Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
Provides that a subpoena issued by the Director of the Department of Health Professions or his designee may be delivered by (i) any person authorized to serve process under § 8.01-293, (ii) investigative personnel appointed by the Director, (iii) registered or certified mail or by equivalent commercial parcel delivery service, or (iv) email or facsimile if requested to do so by the recipient. The bill provides that upon failure of any person to comply with a subpoena, the Director may request that the Attorney General or the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction in which the recipient of the subpoena resides, is found, or transacts business seek enforcement of the subpoena.
Directs the State Department of Health (the Department) to adopt regulations regarding the use of gray water and rainwater. The regulations shall provide standards for the use of rainwater harvesting systems, which shall include systems that collect rainwater for use by commercial enterprises but do not provide water for human consumption. Such regulations shall not apply to nonpotable water, including graywater and rainwater, that is used by certain specified facilities. The bill also directs the Department to consider recognizing rainwater as an independent source of fresh water.
Adds the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in the City of Portsmouth, with 266 eligible gravesites, to the list of historical African American cemeteries for which qualifying charitable organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African American cemeteries and graves. This bill is identical to
Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2018, election to approve or reject an amendment to allow the General Assembly to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns to provide for a partial exemption from local real property taxation, within such restrictions and upon such conditions as may be prescribed, of improved real estate subject to recurrent flooding upon which flooding abatement, mitigation, or resiliency efforts have been undertaken. This bill is the companion ballot legislation for
Requires the Board of Education to provide for teacher licensure by reciprocity for any spouse of an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Commonwealth who has obtained a valid out-of-state license, with full credentials and without deficiencies, that is in force at the time the application for a Virginia license is received by the Department of Education. The bill provides that no service requirements or licensing assessments shall be required for any such individual. This bill is identical to
Amends the methodology for allocating assessments for long-term care insurance written by an impaired or insolvent insurer. The measure requires that 50 percent of such assessments be allocated to health insurers and 50 percent to life insurers. The measure provides that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) will participate in the Guaranty Association. Provisions that established an alternative method to address insolvencies of HMOs are repealed. The measure also updates terminology and makes conforming amendments based on proposed changes to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association model act.
Reinstates the Coalfield employment enhancement tax credit. The credit, which expired on July 1, 2016, can be earned on and after January 1, 2018, but before January 1, 2023, and only for metallurgical coal. This bill is identical to
Provides that the reduction from four years to three years in the terms of membership for nonlegislative citizen members of the Advisory Board on Service and Volunteerism enacted in 2017 applies to succeeding terms as well as initial terms and repeals the sunset on the Advisory Board.
Reduces from 10 to five the minimum number of manufactured homes on a parcel of land under single or common ownership that meets the definition of a manufactured home park subject to the Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act (§ 55-248.41 et seq.).
Requires that the member of the House of Delegates and the member of the Senate of Virginia representing the area in which the Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (Fentress) is located in Chesapeake, Virginia, be notified of any local appropriation made to acquire property rights surrounding Fentress.
