Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosures for a buyer to beware; residential building energy analyst. Adds obtaining a residential building energy analysis to the disclosure statement furnished to the buyer by the owner of residential real property that the buyer beware and exercise necessary due diligence with respect to determining the condition of real property or any improvements thereon. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission and is identical to HB 518.
Department of Education; individualized education program teams; guidelines. Requires the Department of Education to establish guidelines for individualized education program (IEP) teams to utilize when developing IEPs for children with disabilities to ensure that IEP teams consider the need for age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction related to sexual health, self-restraint, self-protection, respect for personal privacy, and personal boundaries of others. The bill requires each local school board, in developing IEPs for children with disabilities, in addition to any other requirements established by the Board of Education, to ensure that IEP teams consider such guidelines. This bill is identical to HB 134.
Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs. Provides that a court may permit an inmate to earn credits against any fines and court costs imposed against him by performing community service. Under current law, credits may be earned only before or after imprisonment. This bill is identical to HB 277.
Celebration of marriage; fee. Increases from $50 to $75 the maximum fee that may be charged by a person other than a minister who is authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage.
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;notice of termination to contain legal services contact information.Provides that no notice of termination of tenancy served upon anyresidential tenant is effective unless it contains on its first page,in type no smaller or less legible than that otherwise used in thebody of the notice, the name, address, and telephone number of thelegal services program, if any, serving the jurisdiction in whichthe premises is located. The same requirement is currently only applicableto a public housing authority organized under the Housing AuthoritiesLaw.
Juvenile and domestic relations district court;award of attorney fees. Permits a juvenile and domestic relationsdistrict court judge to take all relevant factors, in addition tothe relative financial ability of the parties, into considerationwhen awarding attorney fees and costs.
School boards and local law-enforcement agencies; memorandums of understanding; frequency of review and public input. Shortens from every five years to every two years the frequency of the review period for memorandums of understanding between school boards and local law-enforcement agencies. The bill also requires local school boards to conspicuously publish the current division memorandum of understanding on its division website and provide notice and opportunity for public input during each memorandum of understanding review period. This bill is identical to HB 292.
Initial child support order; unreimbursed medicalexpenses for pregnancy and birth. Provides that for any initialchild support proceeding that is commenced within six months of thebirth of a child, the order shall provide that the parents pay inproportion to their gross incomes any reasonable and necessary unpaidexpenses of the mother's pregnancy and the delivery of such child.
Department of General Services; public posting of contract information on central electronic procurement system. Provides for the Department of General Services to post on its central electronic procurement system awarded contracts and any modifications to such contracts. The bill also requires agencies that use the Department's central procurement website to post the same information and provides that any contract awarded pursuant to an Invitation to Bid or a Request for Proposals on or after July 1, 2021, including any subsequent modifications to the contract by a using agency, shall be posted on the Department's central electronic procurement system. The bill requires a modification made by a using agency on or after July 1, 2021, to any other contract that has two or more years remaining to be posted on the Department's central electronic procurement system, along with the original contract and any previous modifications. This bill is identical to HB 544.
Virginia Public Procurement Act; determinationof nonresponsibility; local option to include criteria in invitationto bid. Allows any locality to include in the invitation to bidcriteria that may be used in determining whether a bidder possessesthe moral and business integrity and reliability that will assure good faith performance that is required of a responsible bidder.Such criteria may include a history or good faith assurances of (i)completion by the bidder and any potential subcontractors of specifiedsafety training programs established the U.S. Department of Labor,Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (ii) participationby the bidder and any potential subcontractors in apprenticeshiptraining programs approved by state agencies or the U.S. Departmentof Labor; or (iii) maintenance by the bidder and any potential subcontractorsof records of compliance with applicable local, state, and federallaws.
Teachers in certain schools for students withdisabilities; provisional licenses; extension. Requires the Boardof Education to extend for at least one additional year, but forno more than two additional years, the three-year provisional licenseof a teacher employed in a school for students with disabilitiesthat is licensed by the Board upon receiving from the school administratorof such school (i) a recommendation for such extension and (ii) satisfactoryperformance evaluations for such teacher for each year of the originalthree-year provisional license. The provisions of the bill mirrorcurrent law relating to the extension of provisional licenses forpublic school teachers.
Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty. Provides that any account filed by a fiduciary with the commissioner of accounts and annual report filed by a guardian with the local department of social services shall be signed under oath and that the punishment for making a false statement or entry in such a filing is a civil penalty of not more than $500. This bill incorporates SB 308 and is identical to HB 1166.
