Indoor shooting ranges; prohibited in buildingsnot owned or leased by the Commonwealth or federal government; exceptions;civil penalty. Prohibits the operation of an indoor shootingrange, defined in the bill, in any building not owned or leased bythe Commonwealth or federal government unless (i) fewer than 50 employeeswork in the building or (ii) (a) at least 90 percent of the usersof the indoor shooting range are law-enforcement officers or federallaw-enforcement officers, (b) the indoor shooting range maintainsa log of each user's name, phone number, address, and the law-enforcementagency where such user is employed, and (c) the indoor shooting rangeverifies each user's identity and address by requiring all usersto present a government-issued photo-identification card. The billprovides that any person that violates the provisions of this sectionis subject to a civil penalty of not less than $1,000 nor more than$100,000 for the initial violation and $5,000 per day for each dayof violation thereafter.
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Carrying or storing firearms in motor vehiclesand vessels; exceptions; penalty. Provides that any person possessingor storing a firearm in a motor vehicle or vessel shall secure suchfirearm in a locked container, other than a glove box, that is notwithin the dominion and control of or readily accessible for promptand immediate use by any person within the motor vehicle. The billprovides exceptions for law-enforcement officers, licensed securityguards, military personnel in the performance of their lawful duties, or any person having a valid concealed handgun permit. A violationis punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500. The bill alsoremoves the current exception for carrying a concealed weapon forany person who may lawfully possess a firearm and is carrying a handgunwhile in a personal, private motor vehicle or vessel and such handgun is secured in a container or compartment in the vehicle or vessel.
Right to work. Repeals the provisions ofthe Code of Virginia that, among other things, prohibit any agreementor combination between an employer and a labor union or labor organizationwhereby (i) nonmembers of the union or organization are denied theright to work for the employer, (ii) membership in the union or organization is made a condition of employment or continuation ofemployment by such employer, or (iii) the union or organization acquiresan employment monopoly in any such enterprise.
Tax on fossil fuel investments by electric utilities. Imposes a tax on investor-owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives based on the amount that the utility invests in a year on fossilfuel infrastructure. The rate of the tax starts at 2.5 percent ofthe amount of a utility's fossil fuel investments in 2021 and increasesin annual increments thereafter until reaching 100 percent in 2040and thereafter. The measure directs that the revenue collected fromthe tax shall be deposited into the Clean Energy Development Fundand used to pay administrative costs of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy; reduce the electric utility bills of customers that optto purchase electricity from renewable energy sources; invest inrenewable electric energy generation sources in low-income communities;establish and fund block grants to enable community solar facilitiesand energy storage installation; and enable attainment of renewableportfolio standards based on regulations adopted by the Department.
Campaign finance; prohibited contributions tocandidates. Prohibits any candidate from soliciting or acceptinga contribution from any public service corporation, as defined in§ 56-1, or any political action committee established and administeredby such a corporation.
Veterans and active duty members of the ArmedForces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local schoolboard to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the ArmedForces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs asa teacher in the local school division credit for any time servedin any such forces in determining such teacher's step on the localschool division's teacher salary scale.
Prescription drug price transparency; penalties.Requires pharmaceutical drug manufacturers, pharmacy benefits managers, andhealth carriers to submit reports containing certain information concerningprescription drug costs to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Insurance (theCommissioner). The measure requires pharmaceutical drug manufacturers' reportsto include information on the current wholesale acquisition cost informationfor FDA-approved drugs sold in or into the Commonwealth by the pharmaceuticaldrug manufacturer. The bill also requires such manufacturers to submit a reportfor drugs with a wholesale acquisition cost of at least $50 for a 30-day supplywhen their wholesale acquisition cost increases by 25 percent or more over thepreceding three calendar years or 10 percent or more over the precedingcalendar year. The measure requires pharmacy benefits managers to report dataon the aggregated rebates, fees, price protection payments, and any otherpayments collected from pharmaceutical drug manufacturers and the aggregateddollar amount of rebates, fees, price protection payments, and any otherpayments collected from pharmaceutical drug manufacturers that were healthbenefit plan issuers or enrollees at the point of sale of a prescription drug.The measure requires health carriers to report the names of the 25 mostfrequently prescribed drugs across all plans, percent increase in annual netspending for drugs across all plans, percent increase in premiums attributableto drugs across all plans, percentage of specialty drugs with utilizationmanagement requirements across all plans, and premium reductions that wereattributable to specialty drug utilization management. The measure requires theCommissioner to publish the aggregated data from these reports on a website.The measure authorizes the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to (i)call public hearings and to subpoena prescription drug manufacturers, pharmacybenefits managers, and health carriers to explain their reports; (ii) conductaudits of data submitted to it; (iii) require these entities to submit acorrective action plan to correct deficiencies in reporting; and (iv) imposepenalties of $30,000 per day on any prescription drug manufacturer, pharmacybenefits manager, or health carrier that fails to make a good faith effort tosubmit a required report within two weeks after receiving written notice fromthe Commission.
State Corporation Commission; members. Increasesfrom three to five the number of members of the State CorporationCommission. The measure requires that the new members be initiallyelected for a six-year term during the earlier of the 2021 Regular Session of the General Assembly or any special session convened priorthereto.
Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school resource officers or school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local school division as a school resource officer or school security officer, so long as he has a bona fide break in service between retirement and reemployment, did not retire under an early retirement program, and did not retire under the Workforce Transition Act of 1995. This bill was incorporated into HB 1495.
Transportation agreements. Recognizes that public-private transportation partnership agreements that containprovisions prohibiting or frustrating the construction of non-tolledtransportation facilities as alternatives to tolled facilities througheconomic disincentives are against public policy.