Workers' compensation; notice to employees. Requires each employer subject to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to provide notice to covered employees of the employees' right to dispute a claim through the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. Such notice must include specific text as included in the bill. The bill also provides that an employer who fails to provide such notice may be subject to the civil penalty provisions of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.
Comprehensive plan; climate resilience. Requires a locality's comprehensive plan to consider strategies toaddress climate resilience in order to anticipate, prepare for, respondto, and adapt to changing conditions and hazardous events.
Department of Health; primitive campgrounds;sewer system and toilet requirements. Directs the Departmentof Health to amend its regulations to exempt primitive campgroundsfrom the permanent sanitary facility requirements enumerated inrelevant portions of the Virginia Administrative Code. The bill permitsthe Department to require primitive campgrounds to provide and maintainportable toilet facilities at the ratio of at least one toilet forevery 75 campers and at least one toilet in compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
Chiropractic Health Month. Designates October,in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as Chiropractic Health Monthin Virginia.
Disability insurance; disability arising out of childbirth. Requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing short-term disability income protection coverage whose policies provide coverage for short-term disability arising out of childbirth to, notwithstanding a disability determination or medical necessity requirement, provide for 12 weeks of income protection coverage for a payable benefit of at least 12 weeks immediately following childbirth.
Malnutrition Awareness Week. Designatesthe first week in October, in 2022 and in each succeeding year, asMalnutrition Awareness Week in Virginia.
Department of Education; Statewide LearningManagement System established. Directs the Department of Educationto establish the Statewide Learning Management System (VaLMS). TheVaLMS shall be available to each public school in the Commonwealth.The bill allows school boards to utilize the VaLMS as an alternative to a multidivision online provider in the provision of virtual schoolprograms.
Voter registration; restoration of political rights upon release from incarceration; certain adjudications. Provides that any person who is convicted of a felony and sentenced to a period of incarceration for such felony conviction is not entitled to register to vote or to vote for the duration of the period of incarceration, but that he is to be invested with all political rights lost as a result of the felony conviction upon release from incarceration and is thereafter entitled to register to vote. The bill requires the Department of Corrections and the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to transmit to the Department of Elections certain information related to an incarcerated person with a scheduled date of release. The bill also requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to provide to any person being released from incarceration, on the date of his release, (i) an application to register to vote with instructions for returning the application by mail; (ii) information regarding how to register to vote by electronic means or in person, in the form prescribed by the State Board of Elections for this purpose; and (iii) an official release document for voter registration purposes. Enactment of the provisions of this bill are contingent upon the passage of an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2022 providing for the qualifications of voters and the right to vote by amending Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia related to persons convicted of a felony and persons adjudicated as lacking the capacity to understand the act of voting.
Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund; established.Establishes the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund to provide grants tolocalities to develop wildlife corridor plans and implement the provisionsof such plans.
Celebrating the life of J. Kenneth Klinge.
Celebrating the life of Naval Air Crewman 2ndClass James P. Buriak, USN.
Celebrating the life of Eddie Harold Hodges.
