Department of Transportation; primary evacuationroutes. Directs the Virginia Department of Transportation (the Department), in consultation with the Department of Emergency Management,to develop, maintain, and make publicly available a map of primaryevacuation routes in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Departmentto review the transportation infrastructure along such routes and submit a report with such findings and any recommended improvementsto the General Assembly at least once every five years.
Board of Education; Career and Technical Education Work-Based Learning Guide. Requires the Board of Education to review and revise, in consultation with certain stakeholders and no later than December 1, 2020, its Career and Technical Education Work-Based Learning Guide to expand the opportunities available for students to earn credit for graduation through high-quality, work-based learning experiences or, in the case of agricultural education, supervised agricultural experiences, in addition to job shadowing, mentorships, internships, and externships.
Allowing access to firearms by minors; penalty. Provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person under the age of 14 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Current law provides that any person who recklessly leaves a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any child under the age of 14 is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. This bill incorporates HB 72 and HB 463.
Hospitals; notification; physical therapy. Requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations requiring hospitals to establish protocols to ensure that any patient scheduled to receive an elective surgical procedure for which the patient can reasonably be expected to require outpatient physical therapy as a follow-up treatment after discharge is informed that he (i) is expected to require outpatient physical therapy as a follow-up treatment and (ii) will be required to select a physical therapy provider prior to being discharged from the hospital.
Home hospice programs; disposal of drugs; opioids.Specifies that hospice policies and procedures for the disposal ofdrugs must include provisions for the safe disposal of opioids.
Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; high-occupancy toll lanes on certain portions of Interstate 64. Authorizes the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission to impose and collect tolls in high-occupancy toll lanes on certain portions of Interstate 64. The area of Interstate 64 in which such tolls may be imposed is the vicinity of the interchange of Interstate 64 and Jefferson Avenue to the interchange of Interstate 64, Interstate 264, and Interstate 664. The bill directs the Commission to enter into an agreement with the Commonwealth Transportation Board and the Department of Transportation regarding the standards for operating the facility and use of toll proceeds.
Menstrual supplies; availability; public elementary, middle, and high schools. Requires each school board to make tampons or pads available, at all times and at no cost to students, (i) in such accessible locations as it deems appropriate in each elementary school in the local school division and (ii) in the bathrooms of each middle school and high school in the local school division. This bill is identical to HB 405.
Family life education programs; materials; summaries.Requires the summary of each family life education program thatis provided to the parents of students who participate in such programto include a complete description of the process for parental reviewof program materials. The bill requires each local school board topost for public viewing on the local school division's official websiteeach such summary, a complete copy of all printed family life educationprogram materials, and a description of all family life education program audio-visual materials. The bill requires each local schoolboard to implement the foregoing provisions no later than the startof the 2020-2021 school year.
Pharmacists; prescribing, dispensing, and administration of controlled substances. Allows a pharmacist to initiate treatment with and dispense and administer certain drugs and devices to persons 18 years of age or older in accordance with a statewide protocol developed by the Board of Pharmacy in collaboration with the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to establish such protocols by November 1, 2020, to promulgate emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill, and to convene a work group to provide recommendations regarding the development of protocols for the initiating of treatment with and dispensing and administering of additional drugs and devices for persons 18 years of age and older. The bill also clarifies that an accident and sickness insurance policy that provides reimbursement for a service that may be legally performed by a licensed pharmacist shall provide reimbursement for the initiating of treatment with and dispensing and administration of controlled substances by a pharmacist when such initiating of treatment with or dispensing or administration is in accordance with regulations of the Board of Pharmacy.
Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures for buyer to beware; impounding structures or dams. Directs the Real Estate Board to include in the residential property disclosure statement provided on its website a disclosure relating to the condition or regulatory status of any impounding structure or dam on the owner's property or under the ownership of a common interest community that the owner of the property is required to join. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. This bill is identical to HB 1569.
Electric utilities; broadband capacity. Authorizes an electric utility to lease to any third party that is a wholesaler and that is not a government-owned broadband authority, for the purposes of providing broadband connectivity. The leases may extend in length beyond the end of the pilot program under which the utility provides broadband capacity to nongovernmental Internet service providers in areas of the Commonwealth unserved by broadband.
Annual local audit; enforcement; civil penalty.Provides an enforcement mechanism if a locality that is late in completingits required audit fails to give proper notification of the delayed audit. Such enforcement may include a writ of mandamus and a civilpenalty of between $500 and $2,000.
