Health insurance; coverage for donated human breast milk. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for expenses incurred in the provision of pasteurized donated human breast milk. The requirement applies if the covered person is an infant under the age of six months, the milk is obtained from a human milk bank that meets quality guidelines established by the Department of Health, and a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for an infant who satisfies certain criteria. The measure applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024. The measure also requires the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance services incurred in the provision of pasteurized donated human breast milk. The bill requires the Department of Health to establish quality guidelines for human milk banks that operate, sell, distribute, or collect milk in Virginia by July 1, 2023. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department of Health to establish quality guidelines have a delayed enactment of July 1, 2023. This bill is a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission.
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Russia; boycott of goods and services. Encouragingall residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia to boycott all goodsand services originating in Russia.
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.
Commending the Literacy Council of NorthernVirginia.
Nutrient credits; generation near where used;report. Provides that any nutrient credit used to comply withcertain stormwater runoff water quality criteria shall be generatedin the same eight-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC), as defined bythe U.S. Geological Survey, as the site of the land-disturbing activity.Current law allows such a credit to be generated in a HUC adjacentto the one in which the land-disturbing activity is located. Thebill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to reportto the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Agriculture, Conservationand Natural Resources Committee on the nutrient credit trading program.
Heavy Equipment Dealer Act. Provides that,under the Heavy Equipment Dealer Act, a supplier's refusal to continuewith a dealer an agreement that is expiring in accordance with its terms constitutes a refusal to continue or renew the agreement evenif the supplier offers to enter into a replacement agreement withsuch dealer. The bill removes the exception to the Act's notificationrequirements for agreement amendments for cases where the supplieruniformly amends agreements as to all dealers of the supplier inquestion in all states in which the supplier is marketing its products.The bill also prohibits a supplier from prohibiting a dealer frompurchasing equipment manufactured by another supplier for purposesof rental or resale to the dealer's customers or from directly orindirectly discriminating or taking adverse action against, or otherwisepenalizing, any dealer that purchases equipment or repair parts manufacturedby another supplier for purposes of rental or resale to the dealer'scustomers.
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; meetingsheld through electronic communication means; local advisory boardsand commissions. Allows a local public body that serves in anadvisory capacity to gather through electronic communication meanswithout a quorum of the public body physically assembled at one primaryor central meeting location if certain conditions, outlined in thebill, are met.