Health professionals; unprofessional conduct; reporting. Requires the chief executive officer and the chief of staff of every hospital or other health care institution in the Commonwealth, the director of every licensed home health or hospice organization, the director of every accredited home health organization exempt from licensure, the administrator of every licensed assisted living facility, and the administrator of every provider licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in the Commonwealth to report to the Department of Health Professions any information of which he may become aware in his professional capacity that indicates a reasonable belief that a health care provider is in need of treatment or has been admitted as a patient for treatment of substance abuse or psychiatric illness that may render the health professional a danger to himself, the public, or his patients, or that he determines, following review and any necessary investigation or consultation with the appropriate internal boards or committees authorized to impose disciplinary action on a health professional, indicates that there is a reasonable probability that such health professional may have engaged in unethical, fraudulent, or unprofessional conduct. Current law requires information to be reported if the information indicates, after reasonable investigation and consultation with the appropriate internal boards or committees authorized to impose disciplinary action on a health professional, a reasonable probability that such health professional may have engaged in unethical, fraudulent, or unprofessional conduct. This bill is identical to SB 540.
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and Virginia Freedom of Information Act; training requirements; executive directors and members of industrial development authorities and economic development authorities. Requires the executive director and members of each industrial development authority and economic development authority, as created by the Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act, to take training on the provisions of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and the Freedom of Information Act at least once every two years. The bill requires such officials in office on July 1, 2020, to complete such training no later than December 31, 2020. Training on the Virginia Freedom of Information Act may be provided online by the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council or the local government attorney. Training on the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act shall be provided by the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council and may be provided online. The clerk of the respective governing body is responsible for maintaining training records. This bill is identical to HB 1527.
Hearing notice by localities. Provides that if a locality in Planning District 23 has submitted a timely notice request related to a planning or zoning matter to a newspaper of general circulation and the newspaper fails to publish the notice, such locality shall be deemed to have met public hearing notice requirements so long as notice of the agenda, including the item intended for publication in the newspaper, was published on the locality's website at least three weeks before the hearing. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022.
Comprehensive plan; transit-oriented development. Requires that each city with a population greater than 20,000 and each county with a population greater than 100,000 consider incorporating into the next scheduled and all subsequent reviews of its comprehensive plan strategies to promote transit-oriented development for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through coordinated transportation, housing, and land use planning.
Overgrown vegetation; local authority. Authorizesany locality within Planning District 23 or that has a populationof at least 75,000 to include provisions for cutting overgrown shrubs,trees, and other such vegetation in an ordinance requiring certainlandowners to cut the grass, weeds, and other foreign growth on certainproperty.
Urban county executive form of government; boardof social services. Requires a county operating under the urbancounty executive form of government (Fairfax County) to designatean additional seat on the board of social services for a qualified citizen of each city to which the county is contractually obligatedto provide social services.
Numbering on buildings; civil penalty. Providesthat an ordinance that requires buildings to have visible numberingmay include provisions for a civil penalty not to exceed $100 fora violation that has not been corrected within 15 days of noticeof such violation. Civil penalties assessed under this provisionshall be paid into the treasury of the locality where the violationoccurred.
Derelict residential buildings; civil penalty. Allows certain localities to impose a civil penalty not exceeding $500 per month on owners of derelict residential property that have not submitted a required plan to renovate or demolish the derelict structure. The bill prohibits the total of such fee from exceeding the cost to demolish the building.
Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentence and any person who has active sentences that total more than 20 years for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 years of such sentences shall be eligible for parole. This bill is identical to SB 103.
Comparative report of local government revenuesand expenditures. Changes the annual deadline for local submittalof the comparative report of local government revenues and expendituresto the Auditor of Public Accounts from November 30 to December 15and the annual deadline for the statement of the Auditor of PublicAccounts showing in detail the total and per capita revenues andexpenditures of all localities for the preceding fiscal year fromJanuary 31 to February 15.
Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license. Creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license that (i) may be granted to persons operating food concessions at any corporate and performing arts facility located in Fairfax County, provided that the corporate and performing arts facility (a) is occupied under a bona fide long-term lease, management, or concession agreement, the original term of which was more than one year and (b) has a total capacity in excess of 1,400 patrons and (ii) authorizes the licensee to sell, on the dates of performances or events, alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. This bill is identical to SB 212.
Board of zoning appeals; dual office holding. Authorizes a member of a board of zoning appeals to be appointed to also serve as an officer of election. This bill is identical to SB 292.
