducted and its recommendations are incorporated intothe project plan. The bill requires the Commonwealth TransportationBoard, in administering the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program,to prioritize infrastructure projects that address a hazardous roadlocation or feature or address an identified highway safety problemlocated in a school crossing zone.
Elections; requirements for precincts; waiverfor split precinct or precinct below the minimum size. Allowsa governing body granted a waiver to administer a split precinctor directed to establish a precinct with fewer than the minimum numberof registered voters to continue to use such a precinct for any electionuntil such time as the governing body makes changes to any precinctboundaries within the locality or the waiver is withdrawn by theState Board. Under current law, such a waiver is limited to the yearin which it is granted.
