Arab American Heritage Month. DesignatesApril, in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as Arab American HeritageMonth in Virginia.
World Polio Day. Designates October 24,in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as World Polio Day in Virginia.
Kimchi Day. Designates November 22, in 2022and in each succeeding year, as Kimchi Day in Virginia.
Supporting the Jones Act. Expresses thesense of the General Assembly in supporting the Jones Act.
Hindu Heritage Month. Designates October,in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as Hindu Heritage Month in Virginia.
Commending the Langley High School golf team.
Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil under the laws of the Commonwealth. pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practitioner for the treatment or to eliminate the symptoms of the employee's diagnosed condition or disease, with certain exceptions. Under the bill, the term "employer" includes the Commonwealth and any of its political subdivisions or agencies.
Virginia Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino,and Indigenous Education Advisory Board; establishment. Establishesthe 29-member Virginia Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino,and Indigenous Education Advisory Board as an advisory board in theexecutive branch of state government for the purpose of advisingthe Governor, his Cabinet members, and the General Assembly on the current ways that Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, and Indigenous history is described in the relevant Standards of Learning and associated curriculum frameworks; how that content is taught in classrooms;and strategies to develop Asian American and Pacific Islander historyand social studies elective courses, Latino history and social studies elective courses, and Indigenous history and social studies electivecourses.
General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act;prohibited conduct; ownership of certain securities prohibited.Prohibits members of the General Assembly from owning any securityissued by a public service corporation, or the parent, affiliate,or subsidiary of a public service corporation, during their termof office. However, such prohibition does not restrict a member ofthe General Assembly from owning such a security in a diversifiedmutual fund or diversified unit investment trust.
State parks; free entry for veterans. Establishesa Veteran's Passport program for veterans of the Armed Forces of theUnited States or members of the Virginia National Guard that entitlesthe bearer to enter state parks in the Commonwealth without the paymentof a parking or admission fee.
