Virginia Health Club Act; automated externaldefibrillator required in health clubs. Requires each healthclub location to have a working automated external defibrillator.
Courthouse and courtroom security; assessment.Increases from $10 to $20 the maximum amount a local governing bodymay assess against a convicted defendant as part of the costs ina criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court to fund courthouseand courtroom security.
Charter; Town of Parksley; November elections. Moves elections for the town council and mayor of the Town of Parksleyfrom May to November and decreases from four years to two years thelength of terms of the mayor and council members.
Commissioner of Health; study of the occurrence of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorobutyrate (PFBA), perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), and other perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorobutyrate (PFBA), perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), and other perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as deemed necessary, in the Commonwealth's public drinking water and to develop recommendations for specific maximum contaminant levels for PFOA, PFOS, PFBA, PFHpA, PFHxS, PFNA, and other PFAS, as deemed necessary, for inclusion in regulations of the Board of Health applicable to waterworks.
Solid waste disposal; unpermitted sites and open dumps; regulation and cleanup. Prohibits the disposal of solid waste in an unpermitted facility and provides that the presence of unpermitted solid waste on a person's property is prima facie evidence that the person allowed solid waste to be disposed of on his property without a permit. The bill adds open dumps to the types of site that the Department of Environmental Quality is authorized to require to be cleaned up and provides that the party responsible for such cleanup shall include any party who caused the site to become an open dump or caused the improper management of waste at the site. The bill includes technical amendments.
Clinch State Scenic River; Guest State ScenicRiver. Designates segments of the Clinch River in Tazewell, Russell,and Scott Counties as part of the Clinch State Scenic River, a componentof the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. The bill extends the designatedportion of the Clinch River from the confluence with Indian Creekto the Tennessee state line, a distance of about 110 miles. The billrenames a portion of the existing designation of the Clinch-GuestState Scenic River as the Guest State Scenic River. The bill containstechnical amendments.
Department of Environmental Quality; combinedsewer overflow outfalls; James River watershed. Directs the Departmentof Environmental Quality (DEQ) to identify the owner of any combinedsewer overflow (CSO) outfall east of Charlottesville that dischargesinto the James River watershed and to determine what actions by theowner are necessary to bring such an outfall into compliance withVirginia law, the federal Clean Water Act, and the Presumption Approachdescribed in the CSO Control Policy of the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency. The bill requires any owner of such an outfall to initiateconstruction activities by July 1, 2025, and bring it into complianceby July 1, 2027. Until compliance is achieved, the bill requiresthe outfall owner to annually report its progress to DEQ. The billrequires DEQ to provide all such reports to certain legislative committees,the Virginia delegation to the Chesapeake Bay Commission, the Secretaryof Natural Resources, and the Governor. The bill does not apply to any outfall for which a higher level of control is necessary to complywith a total maximum daily load (TMDL).
Property Owners' Association Act and Virginia Condominium Act; contract disclosure statement; extension of right of cancellation. Provides for a limited extension of the right of cancellation where such extension is provided for in a ratified real estate contract, defined in the bill. This bill is identical to HB 176.
Coal ash ponds; private wells and public water supply wells; resident notification. Requires a utility, defined in the bill as the owner or operator of a coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to complete a survey of all private wells and public water supply wells within 1.5 miles of each of its ponds by October 1, 2020, and to notify residents via mail and a local newspaper posting that the survey will be conducted.
Charter; City of Hopewell. Exempts from a referendum requirement bonds issued for the construction, improvement, expansion, or replacement of existing public buildings or facilities, and authorizes the City of Hopewell to replace existing buildings or facilities on an alternative site.
Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; membership. Adds two nonlegislative citizen members to the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, one of whom is a parent of a military child, to be appointed by the Governor, and one of whom is a military spouse serving on the Department of Education's Military Student Support Process Action Team, to be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. This bill incorporates SB 47.
Student voters; Virginia voter registration. Requires each public high school to provide to any enrolled student who is of voting age or otherwise eligible to register to vote access to Virginia voter registration information and applications, or access to the Virginia online voter registration system on a school-owned computing device, and the opportunity to complete such application during the normal course of the school day.
